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Nailgunner

Pay your dues to those of real metal!

About Me


Nailgunner was founded by Toni Lötjönen in 2002, when he wanted to form a Slayer -coverband. Simo Kukkonen joined in to play guitar and Jori Sara-aho took on the drums. When the first rehearsals finally took place in Joutseno the whole idea of a coverband was forgotten. Riffs started turning into songs and the songs sounded like thrash. Simo left the band shortly, but Jori and Toni continued building up their own metal tunes. After some time Juha Lähde was recruited to bass and more songs were made. Finally Toni Huhtiniemi and Sami Kettunen joined the band, thus making Nailgunner a fully operational thrash metal killing machine. The first demo, called All life ends was made in 2004 kickstarting the band to pursue the the most brutal and catchy thrash metal sounds...
The first full line up broke up in 2004. Huhtiniemi and Lähde were replaced by Jan-Erik Eskelinen in guitar and Tomi Malinen in bass. With this group Nailgunner recorded a split CD with Wounds. The split was released in 2005, introducing a more raw and versatile sound, with a lot less of the modern influences found on the first demo. Malinen played only one show before getting replaced by Janne Puranen. Two songs were recorded for two 7" splits. Also the recording of a full length album had been planned for a while, and in 2006 Nailgunner started training more than ever, for the songs kept getting faster and more technical all the time...
Just when Nailgunner was being ready to record their full-length debut, Sami decided to leave the band because of problems with his motivation to sing. Also Jan-Erik joined the ex-members' club. Auditions were held for a new singer and Jussi Kaskinen ended up on the front. The album would still be finished without delays, and a new guitarplayer would be searched later...
Discography:
All Life Ends demo 2004
Nailgunner/Wounds - Thermonuklear Thrash Metal Warfare (Bestial Burst) 2005
Outbreak of Evil vol. 3, 4-way-split 7" (Nuclear War Now!) 2006
Future releases:
Thrash Metal Blitzkrieg -compilation 7" (Iron Bonehead)
Thermonuklear Thrash Metal Warfare 12" (Dies Irae)
First full length album - name TBA, label TBA, in 2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/5/2006
Band Members: Jori Sara-aho - Drums
Jussi Kaskinen - Vocals
Toni Lötjönen - Guitar
Janne Puranen - Bass
Kalle Nurmi - Guitar
Influences: Razor, Exodus, Onslaught, Exciter, Overkill...
Sounds Like: Thrash metal
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"Apocalypse. Now or Never" to be released in June

Yes, it's finally happening! Area Death Productions will release "Apocalypse. Now or Never" -full length this June. This makes us very, very happy. Details are to follow closer to the release.NP. Mano...
Posted by Nailgunner on Sun, 18 May 2008 01:40:00 PST

WE ARE LOOKING FOR A LABEL TO RELEASE THE ALBUM

I guess this should be made clear: The "Apocalypse. Now or Never" is still without a label to release it. Interested labels get in touch! Ask for a promotional package if we already haven't made conta...
Posted by Nailgunner on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST

New song online!

One full song from our first full-length album has been uploaded, "Futuristic Deth". Enjoy! 
Posted by Nailgunner on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:09:00 PST

New singer found!

Great news! A new singer has been found! Jussi Kaskinen (also known from his work in thrash/hc band Botnia) convinced us with his raging performance and is now an official member. With him on the vo...
Posted by Nailgunner on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:51:00 PST

Line-up changes, again...

Bad news. Sami has decided to leave Nailgunner. A couple of days ago he told us that for some time he hasn't felt to be capable of delivering the vocals that the new Nailgunner songs need. He also sa...
Posted by Nailgunner on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:16:00 PST

Outbreak of evil vol.3 out now!

The long awaited 7" 4-way split is out now! Buy your copy from Bestial Burst. Other bands are Evil Angel, Grippiud and Gravewurm. 
Posted by Nailgunner on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:16:00 PST

New pics added

I added some live pics from our last show. Just couldn't find a decent photo of myself.-Jori
Posted by Nailgunner on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:53:00 PST

Hello maniacs!

Hello!Well, I've just got this myspace -thing up and running, I hope you'll enjoy the songs. I might be writing my thoughts in here in the future too. Nothing so special to say at the moment, I think ...
Posted by Nailgunner on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:43:00 PST