Today in 2006 Celesty released the album Mortal Mind Creation Seinäjoki,Finland Epic Power Metal Status:On hold Years active: 1998-2012 1998-1999 Celesty was formed 1998 in town called Seinäjoki, Finland. First line-up was totally different than today, only bassist Ari Katajamäki (b. 1979) and drummer Jere Luokkamäki (b. 1979) are left from those days. In the year 1999 Tapani Kangas (b. 1980) joined the band as a guitar player and Celesty made their first demo in summer 1999, which was recorded only for themselves and wasn’t released or sent anywhere. In a short time after that Ari, Jere and Tapani noticed the potential of the band, but knew that something had to be done, so they decided to sign off some members and they started to replaced them with new ones. 2000-2002 Jere LuokkamäkiIn the year 2000 Tapani and Ari went to army and Celesty were still looking for functional and first- rate line-up. At spring 2000 Tapani found young and talented guitarist J-P Alanen and he decided to join Celesty. J-P already knew vocalist Kimmo Perämäki, and band asked him to join Celesty also. Kimmo joined and finally at autumn 2000 they booked studio for their first real demo. Warrior of ice demo was released at spring 2001 and soon after the release Juha Mäenpää (b. 1981) joined Celesty to play keyboards. After the first demo release, some very good reviews and a few gigs in Finland, Celesty began to sound familiar in people’s ears. At march 2002 Celesty went to record their second demo to the Fantom Studios. Times before the ice demo got even better reviews everywhere, and record companies also started to contact Celesty. Celesty signed the deal with the Spanish record label Arise Records and right away in that same autumn they entered the Fantom Studio to record their debut album Reign of elements which was released worldwide in December 2002. Many metal fans, Metal magazines and Metal Radios all over the world started to know the name Celesty and debut album got good receive. Celesty was voted for the lists as best newcomer band in Metal Magazines and album Reign of elements was voted for best debut album in year 2002 in some magazines also. Celesty did gigs in Finland and got great feedback from their good live performance also. Celesty also appeared on Helloween tribute called -The Keepers Of Jericho- A Tribute To Helloween Part II- album playing the song -The chance- 2003-2004 Jere LuokkamäkiIn Summer 2003 Celesty started to compose new songs for their second album. The new material was a bit different than before, and band found their own style of making songs. In the autumn 2003, Celesty entered studio to record their second album Legacy of hate. They decided to record the album in peace so they kept a break from live performance and concentrated to the new album. New songs were very aggressive and much darker than the material in Reign of elements album, the new songs were a combination of epic, dark, progressive but still melodic power metal, but added with that unique sound of Celesty in it. Ari, Jere, Juha, J-P and Tapani were very satisfied to the new material but Kimmo wanted to do something else and Celesty had to find a new singer to the new album. Many singers from all over the Finland was tested and finally Antti Railio (b. 1984) singer from Vaasa turned to be the right choice and his voice was the thing what Celesty was looking for. On may 2004 Arise Records released Celesty’s second album Legacy of hate and album got great feedback in different metal magazines all over the world. 2005-Present 2M Production, label from Argentina asked if Celesty would like to participate in a new Megadeth Tribute called Hangar of souls. Celesty was very honoured about this and they decided to record a one of the best known Megadeth song called -Holy wars...the punishment due- to the tribute. -Hagar of souls a tribute to Megadeth- was released in August 2005. Same time Celesty signed a new world wide record deal with German record label called Dockyard 1. Jere Luokkamäki Celesty started to compose new songs to their third album, during the composing work J-P Alanen noticed that his musical interests have been elsewhere for a long time and Celesty needs more participation and hard work from all the members. After small meeting of the band, it was very obvious that the band’s long time friend, great guitarist and also good composer Teemu Koskela (b. 1978) would join the band. Celesty also decided to stay out from live performance for a while because they wanted concentrate fully to their third album composing work. Again Celesty headed to studio to record their 3rd album. -Mortal Mind Creation- was recorded at Midas Studios, Vaasa, Finland during the summer 2006 and it will be released world wide in 23rd of October trough Dockyard 1 Celesty released their 4th album, Vendetta, on 11 March 2009. They then went on to play Bloodstock Open Air, UK in August 2009, the bands first gig outside of Finland. In late 2009 it was announced that vocalist Antti Railio had quit his position. Their new vocalist has been announced as Tony Turunen, brother of ex-Nightwish Tarja Turunen. Rhythm guitarist Tapani Kangas departed from Celesty in August 2010. Celesty began an indefinite hiatus in January 2012. The official website states that During the time, when 5th album songs have been in progress, there has been mixed feelings in the air for a longer period of time now. Situation in the band has come to the point, where only solution is to take a break. Will that break be a year or ten, we don´t know, but this is the only way to take the time that we need. Dockyard 1 Records Jere Luokkamäki – drums Juha Mäenpää – keyboards, grand piano Teemu Koskela – lead guitars Tapani Kangas – rhythm guitars Ari Katajamäki – bass Antti Railio – vocals Guest/Session Joni Kantoniemi Choir Kimmo Perämäki Choir Arttu Volanto Choir 1. Lord of Mortals (4:43) 2. Unreality (5:04) 3. Demon Inside (6:40) 4. War Creations (4:30) 5. Empty Room (5:23) 6. Among the Dreams (4:36) 7. Back in Time (4:08) 8. Arrival (4:43) 9. Last Sacrifice (5:24) Total Time: 45:11 Recorded by Sami Hannu Koivisto at Martin Kantola Audio during 3rd June – 14th July 2006 Mixed by Sami Hannu Koivisto at Biotech Audio Solution Studios during 17th July – 14th August 2006 Mastered by Martin Kantola at Martin Kantola Audio All music by Celesty All lyrics and story creation by Jere Luokkamäki, except lyrics in Final Pray by Antti Railio Musical arrangements by Celesty & Arttu Volanto Choir arrangements by Arttu Volanto & Jere Luokkamäki Choirs by Kimmo Perämäki, Joni Kantoniemi, Antti Railio, Arttu Volanto and Jere Luokkamäki Cover art by Marko Jakobi Booklet design by Aku Rahkonen Celesty logo and band pictures by Ville Hautaluoma Celesty symbol by Callum Lower Japanese version contains Final Pray (04:49) as a bonus track Mortal Mind Creation is the third full-length album by the Finnish power metal band Celesty. It was released on October 23, 2006 via Dockyard 1 youtube/watch?v=H9vGlGphwtE
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