tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068441819352870652011-11-15T11:57:13.189+02:00Research Project on Finnish Metal and Rock ExportToni-Mattinoreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-23508606877963599112011-11-15T11:56:00.001+02:002011-11-15T11:57:13.242+02:00

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Two short papers presented in the Home of Metal Conference at Wolverhampton, UK, on Sept 1-4 2011: Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Ainamo, Antti & Dorman, Matthew John (2011). Exporting metal from the land of the thousand lakes. "Heavy Metal and Place", Home of Metal Conference. Wolverhampton, UK. September 1-4 2011. Karjalainen, Toni-Matti (2011). Designing visual references and narratives in heavy

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A BogFires related article published:Laaksonen, Laura; Ainamo, Antti & Karjalainen, Toni-Matti (2011). Entrepreneurial passion: an explorative case study of four metal music ventures. Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 13 (1), 18 - 36.http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1939677&ini=aob

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The ASCAP "I Create Music" EXPO is the first and only national conference dedicated to songwriting and composing. Organized annually at the Renaissance hotel in Hollywood, ASCAP EXPO features celebrity Q&A's, master classes, songwriting and composing workshops, publisher and business panels, One-on-One sessions, DIY career building workshops, showcases and performances, song feedback panels,

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Reckless love, a four-piece group from Kuopio that plays exceptionally good rock n’ roll, had their first ever show in the U.S. in the Viper room, Thursday April 28th. Altogether six bands were scheduled to play and as anticipated, RL's midnight slot turned out to be the 1.30 slot. The band got on stage and started their set as the bartenders were calling for the last rounds. Those who stayed and

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BogFires took part in the 2011 South by Southwest conference and festival in Austin, TX, 11-20th of March. SXSW is a music, film and interactive festival and convention held in Austin annually. First SXSW festival was organized already in 1987. SXSW gathered over 60 000 people from 63 countries all over the world in Austin, a city the size of Helsinki. Finland was well represented as Finnish

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Finnish Metal Awards 2010 were announced in the Finnish Metal Expo, Saturday 19.The winners were: Record of the year:1. Stam1na - Viimeinen Atlantis2. Mokoma - Sydänjuuret3. Black Sun Aeon - Routa Band of the year:1. Stam1na2. Mokoma3. Before The Dawn Newcomer of the year:1. Barren Earth2. Pressure Points3. The Man-Eating Tree Album art of the year:1. Mokoma - Sydänjuuret2. Stam1na - Viimeinen

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BF publication list updated:http://bogfires.blogspot.com/p/publications.html

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BogFires participates in the arrangements of the MUSIC, LAW AND BUSINESS, the IASPM-Norden 2010 Conference, organised this week in Helsinki.For more information, please see:http://iaspmnorden.wordpress.com/mlb/The conference book of abstract can be downloaded here:http://iaspmnorden.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/mlb-book-of-abstracts.pdf

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BogFires took part in Musiikki & Media, the annual Finnish music industry bash in Tampere 21.-24.10.2010. The event gathered around 700 music and media professionals from Finland and abroad to meet and discuss current issues in the field of music and media. Panels and keynotes were organized in Hotelli Ilves during daytime and the guests were pampered with 86 showcase artists' and bands' gigs

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Loud Park, “the heaviest metal festival in Japan” and most certainly the biggest one with some 10.000 daily visitors, returned back to its “home” at the Saitama Super Arena from 2009 exile at the Makuhari Messe. The BogFires delegate was of course present in Tokyo on both days and jumped onto the Keihin-Tohoku and Shõnan-Shinjuku line trains from our base camp in Shinjuku. By visiting this

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Lutakko rock club, a concert venue in the city of Jyväskylä, the Lutakko Liekeissä (“Lutakko on fire”) festival was organized on Saturday 28th of August 2010. The special year has also made this the annual metal/punk/alternative festival somewhat bigger than before. The festival area with two open-air stages and the Lutakko club was like a miniature

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Sonisphere report in TMK blog:http://tonimattikarjalainen.blogspot.com/2010/08/sonisphere-finland-2010-festival-report.html

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Tuska photo report here:http://tonimattikarjalainen.blogspot.com/2010/07/tuska-open-air-2010-photo-report.html

