Ruoska
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Ruoska is a Finnish
metal
band from the Juva
municipality. Singer Patrik Mennander combines low, growling vocals with conventional singing. Ruoska's music and vocals are often compared to those of the German Industrial Metal band Rammstein
. The lyrics are exclusively in Finnish.
Before becoming Ruoska, the band was called Natsipaska
.
Ruoska is currently on hiatus. The band's last gig until they end their hiatus was on August 11, 2009 at Radalle.com Motopark Festival.
band Natsipaska
. They released their debut album Kuori
the same year. Fans and critics alike recognized a new type of music in Ruoska, and the fanbase began to gradually grow. After making two music videos, "Kiroan" and "Epilogi", and releasing one single, "Aurinko ei Nouse", the band returned to the studio and recorded their second album, Riisu
in 2003, from which came one single: "Darmstadt". After this release, Ruoska established a much more industrial sound and had more machines involved. Their popularity took a big step forward when Till Lindemann
, the lead singer of the German
Neue Deutsche Härte
band Rammstein
, commented in a Finnish magazine interview on the new single "Darmstadt" by saying that it was "most noticeable". After doing a few gigs, the Ruoska's lead singer Patrik Mennander joined the Finnish symphonic metal
band Battlelore
for a while.
was released. The new album, which had a hybrid electro, pop-rock and metal sound, brought a lot of new fans to the band. One single and music video from the album were released (Tuonen Viemää). At this point the band was well noticed throughout Finland, and begun to gain popularity on an international level. Ruoska also made a decision to change from Kråklund Records to a multinational recording company, EMI
Music. When they went back to the studio, Ruoska created a new unique sound that was represented by their new album, Amortem
in 2006. The singles "Mies yli Laidan", "Alasin" and "Pure Minua" were big hits, and "Mies yli Laidan" and "Alasin" were turned into music videos, "Mies yli Laidan" immediately being very popular. The album itself debuted at sixth place in Finnish radio charts for almost 10 weeks. After the release of Amortem, one of the band's guitarists, Kai Ahvenranta, left the band to be more with his family, although he still continues to do studio work with the band. The band grew bigger than ever before and, now with a large fanbase, Ruoska had new gigs such as Puustock 2007 and Välipuistorock 2007.
was released on April 9, 2008. Two singles from this album, "Pirunkieli" and "Helvettiin Jäätynyt" (released before the album) became hits, but not as big as Mies yli laidan and Alasin. They released a music video for "Ei Koskaan", which had a direct connection with the music video "Mies yli laidan". Ruoska's "Rabies tour" lasted from 29 March 2008 to 17 May 2008. The band's success is continuously spreading all across Europe, and in the U.S. and South America as well. At Jurassic Rock on August 8, 2008, Mennander said that Ruoska would be on hiatus for about a year. In May 2009, Ruoska announced that they will have a gig at Radalle.com Motopark Festival on July 18, 2009. At that gig, the band's new drummer was announced to be Timo Laatikainen. It was also announced that Ruoska was no longer with EMI. Whether or not they are currently unsigned or with another label is unknown.
Note: Kai Ahvenranta still does some studio work with the band.
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...
metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band from the Juva
Juva
Juva is a municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region some North-East of Helsinki. It was founded on 19 January 1442, and is the oldest parish/municipality in Finland whose exact date of birth is known...
municipality. Singer Patrik Mennander combines low, growling vocals with conventional singing. Ruoska's music and vocals are often compared to those of the German Industrial Metal band Rammstein
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...
. The lyrics are exclusively in Finnish.
Before becoming Ruoska, the band was called Natsipaska
Natsipaska
Natsipaska is a Finnish comic rock project. The band featured the same members who later founded an industrial metal band Ruoska. "Natsipaska" is a Finnish word and means "Nazishit". Their best known song is "Hevimies".-Discography:* Suunnitelma 9...
.
Ruoska is currently on hiatus. The band's last gig until they end their hiatus was on August 11, 2009 at Radalle.com Motopark Festival.
The beginnings, Kuori and Riisu (2002−2003)
Ruoska was formed in 2002, with some of the same members from the previous comical rockRock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band Natsipaska
Natsipaska
Natsipaska is a Finnish comic rock project. The band featured the same members who later founded an industrial metal band Ruoska. "Natsipaska" is a Finnish word and means "Nazishit". Their best known song is "Hevimies".-Discography:* Suunnitelma 9...
