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Jesse Valo
Iconcrash is a Finnish Electronic rock/darkwave band from Helsinki, formed by vocalist/composer Jaani Peuhu. Now the band members include Arttu Juntunen, keyboard and backing vocals, Riku-Niilo Mattila bass, Matti Toivonen, guitar and Oskari Vilmunen, drums. The English-Finnish record company Parole Records published their debut album Nude in spring 2005, after which the live band was assembled. Their second album Enochian Devices was published in spring 2010 with the collaboration of Dynasty Recordings and EMI Finland. The album was recorded at Dynasty Studios and at Sonic Pump and the production lasted over a year. The album was received well and the singles Strange, Strange Dark Star and Everlasting got plenty of radio play and reached the top of YleX:s most wanted list. Strange, Strange Dark Star also appeared in Clive Barkers movie Midnight Meat Train, to which it was remixed by Justin Larsen (Lady Gaga, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails) and three songs were also in the soundt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipality, with million in the Helsinki capital region, capital region and million in the Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan area. As the most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has significant History of Helsinki, historical connections with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen—and surrounding commuter towns, including the neighbouring municipality of Sipoo to the east—Helsinki forms a Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chisu
Christel Martina Roosberg (née Sundberg; born 3 January 1982), known by her stage name Chisu (), is a Finland, Finnish pop artist, songwriter, and producer. She wrote her first single, "Mun koti ei oo täällä", to the soundtrack of the 2007 film ''Sooloilua''. The song was a hit in Finland in early 2008, peaking at number one on both the List of number-one singles of 2008 (Finland), Singles Chart and the Downloads Chart and spending seven and nine weeks atop, respectively. She released her second album ''Vapaa ja yksin'' in 2009. Her third album, ''Kun valaistun'', was released in 2011 through Warner Music Finland. It was met with significant commercial success and became one of the best-selling albums of all time in Finland by a Finnish artist, selling approximately 95,000 copies. The album went on to win Best Album and Best Pop Album at the 2012 Emma-gaala, Finland’s most prestigious music awards ceremony. Another version of the album, ''Kun valaistun 2.0'', was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Republic
Royal Republic is a Swedish rock band from Malmö. The band is currently signed to Universal Music and managed by Odyssey Music Network. History 2007–2012: Foundation and ''We Are the Royal'' Royal Republic was founded in 2007. Their first album, ''We Are the Royal'', was recorded under the supervision of Swedish producer Anders Hallbäck in Malmö. Hallbäck also plays bass on the single ''All Because Of You'' and even appears as the bassist in the music video. The album was mixed at ToyTown Studios and completed with the help of Stefan Glaumann. On 6 August 2009, the record was released in Sweden and received wide acclaim from critics, fans and radio stations. All three singles reached number 1 on Bandit Rock's Most-Wanted-List. Three of the album's songs, ''Full Steam Spacemachine'', ''I Must Be Out of My Mind'', and ''21st Century Gentleman'', were featured on the soundtrack of F1 2011. ''Tommy-Gun'' also reached first place on the MTV Rocks charts. Royal Republic gai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anathema (band)
Anathema were an English rock music, rock band from Liverpool. The group was formed in 1990 by Vincent Cavanagh, Vincent and Daniel Cavanagh, bassist Jamie Cavanagh, drummer/keyboardist John Douglas, and vocalist Darren White. The band maintained an active concert schedule throughout their career. They first toured in 1992 with the American death metal band Cannibal Corpse; they since performed throughout Europe, the United States, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Turkey. In the latter stages of their career, the band performed at notable venues such as London's The O2 Arena, O2 Arena, Wembley Arena, and the London Palladium, as well as appearing on stage with Stephen Hawking at Starmus Festival 3. Anathema released 11 studio albums, including ''Distant Satellites'' (2014), which included the song "Anathema", named the Anthem of the Year at the third annual Prog (magazine), Progressive Music Awards. Three years later ''The Optimist (Anathema album), The Optim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who originally formed in 1996 as Runston Parva, before reforming as Parva in 2000, and releasing one studio album, ''22'', in 2003, before renaming and establishing themselves in their current name that same year. Since their formation, the band has consisted of lead vocalist Ricky Wilson (singer), Ricky Wilson, guitarist Andrew White (musician), Andrew "Whitey" White, bassist Simon Rix, keyboardist Nick "Peanut" Baines and since 2013 drummer Vijay Mistry, who replaced founding drummer Nick Hodgson following his departure from the band in late 2012. Primarily inspired by New wave music, new wave and punk rock music of the late 1970s and 1980s, the band has released eight original studio albums: ''Employment (album), Employment'' (2005), ''Yours Truly, Angry Mob'' (2007), ''Off with Their Heads (album), Off with Their Heads'' (2008), ''The Future Is Medieval'' (2011), ''Education, Education, Education & War'' (2014), Stay T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance is an American Rock music, rock band from New Jersey. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, lead guitarist Ray Toro, rhythm guitarist Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way. They are considered one of the most influential rock groups of the 2000s in music, 2000s and a major act in the emo and pop-punk genres, despite the band rejecting the former label. Formed in September 2001 by Gerard, Mikey, Toro, and drummer Matt Pelissier (and later joined by Iero), the band signed with Eyeball Records and released their debut album, ''I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love'', in 2002. They signed with Reprise Records the next year and released their major-label debut, ''Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge'', in 2004. Shortly after the album's release, Pelissier was replaced by Bob Bryar. The album was a commercial success, attaining platinum status over a year later. The success of the band's previous albums was eclipsed by that of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Finland
