6 bands Dave Cad didn't know were Finnish

[@esaedvik]

Poets of the Fall is definitely one the most underrated Finnish bands around.

[@lauritarkiainen1858]

Raka makafoun ;) Nightwish, Poets of the fall (lift), Sonata Arctica. Von Hertzen Brothers (new day rising).

[@OPJ1974]

Nightwish - despite being in the "margin" (playing symphonic metal), they are the most successful band in Finnish history. They have sold over 11 million records worldwide (situation in 2016) and still running. Hanoi Rocks (without them there would not be Guns And Roses or Motley Crue, for example. Actually Motley's Vince Neil caused their drummer's death back in the days by and that was basically the end of Hanoi). HIM has sold around 10 million records, too, but they quit last year. Rasmus, Apocalyptica, Amorphis, COB etc. are somewhat smaller bands still. There are dozens new, yet smaller, but rising bands around. Most of them playing metal (Surprise?).

[@Zyrac85]

I have to correct you on for saying bands like COB being small.. They are one of Finland's best selling artists of all time with more than 250,000 records sold there alone.

[@AgeofJP]

agreed...CoB might not be as well known but they are about as big as nightwish

[@EsaValkama]

COB is big but they aren't that big. Looking at the likes on Facebook, NW has 4,3 million, COB has 2,6 million. Quite a big difference.

[@OPJ1974]

I did say smallER, not small :) In terms of figures, COB really is smaller band than NW. NW has 4,3 million FB followers. COB has 2,6. Same comparison rate applies for the instagram. The record sales statistics show that in Finland NW is placed currently #3 with 900k sold albums in total. COB is #72 with 250k. NW has sold around 11 million albums worldwide, COB around 2,5 million. Furthermore, NW has been headliner for the most major heavy metal festivals in Europe during the years, including Wacken. I believe COB has not done that yet (as far as I know)? Don't get me wrong, I don't want this turn to "mine is bigger than yours" debate, just stating the facts. Success is rather subjective matter anyway, sobasically only way to measure that is the numbers. And I don't want to take nothing away from them, either. I have huge respect for all of these bands, they have been real pioneers to get Finland on the heavy metal map.

[@leeviteivonen3363]

Olli Järvinen nightwish o paras

[@mann7298]

sunrise avenue is big in europe, didnt see people mentioning them in the comments.

[@patriciazenteno480]

Ufff... The list is big!! My fav Poets of the Fall. Then Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Sunrise Avenue, Sonata Artica... You have to hear them all 😋

[@emppuemppunen3073]

SUNRISE AVENUE !!!!!🔥

[@Taurwathwylth]

The following is one of my most favourite claims to make: if Kwan had been American with an American label, the song Shine would have been a totally bonkers international smash hit.

[@jennamaria8391]

Alma was in the 2013 Idols not 2003 ;D

[@annderrs5159]

I'm a Finn and I didn't know she was on Idols! Though the Finnish competitors are usually quite mediocre, I've been trying to watch TVoF, but nah.

[@MsEK05]

hehee, she would've been 7(?)yrs old :D

[@fireplay6546]

The Rasmus, HIM and Children Of Bodom are the best for me ❤️

[@johannesmakila2459]

To be fair Finnish metal bands like Nightwish and Stratovarius tend to be big internationally more often than any Finnish bands or artists or groups that do any other kind. So really there are more successful Finnish metal bands than any others. Then again most Finnish music that is sold internationally tends to be metal so there is that. Some other bands to check out are 69 Eyes, Lordi, Battle Beast, Beast in Black, Amorphis and Sonata Arctica. Also there are some lesser known ones that as well like Battlelore, Kiuas, Ensiferum and Turisas.

[@The_Jzoli]

3:03 Well it would have been kinda impossible to do that at the time, considering that KZbin was founded in 2005 :D

[@thrillyria]

Poets of the Fall! One of my favorites,definitely. ☺️

[@AHVENAN]

Tarja Turunen, the original lead singer of Nightwish may not be big internationally as a solo artist, but she is huge in south america :)

[@holoholopainen1627]

Everybody knows Her !

