Catamenia

Because of the pioneering initiatives of Amorphis, Impaled Nazarene, and Sentenced, to mention but several, Finland became a surprising hotbed of rock talent through the late ’90s, and symphonic dark metal action Catamenia certainly rates being among the most consistent — otherwise commercially successful — of the. Produced in 1995 by vocalist Mika Tönning, guitarists Riku Hopeakoski and Sampo Ukkola, bassist Timo Lehtinen, keyboardist Heidi Riihinen, and drummer Toni Tervoand, and hailing from Sentenced’s hometown of Oulu, Catamenia required just a few well-recorded demos to rating a cope with Massacre Information, that they shipped 1998’s Halls of Frozen North and 1999’s Morning hours Crimson in quick succession. Although both these albums displayed a big inspirational debts to Norwegians Emperor, these were also innovative and inspired more than enough in their personal correct, and despite repeating obsessions with frigid recording game titles and blue cover artwork, Catamenia’s audio would grow a lot more assorted and unique with each ensuing launch. These included 2000’s superb Eternal Winter’s Prophecy (which noticed Ukkola changed by new tempo guitarist Ari Nissilä as well as the Dark League’s Sir Luttinen assisting out behind the drum package) and 2001’s epic masterpiece Eskhata (which lent Kalmah drummer Janne Kusmin, and do without departed keyboardist Riihinen). The behind-the-scenes shuffling would continue using the introduction of keyboardist Tero Nevala and drummer Viekko Jumisko before the band’s fifth recording, 2003’s acclaimed Chaos Given birth to.