Missing alot of top bands such as Mokoma and Stam1na, both sing in finnish. From older bands Sentenced should have been on the list as well. It's still playing in radios and it's also inspiration to many metal band that came after.
not only Mokoma and Stam1na, this list misses the like of Turmion Kätilöt aswell. really feel Mert needs to do a reaction to Finnish metal sung in finnish.
Sentenced pitäisi kyllä ehdottomasti olla listalla. Kymmenen joukkoon ei ikävä kyllä mahdu kaikkien kommentoijien lempibändit, kyllä mäkin rankkaisin Sotajumalan tohon top-10:een, tyyliin Finntroll, Sonata Arctica & Nightwish pois, ja Sentenced, Stone & Sotajumala tilalle. Stam1nakin on todella kova, samoin Mokoma, mutta kyllä listan bändit on mun mielestä kovempia. Lisäksi mä uskallan väittää, että folk metalin puolella tunnetuin suomalainen bändi lienee Turisas, ei Finntroll/Ensiferum, vaikka nekin molemmat on kovia, Ensiferum kylläkin paljon kovempi omaan makuuni. Luulisin, että jopa Moonsorrow on finntrollia tunnetumpi maailmalla? Sen lisäksi lista suosii liikaa pelkästään folk-&Power metal -bändejä, meillä on paljon kovaa heviä about joka genreen.. Missä kunnon bläkkis tai dödis? Thrashiakin meiltä toki löytyisi, ja deathrasia yms.. :) Miten kukaan ei muista esimerkiksi STONE:a? Suomen historian kovimpia thrash metal -bändejä (tai ainakin 2 ekaa levyä.. :D ). Ehdottomasti ois top 10 -kamaa, mun mielestä tasoltaan ihan isoimpien jenkki-thrashmetalbändien veroinen. Ei nyt ehkä ihan big 4 -tasoa, mutta aika pitkälti samalla levelillä kuin vaikkapa Testament, Exodus, Pantera etc.. Stone oli nerokas. Ne vaan oli vähän myöhässä liikkeellä.. Sotajumala puolestaan on mun mielestä ehdottomasti kovimpia, ellei kovin dödisbändi, mut nää on sit just niitä makuasioita. :D Ja mun mielestä kyllä myös esim deathchain on kovempi, kuin moni listan tilulilu-/kiljumishevibändeistä. :D
Those short clips really didn't do justice to any band. Insomnium is one of my all time favorites and I like to call it "atmospheric metal", a lot of nice instrument melodies and most their songs have no distortion -parts. Another great finnish band for similar vibes is Ghost Brigade. One of the more known all time greats missing from here is Sentenced.
Basically a list of "hey which songs and live performances could we pick to make these bands seems as sh***y as possible" Seems like a list from a death metal fan, where those bands and which songs were picked seem a bit over represented at the bottom considering that, after black metal, that is the second most niche/divise metal genre. But unlike in most lists like these thr top 6 seems to be super accurate, even if the video made them sound like garbage. The 10 to 7 are a bit arguable, but at least all of these bands are very popular, good and at the very top of the scene. Notably missing from the list that could/should be there depending on how the list was made: Mokoma, Turisas, Wintersun, HIM, Lordi, Stamina, Turmion Kätilöt and Moonsorrow Even Rasmus and Apulanta could be included with some of their songs and collabs even if they are mosly rock/pop bands and Hanoi Rocks as well for being rock band with a metal twist
Onorable bands mention : SENTENCED, POISONBLACK, H.I.M., LORDI, CHARON, TO DIE FOR, TAROT, CATAMENIA, KALMAH, LULLACRY, NORTHER, SINERGY, THE 69 EYES, THE BLACK LEAGUE, STONE, TURISAS, TIMO TOLKKI`S PROJECTS and mannnnnyyyyyy more. Hail to Finland from Romania!!!!
Oh god, not To Die For! 😂 Saw them a few times as a teen, my bestie liked them. TDF was really lame, but in an adorable way, I guess 😂 They were never popular here, so it's awesome that someone in Romania remembers them! 😂
The clips selected on the video made the bands seem less diverse than they actually are. The bands on the list have been around for decades and done different kind of songs during that time so also their own music can be quite diverse and difficult to sum up in just one 15 sec sample. The best genre is of course the symphonic, post-apocalyptic, reindeer-grinding, Christ-abusing, extreme, war, pagan, Fennoscandic metal (From a comedy movie 'Heavy Trip').
Since you enjoy Nightwish i think you would also really like Battle Beast!! The artists name is Noora Louhimo and she"s just incredible with her vocals! Here"s a official music video and a LIVE RAW version of them: RAW: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZQiTyBc2JKc.html Official music video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SZzhUPe-Bck.html
It was btw Tarja Turunen singing (referring to Nightwish), not Floor Jansen 😊 Worth checking out more of Tarja’s performances. Also worth checking out is Battle Beast! They are great fun (in my opinion). Their lead vocalist Noora Louhimo has a great voice.
