Plasma – Mua Et Voi Omistaa

Artist: Plasma

Title: Mua Et Voi Omistaa

Release: LP / Digital

Year: 2025

Label: Sorry State, Nunchakupunk, Little Jan’s Hammer

I first discovered the Finnish hardcore punk scene as a teenager through the classic Propaganda Records comps and barely readable pages of black-on-black ink xeroxed zines, often in languages I couldn’t understand. That didn’t really matter since band names and photos were enough to spark an interest and send me digging for more. Since then, the Finnish scene has always intrigued me more than many others, and it never seems to stop producing genuinely great bands.

Plasma are a new Helsinki band, and Mua Et Voi Omistaa lands neatly in that lineage without cosplaying the ’80s. This is straight-forward, fast, relentless hardcore punk played with modern intent. It’s 2026 and you can hear decades of worldwide hardcore punk history compressed into a tight, purposeful blast. The cover artwork is also worth mentioning, done by one of my favorite current artists, Matteo Correal, and the record is mixed and mastered by Ville Valavuo, who’s been behind a large portion of the best Finnish hardcore punk releases of recent years.

Tracks like “Mätä pilvilinna,” “Sätkynukke,” and “Mua et voi omistaa” are the most blistering pieces, but what really makes the record stand out is how intentional the execution is. The bass lines are immediately memorable, the drumming shifts naturally between tension and release, while the guitar stays locked into relentless forward motion as the female vocals carry a confrontational snarl.

The title, which translates to You Can’t Own Me, points directly to the record’s lyrical core. Sung in Finnish, Plasma address violence, domination, and systemic abuse from a survivor-centered angle, treating humiliation, sexual violence, institutionalization, erasure, and social abandonment as normalized realities in a patriarchal, violent system. While most of the songs move at a fast, unforgiving pace, moments like “Ei oikeutta” and “Syvemmälle sisään” slow things down slightly, giving the hooks space to breathe before the momentum tightens again.

Mua Et Voi Omistaa is yet another Finnish hardcore punk masterpiece among many. Unfortunately, it often feels like writing about bands who sing in languages other than English reaches only a small group of nerds like me who already know and love this music. But it is what it is, this is some of the best hardcore punk out there for me, and I’ll keep using this site as a vehicle to talk about bands like Plasma.