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Matti

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About Me

Bass player/singer of Silentium and Holly Slicer, cultural history student, Electrician student and a social worker, in that order. Laplander(not a lapdancer ). Despite the lyrics I write, I'm quite laughable person, and don't worry, I don't take myself too seriously either...

My Interests

Metal Music, Music, History, Literature, Poetry, mid distance runing, forests, Beer with good company.

I'd like to meet:

All the great people that I've met during these years on the road, lots of people who'll have a drink of beer with me when we meet ja vanhat koulu ja inttikaverit kans...

Music:

Arcturus, Dimmu Borgir,DVKE, Motörhead, Led zeppelin, Black sabbath, Paradise lost, Nightwish, Amorphis, My Dying Bride, Dio, Wasp, Katatonia, Ulver, Mari Boine, Wimme, Finntroll, Skyforger, Sielun Veljet, Ismo Alanko, Eläkeläiset, Pink Floyd, Anathema, Novembre, The Bellrays, Emperor, Pantera, Tom Waits, The Doors, J.S.Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Mozart, Albinoni, Carl Orff

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, der Himmel über Berlin, Braveheart, Das Boot, Dracula, From Hell, clockwork orange, Leon, LOTR, Devil's advocate, Requiem for a dream, Nightmare before christmas, The Crow, Stalingrad, Trainspotting, Fear and loathing in las vegas, the Thin red line, Corpse bride, Talvisota, Vidocq, The Others, ...and most of all Pink Floyd:The Wall

Television:

Lost, Band of Brothers, Big Train

Books:

William Blake, Milan Kundera, Irvine Welsh, Mika Waltari, tsehov, Islandic saga's, Mikael Niemi, Robert McLiam Wilson, Milton, Arthur Schopenhauer

Heroes:

Lemmy Kilmister, William blake, Finnish veterans. KAVERIA EI JÄTETÄ!!!

My Blog

portugal

Medolic metal tour 2007We headed for portugal just after our gig in tampere and alltogether 3 hours of sleep. We had to try to get some sleep on 737's and on the cold floors of standsted airport. The ...
Posted by Matti on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:58:00 PST

The Holly Slicer in Jämsä

We played With Holly Slicer in Jämsä. Our keyboardist, the silentium mainman Sami Boman Was not able to play with us. 2/3 of the show went really well, the band was really rocking, The band hasn't pl...
Posted by Matti on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST

Silentium in Nosturi With Ayreon

The trip to Hellsinki was quite fun. The gig itself wasn't too hot, I had a flue or something that completely shattered my voice, the audience was nice enough to make some noice and have some fun anyw...
Posted by Matti on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:26:00 PST

The Holly Slicer in Jämsänkoski

I finally got the honour of  joining the ranks of a local rock'n roll band The Holly Slicer(formally known as the ends). I was nervous as hell performing led zeppelin (singing and playing bass at...
Posted by Matti on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:21:00 PST

Kuopio and Varkaus

Thanks for the audience in eastern Finland, and even greater thanks to the ladds(and lass) of beautiful betrayal. The clubs were pretty much full(so full that even air couldn't fit into the club in Va...
Posted by Matti on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:52:00 PST

Tampere, sputnik, 21.9.

The bar was quite empty at the beginning coz it was thursday evening. The population picked up during the set and despite my flue and lack of sleep, those absent did miss a hell of a gig. i did the w...
Posted by Matti on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:08:00 PST

Ilokivi, Jyväskylä

We had exellent time, the soulfallen ladds were our friends allready and we had the opportunity to meet the ladies of Kamala (I really enjoid their set).I was a bit hangoverish during the day, but i w...
Posted by Matti on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:34:00 PST

Seinäjoki

we were in seinäjoki in sunday night at a club 15. Despite the weekday (hangover) and time the club was full of "selviytyjät" (survivals) festival members and it was nice to see people in full moshing...
Posted by Matti on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:56:00 PST

acoustic gig with Cavanagh

It was nice...The atmosphere was relaxed and the pieces worked fine. Few minor mistakes here and there because we only had the change to rehearse those pieces for two times. The ladds from leafblade w...
Posted by Matti on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:00:00 PST

homecoming

Thanks for the audience in our hometown Jämsänkoski, the local pub was more than sold out, and You proved me wrong about finnish audiences beeing "completly immobilezed bunch of metal police". It was ...
Posted by Matti on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:48:00 PST