Finnish Metal?

What is the Finnish metal scene like? Which subgenres are most represented, what is very unpopular? Turisas is from Finland and they are awesome - how big are they at home? Are CHILDREN OF BODOM taken seriously in Finland and looked up to by aspiring metal bands? Where do people play metal shows? In houses? At venues? Which region makes the most sinister, vile, kvlt metal?

I read that as Tuomas is from finland

the stock answer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N0dIdeXcEY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzJVFcccZBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3L0O7xlZj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLjel4tgMPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvuOiQop_xY

Oh right I forgot Skepticism is from Finland. They are probably my favorite funeral doom band. Don't know this Thergothon though...

never did find out if wormphlegm were a bit "dodgy" or not. It stopped me buying anything by them at the time though

WORMPHLEGM LYRICS
demo: "In An Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin And Violated By Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism.." (2001)
1. In An Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin And Violated By Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism And Desanctifying The Pious

1. In An Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin And Violated By Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism And Desanctifying The Pious
Dark are these halls
and the air that the prisoners breathe tastes so putrid...
So malevolent that it would make even the most immune
feel very nauseous from the very first gasp of air...

Such is the sickening Hail of this pit...
Known to someone as Hell...
Halls of Torture, Eternal Lair of Stillness
where moments of torture feel as mercy itself

Perpetual Monotony

"vomit...flesh...blood...murder...bodies...
ruler...tyrant...obey him"

Fixed Helpless onto these rotting walls
the doomed await the coming torment...

Inhaling the upsetting scent of corpses
and the repulsing smell of sulphur
arising from the pits below their very feet...

Vomiting their lungs out
hoping to die
but they wont...

The master enters his torture chamber
his minions wait for his commands
helpless prisoners moan of fear

everyone the master considered to be tortured,
were tortured, some of them died, some didn't
one day he?ll come back again to torment the
ones he doesn't appreciate

Torture Jew:
Burn swastikas onto his skin 1000 and 1 times with
this burning hot marking iron
-So I shall burn swastikas onto his skin 1000 and 1
times with this burning hot marking iron

Torture priest:
Boil him in 1000-degree hot excrement
-I shall boil him in 1000-degree hot excrement
Penetrate his virgin ass with satan-shaped phallus
-I shall penetrate his virgin ass with S-S phallus

Torture Jehovah:
Tear down his kingdom and destroy his minions
-I shall tear down his kingdom and destroy his minions
Convert his followers or kill them if they resist
-I shall convert his followers or kill them if they resist

Torture Martin Luther:
Destroy his life work and rip all his skin slowly
-I shall destroy his life work and rip all his skin slowly
Beat him and impose thoughts of an anti-christian world on him
-I shall beat him and impose thoughts of an anti-christian world on him

Torture Allah:
Burn down Mecca and feed him all muslims
-I shall burn down Mecca and feed him all muslims

Torture Hindu:
Stick your hand into his anus and pull out his
guts, then feed him with the holy cow
-I shall stick my hand into his anus and pull out
his guts, then feed him with the holy cow

Torture Martin Luther King:
Break His Bones
-I shall Break his bones
Cut off his penis
-I shall cut off his penis
Cut off his tongue
-I shall cut off his tongue
Burn "White Power" onto his forehead
-I shall burn "White Power" onto his forehead

Torture Lars Levi Lestadius:
Incinerate his offspring
-I shall...
Grind his bones while he still breathes and feed
them to Saint Paul
-I shall...

Torture Saint Paul:
Make him blind again and feed him his eyes
-I shall...

Torture all:
Vomit on everyone, Crush everyone's bones
Rape everyone, Burn everyone
post-mortem for everyone
-I shall.....

everyone left alive still wait for the next time.
the waiting is even more horrid than the torture
itself.

one of the dead corpses still commits an act of diarrhoea

one of the hanging bodies still bleed a mixture of excrements and blood

Thanks to whateverhappenedtovilene for sending these lyrics.

