I think this may apply to most Finn power electronics/industrial bands, that they are appreciated, but very few made into kind of... household names in genre? However, Pain Nail does have pretty high number in pressings. Only the very latest ones been pressed merely 300 (Salainen Diktatuuri just sold out, Veren Seisauttava Oppi, I got only couple), but older album, even Magneettinen Kohtalo reached 1000 copies with recent repress, so there is some attention at least. Perhaps these days when no social media, no website, no interview, no streaming albums, etc.. there is no visibility which some associate with lack of attention? In some ways, it is true, but in other ways, we got artists who are very visible but barely sell more than handful of releases.
Talking about the "handful of tapes" category, it is no any sort of derogatory remark, just fact, hah... I felt little hesitating discuss these in English as one may not be able to get them outside Finland. Could have posted this into Finn noise topic too:
THE DAY OF THE ANTLER new tape 2024
I'm not quite sure what the name of this would be, but c-15 tape came out this year and contains Leakage and Bunker Trash Ritual -songs, which must be even the noisiest Antler stuff? Good stuff and this isn't totally harsh yet, but with the packaging and other vibes, that rural industrial vibe is still present. Neat simple "special packaging" that give each tape that from-hands-of-the-artists vibe.
Haudat "Magneettikentät ja tuhkapatsaat" tape, translates as "Magnetic fields and ash statues", came a while ago, but I didn't get my hands on it until the weekend. A very excellent continuation of the Haudat mood, played several times and as stated before, the man has the sound, a good taste of what kind of timbre and tone it is good to have. Self released and probably gone by now?
Heppakirjat "Free Wheeling" tape Broader sound sources than before, different ones too, but there's some sort of junk here and quite a bit of brutal noise too! This time man doesn't use any pedals, and there is focus on sources that are overdriven with tape gear, I guess! Good recycled self released tape, already rotated a few times.
RAUTAKYMI "pinta" tape. This new project is progressing very well and fast. I recommend it to lovers of a really raw and rough sound, a match that doesn't seem to have much "technique". It's hard to say if there are any pedals, no synths, but maybe just raw physical or feedback-based noise, all-on-max tape sound is probably one of the main elements here and brings feeling of KDF/KADEF/ODAL/oldest RAMIREZ, etc.