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Finland Fest 2010 "Metal Attack" was held in Tokyo on May 29th. Bands on the bill included Before the Dawn, Turisas, Tarot, and Poisonblack. Report [in Finnish] by Siru Valleala & jani Kesänen is online at the Imperiumi site:http://www.imperiumi.net/index.php?act=interviews&id=1287

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One of the highlights of BogFires’ trip to LA was seeing HIM, Finland’s most successful band in the U.S., perform here at the sold out Wiltern theatre with Dommin and The Fallen opening. HIM had a signing session at Hot Topic on Hollywood and Highland mall earlier that day. Coincidentaly the ASCAP EXPO 2010 was held the same day at the Renaissance Hotel nex door and many of the music industry

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Check this out! A very cool and ambitious project, spreading the word of Finnish Metal in a novel and creative way:http://www.projectmetalnation.com/

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by Toni-Matti KarjalainenMusexpo is an annual music industry event in West Hollywood, organized this year for the 6th time at the exquisite London West Hollywood hotel. The conference gathers together an impressive line-up of industry people (music industry executives, managers, label reps, marketing experts, game industry people, etc.) in the format of interactive panel discussions and key-note

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http://iaspmnorden.wordpress.com/mlb/

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By Toni-Matti KarjalainenBogFires took the chance of checking HIM performing in one of the band’s strongest markets, celebrating their recent “Screamworks…” album. We attended the gigs in Manchester Academy 1 and Newcastle O2 Academy, both venues with a capacity of some 2.000 guests. Manchester was sold out, and Newcastle didn’t have many free places either. HIM is apparently experiencing a peek

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"Music, Law and Business", the IASPM-Norden 2010 Conference (Helsinki, 24–27 November 2010), which BogFires is co-organising has now a Facebook group:http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=401766621928&ref=nfConference web site:http://iaspmnorden.wordpress.com/mlb/

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Finnish Metal Expo, the already traditional two days event was again organized in the Caple Factory of Helsinki on February 19-20, 2010. The event is not only a great music festival with an interesting band bill and a trade fair with various exhibitors but also a great meeting place for bands, industry people, and fans. This year some 5000 visitors gathered inside the roomy space, surrounded by

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BogFires is co-organising a research conference on music, law and businessin Helsinki, November 24-27.DEADLINE for proposals is JAN 31!More information:http://iaspmnorden.wordpress.com/activities/

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The Helldone festival, grown around the traditional new year's gigs of HIM, is again being arranged in the Tavastia & Semifinal clubs in Helsinki. This year, the set up includes HIM playing four consequent nights with varying supporters + an acoustic warm up by The 69 Eyes at the Semifinal club.On the second night of the fest, the honour of the opening band was given to Ghost Brigade that has

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After the Fall US tour, Sonata Arctica has intensively toured in Europe. The caravan also reached Gothenburg on December 14, and BogFires was present in the Trädgårn hall, a good venue with a capacity of 1,700 people. The house was not full, but probably more than 1,000 people witnessed the band that played flawlessly and with high energy. It is nice to see how much liked the band is also among

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Metal in Taiwan While attending the DeSForM conference in Taipei in October 2009, TMK also studied the Taiwanese metal scene by meeting few interesting persons in the city. One of them was Mr. Space K. Chen, with his company Rock Empire. Space has been 20 years in business as a promoter, agent, and producer, among other things, keeping the metal culture alive in Taiwan by bringing bands to the

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The Finnish major musg mag Soundi listed the best albums of 2009, voted by their 13 critics. In the heavy category, the list was as follows:1. Ghost Brigade: Isolation Songs2. Swallow the Sun: New Moon3. Insomnium: Across the Dark4. Amorphis: Skyforger5. Mastodon: Crack the Sky6. Baroness: Blue Record7. Immortal: All Shall Fall8. Sólstafir: Köld9. Kreator: Hordes of Chaos10. Napalm Death: Time

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Finnish glamrock bands Negative and Lovex performedat the V-Rock Festival in Chiba, near Tokyo in the Makuhari Messe on Oct 25th, the same venue where Loudpark festival was held the week before. The venue looked surprisingly similar, even the timetables and food stands. But there was something very different, and that was the crowd. I have never witnessed such an overall majority of female fans

