Extreme Metal
As well as having a strong heavy metal music scene Finland, like its Scandinavian neighbours, has a strong vibrant extreme metal scene too which while propagating a more underground and slightly less accessible sound is still notably not only internationally successful but also on a few occasions giving the more mainstream heavy metal bands competition in the nations awards ceremonies. The most famous Finnish bands in extreme metal are most probably Amorphis - who started out as death metal and gradually evolved into a hybrid of electronica and modern rock - and the grindcore band Rotten Sound who recently signed to the renowned American label Relapse Records.
The extreme metal scene in Finland is highly dominated by death metal - of various sub-genres ranging from melodic death metal such as Omnium Gatherum to more old school traditional death metal bands like Demilich and Convulse, who recently had their sole album reissued by Relapse Records.
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“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)