Artist description Aarni hails from the fabled city of Oulu in Northern Finland. The band's music has been described as "almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avantgarde music", although this definition only manages to scratch the surface of the matter.

Music Style Avantgarde Doom-metal

Musical Influences Piirpauke, My Dying Bride, Black Sabbath

Similar Artists Esoteric, My Dying Bride, Amorphis

Artist History Aarni's story began in the autumn of '98, when Markus Marjomaa quit a local gothic metal band called Inevitable due to music-related conflicts within the band. Master M., who had founded Inevitable and was its lead guitarist and co-composer, began solitarily developing his musical ideas further. Soon Comte de Saint-Germain appeared and immediately joined Aarni. When the two gentlemen conducted an unsuccessful necromantic ritual at Moominpappa's cenotaph, a third member was added to the band in the form of Doomintroll. The fourth member isn't really a member as such, but does nonetheless partake in the band's creative process. For Mistress Palm is in fact composed entirely of artificial, flogiston-driven rectoplasm and due to her incorporeal nature can only exist on a computer's hard disk.

Group Members -Master Warjomaa: Intuition & xothian kantele -Doomintroll: Feeling & percussionism -Comte de Saint-Germain: Sensation & sound alchemy -Mistress Palm: Thinking & errors

Instruments Traditional band instruments, keyboards, flute

Albums Demo 2001, Duumipeikon Paluu (Promo 2002), Aarni/Umbra Nihil Split CD (2002)

Press Reviews "Every time I try to describe this music I simply get lost into the quicksand of despair that is Aarni. They offer too much in their music for me to ever be able to review them, yet they often sound almost childishly simplistic. Where I keep failing to organise and categorise the different styles or create a coherent review, Aarni succeed at this musically. Their music never overwhelms you, but always surprises you. Expect the unexpected, expect heavy funeral doom, expect experimentation, expect gentle open progressive sections, expect mesmerising dreamscapes, expect to drift away, expect songs that aren't songs, expect a medieval feel, expect a futuristic feel, expect simple tunes, expect complexity, expect well… anything! As such, while this is probably the best album I've heard in a long time, I can not review it. It is haunting, doomy, bleak, heavy, oppressive and soul crushing. But it can also be mellow, uplifting and have a childish innocence about it. Once more Finland proves to be the ultimate breeding ground for talented Doom-metal acts." -Aldo Quispel, Doom-metal.com

Location Oulu, Oulun lääni - Finland

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