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10 Best Finnish Melodeth Bands Ever: Amorphis, Children of Bodom, Kalmah, Insomnium, Circle, Mors Principium Est

Posted in Lists, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , on 05/24/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

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?)

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The 20 Best Scandinavian Melodic Death Metal Bands of All Time

Posted in Lists, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , on 12/13/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

Disagree if you dare.

1. At the Gates

2. Dark Tranquillity

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Best Albums of 2023: Cloak, Insomnium, Horrendous, Jeromes Dream

Posted in Lists with tags , , , , , , , , , on 12/20/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
  1. CloakBlack Flame Eternal (Season of Mist)
  2. InsomniumAnno 1696 and Songs of the Dusk EP (Nuclear Blast)
  3. HorrendousOntological Mysterium (Season of Mist)
  4. Jeromes Dream Gray in Between (Iodine)
  5. WarcrabThe Howling Silence (Transcending Obscurity)
  6. The ArmedPerfect Saviors (Sargent House)
  7. SvalbardWeight of the Mask (Nuclear Blast)
  8. FenMonuments to Absence (Prophecy Productions)
  9. Thy CatafalqueAlföld (Season of Mist)
  10. Great FallsObjects Without Pain (Neurot)

Best Albums Of 2019: Tool, Idle Hands, Immortal Bird, Destrage, Enisum

Posted in Lists, Sound Off with tags , , , , , , , , , on 01/19/2020 by Kurt Orzeck

1. ToolFear Inoculum (Volcano/RCA)
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