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updated 16 May 2011 © isten
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Cartilage
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Death metal from Vaasa. Guitarist Karri Suoraniemi (later to be known as W.G. Victor) carried on with Wings
and Enochian Crescent and vocalist Mikki Salo started a record label called Woodcut Records. Drummer Kai
Hahto has played grindcore with Rotten Sound for some time now and also used to be in Enochian Crescent
(using the ominous pseudonym Caer Hallam Generis).
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LP |
[split w/Altar (Sweden)] |
Drowned |
DL 013 |
SPA 1992 |
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CD |
[split w/Altar (Sweden)] |
Drowned |
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SPA 1992 |
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Case Ace
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Mediocre hard rock.
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7" |
Ten Grands on the Table/This Kind of Love (ps) |
private |
ACE1 |
FIN 1987 |
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Catalepsy
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Speed metal from the Turku area. Eventually two thirds of the band forged ahead to form a pop/rock group called Limonadi Elohopea.
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7" |
Why?/Finger Points (ps) |
private |
CAT 1 |
FIN 1990 |
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MLP |
SCREAM |
private |
CATMLP-2 |
FIN 1991 |
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7"EP |
Digital Time/Lucky You Are/The Sea Takes It's Own (ps,ins) |
private |
CAT 3 |
FIN 1992 |
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Catamenia
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Contemporary keyboard-ridden black metal from Oulu.
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CD |
HALLS OF FROZEN NORTH |
Massacre |
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GER 1998 |
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LP |
MORNING CRIMSON (inn) |
Massacre |
MALP 0190 |
GER 1999 |
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CD |
MORNING CRIMSON |
Massacre |
MACD 0190 |
GER 1999 |
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Catwalk
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Hard rock oriented band featuring one of Finland's top blues guitarists Heikki Silvennoinen.
Silvennoinen became a national celebrity in the early '90s in the TV comedy series "Kummeli".
Singer Heikki Vihinen is nowadays a theatre manager and currently writing a script for a Renny Harlin film about Marshall Mannerheim.
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7" |
If You Wanna/Fire (ps) |
Poko |
PIS 144 |
FIN 1984 |
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LP |
CATWALK |
Poko |
PÄLP 59 |
FIN 1985 |
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7" |
Why Can't I Do It Right?/Take Me (ps) |
Poko |
PIS 169 |
FIN 1985 |
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LP |
LOVE IS ON THE LINE |
Poko |
PÄLP 69 |
FIN 1986 |
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7" |
White Room/Valerie (ps) |
Poko |
PIS 211 |
FIN 1987 |
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Charged
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Thrashers from Lappeenranta who had more ideas in their songs than your average Finnish band but the
album was hardly promoted at all and soon after the band vanished into the void.
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LP |
IN VICE |
Euros |
SIN 1052 |
FIN 1989 |
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Charon
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Sentenced clones-cum-HIM clones from Raahe. Hands up, who wants to hear more? Thought so.
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SORROWBURN |
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DEN 1998 |
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Cherocee
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Melodic Scandinavian style hard rock from Vaasa.
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7" |
World of Tomorrow/Is This for Me |
private |
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FIN 1988 |
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Children of Bodom
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Originally formed in 1993 as Inearthed, playing melodic death metal. Then snapped up by Spinefarm
who invented a more marketable moniker for the group and launched them into girly metal stardom.
The music appeals mostly to the young generations of metal fans. It's got merry melodies aplenty, the
keyboads are sweet, and front man Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho has those innocent bad boy looks that the female sex
apparently find quite irresistible. Laiho has also played in Thy Serpent, Impaled Nazarene and Sinergy.
Keyboard player Janne Wirman has a solo project called Warmen, featuring bassist Lauri Porra and drummer
Mirka Rantanen (ex-Loud Crowd, currently also in Thunderstone) from Finnish progressive metal outfit Tunnelvision, as well as special guests
like Kimberly Goss (Sinergy), Roope Latvala (Stone, Sinergy, Waltari, etc.) and Jari Kainulainen (Stratovarius).