[@smokyislay]

Studio Killers and The Crash, Sunrise Avenue, Sentenced

[@MariaRomerolulala]

Omggg I love u so much because you mentioned HIM and the rasmus 😍😍😍😍😍

[@josse73able]

Check out Finnish Lleucu and Lilian on our Channel and Lleucu’s band High15, where the rest of the bandmembers are Swedes, but Lleucu is Finnish

[@saarapesonen7463]

Poets of the fall! Start with the song Lift or Carnival of rust :)

[@jarimarttinen579]

Steve 'n' seagulls and Eläkeläiset, both are cover bands but quite popular outside finland. Well.. Eläkelaiset in German and some neighbour countries and Steve 'n' seagulls in USA. In Colorado they even have Steve 'n' seagulls day!

[@likingraccoons]

You should go and visit lake Bodom with Kat. It's in Nuuksio, not far from Helsinki. 'Children of Bodom' hints to a very grim history of that place. Something happened there in June, 1960.

[@RobertHeslop]

I think Alma went big in Finland before chasing highs because she's had 2 other top 10 singles before that with karma and dye my hair.

[@MrYamaha2306]

Bonfunk quit few years ago, Darude still active, u can see him few up-coming summer festival in Finland, RMJ Festival example :D

[@Ellyistrash]

Ahhh HIM 💕💖

[@kirsihannula1149]

Poets of the Fall

[@JokelNiina]

Poets of the Fall!

[@Rekko82]

I believe the old Finnish rock bands like Hanoi Rocks, Hurriganes, Wigwam (their album Nuclear Nightclub is awesome prog rock), and thrash metal band Stone are the ones most Finnish people give lots of value but also the new bands Stratovarius, HB, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish, Indica are quite respected.

[@markusosenius5317]

Pepe Deluxe. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4Sxq6Sbp8l8j5Y The one I linked peaked at 20 on the UK singles chart. And was used in a Levi's commercial.

[@onboard3]

Hey I didn't know Alma was Finnish either I think until like 2nd single. Check out Waltari, been around a long time, was before all of those.

[@inspiredbynatureinspiredby5586]

Nine Lives Band. They are a Finnish Rockabilly Band

[@phenomenal82]

Kingston Wall

[@rulssie]

So fucking underrated, hands down best psychedelic finnish band ever and should be up there on the lists with pink floyd and jimi hendrix for fuck sakes :|

[@CptNeri]

Awkwardly enough - I had heard of them only through my Belgian friend - though the bassist is my godfather. :D But then again - it would be weird to be a fan of someone so close to you, I guess. ^^'

[@jokza2000]

Don't forget the 70's: Wigwam and Tasavallan Presidentti!

[@lintumania]

The Rasmus

[@blackheavyblans]

Children of bodom takes their band name from Bodom lake in Espoo. 4 teens has makes a camp to this lake. And at night they has been murdered. My english is so bad.

[@druidactual]

I love HIM & The 69 Eyes.

[@avgplayer]

Nightwish, obviously. They're on the rise on KZbin since pretty much all reaction channels are currently featuring several Nightwish live performances.

[@TheKissaihminen]

Battle beast is heavy metal band from Helsinki and they have some awsome songs such as black ninja, enter the metal World, let it road and touch in the night

[@anastasiabeaverhousen3261]

Poets of the Fall ❤️💪

[@motreyn]

Check out Poets of the Fall please😊

[@lassesaikkonen501]

Hanoi Rocks, 22-pistepirkko, Apocalyptica

[@ideamylly]

have you heard about Eläkeläiset..very popular in german

[@Drescher1984]

Turisas, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Finntroll and Nighwish springs to mind

[@Cikeb]

Do check out Pepe Deluxé. Not a huge band, but they have amazing stuff. It used to be a Finnish trio, now it's a Finnish-Swedish(-American) duo.

[@nyyminuolivaara]

Don't apologize your singing. It was nice. 😊

[@WalterReade]

Don't forget Impaled Rektum.

[@wanhapatu]

Nothing beats reindeer-grinding metal

[@ThePuliUkko]

You mean symphonic post apocalyptic reindeer grinding christ abusing extreme war pagan fennoscandi metal ;)

[@mikkihintikka7273]

[@AnnaVahtera]

I suppose it could be QUITE hard to forget anything like that. I mean, yeah, you sit down ANYWHERE and there's no doubt you'd instantly remember if you had impaled rektum... :P

[@tommirajamaki9080]

Impaled Nazarene, STONE, Hanoi Rocks just to name few.

