Best Band From Finland?

[Morningrise]

Since we have someone asking what your favorite Swedish band is, I thought I would ask favorite band from Finland. I would probably have to say Amorphis or Children of Bodom, both of which have influenced me greatly. So what's yours?

 

[Equiron]

the best should be amorphis
tales from thousand lakes is a great album
sentenced is also a great band

 

[warsofwinter]

Thales !!!!

 

[Jim Ansell]

children of bodom
finntroll
stratovarius

 

[benny]

Nightwish
Sentenced
Children of Bodom
Viikate
Thales
Amorphis

 

[godmachine12]

Sentenced and Amorphis tie for first.

n/p: White Zombie-Astro Creep

 

[splump]

Catamenia

the Morning Crimson cd is really good..

 

[rogue27]

For some reason I always thought Sentenced was from Canada...

Vintersorg's new CD "Cosmic Genesis" is pretty darn good. I heard the earlier ones weren't that great though.

Vintersorg's singing on the upcoming Borknagar album, so I'm excited about that.

 

[Demonspell]

Nightwish is my favorite, if only for the inconsistencies of Amorphis and Sentenced and Stratovarius, and my pathological hatred of Children Of Suckdom...

 

[warsofwinter]

Originally posted by rogue27
For some reason I always thought Sentenced was from Canada...

Vintersorg's new CD "Cosmic Genesis" is pretty darn good. I heard the earlier ones weren't that great though.

Vintersorg's singing on the upcoming Borknagar album, so I'm excited about that.

The first time I heard Opeth I thought they were from canada too , he he weird , but if you've ever been yo Newfoundland and actually weren't a stereotypical(is that a word) person then you would say that Opeth should really live hear . very nice place , like the only viking touched place in canada

 

[Silhouette]

I like Throes of Dawn a fair bit.

 

[discouraged1]

Tenhi and Amorphis.

Yearning and Sentenced are pretty much good too.


I think Vintersorg is from Sweden, not from Finland.

 

[Villain]

From the bands of the moment, I'd choose The Black League. CoB are good, but not that great and both Amorphis and Sentenced have gone downwards lately (still like their older stuff a lot).

Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus is a great live-band (saw them in Turku about a week ago)!

Also, there are lots of great "not-so-famous" bands around here in Finland, for example Enter My Silence, Noumena and Thales.

-Villain

 

[Onan]

shame on you! no one mentioned Skepticism, Dolorian, Shape Of Despair and Thergothon! some of the best doom came out of Finland.
Thy Serpent also deserve a mention...
and i must say i believe CoB, Nightwish, Sentenced and Amorphis are way overrated.

 

[jesse]

Best band from Finland: Rapture & Shape of Despair

(OK, it's two..).

 

[benny]

I can't believe I forgot Tenhi.

 

[Villain]

Damn, I forgot Stone, the best thrash-metal band EVER!

-Villain (np: Edge of Sanity - "Twilight")

 

[Vortex]

Stone, damn right! I can't really disagree with your opinion, Villain.

For the uninitiated, Stone made a few classic thrash records in the early 80's easily on par with "the big names", then disbanded soon after. Brilliant musicians Too bad they didn't really have time to make it outside of Finland.

I've started to really dislike COB lately, to the point of selling all their records. Teenage metal if you like *ducks*

 

[Triste]

Since THERGOTHON, SKEPTICISM, SHAPE OF DESPAIR, et al have already been mentioned....
THIS EMPTY FLOW!!!!! pure bleakness...

 

[rogue27]

I'm pretty sure vintersorg was from finland... but I could be wrong I suppose.

I know Borknagar's from Norway though, and vintersorg worked with them on their last album.