Submits, comments, corrections are welcomed at webmas✧✧✧@darklyr✧✧✧.c✧✧

Torture Jew:
Burn swastikas onto his skin 1000 and 1 times with
this burning hot marking iron
-So I shall burn swastikas onto his skin 1000 and 1
times with this burning hot marking iron

that was definitely the bit i read about them before that made be not check em out further.

lol that i unwittingly posted that video

oh wait i didnt phew

Sarcofagus!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSQTR7ARVcA

Torturium are probably my favorite black metal Finns. Up until the (so far) last album "Black Lunatic Chaos," he always had some weird little twist or refinement that broke up the orthodox grimness (check out the weird, slide guitar-sounding bit 2:50 in that transforms the song, it's pretty great).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3FIcwfdzlU

Also blah blah Ildjarn are great even if people copying that style gets old really quickly. And here's some Sort Vokter, which was Ildjarn-related and probably where Striborg got some of his ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KLFDsHDFAE

Mörkö are pretty awesome but I couldn't find their stuff on youtube. Their "IV" album is like super-minimalist black metal, really entrancing and noisy and weird. "III" is sludgy, heavier stuff with lots of vocal insanity and, uh, noisiness.

Um I really liked Wyrd early on but stopped paying attention. "Huldrafolk" was really good epic black metal forest-y stuff.

pretty sure sort vokter were norwegian.

The metal scene here is really big. It's not just the freaks and geeks who listen to it, it's probably the most popular genre of music at the moment. Metal albums regularly make it to the top 10 on sales charts. Though metal is more popular in smaller cities/towns and in Northern Finland than in the South. Hipsters tend to look down on metal, and it's less popular in hipper cities such as Helsinki and Turku. Still, there must about 5-10 different metal clubs/pubs in the Helsinki centre alone. Besides the metal clubs metal is often played at "regular" rock clubs too, being as popular as it is. And I think there are about 10 different rock festivals dedicated to metal alone.

For someone like me who grew up on dance music and rap, this situation is not very appealing. Thankfully I live in Helsinki, where's the a lot of variety in clubs and live venues, in a smaller town it might be harder to escape metal. Though to be honest, I can live with it as long as the music doesn't get overtly nationalistic or proto-fascist... Unfortunately there are some bands like that, though not among the most popular metal acts (I think).

pretty sure sort vokter were norwegian.

Yeah, and Ildjarn. Sorry y'all! Long day.

request thread's blessing to post nsfw image of completely awesome Finnish metal band "Ride for Revenge"

Reverend Bizarre got a #1 single ergo Finland rules.

Tuomas, do you know which style of metal is the most popular though? is it gothic girly metal stuff like Nightwish rather than the stuff posted in here? or is it metalcore like everywhere else?

I've had a few killer nights out in Metal Corner in Helsinki, although one of those nights a guy did welcome me with the alarming phrase, "Ah, your accent is from the North Of England - do you follow Liverpool Football Club? Heil Hitler!" Complete with salute.

I've been out drinking with Korpiklaani a couple of times and they're like next level drinkers. I saw one of them fall off stage and land on his girlfriend and another member laughed so hard, that he also fell offstage. Their sound guy started beating the bass player up because he'd been sick in his trainers but then it turned out two other members of the band had also vomitted in his shoes so he had to just abandon the punishment.

I've been out on the lash with Bodom a few times as well. Their guitarist told me that he used to be in a band called Spider Kicker.

I'm listening to Circle right now... although this is neither (strictly speaking) metal or representative of most Finnish music. I've gotten on with every single Finnish band I've ever met and some of them (69 Eyes, Hanoi Rocks, H-I-M) have been really good company, a pleasure to hang out with but that really romantic, melodic strain of metal isn't really my core thing.

I love hanoi rocks and circle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvsOghA2Rrs

yes!

Tuomas, do you know which style of metal is the most popular though? is it gothic girly metal stuff like Nightwish rather than the stuff posted in here? or is it metalcore like everywhere else?

I think the melodic stuff is quite popular...? Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, they seem to sell really well. I think those kind of bands (as well as bands like Kotiteollisuus that blend metal with "suomirokki", a specific type of Finnish rock'n'roll music) are popular among the general population, whereas the more extreme metal subgenres are only popular among actual metalheads. I'm not an expert on the subject at all though, I don't even know what "metalcore" is.

thank your lucky stars. I wish I didn't.

Folk metal is really popular in Finland isn't it? Turisas,Finntroll,Korpiklaani & Moonsorrow and loads more

Mordy & Jeff know more about this stuff. they are the biggest folk metal fans on ILM

Browse band list by country - Finland
Total: 2656 bands
http://www.metal-archives.com/browseC.php?c=73

Folk metal is really popular in Finland isn't it? Turisas,Finntroll,Korpiklaani & Moonsorrow and loads more

There are a lot of those kind of bands, but I don't think they are super popular the way Nightwish and Stratovarius and Kotiteollisuus are.

No love for Amorphis?

Is Tarja's solo career popular, Tuomas?

I don't know, sorry.