[@MoriDarkmoss]

Tommi Rajamäki No way! Impaled Nazarene !!?

[@tommirajamaki9080]

Why not?

[@snowwriter]

I'd like to know something (not in a negative way, more like curious) these bands you Dave mentioned, that you didn't know that they were from Finland, did you have some kind of idea where they might come from, or is it just you never thought about it? Just asking, because I had two years ago interesting conversation with Danish, Austrians, Germans and American about Finnish music, and one of them said that she thought that Nightwish is American band, and I was like "Wow cool! Nice to hear!" Because I felt it was some kind of compliment, BUT after that one other person asked that is Sunrise Avenue really Finnish band, and I was like, " Yeah it is...", and another person said, that " Oh, I thought it's Swedish band!" and I don't really remember what happened next because I fainted, only hearing that someone thought Finnish band is Swedish... So I'm asking just curiosity... And FYI it's really easy to find yourself from bottom of lake, if you say aloud that you thought that Finnish band/brand/artist/etc is Swedish... Just so you know... ;) Nice to watch your videos, thank you! :)

[@jazzysugar3777]

Dave do you know the metal cover version of Freestyler from Battledragon??

[@laurasm97]

Can you put the link of the songs?

[@annderrs5159]

All the names that came into my mind have already been mentioned. Except Arja Saijonmaa, who is quite big in Sweden ;D

[@hjn14]

Where is my Sunrise Avenue?!

[@19th84]

Eläkeläiset is from Finland too =P

[@Offystival]

Children of Bodom got It's name from The murders of Lake Bodom. Theres a Wikipedia page for that. Also you should check a band called Good Ones Are Taken. That's a evidence Finland is still producing good metal.

[@mikesaunders6833]

Reverend Bizarre is probably the greatest doom metal band out there.

[@MosoKaiser]

Doom what thou wilt!

[@TRtherocknroller]

Kimi Kärki is one of my professors in my Uni :D

[@mariewetzstein8557]

Poets Of The Fall are so underrated

[@Aurinkohelmi]

Sentenced, Stratovarius, Hanoi rocks, Michael Monroe, Sunrise avenue, Amorphis, Sonata arctica, Leningrad cowboys, Eläkeläiset, Waltari

[@RRMusicFan]

Brother Firetribe.

[@JarkkoYli-Heikkuri]

And which out of these are not played in Nummirock ?

[@gregorkippa6399]

How can you call yourself thisisFINLANDtube without knowing these artist .Specially HIM and CoB

[@AORtreat]

Tarot, Brother Firetribe, Reckless Love, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Firenote, Battle Beast! :)

[@Latexi_LMX]

Nightwish!

[@thatonlyredhead5297]

cory75FI I know I was hoping he would say Nightwish but he didn't 😞

[@grimesian2899]

he apparently knew them already

[@holoholopainen1627]

They are from Kitee !

[@maijalehtonen4389]

What about Nightwish? 😍

[@maijalehtonen4389]

Litti100 ,mistä tiedät?

[@Litti100]

Maija Lehtonen lue otsikko ja katso video :D 😂

[@maijalehtonen4389]

No kyllä juuh... Mutta kunhan mietin että tietääkö hän....

[@maijalehtonen4389]

Ai niinpä onkin! 😅Olin unohtanut sen.🙈

[@maijalehtonen4389]

Forthunder kiitokset tiedosta!😂

[@haamis_rok]

Alma is 22, she was like 5 in 2003 :-------D

[@ivrishcon-abarth38]

Finland has most metal bands/capita on Earth. Sweden is distant 2nd, and Norway almost as distant 3rd. I started listening music on purpose only in my late teens, but as any decent Finnish person, I went straight into the metal of the time, and have been digging deeper and deeper, heavier and heavier, and I will dig that way until I die. Not metal equals not music.

