Purity

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Purity
General information
origin Jyväskylä , Finland
Genre (s) Groove metal , alternative metal
founding 1991
Current occupation
Heikki Koistinen
Henri Lindström
Tuomas Kokko
Electric guitar
 Sami Hämäläinen
Teppo Haapasalo
former members
Electric bass
 Pekka corpela
Drums
 Valtteri Revonkorpi
Drums
 Juha-Pekka Ojala
Electric guitar
 Ville
Electric guitar
 Tapio Minkkinen

Purity is a Finnish groove and alternative metal band from Jyväskylä , which was founded in 1991.

history

The band was formed in 1991. The band name was the album Impurity of New Model Army inspired. In 1994 the EP In Disguise was released by Listen to Our Music Production . In the same year, the group contributed the songs A Mere Wreck and A New Sound to the sampler Don't Fuck with the Babysitter by Moho Pop Records . After the group had signed a record deal with Black Mark Production , the debut album Built was released in 1996 , which was recorded by producer Mikka Karmilo in Watercastle and Finnvox Studios in Helsinki . The band also contributed their version of It's Alright for You , originally by The Police , to the sampler Black Mark Tribute Vol. II . In 1996, the musicians had only given one concert, as they had been busy recording the album for the rest of the year. In 1998 the single A Wiseman Reckons was released . At the beginning of 2001 the guitarist Sami Hämäläinen and the drummer Henri Lindström joined them. In 2002 the next single with the title Days Go By followed. Band photographer Tomi Pitkäjärvi also created a music video for the single Nibs from May 2004 . After the band had signed a record deal with Megamania , the album Dear Evilyn was released in October 2004 , which was recorded in summer 2003 with producer Hiili Hiilesmaa in Jyväskylä, Helsinki and Oulu and mixed and mastered by the end of September. After the release, the band held concerts and they wrote new songs. In May 2005, the group stopped their live activities to focus entirely on songwriting. Purity first played the finished songs at a concert in May 2006 in Jyväskylä. In 2009 the album A Path to the Sun was released .

style

Henning Richter from Metal Hammer placed the group between Machine Head , Soundgarden and Pantera . In an interview with him, Teppo Haapasalo criticized the fact that these bands all sound the same due to the same producer, which is why Purity tries to find a different sound. Since the group's music is not happy, his lyrics are correspondingly depressing . Matthias Weckmann had reviewed Built two issues previously . He described the music as inconspicuous, melodic Power Metal that is groovy and rhythm-oriented and also rich in pathos . Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach from Rock Hard compared the band in his album review for Built with the Finnish group Hundred Years , as it is difficult to assign them to a genre. The music is multi-layered and atmospheric and can be compared with that of Prong , Machine Head and Soundgarden without this approach being really effective. The songs are melodic and "mostly slow" and you can find influences from Thrash Metal , Hardcore Punk , Gothic Rock , Punk , Rock and Metal in them . Martin Popoff gave in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties that on Built is listening to metal, heavily influenced by hard Seattle - Grunge . He described the music as a mixture of commercial Alice in Chains and metallic Stone Temple pilots , so a comparison with Gruntruck and My Sister's Machine is appropriate. There is a uniformity inherent in the songs, which in turn reminds him of Soundgarden. Overall, the songs are fixed on the groove and thus catchy. Quite fresh ideas would flash up, recognizable by the hooks , riffs and the shifting of the beats. In addition, the songs are unmistakably designed for bombast . Popoff suspected that it is entirely possible that the music was influenced by label colleague Quorthon , who at the time was moving towards a similar alternative form of metal.

Discography

  • 1994: In Disguise (EP, Listen to Our Music Production )
  • 1996: Built (Album, Black Mark Production )
  • 1998: 3 Song EP (EP, Listen to Our Music Production)
  • 1998: A Wiseman Reckons (Single, to Our Music Production)
  • 2002: Days Go By (Single, Popcity )
  • 2004: Nibs (Single, Megamania )
  • 2004: Dear Evilyn (album, Megamania)
  • 2009: A Path to the Sun (Album, Listen to Our Music Production)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography. musicmight.com, archived from the original on September 9, 2016 ; accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Henning Richter: Purity . Purity law for rock 'n' roll. In: Metal Hammer . May 1997, p. 109 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Biography. metalfromfinland.com, archived from the original on January 8, 2013 ; accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d BIOGRAPHY. purity.org, archived from the original on June 30, 2006 ; accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  5. ^ Purity (6) - A Path To The Sun. Discogs , accessed November 3, 2018 .
  6. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Purity . Built. In: Metal Hammer . March 1997, p. 54 .
  7. ↑ Uwe "Buffo" Schnädelbach: Purity . Built. In: Rock Hard . No. 118 , March 1997, p. 109 .
  8. ↑ 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. 353 .