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13 hours ago, GrayscaleDawn said:

Hui hai, tere tuloo! (good luck google translating that!) :D 

Good luck to anyone hoping this guy will be back now he's promoted his band.  Hate it when newbs do this, drop in under the guise of an intro thread (where this thread started life until the Mods correctly shifted it) and then invite us to get to know their band.  Tell you what you get to know us and we'll see if your band is up to anything then.  Community here folks!

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FatherAlabaster Grand Master

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More to the point, there's a place for it - here in the promo section. When someone posts their band in the introduction section or one of the discussion threads, that's a good sign that they didn't take the time to read through the forum at all. It's OK; not everybody has the time, and I suppose for a lot of people this is just one more place to drop a link. It's not necessarily duplicitous. I don't have any problem with this OP, just wish they would've put it in the right section and maybe described their music with a touch more detail.

It irritates me more when people try to be clever and sneaky about it ("I've just discovered this band and I'm obsessed!", "Can't figure out what genre this is!", etc), or spam the board with duplicate posts; that winds up being counterproductive. "Promoting the shit out of it" isn't an effective strategy here. I'd even say that "looking for an effective strategy" isn't a particularly effective strategy. Better to be frank about it, describe yourselves and your music, and then stick around or move on as you see fit.

I often think of this place as an ongoing listening party at a local pub. We're hanging out with our friends in various corners, talking about music and life; sometimes people wander in to ask directions, or play something terrible on the jukebox, or blunder around the place trying to get everyone's attention or sell bootleg DVDs. Occasionally we have to boot a drunk. If you hang around for long enough, we'll hold your seat for you when you're out. Leave a CD at the bar, and maybe we'll put it on if the mood strikes. That kind of thing.

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Skull_Kollektor Newbie

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Cool song! I am Italian and so is my girlfriend, but she spent 6 months living in Turku while doing her Erasmus in the second half of 2015, so I have been there myself multiple times. We both loved Finland, but we were not lucky with the bands in Turku! We could only find indie bands, something we both dislike...

I wish I had met you guys! She wouldn't have appreciated (she's more into Shiraz Lane and Santa Cruz), but I'm sure I would have loved to be at one of your shows!

You have some stiff competition up there... Lost Society are doing great.

When I was in Helsinki I also had a chance to see Rebellix play live: those guys are great! Amazing singer and very gifted guitar player (who actually happens to be italian).

Keep up the good work!

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Thanks a lot Skull_Kollektor! 

Somebody said that we would just post once about this band to this Forum and leave it there. Well, that couldnt be farther from the truth. 

Although we are a Finnish band, we hope to reach as many people as possible worldwide. Music is universal language and metalheads are family together (usually thats the case).

Here for example is our newest "Behind the Scenes" video. Yes, we arent big band, but i like to film other things also that are not playing. We mix some Playing to them so they would be interesting as possible. 

 

Much of the talking is in Finnish but we've added english things here and there.

 

 

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