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Live report: Mr. Big trilogy 2009By Toni-Matti KarjalainenHelsinki, Nosturi, September 6 London, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, September 12 Seoul, Olympic Gymnastics Gymnasium, October 24 If someone had told me in the early 90´s when a band called Mr. Big was experiencing its success peak that I would go and watch the band three times in 2009, I would have ignored the whole idea due to its

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Loud Park 09 festival reportSaturday 17th and Sunday 19th of October, 2009Makuhari Messe, Chiba, TokyoBy Toni-Matti Karjalainen & Laura Laaksonen, BogFires Research Project Photos © Loud Park, used by permission, all rights reserved **Friendly people, relaxed atmosphere, well functioning organizations, exact schedules, functioning venue with good sounds and full darkness even in the daytime. This

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TMK presented a BogFires research paper at the DeSForM 2009 Workshop on October 26 at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei:Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Laaksonen, Laura & Ainamo, Antti (2009)Occult, a Tooth, and the Canopy of the Sky: Conceptualizing Visual Meaning Creation of Heavy Metal Bands

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BogFires held two presentations at the IASDR 2009 Conference in Seoul, South Korea, this week:Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Laaksonen, Laura & Ainamo, Antti (2009)Design for b(r)and identity: Exploring visual concept building within the metal music genrewas presented by Toni-Matti KarjalainenLaaksonen, Laura; Karjalainen, Toni-Matti & Ainamo, Antti (2009)Understanding Cultural Exports- Finnish heavy

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BogFires checked the Helsinki (Sep 23) and Stockholm (Sep 25) shows of the Progressive Nation tour featuring Dream Theater, Opeth, Bigelf and Unexpect (only in Stockholm). In Helsinki, I stood among the audience, but in Stockholm I had a great opportunity to follow part of the show behind the scene. It was not only fascinating to see my two big favourites Dream Theater and Opeth from that angle,

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antti ainamohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11421716057593853204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-12639862862584295332009-09-23T14:20:00.001+03:002009-09-23T14:22:28.169+03:00

An interesting event:Heavy Metal and GenderInternationaler Kongress8-10. Oktober 2009Hochschule für Musik und TanzKölnhttp://www.metalandgender.de/

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The Dark Passion Play World Tour of Nightwish kicked-off in October 2007 and comprised 194 shows in 39 different countries. On September 19th, it was time to conclude the long journey at the sold out Hartwall Arena in Helsinki. The special atmosphere of the final show, preceding a two years tour break and anticipation of the new album, was tangible both backstage and among the audience. The show

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BogFires go Asia in October to attend two conferences and present research papers there:IASDR 2009 October 18-22. Seoul, South Korea:Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Laaksonen, Laura & Ainamo, Antti (2009). Design for b(r)and identity: Exploring visual concept building within the metal music genre. IASDR 2009. October 18-22. Seoul, South Korea. Laaksonen, Laura; Karjalainen, Toni-Matti & Ainamo, Antti (

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A review on Finnish music industry "Musiikkiala 2009" (in Finnish) by Digital Media Oy:http://www.digitalmedia.fi/main.site?action=siteupdate/view&id=5

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Interesting conference with over 300 participants from 35 different countries:7th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of MusicUniversity of Jyväskylä, FinlandAugust 12-16, 2009http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/musiikki/en/escom2009

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Metallica brought its Sonisphere caravan to their fifth spot, the city of Pori in the southwest corner of Finland. The one day festival gathered 60.000 guests to the Kirjurinluoto Arena, normally used for the annual Jazz festivals, making the day the biggest ticketed rock event ever held in Finland (a record to be broken today with Madonna’s first visit to our country) and almost doubling the

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Bogfires visited the famous Graspop Metal meeting in Belgium, June 26.-29.2009. The Graspop festival was first organized in year 1986 as a local pop festival. In 1993-1994 Bob Schumacher joined forces with the original organizers and together they changed the format into a genuine metal festival. Over two decades later Graspop is one of the biggest and famous metal festivals in Europe, and in the

Laura Laaksonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10996663662849334598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-43970233924699058122009-07-11T19:39:00.003+03:002009-07-11T20:02:32.962+03:00

The British "Classic Rock" magazine writes the story of metal in its Summer 2009 (#134) issue. Of the Finns are represented the big three:Children Of Bodom's "Sixpounder" and Nightwish's "Wish I Was An Angel" (?!? wrong name doesn't necessarily improve the credibility...;) are mentioned as "songs that forged metal" from 2000 onwards (among with nine other songs from Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, In