Wintersun, Ensiferum, and Mors Principium Est need to be mentioned in this conversation. \m/ Two current members of Nightwish, Kai and Jukka, are also (maybe, still hahaha if Wintersun still exists) in Wintersun.
If you liked Sonata Arctica, Battle Beast, Beast in Black, Amberian Dawn and The Dark Element should have been on your list. Even if some bands have only partly Finnish members.
If you are also interested in the so-called "battle metal" and "viking metal" style in addition to folk metal, I recommend checking out the Turisas band. 😉
I bet this list is an old one? Insomnium should be way up, BloodRed HourClass, Battle Beast, Wintersun, Beast in Black, Stam1na, Lost Society, Dark Sarah.... List goes on 😂
I'm okay with the list, though I think Battle Beast should have been on it. I recommend that you check out the Nightwish song that was on this list. It's really good. It's called Wismaster and the live performance is from a concert called End of an Era. It also includes Nightwish's original singer, Tarja Turunen😊
I personally like the music but i just dont like the gruff growling voice! The folk metal sounds good but my favourite of all is symphonic...namely Nightwish .!!
I recommend Children of Bodom. Aleksi Laiho was one of the best guitar player in the whole world and he died few years ago in his forties. Try Are you dead yet.
Not having Wintersun as the number one is wrong but not even mentioning them is an absolutely crime. Jari became a lazy and a douche,.true, but nonetheless the man is a musical genius. Self titled and Time are some of the best albums I've ever heard in my life
Thanks for entertaining me & also promoting Finnish metal. Finland is the metal kingdom of the world with little over 700 metal bands per 1M citizens. No other country comes even close- e.g. the US has about 70/1M.
This list highlights some good bands, but the Amorphis teaser was not the best song choice. Wintersun, Battle Beast, Dark Sarah, Turmion Kätilöt and of course the mighty Tarot are great representations of the diversity of Finnish rock and metal. Not sure why Finland has such an amazing range of awesome bands. Although many of the artists are in more than one band, or do collaborations, so it seems to me they push their own boundaries more that way. However, I do wish I'd got to this party sooner. Only fell down this rabbit hole during the pandemic, but loving how much there is to explore. Would also recommend checking out Bjørkø, one of the guitarists from Amorphis, Tomi Koivusaari's solo project. Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen is the other one and that's bloody good too.
All ten bands presented are great! Having said that i find the list lacking. The biggest mistake is leaving out some bands singing in Finnish like Stam1na and Mokoma - that makes this top 10 not that representative of the scene in Finland. Well, every list is based on someone's preferences, isn't it? So, to each his/her own.
As a metalhead and kind of specialized into Finnish Metal (because they are easiest to see live here in Finland) this is a surprisingly good list. Of course there are no wrong answers in musical opinions. Insomnium (solid),Finntroll (fun),Korpiklaani (my favourite band in the world),Ensiferum (solid),Sonata Arctica (excellent example of finnish power metal),Amorphis (solid,heh thats kinda funny since Amorphis is originally misspelled amorphous which is opposite of solid),Apocalyptica(fun),Stratovarius (the band that got me into metal over 20 years ago),Children of Bodom (were a great band,I think they were the closest band to make it big in america of all finnish bands in history),Nightwish (literally the best selling finnish artist or band of all time of any genre). I obviously got like 100 bands I could mention here but let's say you might want to check out some of the following : pioneers of finnish metal from the 80s (Tarot and Stone probably the best ones), Sarcofagus released 2 first finnish metal albums in 1980 but I think they are more like a curiosity than great,good for their time, some say finnish black metal is top ones if not the best in the world (Horna,Sargeist,Barathrum,Azaghal,Enochian Crescent,Impaled Nazarene,Satanic Warmaster,Ajattara,Baptism,Goatmoon,Behexen,Alghazanth),Moonsorrow (most epic band of finland),Waltari (easily switches genre midsong and back),Turmion Kätilöt (popular industrial metal,not sure if you like it if you dont know finnish),Rotten Sound (best grindgore band I have heard), solid ones if not great so basically honourable mentions of bands that i have listened over 100 songs of : (Sotajumala,Lordi,Mokoma,Swallow the Sun,Bloodred Hourglass,Deathchain,Kotiteollisuus,Urn,The Crescent,Total Devastation,Wolfheart,Zero Nine,Turisas,Hellbox,Nicole and Rytmihäiriö). edit : now that i looked at other comments then obviously I missed Stam1na,Sentenced,Wintersun,Battle Beast,Mors Principium Est,Ghost Brigade,Beast in Black,Tarja,Amberian Dawn,KALMAH (how the hell i missed them??)
