Finnish doomish Heavy Metal band Wizards Of Hazards have released their third full length album “Point Of No Return“. The album was recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Samuli Rimmi (Ruoska, Dreamferno) at Studio33 Kuopio, Finland and released via Inverse Records.
The wizards send their regards from their chambers:
“THE WIZARDS want to thank all you lovely buggers out there who have helped us to get to this point, our friends and families, the people we’ve honoured to tour and to do music with throughout these years and the new faces around the world spreading our wizardry and magic – hats off and a humble bow to you all!!
Curtains will fall after all, No applause, no encore
Thou you would beg, steal or borrow one day there’ll be no tomorrow”
Listen to the album on music streaming services (Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal yms.): https://push.fm/fl/wizardsofhazards-ponr
Tracklist / ISRC -codes:
- Too Late – FI3FC2593701
- Whatever Lies Behind – FI3FC2699301
- Downfall – FI3FC2699303
- Life After Death – FI3FC2699302
- Knights Of The Oblivion – FI3FC2699305
- Point Of No Return – FI3FC2699306
- Say No To Tomorrow – FI3FC2699307
- Borrowed Time – FI3FC2699308
- Focus tracks: 01. Too Late, 02. Whatever Lies Behind & 06. Point Of No Return
- Composition and lyrics by WIZARDS OF HAZARDS, arrangement by WIZARDS OF HAZARDS & Samuli Rimmi 2025-2026
WIZARDS OF HAZARDS are a heavy metal band from Middle Finland. The Wizards share the same interest for vintage instruments and recordings of the analog aeons, mostly 70’s and 80’s heavy metal. Their fuzzing riffs bow to proto-doom era and lyrics are inspired by bygone times, supernatural phenomenons and old tales & beliefs. After decades of jamming and performing as a trio, they shifted their shapes into a four piece and changed their name to WIZARDS OF HAZARDS.
A debut album END OF TIME came out 2020. Album consists of doomish, heavy riffed songs from the band’s early years, and three of those were pre-released on the BLIND LEADS THE BLIND EP on that same year – both releases came via Inverse Records. Recordings were made on RTM SM900 magnetic tape within two sessions in january and june 2020 under the brilliant guidance of analog wizard Anssi Kippo at Astia-studios, Lappeenranta Finland.
The BLACK WIZARD EP was released on december 2021 by Inverse Records, and it was a hats off to their roots with ep given the band’s former name. Those three, very old songs came from the same session at the Astia-studio november 2021 as all the songs of the second album SUPERNATURAL. Although most of the songs of their second long play were made long ago, the lyrics of the album are unfortunately valid and sadly true today also. The cover art presents stunning sculptures of Vilde Hage Aune, and all the songs were recorded again on magnetic tapes with help of Mr. Kippo in that doomy & riff-based, vintage sounding way of the WIZARDS OF HAZARDS.
After a year long Fuzzmass tour around Finland and Baltics the WIZARDS OF HAZARDS started casting new songs and spells for their third long play POINT OF NO RETURN. This time they joined forces with the gray wizard himself Samuli Rimmi aka the Grimmer (Dreamferno, Ruoska etc.). At around the end of year 2025 the wizard collective gathered around the boiling cauldron of Studio33, Kuopio Finland. Collaboration quickly formed a very tight circle and led them to summon eight new songs. During the mixing period three singles were released which included a beautifully haunting What Ever Lies Behind video directed and filmed by Stacy Picard in the deep forests of Korpilahti. The album itself was released by Inverse Records in august 2026 with cover art presenting authentic live shots by Topias Ruini and Lex Karageorghis of Lexel Photography.
WIZARDS OF HAZARDS is:
Paroni Benedictus III (drums&percussion)
Sir Winston Blackstone (guitars&keyboards)
Master Willman (vocals&guitars&percussion)
Count Ambassodeur (bass&vocals)
Special guest appearances by The Grimmer (additional guitars) and the High Pitch Witch (vocals&flutes)
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