RFI: Music of Finland, Finns (Seven Deadly), Finnish Rock, Electronic, etc Music

So. Any good Finnish boybands about?

N Sinki?

I think these days the closest equivalent to a Finnish boyband are glam rock bands with young, good-looking guys. The most popular ones are Negative and Lovex, I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRel_1BEFsA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfm2IbNpIE

As far I know, their basic fanbase is the same as that of proper boybands, i.e. (pre)teen girls who dig their looks.

Btw, lately I've been diggind old Finnish schlagers, and whaddayouknow, someone has put up a fan video for my favourite tune from the fifties. It even has an English summary of the lyrics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZq57zEY9g

The singer, Tapio Rautavaara, also won the gold metal for javelin at the 1948 summer olympics, so he was quite the renaissance man.

Other famed Finnish scenes:

- Old-school extreme metal. Mostly death (Xysma, Demilich, Demigod, Lubricant, Amorphis), doom (Thergothon, Unholy, Skepticism) and a few black metal (Beherit, Impaled Nazarene).

- "Suomi saundi": a subgenre of psychedelic trance spearheaded by Texas Faggott, on Exogenic Records.

I think I've seen Texas Faggot live years ago, they did a fine job in turning one of the worst genres in electronic music history into something tolerable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3giCNAU_NYM

I don't normally share any Finnish music in here, but this song/video has hit me harder than anything from this country in a long time... It straddles a very fine line between eroticism and gothic death-love (the title translates to "open your hair, Medusa" - the narrator is welcoming Medusa to turn her into stone so she can enter oblivion) but never becomes corny, just amazing.