Heavy Metal Music of Finland

Finland is known for their heavy metal acts, such as death metal, folk metal, black metal, cello metal, power metal, folk metal and symphony metal sub-genres. In the later 1990s the symphonic metal orchestra known as apocalyptica played Metallica cover rhythms as cello quartteos and sold half a million records worldwide, the currently retired Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus were one of the Finland’s most famous metal acts in the early 2000s, having risen from the ashes of the late 1980s to early 1990s cult band Lyijykomppania. The children’s influence on the metal band Hevisaurus have also become famous, mostly in the native country.

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Several Finnish metal groups have attained considerable worldwide success within the underground metal scene; some of the remarkable instance of such groups is Stratovarius that is highly renowned as one of the top power metal bands of the world, and the children of Bodon, with their creative mixture of power metal and melodic death metal.

The Nightwish is considered as a forerunner of symphonic metal that incorporates power metal as well as gothic metal in its music, and had Tarja Turnen, which is a classical singing soprano as its vocalist until the year 2005. The band has gained platinum and gold certifications for its music sales in many countries and it is the third bestselling Finnish artist. This has also been nominated to many awards, and amongst the ones it has won 11 Emma-gala awards, an Echo awards and MTV Europe music award, a world music award, and a metal storm award. In the year 2000 the band take part in the Finnish qualification for the Eurovision song contest and ended at the second place.

Kotiteollisuus is undoubtedly one of the most famous groups in Finland having released a platinum and many gold-selling songs and winning Emma-awards in the year 2003 and 2005 for the best metal record (Helvetista Itaan) and the best DVD (Kotiteollisuus DVD) respectively. In the most recent days, the Finnish hard rock band Lordi won the 2006 Eurovision song contest with a record 292 points, giving Finland the first ever victory. The song they used was hard Rock Hallelujah and they celebrated this with a free show in Market Square in Helsinki, Finland in the year 2006.

Another band to enjoy the recent commercial success is the Rasmus, after eleven years together and several local albums, the band finally captured Europe, their Dead Letters album sold 1.5 million copies worldwide and garnered them eight gold and five platinum album designations. The single in the Shadows placed on top 10 charts in the eleven countries and was the most played video on the MTV Europe for 2005, the Helsinki natives released their follow up song, Hide from the Sun, which is locally released in the year 2005, the album has a U.S release date of 10.10.2006, to help the albums US released, the band has travelled with Welsh band Lostprophets, a band that has received a great deal of success in both Europe and in the United States. The new song Black roses is set to be released on September, the album was released by Desmond Child and the first single which is known as Livin in a world without you. This song was released worldwide on September 29, and the single living in a world without you was released on the 10^th of September 2008.

In the beginning of 2000, HM reached greater sales and more international success than any other band to ever come from Finland, gold is the first official American release Dark Light, many Finnish bands have joined  the lead of that band, Entwine, Poisonblack and Lullacry are just a few Finnish bands of these kinds.