The legend started over 25 years ago in Tornio (a small town in northern Finland), when Laja (the only original member since then) formed a Discharge-influenced hardcore band with a few friends of his. The music they played was very unusual at the time in Finland, and so was their name, Terveet Kadet, which could be translated as 'Healthy Hands'.
The first, so called 'Classic TK line-up' since January 1980 was: Laja (vocals), Tiimo (guitars), Piasky (bass) and Peedro (drums). These young men started their career with some of the most legendary punk slabs nowadays; "Rock Laahausta Vastaan" and "Terveet Kadet II", both self-financed one-sided seven-inchers with minimum pressings of 200 copies (they were released on Laja's own IKBAL label, which has been somewhat active since the putting out of the first EP, releasing Laja's weird side projects as well as Laja's own comic books). A bit later they got a deal from a bigger label, Poko Records, and released the evergreen, worldwidely praised punk classic "Aareton Joulu" EP 1982.
Peedro left Terveet Kadet in 1983, and Walde, who died in an accident in 1984, replaced him for a short period. Some classics from that era are the "Halloween" twelve-incher and the "Black God" LP. Both were later released in Germany and the "Black God" album was also released in Brazil. After Walde's tragic death, Tilli (Laja's younger brother) took his place.
At the end of the 80's Tiimo and Piasky decided to leave the band and Terveet Kadet had their "softest" period in the history of the band. Releases from that time include "The Horse" album and the self-financed seven-inchers "Anno Domini" and "Oma Koloni" featuring A.W. Yrjana (later a member of the famous CMX) on guitar.
Laja and Tilli moved to Oulu, the noisiest city in Finland, around the year 1990 and found new members, Maike from Faff-Bey for guitars, and Kahmy for bass, who only one EP later was replaced by Lene, an old friend from Tornio.
With this new line-up; Laja (vocals), Tilli (drums), Maike (guitars) and Lene (bass), the music of Terveet Kadet became a little bit more metal orientated and lyrics changed from Finnish to English. During the next few years Terveet Kadet released several records (like the classic "Bizarre Domination" EP and the "Sign of The Cross" album) on the Finnish label Alternative Action Records.
Due to the unpleasant relationship with the A.A.R. label, Terveet Kadet started to look for a new home, and without prejudice signed to the local, small Solardisk. Their next album "The Ultimate pain" came out on January 1st, 1999.
At the end of 1998, the long time bassist Lene moved to the US of America, and a couple of months later he was replaced by a new guy, Puksu.
The whole beginning of 2000 passed by practising and demoing new material at the classic SM-Studio, where Terveet Kadet had done some of their greatest recordings of all time, like the before mentioned "Aareton Joulu".
The actual recordings took place between May 15th and June 23rd, the brand new 11-track opus was "Non Ultra Descriptica".
Before the album was finished, Lene, the ex-bass player, moved back to Finland and immediately rejoined the band as a second guitarist. Terveet Kadet performed for the first time as a five-piece band at the Tuska Metal Festival in Helsinki on July 7th, 2000. Line up then was Laja (vocals), Tilli (drums), Puksu (bass), Maike (guitar & vocals) and Lene (guitar). Later Tilli stopped playing in the band, due personal reasons and as replacement drummer came Luttinen.
4- track demo recordet at SM-Studio 26-28 in August 2002.
After the release, Onnellisia Kytkentoja 1980-2000 Terveet Kadet was on ice so to speak, five-piece band play their last gig at the Qstock festival in Oulu 2006. Back to roots... Peedro come back to drums and new guy Ilari on guitars, Lene moved to bass again, Terveet Kadet recordet new 9-tunes in Tornio 8-9 december 2007. More gigs just keep on coming...
Finally, the Ashen zine #01 is out now, with interviews with Warvictims, Audio Kollaps and Demarche, interviewed band's reviews, review about Shitlickers, Fast As Fuck Section and several nihilistical aphorisms. 28p A5.
Full free for download via http://www. ashenzine. blogspot. com in JPEG and PDF formats, and if you like it, you can e-mail me in ashenpunk@hotmail.com for free printed versions!!
Cheers from the Motor City here in Detroit, MI USA. We have been huge fans since the first Maximum Rock N Roll comp. we heard you guys on in the mid 80's. ASD was founded in 1986-87 and always had much respect for Terveet Kadet. Great to see you guys still thrashing. We put out our 1987-2007 anthology last year and our new ep "Democracy Reloaded" is comming out on 7" by the end of July. We always had a huge european influence that so many zines note. Can't help but think TK had a little something to do with that.
Cheers,
Vern Obnoxious - vox - ASD - 1987
Next time we are in europe after we do the UK we start in the Netherlands with Die Nakse Bananen and Power is Poison. Perhaps we can arrange a show with you guys when we come out. take care.
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hey mate..thanks for adding us! how are the things there? your sounds are fucking great, we love! yours need make a tour in brazil!! keep looking the space, soon some sounds and news about the release of defy demo tape. keep in touch!! all the best, cold beers and cheers from brazil. DEFY
