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Johan Liiva

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About Me

Active and passionately involved in extreme music since a long time. History in bands like Carnage, Furbowl, Arch Enemy, Non Exist and Hearse. Memorable moments thru out the years as for tours, recordings and rehearsals - the most valuable "tape trading years" late 80's into the early 90's gave much as for the networking at this time. Several guest vocal contributions (Necrony, Birdflesh, Manipulated Slaves, Hydr!Hydr! (a norwegian project with Anders Odden from Cadaver (Inc) ), Legen Beltza and a few more. Vocals on a dozen albums. Live shows around a 100 of them. Tours - quite a few actually, thru Europe, North- and South America - and last but not least: Japan. At the moment, the bands are Hearse and K.D.F. (Karpathia During Fall). Introduced to heavy and dark music via the early albums of Black Sabbath, given a chill down the very spine. Coming back and forth into music due to various reasons - never and undoubtedly gonna leave it behind and retire. A studio is under the making; Fox Poison. Using the tools and software most up to date (a.k.a. Cubase, Roede etc.) and investings every now and then in this very area are being made. Main sources of inspiration, making the "magic blend" worth mentioning..: The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Kim Wilde, Metallica, Carcass, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Nirvana, decadent latin movies, russian folk lore, Depeche Mode, oriental mystique and history of music, agony and angst, Celtic Frost, Paradise Lost, Dean R Koontz' books and an overall attempt to grab the core of existence by its very balls...*lol* Memories and actualities are to be shared here, I promise. Cheers!I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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Member Since: 1/27/2006
Band Website: hearse.se, johanliiva.com (coming soon)
Band Members: Info will be updated within a short period of time ;)
Influences: Emigrate, Celtic Frost, Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, Arch Enemy, The Absence, Kreator, Xecutioner, Incubus, Necrovore, Rosetta Stone, Synastry, The Beatles (late), Forsaken, Nihilist, Within Temptation, Furbowl, Rammstein, The Absence, Nirvana, Death.. vocalists of total supremacy: Troy Dixler, David Vincent, Tom G Warrior, Carl McCoy....... yeah yeah!!
Sounds Like: a great idea!
Record Label: Fox Poison, Dental Records, CM, WAR etc.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Update part 1

Hey there lovely people!After months of twisting and turning my mind as of "what-to-do-next", I finally reached the point of wanting to create again. Days of inspiration return, slowly but sure. Don't...
Posted by Johan Liiva on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:01:00 PST

Istanbul, mon amour...

Well, here I am, comfortably seated in a great hotel room in the middle of Taksim, Istanbul. It's approx. 32 degrees celcius outside, so I'm desperate in my attempts to kinda "cool down" hehe... A/C, ...
Posted by Johan Liiva on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:12:00 PST

Latest news

The first stage-appearance of 2007 took place at Sin City, Istanbul (see pic section, page 2). Backed up by the savagely brutal local heroes in MURDER KING (http://www.myspace.com/murderkingtr) ...
Posted by Johan Liiva on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:32:00 PST