OCTOPLOID - FINLAND

Beyond The Aeons - 2024 - Reigning Phoenix

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Members
Vocals
Funeris Nocturnum, Swallow The Sun, Enter My Silence, Verivala, Empyrean Bane, Alghazanth, Kuolemanlaakso, Hedonihil, Barren Earth>>MIKKO KOTAMÄKI>>Swallow The Sun

Guitar
Death Mex>>PETER SALONEN>>Death Mex

Bass
Nuxvomica, Chaosbreed, Rytmihäiriö, Mannhai, Barren Earth, Amorphis, Kiljuvelka-70>>OLLI-PEKKA "OPPU" LAINE>>Mannhai, Barren Earth, Amorphis, Kiljuvelka-70

Drum
Mannhai, Luokkasota, Shade, Prode>>MIKKO PIETINEN>>Mannhai

Keyboard
OLLI-PEKKA "OPPU" LAINE - Stone, Amorphis, Nuspirit Helsinki, Ma Baker’s Soul Factory, Toverit, The Five Corners Quintet, Jätkäjätkät, Giant Robot, Solo>>KIM RANTALA>>Jätkäjätkät, Giant Robot, Solo




History & Biography
Fusion/extreme/rock act since 2022 Octoploid, featuring Olli-Pekka "Oppu" Laine known from Amorphis, had a single called The Hallowed Flame in advance of its debut album, Beyond The Aeons. The album was released through Reigning Phoenix Records on July 5th. The band was completed by a cadre of part-timers and serial project members. Octoploid and a band called Sumea had a gig in Helsinki, Finland for August 2024. Octoploid released a lyric video for Coast Of The Drowned Sailors, featuring guitarist Tomi Koivusaari of Amorphis and is Jani Muurinen of Xysma, in late 2024. Another one of those lyric videos emerged for the song Siren's Lament in 2025.

An octoploid has eight sets of chromosomes in a body cell.


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