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As noted already during my earlier visits to Seoul, the Korean metal circles seem to be very small, or at least it is very difficult to find information about gigs, bands or anything. Foreign bands seem to rarely visit the country, and local concerts are scarce as well.There is, however, a special event called"Asia Metal Festival 2009" taking place in the Rolling Hall this Saturday (unfortunately

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-3291900812725211822009-06-17T13:04:00.025+03:002009-06-17T14:41:15.270+03:00

BogFires @ SAUNA OPEN AIR 2009June 5-7http://www.sauna-open-air.fi/BogFires put another ethnographic precision whack into practice at the Sauna Open Air Metalfest in Tampere Finland. This three day festival at the city centre gathered lots of folk especially on Saturday (reportedly 10.000) and Sunday (8.000), even though the weather was not exactly the best possible this year. On Friday, the day

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-71677514065182723272009-06-15T12:39:00.004+03:002009-06-15T16:56:10.749+03:00

Wyatt Marshall, a friend of BogFires, wrote an interesting paper as his course work at the Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. With his permission, we publish the text below.***The Rise of Finnish Heavy Metal: A Survey of Finnish Heavy Metal and its Export to North AmericaBy Wyatt MarshallA small European nation intersected by the Arctic Circle, typically known abroad as the home of

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BogFires is attending the 8th Nordcode seminar and workshop in Kolding, Denmark, where Toni-Matti Karjalainen gives a presentation titled "Concept building and visual communication within heavy metal music (Forging the canopy of the sky)" on May 27th.Seminar info and papers can be found at http://www.designskolenkolding.dk/nordcode.

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BogFires/TMK was interviewed to an article that appeared in Turun Sanomat Extra on May 23 2009.http://www.turunsanomat.fi/extra/?ts=1,3:1010:0:0,4:10:0:1:2009-05-23,104:10:612245,1:0:0:0:0:0***PÄIVI OJANPERÄ, Turun SanomatJulkaistu 23.5.2009 2:31:18Kantelekansasta tuli raskasmetallin suurkuluttajiaKun keskenään sekoitetaan kalevalainen kansanperinne ja raskas rock, syntyy omintakeinen

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-43263488343931387392009-05-12T13:44:00.002+03:002009-05-12T13:47:20.511+03:00

The documentary of Kimmo Kuusniemi, "Promised Land of Heavy Metal", a journey into the phenomenon of heavy metal in Finland is online for a couple of weeks:http://areena-beta.yle.fi/video/84672

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New York, NY, May 2ndAllentown, PA, May 3rd<?xml:namespace prefix = o />Bogfires had an opportunity to see two shows of the fourth and last North American tour before Nghtwish will be heading back to the studio to record a new album. Dark Passion Play (DPP) world tour is scheduled to end in September when the band plays the last show of the tour in Helsinki Finland, at the same arena where they

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New Amorphis video "Silver Bride" available:http://www.amorphis.net/?page_id=6http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=57200462

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Bogfires attended MUSEXPO 2009 in LA April 26-29. MUSEXPO 2009 featured panel discussions on topics such as management, publishing, distribution, broadcast media and many more with the most legendary people from the music industry e.g. Seymour Stein, Bill Siddons, Bob Lefsetz, Nigel Lythgoe and Mel Medalie as panelists. The changing business models and the changing roles of different stakeholders

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A very interesting report of a study, conducted by Andreas Rana in Vaxjö Universitet in Sweden, available here:http://home.vxu.se/ajpfr02/dom_kallar_oss_hardrockare.pdfIt's in Swedish, but an English summary is included.

