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Over the years it has become excruciatingly evident
that as Finns, we are expected to possess any and all
information on every imaginable Finnish hard rock and
metal band. It is quite tiresome to answer
people's questions on bands who you're supposed to be
interested in and informed on just because they happen
to be your fellow countrymen, so it makes more sense
to write it down ONCE and tell these parties with
inquiring minds to point their browsers in this
direction.
The Internet is the appropriate storage
space for this stuff - nobody in their minds would
actually pay for this information.
This website is not trying to be an encyclopedia with
detailed biographies and what not. It is more like a
starting point where music fans, record collectors and
all the other interested parties can start
familiarizing themselves with the childhood years of
Finnish hard rock and heavy metal.
The pieces of
writing that are enclosed with the discographies are
just the kind of scribbles we might have written in a
letter to someone asking information on the band in
question so please don't mistake them for something
they are not.
This is not an attempt to boost the Finnish metal
scene either. We fully acknowledge that metal bands
from countries like Poland, the Czech Republic or
France for instance are vastly superior to their
Finnish counterparts in both quantity and quality,
volume and importance.
This is not to say that Finnish
metal wasn't absolutely stupendous at its best,
however. For a crash course, we'd warmly recommend the
following dirty dozen of tracks:
· Sarcofagus Black Contract
· Moottorilinnut Metallinen sateenkaari
· OZ Turn the Cross Upside Down
· Tarot Wings of Darkness
· Zero Nine Bangin' on Drums
· Peer Günt Backseat
· O.S.S.Y Helsinki
· Stone Overtake
· Xysma On the Hill of Desecration
· Impaled Nazarene In the Name of Satan
· Sentenced My Sky Is Darker Than Thine
· Unholy After God
The more comprehensive and error free this site is,
the better it'll be for everyone and therefore we
encourage you to email either janne at isten dot net, or use this form if you spot mistakes or
have any info we are still missing.
The discographies are most certainly deficient when it
comes to pressings that have been released under
license in Asia or America. And a few bands are
certainly completely missing for one reason or
another.
Everyone who provides us with corrections or info we are
missing will be mentioned on the thanks list below but
that is really all we can offer you. Therefore we
won't mind if you choose to hold back your information
- we are sure there are plenty of people who will be
so full of admiration for anyone who can prove
themselves to be wiser than the Internet like you
genius you.
The good souls at Imperiumi.net have put together
an extensive list of links to the websites of Finnish hard rock and metal bands. Go check it out.
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TIME:
Included are all the Finnish bands that have released
a record of their own or have appeared on a
compilation album that has been released in 1999 or
earlier. Also all the re-releases that have come out
in 1999 or earlier are included. All the releases and
re-releases that are released in 2000 or later are
excluded!
This means that not all the discographies
are complete from today's point of view.
FORMAT:
As records we consider vinyls of all size as well as
professionally copied CD's. Home burned CD-R's as well
as cassette releases are excluded. Of compilation
albums we have included only the ones that contain
previously unreleased material by the band.
STYLE:
For us hard rock and heavy metal include everything
from poser stuff a la Poison to grim black metal a la
Blasphemy. Over the decades various other music styles
have crossed metal in a way or another and in these
cases it is always difficult to draw the line. We have
decided to exclude all the bands that clearly fit
better to another genre (hardcore, gothic rock,
progressive rock or whatever) as well as bands we
presume would not like to be associated with heavy
metal although their music might be harder and rawer
than that of some hard rock bands with make-up.
In addition we have ruthlessly excluded all the dark wave
and chamber music ensembles that for one reason or
another are making their career in the metal scene.
Feel free to tell us if you think we are missing some
band that in your opinion should be included. It's
downright possible we have accidentally forgotten the
band from the list and not ruled them out on purpose.
And there are a few bands with only private releases out
we haven't heard and therefore we have chosen not to
include them on the list until we get verification on
their music style.
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Discographies gathered up by Janne Sarna, scribbles by Janne Sarna and Mikko Mattila.
HTML search and destroy by Metal God Keinonen © Isten 2001 ->.
Thanks and Hello to the following individuals for corrections, additions or other kind of help [in alphabetical order]:
Antti Lindell, Arto Lehtinen, Atro Tossavainen, Brent Grate, DaN Edman, Dominique Poulain, Harri Rehula, Henry Juvonen,
Jani Koskela, Jani Lehtosaari,
Jarkko Kuivanen, Jarno Koskinen, Joakim Westerlund,
Juha Lehtonen, Juha Vainikainen, Jukka Junttila, Jukka Kolehmainen, Jussi Helenius, Kari Räisälä, Klaus Flaming, Late [Horna],
Lou Posadas, Miika Kuusinen, Mika Penttinen,
Mikko Kuronen, Rainer Krugenberg, Sami Harju, Silvia Moresi, Theby [Drowned], Tommi Keränen, Vesa Ruokangas, basist of Splektura.
Last but not least one written source has been used to check some record codes on vinyls:
Suomalaisten vinyylilevyjen hintaopas by Timo Rauhaniemi & Mika Tamminen (Multiprint, Tampere 2000) - thanks to both authors.
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