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CRYSTALIC

Letting the metal flow since 1998

About Me


BIOGRAPHY
Crystalic is a competent, aggressive, Finnish metal band with a feeling for melody.
Toni Tieaho founded Crystalic in 1998. The band made one demo “Stormwalker” and it was more dark metal vein in those days. The band faded into non-existence in 1999. In the year 2000 Toni, Frank and Arto met each other in a death metal band called "The Prophecy".
After two demos The Prophecy disbanded in 2002 and Jarno, Toni and Arto let Crystalic breath again. Guys from Masterstroke, Niko(guitar) & Janne (drums) were helping them out as session players for a year in some degree. Crystalic recorded "Revitalized" demo with that line-up.
In the year 2003 Matti Johansson (drums) from the old line-up of The Prophecy made a comeback, and the band started wholeheartedly to rehearse the material. Eventually Crystalic completed the “Redemption” demo in July, 2004. The demo got great reviews but no record deal was signed though one label showed interest and offered a deal. In the summer of 2005 Matti decided to leave Crystalic, because of his other band Korpiklaani.
In the fall of 2005 drummer Timo Hanhijoki joined Crystalic. At the same time the band decided to try out a second guitarist to bring out all the melodies and guitar parts in the live performance. Old friend Erik Grönroos was an obvious choice for that task.
Crystalic rehearsed hard for four months and recorded “Carnival Of Flesh” promotional cd in December, 2005. Few labels showed interest and finally Crystalic inked a deal with Thundering/Manitou Records from France.
Crystalic released their debut album "Watch Us Deteriorate" 30th of March 2007 in France and later all around Europe. In August Erik decided to leave the band because of his personal reasons. Replacement came quickly when Mikko Mattila (ex-Dreamtale) stepped to the group and in two weeks Crystalic was ready for action, with full of freshness and more crystal clear than ever!
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Member Since: 12/16/2005
Band Website: crystalic.net
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Sounds Like: CRYSTALIC - Severe Punishment music video

CRYSTALIC - Pull The Plug (Death cover)

Record Label: Thundering / Manitou Records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Jarno leaves Crystalic, Matti steps in.

Jarno's statement: It's time to go ahead. I have to leave Crystalic because my heart isn't 100% in the band anymore. I've always been singer/songwriter and I want to continue my own musical journey. T...
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:04:00 PST

Severe Punishment music video online now!!

Here it comes!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoEcenODv3k
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:54:00 PST

Crystalic chosen as the Newcomer of the year 2007 by Imperiumi.net!

Finnish metal community Imperiumi.net has listed it´s favorites in the FINNISH METAL AWARDS -voting. Imperiumi.net News Album of the year: Nightwish - Dark Passion Play Band of the year: Viikate Newc...
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:45:00 PST

Please vote for Crystalic at www.swedenrock.com !

PLEASE VOTE FOR CRYSTALIC AT:Thanks for your support!
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:31:00 PST

Making of Severe Punishment music video

Check out the "making of" of our forthcoming music video for "Severe Punishment" (COMING IN EARLY 2008) ...
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:16:00 PST

New songs!!

New songs online from our new pre-production promo. Feel free to tell what you think about those.
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:58:00 PST

CRYSTALIC NEEDS YOUR HELP!!

Lots of questions come from fans around the world about when we are going to be on tour in their countries. It's great to see that people are interested in our stuff. Many thanks to all of you who hav...
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:37:00 PST

German interview online @ HeavyHardes.de

German interview online @ HeavyHardes.de. Including english version. Check it out! http://www.heavyhardes.de/interview-276.html
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:35:00 PST

Crystalic announces new guitarist!!!

Crystalic announces new guitarist: Finland based, technical death metal band Crystalic has added a new guitarist in its lineup. New guitarist is Mikko Mattila known from Finnish power metal band Drea...
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:27:00 PST

CRYSTALIC parts ways with guitarist

CRYSTALIC parts ways with guitarist. Erik announces: "It's time for me to leave the band. This wasn't easy decision for me but that's what life is, decisions. Some of them are easy to make, some of th...
Posted by CRYSTALIC on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:19:00 PST