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Post by Emi » Sat Feb 26, 2005 11:52 am

SpeedOfLight wrote:I absolutely adore Finnish metal. Some of my favorites:

Stratovarius
Finntroll
Moonsorrow
Sonata Arctica
The Mist And The Morning Dew
Impaled Nazarean
Battlelore
Korpiklaani
Just it :) My best friend from Poland recommended me Finntroll (and I know his sense of taste :twisted: )
Could anyone recommend me any good metal music shops in Turku? You know, CDs and all that stuff.


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Post by beluga » Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:38 pm

add http://www.lambs.fi

and I also like
CMX
apocalyptica
kotiteollisuus
maj karma
nightwish
sonata arctica
viikate
yup

just to mention a few..
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Post by SpeedOfLight » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:26 am

Ahh I STILL have yet to check out Children Of Bodom and Norther. But anyway, some more cool, kinda obscure Finnish Metal bands:

Stone
Lordi
Ensiferum
Kylähullut
Shaman
Twilightning

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Post by Penny » Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:13 am

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. :D 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.

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Post by Hank W. » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:17 am

You guys try to find something from Eläkeläiset :lol:
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Post by superiorinferior » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:54 am

Penny wrote:Children of Bodom Poisonblack Escapexstacy Sentenced Charon Sentenced Thunderstone, Charon, Sentenced, Poisonblack, The 69 Eyes, Altaria, Negative, Amorphis, To-Die-For, Entwine, For My Pain, Tarot, Lullacry and Cryhavoc

something I have wondered for a looooong time:

Why are metal band names so funny sounding?

I saw a poster in Helsinki for a real band called Anal Blast.

I found a forum listing nearly as comical as the above, however some are ficticious names:

Factitious Bereavement
The Cosmic Love Explosion
Alex Argon and the Gassy Nobles
Activate the Love Machine! (nicked from the Starchildren RPG)
The Center for Disease Control Is Full of Germs
the Rear Admirals
The Sons Of Onan
Spetznatz
The Dead
500 Lawyers In A Gas Oven
Let's Not Lose Mars To The Commies
The Teenage Mice
The Bubblegum Crisis
Balls to Monty
The Things on the Doorstep
The Single Girl’s Guide to Pompeii
Go Go Second Time Virgin!
Spellcheck Republic
My Kind of Debris
She Left Me For A Zombie
The Hungarian Zits
Please Stop Shooting
The Axis of E-Tards
Children Of The Monkey Basket

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Post by snowcelt » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:12 am

What about "Eternal Erection" or "Anal Thunder" ??

These Finnish bands do exist/existed! :shock:

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Post by mookoo » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:40 am

don't forget about "Feministinen Penis" :D
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Post by superiorinferior » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:40 am

snowcelt wrote:What about "Eternal Erection" or "Anal Thunder" ??

These Finnish bands do exist/existed! :shock:

Kevin.
Eternal Erection was really quite popular in the 90's, complete with Rick James like funky stage show with a 200kg lead singer wearing a grass colored fur suit and top hat. They used to pack Tavastia to its fullest capacity.. Don't know if they could still pull it off today though.

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Post by SpeedOfLight » Sat Mar 19, 2005 3:37 am

Can anyone recommend me any old school Finnish punk ?

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Post by Penny » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:23 am

Thunderstone, Charon, Sentenced, Poisonblack, The 69 Eyes, Altaria, Negative, Amorphis, To-Die-For, Entwine, For My Pain, Tarot, Lullacry and Cryhavoc
What's comical about the above? :shock:

Anal Thunder is pretty funny.
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Post by Penny » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:30 am

Eppu Normaali used to be punk.
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Post by harmaa » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:14 am

Ha, some of those are great!

Recently, I can't stop listening to Apulanta's "PVC-Unelmia". I know unelma is dream, so what does unelmia mean?
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Post by superiorinferior » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:31 am

Penny wrote:
Thunderstone, Charon, Sentenced, Poisonblack, The 69 Eyes, Altaria, Negative, Amorphis, To-Die-For, Entwine, For My Pain, Tarot, Lullacry and Cryhavoc
What's comical about the above? :shock:

Anal Thunder is pretty funny.
I don't know... they're just funny... :lol: The titles with 2 or 3 words in the same word like Ahellaciouscab [A Hellacious Scab] (hey, I just made that one up) ... seem to be a universal part of forming a metal band in Finland these days. Why not just try something original, is my attitude. ;-)

And, secondly, the horrendous sounding names like "Creeping Flesh of Satans Scrotum" really leaves nothing to the imagination and will more likely than not overpower the music ... how can you play music that matches a name like that?? :wink:

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Post by Penny » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:13 pm

unelmia = dreams

If a band had the name "Creeping Flesh of Satans Scrotum" or even something similar, I doubt I would listen to them.
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