Essentia was founded 2001 and has five band-members. These five musicians are Joonas, Sammy, Masi, Aapo and Chriss. Joonas is the vocalist, while Sammy masters the guitar with Aapo. Masi smashes the drums and Chriss controls the vibrating low frequencies with undeniable skill.
The Band describes it's Musical style as Melodic Mosh Rock. The Band members combine a wide range of musical influences and share the common wish to create something new.
Each member has played music before they joined Essentia.
Since their existence, Essentia so far have released 5 EPs,a DVD and have proven their talent by playing live at more than 150 gigs and also by touring through Germany,Czech and France.
The EP "Disconnection" with the Song "Frozen Iron" was released 2003 and also includes the video with the same name, which has been played at Radio Ylex a couple of times.
The "Initialization"-DVD (2005) and the EP's "Song for the girl who has no Feeling" (2005), "Bad Karma" (2006), "Between the Loneliness" (2007) and "Royal Luck"(2008) followed.
In August 2009 came the long awaited 3D Music Video to "Suicide in Chinatown" Which you can watch in
Essentia´s Youtube-channel .
Essentia already have a broad fan base in Europe, and South America also shows interest in these 5 guys from Finland.