Fall of the Leafe

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Fall of the Leafe
General information
origin Uusikaupunki , Finland
Genre (s) Gothic metal , dark rock , folk metal , progressive rock
founding 1996
resolution 2007
Last occupation
Kaj Gustafsson
Jussi Hänninen
Petri Hannuniemi
Tuomas Tuominen
Matias Aaltonen
Electric bass
 Miska Lehtivuori
former members
Electric bass
 Juha Kouhi
Drums
 Marko Hyytia
singing
 Jani Lindström († 2016)
Electric guitar
 Mika Rostedt
Electric bass, initially electric guitar
 Pasi Bunda
Electric guitar
 Taneli Hatakka
Electric bass
 Petri Santala

Fall of the Leafe was a Finnish metal and rock band from Uusikaupunki , formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2007.

history

The band was formed in Uusikaupunki, with most of the members later settling in Turku . The foundation dates to 1996 back when the guitarist Jussi Hänninen, the drummer and bassist Marko Hyytiä Juha Hänninen Kouhi together riffs and song ideas jammed . Since they consider the song material to be too demanding for so few members, they brought Kaj Gustafsson on as an additional guitarist before the singer Jani Lindström completed the line-up. That same year the band went to the Crusell Studio to record five songs that made up the demo Storm of the Autumnfall . Another demo was recorded in the same studio the following year. After the band had signed a record deal with Defiled Records from Colorado , the debut album Evanescent, Everfading was recorded in 1997 under the direction of Ahti Kortelainen at Tico-Tico Studios . For financial reasons, however, the album was not released until the following year. Since the members noticed during the recording that their keyboard skills were barely sufficient, Petri Hannuniemi joined the cast as keyboard player shortly after the recordings. Around the same time, Lindström left the group and was replaced by Tuomas Tuominen. The band moved to another rehearsal room a short time later, but it burned down after strangers broke in, stole most of the members' equipment and set the building on fire. Despite this setback, the band planned to record their second album in late 1998. After she had already booked her appointment in the studio, Defiled Records stopped its activities. A short time later, Kaj Gustafsson left the group. Mika Rostedt and Pasi Bunda were added as replacements, before both were replaced by Taneli Hatakka shortly afterwards. Towards the end of 1998, three songs were recorded in the Crusell Studio and released as a demo in 1999. On this demo consisting of three songs, Hänninen played all the electric guitar tracks, as Hatakka had also left the line-up. Through the demo, the band got the attention of the Argentine label Icarus Music . Then the bassist Kouhi left the group. In 1999 she signed a record deal for two albums with the label. In July and August of the year the band went into the Popstudio of Mika Haapasalo . Since the band was still without a permanent bass player, the guitarist Hänninen took over this position. Rostedt also returned as another guitarist. The album was released in the same year under the name August Wernicke , about seven months after the planned release date. The rest of the year and the following year the line-up changed several times. Petri Santala was added as the new bass player, who was replaced by a returning Pasi Bunda, whose post was ultimately taken back by Kouhi. In addition, the guitarist Rostedt left Fall of the Leafe and was replaced by Gustafsson.