Nightwish is "symphonic metal", if you like this style you should check out : "Epica" and "Within Temptation" (dutch) "Ad Infinitum" (swiss) "Beyond the Black" and "Xandria" (german) "Visions of Atlantis" (austrian) Also an absolute fantastic metal band, that does mostly power metal but also some more symphonic stuff is "Lovebites" from japan
I would love to see you check out The 69 Eyes (gothic metal). Song Brandon Lee for example. They are my favorite Finnish band, but I like more of their older stuff.
and ofcourse that list is not complete! They are missing, Catamenia, Azazel, Swallow the sun, Amberian Dawn, Eternal tears of sorrow! Just to name a few!! 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
The land of Metal- Finland. Go a head, Lisen at this bands from list- Apocalytica, Children of Bodom, Finntroll, Korpiklaani, Sonata Artica, Nightwish and countine whit more from list.. And you then know Finnish metal in all their form..Deep dark lyrics, powerful energy and lovely voices 🖤
There are so many good bands. I would insist adding Blind Channel, Arion (check this is in english, there´s apparently another band just appeared by the same name), Diablo and 69eyes to this list
I think its sad that us fins dont remember how damn good hanoirocks was, and cant see how good lordi is... (metal band that win eurovision and changed it forever) but lordi dont shine in finland.. its good other countrys gives lordi the love it deserves 🤟🏼
Great thing in Finnish metal is that we have something for everybody. I am not a metal head, but I appreciate many of them a lot. My favourites are probably Sonata Arctica and Mokoma. Also Nightwish. (My mum (in her 60s) likes metal Christmas concerts and goes to Nightwish gigs. She is even less metal head than I am. But she has found her thing.) As a teenager, I listened much more metal music as it helped me to calm down. Nowadays, I don't need it for that purpose as I can regulate my emotions more easily also without music...but still some metal music I listen every now and then. Fun fact, Stam1na has helped me to remember how to spot if somebody is having a stroke. 🤘😍 In their song 'Aivohalvaus' (Stroke) they say (in Finnish) "Smile/ Rise your arms / Say short, clear sentence / If you don't obay, you are drunk / Or there is stroke in your head." = "Hymyile / Nosta kädet ilmaan / Sano lyhyt selkeä lause /Jos et tottele olet päissäsi / Tai on päässäsi aivohalvaus." I appreciated this so much that I even told about this song in first aid class I was participating. The instruction is correct and makes it easy to remember. If you are having stroke, there might be one half of face/ body having paralysis symptoms (hard to smile with both sides of mouth and/or rise both arms fully. Also you might have hard time speaking clearly. Mumbling is common.
A shit top 10 list in my opinion 😊 Here's my top 10 😊 Amorphis Swallow the sun Diablo Sentenced Marianas rest Children of bodom Assemble the chariots Hanoi rocks Bloodred hourglass Stratovarius
As you said, these lists are always subjective, but it still blows my mind that someone puts together a list such as this and fails to include the likes of Sentenced and Moonsorrow on it. Also, this list basically ignored the bands who sing in Finnish, with the exception of Korpiklaani that do the vast majority of their songs in Finnish these days. Then again, even a list Top 50 Finnish metal bands would still leave great bands out in the cold. That's something you would have to do however, to get an idea of the full scope of Finnish metal music.
I would say a pretty good list to start from, but there are hundreds of good bands out there, depending on your preferences. I lean towards symphonic and power metal, and I also like some folk tunes with traditional instruments mixed in. Nightwish has always been my favourite, but for example 20 years ago I listened a lot to Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica and Apocalyptica. Nowadays my goto bands are usually Nightwish and Wintersun. Interesting that Wintersun was not on the list, that is some epic music.
I guess many people already said it but I would throw Battle Beast, Beast in Black and Blind Channel in the Mix. Also in my opinion not only finnish metal is good. I also like all kinds of other finnish music. Like Moon Shot (i guess rock), Chisu (Pop (?)), Tuure Kilpeläinen (no idea of the genre, my favorite is Autiosaari which i guess is Reagge). Oh, and i am not a finn ;)
Great Bands, but Sentenced and Battle Beast should be in there... Kalmah is also a big favorite of mine... It's really crazy to think about the size of this country with all those bands in mind...
Amorphis is my number one band, though Insomnium and Ensiferum are my favorites too. I've never cared much of the categorization of music, but I guess that makes me fan of melodic death metal and maybe folk metal too.
I really enjoy Korpiklaani's music, especially the newer stuff. My favorite song of theirs is probably "Leväluhta" and I highly recommend checking it out. That song leans heavily to the folk music side and at times almost sounds like reggae. Also if you liked the power metal stuff then you might want to listen to Teräsbetoni - Taivas lyö tulta. That song went super viral in the early 2000's and is just fun.
