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Ulver mastermind Garm is a gifted and unusual artist.

re-issued it in 2005, and in 2006.

They announced the band was breaking up in early 2007, but reformed and released a new album in 2015.

Black Mass Pervertor from Finland have been around since 1998, putting our a couple of demos and EPs and even a full length.

Diabolus Down There alternately, , released under the band name The Lord Diabolus, 1991• The band took a classical instrument and made it as heavy as it could possibly sound.

After breaking up, members would go on to form and join bands such as Amorphis and Impaled Nazarene.

Kickass mix of progressive, melodic and folk metal.

Please comment if there are some great finnish metal bands missing on the list and I will check them out! Vocalist Tarja Turunen has one of the best voices in metal, and the band supported her with a solid blend of heavy riffing and soothing melodies.

Putrid, primitive, and with a horrifying atmosphere to rival any band on the planet, Abhorrence mixed relatively straightforward but devastating massive rhythmic assaults with the terrifying melodies and doom-laden passages that would come to define the Finnish death metal sound to many people.

The band, always relentless on record or live, features members of other groups including Soilent Green, Acid Bath and Crowbar.