Kiduttajat>>SAATTUE - FINLAND

Jäähyvästi - 2008 - Spikefarm
Vuoroveri - 2009 - Spikefarm
Kärsimysnäytelmä - 2016 - Endless Desperation

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Members
Vocals
Electroconvulsive Treatment, Let Me Dream, Carcase Inc.>>Tuukka Koskinen

Guitar
Braindrain, Kiduttajat, Embassy Of Silence, National Napalm Syndicate, Kallomäki>>HARRI "HAPA" LAMPINEN>>Embassy Of Silence, National Napalm Syndicate, Kallomäki - Braindrain, Flegeton, Yearning, Embassy Of Silence, Uinuos, Kallomäki>>TERO KALLIOMÄKI>>Embassy Of Silence, Uinuos, Kallomäki - Congestion, Let Me Dream, Vergil, 0 X í S T, Cynabare Urne, Horizon Of The Mute>>Jani Koskela>>0 X í S T, Cynabare Urne, Horizon Of The Mute

Bass
Ultra Mayhem, Embassy Of Silence, Concrete Swine, Kallomäki>>Samu Lahtinen>>Ultra Mayhem, Embassy Of Silence, Concrete Swine, Kallomäki

Drums
Ultra Mayhem, Embassy Of Silence, Mr. Black & The 5000 Cadillacs>>Mikael "Miku" Ahlstén>>Ultra Mayhem, Embassy Of Silence, Mr. Black & The 5000 Cadillacs, 0 X í S T - Demysh, Drown Me Blue, Colosseum, Cynabare Urne, Counting Hours, 0 X í S T, Kalmankantaja>>Sameli Köykkä>>Colosseum, Cynabare Urne, Counting Hours, 0 X í S T, Kalmankantaja

Keyboard
TERO KALLIOMÄKI





History & Biography
The Doom/goth band was Kiduttajat between 2001 and 2004. Vesa Mänty (guitar/vocals), Harri Lampinen (guitar) and bassist Valtteri Heinonen were all former Braindrain members.

The new-name band released a demo, called Kivisydän, in 2004. Ikiuneen… was the 2006 demo. The act played with Nitrous in Estonia. Several of the demo songs ended up on the debut album, which was issued through Spikefarm Records. The act had begun recording independently before the label had stepped in. Titles and lyrics were in Finnish. Main songwriter and guitarist Tero recorded Jäähyvästi with a bandaged and broken wrist!

The line-up remained the same for the slightly delayed Vuoroveri (which featured multiple guest appearances including Alexi Laiho of Children Of Bodom), but given the gap between it and Kärsimysnäytelmä, Sameli Köykkä was added on drums to the now bass player-less act. In the meantime, the band gave Finnish concerts with Ablaze In Hatred in 2010 and appeared at Steelfest in 2012. Aslak Tolonen again contributed the Kantele to the album! The band split up only to do the time-honoured reformation (with twin guitars instead of three now) in 2020. A new demo- CD appeared in 2021. It was called Vain Toinen Heistä. Lahtinen and Ahlstén were back, but guitarist Jani was gone. Otto Haaparanta, the brother of Tacere and Crimfall's Helena Haaparanta, was on vocals. 2025 began with a gig with Thromdarr and Cerebrum.

The band has always been a part-time endeavour with members (often in tandem) moving in and out of bands. That was one reason the members had shut the door on Saattue in 2017 The monicker means 'procession' in Finnish. The band has called its style 'Saatto metal.'


Reviews

SAATTUE – JÄÄHYVÄSTI – SPIKEFARM  
The band’s mixture of My Dying Bride and Sentenced sounds unsurprisingly warns of the Finnish origin of Saattue. The band’s use of Finnish as the language of choice for its name, titles and lyrics is a new twist with only a minority of Finland’s bands opting for this route. The band’s demo-turned-official album is an effigy of doom, gloom, big riffs and male and female vocals as bleak as the Scandinavian winter. The harmonized clean and growled vocals, slow beats, reverb-laden drums and backing synthesizers all hammer one point home. Saattue is not about to spread cheer to the listener. Upbeat to Saaattue is an intellectual American warmonger. With solemnity and earnestness as their guides the album surmounts its aggressive feeling to draw on an epic reaction. Varjojen Saattue is eleven minutes long and unyielding at the album’s end. It would have been better without the commercialism, but Spikefarm has not released the biggest offender of the genre either. - Anna Tergel


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