In January 2001, the band returned to the pop studio, with Haapasalo rebuilding the studio at a location that was further away for the band. However, the recordings did not go smoothly and Jussi Hänninen had to be hospitalized due to an incident. After the recordings were finished and the song material was in the process of being mixed up, the band was three months behind schedule. The mixed material was mastered by Mika Jussila at Finnvox Studios . The album was released in January 2002 under the name Fermina . In April the drummer Marko Hyytiä left the group. Matias Aaltonen came in as a replacement, initially only as a session member, then as a permanent member. Aaltonen and Gustafsson had been friends since childhood. Since the collaboration with Icarus Music was over, the band looked for a new label. After a long search, she signed a contract with Rage of Achilles . In September to November 2003, work on the next album began in Mika Haapasalo's pop studio. The song material was mastered in Finnvox Studios by Mika Jussila before the album was released in 2004 under the name Volvere . Then Kouhi can no longer be heard as the bass player, since he had already left the group again, instead Hänninen played the bass. In addition, when the recording was finished, the keyboardist Hannuniemi had left Fall of the Leafe. In 2004 the band was back on stage for the first time in a few years, playing in around a dozen clubs. After Rage of Achilles had stopped its activity, the group went on a label search again. She sent around 100 promo packages to various labels, whereupon Firebox Records announced its interest and in September 2004 the contract was signed. First, Volvere was re-released with bonus material. While the republication was in progress, members moved to Turku due to the shorter travel distances members had to cover to rehearse. Miska Lehtivuori joined as the new bass player. In the spring of 2005, the recordings for the next album began in the pop studio, whereby it was recorded in several shorter sessions. The album Vantage was released in 2005. Hannuniemi is then again included as keyboard player. In 2007 the album Aerolithe was released , which was mastered by Svante Forsback in the Chartmakers Studio in Helsinki. Shortly afterwards Tuomas Tuominen announced the breakup of the band on August 20th of that year. The last gig was held on September 14th.

style

Martin Popoff wrote in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties about Evanescent, Everfading that an epic mixture of Gothic and Black Metal can be heard, with elements from Progressive Rock also being incorporated. The singing is a bit monotonous "barking". The existing keyboard sounds would be drowned out by the drums. Elements from Viking Metal would also evoke memories of Týr and Battlelore . In the fourth volume of his book series Popoff wrote about Volvere that the album can be classified between the commercial Paradise Lost , medium-paced commercial Metallica , Sentenced and Dream Theater . The vocals fluctuate between clear passages reminiscent of Gothic- New-Wave and rocky roars, while the music repeatedly brings folk-metal elements from the group's past into a framework of heavy metal . He also wrote that the music sounded like Finntroll was mixing with Evergrey and incorporating Katatonia substitutes. In addition, the songs have a progressive character and influences from Therapy , Midnight Oil and New Model Army can be discerned. Overall, there is groovy , riff-oriented and dark stage rock on the album .

Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard assigned Volvere to Gothic Metal, but half-heartedly imitating Sentenced and copying the vocals and “pseudo-Gothic and meaningful stupidity” from HIM . Overall, the group sounds too interchangeable. In a later issue Patrick Schmidt reviewed Aerolithe and described the album as an old-fashioned sounding "Gothic-meets-Progrock-Brew". Occasionally one reminds of Dan Swano's bands Nightingale and Unicorn , but they act “just too sweet and sticky”, which would kill an “emerging atmosphere with banal Gothic melodies in the style of HIM or To / Die / For ”.

Discography

  • 1996: Storm of the Autumnfall (demo, self- release )
  • 1997: Promo 1997 (demo, self-published)
  • 1998: Enchanting Part II (Split with Flauros, Kyprian's Circle, Withered Garden , Obsession and Arthame, Shades of Autumn Records )
  • 1998: Evanescent, Everfading (Album, Defiled Records )
  • 1999: August Wernicke (Album, Icarus Music )
  • 1999: Promo 1999 (demo, self-publication)
  • 2002: Fermina (album, Icarus Music)
  • 2004: Volvere (album, Rage of Achilles )
  • 2005: Vantage (album, Firebox Records )
  • 2007: Aerolithe (album, Firebox Records)

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Biography. rockdetector.com, archived from the original on December 23, 2016 ; accessed on June 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Fall of the Leafe. Biography. firebox.fi, archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; accessed on May 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Fall Of The Leafe - Vantage. Discogs , accessed June 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ FALL OF THE LEAFE Calls It Quits. Blabbermouth.net , accessed May 24, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 152 .
  7. ↑ 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. 164 .
  8. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Fall of the Leafe . Volvere. In: Rock Hard . No. 205 , June 2004.
  9. ↑ Patrick Schmidt: Fall of the Leafe . Aerolites. In: Rock Hard . No. 244 , September 2007.