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Ageness was founded in 1991. The debut album Showing Paces was released in 1992, and raised a lot of enthusiasm. In next two years they were doing dozens of gigs, including Down By the Laituri and Helsinki Festivals (to 10,000 people).

In the mid 90s Ageness were very active. 1995 they released the second album Rituals, which gained again an impressive amount of international praise. They headlined the 1996 Colossus Prog Festival with Anekdoten. Also in -97, the Finnish Broadcasting Company FST did a 16-minute TV special "Imageness", including the songs "Line of Force" and "Metamorphosis" from their forthcoming new album. The French label Musea Records was very impressed and offered a worldwide license deal and released Imageness in 1998.

In 1998, two big things happened in the band's career: An official promo video Fear, from their new album was released in the summer of 1998. They also played at the Stoa/Colossus Prog Concert with John Wetton and Ritual from Sweden. In 1999 Ageness performed in a studio concert, which was broadcasted live by Finnish national radio. In the summer 1999 band played for the first time at the famous Ruisrock Festival, and also in Holland and Belgium.

During the following years, Ageness played only on very special occasions, like a few tribute concerts for the Colossus Progressive Association (etc. tributes for Wigwam, Rush or Peter Gabriel). In 2002, they played again with John Wetton and Moongarden.

In late 2006, the studio sessions were running, and their fourth album "Liar's Lair" will be released in 2007, in time to celebrate Agenesss 15 years anniversary. The first single "The Liar" from the new album is coming out in spring 2007 along with the "AGENESS LIVE" dvd. Check www.ageness.net

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Member Since: 7/1/2006
Band Website: ageness.net
Band Members:

Tommy Eriksson: Vocals, Keyboards, & Acoustic Guitar

Kari Saaristo: Drums & Percussion

Jari Ukkonen: Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals

Speedy Saarinen: Guitars & Vocals

Matti Kervinen: Keyboards & Backing Vocals


Influences:

Dixie Dregs, National Health, Genesis, Yes, Wigwam, Kansas, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Tasavallan Presidentti, Queen, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Mahavishnu Orchestra, George Duke, Bill Bruford's Earthworks, Fred Firth, Niccolo Paganini, Mussorsky, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Pekka Pohjola, Kaamos, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Ange, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, The Blue Öyster Cult, The Tubes.
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My Blog

Showing Paces (Remastered) Now Available!!!

Ageness' debut album "Showing Paces" is now available as a MP3 download from the Record Office (www.recordoffice.net)... Also some videoclips from the 2003 Ageness Plays Peter Gabriel -tribute has bee...
Posted by AGENESS on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:05:00 PST

Editing the "AGENESS LIVE" dvd!!

Well at least we got started the process after so many downfalls like it felt like pouring endless feed from the skies above :-) Henri Tondi as the main producer and editor is doing a fine job and som...
Posted by AGENESS on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST