Saturday Feb 6th 2010: One of the forefathers of heavy metal, Kimmo Kuusniemi, was on the show today along with the director of the Finnish metal documentary “Promised Land of Heavy Metal,” Tanja Karttunen. Kimmo is the guitarist of the first Finnish metal band SARCOFAGUS. In addition to pioneering heavy metal, Kimmo is also a pioneer of music videos, and music distribution mechanism. This was a very interesting conversation to say the least. During the show we played two SARCOFAGUS songs, “Astral Flyer” and “The Truth of 1000 Megawatts” both from 1980, two years before I was even born. Keeping with the spirit of Finland, a country that has really shown its appreciation for my little show here, we also played “Tahto” from upstart band ROUTAKEHA. These guys have a melodic thrash sound that’s easy to rock to. ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW is in the upper echelon of melodic death metal and “Heart of Wilderness” was requested by Ronny Lee Marks, frontman and guitarist of LA’s own STATIUS. Lastly, while filing The Promised Land of Heavy Metal, Kimmo and Tanja held a contest to find a feature song for the documentary. The winning band was CORRUPTION INC. with their song “Absolution.” These guys have a heavy melodic sound but they utilize the clean vocal style which is less common than you might think. Please check out the following sites and get The Promised Land of Heavy Metal on your iPhone.

www.PromisedLandofMetal.com

www.Sarcofagus.com