Warmen began as a solo undertaking of Janne “Warman” Wirman and when the keyboardist wasn’t touring the world with Youngsters Of Bodom, he was recurrently recording albums along with his brother Antti Wirman (guitar), Jyri Helko (bass) and Mirka Rantanen (drums, Kotipelto, ex-Hevisaurus).
After the a lot too early finish of Youngsters Of Bodom and the tragic demise of Alexi Laiho, Janne collectively along with his brother Antti discovered their approach again to music by means of Warmen. The band lately signed a worldwide report cope with Reaper Leisure.
Janne feedback: “After the abrupt ending of Youngsters Of Bodom I wasn’t certain if I might ever make music once more. We did a few songwriting periods final yr with my brother and Jyri and I spotted that I nonetheless have a variety of want for music and collectively we wrote an album of exiting new stuff. We teamed up with Flori and Greg from the Reaper Leisure as I had labored with them earlier than with nice outcomes and knew they understood my previous with Bodom and the place we needed to go subsequent with Warmen.”
The final official album, First Of The Five Elements, was initially launched in 2014 by way of the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic, which nonetheless ceased operations shortly thereafter. Since only a few copies of the album hit the market, Reaper Leisure is now re-releasing the album at this time (March 17th) to shorten the watch for the brand new album. The course of the fabric is classically impressed energy metallic, however much like Youngsters Of Bodom, the main target of Warmen is on the interaction of guitar and keyboard perfected by the Wirman brothers.
Along with ten unique songs, cowl variations of Madonna and Alice Cooper present surprises and for the vocals on First Of The Five Elements the quartet was in a position to win Pasi Rantanen (Thunderstone), Jonna Kosonen and the too early deceased Alexi Laiho (Youngsters Of Bodom) as visitor musicians.
Take a look at the brand new visualizer for “Suck My Attitutde” that includes Alexi Laiho.
The brand new Warmen album is deliberate for a later 2023 launch. Keep tuned.