Formed in the entire year 2000 by singer Ilja Jalkanen, guitarist Mikko “Ilmarinen” Salovaara, keyboardist Atte Tanskanen, bassist Teemu Tuominen, and drummer Markku Näreneva, Finland’s Kiuas is definitely influenced by way of a myriad of rock designs, including thrash, power, and also folk strains. Evidently big followers of mini-CDs, the group debuted using the Discipline of Metal EP in early 2002, repeated the gesture using the Born Beneath the North Lamps EP a 12 months later, and managed to get three inside a row in the beginning of 2004 with the wintertime in June EP, released through England’s Trend of Achilles Information.