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CD/DVD Releases: Masquerage Release Debut ''Moonlight Time''

Posted on Sunday, April 04 @ 01:00:00 UTC by nightowl

Masquerage was formed back in 1998 by the guitarist/vocalist Kimmo Per?m?ki (ex-Celesty, Athmosfear) and drummer Marko Yl?-H?kkinen. Keyboard player Mika Maunus joined in ?99 and in the same year it was time to record the first demotape. Back then the band was called Unchained.

In the year 2000 bass player Mikael Kontolampi joined the line-up and the name was changed to Masquerage. In the next four years this line-up recorded four demos, performed live inside the borders of Finland and worked hard with their music and sound. In the summer of 2004 guitarist Jukka Viitasaari (Confusion) completed the current lineup and the Masquerage that we know today was ready to get serious.



Masquerages style has been influenced by such bands as Iron Maiden, Helloween,Pretty Maids ? and many others too ? but as every member of the band brings in is own personality and style, Masquerage doesn?t have to sound anything but itself.

The sound consists of two electric guitars, Markos powerfull drumming, Mika's keyboards as a spice or a flavour and most of all - Kimmo's highly recognizable voice. Masquerage has been pushed in many different genres of heavy music. For someone it is power metal and to another too pop to listen to. Maybe we can call it heavy-pop or soft-heavy-metal or as the singer Kimmo Per?m?ki himself has defined: the music he makes is hard-rock-metal. All in all the point is that this music is powerfull and hard, but not too serious.

The first full length album by Masquerage was recorded through out the year 2005. Supervised by VolantoBros Masquerage laid down 12 tracks of their cheerful heavy rock music. The album was named as Work-Holic-Fool and it combined the feelings of years behind with the things the years have made to the band to the year of 2005. It can be said that the Work-Holic-Fool is a kind of mixture of old and new, putting the years together so far.

After the Work-Holic-Fool the band started to perform more live performances than ever before and the bands fan-numbers grew slowly but surely. About a year after the Work-Holic-Fool the band started to plan and work with the second album with the lead by Kimmo Per?m?ki.

The second full length album by Masquerage was recorded during winter 2007 & 2008. It consists of 9 songs of true Masquerage. The album was named as Moonlight Time and was published at May 2008. Moonlight Time is still on its way to reach the people world-wide. During these days Masquerage is working with live performances and getting the people in Finland and all around the world rid of their misery of not yet having the music of Masquerage on their personal playlists...

The band:

Kimmo Per?m?ki - Vocals & Guitars
Marko Yl?-H?kkinen - Drums
Mika Maunus - Keyboards
Mikael Kontolampi - Bass
Kari Lavila ? Guitars

Tracks:

1. We Will Never Learn
2. Moonlight Time
3. I Don't Believe In You
4. Doctors Order
5. Retired Monster
6. The Helpers
7. Better Liar
8. Silver Wings
9. Everlasting Good Luck

www.myspace.com/masquerage

[Source: TSM Productions]

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