Metal Music Blog

Holy MotherTruckers! Last Friday, as I was driving back home, I listened to Radio Rock here in Finland. I stopped my car and went to shop while Stam1na’s Susi-Ihminen was played in the radio. But as I came back, I heard something that was totally new to me. “Goddamn, what’s this?”, I remember thinking.

The band I heard in the radio was Finnish rival, called Traceadwn. I must tell you I know nothing about Tracedawn, but I WILL know more. Their “Without Walls” sounds so super good that I simply want more. Last Friday I checked the playlist of Radio Rock, searched for Tracedawn in the net and found this video and a couple of more songs. Is Tracedawn going to be the next big hit from Finnish metal scene? I bet they will.

Tracedawn sounds new, fresh, energetic, strong and passionate. They represent a new rise of heavy metal in this country filled with death and thrash metal. Tracedawn combines heavy metal and melodic death metal sounds and vocals. In fact their combination of death metal grunts and clean vocals sounds absolutely great with their melodies. Listen to Tracedawn’s vocalist, Antti Lappalainen. Doesn’t he sound like Randy Blythe of Lamb of God when singing death grunts? In fact, he has mentioned Randy as one of his influences.

Tracedawn are young dudes. Almost all of them were born in 1990, while I am already 33. Man, I’m getting old.. Anyhow, who cares. I really enjoy listening to Tracedawn and banging my half a meter hair. Tracedawn is a great newcomer in heavy metal scene. I strongly recommend you to purchase their debut album.