Kimmo Perämäki - Vocals & Guitars Marko Ylä-Häkkinen - Drums Mika Maunus - Keyboards Mikael Kontolampi - Bass Kari Lavila - Guitars
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Discography
Moonlight Time (CD, 2008)
1. We Will Never Learn
2. Moonlight Time
3. I Don't Believe In You
4. Doctors Order
5. Retired Monster
6. The Helpers
7. Better Liar
8. Silver Wings
9. Everlasting Good Luck
Live Holic-Fool (DVD, 2007)
Audio-cd:
1. Men In Disguise
2. Brake Their Bones
3. Sad Thing Never Last Forever
4. Work-Holic-Fool
5. After The End
6. Listen To The Wind
7. Our Maker
8. In The Shadows
9. Dead, Buried, 6ft Under
10. THe Metal Call
Dvd:
1. Men In Disguise
2. Brake Their Bones
3. Sad Things Never Last Forever
4. Work-Holic-Fool
5. After The End
6. Our Maker
7. In The Shadows
8. Dead, Buried, 6ft Under
Work-Holic-Fool (CD, 2006)
1. Brake Their Bones
2. After The End
3. Work-Holic-Fool
4. In The Shadows
5. The Metal Call
6. Men In Disguise
7. Our Maker
8. Listen To The Wind
9. Sad Things Never Last Forever
10. Burning Down
11.Dead, Buried, 6ft Under
After The End (promo CD, 2005)
1. After The End
2. Burning Down
3. Dead, Buried, 6ft Under
Masquerage was formed back in 1998 by the guitarist/vocalist Kimmo Perämäki (ex-Celesty, Athmosfear) and drummer Marko Ylä-Häkkinen. Keyboard player Mika Maunus joined in ’99 and in the same year it was time to record the first demotape. Back then the band was called Unchained.
In the year 2000 bassplayer Mikael Kontolampi joined the line-up and the name was changed to Masquerage. In the next four years this line-up recorded four demos, performed live inside the borders of Finland and worked hard with their music and sound. In the summer of 2004 guitarist Jukka Viitasaari (Confusion) completed the current lineup and the Masquerage that we know today was ready to get serious.
Masquerages style has been influenced by such bands as Iron Maiden, Helloween, Pretty Maids … and many others too … but as every member of the band brings in his own personality and style, Masquerage doesn’t have to sound anything but itself. The sound consists of two electric guitars, Markos powerfull drumming, Mika..s keyboards as a spice or a flavour and most of all - Kimmo..s highly recognizable voice. Masquerage has been pushed in many different genres of heavy music. For someone it is power metal and to another too pop to listen to. Maybe we can call it heavy-pop or soft-heavy-metal or as the singer Kimmo Perämäki himself has defined: the music he makes is hard-rock-metal. All in all the point is that this music is powerfull and hard, but not too serious.
The first full lenght album by Masquerage was recorded through out the year 2005. Supervised by VolantoBros Masquerage laid down 12 tracks of their cheerful heavy rock music. The album was named as "Work-Holic-Fool" and it combined the feelings of years behind with the things the years have made to the band to the year of 2005. It can be said that the "Work-Holic-Fool" is a kind of mixture of old and new, putting the years together so far.
After the "Work-Holic-Fool" the band started to perform more live performances than ever before and the bands fan-numbers grew slowly but surely. About a year after the "Work-Holic-Fool" the band started to plan and work with the second album with the lead by Kimmo Perämäki.
The second full lenght album by Masquerage was recorded during winter 2007 & 2008. It consists of 9 songs of true Masquerage. The album was named as "Moonlight Time" and was published at May 2008. "Moonlight Time" is still on its way to reach the people world-wide.
During these days Masquerage is working with live performances and getting the people in Finland and all around the world rid of their misery of not yet having the music of Masquerage on their personal playlists...
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hi! iam wolfgang the guitarist of dreamscape. we should learn to be the best persons we can be and our world will change. i try. but it's not as easy as playing guitar in a high class band...
H. Jackson Brown: Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
kind regards! DREAMSCAPE (progressive metal from germany) (new cd november 2009! - buy or let die!)
Passing by to wish you a great week and to tell that we have a new link to download the first Temple of Sin album ( for free that is. it's not about money, it's about filling the world with metal...) as the old one seemed to have some problems. The new link is: http://rs738.rapidshare.com/files/213936075/Temple_of_Sin_-_OHM_2008.rar If you dont like it, tell me. if you do, tell everyone else... Keep rocking on and hails from brazil, Timo kaarkoski - Temple of Sin
Hello Masquerage (new songs online) just dropping by to show some love. I got another show tonight to stream for 5 bands. Well I got to go but if your bored drop by and see the show. Oh we now have a cute Live Online Girl named Lou.Shes pretty cool and stuff.Well Ill gab at you later. Oh tonights show starts at 9:00 if you do get to stop by.
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CD Reviews: ALLTHENIKO – Devasterpiece (CD) ANAL NOSOROG – Condom of Hate (CD) BAD HABIT – Above and Beyond (CD) BLEED INTO ONE – The Scars Remain (CD) BREAKDOWN – Time to Kill (CD) CARRION – Evil Is There! (CD) CHINA BLUE – Twilight of Destiny (CD) DAWNFADES - Anger Management(CD) DECEMBER'S COLD WINTER – Ablaze all Shrines (CD) DEEPLY CONFUSED – Isolated (CD) DEVAST – Art of Extermination (CD) DRAGONSFIRE – Visions Of Fire (CD) ECLIPTICA - Impetus (CD) EKPYROSIS – All You Can Eat (2CD) ETRUSGRAVE – Masters of Fate (CD) FISCHEL'S BEAST – Commencement (MCD) GRAVE DIGGER – Ballads Of A Hangman (CD) GRAVE DIGGER – Pray (CD) GRIMLORD – Blood Runneth Over (CD) GUNSLINGER – Earthquake in E Minor (CD) HELLISH WAR – Heroes of Tomorrow (CD) HEMORAGY – Jesus King of Wine (CD) HIGH TENSION – The High Tension Legacy (2CD) INQUESTED – The Red Chambers (CD) KAJAJA FORCE-TEK – Energy Metal (CDemo) KREATOR – Hordes of Chaos (CD) MASHA – Demo 2008 (CDemo) MASQUERAGE – Moonlight Time (CD) MORTIFILIA – Embrace (CD) NATHANIA – The Weight Of Obligation (CD) PITIFUL REIGN – Visual Violence (CD) PLANET STORM – Alone (MCD) POINT BLANK – Gatling Gun Manifest (MCD) RENEGADE – Straight To The Top (CD) ROBERT BERRY – The Dividing Line (CD) ROBIN BECK – Trouble Or Nothing (CD) SARA LEE – Damnation To Salvation (CD) SAXON – Into the Labyrinth (CD) SPLIT HEAVEN – Psycho Samurai (CD) STEAL YOUR CROWN - Steal your Crown (CD) STRIKE MASTER – Inflexible Steel (MCD) THE KRIS NORRIS PROJECT – Icons Of The Illogical (CD) THEOCRAZY – Mirror Of Souls (CD) UNITOPIA – The Garden (2CD) VENGEANCE – Soul Collector (CD) VOLTAX – Voltax (CD) VREID – Milorg (CD) WARMASTER - First War (CD) WINTERS DAWN – Winter is Dawning (CD) WOLF – Ravenous (CD)