. They released their debut album Kuori
Kuori
Kuori is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's first album, and was released in 2002.-Track listing:#Kuori #Koti #Kiroan #Ruma rakkaus #Perkeleet...
the same year. Fans and critics alike recognized a new type of music in Ruoska, and the fanbase began to gradually grow. After making two music videos, "Kiroan" and "Epilogi", and releasing one single, "Aurinko ei Nouse", the band returned to the studio and recorded their second album, Riisu
Riisu
Riisu is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's second album, and was released on September 9 2003. There were no music videos for this album.-Track listing:#Elon tiellä - 3:18#Puhe - 3:57#Darmstadt - 3:32...
in 2003, from which came one single: "Darmstadt". After this release, Ruoska established a much more industrial sound and had more machines involved. Their popularity took a big step forward when Till Lindemann
Till Lindemann
Till Lindemann is a German musician, actor and poet who is the frontman for the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein.-Biography:...
, the lead singer of the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte is a genre of industrial metal. The term was invented by the German music press after the release of the debut album Herzeleid by Rammstein....
band Rammstein
Rammstein
Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...
, commented in a Finnish magazine interview on the new single "Darmstadt" by saying that it was "most noticeable". After doing a few gigs, the Ruoska's lead singer Patrik Mennander joined the Finnish symphonic metal
Symphonic metal
Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...
band Battlelore
Battlelore
Battlelore is a metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland. All of Battlelore's lyrics concern J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.-Style:Battlelore mixes female vocals with harsh male growling in "beauty and the beast" duet, backed by heavy guitar riffing and occasional keyboard interludes. The band's...
for a while.
Radium and Amortem (2004−2007)
After returning to the band, Mennander and Ruoska started working on a new album, and shortly after that, in 2005, RadiumRadium (album)
Radium is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's third album, and was released on March 22, 2005. Two remixes of the song "Kosketa" were included on the Tuonen viemää and Helvettiin jäätynyt singles...
was released. The new album, which had a hybrid electro, pop-rock and metal sound, brought a lot of new fans to the band. One single and music video from the album were released (Tuonen Viemää). At this point the band was well noticed throughout Finland, and begun to gain popularity on an international level. Ruoska also made a decision to change from Kråklund Records to a multinational recording company, EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
Music. When they went back to the studio, Ruoska created a new unique sound that was represented by their new album, Amortem
Amortem
Amortem is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's fourth album, and was released on June 14 2006. The meaning of this title is unclear, especially because all of Ruoska's lyrics are in Finnish and "Amortem" does not have any meaning in Finnish, but it is probably a combination of both latin words...
in 2006. The singles "Mies yli Laidan", "Alasin" and "Pure Minua" were big hits, and "Mies yli Laidan" and "Alasin" were turned into music videos, "Mies yli Laidan" immediately being very popular. The album itself debuted at sixth place in Finnish radio charts for almost 10 weeks. After the release of Amortem, one of the band's guitarists, Kai Ahvenranta, left the band to be more with his family, although he still continues to do studio work with the band. The band grew bigger than ever before and, now with a large fanbase, Ruoska had new gigs such as Puustock 2007 and Välipuistorock 2007.
Rabies, the hiatus and the present (2008−present)
Ruoska's fifth album RabiesRabies (Ruoska album)
Rabies is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's fifth album, and it was released on April 9 2008.-Track listing:#Saarnaaja - 4:56#Lihaa vasten lihaa - 3:29#Helvettiin jäätynyt - 3:59...
was released on April 9, 2008. Two singles from this album, "Pirunkieli" and "Helvettiin Jäätynyt" (released before the album) became hits, but not as big as Mies yli laidan and Alasin. They released a music video for "Ei Koskaan", which had a direct connection with the music video "Mies yli laidan". Ruoska's "Rabies tour" lasted from 29 March 2008 to 17 May 2008. The band's success is continuously spreading all across Europe, and in the U.S. and South America as well. At Jurassic Rock on August 8, 2008, Mennander said that Ruoska would be on hiatus for about a year. In May 2009, Ruoska announced that they will have a gig at Radalle.com Motopark Festival on July 18, 2009. At that gig, the band's new drummer was announced to be Timo Laatikainen. It was also announced that Ruoska was no longer with EMI. Whether or not they are currently unsigned or with another label is unknown.
