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updated 16 May 2015 � isten
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Tarot
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Finland's top-rated heavy metal group originally hailing from Kuopio. Back
in '86 Kirka helped this group led by the Hietala brothers (Marco on vocals &
bass and Zachary on guitar) to get a deal with the new Flamingo label he
was signed on.
At first the label was mainly interested in Marco Hietala
only as he truly is one of the most remarkable heavy metal vocalists of
our time but eventually the entire band got signed and the dedut album
"Spell of Iron" came out in late '86. The first copies of the album came
with a one-sided bonus 7" including a drum solo called "Aaaargh! What's
goin' on here?!" by Pecu Cinnari. Things started well but after the second
album times weren't the best for traditional heavy metal bands in Finland
and Tarot faded away.
The following years were spent in e.g. making
advertising music and at one point it was rumoured that Marco Hietala was
one of the top candidates to
fill the hole that Bruce Dickinson left in Iron Maiden.
By '93 the band had relocated to the capital area and the long
awaited comeback came in form of "To Live Forever" which took off right
where "Follow Me Into Madness" had left in '88. In the '90s Tarot
finally started to get recognition beyond Finnish borders too but
nothing big was destined to happen.
After '98 it's been fairly quiet in the Tarot
camp again and Marco Hietala has mostly
spent his time playing bass in different groups (e.g. Conquest,
Sinergy, Metal Gods) and recently
he has joined Nightwish. In other words the last few
years have been very very sad times for all of us who are waiting for
Tarot to return and show all the upstarts what real heavy metal is all about.
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12" |
Wings of Darkness/Back in the Fire |
Flamingo |
FGMX 002 |
FIN 1986 |
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LP |
SPELL OF IRON (inn) |
Flamingo |
FGL 4010 |
FIN 1986 |
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CD |
SPELL OF IRON |
Bluelight |
BLR 3315 CD |
FIN 1994 |
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CD |
SPELL OF IRON |
Zero |
XRCN-1103 |
JPN 1994 |
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7" |
Aaaargh! What's goin' on here?! (1-sided) |
Flamingo |
FGS 117 |
FIN 1986 |
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7" |
Love's Not Made for My Kind/Things That Crawl at Night (ps) |
Flamingo |
FGS 124 |
FIN 1986 |
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7" |
Rose On The Grave/I Don't Care Anymore (ps) |
Flamingo |
FGS 155 |
FIN 1988 |
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LP |
FOLLOW ME INTO MADNESS (inn) |
Flamingo |
FGL 4026 |
FIN 1988 |
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CD |
FOLLOW ME INTO MADNESS |
Bluelight |
BLR 3316 CD |
FIN 1994 |
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CD |
FOLLOW ME INTO MADNESS |
Zero |
XRCN-1104 |
JPN 1994 |
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CD |
TO LIVE FOREVER |
Bluelight |
BLR 3309 CD |
FIN 1993 |
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CD |
TO LIVE FOREVER |
Zero |
XRCN-1051 |
JPN 1993 |
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CDEP |
ANGELS OF PAIN |
Bluelight |
BLR 4539 2 |
FIN 1995 |
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2-CD |
STIGMATA |
Bluelight |
BLR 3321 2 |
FIN 1995 |
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CD |
STIGMATA |
Zero |
XRCN-1211 |
JPN 1995 |
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CD |
TO LIVE AGAIN |
Zero |
XRCN-1199 |
JPN 1994 |
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CDEP |
AS ONE |
Bluelight |
BLR 4539 2 |
FIN 1995 |
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CDEP |
WARHEAD |
Bluelight |
BLR 4544 2 |
FIN 1997 |
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CD |
FOR THE GLORY OF NOTHING |
Blastic Heaven |
BHR 3347 2 |
FIN 1998 |
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CD |
FOR THE GLORY OF NOTHING |
Zero |
XRCN-2036 |
JPN 1998 |
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CDEP |
THE PUNISHMENT |
Blastic Heaven |
BHR 4551 2 |
FIN 1998 |
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CD |
SHINING BLACK |
Zero |
XRCN-10023 |
JPN 1998 |
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Tatu's A.M.B.
