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Before The Dawn (band)
Before the Dawn is a Finnish melodic death metal/gothic metal band formed in 1999 by Tuomas Saukkonen. History The band was founded in 1999 by Tuomas Saukkonen as his solo project: "I played and recorded all instruments in the first demo ''To Desire Part 1'' by on my own then for the second demo I had a friend of mine on the drums. The first line-up was gathered so that BTD could perform live. With many changes in the line up BTD entered the studio to record the MCD called ''Gehenna''. I received couple of deal offers but nothing serious enough. BTD continued playing gigs and I kept on writing lots of new material, and the next MCD called ''My Darkness'' got very good feedback and a serious enough record deal was offered by Locomotive Music." Joined by Panu Willman, Mike Ojala, and Kimmo Nurmi, the newly formed lineup released their first full-length album, ''My Darkness'', in 2003. It was followed up by a second album in 2004, ''4:17 am''. The band supported Katatonia on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (, abbreviated as W:O:A) is a Heavy metal music, heavy metal music festival, held annually since 1990 on the first weekend of August in the village of Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Almost all styles and subgenres of hard rock and heavy metal music, metal are represented and hosted. It is now one of the largest heavy metal festivals in the world and one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany. Between 2011 and 2018, the number of attendees was around 85,000, 75,000 of whom were paying visitors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were no 2020 and 2021 editions of Wacken Open Air. History Background The idea for Wacken Open Air was conceived in 1989 when Thomas Jensen and Holger Hübner visited a restaurant together. Both lived in Wacken and were friends, Jensen played the electric bass with Rock music, rock cover band Skyline. From its beginnings until 1992, the band was composed of Ines Jeske from Vaale (vocals), Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
''Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles'' (''BW&BK'') is a Canadian heavy metal website and former magazine. Although based in Toronto, Canada, ''BW&BK'' features writers from the US, Germany and the UK, allowing the magazine to represent metal music from an international prospective. Covering many facets of extreme music, ''BW&BK'' features a reviews section which reports on current records circulating through the underground metal world, a Metal Forecast section which tracks the release date of upcoming recordings, and a website (named just ''BraveWords'') which reports current metal news. ''Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles'' was founded by former ''M.E.A.T.'' magazine staffer Tim Henderson and author Martin Popoff in 1994. The magazine published its last issue in January 2009, but continues online as the ''BraveWords'' website, which was launched in 2000. History Early 1990s Henderson, who had published several photocopied issues of a newsletter called ''Metal Tim Bits'' (the title a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Groups Disestablished In 2013
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Finnish Melodic Death Metal Musical Groups
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Rise Of The Phoenix (Before The Dawn Album)
''Rise of the Phoenix'', is the seventh album by Finnish metal band Before the Dawn, released on 27 April 2012, and their last album before their split from 2013 to 2021. It is their second album released via Nuclear Blast Records, and unlike previous albums, does not include clean vocals. After the departure of Lars Eikind (clean vocals and bass) and Atte Palokangas (drums) in mid-2011, Tuomas started rehearsals with a new line-up consisting of lead guitarist Juho Räihä and new companions Pyry Hanski (bass) and Joonas Kauppinen (drums) to support Insomnium Insomnium is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in Joensuu in 1997. The sound and lyrical themes of their music portray darkness, sorrow, loss, pain, and nature. Their music includes elements of progressive metal, black metal, folk meta ... for the "One For Sorrow European Tour 2011", or as they called it "Rebirth Tour 2011" in November. Background On 8 February 2012, Tuomas released a video teaser of the albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deathstar Rising
''Deathstar Rising'' is the sixth album by Finnish metal band Before the Dawn, released on 25 February 2011, by Nuclear Blast in Europe (3 May 2011 is the release date for the US). The album reached the Finnish top ten, peaking at number eight. Background In June 2011 it was announced that with mutual decision, Lars Eikind and Atte Palokangas left the band after the gig at Nummirock festival on 25 June. Lars left for personal reasons and Atte purely musical.Blabbermouth.ne Accessed 18 June 2011. Track listing Charts References External links Before the Dawn official website Media page {{DEFAULTSORT:Deathstar Rising 2011 albums Before the Dawn (band) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soundscape Of Silence
''Soundscape of Silence'' is the fifth album released by the Finnish band Before the Dawn. It was released on 31 October 2008, through Stay Heavy Records. During the recording sessions of this album in early 2008, the band had to cope with yet another line-up change – once again, the drum-seat became vacant. The core crew of Before the Dawn (Tuomas, Lars, Juho) only took some time off from studio to play at summer festivals like the Wacken Open Air in Germany, mainly with the aid of session drummer Matti Auerkallio, later replaced by Agonizer's Atte Palokangas. In summer 2009 Atte became an official band member. Background Coinciding with the band's 10th anniversary, Before the Dawn accompanied Amorphis Amorphis is a Finnish progressive metal band founded by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari, and Esa Holopainen in 1990. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but on later albums they evolved into playing other genres, including progressive meta ... on their Forging Europe T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadlight (Before The Dawn Album)
''Deadlight'' is the fourth album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ... released by the Finnish band Before the Dawn. It was released on April 4, 2007. Before the Dawn joined Stay Heavy Records for the release of this album. This was a turning point in the history of the band, although also this time Tuomas was forced to play most of the instruments himself: "We had to fire the drummer after one week ... And then also our second guitarist was too busy with his other band recording, so I played all the guitars. So on the album it is only me and Lars." Background Additional musicians on ''Deadlight'' are Juho Räihä (guitar solo on "Fear Me") and Katja Vauhkonen (female vocals on "Star of Fire" and "..."). Juho, who produced the Dawn of Solace album ''The Darkness'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost (Before The Dawn Album)
''The Ghost'' is the third full-length album by Finnish band Before the Dawn, released on March 26, 2006, through Locomotive Music and Mazzar Records. The album style falls under the genres of Gothic metal, death metal, and melodic death metal, Because of the huge amount of new song material, Saukkonen created another album, '' The Darkness'', for Dawn of Solace Dawn of Solace is a heavy metal side-project from Finland, started in 2005 by Tuomas Saukkonen ( Before the Dawn, Wolfheart). History While in the writing process for the third Before the Dawn album, '' The Ghost'', Saukkonen ended up with o .... access 2008-09-07, update 2011-03-21 Track listing References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
