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Finnish rock (Finnish: suomirock or suomirokki—also known as Finnsrock, Finnrock or Finrock) refers to rock music made in Finland. The initial rock and roll boom of the 1950s was preceded by a long tradition of popular culture.
- Nightwish. Nightwish are undeniably one of the most well-known bands from Finland, combining symphonic metal, power metal and gothic metal in their music.
- Children of Bodom. Children of Bodom were formed in 1993 the city of Espoo, near Helsinki. The name of the band comes from one of the most famous Finnish murder cases of all time (the murdering of three teenagers one night at Lake Bodom back in the '60s).
- HIM. Formed in 1991 under the name His Infernal Majesty, HIM invented their own genre called "love metal" and inspired a lot of bands to play music in a similar style.
- Amorphis. Amorphis were formed in Helsinki, Finland in 1990. They absorbed and incorporated influences from many metal genres. Initially, the band was a death metal act, but with time they have evolved into making music that is more classifiable as doom metal with folk influences, and, more recently, progressive metal and melodic hard rock, utilizing increasingly complex arrangements and a less brutal sound.
Areas younger than the Svecofennian orogen (chiefly rapakivi granite and Jotnian sediments) are in white (5). The geology of Finland is made up of a mix of geologically very young and very old materials. Common rock types are orthogneiss, granite, metavolcanics and metasedimentary rocks.
English: Rock musicians from Finland. Suomi: Suomalaiset rockmuusikot. Subcategories. This category has the following 51 subcategories, out of 51 total. Rock vocalists from Finland (11 C, 2 F) Punk rock musicians from Finland (2 C) * Rock bass guitarists from Finland (6 C, 5 F) Rock drummers from Finland (8 C, 3 F) A.
Apr 10, 2018 · Juice Leskinen. Juice Leskinen (whose first name is pronounced ‘you-ey-say’, not the English word ‘juice’), was one of the most enduring and industrious Finnish musicians of the 20th century, enough for him to come 38th in the list of 100 Greatest Finns. From 1973 until his death in 2006, Leskinen produced nearly 30 albums and wrote ...
1. HIM. Photo: Joonas Brandt. Playing its own brand of “love metal,” HIM is a rock band in the classic mould. Singer and songwriter Ville Valo has a decadent sort of charisma, while the band behind him churns out memorable riff after memorable riff.
Granite was chosen as Finland’s national rock type in a postal poll run by the Finnish Science Centre Heureka and a geological institute in 1989. Outcrops of ancient pinkish or greyish granitic bedrock two billion years old or more can be seen in almost all regions of Finland.