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-4656625380149472092009-05-04T20:41:00.003+03:002009-05-04T20:48:26.691+03:00

Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom appears in the May 2009 issue of the Swedish guitar mag "Fuzz", and talks in an interview e.g. his relationship with ESP. http://www.fuzz.se/And the April 2009 issue (#60) of "Sweden Rock Magazine" gave a praising review with 9 points (out of ten) for the COB gig in Tyrol, Stockholm, on Feb 27. http://www.swedenrockmagazine.com/

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-76435347258560459002009-05-04T20:36:00.002+03:002009-05-04T20:41:12.279+03:00

An interesting interview with Esa Holopainen of Amorphis, done by the Bulgarian Radio Tangra, can be found here as an audio:http://www.radiotangra.com/media/audio/AMORPHIS_ESA_INTERVIEW_2009.mp3and here as a text:http://www.radiotangra.com/?page=int&lng=en&id=191In the interview, Esa talks about the new "Skyforger" album, among other things.And interestingly, anticipating the future, he comments:

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-27655176061089776252009-04-29T11:03:00.002+03:002009-04-29T11:06:49.488+03:00

Some interesting articles on Finnish metal and rock:http://www.fimic.fi/Click > Popular music > ArticlesAnd "Finnish music in a nutshell":http://finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26972Thanks for Wyatt for the links!

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The April 2009 issue of the Guitar World magazine listed the results of its 15th annual readers poll. Children of Bodom's Alexi Laiho was voted the best metal guitarist and COB's Blooddrunk got the second place in the best "extreme metal album" category after Opeth's watershed.The votes in each category were given for five pre-selected nominees, so the poll may not meet the tightest objectivity

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Karjalainen, Toni-Matti; Laaksonen, Laura & Ainamo, Antti (forthcoming 2009).Analyzing concept building and visual communication within heavy metal music. 8th Nordcode Seminar & Workshop. May 27-28 2009. Kolding, Denmark.http://www.designskolenkolding.dk/nordcode

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Bogfires visited Revolver Golden Gods Awards at club Nokia in LA on Tuesday April 7th that featured performances from Megadeath, Killswich Engage, Suicide Silence, Hatebreed and All That Remains. Some winners of the evening were Ozzy Osbourne (Lifetime Achievement Award), Slipknot (Best Riff, Best Live Band), Metallica (Best Album) and Slayer (Most Mind-Blowing Guitarist).

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In the April (No. 79) issue of Revolver magazine seven pagan -metal bands are introduced out of which four were Finnish bands: Finntroll, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani and Turisas. The bands were asked questions like what is a pagan-metal band, who was the first pagan-metal band, and questions about favorite instruments and outrageous outfits worn by fans etc. In the same issue of Revolver "This month's

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Corey Taylor, the singer of Slipknot and Stonesour commented his collaboration with Finnish metal bands Apocalyptica and Children of Bodom for Bogfires earlier this week in LA. Slipknot toured with Children of Bodom in Europe in fall of 2008. Taylor said that coming up with the best mix of bands musically is the most important criteria for choosing the bands to tour with and reminded that the

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Bogfires visited Vancouver to check out the No Fear Energy Music tour featuring Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, God Forbid and Muncipal Waste. UBC Thunderbird Arena was nearly sold out and over 5 000 metalheads had arrived to the venue located at the beautiful campus of University of British Columbia. Children of Bodom played a solid show as usual, even though the setlist featured

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(http://www.metalfromfinland.com/: 09.04.2009):STAM1NA releases their K13V dvd on May 6th 2009. K13V contains 2 dvd's and it has over 5 hours of material. The name K13V comes from words Kadonneet 13 Vuotta (Lost 13 Years) which means that Stam1na turns 13 years old this year."After 3 studioalbums it was time to make a dvd and sum up our achievements so far. Last 4 years have been very crazy and

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BogFires checked the gig number four in the sold out series of Hanoi Rock’s eight farewell shows at the Tavastia club in Helsinki. The two hours midnight concert presented a charismatic band in a good form with solid playing and sounds, supported with impressive stage design dominated by the classy spotlight installation at the back wall. The song list was compiled quite evenly from the two

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"Finland Fest in Tokyo is an opportunity to meet representatives from top Finnish music companies: Labels, publishers and agents are bringing forth the abundant talents in pop, rock, electronic, world music and metal. Along with the music trade event at on Thursday, May 28th, Finland Fest in Tokyo will ship several top Finnish bands to Japan’s capital for intense showcase performances at Liquid

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Prof. Antti Ainamo gave a presentation titled"Best Practices of Finnish Rock Exports: The Case of Finnish Metal"at Beyond Musicology: The 13th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in FinlandUniversity of Turku, March 26-28 2009.The event:http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/musiikkitiede/symposium.html

