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Artist
Antipope
12+ albums
Progressive metalblack metalfinnish metalmetalCabaret Metal
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Antipope is a metal band from Oulu, Finland. Antipope was formed in 2004. Throughout their existance, Antipope has incorporated influences from various styles of metal into their music while maintaining the connection with melodic heavy metal. Their progressive approach has gained them notoriety for avoiding being pigeonholed and at the same time disregarding the trends of contemporary metal. Antipope's roots can be traced to a black metal band named by "Tuska" ('pain/agony' in finnish). Kajaani based Tuska existed between the years 1998-2001. After a couple of years of break from "extreme metal" Santtu Heinilehto, MJ Myllykangas (guitars/vocals) and Jyri Palmu (drums), all former members of Tuska, started a black metal studio project, named by "Antipope". Antipope existed as a trio for little over a year until in the autumn of 2005 J Rikberg took the responsibility of lead guitarist. Need for another guitarist had risen once the band began to consider taking steps to perform live - after positive feedback from those who had heard their home-made recordings - although the band originally did consider themselves as only a studio group. By the end of the year 2006 Antipope compiled the material they had written so far on a CD-R release "Apostate Angel" which has been distributed to the friends and fans. After a couple of gigs in 2007 and 2008 another guitarist was recruited and Antti Karjalainen begame a member of Antipope. In the summer of 2008 Antipope's line-up when Jy
