Kilpi is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band, singing in Finnish

Finnish language

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The band

Kilpi means shield

Shield

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in Finnish. However, it actually is the guitarist

Guitarist

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 and band creator's last name, Petteri Kilpi. The band's first album, Sähkönsinistä Sinfoniaa, was released on May 28, 2003, some months after their first single, Nerokasta Ikävää.

On September 29, 2004, they released their second album, II Taso.

In 2006 they released the album Kaaoksen Kuningas, and two of its songs, "Toinen Minä" and "Katharsis" were proposed to Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Eurovision Song Contest 2006

The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on 18 May and 20 May 2006 . The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi . The Finnish band Lordi won the contest with the song "Hard Rock...

. The band lost out to Lordi

Lordi

Lordi is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band, formed in 1996 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume-designer, Mr. Lordi. The band is known for wearing monster masks and using pyrotechnics during concerts...

, finishing sixth overall in the Finnish televoting with the song "Toinen Minä".
The band's first live-album Kaaos-Live was released in 2007.

The band's vocalist, Taage Laiho, is formerly of the Finnish band, Altaria

Altaria (band)

Altaria is a power metal band from Jakobstad, Finland, who have released four albums on the record label Metal Heaven and a fifth on Escape Music.In January 2008, the band decided to part ways with their record label Metal Heaven for undisclosed reasons...

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Discography

• Sähkönsinistä Sinfoniaa (2003)
• II Taso (2004)
• Kaaoksen Kuningas (2006)
• Kaaos-Live (2007)
• IV (2008)
• Pirun Merta (2009)

External links

• Official site in Finnish, also contains a description of the band in English
• Official MySpace page