The Bad Penny (beta)

Earlier today, we introduced you to Helsinki’s brand-new, red-hot hard-rockers the Feral Kids, who gifted us with their first video interview with an American music journalist. We dug a little deeper into the band by then running their list of the 10 Best Finnish Bands Ever, in the Kids’ estimation.

The Bad Penny couldn’t resist sharing its own two cents, lest we neglect and even betray our decades-long love for about a dozen bands that hooked and reeled us in over the past two decades. They’re in descending order below. (We narrowed our list to melodeth bands; rank what you know, right?)

1. Amorphis

2. Children of Bodom

3. Kalmah

4. Insomnium

5. Circle

(If you dig this, don’t miss The Bad Penny‘s
20 Best Swedish Melodic Death Metal Bands of All Time list.)

6. Finntroll

7. Mors Principium Est

8. Sonata Arctica

9. Eternal Tears of Sorrow

10. Omnium Gatherum

Honorable mentions: Hexvessel, Korpiklaani, Apocalyptica, Noumena, The Flaming Sideburns

(We hear ya in advance: Ensiferum deserves placement on this list. But folk-metal just ain’t our bag, bro.)

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