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SPIRITRAISER

About Me

Spiritraiser is a soulful rockband coloured with a whole variety of influences - from all the decades of great rock music. The band was formed in the summer of 2005 in Helsinki, Finland by four old friends and good musicians, sharing the same passion for music and life itself. Mutual sound was found almost instantly, so the band hit the studios to record their first demo, only after a month of playing together. The reception of the demo was overwhelming and the last kick to set this fucker off was given. In the beginning of 2006, our live set was shaped in a solid form, from where the touring could start. Since then, the audience has never been left cold. After feeling the spirit that is present on the stage from the first screaming riff, 'til the last floating note, you will know that this is a true rock band.The year 2007 we sailed in tail-wind. During spring and summer we recorded our debut EP "Handful of Our Soul" with Jeppe Cavonius at Md-Studio, won the first place in national "Emergenza Music Festival" band competition and re-presented Finland at the Nordic finals in Stockholm, Sweden. In the beginning of 2008 we released "Apollo's Child" promo cd and played some shows. One of the songs from our first EP “Handful of Our Soul” was also included in the soundtrack of X-treme: Drifting and Tuning DVD that was released in the summer at Seinäjoen vauhtiajot festival.. Other one was playing in the Tv-spot of the same festival. At the end of the year we released an EP with three new songs. White China Girl, Buddha Monks & Monkeys and Rosy Walls and already it seemed that the year 2009 is going to be a pleasant one for us!The year 2009 has been a busy year for Spiritraiser. The band played their first gig at the legendary Tavastia rock club and released 'Come Rain Of Light' -single. They also participated in a band competion called Radio Rock Starba - from 800 competing bands Spiritraiser was in top 5! The band has been constantly in music media - a lot of media coverage (in web, radio & magazines) and quite a bit of airtime in the radio.

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Member Since: 20/02/2006
Band Website: WWW.SPIRITRAISER.COM
Band Members: Vocals:JaakkoGuitar:UulaBass:AndeDrums:Arttu
Influences: Led Zeppelin, The Cult, Alice In Chains, Guns N' Roses, The Doors, Black Sabbath, Kingston Wall, Faith No More, Skid Row, Jeff Buckley, Audioslave, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Velvet Revolver, Chris Cornell.
Sounds Like: Spiritraiser
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

SPIRITRAISER's VIDEO INTERVIEW BY JONE NIKULA

Here's a video interview from yesterday:
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 05:16:00 GMT

INTERVIEW AT RADIO ROCK

Tonight, after 7pm you can hear Spiritraiser's interview with two songs "Come Rain of Light" and "Rosy Walls" from Radio Rock 94.9 FM
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 07:51:00 GMT

RADIO ROCK STARBA FINALS!

Spiritraiser has made it to the finals in the Radio Rock Starba competition! Four other promising bands are sharing the stage with us 26.05.09 at On The Rocks, here in Helsinki. Let the best act win!
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 01:08:00 GMT

GREAT REVIEW IN SOUNDI

The biggest finnish rock magazine "Soundi" gave great review to our self titled EP.Basically it says "Spiritraiser knows their shit and you will hear from this band"Go get your own copy of the magazin...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:27:00 GMT

RADIO ROCK STARBA SEMIFINALS!

We've made it to the TOP20 from 720 bands in the Radio Rock's band competition!You can support us to go all the way by buying our song "White China Girl" from the Radio Rock Store! link: http://www.ra...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:14:00 GMT

BUY OUR SONGS ONLINE

You can buy cd-quality versions of our two latest EP:s from Equal Dreams webstore "www.equaldreams.com/spiritraiserband" the price is 2euros per album. Thank you for your support!
Posted by on Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:29:00 GMT

3 NEW SONGS!

The new Spiritraiser songs are here! Listen to them here at myspace or download high quality mp3 versions from the link below:www.mikseri.net/spiritraiser1. White China Girl2. Buddha Monks & Monkeys3....
Posted by on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:51:00 GMT

MORE REVIEWS

Noise.fi gave good reviews (4/5) to our debut EP "Handful of Our Soul". Link: http://www.noise.fi/levyarvostelut/?id=9342.
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:45:00 GMT

HEAR "Storm Glass" ON X-TREME DVD

Dudes! One of our older tunes "Storm Glass" is included on the soundtrack of "X-Treme drifting & tuning" dvd which will be released July 25th at Seinäjoen Vauhtiajot race & rock festival.
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:48:00 GMT

TV-COMMERCIAL

A part of our song "Apollo's Child" can be heard on a tv-commercial of Seinäjoen Vauhtiajot race & rock festival. The spot has been rolling on Nelonen constantly since last week!
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:27:00 GMT