The Symphony Of Extremes

Hello everyone. Today I wanted to talk about a subject I was told about concerning Finnish music and more precisely, Finnish metal music.

In 2017, for the centenary of the Finnish independence, Visit Finland – The Official Travel Guide of Finland and the metal band ‘Apocalyptica’ decided to create a song that can express the diversity of both Finnish people and nature. For that they took DNA of different ethnicities of Finnish people and transform this DNA structure into music.

The goal of this project was to show some extreme aspects of Finland like an extremely cold temperature (-51.5 °C), or the number of lakes in Finland (188,000). You can find all these extreme numbers on the web page dedicated to the project.

I know you’re now waiting for one thing, see how this renders in music. You can find the video clip just here:

I think this music represents Finland and Finnish people well. They are very reserved and polite in public, but in private they transform themselves in heavy metal listeners.

I hope this article has taught you anything about Finland!

See you soon!
Clément

Sources:

• Blabbermouth. (2017, November 13). APOCALYPTICA Creates Music From Finnish DNA: ‘The Symphony Of Extremes’ Video Premiere. Retrieved from BlabberMouth.net: https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/apocalyptica-creates-music-from-finnish-dna-the-symphony-of-extremes-video-premiere/
• VisitFinland. (2017, August 10). The Symphony of Extremes – See how it’s done. Retrieved from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E32mOd2-Jk
• VisitFinland. (n.d.). Symphony Of Extremes. Retrieved from VisitFinland.com: https://www.visitfinland.com/symphonyofextremes/