Kilpi (band)

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Kilpi
Kilpi live in September 2007
Kilpi live in September 2007
General information
Genre (s) Hard rock
founding 2002
Website http://www.kilpi.com
Founding members
Pete Kilpi
Current occupation
guitar
 Pete Kilpi
Days Laiho
guitar
 Aleksi sum
Jussi Kattelus
Janne Laaksonen
former members
Drums
 Janne Karttila (2003-2005)
Keyboard
 Juha Kukkola (2003-2009)

Kilpi (dt. Shield ) is a Finnish hard rock band from Turku , whose music shows the typical characteristics of hard rock and heavy metal of the 1980s. The band is named after the family name of its founder Pete Kilpi.

Band history

Kilpi was originally a hobby of Pete Kilpi, who set up a recording studio at home and tried out various ideas with it. As the text for his first attempts, he used some of his wife's Finnish-language poems, which he combined with the music. Since he found the first results interesting, he contacted his friend Taage Laiho, who then re-recorded the vocal tracks of the demo recordings. With Janne Karttila, Aleksi Sum, Juha Kukkola and Janne Laaksonen, the two finally formed a full band.

The first single was originally supposed to be a self-release. However, a friend got them a record deal with the MTG label, whereupon Nerokasta Ikävää landed on the playlists of the radio stations YleX and Suomipop , entered the Finnish single charts at number 16 and made the band known. In February 2003, Pete Kilpi's parents began recording their debut album Sähkönsinistä Sinfoniaa at Mökki , which was released on May 28, 2003 and made it to number 32 on the Finnish album charts. The following summer the band also performed live for the first time, including at Ruisrock .

In the spring of 2004 the next single Sielut Iskee Tulta was released , which with number 7 was even better than its predecessor in the charts and brought the band further appearances across the country. In the summer of 2004 the recordings for the next album began. II taso (German II. Level ) was released on September 29, 2004 and reached the top 10 of the album charts. The band then went on their first tour.

On February 8, 2006 Kilpi released her third album Kaaoksen kuningas ( Eng . King of Chaos ). Two of the songs contained on it, Toinen Minä and Katharsis , were selected for the Finnish qualifications for the Eurovision Song Contest , where the band came in sixth overall in the televoting. Lordi represented Finland at the Song Contest this year.

In 2007 the band released the live album Kaaos on their own label Killbee Records and shortly afterwards the DVD Kuningas . The fourth studio album IV was released on April 2, 2008 .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Sähkönsinistä sinfoniaa
  FI 32 23/2003 (4 weeks)
II taso
  FI 10 40/2004 (5 weeks)
Kaaoksen kuningas
  FI 6th 07/2006 (4 weeks)
IV
  FI 16 15/2008 (4 weeks)
Pirun merta
  FI 37 42/2009 (1 week)
Juggernautti
  FI 15th 24/2015 (1 week)
Singles
Nerokasta ikävää
  FI 16 12/2003 (6 weeks)
Sielut iskee tulta
  FI 7th 15/2004 (8 weeks)
Savuna ilmaan 2007
  FI 20th 12/2007 (1 week)

Albums

  • 2003: Sähkönsinistä sinfoniaa (MTG)
  • 2004: II taso (MTG)
  • 2006: Kaaoksen kuningas (MTG)
  • 2007: Kaaos - Live (Killbee Records)
  • 2008: IV (Killbee Records)
  • 2009: Pirun merta
  • 2015: Juggernautti

Singles

  • 2003: Nerokasta ikävää
  • 2003: Villin vaaran kosto
  • 2003: Pahalle et käännä selkää
  • 2004: Sielut iskee tulta
  • 2004: Eilinen
  • 2004: Varjoista valoihin
  • 2006: Himines
  • 2006: Laske kuolleet yes rukoile
  • 2006: Kaaoksen Kuningas
  • 2006: catharsis
  • 2007: Savuna ilmaan 2007
  • 2008: Tuli, Vesi, Ilma ja Maa

Video albums

  • 2007: Kuningas

swell

  1. ↑ a b finnishcharts.com: Kilpi in the Finnish charts

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