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Tatu's A.M.B. a.k.a Tatu's April Music Band. Melodic aor from Kajaani led by guitar virtuoso
Tatu Mannberg who later on played in e.g. Kirka's hard rock era band as well as Hanoi Rocks.
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7" |
Ways of Forgetting/Memories (ps) |
Kr�k |
KR�KS 039 |
FIN 1983 |
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Taxi
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Hard rock from Kauhava.
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7" |
Heroes/Take Me Away (ps) |
CAB |
CABS 001 |
FIN 1988 |
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Tenebrae
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Capital area death metallers who revelled in putting to use all
musical influences that could be considered dark in any way or the other.
Eventually Jussi Heikkinen gave up on Tenebrae in favour of his other bands (class="dark">Soulgrind and Gloomy Grim).
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CD |
DYSANCHELIUM |
Spinefarm |
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FIN 1994 |
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7"EP |
SICK SPINNING WHEEL (ps) |
MMI |
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GER 1995 |
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CD |
HYPNOTECH |
Shiver |
SHR021 |
BEL 1997 |
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Thanks for Nothin'
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A tad phlegmatic groove metal that manages to resemble latter day Metallica a bit here and there.
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CD |
MYSTIFY |
Mosquitos |
TFN CD-01 |
FIN 1993 |
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Thergothon
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Slow motion doom with crawl vocals. These youngsters from Kaarina then
transformed into This Empty Flow, heavily inspired by The Cure.
These days drummer Jori Sj�roos is better known as
Fu-tourist, making flashy disco in the vein of Daft Punk (or so we've been told).
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CD |
STREAM FROM THE HEAVENS |
Avantgarde |
AV001 |
ITA 1992 |
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MCD |
FHTAGN-NAGH YOG-SOTHOTH
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Eibon |
THG014 |
ITA 1999 |
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Throes Of Dawn
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Vaasa metallers mixing quasi-Yngwiesque musoism and thirteen-on-the-dozen black
metal riffs, with synths galore and so forth.
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CD |
PAKKASHERRA |
Woodcut |
CUT003 |
FIN 1997 |
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CDS |
The Blackened Rainbow |
Woodcut |
CUT005 |
FIN 1998 |
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CD |
DREAMS OF THE BLACK EARTH |
Woodcut |
CUT006 |
FIN 1998 |
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CD |
DREAMS OF THE BLACK EARTH |
Wounded Love |
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ITA 1998 |
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Thromdarr
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Atmospheric Black Metal
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CD |
NORTH STORM ARRIVES |
Solistitium |
SOL 029 |
GER 1998 |
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Throne Of Chaos
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Contemporary keyboard express metal. Exactly why
Spinefarm Records - and Spike, their subsidiary -
keeps signing these bands (most recently Norther)
remains somewhat unclear because it only helps make
Children Of Bodom, their prototype, even less of an
interesting proposition.
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MCD |
FATA MORGANA |
private |
TOCCD 001 |
FIN 1997 |
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Thunder Bay
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7" |
Anything For You/Can't Stand Thru The Night |
Bluelight |
BLR 458 |
FIN 1989 |
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Thy Serpent
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Capital area dark metallers led by Spikefarm Records (sub-division of Spinefarm)
head honcho Sami Tenetz. That's dark metal as in Black Metal Light: lots of synths,
mid-tempo, sweet melodies, etc.
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CD |
FORESTS OF WITCHERY |
Spinefarm |
SPI 36 CD |
FIN 1996 |
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MCD |
LORDS OF THE TWILIGHT |
Spinefarm |
SPI 42 CD |
FIN 1997 |
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CD |
CHRISTCRUSHER |
Spinefarm |
SPI 56 CD |
FIN 1998 |
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Thyrane
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Black metal quintet from Kemi.
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MCD |
BLACK HARMONY |
Woodcut |
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FIN 1998 |
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Tiger Shark
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To put it short, Tiger Shark = O.S.S.Y. The band
used the name Tiger Shark outside of Finland thus all their English sung material is released under this name.
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7" |
Name of Love/Hold Me (postcard cover)
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Rocord |
TES-0488 |
FIN 1988 |
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Tinnitus
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Christian death metal.
