Biography
AM I BLOOD originated in Finland, where the guitarist Janne Kerminen formed the band in 1992 with Pasi Koskinen. Their ways separated in 1995 just one month before the recordings of debut album "Natural Mutation -95" (under name St.Mucus). It was a tough place `coz so far Kerminen had only played guitar in the band, but he decided to handle the situation. After a few weeks rehearsing all the vocal lines, they went to studio without hesitation and in six days they did what was meant to do.
The first album represented more grunge and rock influences, but after Kerminen started to wrote all the songs and take care of vocals their direction developed heavier and melodical. Also their former name was replaced for AIB, because it was a time to make innovations in all aspects.
The second selftitled album "AM I BLOOD-97" was distributed in Europe and it was voted as "The album of the month" in german Rock Hard Magazine. They did succeed in building the band a very comfortable fanbase across Europe.
"Agitation-98", delivery of the catchy rhythms which are indicative of AIB is perfect. The album (produced by Daniel Bergstrand. Stuck Mojo, Meshuggah etc.) gained a huge amount of four or five star reviews and lots of radio powerplay across the world. Since the band website was created in 1999, it´s been very stimulating to see how the visitors have increased on their pages every week.
After two years of writing and rehearsing new material AIB recorded a new CD-ep "Gone with you-00" for promotional use. It contains four tracks, which two of them were originally demo versions and they were available on Audiogalaxy.com, one of the most popular music sites on the net. AIB kept #1 position on their chart almost six months and received hundreds of extremely supporting e-mails from the fans.
"The truth inside the dying sun-05" was kept in hide for a several years before the release, because the band signed a recording deal with an independent label from the States in -02 and there was a major problems with their co-operation. AIB signed off the contract and later made a new one with finnish label, Scandinavian A1 Music. During all the mix up´s with record company AIB members decided to concentrate their own projects. The front man J.Kerminen started to build up his own studio and produced other bands meanwhile the idea of getting AIB back on the road was growing all the time. Finally everything worked out as supposed to be and the new album was released. The band went through the line up change and there was left only two original members, Janne and Toni. It was a time to find some new blood with right attitude and intense, so that´s when the new guys, Ilves, Max and Pekka got in.
"The Truth Inside The Dying Sun" is a clever sample how AIB has the ability to make music, not only for Metalheads, but also for wider audience. A spectrum of their songs is a wise mixture of clean vocal and instrument parts, but suddenly you can experience the massive guitar army rolling on you with J.Kerminen´s powerful voice. There´s also a lot of nice harmonies on vocals and it really gives a great deepness for catchy choruses. Many of the songs contain guitar melody parts, which are growing all the time and naturally on the top of the mountain there´s an excellent lead guitar work, fast and absolutely running on and on untill it ends and you wish to hear a few notes more.
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