Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus

Last updated
Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus
Origin Jyväskylä, Finland
Genres Heavy metal
Progressive metal
Hard rock
Years active19972006, 2017
Labels Spinefarm Records
King Foo Entertainment
Past members Timo Rautiainen
Jarkko Petosalmi
Jari Huttunen
Nils Ursin
Seppo Pohjolainen
Karri Rämö
Arto Alaluusua
Teppo Haapasalo
Valtteri Revonkorpi
Website www.trioniskalaukaus.net

Timo Rautiainen ja Trio Niskalaukaus (fin. "Timo Rautiainen and Trio Neckshot") is a heavy metal band from Finland, formed in 1997. The band was led by Timo Rautiainen, leading member of Finnish metallers Lyijykomppania, a band which is still highly popular in Finland and has a small foreign following in the scene. The musical influence of the band ranges from Black Sabbath to more modern metal acts. Lyrically, the themes presented in their songs range from global issues (such as global warming, genocide, war and nuclear waste or nuclear weapons left loose) to personal tragedy (such as the death of a loved one, school bullying and suicide), typically in a dark and serious tone. They have released seven albums to date.

Contents

For more than 20 years, Rautiainen has made music in the Finnish language. However, when a friend came to him with the idea of making a German spoken album, Rautiainen was very interested. The album produced during this session, In frostigen Tälern ("In Frozen Valleys") (2001), was the first German album by a Finnish act. In 2004 the band released their second album in German, titled Hartes Land ("Hard Land"). The albums in German consist of songs which had already been released in Finnish and later translated.

A visional cue in the band's album art is that no upper case letters are used in any occasion. Their logo is a shovel crossed with a pickaxe, usually both covered with breeze. Also in live shows, the logo is used as backdrop with a skull accompanying the shovel and pickaxe.

The band has published several music videos, some of them dedicated to (and filmed with) Finnish military serving under KFOR mission in Kosovo. [1]

A biographical book about Rautiainen and his bands was released in 2003. It was written by Finnish journalist Timo Isoaho.

The band announced that it would be going on break for an indefinite period of time as of December 2004. [2] On November 1, 2006, the band announced that they would be breaking up. [3] Timo Rautiainen went on to pursue a solo career by himself and was eventually joined by the former guitarist Jarkko Petosalmi. He made 3 albums (Sarvivuori, Loppuun ajettu, En oo keittäny enkä myyny) before creating yet another project named Timo Rautiainen ja Neljäs sektori. This band had essentially the same line-up as they did in Timo's solo career except a new drummer was hired. After Jarkko urged Timo to reunite with Trio Niskalaukaus several times Timo decided to play a single concert with the Trio Niskalaukaus line-up using the cover name "Liiton Miehet" in 2016. With the band being less burnt out from excess touring Timo decided to give Trio Niskalaukaus a new shot.

In 2017 the band indeed did a comeback, releasing a new album ("Lauluja Suomesta", "Songs from Finland" in English) and going on tour. A new biography named "Trio Niskalaukaus" featuring interviews from the band members was released on August 17, 2018, as a follow-up to the first book of the same name and author.

Members

Last known line-up

Former members

Discography

Albums

Singles

EPs

Compilations

DVDs

Music videos

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Timo Rautiainen (musician)</span> Finnish musician

Timo Aulis Rautiainen is a Finnish heavy metal singer, guitarist and songwriter. He is best known as the singer and songwriter of Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus. He has also sung and played guitar in the bands Lyijykomppania and Aku Ankkuli.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rajaton</span> Finnish a cappella ensemble

Rajaton is a Finnish a cappella ensemble, founded in Helsinki in 1997. The Finnish word rajaton means "boundless", to indicate the breadth of their repertoire, from sacred classical to near Europop. Rajaton performs primarily in Finland but also tours around Europe and the rest of the world, having performed in over 25 countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lyijykomppania</span> Finnish heavy metal band

Lyijykomppania is a Finnish heavy metal band. It was originally formed in 1981 by guitarist and vocalist Timo Rautiainen and drummer Esa Moilanen but was disbanded a short two years later in 1983.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CMX (band)</span> Finnish rock band