MTV Finland was a music and entertainment channel broadcasting to the Finnish market. The channel replaced MTV Nordic on September 18, 2005; however, on February 22, 2019, it was replaced by the return of MTV Nordic. History * MTV Finland launched in September 2005 along with MTV Sweden and MTV Norge. Before the start of country-specific channels, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland had been served by a common channel called MTV Nordic, launched on June 5, 1998, which replaced the MTV Europe feed. * MTV Finland's offices are based at MTV Networks International's Nordic offices in Stockholm with a local office in Helsinki. The channel is broadcast from the MTV Networks Europe headquarters in London and Warsaw. *During the days of MTV Nordic, languages other than English were rarely spoken on MTV in Finland. With the start of MTV Finland, several Finnish-language programmes were produced, for example ''MTV News'', ''Axl Meets'', ''MTV Festival Report'' and Headbangers Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna Kurkela
Johanna Kurkela (born 25 April 1985) is a Finnish singer. Her first published work was a duet ''Tahdon tanssia kanssasi'' with Tomi Metsäketo in 2004. Kurkela released her first album ''Hetki hiljaa'' in 2005. She got a lot of publicity in the Finnish Preselection final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, presenting the song ''Olet uneni kaunein''. Kurkela ended up sixth in the preselection final. A few weeks later she published her second album ''Marmoritaivas''. Her 2010 album '' Hyvästi, Dolores Haze'' has sold over 20,000 copies. Personal life Kurkela was born in Lumijoki. She has been in a relationship with Finnish musician and Nightwish founder and leader Tuomas Holopainen since 2009; they became engaged in 2014 and married on 28 October 2015. Musical background Kurkela has a versatile musical background. She studied the violin for seven years from the age of five, and the classical piano from a few years later. She attended secondary school in Oulu at Madetojan mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egotrippi
Egotrippi is a Finnish people, Finnish pop group, founded in the early 1990s. Among their hits are "Älä koskaan ikinä", which is featured on the soundtrack of the Finnish movie ''Nousukausi'' (2003), "Unihiekkaa" and "Matkustaja", which reached #11 on the Finnish Top 20 and featured on the soundtrack of the movie ''Kukkia ja sidontaa'' (2004). Discography * ''Egotrippi'' 1995 * ''Superego'' 1997 * ''Alter Ego'' 1998 * ''Helsinki-Hollola'' 2000 * ''Moulaa!'' (B -puolia ja harvinaisuuksia) 2001 * ''Matkustaja'' 2003 * ''20 Suosikkia'' (kokoelma) 2004 * ''Vielä koittaa uusi aika'' 2006 * ''Maailmanloppua odotellessa'' 2008 * ''Pilvien alla, maan päällä'' 2013 * ''Vuosi Nolla'' 2015 * ''10'' 2017 External links Finnish musical groups {{Finland-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rasmus
The Rasmus is a Finnish Pop music, rock band that formed in 1994 in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.Main source of the band's history: The original band members were Lauri Ylönen (founder, frontman, lead singer-songwriter), Eero Heinonen (bass), Pauli Rantasalmi (guitar) and Jarno Lahti (drums). Jarno Lahti left the year after and was replaced by Janne Heiskanen in 1995. Heiskanen quit the band in 1999 and was soon replaced by Aki Hakala. Pauli Rantasalmi left the band and was replaced by guitarist Emilia "Emppu" Suhonen in 2022. Best known for their 2003 hit single "In the Shadows (song), In the Shadows", the band has sold over 5 million albums worldwide and 350,000 albums in Finland alone, and has won numerous awards, both domestic and international. The band represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "Jezebel (The Rasmus song), Jezebel". History 1994–1997: Formation and first albums While still in high schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Hertzen Brothers
Von Hertzen Brothers is a Finnish rock group formed in 2000, by three brothers. Their music is a mix of classic rock and progressive elements, folk, punk and contemporary rock. Each of the brothers have a notable history in the Finnish rock scene, starting from the early 1990s. Guitarist-singer Kie von Hertzen has played in Don Huonot [fi] (1992–2003). Singer-guitarist Mikko von Hertzen is an ex-member of Egotrippi [fi] (1994–1998) and Lemonator (1995–1998). Vocalist-bass guitarist Jonne von Hertzen won the National Rock Contest in 1998 with his band Cosmos Tango and later joined to play the bass in Jonna Tervomaa's band (1999–2005). From 2006 to 2016 the band had two other permanent members: Mikko Kaakkuriniemi on drums and Juha Kuoppala on keyboards. In 2017 the band returned to its 2006 lineup with Sami Kuoppamäki on drums. The current lineup also features Markus Pajakkala on keyboards and woodwinds. History The father of the brothers, Hass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negative (Finnish Band)
Negative is a Finnish glam rock band founded in Tampere in 1997. The band itself labels the music as "emotional rock'n roll". Members Current * Jonne Aaron Liimatainen – lead vocals *Antti Anatomy – bass *Mr. Snack/Nakki – keyboard, vocals *Jay Slammer – drums *Hata Salmi – guitar Previous *Sir Christus – guitar, vocals (died 2017) *Larry Love – guitar *Gary – guitar (guitarist in a gig in summer 2008 – not an actual member of the band) * Dmitry Martinov – bass (session member) Related bands Jonne Aaron's younger brother, Ville Liimatainen, is the lead singer of the Finnish rock band, Flinch, who are managed by Hype Productions, the same label as Negative. He contributed backing vocals to Negative's cover of Queen's "Too Much Love Will Kill You" alongside Jussi Selo from Uniklubi (who also contributed to backing vocals on some Negative tracks), in which Jonne shared the limelight with Jann Wilde from Jann Wilde and Rose Avenue, and Christian from Dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
