A well-known terrier: Forest park rangers in Finland, 75% of their work is searching and rescuing metal bands lost because of album covers in the vast forest.
In a film and audio reading room in a small town in Finland, a cute girl customer came to the front desk and asked: "Is there Justin Bieber?"
"I recommend you listen to this, Uruguay grinds nuclear metal."
The bassist of an unknown band with a cool face, long hair and waist, recommended it gently and sincerely.
A few days later, they returned, "Sounds like a slaughter pig".
At this moment, of course, we must seriously correct "not killing pigs, but killing goats . "
Hahahahahahahaha This weird and interesting plot comes from the recent Finnish film [Heavy Metal 囧途] at the European Union Film Festival .
Four young people from small towns with heavy metal dreams have worked hard in the basement for 12 years before writing an original song. They have not had a chance to be on stage for so many years.
This time, there was finally a chance to perform at the metal music festival next door in Norway. Of course, they had to drive a broken truck, cross the cordon, get rid of the smelly police, all the way to the festival site.
However, this journey of faith with joy and cups is really as accurate as the title-an embarrassing journey.
[Heavy Metal 囧途] reminds me of the cold humor of Finnish director Aki [Leningrad Cowboys], and it also means [long live rock and roll] back then.
This movie is not only really fun, but after watching it, it can also make people full of curiosity and fun in this magical country of heavy metals.
Finns love heavy metals.
In the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, surrounded by a crowd of sweet pop music, a five-member heavy metal band with a Warcraft mask reached the final and won the championship in one fell swoop.
This is Lordi from Finland .
They let Europeans see for the first time the degree of Finns' obsession and obsession with heavy metals.
Last year, the official Finnish government issued a series of commemorative stamps, and the names of Nightwish, Children of Bodom, HIM and other bands were listed.
Obviously, he has been regarded as a national veteran artist of the "national treasure" level.
In fact, if you open the Finnish Tourism Board or the government website, you can see a large article introducing their country's heavy metal culture.
Metal bands such as Nightwish and Children of Bodom not only have multiple albums topping the charts in China, but they are also world-renowned.
Nightwish has sold more than 8 million records worldwide. As a metal music style that is not mainstream worldwide, this achievement is huge.
Therefore, it is no wonder that heavy metals have become an important business card that Finland is proud of.
When it comes to Finland, in addition to the icy climate, pure and shy citizens, high welfare and the traditional impression of high happiness, they are also happy to let the world know——
They love metal music.
In the country town in the movie [Heavy Metal 囧途] , people didn't look down on these four metal party kids, thinking they were just fooling around.
As soon as I heard that they were going to perform at the Norwegian Music Festival, the whole town was filled with heroic praises.
Here heavy metals have become the "quintessence of the country", no longer a musical style or subculture, they even represent Finland itself.
What doom metal, death metal, grind nuclear metal, black metal, all kinds of branches are blooming, the style is complicated, and it is dazzling.
Therefore, in [Heavy Metal 囧途], he vomited a lot about it.
Whenever someone asks what metal style the protagonists play, the guitarist Passy always proudly declares himself:
We are playing the heavy metal "Post-Symphonic Apocalypse Crushing Reindeer Desecrates the Extreme War Pagan Fenos Kandia".
Oops.
And in their capital Helsinki, there is also the largest heavy metal music festival in Northern Europe- TUSKA .
Every summer, a metal party of more than 30,000 people gather here for three days of partying all night. You know, the entire population of Helsinki is only 600,000.
In addition, in a well-known heavy metal hotspot statistics, Finland is the only red spot on the map, reaching an average of 53.2 metal bands per 100,000 population.
Even if the total number of bands cannot be compared with the United Kingdom and the United States and other big countries, but in terms of the number of heavy metal bands per capita, everyone has to say "Dad".
Not only the number of bands, they also have this ubiquitous metal culture——
Metal bands are regularly broadcast on commercial broadcasts; popular music is changed to a metal version;
Metal elements abound in bars and festivals, such as heavy metal masses held regularly in churches;
Even in the children's market under 10 years old, there are bands like Hevisaurus that combine nursery rhymes with heavy metal to sing.