The soul of this project can also be tracked down to Spinefarm Records - executive Ewo Rytkönen co-ordinated the
whole thing down to the last details, even coming up with the song titles. That's complete artistic freedom for ya!
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SOMETHING WILD |
Spinefarm |
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FIN 1997 |
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LP |
SOMETHING WILD (inn,ins) |
Nuclear Blast |
NB 301-1 |
GER 1997 |
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CD |
SOMETHING WILD |
Nuclear Blast |
NB 301-2 |
GER 1997 |
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CDS |
Children of Bodom |
Spinefarm |
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FIN 1997 |
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CDS |
Downfall |
Spinefarm |
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FIN 1998 |
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HATEBREEDER |
Nuclear Blast |
SPI 69 CD |
FIN 1999 |
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LP |
HATEBREEDER (picture disc) |
Nuclear Blast |
NB 378-1 |
GER 1999 |
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CD |
HATEBREEDER |
Nuclear Blast |
NB 378-2 |
GER 1999 |
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CD |
TOKYO WARHEADS |
Spinefarm |
SPI 89 CD |
FIN 1999 |
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Chorea
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Speed metal group featuring two members, Vellu and Kari, from the Finnish hardcore legends Rattus plus their roadie Mauri.
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7" |
Vultures/All Shit (ps, ins) |
private |
CHOREA-01 |
FIN 1989 |
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Christine
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Despite the feminine name this is an all-male band. With names like Marc Nicole, Chris Candy, Kim Travis and Pete
Sweeney you surely can't expect them to deliver a tornado of testosterone. And sugary hard rock it is alright.
Later on ex-Christine members have appeared in bands like Stratovarius, Havana Black and Five Fifteen for instance.
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7" |
We Love You/Avenue (ps) |
Flamingo |
FGS 178 |
FIN 1988 |
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12" |
We Love You/Avenue (ps) |
Flamingo |
FGMX-015 |
FIN 1989 |
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7" |
Do or Die/Suicide Chase (ps) |
Flamingo |
FGS 202 |
FIN 1990 |
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Clandestine Blaze
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Black metal.
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LP |
FIRE BURNS IN OUR HEARTS |
Northern Heritage |
NH-001 |
FIN 1999 |
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7" |
ON THE MISSION (ps) |
Northern Heritage |
NH-004 |
FIN 1999 |
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C.O.D.
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C.O.D. a.k.a Corpus Omni Domini. Metallers from Helsinki, originally speed/thrash, later enhanced with keyboards, infamous for their cover of Phil Collins' "Another Day in Paradise". Guitarist Antti Lindell has also spent some time with Babylon Whores.
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MCD |
MONOLITH EMPIRE |
private |
CODCD 001 |
FIN 1996 |
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MCD |
MONOLITH EMPIRE |
Wild Rags |
WRR 101 |
USA 1997 |
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CD |
[V/A] SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE - HOW TO UNDERSTAND FINLAND!? LESSON 2 |
H.T.R. |
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FIN 1999 |
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Coarse
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Capital area band that started out with Florida death metal but slowly drifted towards more of a Sentenced
-flavoured approach and eventually transformed into Lullacry.
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CD |
[V/A] SUOMI FINLAND PERKELE - HOW TO UNDERSTAND FINLAND!? FIRST LESSON |
H.T.R. |
1315-2 |
FIN 1998 |
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Convulse
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Once speed metallers Seven Death's Sins discovered death metal in '90 they changed their name to Convulse.
They are considered to be the godfathers of the Nokia death metal scene (see Purtenance and Lubricant).
Rami Jämsä (vocals/guitar) had made it on record already a couple of years earlier with hard rock band
Havoc and he has also played in Puhelinkoppi (originally a hardcore side project of the Flounder weirdos).
In '95 Jämsä submitted a very Pearl Jam/Soundgarden-ish demo to Relapse and the band got dropped.
