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SOULGRIND BIOGRAPHY
Soulgrind was born in 1992. After a short existence, it got a deal from German based MMI Records ( Autonomy Productions ). The first release was 7“ EP titled Santa Sangre featuring unique dark industrial mixed to doom and black feelings. In 1994 the debut CD titled La Matanza, El Himno Pagano was released through the same label. Album featured much more complex and weird emotions and structures than the previous EP. The next effort, LADIT 1999 AD: BIHTTPOTB got even further. 74 minutes of extremely complex and orchestral structures mixed into black and doom music. Both albums were created at the studio during recordings and could be called extremely exprerimental ones. Unfortunately pour production didn´t give the albums what they deserved. A small European tour followed in 1995. Roope Latvala ( Sinergy, Stone, Children Of Bodom) was a session guitarist on the tour.As the mastermind, Lord Heikkinen, has always been keen into dark past of Finland ( Kouta on La Matanza... album etc. ), he felt that there was time to make a consept album dealing with that matter. That was the now praised Whitsongs CD. For that album Soulgrind´s line - up got it´s solid base. Agathon on drums, Whisper Lilith on female vocals and Ceasar on screams. Whitsongs got ultimate reviews in Aardshock, Imhotep, Perkele etc. With that album Soulgrind gained the deal with Holy Records.
SOULGRIND GENRES Gothic/Black Metal
SOULGRIND LYRICAL THEMES Paganism
SOULGRIND ORIGIN Finland (Helsinki), formed in 1992
SOULGRIND CURRENT RECORD LABEL Holy Records
SOULGRIND STATUS Active
SOULGRIND CURRENT LINE-UP Azhemin - Vocals, synth, programming (Nomicon, ex-Shape of Despair, Thy Serpent, ex-Wanderer (Fin), ex-Wintermoon (Fin))
Whisper Lilith (Tanya Kemppainen) - Vocals (ex-Gloomy Grim, ex-Lullacry)
Lord Heikkinen - Guitar, programming (Fierce (Fin), Gloomy Grim, ex-Tenebrae (Fin), Twilight Ophera, Walhalla (Fin))
Tony Bite (Toni Näykki) - Guitar (ex-Gandalf (Fin), ex-Shaman (Fin), Twilight Ophera)
Tapio Wilska - Bass (ex-Finntroll, ex-Lyijykomppania, ex-Nattvindens Gråt, Obscene Eulogy, Sethian, ex-Wizzard (Fin))
Agathon the Beast - Drums (ex-Airdash, ex-Barathrum, ex-Corporal Punishment (Fin), Gloomy Grim, Nomicon, ex-Thy Serpent, Walhalla (Fin))
SOULGRIND PREVIOUS LINE-UP Ceasar (Tommi Launonen) - Vocals (ex-Coarse, ex-Gandalf, ex-Gloomy Grim, Nomicon, Walhalla (Fin))
JP Immonen - Bass (At Winter's End)
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