FragileHollow

Description:

Dark Music from Finland. The first recording deal from the Italian label Avantgarde Music and a lisence from Russia has gave the band a solid fan base. Being together from 1997 cult success is now warming in Europe. What started as a metal band that was influenced by Katatonia, Type o Negative and Black Sabbath, is now going towards more atmospheric approach in vein of Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Anathema & mew...

LINE UP:

• Aleksi Ahokas - Vox
• Sami Koikkalainen - Axe
• Harri Petjakko - Axe
• Tea Dickman - Keys
• Olli Wall -Drums

Aleksi - Vocals (bass, Guitar)
5 fav bands at the moment:
... Sunny Day Real Estate
... The Cure
... Anathema
... Björk
... SigurRos

Fave artists:
Björk, Robert Smith, Randy Rhoads, Dimebag, Cliff Burton, G.Butler

Playlist:
... Mogwai - Many
... Sigur Ros - () & AB
... Mew - Frengers...
... Kent - V&A
... Mogwai - Many
... De Anima - Love Kills
... Iconcrash - Various
... Beyond Dawn - Frysh
... Logh - Playlist
... Secretly Canadian - Playlist
... Judas Priest - all
... Rob Halford - Resurrection
... Cold Play - P & R
... Rapture - Silent of steam turbine and gas turbine systems
... U2
... Stina Nordenstam

Fav FragileHollow song: One of the new ones. It´s called "Nothing"

5 recent books:
... Someone Like You/Kiss Kiss
... Hamlet
... Juoppo Hullun Päiväkirja (A diary of a drunkard)
... Staying OK
... Stupid white men

Few fav films:
... Vanilla sky
... Clockwork Orange
... The Doors
... Levottomat (Fin)
... Zombie ja Kummitusjuna (Fin)
... Arvottomat (Fin)
... Tierra (Spain)
... Festen (Denmark)

GEAR:
... Jackson RR3, Marshall EL34 100 / 100, Rocktron Chameleon 2000, Line 6 flextone
... Warvick Streamer, Hartke 140, zoom 506, H||H

DRINKS: Jaloviina with lightlemon icetea. Jagermeister with cola. Karhu & Sundels beer. I like hot chocolade a lot and the times I drink coffee it´s heaven.
OTHER INTERESTS: Girls, booze, parties...
LOVE: Girls, nice, friendly people.
HATE: Ignorant and mean people. Old boss. Mean
BIGGEST FEAR: Loneliness
BEST OWN GIG: Rapture in nosturi 2003
BEST SEEN GIG: Anathema in ilosaari 2000
LIFE STYLE: Get drunk, Get laid, Get lost.
MOTTO: "Moi siellä :)", "Cigarettes, no regrets".
OTHER BANDS: Rapture, Rain Paint, Cold Sweat, Snowgarden, Rotten Torture

Personal Fuck you list at the moment:
TEOSTO Have no interest in handeling our requests, but are interested collecting money from in some little bands demos (c)-rights. etc. kräp. Oves us hundreds of dollars and don´t even supervise our rights. 2 years now after recuests and still waiting.

Sami - Guitar

5 fav bands at the moment:
... Type O Negative
... KISS
... AC/DC
... Hellacopters
... Faith No More

5 bands that might influenced last release:
... Anathema
... Type O Negative
... KISS
... HIM
... Katatonia

5 recent bought cd's:

... Rammstein......: Mutter
... The Cult.........: Beyond Good And Evil
... Nine Inch Nails.: The Fragile
... HIM...............: DSABHL
... Katatonia........: LFDGD

Fav FragileHollow song: Confusion
Playlist:
... Smashing Pumpkins - Ava Adore
... Smashing Pumpkins - Machines of God
... Tähtitarha - Mcd
... Hellacopters - Cream of the crap
... Katatonia - LFDGD

Few fav films:
... Star Wars
... Vauhdilla Chigagoon
... Pikku pojat(Fin) (? hyh,hyh ;))
... Kuningas Ja Lintu
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Equipment :
... Gibson SG, Gibson Les Paul -studio-, Ibanez performance
... Marshall, Boss: metal zone mt-2, Ibanez DE7

Tea - Keyboard

5 fav bands:
... Anathema
... Ultra Bra
... Pearl Jam
... Brecker Brothers
... Katatonia

5 recent books:
... Sofian Maailma
... Kuuma Kivi
... Tieteen Filosofiaa
... Voiko Naista Rakastaa
...

