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Falchion was a Finnish heavy metal/
death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...
band formed in 2002. Their debut album, ''Legacy of Heathens'', was released in 2005. The vocalist and lead guitarist Juho Kauppinen and drummer Matti Johansson formerly performed with the Finnish
folk metal Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for example ...
group
Korpiklaani Korpiklaani (Finnish language, Finnish for ) is a Finnish folk metal band from Lahti that was formerly known as Shamaani Duo and Shaman. History Shamaani Duo While other folk metal bands began with metal before adding folk music, Korpiklaani st ...
, as the
accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a Reed (mou ...
player and drummer, respectively, before Juho's departure in 2013, and Matti's departure in 2019. The band dissolved in 2009.


Members


Final lineup

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Juho Kauppinen Juho Kauppinen (born 4 August 1986) is the former accordionist of the Finnish band Korpiklaani. He has also been in Falchion, which was a Finnish Death metal band, in which he was the vocalist and lead guitarist. Falchion Falchion was founded ...
− unclean vocals, lead guitar, accordion (2002-2009) * Matti Johansson - drums (2005-2009) * Janne Kielinen - bass (2005-2009) * Toni Tieaho − rhythm guitar (2008-2009)


Previous members

* Jani Laine - rhythm guitar (2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005) * Seppo Tiaskorpi - bass (2002-2005) * Teemu Peltonen - drums (2003-2005) * Sami Heinonen - rhythm guitar (2003, 2004) * Miikka Tulimäki - rhythm guitar (2005-2008) * Joonas Simonen - keyboards (2002-2003) * Sampsa Savijärvi - rhythm guitar, clean vocals (2006)


Timeline

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Discography

* 2003 - ''Glory of the Sword'' (EP) * 2005 - '' Legacy of Heathens'' * 2008 - '' Chronicles of the Dead''


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Falchion Finnish heavy metal musical groups Finnish melodic death metal musical groups Finnish folk metal musical groups Musical groups established in 2002 Musical groups disestablished in 2009 Finnish musical quartets 2002 establishments in Finland