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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.
Apr 10, 2018 · Jessica Wood 10 April 2018. Finnish music is known for deviating from the mainstream, with musicians finding their own styles or putting a unique twist on an established genre. These are some of the best bands and solo acts from Finland for a taste of what makes Finnish music so special.
Their fiddle-heavy tunes – some traditional, others original – are based on Finnish folk music, whose lilting, upbeat schottisches, polskas and mazurkas were popular dances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The band began touring across the US, releasing their first album, Kaivama, in 2011.
Why have HIM and Hanoi Rocks been the only Finnish bands to make it in America? Sami Valkonen, a music industry veteran involved with rock bands on both sides of the Atlantic, debates the factors that make up a success story on the American market. There are today too many Finnish bands with venerable careers in Europe to list.
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- 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.
Apr 22, 2015 · 1. Nightwish: the band you voted the most. With or without their old vocalist, Tarja Turunen, Nightwish is the most beloved Finnish rock band by the friends of Big in Finland on Facebook. Source (CC: by). This is their most heard song on their label’s official Soundcloud account. 2.
Several Finnish bands have followed the lead of that band; Entwine, Lullacry, and Poisonblack are such bands. Heavy metal group Blind Channel finished sixth in Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with their song "Dark Side". Other well-known metal bands are Amorphis, Beherit, Impaled Nazarene, Throne of Chaos, Turisas and Ensiferum. Hip-hop