5 recent bought cd's:
... Anathema - Judmement
... My Dying Bride - Dreadful hours
... Waltari - Space Avenue
... Various - L.V.Beethoven
... Hellacopters - Cream of the crap

Fav FragileHollow song: Miles Away

Few fav films:
... Happiness
... Pulp Fiction

Equipment : Yamaha PureSatan 666,Clavinova
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Olli - Drums
FAVE BANDS: Mother Love Bone, Dream Theater, Alice Cooper, Pantera, Pearl Jam,
Queens of the Stone Age
FAVE ARTISTS: The Animal, JoJo Mayer, Mike Portnoy, Stevie Ray Vaughan
OTHER INTERESTS: Sex, food
GEAR: Mapex saturn pro
FAVE FOOD: Thai, pizza, meat
LOVE: everything except polka, lavatansseja, mimes and clowns
HATE: I hate clowns and mimes! www.ihateclowns.com / www.ihatemimes.com
BIGGEST FEAR: skydiving without parachute
DRINKS: one star jallu with ice-tee, redwine
BEST GIG:
BEST OWN GIG: St. Petersburg 2004
OTHER BANDS:
PLAYLIST: Sleepy sleepers: Who what häh? //
Pearl Jam: State of Love and Trust // Soundgarden: Birth Ritual //
Pantera: Mouth For War // U2: Miracle Drug
Fav FragileHollow song: "Nothing", "Broken Promise"

Teo - Bass

5 fav bands at the moment:
... Ketchup
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5 recent bought cd's:
... Grave Digger Heavy Metal Breakdown
... OverKill Killbox 13
... Kreator Pleasure To Kill
... Kreator Extreme Aggression
... Rancid Rancid 2000

Fav FragileHollow song:

Equipment :Dean Markley: BLUE STEEL "..only strings that won´t burn to rust when i deal with my Rickenbacker..."
... rickenbacker, American flyers, Elephant Beer

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Harri - Guitar

FAVE BANDS: typeonegative, U2, thecardigans, sting, gn'r, ac/dc
FAVE ARTISTS: slAsh
FAVE ALBUMS:
ton - octoberrust,
the cardigans - long gone be fore daylight,
basil poledouris - conan the barbarian,
sting - mercury falling,
U2 - how to dismantle an atomic bomb
FAVE BOOKS: absolutely none!
FAVE FILMS: bluesbrothers, indianajones, jaws
DRINKS: beer
GEAR: marshalls & gibsons
LOVE: music
HATE: spiders
PLAYLIST: aperfectcirle - thirteenthstep,
liekki - korppi,
thedarkness - permissiontoland,
cradleoffilth - nymfetamine,
neilyoung - after the goldrush

books:
... Bazil´s Guide to score with chicks
... -||- , heating the sauna
... -||- , practical English

Here are the facts:

1997 : FragileHollow is formed with a the original name "Prophet" by Aleksi, Sami, Hisu. and the first demo and gigs are made.

1998 : Second demo Gone was released and a new guitarist Jake joins the band.

1999 : Keyboard player Tea joins the band and "Miles Away" mcd is released.

2000 : Guitarist Seppo Nummela joins the band replacing Jake, a new single "Death Becomes You" is released & Prophet split up.

2001 : Aleksi makes new songs. Pete joins the band as the new drummer. Prophet releases the "Broken Promise" mcd as trio with session players from Finntroll & Denigrate. Jape joins the band. Prophet get´s first 10/10 reviews and recording deal-offers. Finally signs a deal with Avantgarde music.

2002 : The mcd:s are relesed by Irond with some bonustracks. Band changes its name to FragileHollow and continues without Pete, Jape & Seppo.

2003 : FragileHollow´s debut album "Effete Mind" is released worldwide. Gigs n´ new band members: Harri, Teo & Markus. The style goes more towards rock and finally it´s too much. Band takes a little time off, ends the deal with Avantgarde music and continues without Teo and Markus.

2004 : Allaround famous drummer Olli Wall joins the band and FH continues serious rehearsing for the second album. First gigs in Russia, promoting "Effete Mind" and "Fragile Prologue" albums both in St Petersburg and Moscow. Some demos for the fourthcoming album are done but never released. In fall FragileHollow hit´s numbers of studios to record its most megalomanic album of the band's carreer. Anyways the sessisons became a very ambitious thing. A cover song is recorded for Katatonia tribute album.

2005: FH plays few gigs and Nothing MCD is mixed. FragileHollow albums are finally released in the States. The band is going through major musical changes and is keeping undetermined silence, rehearsing the new stuff all for them selves. A music video is planned.