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Kill The Romance
was founded in Finland in the beginning of the 2004 by
Mika Tanttu, Ville Hovi, Tomi Luoma and Antti Kokkonen.
In 2005 Raimo Posti joined the group. Kill The Romance
rises from the ashes of members previous band. Group performs
aggressive death/trash metal blended with melodic parts.
The band recorded their
self-entitled mini-cd in july 2004. It got some great
reviews from all over the world. At the same time band
signed a one year promotion contract with RiseStar label.
In January 2005 Kill The
Romance was chosen from over 150 unsigned bands to
play in the Finnish Metal Expo happening. The band also
made a fast trip to St. Petersburg in Russia and after
that group started to write new material immediately.
In June 2005 Kill The
Romance released their 4-track ep "Logical Killing
Project". Press liked it and "Logical Killing
Project" gained a good amount of "demo of the
month" nominations in different magazines and webzines.
After the release band started their first "logical
killing tour" in Finland. It contained great gigs
eg. In Tuska Open Air metal festival and Nummirock metal
festival.
In 2006 Kill The Romance
decided to make everything to achieve a record contract.
Ep called "Cyanide" was recorded and big promotion
"campaign" started. "Cyanide" was
chosen to "demo of the month" in biggest finnish
music magazine Soundi. Kill The Romance was also chosen
from hundreds of demo bands to play in Wacken Open Air
Metal Festival's bands battle final in Finland.
In fall 2006 Locomotive
Records inked a deal with Kill The Romance. Debut album
"Take Another Life" was released in March 2007.
Album received a lot of great reviews and was praised
in many media. The band started their "tour"
with a couple of gigs in Germany and Switzerland, and
continued in Finland.
In the end of 2007 and
the beginning of 2008 there were some line-up changes.
Those didn't slow down the machine of Kill The Romance
which continued touring. Same time the co-operation with
Locomotive Records ended by the band.
In fall 2008 Kill The
Romance recorded a couple of songs with engineer/producer
Aksu Hanttu who have previously worked with eg. Poisonblack,
Misery Inc. etc.
As this new stuff is now
ready, the band is searching for the new co-operation
partners for the future.
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