Looking at the Finnish album charts, her album "My Winter Storm" made it to the #1 spot, though it stayed there for only one week. And her 2010 album made it to #7, but after one week dropped from the top 10 altogether. So I guess she's relatively popular, but not quite as popular as Nightwish.

Nightwish's Once spent ten weeks at #1. I'm pretty sure they're the most popular Finnish metal band of all time in Finland, at least among bands that sing in English. Out of the Finnish-speaking metal bands, I think only CMX might've outsold them in Finland, though obviously on a global scale Nightwish is probably the most biggest Finnish band of all time.

If metal is so popular in Finland do any pop/rap/dance groups ever incorporate metal guitars in their songs? Or maybe there's some lame pop group who wears metal gear?

I don't think there are too many groups like that... Because metal is so popular, and because dance and rap tend to be more underground (with an occasional mainstream success), dance/rap artists often consider metal to be kinda boorish, so they keep a distance to it. But there have been some crossovers, especially with the more popular dance/rap acts, who don't have to care about underground credibility. Just a few weeks ago the popular "smut rapper" Petri Nygård relased a collab single with the popular metal band Mokoma:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MevnblrgqB4

The video parodies some well known metal album covers too.

Though IMO this single by Notkea Rotta was a better attempt to marry Finnish rap with metal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxktOURwNs

the album covers bit is great!!! especially the nirvana - nevermind bit

I cant imagine living in a country where metal is mainstream and isn't just a cult underground thing.

dance/rap artists often consider metal to be kinda boorish, so they keep a distance to it.

that is the kind of world we live in.

Well TBH, I can't remember too many successful examples of metal/dance hybrids ever being made anywhere in the world.

Except, of course, Eskimos & Egypt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSrDjVw8w48&feature=related

c'mon guys can I post this Ride for Revenge pic or not

it truly expresses what Finnish black metal is all about

I guess ILM's most profilic Finn is just about as much of a fan of Finnish metal as ILM's most profilic Norwegian is of Norwegian metal. :)

Go for it uabiho.

wouldn't it be better if you just post the url so those who don't want to see it can avoid it? Rather than limit the amount of discussion on this thread because those at work cant participate anymore.

I thought of that but then I wept because the impact of this image on the thread would be huge lol whereas the method you propose is compromised minimal lol

still, ladies and gentlemen, outstanding Finnish metal act Ride for Revenge, whose album Wisdom of the Snakes is among the best metal efforts of recent years:

http://muslib.ru/pb/95/955421/ride-for-revenge_734692.jpg

bonus:

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/8/3/0/48305_photo.jpg

sorry, "Wisdom of the Few" -- "The King of Snakes" was '07

http://www.metalfromfinland.com/

Im kinda surprised tuomas wasn't a young teenage metaller since metal is the most popular genre in finland.

Tuomas - my teenage metalhead self, entirely surrounded and oppressed by dance music, desperately wants to change places with you. Can it be arranged?

Amorphis was the first band I thought of. Their debut The Karelian Isthmus was the first Relapse album I ever bought. It's total Bolt Thrower worship, but very well done, especially considering the band were teenagers at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wnVwbJQr0k

The sophomore album Tales from the Thousand Lakes is where they brought in the moogs and the prog. I couldn't stomach it at first, but now I consider it a masterpiece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxG5pjI8wLk

Im kinda surprised tuomas wasn't a young teenage metaller since metal is the most popular genre in finland.

It wasn't when I was a teen. Obviously a lot of kids listened to metal, but stuff like Eurodance and rap and techno were still more popular in the 90s. Metal (especially metal made in Finland) didn't become as prominent as it is until the 00s. Which gives me hope that it's mostly a fad, and that metal will soon become a subcultural thing again.

people be saying metal (and techno & rap) is just a fad since they began. None are going away anytime soon.

Rep rep rep for Finnish black metal. Beherit, Horna, Behexen, Barathrum, Aanal Beehemoth, Archgoat, Oranssi Pazuzu. Tons of weird, twisted black metal from the land of saunas.

And Sarcofagus is amazing, especially Envoy Of Death. It's like BOC gone kraut rock.

Here's the Discordance's leaderboard for Finland...

I liked Disgrace early on. Apparently they went "punk" at some point?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_GxWkX8-aU

goddamn the behexen half of the split w/ horna is so good

re Satanic Warmaster: being genuinely sketched out by a guy calling himself Satanic Tyrant Werewolf is a weird, complex feeling.

hey glenn no posting him videos!