Convulse

Featuring vocalist/guitarist Rami Jämsä, guitarist Toni Honkala, bassist Juha Telenius, and drummer Janne Miikkulainen, Finland’s short-lived death metal band Convulse only issued two albums — 1992′s World Without God and 1994′s Reflections — during their brief career, neither of which brought them much recognition at the time. But hindsight is always 20/20, and they have been retrospectively credited as one of their country’s first extreme metal groups of note, even considered by some to be the forefathers of the local “Nokia” metal scene, as it’s sometimes called. Convulse surprised everyone in 2013 with the release of Evil Prevails, their third LP and first blast of new music in nearly two decades. A radical musical shift occurred in 2016 with the release of Cycle of Revenge, which saw the band incorporate elements of progressive and psychedelic rock into their signature brand of “death & roll.” ~ Eduardo Rivadavia