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LICK IT UP (MERCURY, 1983) Lick It Up is the 3rd song on the KISS album of the same name, released in 1983. I heard it the following year, and it’s most likely the very first KISS song I clearly remember. At the age of 9 or 10, I liked only this track — the …
ACTIVE: 1988– Cannibal Corpse. That’s a name you’ve probably heard even if death metal ain’t your cup of tea. They are a legendary band from the States, known for fast and technical death metal. Cannibal Corpse was originally fronted by Chris Barnes, a vocalist whose growls were among the lowest you could hear at that …
HOITOVIRHE (SPINEFARM, 2004) Teurastaja is most likely the best-known song by Turmion Kätilöt. It has 15 million plays on Spotify (by the end of 2025) — and for a reason. It’s a great tune, and also the opening track of their debut album Hoitovirhe. When I first heard it, the song — and the whole …
WOLVERINE BLUES (EARACHE, 1993) Full of Hell is the sixth track on Entombed’s Wolverine Blues album – and like the rest of that record, it’s flawless. Back in the nineties I wrote song titles and quotes from this album next to many of my graffiti pieces. In more recent years I’ve continued the same habit, …
ACTIVE: 2002– The first time I met Eevil Stöö was in late 2003, not much after he started making music under that name. He, too, falls into the rap artist category. Thanks to Steen1, I managed to lower my defensive attitude toward Finnish rap and actually found a handful of artists in that genre worth …
ACTIVE: 2003– Turmion Kätilöt is an industrial metal group from Finland. So far, they have released eleven studio albums filled with catchy, disco-influenced metal music. The band is truly something else – killer songs paired with wonderfully disturbed videos. With only a few exceptions, their lyrics are in Finnish. I started listening to them either …
1988-2011, 2019- To me, Dismember — and especially their first few albums — feels like the evil twin of Entombed. They come from the same scene, recorded in the same studios, and even share that trademark buzzsaw guitar sound. Nicke Andersson, Entombed’s original drummer, even contributed to their debut album by playing most of the …
ACTIVE: 1982– W.A.S.P. is a shock rock (or hard rock, if you will) band from USA. It is led by Blackie Lawless, the mastermind and the founder of the band. Their debut, self-titled album was released in 1984. My crew mate Rosk got W.A.S.P. on cassette, and I copied it from him. I loved it …
ACTIVE: 1973–2023 KISS is a hard rock band from the States which was active for 50 years. The band recorded a shitload of albums during their existence — and a lot of them are actually pretty darn good. My soft spot is their 1980’s releases. The very first song from them I remember hearing was …
WOLVERINE BLUES (EARACHE, 1993) Wolverine Blues is both an album released by Entombed and the third song on that very record. What’s also cool is that this is kind of comeback album for lead singer LG Petrov, who was fired just before the band started to record their 2nd album Clandestine. Fortunately they talked things …