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"What the hell is going on? Skijumpers making music that sells gold.", asked Timo Tolkki with Stratovarius back in 1994 on their Dreamspace album. The song of course was Reign Of Terror and it was about Matti Nykänen, world's best skijumper who started singing and instantly became a success. Matti Nykänen couldn't sing back then and he still can't yet he is very popular in Finland...go figure.

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They have done it again! You simply have to love these guys. At times they have managed to do lots of things to get the attention but I think this time they did hit the goldmine. The first release from their forthcoming album "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da" is a song called "Pussy". Now if the name itself doesn't drag attention...well then surely the video will. If you haven't seen the video, you can

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My dearest readers...picture this: Heart of winter. Late night. -25 degrees celcius outside. The only light in the outside comes from the full moon that reflects from the virgin white snow. In the middle of nowhere there is a cottage and you can only see dim light coming from one window. Through the window you can see a figure inside...standing on a chair...with a noose around his neck. I think I

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PERKELE! What the hell just happen? What is this album? New band of Ex-Sonata Arctica Jani Liimatainen? Wasn't he "kindly" asked to leave SA 2007 and the reasons were...and I quote... "his messing around with his compulsory military/civil/prison duty, or rather, complete failure to take care of it". Well Sonata Arctica had a new guitar player Elias Viljanen and they continued their path. Sonata

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Thunderstone has always been an easy band for me to listen and comprehend. Does it mean I am easy to please or are they simply just so god damn good? Well pleasing me isn't easy so I fall for the latter that Thunderstone simply is a very good band. Thunderstone's previous albums, perhaps excluding their debut album which I didn't like all that much were all killer albums and through each album

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It has been said that nothing gets lost on internet. "Be careful if you upload your pictures", "Once it's there, you cannot get it out" etc. Well usually people don't pay any attention until it hits you in the face. You find a picture on internet you remember posting 5 years ago but you are certain you removed it also. "How in the hell can it still be there?" you ask. Man some even say that

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Drum! Magazine held their annual Drummies (Drummer Of The Year) and on their Metal drummer category the victory went to Lars Ulrich of Metallica. Ehm...what? Now I have to admit that I am not very familiar with Drum! Magazine so I don't know if those drummies are based on votes by readers or do they have a jury that decides who has the honour of winning each category. Somehow I would understand

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Twilightning posted this piece of news on their website July 8th 2009:"Twilightning decides to call it quits. We discovered the fact that the drive has vanished and there's no point of going on without the full force and motivation. Then we just not only would cheat ourselves but also our fans. Everyone continues to pursue their musical careers on their own projects and bands. Twilightning

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There is little denying what Stratovarius has ment to power metal scene over the years. For sure Stratovarius has been one of the great ones always when it comes to that genre. Unfortunately for Stratovarius they have been known for more than just their music also and their numerous publicity stunts and public fights have kept them on the lipps of metal community for years already. Latest of them

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What has been the nro 1 topic in every media during the past week or so? Michael Jackson and is unfortunate passing of course. The amount of news in different medias have been something beyond understanding. On the day of his death many websites crashed cause people all over the world tried to find information, Twitter crashed, Google thought they were under attack from the amount of queries

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Synestesia came from the bushes to me. I had them listed in Metal From Finland but for some reason I never payed that much attention to them. But after reading one review of their album "Feeniks" in which they got 10-/10 I simply had to get familiar with their music. So what do we do these days if we want to listen some new bands? Well we visit their Myspace-page of course! Which I did...and boy

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Timo Tolkki left Stratovarius but no one really expected him to retire right? Which he of course didn't. After their debut album "New Era" comes "Age Of Aquarius" which should be considered as the real debut album by Revolution Renaissance.Let's face it, the artwork of the album is really not state of the art but people shouldn't judge the album by it's cover. "Age Of Aquarius" is a really good

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Thursday, February 19th it started spreading over the internet: Sentenced-guitarist and songwriter Miika Tenkula had been found dead at his home. This news shocked the Finnish metal community very much. And in matter of hours the news had spreaded all over the world. People were mourning the death of this very talented and nice person. It was surreal really. I couldn't believe it myself. People

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Tuska Festival...that annual festival that is been held in the heart of Finland's capital Helsinki each summer. Certainly there are lots of people who simply hates the fact that thousands of metalheads invade Helsinki for 3 days and that chaotic music pollutes our beautiful capital! Wait a second...that's not how it goes! First of all Tuska Festival is a festival that rarely ever has any disorder

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This was originally posted in Blabbermouth.net"It has been brought to our attention that the cover artwork for "Skyforger", the forthcoming album from Finnish dark metallers AMORPHIS, bears more than a passing resemblance to that of "Faso Latido", the 2005 CD released by the Chino Hills, California post-hardcore band A STATIC LULLABY."Amorphis "Skyforger"Static Lullaby "Faso Latido"Resemblance? I

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Yes I am the messenger of Finnish Metal but there are times when I need to go beyond. My girlfriend introduced me to Nevermore long time ago and I went totally bananas when I heard them. Some days later I had their entire backcatalogue and Nevermore has entered my heart to stay. Musically I don't think Nevermore has done anything that would make them stand out totally from other bands out there

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This has got to be one of the best videos I've seen when it comes to Finnish Rock and Metalmusic. Since Kotiteollisuus sings in finnish it may escape the most people what the hell it's all about but let me explain you the plot of this song and video.What you'll see on this video is 3 friends going out to have some fun after the hard week at work. And of course, like a good Finn, alcohol is

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The new Amorphis album will be titled "Skyforger" and is due for release on May 29 via Nuclear Blast Records. The track listing is as follows: 01. Sampo 02. Silver Bride 03. From The Heaven Of My Heart 04. Sky Is Mine 05. Majestic Beast 06. My Sun 07. Highest Star 08. Skyforger 09. Course Of Fate 10. From Earth I RoseWhat is there to be said about Amorphis that hasn't been said already?

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This is just a reminder to you all that Metal From Finland Awards 2008 is still very much online! If you haven't voted for your favourite artists yet, you can do it at this location. There are total of 11 categories you can vote in and those categories are: Best Finnish BandBest Finnish VocalistBest Finnish GuitaristBest Finnish DrummerBest Finnish BassistBest Finnish KeyboardistBest Finnish

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