Battle Beast

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Battle Beast
Battle Beast at Rockharz 2018
Battle Beast at Rockharz 2018
General information
Genre (s) Heavy metal
founding 2008
Current occupation
Noora Louhimo (since 2012)
Bass , vocals
 Eero Sipilä
Pyry Vikki
guitar
 Juuso Soinio
guitar
 Joona Björkroth
Keyboard , vocals
 Janne Björkroth
former members
singing
 Nitte Valo (2008-2012)
Guitar, vocals
 Anton Kabanen (2008-2015)

Battle Beast is a Finnish heavy metal band founded in Helsinki in 2008 . Her musical style is based on elements of hard rock from the 1980s. The debut album Steel was released in 2011 by the Finnish label Hype-Records in Finland. At the end of 2011, the international publisher Nuclear Blast signed the band and released the debut album (with a changed cover) worldwide on January 27, 2012.

The band won several prizes, including the Wacken Open Air newcomer competition . In 2012, you supported the European and Russian tour for Nightwish's Imaginaerum .

Musical influences

Musical role models are WASP , Manowar , Judas Priest , UDO and Iron Maiden .

In terms of content, many songs such as "Eclipse", "The Black Swordsman" or "Band of the Hawk" refer to the story of the manga or anime " Berserk ", in which Guts, the Black Swordsman, takes revenge for the sacrifice after an eclipse the group of mercenaries who took him in. This group of mercenaries was known as "The Falcons" or "the Band of the Hawk".

Band history

Juuso, Pyry and Anton made music together when they were teenagers. In spring 2008 Nitte Valo joined the band and the first demo songs have already been recorded. After several changes of bassist and keyboardist, Eero Sipilä and Janne Björkroth also joined the band. After they won the Wacken Metal Battle in 2010, they signed their first record deal with the Finnish label Hype Records in autumn 2010.

In August 2012, singer Nitte Valo announced that she was leaving the band so that she could concentrate more on her family life. Noora Louhimo was signed as the successor.

  • Battle Beast, line-up at Rockharz 2018

  • Singer Noora Louhimo

  • Bass player Eero Sipilä

  • Drummer Pyry Vikki

  • Guitarist Joona Björkroth

  • Keyboard player Janne Björkroth

  • Guitarist Juuso Soinio (right)

Discography

Albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH AT AT FI FI
2011 Steel
Hype Records 		- - - FI7 (6 weeks)
FI
First published: April 1, 2011
2013 Battle Beast
Nuclear Blast 		DE82 (1 week)
DE 		CH67 (1 week)
CH 		- FI5 (17 weeks)
FI
First published: May 17, 2013
2015 Unholy Savior
Nuclear Blast 		DE39 (1 week)
DE 		CH71 (1 week)
CH 		- FI1 (15 weeks)
FI
First published: January 9, 2015
2017 Bringer of Pain
Nuclear Blast 		DE14 (2 weeks)
DE 		CH16 (3 weeks)
CH 		AT36 (1 week)
AT 		FI1 (25 weeks)
FI
First published: February 17, 2017
2019 No More Hollywood Endings
Nuclear Blast 		DE11 (2 weeks)
DE 		CH12 (1 week)
CH 		AT36 (1 week)
AT 		FI1 (6 weeks)
FI
First published: March 22, 2019

Songs

  • 2011: Show Me How to Die (online single)

swell

  1. ↑ Interview with Battle Beast ( Memento from February 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Report on www.metal4.de ( Memento from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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