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Mustan Kuun Lapset

About Me


The band was found in Hollola, Finland 1993 with line up Kari kinnunen (bass), Mikko Hautala (drums), Pete Lehtinen (voc, guitars), Pete Tamminen (guitars). The first release was a demo called "...Kunnes Loppuu Yö" (limited 100 copies). It included three songs, one of them was played on the Finnish national radio.
The second demo called "Varjomaa" was published in 1997, thirteen months after the first one (limited 150 copies). After the release MKL had some contacts with distributors and record companies, but no deals were done, therefore an idea to make a self financed sd was born.
The "Prologi" self-produced mini cd was published in December 1998 and it included four + one bonus tracks. 1,5 months after the release over 200 copies of the "Prologi" mini cd had been sold almost without any advertising. Soon after that all 500 copies were sold. MKL signed a deal with Nocturnal Music (Italy) for reprint of "Prologi". Re-produced "Prologi" was published in December 1999 and NM proposed another release deal which MKL approved. A year after that, in December 2000, split cd with another Finnish band came public and co-operation with NM ended.
In February 2001 MKL recorded their first full-length album called "Suruntuoja". After a half year brake the band found a new publisher; Northern Sound Records (Finland). The album was released in the autumn 2002. In spring 2003 MKL recorded second full-length album called "Kauniinhauta". The album was released in the autumn 2003 by NSR.
Kai Hanninen joined MKL in the beginning of 2004 to replace Kari Kinnunen, who resigned in the autumn 2003. Hanninen is also known as the lead singer of punk act Olotila and a quitarist in the black metal band Acabó El Silencio. In summer 2004 MKL signed a deal with Roihu Records (Finland) to release the third album "Talvenranta" in spring 2005.
MKL entered once again to Mika Haapasalo's PopStudio (Loimaa, Finland) in January 2005 to record their third full-length album "Talvenranta". The follower of the 2003 album "Kauniinhauta" was released in April 2005 by Finnish Roihu Records. The the album was released as a special edition digipack including a multimedia track.
In 2006 MKL made a deal with Finnish metal label DIES IRAE to release the fourth full-length album. The follower of "Talvenranta" (ROIHU RECORDS, 2005) was recorded and mixed again at Mika Haapasalo's Popstudio (at the new location in Helsinki, Finland) during Easter 2007. The album "Viimeinen laulu kuolemasta" saw the daylight in August 2007 and was the last studio album of the band.
MORFIINISIIVET, taken from the album "Viimeinen laulu kuolemasta"
AARIA, taken from the album "Talvenranta"
KAUNIINHAUTA, recorded live at Virgin Oil, Helsinki, 6/2007.
LUCIFER & ROSEMARY, recorded live at Vastavirta, Tampere, 8/2007
SEREMONIA, recorded live at NightLife, Lahti, 11/2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/06/2007
Band Website: http://www.mustankuunlapset.com
Band Members: Kai Hanninen - bass,
Mikko Hautala - drums,
Pete Lehtinen - voc, guitars & synths,
Pete Tamminen -guitars & low voc
Influences: Cannibal Corpse, Death, Deicide and several others
Sounds Like:

VIIMEINEN LAULU KUOLEMASTA (2007)
Order fom here

MORFIINISIIVET -single (2007)

TALVENRANTA (2005)

LUCIFER & ROSEMARY -single (2005)

KAUNIINHAUTA (2003)

SURUNTUOJA (2002)

MKL - Azaghal split (2000)

PROLOGI (1999)

PROLOGI (1998)

Record Label: Stay Heavy Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Album reviews around the net

Thought that this could be a nice place to gather links to album reviews. Most of them are in finnish and really bad on us as usual. But, I guess everyone's gotta have an opinion no matter how fucked...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:49:00 GMT

A review of a gig at Dante’s Corner, Turku

SUE, The biggest music-tabloid in Finland, has a review of our concert held in turku 24.8.2007Check that out if in doubt whether or not you should attend on one of our last gigs.Check it here(again, s...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:05:00 GMT

Interview at Noise.fi

An interview of the band can be found from the pages of Noise.fiOnce again it's in Finnish, so the rest of the world have to use translators or whatever if interested.
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:02:00 GMT

Farewell album out now.

First in Finnish:Levy-yhtiön lehdistötiedoteMUSTAN KUUN LAPSET jättää jäähyväiset albumin kera14 vuotta suomalaisen black-metallin kulmakivenäkin seissyt Mustan Kuun Lapset on tehnyt lopettamispäätöks...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:03:00 GMT

MKL Shirts available

New shirts are now available for ordering." width="210" height="150" border="0"> T-shirt 18,00 ¬ Girlie 20,00 ¬ Long sleeve 25,0...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:56:00 GMT

New album out in 15.8 + pre-order

The new MKL album "Viimeinen laulu kuolemasta" will be released in 15th of august. It contains 7 new songs and a video file for one of the songs. The songs will be as follows: 1.On aika itsekin lohdu...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:35:00 GMT

More blabbering about the single...

Yes, things are getting just more and more confusing. Last week at  position 6 on the charts, this week at place 4. Maybe you all should give us a hand, and help us to see the single at the top o...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:09:00 GMT

Morfiinisiivet single on Finnish charts

The single "Morfiinisiivet" from upcoming Mustan Kuun Lapset album "Viimeinen laulu kuolemasta" has gone to top ten in Finnish single charts on the first week it came out. The position 6 to be exact. ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:24:00 GMT

MKL alive 28.6.2007 at Tuska start-up club

Mustan Kuun Lapset will be performing live at this years Tuska-metal festivals opening club in Virgin oil Helsinki. Information of the club can be found froom http://www.tuska-festival.fi/
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:31:00 GMT

New single

New single "Morfiinisiivet" from forthcoming cd "Viimeinen Laulu Kuolemasta" will be released 29.6.2007. It includes the full version of "morfiinisiivet" and an radio edit plus 2 songs from the "Varj...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:52:00 GMT