CMX, originally Cloaca Maxima, is a Finnish rock band. They originally played hardcore punk, but soon expanded to play a wide variety of rock formats, including progressive rock, heavy metal, and mainstream rock 'n' roll. Throughout their career, they have been influenced by progressive rock bands such as Rush, Yes, Tool and King Crimson. The progressive influence is most evident on their albums Dinosaurus Stereophonicus (2000) and Talvikuningas (2007).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tuomas Holopainen</span> Finnish songwriter, producer and keyboardist

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the primary songwriter, keyboardist, and a co-founding member of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has stated that his songwriting is influenced by harmonic film music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marko Hietala</span> Finnish musician

Marko Tapani "Marco" Hietala is a Finnish heavy metal vocalist, bassist and songwriter. Internationally, he is best known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is also the vocalist and bassist as well as composer and lyricist for the heavy metal band Tarot.

"Rajaton Rakkaus" is perhaps one of the most known songs released by Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus. It was released on the album Itku Pitkästä Ilosta and as a single. The song tells about an unspecified man who lives in Finland and has married a woman in Estonia. The woman refuses to move to Finland with his husband and the man doesn't like Estonia. The man realizes he will never meet his wife and hangs himself near the end of the song

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ismo Alanko</span> Finnish musician

Ismo Kullervo Alanko is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Kuoppala</span> Finnish musician

Alexander Kuoppala is a Finnish musician. He was the guitarist for the Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom from 1995 to 2003. He played on their albums Something Wild, Hatebreeder, Follow the Reaper, and Hate Crew Deathroll. He also plays on the Timo Rautiainen album Sarvivuori.

YUP is a Finnish rock-music group. The band arose amongst three students of the Savonlinna senior high of arts in 1987 and played some rather primitive, progressive hard-core punk with English lyrics. Originally the group consisted of Jarkko Martikainen (guitar), Valtteri Tynkkynen and Jussi Hyyrynen (drums).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tuska Open Air Metal Festival</span> Finnish heavy metal music festival

Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, commonly shortened to Tuska, is a Finnish heavy metal festival taking place annually in Helsinki. The first Tuska took place in 1998 and the festival has since grown larger every year. The location of the festival has been in Kaisaniemi park in the middle of the city from 2001. However, since 2011, Tuska has taken place at the Suvilahti event field in the Kalasatama neighbourhood of the Sörnäinen district. The festival dates have always been in either June or July.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sielun Veljet</span> Finnish rock band

Sielun Veljet was a Finnish rock band of the 1980s. They were formed soon after the disbanding of Hassisen Kone by its former frontman Ismo Alanko. Sielun Veljet never achieved the fame or the record sales figures of Hassisen Kone, but they became famous for their powerful stage presence and aggressive, shamanistic post-punk musical style. Most of the band's recorded material is sung in Finnish, except for their 1989 album Softwood Music Under Slow Pillars. They have also recorded English-language versions of their songs under the moniker L'amourder. In 2011, they released a new song, "Nukkuva hirviö".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yö</span> Finnish rock band

is a Finnish rock band, formed in 1981 in Pori, Finland.

Private Line are a Finnish hard rock band from Helsinki, formed during the mid-1990s and continuing today.

"Don't Fall Asleep " is a CD single by Swallow the Sun, released in 2007 by Spinefarm Records.

<i>Hope</i> (Swallow the Sun album) 2007 studio album by Swallow the Sun

Hope is the third album by Finnish melodic death metal / doom metal band Swallow the Sun. It was released February 7, 2007.

Jack Smack is Finnish rock musician. He is the guitarist/background vocalist/composer in the Helsinki based hard rock band called Private Line and also in the "party band" groups Evil Boys, Thunderbombs and Trabant. Jack Smack is also known as Japa, Captain Japa and Jack Leopard.

Spiritus Mortis is a heavy metal band from Finland. They are believed to be the first band in Finland to play doom metal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samu Haber</span> Finnish singer, guitarist and songwriter

Samu Aleksi Haber is a Finnish singer, songwriter, television music competition judge and entrepreneur. He is the lead vocalist and frontman of pop-rock band Sunrise Avenue.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Souvarit</span> Danish schlager band

Souvarit is a Finnish song and dance music ensemble founded in 1978, a schlager pop band that plays mainly Lapland-themed dance music.

References

  1. "Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Lumessakahlaajat". YouTube .
  2. timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus
  3. timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus

Sources