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About Me

No Place Like Home
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Parasite City was formed during the spring of 2001 by members Jari and Antti, two musicians with an intense desire to take rock music to the next level. The guys set to work penning lyrics and creating catchy riffs in order to give their new band a voice. Some tracks for their first demo were born from these early writing sessions giving the boys some direction.
Englishman Sebastian joined the band in 2001 when he answered an advert Jari and Antti had placed on the internet during their search for a full Parasite City line-up. Bassist Heikki had performed with Antti previously and was invited to jam with new band. It was after this initial jamming session that Parasite City had finally found a fourth member.
Finding a drummer seemed to be their biggest challenge and to date Parasite City has seen two drummers come and go, but it was three times a charm when they met Ilari, who officially joined the band in January 2004. Since then Parasite City has enjoyed the luxury of its first stable line-up!
Since forming in 2001 band has performed regularly generating both press and fan interest throughout Europe. Their reputation as an energetic live band has earned them slots for various Finnish festivals and they ve done over 100 shows over the past few years. Their first gigs outside of the Finnish border saw daylight spring 2005 when the Parasites did two shows in Italy followed by two tours in the UK in 2006.
After recording few demo tapes and self-financed EP Parasite City recorded Secretly Mine single on December 2005, which was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa, who has produced for bands like HIM, and was mastered at Finnvox studio by Mika Jussila, who has worked with Nightwish, and Children of Bodom to name just two!
That single got the big wheel rolling and in spring 2007 Parasite City signed a record deal with Finnish label Hype Records. Band recorded their debut album with producer Johnny Lee Michaels (69 Eyes etc.) during fall '07. First single "No Place Like Home" was released in October '07 and second single "Burn" came out on January '08 and it was followed by album in February.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/23/2006
Band Website: parasitecity.com
Band Members:

Antti - Guitar
Heikki - Bass
Sebastian - Vocals
Ilari - Drums
Jari - Guitar

Sounds Like:

HELP US GET AIRPLAY FOR OUR SINGLE AND VIDEO!

WISH VIDEO:
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WISH SINGLE:
YleX
Radio City
SuomiPOP
Radio Rock
Radio Nova

Record Label: Hype Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New songs and pics

Hello folks! We added some new live pics from our two last klubi gigs in Tampere & Turku (Finland). Check them out! Also we added two new songs on our player (taken from 10 Hits to K.O. album). BT...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:21:00 PST

Gig correction

In some media is announced that we have gig 18.7 in Jyväskylä. This is not correct! We are on same day in Porvoo / Donington. Always check all confirmed gigs from our myspace or our official website w...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:23:00 PST

parasitecity.com

our official site www.parasitecity.com is offline due service provider. Sorry about that. We try to be back soon... UPDATE 19.6. We're back now!!...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:40:00 PST

Tuhma Compilation CD

"Burn" is on Tuhmacompilation VOL II which is released together by Tuhma Festazinen and Get In The Pit. Get your FREE copy from recordshop X (Helsinki, Turku, Jyväskylä, Kuopio ja Oulu). Also availabl...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:05:00 PST

New Live Pictures added!!

New live pictures added! Parasite City @ Klubi27.4.2008 GO GO GO!!!
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Fri, 09 May 2008 12:16:00 PST

Compilation CD

Särkänniemi amusement park and Hype Productions will release "Särkänniemi Stara Collection" -CD. 10 Finnish Top artists and newcomers were chosen on this compilation and Parasite City was one of them....
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:51:00 PST

Album on Italian radio!

10 Hits to K.O. album is on rotation on Italian RADIO ANTENNA 2. It was chosen as an "album of the week" on week 14!!!
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:22:00 PST

Pics, Interviews & Reviews

HI ! New Promo & Live pics added to our myspace profile. If you want see more of them go to our official site www.parasitecity.com -> Pics Also a lot of album interviews and reviews all over ...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:22:00 PST

New Song and Forum

Hi We added new song on our player. It’s called "Sweet Lady"! If you like it buy the album ;) Our english fanforum domain has been down for a while but forum is still up and running in HERE ...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:07:00 PST

Parasite City @ YouTube

We have our own YouTube channel now. No Place Like Home + Live clips included!! ...
Posted by PARASITE CITY on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:25:00 PST