Clandestine Blaze is a one-man black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band formed by Mikko Aspa in Lahti

Lahti

Lahti is a city and municipality in Finland.Lahti is the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region. It is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital Helsinki...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 in 1998. Aspa cites Darkthrone

Darkthrone

Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band. They formed in 1987 as a death metal band, but after embracing the black metal style in 1991, they became a driving force in the Norwegian black metal scene. For most of this period Darkthrone has consisted of just two musicians, Nocturno Culto and...

, Burzum

Burzum

Burzum is a musical project by Varg Vikernes . It began during 1991 in Bergen, Norway and quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene...

, Beherit and Bathory

Bathory (band)

Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and viking metal. Quorthon remained the main songwriter and member of Bathory for more than two decades. Bathory was permanently ended after Quorthon's death in 2004...

 as key influences. Aspa is also currently involved in many other projects, such as Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater (band)

Stabat Mater is a one-man funeral doom band from Finland. The band was formed in 2001 by Mikko Aspa of Deathspell Omega and Clandestine Blaze fame. Stabat Mater received underground acclaim following a 2002 split album with Worship...

, Creamface, Fleshpress, AM, Grunt, Clinic of Torture, Alchemy of the 20th Century and Nicole 12.

Aspa is also the owner of Northern Heritage, a record label that has released albums by Baptism

Baptism (band)

Baptism is a black metal band from Finland. The band was formed in 1998 by vocalist/guitarist Lord Sargofagian and drummer Demonium. The summer of that year the band released their first demo, Satanic Rituals, although very few copies were released. Following a two year hiatus the band released...

, Behexen

Behexen

Behexen are a Finnish black metal band founded in 1994. They adopted a more traditional approach to black metal by incorporating raw characteristics. Their first full-length release was "Rituale Satanum", released in 2000 and followed by "By the Blessing of Satan" in 2004...

, Deathspell Omega

Deathspell Omega

Deathspell Omega are a French black metal band. Their lyrical content deals primarily with Satanism on a metaphysical level – as the band has stated that "all other interpretations of Satan are intellectually invalid" – and other various theological topics...

, Drudkh

Drudkh

Drudkh is a Ukrainian metal band that mixes elements of folk metal and black metal. They were formed by Roman Saenko, prolific metal musician, the leading member of Hate Forest, Dark Ages and Blood of Kingu; Thurios, the leading member of Astrofaes and, with Saenko, a former member of Hate Forest;...

, Hate Forest

Hate Forest

Hate Forest was a Ukrainian black metal band formed by Roman Saenko, the leading member of Drudkh, Dark Ages, and Blood of Kingu. Thurios joined the band in 1998 after the recording of "Scythia". The music is mostly very fast, but occasionally slow, with low, distorted vocals and dark ambient...

, Ildjarn

Ildjarn

Ildjarn was a black metal project from Norway that formed in 1991. Ildjarn recorded music until 1997 but did not officially end until 2005. The man behind Ildjarn was Vidar Vaaer, although some releases were collaborations with a musician known as Nidhogg...

 and Satanic Warmaster

Satanic Warmaster

Satanic Warmaster is a black metal band from Lappeenranta in southern Finland. Musician "Satanic Tyrant Werwolf" began recording under this name in 1999...

 among others. In addition, Aspa is the owner of CF Productions (which produces the Erotic Perversion magazines and Public Obscenities videos) and Freak Animal Records (which is a power electronics

Power electronics

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 / noise

Power noise

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 label).

Demos

• Promo '98 (1998)
• There Comes the Day... (Northern Heritage, 2001)
• Below the Surface of Cold Earth (Northern Heritage, 2002)
• Blood and Cum (Northern Heritage, 2002)
• Goat - Creative Alienation (Northern Heritage, 2002)

Albums

• Fire Burns in Our Hearts
  Fire Burns in Our Hearts
  Fire Burns in Our Hearts is an album released by the black metal band Clandestine Blaze in 1999.The song "Icons of Torture" is often credited as a collaboration by Darkthrone and Burzum on file-sharing networks.-Track listing:#"Intro" - 01:35...
  
  (Blackmetal.com / Northern Heritage, 1999)
• Night of the Unholy Flames
  Night of the Unholy Flames
  Night of the Unholy Flames is an album released by Clandestine Blaze in 2000, on the label Northern Heritage.-Track listing:#"Intro" - 01:27 #"Chambers" - 06:40#"Cross of Black Steel" - 05:38 #"Night of the Unholy Flames" - 07:52...
  
  (Northern Heritage / End All Life
  End All Life Productions
  End All Life Productions is a French record label that released many black metal albums in the late 1990s and the 2000s.-Catalogue:-External links:* *...
  
  , 2000)
• Fist of the Northern Destroyer (Northern Heritage / End All Life, 2002)
• Deliverers of Faith (Northern Heritage, 2004)
• Church of Atrocity
  Church of Atrocity
  Church Of Atrocity is an album released by black metal band Clandestine Blaze in 2006.-Track listing:#"Church of Atrocity" - 05:01#"Ashes of the Eternal Wanderer" - 11:40#"Storm of Purification" - 04:50#"Last Morning of Old North" - 07:42...
  
  (Northern Heritage, 2006)
• Falling Monuments (Northern Heritage, 2010)

Split albums and EPs

• On the Mission EP (Northern Neritage, 1999)
• Split with Deathspell Omega (Northern Heritage, 2001)
• Split with Satanic Warmaster
  Satanic Warmaster
  Satanic Warmaster is a black metal band from Lappeenranta in southern Finland. Musician "Satanic Tyrant Werwolf" began recording under this name in 1999...
  
   (Northern Heritage, 2004)
• Crushing the Holy Trinity (Son) split with Musta Surma (Northern Heritage, 2005)

Compilations

• Archive Volume 1 (Northern Heritage, 2008)
• Archive Volume 2 (Northern Heritage, 2008)
• Archive Volume 3 (Northern Heritage, 2008)

External links

• Interview at Diabolical Conquest Webzine
• Interview at Worm Gear
• Interview at The Vexation Sleep
• Interview at Chronicles of Chaos