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MCD |
VERITAS |
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FIN 1999 |
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To/Die/For
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Originally Mary-Ann or something like that, this is a
hard rock band from Kouvola that Spinefarm Records
worked up into a HIM #2 for less discriminating
consumers. Whereas HIM's opening gambit was a cover
version of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game", To/Die/For
opted for '80s disco hit "In the Heat of the Night", etc.
Drummer Tonmi played in Sinergy for a little while (as
if someone except the two lovebirds had actually
lasted in that band).
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CD |
ALL ETERNITY |
Spinefarm |
SPI 90 CD |
FIN 1999 |
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Tom Sawyer
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Straight forward Hard Rock from J�rvenp�� since 1986. After the first 7" the band ended up having line-up trouble and the second 7" (released as Tom Sawyer Project)
was an instrumental effort with drum machine. In 1992 the band was reborn with a new vocalist and the singing language was switched to Finnish.
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7" |
Carry On/Shadows of the Night (ps) |
private |
COYOTS 001 |
FIN 1988 |
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7" |
Red Baron/Th�t's It (ps) |
private |
COYOTS 002 |
FIN 1990 |
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CDEP |
TUOTAT TUSKAA |
private |
COYOTCD94 |
FIN 1994 |
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Total Remain
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Speed/power metal from the capital area. Basically this is mid '90s sitting of the food that was served
in the late '80s by a plethora of bands impressed by Stone.
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MCD |
MORE AGGRESSIVE/MORE PAIN |
Sandholm RM |
TOTAL-9511 |
FIN 1995 |
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Touch
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Although the vinyl debut of Annika Viklund (Annica) as a lead singer for Lindsay Gate is a reason enough to pick up
this compilation showcasing Jyväskylä music scene it's fair to say Touch are better of the two melodic hard rock groups on this album.
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LP |
[V/A] TUHATSARVISIA |
Jyväskylä 150 |
KJLP150V87 |
FIN 1987 |
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Traitor
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Average grindcore quartet from Tornio.
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7"EP |
TRAITOR (ps) |
private |
JKEP0590 |
FIN 1990 |
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Tries
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Boogie boys rocking hard.
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LP |
[V/A] ROCK RALLYE '77 |
Finnlevy |
FL 5035 |
FIN 1977 |
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7" |
Thunderball/I Want Her (ps) |
Poko |
PIS 003 |
FIN 1978 |
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LP |
TRIES |
Kr�k |
KR�LP 1 |
FIN 1978 |
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7" |
Nainen kaataa/Hold On Honey (ps) |
Kr�k |
KR�KS 8 |
FIN 1979 |
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7" |
Buugi b�ndi/Mamman poju |
Tilt |
TILT 2 |
FIN 1980 |
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LP |
AURINGONNOUSUN NEITSYT |
Tilt |
TILT-LP 2 |
FIN 1980 |
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Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus
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This quintet fronted by former
Lyijykomppania vocalist Timo Rautiainen has
set new standards for the popularity of heavy rock sung in Finnish. A
genuine chart topper selling similar quantites as, say, Celine Dion. Basically the music
is melodic rock played the heavy way with three disciplined guitars. Not a single
solo has been heard from the band thus far but a rumour says one of the guitarists
had played a solo in the rehearsal room in November 2000. The band remains
close-lipped on the subject. In the early '90s guitarist Jarkko Patosalmi played
in Sacred Crucifix.
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MCD |
H�VETK��! |
private |
BALD 1963 |
FIN 1997 |
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CD |
LOPUNAJAN MERKIT |
Ranka Recordings |
RA019 |
FIN 1999 |
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Tunrida
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Melodic black metal.
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CD |
HIERARCHY |
Solistitium |
SOL026 |
GER 1998 |
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Twilight Guardians
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Melodic power metal group from Salo who started out in '96. After the self-financed MCD the band got signed by German Angular records.
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MCD |
LAND OF THE KINGS |
private |
TWILIGHT CD1 |
FIN 1998 |
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Twilight Ophera
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Contemporary keyboard ridden horror/black metal.
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CD |
SHADOWS EMBRACE THE DARK |
Cacophonous |
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UK 1998 |
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