Ruoska

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Ruoska
General information
Genre (s) Metal
founding 1999
Website www.ruoska.net
Current occupation
Patrik Mennander
Anssi Auvinen
Electric guitar, keyboard
 Kai Ahvenranta
Mika Kamppi
Sami Karppines

Ruoska ( dt. Whip ) is a Finnish Metal - band . It was founded in 1999 by the five still current band members in Mikkeli and Juva . The style is very reminiscent of the German bands Rammstein and Oomph! , but the musicians sing their lyrics in Finnish.

Band history

After a few demos at the beginning of her music career, Ruoska released her first album under the Kråklund Records label , Kuori (German shell ), from which two songs ( Epilogi , German "Epilog", and Kiroan , German "Ich verfluche") even made it to Finnish television with a video clip. As a single these songs were not released; this was reserved for the song Aurinko Ei Nouse ("The sun does not rise "), which in turn was not available as a video clip.

Just one year later, in 2003, Ruoska's second album, Riisu (" Undressing ") was released on the same label . On this record there was a song called Darmstadt , which, according to singer Patrik Mennander, who was also the second voice for the power metal band Battlelore for a long time , was based on a dream of one of the guitarists:
Our guitarist, Kai Ahvenranta [...] had a dream: He saw a street sign "Darmstadt - Road To Heaven" and had no idea why. So we wrote the song, went into the studio and did the recording. Darmstadt was the only song on this record to be released as a single; however, a video for this title did not appear.

It was not until 2005 that the national breakthrough came with Tuonen Viemää (“From the Beyond Required”), which can be found on Ruoska's third album Radium (after the chemical element Radium ). With this and the other songs Irti (Los!) And Käärmenpesä (Snake's Nest ), the Finnish band landed in the charts for the first time, which led to a strong increase in the fan base. With the album, especially the style changed: the sound was melodic than ever before (except on the album Riisu published Piruparka , such as "Poor Devil"), and the song was less strong than on the previous albums.

In 2006 the band decided to switch from their previous label to the much better known label EMI Finland and released their fourth album Amortem on it , from which Mies Yli Laidan (Man Overboard), Pure Minua (Bite Me) and Alasin (Anvil) were released as singles. The songs were each placed in the charts and, with the exception of Pure Minua, were also provided with a video clip.

On April 9, 2008, the fifth studio album called Rabies was released , again under the EMI label. Contrary to the assumption that the album could contain non-Finnish-language texts for the first time, since the name of the album is English and means rabies , the Finnish-language single Pirunkieli (German: Pirunkieli) was released from this album in December 2007 on the band's official MySpace page . "The Devil's Language") published. The remaining nine songs on the album line up seamlessly.

Parallels to Rammstein

"We like Rammstein," said front man Patrik Mennander in an interview. The parallels to the most successful New German Hardship Band are by no means coincidental or arbitrary. “[...] we have translated some Rammstein songs into Finnish. There is a certain resemblance to ours, a kind of brutality [sic!] In the lyrics. "

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
radium
  FI 31 13/2005 (1 week)
Amortem
  FI 6th 25/2006 (10 weeks)
Rabies
  FI 12 25/2006 (2 weeks)
Singles
Tuonen viemää
  FI 9 09/2005 (4 weeks)
Bad yli laidan
  FI 10 21/2006 (6 weeks)

Albums

  • Kuori (2002, Kråklund)
  • Riisu (2003, Kråklund)
  • Radium (2005, Kråklund)
  • Amortem (2006, EMI)
  • Rabies (2008, EMI)

Singles

  • Aurinko ei nouse (2002)
  • Darmstadt (2003)
  • Tuonen viemää (2005)
  • Mies yli laidan (2006)
  • Pure minua (2006)
  • Alasin (2006)
  • Pirunkieli (2007)
  • Helvettiin Jäätynyt (2008)
  • Lihaa Vasten Lihaa (2008)
  • Egg Koskaan (2008)

Music videos

  • Kiroan (2002)
  • Epilogi (2002)
  • Tuonen viemää (2005)
  • Mies yli laidan (2006)
  • Alasin (2006)
  • Egg koskaan (2008)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c mindbreed.de RRZN, September 1, 2007
  2. ↑ a b nordische-musik.de RRZN, 2004
  3. ↑ RRZN ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruoska.net
  4. ↑ RUOSKA in Finnish Charts finnishcharts.com; Retrieved October 24, 2007