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Flinch
In the beginning, Flinch was just a School Band, performing in events organised by their school, before undergoing big changes, which saw the band emerge as an energetic, melodic Finnish language band, who released their new album "Irrallaan" on 9th April 2008. "Irrallaan", which translates roughly into English as "Loose", is the band's second album, and it was produced by Ville's elder brother Jonne, who is best known for his role as the front man of Negative.The band's first album, "Kuvastin" ('Mirror') was released in 2006, where it reached number 17 in the official Finnish Music Chart. The two singles from the album- 'Tuulet' (Winds) and 'Liikaa' (Too much), reached number 2 and 3 respectively in the singles chart.During spring 2007, the band's lineup changed completely, and only Ville, the vocalist, and co-founder, remained. Juuso, Olli, Tuukka and Mice were replaced by Oskari, Haiwe, Tommi and Jaakko. Ville explains this transition happened because "The situation with the original band reached a point where splitting up was the only option, because the other band members wanted to do different things. Yet, despite the change in the lineup, many of the fans have remained faithful, and others have come to our gigs, and have enjoyed it. Overall, the feedback has been really positive."The band's origins go back to 2003, when Ville and his then-schoolmates formed the band. At first the band was widely seen as trying to mimic the success of Ville's elder brother Jonne, simply because they're related. However, unlike Negative, Flinch's music is aimed primarily at a Finnish-speaking audience, although the band also has a number of fans outside of Finland. Highly ambitious, the band had their own motivations and plans for the future, wanting to make music, and attract unbiased people to their gigs to discover Flinch's happy, yet bleak powerful music.Although the future looks bright, a shadow has been cast over the band by some of the band's ex-members, whom plan to sue for the right to the name 'Flinch'. The reason for this is down to the fact that Ville and the new band members continue to perform under this name, even though it was decided upon by Ville and one of the ex-members. This occurred shortly after the band's first single "Taivas Tähtiverhoineen" started playing on the radio, in December 2007. The album's second single will be 1986, and the album itself contains a total of 10 hard rock and roll songs, including both singles.
Negative
One of the most successful Finnish rock acts Negative will release their fourth album “Karma Killer” on May 7th. With the previous three albums Negative have topped the Finnish album- and singles charts and toured around the world playing hundreds of shows. At the end of 2007 the band was voted the best Finnish act in MTV’s Video Music Awards, once again showing the size and dedication of their fanbase. In January 2008 Negative released “In The Eye Of The Hurricane”, a double-disc DVD covering their career so far. The DVD has achieved gold sales in Finland. “Won’t Let Go” is the first single from the new album, showcasing the band’s natural progress: there are fresh elements in the mix, but the song still sounds like Negative. The album was produced by Mikko Karmila who has previously worked with Finnish heavyweights Nightwish and Children Of Bodom. The album will be released in Scandinavia on May 7th, releases for the rest of Europe and Japan will follow later in the spring. Before the studio sessions for Karma Killer started, Negative parted ways with its longtime guitar player, Sir Christus. Negative will continue as a five-piece with their friend Gary handling the duties of a live guitarist. “I’ve known the guys for about seven years, played at the same gigs with them with my own band etc., so when Negative was in need of a guitar player, Antti (NGT’s bass player) asked me to come up and try out with them, as they thought that I could fit into the band pretty nicely. Everything’s gone well so far, the mood inside the band is great and it just feel natural”, says Gary.