[@AHVENAN]

Im not suprised at all that Freestyler only got to #4 here in Finland, I don't know but I'd be willing to bet that atleast 2 of the 3 songs that beat it were metal songs, as you know, metal is HUGE here in Finland!

[@littlethings9082]

HIM!!!

[@JrgsGrg]

I recommend you to listen some older Rasmus songs, it was a bit like "skatepunk", songs got horns and stuff and they funny and got nice hooks.

[@annat.163]

Sunrise Avenue❤️❤️🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@Zephyrus002]

i did not know that freestyler was a finnish song, i just thought it was something that my mom found on the net, guess it's from my own country heh

[@finnishperson6401]

Well, it would have been a bit of a challenge to find music videos from KZbin in 2003 in the first place, so you didn't miss much....

[@avgplayer]

Super8&Tab are huge

[@jkeitamo]

Oh i also did not know that The bicycles Are from UK.

[@ht6436]

Minttu choco & nuts...so good an i'm sad that it just limited edition.

[@pts3896]

Nightwish is great.. Songs for example: Wishmaster The phantom of the opera Walking in the air Nemo Ghost love score Amaranth Elan The greatest show on earth

[@markonurmi5479]

Sucks

[@pts3896]

You suck

[@poweredbymoonlight9869]

Samuli Tuikkanen - Sleeping Sun!

[@jumihendriks9709]

Finnish 80's hardcore punk is pretty influential among the somewhat smaller and marginal punk scene internationally (kinda "cult popularity"). Terveet Kädet, Rattus, Kaaos, Lama, Riistetyt, Appendix, Mellakka for example. And yeah Hanoi Rocks, but also band called Smack had kinda a short lived cult following in west coast USA. LA and such (Nirvana played Smacks songs and Cobain mentioned them in an interview).

[@tikruhani3927]

Reckless Love and Nightwish are both very popular, you should try to listen them

[@tikruhani3927]

And Negative

[@ryandisney4158]

As if bomfunk and darude are finnish thats awesome. Keep the vids coming

[@rasmusriikonen5464]

Nightwish is From Finland our grate home🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@theireindeerofthewoods1006]

What about Studio Killers?

[@ilesalmo7724]

Finns have good coverbands so I'd suggest steve'n'seagulls.

[@zami8827]

How about Eläkeläiset?

[@seppokangas1488]

Nightwish is partially Dutch now.

[@Suomipuhe]

How did you not know these? Xd

[@kasperjoonatan6014]

Dave you sang just right

[@tommiejonsson8952]

Nightwish, Finntroll and of course Lordi, 3 finnish bands you should check out if you're into metal.

[@brandonmorton6883]

HIM!

[@ernestkovach3305]

Listen to "The Rasmas" band ; esp.the rock song called : "Days" or the " The Day" . Great Lyrics, vocals, and music.

[@HenriT]

Lets make it old school: Hanoi Rocks. Back in the days it was big name.

[@r2d2fromstartrack83]

Did you know that angry birds is from finland an "rovio" means campfire

[@kimmokohonen4264]

This is older but i think this is a great song who i didnt know was finnish. 22 piste pirkko:Birdy

[@ihan_perus]

Santa Cruz?

[@guanoapes771]

Hanoi Rocks is probably the biggest music export from Finland ever, atleast culturally

[@christophergrevenerofficial]

Darude is going to Eurovision this year haha

[@peterarmoton2685]

HIM.

[@dataolle]

No mention of eläkeläiset? Best hummpa band ever!

[@slfanta]

the Qt Framework. Quite famous

[@Kallo84]

Nightwish, stratovarius and sentensed there`s three u should chek out

[@pauljmorton]

Wut. I'm Finnish and I've never heard of Alma. Went and listened to Chasing Highs, and it didn't ring a single bell. :D

[@holoholopainen1627]

You Never heard of ALMA ?

[@tuukkasalmi276]

Hurriganes and Hanoi Rocks of the 80s

[@TJS3]

You should check out Rasmus Funky Jam video.

[@hanna_emilia99]

Sunrise Avenue and Hanoi Rocks!

[@hf8350]

Sunrise Avenue !

[@tonysmith5797]

Hanoi Rocks, propably to old stuff for you, but if they been partying whit Ozzy I think you see how big they where back in the days!