The Man-Eating Tree
| The Man-Eating Tree | |
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| Genre (s) | Metal |
| founding | March 2009 |
| Website | http://www.themaneatingtree.com/ |
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singing |
Antti Kumpulainen |
guitar |
Janne Markus |
bass |
Mikko Uusimaa |
Drums |
Vesa Ranta |
Keyboard |
Heidi Määttä |
| former members | |
guitar |
Aaron Rantonen |
singing |
Tuomas Tuominen |
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The Man-Eating Tree is a Finnish metal band from the Oulu area that was formed in 2009.
history
After the dissolution of Sentenced in 2005, drummer Vesa Ranta took a longer musical break, worked as a photographer and opened a bar in Oulu. After he himself had "overcome his tiredness in terms of music", he looked for members of his circle of friends new band. Together with Miika Tenkula (also Sentenced), Janne Markus ( Poisonblack ), Aaron Rantonen and Mikko Uusimaa ( Reflexion ), he started looking for a singer in 2009. Shortly after Tenkula died in February 2009, a suitable singer was found in Tuomas Tuominen (ex- Fall of the Leafe ). A little later the band was completed by Heidi Määttä (ex- Embraze ) on the keyboard.
The band name came from a suggestion by Rantonen, who was fascinated by the legend of the man-eating trees . The compositions for the first album were mainly created by Janne Markus and partly Rantonen, the lyrics for Vine are from Tuominen.
In May 2010, the band released their first single, which entered the Finnish charts at number 3. On September 22, 2010, Cobra Records released their debut album Vine , which was recorded in January and February 2010 and produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa in the Mastervox Studio. It is to be distributed internationally by Century Media . A European tour to support Tarot has been announced for autumn 2010 .
In 2011 the second album Harvest was released , with which the band went on tour as support for Amorphis .
In January 2013 the band announced the departure of the previous singer Tuomas Tuominen. Half a year later the new singer Antti Kumpulainen was established.
Discography
- Out of the Wind (2010, single)
- Vine (2010, album)
- Harvest (2011, album)
- In the Absence of Light (2015, album)
swell
- ↑ a b finnishcharts.com: The Man-Eating Tree in the Finnish charts
- ↑ kaleva.fi: Vihreän metallibändin metsästys ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Stalker: The Man-Eating Tree: Back to Life