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Prof. Antti Ainamo gave a presentation titled"Sociology of Music: Towards a Historical and Comparative Study of Finnish Metal"at the "National sociologist days" event (Valtakunnalliset Sosiologipäivät),Helsinki University, March 20-21 2009.The event:http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/sosio/sosiologipaivat09/sosio/

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"Without offending any of the good people from the record company in the room, no," Ulrich said. "Let's cut to the chase. . . . The primary -- not the only, but the primary -- function of a record label is to act as a bank. When you're fortunate enough to be successful and so on, you don't need to rely on record companies as the banks. . . . "

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Blabbermouth.net:Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth comments on their government-sponsored tour of Norway:http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=116609And more of this in the Norwegian Faro Journalen:http://www.farojournalen.no/pages/nor/2665

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The Finnish Karjalainen magazine has uploaded interviews of Nightwish before their current tour + interviews of fans and various video reports (on stage and backstage) from their current European tour, accompanied by journalist Hannu Jarva:http://www.karjalainen.fi/Karjalainen/viihde/rokitvideot.htmlVideos and English synopsis of Anette's interviews can also be found from Blabbermouth.net:http://

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BogFires had the honour and pleasure to appear as guests in two Nightwish gigs in their recently started European tour with Pain and Indica: Forest National in Brussels (14/3) and A’hoy in Rotterdam (15/3).The shows were the second and third on this leg after the sold out kick-off for over 4000 people in London (Carling Academy Brixton, 11/3). The size of the audience was reportedly around 5000

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Nightwish and Finnish spring water brand VEEN are teaming up. This co-branding endeavour seems to be based on personal connections and shared values:"... there are certainly some qualities connecting these two Finnish megabrands. They both get their inspiration from mythologies, and they are both highly respected in their own gendre. However, there is an even more obvious connection, which brings

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-63770855601179516652009-03-10T16:50:00.008+02:002009-04-06T19:42:14.503+03:00

Diablo guitarist/vocalist Rainer Nygård was interviewed by Asif Salam of SoundShock.net when they played the Forum in London, England on February 19, 2009.

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-57020955050501905072009-03-10T16:32:00.002+02:002009-03-10T16:41:59.642+02:00

...Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho has four new Signature Series models introduced at NAMM 2009 from ESP and LTD. Since 2003, Laiho has worked with ESP on all of his signature model guitars.“We’ve been very fortunate to have a relationship with a guitarist of Alexi’s caliber for the last six years,” says Allen Steelgrave, ESP’s director of marketing and artist relations. “As is the case with all

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Helsingin sanomat (Sat 7 2009) published an interview with Rane Raitsikka, the guitarist of the 80's Finnish rock bands Smack. The band was one of the early pioneers of Finnish rock export, who tried their wings in the city of angels, reportedly caught the attention Kurt Cobain and GN'R members, missed a promising record deal at the time when Appetite for Destruction shook the world with alike

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In an interview for Kerrang! (Feb 21 2009), Ville Valo reports on his current status of mostly staying home and writing songs for the next HIM album. "I've got ideas for eight or nine songs that won't take much to finish... this time everything is very direct and straight to the point".The same issue cover stories Lamb of God in cover story. This interesting interview proposes LOG being on the

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Opeth (from Stockholm, of course) recently finished its mini tour in Finland. I witnessed two gigs; in Helsinki 15/3 and Tampere 16/3. Both shows were amazing sonic and visual experiences, not to mention the always so amusing notions of the singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt. Among other things, he wondered how Finland has grown to such a metal country, a "metal paradise" to which he has even been

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-12728969361930015172009-02-16T12:23:00.005+02:002009-03-09T09:10:14.923+02:00

All the 50.000 tickets for Metallica's Sonisphere festival in Pori (July 25) were sold out in 30 minutes this morning.... which was later announced incorrect, while some tickets were still available throughout the day.http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/uutinen.asp?id=1644958

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sa Holopainen commenting the album: “Skyforger is a strong and unified entity. This is without doubt the most musical record we have done so far. It is based on a coherent theme again, so we are continuing along the lines of the previous album.”http://www.amorphis.net/

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Winners of the Finnish Metal Awards were announced yesterday in the Finnish Metal Expo. The Prizes, voted by the public through the Internet, SMS, and coupons in Inferno and Miasma magazines (total 19.472 votes), were pretty much all taken by Stam1na, supported by Diablo. So quite a year for the Sakara Records who has also signed the demo band of the year, "FM2000", whose first is already