The first Finnish metal band to achieve international success is probably Hanoi Rocks .
When Hanoi Rocks was active in the early 1980s, it achieved good results in rankings in the UK, Japan and other places.
However, in Finland in the 1970s and 1980s, the audience for metal music was still very small.
At that time, in the world, metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Iron Maiden had set off a metal music frenzy.
They can not only occupy a position on the mainstream music charts, but also attract a wide range of music fans from all over the world.
But in Finland, metal music is still part of the underground culture.
All this changed in 1997. This year, a band named Children of Bodom was born.
As soon as their debut album "Something Wild" was unveiled, it attracted attention at home and abroad.
In the accompanying MTV, the band members played wildly on the outdoor snow at minus 15 degrees, adding passion and morbidity to this album.
"Something Wild" not only won the rankings in Finland, but also became a household name in the circles of major metal countries such as Britain and the United States.
Children of Bodom, the son of Bodom, is named after Bodo, where the largest murder occurred in Finnish history.
Just like the dark style of the name itself, they mixed some black metal and classical music elements into the metal atmosphere.
Radical, vivid, and explosive.
Next, Nightwish , nightwish , they also became popular at the end of the century, adding the high-pitched female voice of the opera house to the metal music.
As more and more mainstream radio stations started broadcasting them, nightwish music spread to every part of Finland.
Until now, Nightwish is almost regarded as the national band of Finland.
These rising and successful metal bands have inspired a new wave of young people to pick up their instruments and start playing metal music.
HIM’s modern Gothic style has a touch of black Sabbath, and Nightwish’s romantic fantasy gold is inspired by British psychedelic rock;
The style of Children of Bodom can even find the shadow of American Metallica.
But what I have to admit is that most of these Finnish metals, which have very beautiful melodies, are more deeply influenced by Nordic classical music.
For example, Sibelius, a famous Finnish classical music artist, collects a lot of folk music from rural eastern Finland and writes Finnish national epics into his works.
This kind of ethnic romanticism is also part of the inspiration for many metal bands.
Many bands will study the ancient traditions of Northern Europe, and even the musicians themselves have a background in classical music, which naturally becomes the characteristic of Finnish metal or Nordic metal.
The lead singer of Tyrantti said in an interview: Our Metal Party is very happy and friendly.
When talking about Finland, people seem to always think of Finland's vast forests and lakes, long nights of cold winters, and the "melancholy" wind in a cold climate.
That's true, but this "melancholy" is heavy metal.
Finns are actually very shy. There is a Finnish joke that says:
An introverted Finn looks at his shoes when he talks to you, and an extroverted Finn looks at your shoes when he talks to you.
The metal party boy in [Heavy Metal 囧途] is also very shy. He always likes to ride a bicycle, put on headphones, and enjoy a small world of his own thoughts.
He couldn't get along with his neighbors and other bad boys, he faltered in front of the girl he liked, and only then did he pluck up the courage to confess until the end of the movie.
But once such a young man stands on the stage, he can burst out into an astonishingly small universe of black voice lead singer, who is so crazy, passionate, and infectious.
Some people say that the Finns may be somewhat "divided" in this way .
Although Finland has been at the forefront of the United Nations happiness rankings for many years, Finland is also one of the countries with the highest rates of depression and suicide.
In fact, it is not only Finland, but also Nordic countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.
The winter here is very long. Even at high latitudes, it is dark every day. At lower latitudes, it is dark at three or four in the afternoon.
They are hard to see the sun, so they love wine and are always drunk in winter. In addition, they shut themselves up in a room and listen to heavy metal.
Heavy metal is a kind of escape music, it is release, decompression, and escape.
They sing European epics, praising darkness and death, and they fantasize about romantic illusions in a fierce, dense, and addictive form.
It can always touch the things that people don't want to face, the things that people fear, hate, and deny.
Instead, these are the objects of heavy metal praise.
Therefore, it may always be a culture of marginalized people, but at least it can prevent those people from pretending to use happy music to paralyze their lives.
The metal party can also be joyous and friendly, warm and happy.
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The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Pocier"
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