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Artist
Routakehä
12+ albums
Melodic Death Metalfinnish metalfinnishmetalcorelaitila
about
Line-up: Aapo Grönlund (vocals, bass) Antti Maantiehinno (guitar, growls) Mikael Ruoho (drums) Roope Raittinen (guitar) The story of Routakehä (transl. Circle of Frost) began in autumn 2007 in the small city of Laitila in Western Finland. Bored with the difficulties of their main band, Mikael and Timo decided to start a project band. At first they decided that this band would always be just a side project with only two members, nothing more. As time went by, more songs and ideas were born and ambition and belief towards this project started to grow. Despite of what they had decided at the beginnnig, bit by bit the guys started to think what if this project would become a real functional band. In spring 2008 Joel Tervonen joined the band to play the bass. Soon after Antti Maantiehinno joined the band to play the second guitar. During the summer of 2008 everyone's mainbands died away, and suddenly Routakehä became everyone's priority. At first the band's style was something between rock and metal, but eventually the rock influences started to drop out, giving space to melodic death metal and thrash metal influences. During the fall the guys rehearsed studiously, made some recordings at their rehearsals lair, and started to get ready for the recordings of their debut demo. At the same time Routakehä also got a sponsorship deal from a local construction company. In the beginning of the year 2009 Routakehä played its first gigs and started to gain reputation as an energetic, e
