Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Softengine is a band from Seinäjoki. They have been playing together since summer 2011 and the band members are Topi Latukka (guitar, vocals), Ossi Mäkelä (guitar, synths), Eero Keskinen (bass), Henri Oskár (keyboards, percussions) and Tuomo Alarinta (drums). They are driven by big dreams, ambition, joy of playing and creating something new and different. Their music style could be called alternative rock with indie influences. And talking about influences they name Coldplay, Thirty seconds to Mars and Disco Ensemble. The released their debut album last year and have taken part in various band competitions. Now it's time to make it big via UMK - with Something better . Like their Facebook here and vote for them in my poll on the right hand side.

Everybody knows HIM , The Rasmus , Nightwish and Lordi but how about Husky Rescue , Turisas , Tracedown , Murmansk , Manna , Joensuu 1685 , Jori Hulkkonen, Finntroll , Disco Ensemble , Free Spirit , Le corps mince de Francois ( LCMDF ), Lapko , Stalingrad Cowgrils , 22-pistepirkko , Swallow the sun , Villa Nah , TV Off   or Shogun Kunitoki ? Ok, I don't know them either but they are the biggest Finnish bands abroad claiming praise from the critics - Husky Rescue's laters album got 5 stars from Daily Telegraph and Times featured it as the album of the week in Britain where almost 2.000 new albums are released weekly - and are doing the clubs and festivals. The Finnish music export was in 2008 over 23 million euros when in 2007 it was around 19 million. Very indie rock and heavy metal oriented. Let the Swedes do the pop! :-)