After breaking up, members would go on to form and join bands such as Amorphis and Impaled Nazarene. Recently reformed and put out a stellar live album from a performance in 2013 this year. Putrid, primitive, and with a horrifying atmosphere to rival any band on the planet, Abhorrence mixed relatively straightforward but devastating massive rhythmic assaults with the terrifying melodies and doom-laden passages that would come to define the Finnish death metal sound to many people. Their sound was a major kickstarter for the Finnish scene, and several of the earliest bands (including most notably Amorphis and Adramelech) covered songs from Abhorrence’s 1990 self-titled EP and from their demo from the same year. One of the most influential bands ever to only exist for a single calendar year, Abhorrence released only two official releases before breaking up, with a split coming the year after.
These aren’t necessarily my favorites (though many are), but they’re the most popular and influential albums from that scene. These are the bands to hit if you’ve never listened to Finnish death metal. In cases where there is nothing, well, time to turn to discogs, YouTube, and Spotify! First-tier essentials: I’m making an effort to post to official streams of as many of these as possible- in particular, bandcamp and Soundcloud pages. Finally, I want to say that while I mostly focused on albums and EPs, almost all of these bands have good demos that are well worth getting, and most of them won’t be specifically mentioned here that doesn’t mean that they’re not recommended, and you should hit all of them. Some starting notes: despite the fact that I did say that there wasn’t necessarily a particular Finnish death metal sound, when people think of that scene, they tend to think of what I described in the first paragraph, so that is what I’ll be drawing comparisons to when I reference a band as having “the Finnish sound.” Additionally, I will be mentioning a lot of scene incest, as many members of these bands jumped around to many others within the scene while this isn’t particularly useful information for a primer, I enjoy that sort of trivia greatly, so it will be included here where I deem it relevant. While not all of the bands from Finland in that time period ever actually sounded particularly similar or in-line with what people think of, there was a lot of amazing stuff out there, and this post will attempt to serve as an introduction to that scene.
Known by many for having punishing low end, strange rhythms, and off-kilter melodies, the Finnish death metal scene has been revered for years as one of the best around in the early ’90s, and a fair amount of bands since then have incorporated its “signature” sound into their own.
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