Subsequently the revamped line-up changed the name to
Pornorphans and started to play metallic rock enhanced with female vocals and keyboards.
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LP |
WORLD WITHOUT GOD |
Thrash |
THR-013 |
FRA 1992 |
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CD |
WORLD WITHOUT GOD |
Thrash |
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FRA 1993 |
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7"EP |
LIVE IN PAIN (ps, bootleg) |
Magan |
MR-001 |
USA 1994 |
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CDS |
LOST EQUILIBRIUM |
Relapse |
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USA 1994 |
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CD |
REFLECTIONS |
Relapse |
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USA 1994 |
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Corporal Feast
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Industrial metal.
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CD |
MEKAFON |
Control |
CON001 |
FIN 1997 |
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Corporal Punishment
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Capital area death/thrash metal crew fronted by Ali (vocals and bass, originally from Brainwash) accompanied
by Ykä (Airdash, as well as Gloomy Grim)
on drums and Lare (Dirty Damage, Oppression) and/or Nirri (Airdash, Stone) on guitar.
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7" |
Walls - The Doom/Life's Most Gloomiest Darkness (ps, ins) |
private |
C.P. 001 |
FIN 1991 |
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CD |
INTO THE NERVE OF PAIN |
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1994 |
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CD |
PROFANED RELICS |
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199? |
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STONEFIELD OF A LIFETIME |
Black Mark |
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GER 199? |
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Corruption Inc
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MCD |
PAIN O.D. |
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FIN 1999 |
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Count De Nocte
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CD |
SORORES NOCTE GENITAE |
Mad Lion |
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POL 1998 |
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Crashed
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Forssa-based foursome cranking up heavy and doomy thrash on the A-side and an instrumental ballad on the flipside.
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7" |
This Man/Commercial Bloodshed (ps) |
private |
CRAS-001 |
FIN 1992 |
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Crimson Midwinter
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A blackish death metal group from the Turku area who made a couple of promising
demos but failed to deliver anything more than a lacklustre full-length album.
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CD |
[V/A] UNDER THE PAGAN MOON |
Cyclonic Distribution |
CP-001 |
CAN 1996 |
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CD |
[V/A] OUT OF THE BOX VOL. 1 |
Black Mark |
BMCD118 |
GER 1997 |
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3-CD |
[V/A] ENCYCLOPAEDIA PESTILENTIA |
Velvet Music International |
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FRA 1997 |
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CD |
RANDOM CHAOS |
Black Mark |
BMCD131 |
GER 1999 |
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Crom
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Heavy Metal from Pori. The band made a demo before this 7" under the name Witch Hunt.
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7" |
Earth Queen/Eyes Of Fire (ps) |
J&K Productions |
CROM-1 |
FIN 1985 |
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Cromwell
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Homebrewn "corrosion free" heavy rock from Panttila since '84. In many ways this group can be compared to Gobra
with the exception that Cromwell are less known to the public. Despite the long history the first release
didn't come out until '93 including old demo recordings from the '80s with re-recorded vocals.
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CD |
NEON ANGELS |
private |
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FIN 1993 |
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CD |
COMPROMISSING |
private |
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FIN 1996 |
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Crossbow
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Mediocre hard rock with a Foreigner
cover on the flipside. |
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7" |
Hangover / Blinded by science (no ps) |
private |
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FIN |
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Cruciferae
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CD |
[V/A] FROM KAAMOS TO MIDNIGHT SUN |
Little Rose |
LRP 9802 |
FIN 1998 |
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Cryhavoc
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Capital area metallers chewing on Taneli Jarva's old bubble gum - Sentenced copycats, in other words.
Bass player Kari Myöhänen also plays in poppy chart toppers Kemopetrol.
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CD |
SWEETBRIERS |
Spinefarm |
SPI 58 CD |
FIN 1998 |
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CD |
PITCH-BLACK BLUES |
Spinefarm |
SPI 78 CD |
FIN 1999 |
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