Definitely need to check out Battlelore. Male and female vocals. The entire band are excellent musicians. The just released their first album after a 10 year break, The Return of the Shadow. Tolkien Folk Metal! Love them!
HIM is hands down bigger than Ensiferum or Finntroll, even if they're not currently active. No newer bands either, like Battle Beast and Beast in Black (or Blind Channel even).
I thinkbig part of music in finland is that you can start a school you have an option to join a class that nurtures young musicans and has alot more music classes i was in one from grade 1 to 6 there is option for grades 7-9 too
Children of bodom/ Alex Laiho Laiho received a Metal Hammer Golden Gods prize in the category of Dimebag Darrell Shredder Award in 2008.[23] Laiho received widespread acclaim for his guitar work and according to AllMusic, he is "widely celebrated as one of the genre's most accomplished players". In 2004 he was ranked No. 96 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World. Guitar World magazine has also ranked him as one of the 50 fastest guitarists in the world. In addition, Roadrunner Records ranked Laiho at No. 41 out of 50 of the greatest metal frontmen. Furthermore, Total Guitar conducted a public voting poll to determine the greatest metal guitarist of all time; Laiho was voted No. 1 out of 20 metal guitarists, with over 20% of the vote.
lol.. super old clips.. and that list was very subjective and "mainstream among metal". Definitely missing bands like Stone, Sentenced, Swallow the Sun, Stam1na, Diablo, Kiuas, Mokoma, Moonsorrow, Omnium Gatherum, Klamath, Torture Killer.
First time I heard Apocalyptica was with their debut album 'plays Metallica on 4 cellos'. Blew me away. Later albums they added drums, with Dave fucking Lombardo appearing on some songs
This is a nice introduction list, and I have been counting, I've seen the half of these bands live at least once (actually going to see Amorphis again in two days 🤘), Apocalyptica I've seen like three times and would do so again, they are my favourite band. I love both power metal and symphonic metal, but melodic death metal can also be amazing - Insomnium has some beautiful songs, for example. The band I think is missing and should be there is definitely Tarot. But there are so many good bands in Finland, I bet it was hard to choose the top ten 😂
It is impossible to satisfy everyone, all these 10 bands in list are great, and bands like, Stam1na, mokoma, battle beast, tarot, diablo, wolfheart, beast in black, wintersun, turmion kätilöt for example rules.
Putting Finntroll, Ensiferum and Korpiklaani in order is next to impossible. While different still so much in the same ball park that yeah, good luck with that. I guess this was more directed towards english lyrics metal, a shame bands like Stam1na aren't included. And Startovarius and #3? Cmon man!
Seemed kind of dated, this list, as I new all of them. :) Today, and for the foreigners to hear peculiarities and finnish language, Viikate would be a necessary addition. Hahaa, I got to add the 666th thumbs up!
Metal is not my bread and butter, but proud to be Finn. Small country with many talents. IMHO Turmion kätilöt (loose translation midwives of ruination) could be interesting band to listen.
That list was awfully narrow. There's so much more variety than what the video let on. I didn't like some of the selections for "the top 10" and even on the bands I did agree upon, the selected songs didn't really represent the bands that well. But like you said it's all about personal opinion. All I can say is keep on searching! You'll be surprised how much awesome metal there is in Finland.
Vittu mua hävettää lukea tätä keskustelua. Jengi kuuntelee jotain naisten ja lasten metallia tai iskelmää särökitaralla. :D Oikeasti kovia suomalaisia bändejä ois esim. Impaled Nazarene ja Reverend Bizarre, joilla on iso kulttisuosio maailmalla. Ja sitten old school Death Metal scene 80-90-luvun taitteesta.
WHAT??? No Wintersun on that list. If you want to be stunned for 14 perfect minutes, try and listen Wintersun - Sons of winter and stars (Live studio session).
I can't grasp how you think those bands are so different. I'm having a difficult time noticing when the band changes even with the videos :D I suppose metalheads can't tell the difference between techno artists :D
A lot of really good bands have already been mentioned here. I'll add a few more great bands to the list. Timo Rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus, Indica, the Rasmus and Apulanta
Some that are rarely mentioned, Pain Confessor, melodic death metal band that in my opinion would have deserved more attention. Diablo, melodeath/thrash, this one was after all warming up Metallica in helsinki but still seems not very widely known. Sentenced was mentioned several times and for a very good reason
It's Stam1na and Mokoma you should listen to. And older Stam1na as well! Do kadonneet kolme sanaa rather than valtiaan uudet vaatteet or panzerfaust or any of the newer stuff. I promise you it'll blow your mind
