CELESTY
1998-1999
Celesty was formed 1998 town called Seinäjoki in Finland. First line-up
was totally different than today, only Ari Katajamäki and Jere Luokkamäki
are left from those days. In the year 1999 Tapani Kangas joined the band
as a guitar player this was the time when Celesty made their first demo
in summer 1999, which was recorded only for themselves and wasn´t
released or sent anywhere. In a short time after that Ari, Jere and Tapani
noticed the potential of the band, but knew that something had to be done,
so they decided to sign off some members and they started to replaced
them with new ones.
2000-2002
In the year 2000 Tapani and Ari went to army and Celesty were still looking
for functional and first- rate line-up. At spring 2000 Tapani found young
and talented guitarist J-P Alanen and he decided to join Celesty. J-P
already knew vocalist Kimmo Perämäki, and band asked him to join Celesty
also. Kimmo joined ,and finally at autumn 2000 they booked studio for
their first real demo. "Warrior of ice" demo was released at
spring 2001 and soon after the release Juha Mäenpää joined Celesty to
play keyboards. After the first demo release, some very good reviews and
a few gigs in Finland, Celesty began to sound familiar in people´s
ears. At march 2002 Celesty went to studio to record their second demo
to the Fantom Studios."Times before the ice" demo got even better
receiving and reviews everywhere, and record companies also started to
contact Celesty. Celesty signed the deal with the spanish record label
Arise Records and right away in that same autumn they entered the Fantom
Studio to record their debut album "Reign of elements" which
was released worldwide in december 2002. Celesty appeared also on the
Helloween´s "The Keepers Of Jericho- A Tribute To Helloween
Part II" album playing the song "The chance".
2003
Many metal fans, Metal magazines and Metal Radios all over the world started
to know the name Celesty and debut album got good receive. Celesty was
voted for the lists as "best newcommer band" in Metal Magazines
and album ³Reign of elements² was voted for ³best debut album in year
2002 in some magazines also. Celesty did gigs in Finland and got great
feedback from their good live performance also. In the end of the summer
2003 Celesty started to compose new songs for their second album and the
last gig before this was with Stratovarius, it was time to start preparing
for the studio.
In the autumn 2003, Celesty entered studio to record their second album.
They decided to record the album in peace so they kept a break from live
performance and concentrated to the new album. The new material was a
bit different than before, and band found their own style of making songs.
New songs were very aggressive and much darker than the material in "Reign
of elements" album, the new songs were a combination of epic, dark,
progressive but still melodic powermetal, but added with that unique sound
of Celesty in it. . Ari, Jere, Juha, J-P and Tapani were very satisfied
to the new material but Kimmo wanted to do something else and Celesty
had to find a new singer to the new album. Many singers from all over
the Finland was tested and finally Antti Railio, 19 years old singer from
Vaasa turned to be the right choise and his voice was the thing what Celesty
was looked for.
On may 2004 there will start a new era of the powermetal scene,you will
hear something epic but dark,something progressive yet melodic, familiar
but still something completely new.....the new beginning of Celesty "Legacy
Of Hate" is coming
Celesty :
Antti Railio- Vocal
J.-P Alanen - Guitar
Tapani Kangas- Guitar
Ari Katajamäki - Bass
Jere Luokkamäki - Drums
Juha Mäenpää - Keyboards
Discography :
Reign Of Elements (2002)
Legacy Of Hate (2004)
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