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The major Finnish metal festivals, Sauna Open Air and Tuska Open Air, have announced more artists for the summer. In addition to many top Finnish names, the list of foreign guests start looking pretty interesting. Mötley Crüe in Tampere, isn't that insane: Looks that kill by the Näsijärvi ...http://www.sauna-open-air.fi/http://www.tuska-festival.fi/

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The new Sonisphere festival with Metallica stops in Pori on July 25th, accompanied by Linkin Park, Lamb of God and Mastodon. This will be Metallica's third show in Finland in the upcoming summer.http://www.sonispherefestivals.com/fi/etusivu

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BogFires research group made its first "official" excursion, Frostbite metal festival being the target. On Friday, feb 6th, we drove to Lahti fair centre and made serious ethnography on the spot.About the bands: The headliner Lamb of God was really really good. Sounds were massive but clear (and load, of course), playing accurate, show energetic, crowd active, and so forth. Between the songs,

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Inferno magazine told in its newest issue (2009/1) that the forthcoming new Amorphis album is recorded. It will be published in May and sort of continues the thematic road of Eclipse and Silent Waters by sticking to the world of Kalevala, the Finnish national epos. This time the songs will be about the guy named "Ilmarinen" who became famous by forging the canopy of the sky :) The music is told

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-59087224778913251402009-01-22T12:25:00.006+02:002009-02-18T22:34:08.627+02:00

The finnish rock mag Soundi also announced the results of it's readers' poll 2008. very metallic indeed...Finnish bands:1) Children of Bodom 2) Stam1na ... 4) Nightwish 5) Hanoi Rocks 10)Diablo 13) The Rasmus 18)Amorphis 20)MokomaFinnish singer:1) Marco Hietala 2) Alexi Laiho ... 4) Antti HyyrynenFinnish player:1) Alexi Laiho 2) Roope LatvalaFinnish album:1) Childrem of Bodom / Blooddrunk 2)

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Papers of the recently held research conference "Heavy Fundametalism: Music, metal and Politics" are now online:http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ci/mmp/mmp1/cfp.html

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http://www.menaiset.fi/

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Readers' poll 2008 in Rumba 01/09 (Finnish music mag)Finnish bands:1. CMX (surprise surprise!) 2. Stam1na 3. Kotiteollisuus ... 7. Mokoma 15. Diablo 16. Nightwish 19. Ari KoivunenFinnish albums:1. Stam1na / RajaFinnish songs:1. Stam1na / LääkeForeign bands:1. Metallica 2. AC/DC 3. Opeth ... 6. Iron Maiden 7. Slipknot 9. Volbeat 13. In Flames 15. Slayer 18. Danko Jones 19. DisturbedForeign albums:

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http://www.indica.fi/site/?enhttp://www.viihdeimperiumi.fi/artikkelit.asp?id=2625&medialaji=Musiikki

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... was the most sold album in Finland in 2008.http://www.ksml.fi/viihde/viihdeuutiset/metallica-kukisti-suomalaiset-haastajansa/333899

Toni-Mattinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-706844181935287065.post-28954946292951649782009-01-16T15:46:00.005+02:002009-02-18T22:35:32.323+02:00

Such a nice experience! My first time in traditional HIM party which was organised now for 9th year in row. HIM played superbly, Ville is charismatic as always, the set list inclusive, and Tavastia a perfect place for this band. And of course the international audience and devoted fans make the atmosphere extraordinary. A nice video in YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8423ItgVmkVille's

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Pekka Himasen ja Ville Valon dialogi ti 13.1. yliopistolla oli mielenkiintoinen tapahtuma. Joku onkin ehtinyt tilaisuutta jo kommentoimaan:http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/martela/post-119.htm

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As we have now changed for 2009 and our project has officially started, it is time to start to generate contents also here. So, let's see...

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This is the Blog of the BogFires Research Project, conducted at the Helsinki School of Economics by Professor Antti Ainamo, Research Director Toni-Matti Karjalainen and Doctoral Researcher Laura Laaksonen. The project is funded by the Academy of Finland.---BogFires project explores the structures and practices of Finnish rock export and internationalisation. The empirical starting point for the

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