Heavy Metal
Like much of Scandinavia, Finland's main contribution to modern popular music may be heavy metal and related fields. It is also the origin country of heavily influential power metal bands. This style of hard-hitting metal includes bands like Battlelore, Children of Bodom, Entwine, Apocalyptica, Impaled Nazarene, Nightwish, The 69 Eyes, Stratovarius, Sentenced, Sonata Arctica, Amorphis, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani and Waltari.
A popular Finnish band abroad is HIM whose music has been labeled "love metal". HIM and The Rasmus topped album charts in several European countries with their most popular albums. HIM got also a gold record in the USA in 2006. The international success of HIM and The Rasmus during the current decade is wider than any Finnish group has gotten before.
Finland were also the winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, with the first heavy metal band to enter the competition, Lordi. Lordi won with their Hard Rock Hallelujah composition, sporting elaborate costumes. Since then, they have found success across Europe and limited publicity outside of the continent. Lordi have also competed in Kuorosota, the Finnish version of Clash of the Choirs.
Throughout the Finland and Scandinavian countries there has been an uprising of 80s era "glam metal" bands heavily influence by bands like Mötley Crüe and Guns n' Roses with a modern twist like Reckless Love, Crashdiet and Hardcore Superstar.
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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