Mythos homepage 1999 ->line-up, records and history

- A short chronologic biography -
The Line-up`s thru the times (1992 - 1999) and records.

"Moulded in Clay" -demo (march `93)
Teemu Hautaniemi- drums,
Jukka Valppu- guitar,
Kimmo Korkala- guitar and vocals,
Antti Remes- bass.
Korkala------> later replaced by Toni Pekkala
Remes------> later replaced by Mikko Laurila

The bands first demo tape was recorded at Tico-Tico; Kemi`s finest studio, during march `93 in 2 days and within 20 hours. It contained 4 tracks and an introduction by Jukka Valppu and Kimmo Korkala. Only 250 copies were printed at that time and they were sold in no time. The demo can be heard and bought on the "VOCIFEROUS & MACHIAVELLIAN HATE" compil.cd thru Evil Omen recs / Osmose... Many people still prefer the as the roughest and best release of Finnish deathmetal-power of that time it was released...

"Vociferous & Machiavellian Hate"
- compil.cd (released early 1994)

"Pain Amplifier"
- full cd (released january 1995)

Teemu Hautaniemi- drums,
Jukka Valppu- guitar,
Mikko Laurila- bass and vocals,
Toni Pekkala- guitar.

Pekkala------>later replaced by Sami Kukkohovi

The album was also recorded at Tico-Tico, Kemi during a rainy and windy time period in fall 1994 - the wind blowed inside the studio aswell... "Pain Amplifier" was released thru Evil Omen recs / Osmose and it has been printed 5 times (each press 1000 copies) to the bands best knowledge and it has sold 4000 copies and is still selling... The label manager Ludo"Evil" never kept the band up to the date of the selling figures and always kept the finacial discussions such as as the paying of royalties in secrecy (only the 1st part of the royalties were paid as cd`s) This eventually hurt the co-operation with Mythos and Evil Omen recs / Osmose. The french side severed all ties to Mythos, as an "dis-agreement" was manufactured by Ludo "Evil" & co, so that the actual conditions written and signed in the album contract (meaning: the paying of royalties...) could be left aside and that the band would "donate" its royalties to Evil Omen recs that they could release more albums... Evil Omen recs/Osmose also made Mythos t-shirts/ longsleeves without the bands approval and they sure made an awful design to it!

Toni Pekkala left the band shortly after "Pain Amplifier" was released , a replacement was not hard to find... Few guys came and went but the band took Sami "Kukeli" Kukkohovi and started making new tracks for eventual follower to "Pain Amplifier"... it was decided not to record anymore to Evil Omen / Osmose. Most of the tracks made between "Pain Amplifier" and "Dark Material" were not recorded or released, not that they were bad, no label was interested in our deathmetal during the "crazy- boom" of black metal...

(+ Mythos also appeared with 1 track on "World Domination" Osmose compil.cd)

-mini cd released late 1997
by KTOK records

Mikko Laurila- vocals,
Teemu Hautaniemi- drums,
Jukka Valppu- guitar,Sami Kukkohovi- lead guitar,
Harri Paasovaara- bass

Laurila------>later replaced by Mikko Rojola
Kukkohovi------>later replaced by Vesa Hietala
Paasovaara------>later replaced by Lede

The MCD was produced by our ex- guitarist / vocalist Kimmo Korkala, who had put together his savings and started "KTOK" - records... This is the first recording from Mythos at this more or less new studio - NEO STUDIO in Välivainio, Oulu... This 4- track mcd showed the bands progression in both, songwriting and in the soundquality... The band had welded together more catchier and grooving tracks with recoqnisable choruses and guitar solos... + the Heavy Metal - "feeling" was now rising its head. A masterpiece at that time, though many people complained about Mikko Laurila`s vocal outlet... Some said they loved the whole cd, some said they loved the cd but HATED THE VOCALS... His vocal outlet had changed a bit but the one thing that divided listeners in 2 camps was Mikko`s vocals... You either loved or hated them... !

As soon as we got the MCD out it was time for Sami Kukkohovi to leave the band... (find about that in the trivia section) After struggling with the rest of the members, Mikko Laurila was the next to call it quits... Mikko Rojola was found to replace. A young guitarist - Vesa Hietala came to play the lead guitar. Then Harri Paasovaara left. In came the bass talent LEDE from local blacksters Catamenia... Local "diehard-fans" thought that MYTHOS´ days were done, due to this huge line-up change... No no no !!! THIS MCD IS STILL AVAILABLE THRU KTOK RECORDS... (see the merchandise-page for the details...)

"Revenge..."- demo cd
(released aug. `98)

Teemu Hautaniemi- drums,
Jukka Valppu- guitar,
Mikko Rojola- vocals,
Lede- bass,
Vesa Hietala- lead guitar.

Hietala------> later replaced by Jyrki Hiltunen

The band has got the soundpolitics in place though the guitars would`ve needed a bit more work! What can we say? It`s 3 tracks intense and fast, not to forget, HEAVY deathmetal tracks that are nicely heavymetal-flavoured...! If you haven`t heard, you`ve truely missed a bunch! At the time the tape didn`t raise any interest of recordlabels... It was just the time BlackMetal raised its ugly head....

"Promo" -cd 1999

Teemu Hautaniemi- drums,
Jukka Valppu- guitar,
Mikko Rojola- vocals,
Lede- bass,
Jyrki Hiltunen- lead guitar.

THE LATEST , AND YES... THE BEST RELEASE by the band!! With the line-up now steadily in place, we have established a good working relationship, and schedule for building new tracks... Today the band mixes influences from the old thrash metal to the already intense deathmetal outlest, that hasn`t changed since the beginning... This release has already risen the interest of record labels towards the band... ?

Here`s what SOUNDI-magazine in Finland wrote about the tape (in finnish, sorry!)
"Pohjoisen metallia. Sinänsä erittäin hyvin tehtyä, mutta hiukan liian ahtaasta muotista väännettyä ja sen takia puuduttavaksi käyvä. Biisejä venytetään aivan liikaa,sooloja on liikaa ja liikaa kikkailua löytyy kaikista biiseistä. Kaikki tempon vaihdot eivät tue kokonaisuutta. Pieni sävellysten riisuminen ei oli pahitteeksi, jolloin voitaisiin keskittyä oleelliseen rypistykseen. Teknisesti osaavaa bändi. Parhaassa kolmanneksessa."