Elenium
| Elenium | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Vantaa , Finland |
| Genre (s) | Progressive Metal , Melodic Death Metal |
| founding | 1995 |
| Current occupation | |
| Tuomo Räisänen aka Thomas Wright | |
| Johannes Salo | |
| Jukka Pelkonen | |
| Anssi Hallio | |
| Ville Leppänen | |
Electric guitar |
Lauri Koskenniemi |
| former members | |
Drums |
Juha-Matti Ahde |
Electric guitar |
Daavid Varner |
Electric guitar |
Okko Pykäläinen |
Drums |
Mikko Niemelae |
Electric guitar |
Tommi Leinonen |
Electric guitar |
Kasperi Heikkinen |
Drums |
Jussi Raatikainen |
Drums (live) |
Juhana Karlsson |
Elenium is a Finnish progressive and melodic death metal band from Vantaa that was founded in 1995.
history
The band was founded in August 1995 by singer Jukka Pelkonen, guitarist Okko Pykäläinen and keyboardist Johannes Salo. The line-up was supplemented by the second guitarist Daavid Varner, the bassist Tuomo Räisänen and the drummer Mikko Niemelä. In April 1998 Tommi Leinonen joined as the new second guitarist. In the same year the demo This Side of Paradise was released , which was re-released as an EP on Hella Records that same year . In 1998 the band also appeared together with Children of Bodom . In 1999 Pykäläinen left the group. The following year the band was mostly inactive as many members had to do their military service. In autumn 2001 Kasperi Heikkinen was added as a second guitarist. In 2002 a demo with three songs under the name Them Used Gods followed. As a result, the band reached a record deal with the British label Rage of Achilles . In 2003 the debut album For Giving - For Getting was released . The album was produced under the direction of Nino Laurenne at Sonic Pump Studios and Finnvox Studio . In November 2004 they went on tour through Finland together with Omnium Gatherum , Amaral , Manitou and Kiuas . In 2007 the second album Caught in a Wheel followed. In their career, the group has also played in better-known Finnish clubs such as Tavastia or Nosturi and in 2004 on the Ankkarock or in the Kajaanihalli in Kajaani .
style
According to Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia , Elenium was influenced by bands like Amorphis and Impaled Nazarene . progarchives.com assigned the music to Melodic Death Metal, whereby it was more progressive than the usual representatives of the genre. For Martin Wickler from Metal Hammer , the album For Giving - For Getting had a melancholy sound. It has both a Finnish influence in the style of Amorphis and a slightly Swedish influence from Edge of Sanity . The songs are varied, often very keyboard-heavy and often drift into progressive. Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s that the band plays a melodic mixture of Thrash and Death Metal on the album that evokes memories of Rapture , Omnium Gatherum and Opeth . The music is enriched by progressive elements, power metal guitar solos , clear vocals, acoustic passages and old-school keyboard sounds, which are better than, for example, in bands like Kalmah . The drumming sounds a lot like Dark Tranquility . Popoff also drew a comparison with early Lake of Tears and Edge of Sanity.
Discography
- 1996: Demo 1996 (demo, self-publication)
- 1998: This Side of Paradise (demo, self-published)
- 1998: This Side of Paradise (EP, Hella Records )
- 1999: Promo 1999 (demo, self-publication)
- 2001: Promo 2001 (demo, self-published)
- 2002: Them Used Gods (demo, self-published)
- 2003: For Giving - For Getting (Album, Rage of Achilles )
- 2007: Caught in a Wheel (Album, Kampas Records )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on February 4, 2015 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Elenium. Allmusic , accessed January 8, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Martin Wickler: Elenium . For giving, for getting. In: Metal Hammer . March 2004, p. 111 .
- ↑ Biography. metalfromfinland.com, archived from the original on February 6, 2015 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 .
- ↑ ELENIUM. progarchives.com, accessed January 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Martin Popoff , David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 150 .
