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About Me

Despair Academy was founded in the summer of 2005 in SeinÃ¤joki, a rural town in Western Finland. This was the place where Antti, Pertti, Markus and Toni began to make music that would combine their favourite parts of grunge and British/Finnish rock music. With three different style songwriters in the band, the music of Despair Academy covers a large section of rock music, from softer pop to harsher alternative sounds. This band does not want to be chained into one particular sound, but write as many kinds of songs as there are different feelings to be felt. The band has so far published one demo and an EP and played almost 30 gigs with many great bands and at various venues, big and small.

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Member Since: 04/04/2006
Band Members: Guitars and basses: Pertti Valli & Antti Teirmaa, Vocals: Markus Perttula, Drums: Toni Turpeinen .........contact us for bookings or other info: [email protected]
Influences: AFI, Ismo Alanko, Alice In Chains, Apulanta, The Ataris, Bad Astronaut, Bad Religion, Beach Boys, Billy Talent, Blaqk Audio, Bloc Party, Blur, Jeff Buckley, CMX, Coldplay, The Crash, The Darkness, The Distillers, Dream Theater, Eels, Egotrippi, Faith No More, Foo Fighters, Marvin Gaye, Guide Me Gordon, Heroes Del Silencio, Interpol, Lagwagon, Lemonator, The Libyan Fish, Manboy, Scott Matthews, Mew, Millencolin, Muse, Nirvana, Oasis, Opeth, Pearl Jam, Phoenix, Placebo, PMMP, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Rise Against, The Rollstons, The Smiths, Stone Temple Pilots, The Strokes, Tehosekoitin, Jonna Tervomaa, Tiger Army, Ultramariini, The Verve, We Are Scientists, Weezer, The White Stripes, YUP, Zen CafÃ©
Sounds Like: Dredg, Anberlin, Incubus & early Deep Insight (Rokkizine.fi); Muse & Pearl Jam (Soundi.fi)
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Despair Academy featuring the good times

Last Wednesday we played at TVO, where six bands gathered to play and compete for fame and fortune. The fame part consisted of a full packed audience alongside a prestigious jury. And yes, we WON! At ...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:49:00 GMT

Despair Academy Fire in Us | Radio Rock Starba | Radio Rock (plus some chatter)

Hello, this Radio Rock-thing here is another band contest where the winning band might get gigs nationwide as well as an opportunity to make a whole album. You can vote here: http://www.radiorock.fi/b...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:57:00 GMT

Stern competition still on: votes needed!

The competition for unsigned competition is still on and we need everybody to vote for us! You can vote once per day and there's still couple of days left, until 8th of January. The winner gets an exc...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:01:00 GMT

Nice: new ep, new video and a competition won!

What's happening!? Well, some pretty cool things: we finished our ep which is called Red Helmet and before that we were asked to participate in Stern magazine's online competiton for unsigned bands. W...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:50:00 GMT

Demo arvosteltu Soundissa 10/07 (netissä)!

Ja arvostelu oli sangen todenmukainen! Ja se meni suunnilleen näin:"Turun altsurokkareiden kahden biisin näyte on siitä mielenkiintoinen, että Take The Lead on hyvin ilmeistä 2000-luvun indietä Muse-v...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:05:00 GMT

Live at Klubi

Hey! We just had our first gig on Thursday at Klubi and it was absolutely fantastic!! We've put some clips from the show here, though the quality isn't really high class.. But I hope that the gre...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:20:00 GMT