Children of Bodom are excellent musically, but I'm not too fond of the deathy vocals. Sentenced are a great band from Oulo, but they are disbanding later this year. Very sad. Poisonblack have a great album out called Escapexstacy. The singer from Sentenced plays guitar and the singer from Charon sings. They have a new album due out later this year with the Sentenced singer singing.
Does that make sense?
Some of my favorite Finnish bands that I don't think have been mentioned so far are Thunderstone, Charon, Sentenced, Poisonblack, The 69 Eyes, Altaria, Negative, Amorphis, To-Die-For, Entwine, For My Pain, Tarot, Lullacry and Cryhavoc....the list goes on. I like a lot of those bands that have been mentioned by others as well. I'm amazed at the amount of good quality music that comes from such a sparsely populated country.
~dreams of moving to Finland~