Fall of the Idols

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The Band

Jyrki Hakomäki – Vocals
Vesa Karppinen – Bass
Rami Moilanen – Guitar
Jouni Sihvonen – Guitar
Tommi Turunen – Guitar
Hannu Weckman – Drums

The Past

Fall of the Idols was born from the death throes of Adder in Tornio, a small and grim town in northern Finland, in the end of the year 2000 AD. At time the band had three members: drummer Jyrki Hakomäki, bassist Vesa Karppinen and guitarist Tommi Turunen. After a few rehearsals the trio realized that their music had evolved from Adder's punk-y rock metal into a darker and heavier form of musical expression – a twisted and fairly unique form of epic doom metal. Fall of the Idols recorded their first three-track demo "Per Aspera Ad Aspera" in June 2001 at their rehearsal studio WaPi. The vocal duties were handled by Mister Karppinen. The demo got some cautiously positive comments.

The second demo, titled "Demo2002", was recorded periodically between February and June 2002 while Mister Hakomäki provided the vocal duties. The demo was sent to numerous places and it got some really positive comments here and there. After the release of "Demo2002" it was obvious that if the band was ever going to play gigs, the line-up had to be expanded since the arrangements are impossible to perform with one guitar. Thus an old friend of the band, guitarist Rami Moilanen, joined the ranks in November 2002. The line-up was finally completed when vocalist Panu Paunonen joined the band in January 2003. The recordings for Fall of the Idols' debut EP started in April 2003, and the five-tracker was finally released by the band on Friday the 13th, in February 2004.

The self-titled EP received really good reviews worldwide and was distributed to the unsuspective mass by psycheDOOMelic records in Austria and Hellride Music in USA. Unfortunately, though the response was very positive in international doom scene, the band failed to secure themselves a proper recording deal. Fall of the Idols played a couple of shows during the spring of 2004 and started working with new material for another demo, for which the recording sessions started in July 2004. In September 2004 Fall of the Idols was reinforced by a third guitarist, Jouni Sihvonen. Third guitar was added to enhance the bands sound – especially in the live setting. At the same time a belgian label Final Chapter Records released "Burnt" from the EP as part of their compilation "A Dark World" which featured some of the best unsigned acts from the international doom metal scene.

In November of 2004, while the demo was still in the works, vocalist Panu Paunonen decided to leave the band due to geographical distance between himself and the rest of the band. The departure happened in friendly terms and drummer Jyrki Hakomäki was summoned to deliver the vocals for the demo. The demo was finished in the end of January 2005, almost exactly a year after the release of band's debut EP. The demo got a very good reception and, quickly following the demo, drummer Hannu Weckman joined the band to help band in live situation. During the spring 2005 the band rehearsed writing new material. In summer of 2005 the band did a few shows and recorded their fifth demo entitled "The Pathway", which was released on 13th of October 2005.

Immediately after the release of "The Pathway" the band signed a record deal with swedish I Hate Records. Debut album was going to be released during the summer 2006. In April 2006 the band made a brief tour with their labelmates Centurions Ghost in Holland and Germany. The debut album "Womb of the Earth" – with design and artwork by none other but Albert Witchfinder of Reverend Bizarre – was released in July 2006.

The band played a handful of gigs in 2006 before starting to write the second album early in 2007. The band kept a low profile most of the year writing, rehearsing and recording their second album entitled "The Séance". Being even more tormented, twisted and unrelentlessly heavy The Séance was finished in late 2007. Mister Hynninen was once more summoned to create he album's artwork and on February 29th I Hate Records unleashed The Séance to unsuspective public.

And as a relentless bleak force of heaviness the band marches towards the unknown ...

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