Current members
- Patrik MennanderPatrik MennanderPatrik Mennander is a Finnish singer who has been in the bands Ruoska, Battlelore and Natsipaska.-Short biography:Mennander was born in Finland in 1976. He was in the Finnish army until 1997. A year later, in 1998, he then created the comic/hard rock band Natsipaska with Anssi Auvinen, Mika...
− vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Anssi Auvinen − guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
- Mika Kamppi − bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Timo Laatikainen − drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Former members
- Sami KarppinenSami KarppinenSami Kristian Karppinen is a former drummer of Swedish heavy metal band Therion , sound engineer and producer in Modern Art Studio, and session drummer.- References :...
- drums - Kai Ahvenranta − guitar
Note: Kai Ahvenranta still does some studio work with the band.
Albums
- KuoriKuoriKuori is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's first album, and was released in 2002.-Track listing:#Kuori #Koti #Kiroan #Ruma rakkaus #Perkeleet...
(2002) - RiisuRiisuRiisu is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's second album, and was released on September 9 2003. There were no music videos for this album.-Track listing:#Elon tiellä - 3:18#Puhe - 3:57#Darmstadt - 3:32...
(2003) - RadiumRadium (album)Radium is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's third album, and was released on March 22, 2005. Two remixes of the song "Kosketa" were included on the Tuonen viemää and Helvettiin jäätynyt singles...
(2005) - AmortemAmortemAmortem is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's fourth album, and was released on June 14 2006. The meaning of this title is unclear, especially because all of Ruoska's lyrics are in Finnish and "Amortem" does not have any meaning in Finnish, but it is probably a combination of both latin words...
(2006) - RabiesRabies (Ruoska album)Rabies is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's fifth album, and it was released on April 9 2008.-Track listing:#Saarnaaja - 4:56#Lihaa vasten lihaa - 3:29#Helvettiin jäätynyt - 3:59...
(2008)
Singles
- Aurinko ei NouseAurinko ei nouseAurinko ei nouse is first single produced by the Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska and was released in 2002. It is from their first album: Kuori.-External links:* *...
(2002) - DarmstadtDarmstadt (song)-Origin of song name:In an interview, Patrik Mennander said the name Darmstadt and the chorus "Darmstadt - Road to heaven" originates from a dream former band guitarist Kai Ahvenranta had, in which he saw a sign saying "Darmstadt - Road to heaven", which inspired the song...
(2003) - VeriuraVeriuraVeriura is Finnish industrial metal band Ruoska's first single from their album, Radium. It was released digitally on their official website.-External links:* *...
(2004, released digitally) - Tuonen ViemääTuonen viemääTuonen viemää is the second single from the Ruoska album, Radium. It also features the band's only b-side, Alistaja.-Track listings:# "Tuonen viemää"# "Kosketa"# "Alistaja"# "Tuonen viemää "# "Kosketa "-External links:* * *...
(2005) - Mies yli LaidanMies yli laidanMies yli laidan is the first single from the Ruoska album, Amortem. In Finnish, "Mies yli laidan" means Man overboard.-External links:* *...
(2006) - Pure minuaPure minuaPure minua is the second single from the Ruoska album, Amortem and was released in 2006. In Finnish, "Pure minua" means Bite me.-External links:* *...
(2006) - AlasinAlasinAlasin is the third single from the Ruoska album, Amortem. In Finnish, "Alasin" means Anvil. This single also features the music video for Mies yli laidan.-External links:* *...
(2006) - PirunkieliPirunkieliPirunkieli is the first single from Ruoska's fifth album, Rabies. It was released digitally on the band's official MySpace page in december 2007.-External links:*...
(2007, released digitally) - Helvettiin JäätynytHelvettiin jäätynyt"Helvettiin jäätynyt" is the second single from the Ruoska album Rabies. In Finnish, "Helvettiin jäätynyt" means frozen in hell. This single features two songs that were remixed by the lead singer of Turmion Kätilöt, MC Raaka Pee.-Track listings:# "Helvettiin jäätynyt"# "Irti "# "Kosketa...
(2008) - Lihaa Vasten Lihaa (2008, released digitally)
- Ei KoskaanEi koskaanEi koskaan is the fourth and last single from Ruoska's fifth album, Rabies. It was released digitally on the band's official MySpace page in april 2008 and on EMI's website .-External links:*...
(2008, released digitally)
Music videos
- "Kiroan" (2002)
- "Epilogi" (2002)
- "Tuonen Viemää" (2005)
- "Mies yli Laidan" (2006)
- "Alasin" (2006)
- "Ei Koskaan" (2008)