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CALLISTO BIOGRAPHY
Callisto - formed in 2001 - is a metal/progressive/experimental band from Turku, Finland. With their second album Noir, a follow-up for the widely recognized debut "True Nature Unfolds", the Finnish five-piece has turned a new page in broadening musical expressions. Their cathartically dim and characteristic works are the means for the band to draw from a more diverse and timeless sound. Noir can not only be felt switching between various musical tendencies, but also between different decades. Callisto expand on the whole modern sludge genre innovators of Isis and likes with references to acts such as Envy, Anekdoten, Trouble and Woven hand of which the latter two share similarly strong Christian thematics.
Callisto is also the name of an ambient electronic music group consisting of David Wright and Dave Massey.
CALLISTO GENRES Atmospheric Sludge/Post-Hardcore
CALLISTO LYRICAL THEMES Christian Eschatology
CALLISTO ORIGIN Finland (Turku), formed in 2000
CALLISTO CURRENT RECORD LABEL Fullsteam Records
CALLISTO STATUS Active
CALLISTO CURRENT LINE-UP Markus Myllykangas: Vocals/Guitar (ex-RoseTemple, Trishagion)
Johannes Nygård: Guitar
Juho Niemelä: Bass/Backing Vocals (RoseTemple)
Ariel Björklund: Drums (ex-Minus SF)
Arto Karvonen: Synth, Sampler
CALLISTO PREVIOUS LINE-UP Henri Kuittinen: Sampler, Electronics, Synth, Guitar (2005)
Guests:
Aretwo: Ambient Soundscapes
Jonas Olsson: Slide Guitar, Vocals, Glockenspiel, Percussion
Esa Klapuuri: Saxophone
Samuli Paavilainen: Cello
Riina A: Female Vocals
Mieszko Talarczyk: Guitar, (Nasum, Genocide Superstars, Krigshot, Shagidiel) (R.I.P 12/23/1974 - 12/26/2004 Tsunami Disaster)
Kim Maenpaa: Vocals
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