The singer, Tapio Rautavaara, also won the gold metal for javelin at the 1948 summer olympics, so he was quite the renaissance man.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 6 September 2007 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― no-nonsense, Thursday, 6 September 2007 11:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 6 September 2007 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 11 September 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link