The Carnival

Biography

The Carnival was born in the twilight of the swollen metal scene at the end of the nineties. The rising metal scene of the decade had reached it's highest top to become ridiculous entertainment machinery. Top ten black metal bands, calculating business, no-one can deny; the underground feeling was gone.

Bored to the lousy metal scene the five young lads decided to return to the dirty sounds of raging past. The first steps of the band still carried the deep burned mark of thrash and black metal in the vein of Bathory with strong influence of hardcore madness in the vein of the legendary Terveet Kadet. After endless amount of rehearsal demos filled with infernal hatred The Carnival released the first effort: "Splendid Time Is Guaranteed For All" demo. It was more like shitty thrashblack stuff with HC touch.

The feedback was very contradictory, the HC-audience thought mostly that it's too metallic stuff for them and the metallers were like "what the fucking punk shit is this?!" That is probably the cross that The Carnival will always carry. Too punk for the metallers, too metal for the punks.

At the end of the 2001 The Carnival started to record the debut self titled 7"EP. Laja Aijala wrote the lyrics and created the cover art. The whole picture was starting to find it's true shape. The Carnival 7"EP was released in the beginning of 2002. The EP includes four tracks of powerful HC with strong thrash influences from the 80's. Hardcore is the name of the game. There was also some more blackish thrash stuff recorded at the 7" -sessions that has been now re-released.

One year later The Carnival II 7EP (2003) was released. The EP was even more devastating piece of destruction than the first one! The sound was just as rude but there was more tightness, brutality and mayhem in the music.

"The Carnival III" 7"EP was released in 2004 so the whole EP trilogy was complete. We are going to re-release the whole trilogy as a compilation including all the EPs and maybe some bonus stuff. It will be released on vinyl, CD and cassettes. We are looking for labels from all over the world to find cooperation with this trilogy compilation project.

At late summer 2005 The Carnival did the first European minitour which was unbelievably great. Totally rude gigs with intensity and chaos!

Right now "split with Enormity" miniCD/cassEP is out, and we are ready to do as much trading with underground maniacs as possible. The Carnival performs old black/thrash bursts from the past recording sessions and Enormity gives you ugly taste of underground death metal from Kajaani, Northern Finland. Some more extreme HC stuff has also been recorded and we are looking for labels to release it.

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