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| 22.12.2020 | › | To/Die/For - To Reunite For A Special Live Event Next Summer |
| 21.07.2016 | › | To/Die/For - Come To An End |
| 11.05.2015 | › | To/Die/For - Release New Video Clip |
| 21.11.2014 | › | To/Die/For - Releasing New Album In 2015, Stream New Single |
| 04.10.2012 | › | To/Die/For - Shows In Mexico Cancelled |
| 21.12.2011 | › | To/Die/For - New Video Online |
| 02.10.2010 | › | To/Die/For - New Line-Up, New Material |
| 08.11.2009 | › | To/Die/For - Two New Songs Online |
| 20.07.2009 | › | To/Die/For - Band Update |
| 16.04.2009 | › | To/Die/For - Call It Quits |
| 20.10.2008 | › | To/Die/For - Part Ways With Drummer, Replacement Announced |
| 30.06.2008 | › | To/Die/For - Enter The Studio In July |
| 22.10.2007 | › | To/Die/For - Taking A Break |
| 26.02.2007 | › | To/Die/For - USA, Canada Tour Planned |
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To/Die/For - Vocalist Jarno Perätalo Exits The Band
Although being active only occasionally in past years, To/Die/For revealed news that vocalist Jarno "Jape" Perätalo has decided to leave the group due to health issues. His full statement can be read below.
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| Source: | facebook.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - To Reunite For A Special Live Event Next Summer
Finland's To/Die/For have excited news to share. The five-piece has decided to reunite for one special live show next summer, where they will play songs from the first two albums - All Eternity (2000) and Epilogue (2001). To/Die/For will perform live at John Smith Rock Festival, taking place from 22 to 24 July in Peurunka, Laukaa - approx. 25 km from Jyväskylä (Finland).
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| Source: | facebook.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Come To An End
Suomi metal band To/Die/For just announced their farewell. The Finnish band broke up after 17 years as a band, Cult being their last album, released last year. It will all be over and one of their last performances will be at the John Smith Festival in Laukaa, Finland.
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| Source: | facebook.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Release New Video Clip
The Finns To/Die/For are gearing up to release a new album. They took their time after Samsara (2011). Now they are showcasing a brand new video for the tune "In Black" which comes from band's new album Cult. The video was filmed and produced by Junkyard Films, the single recorded, mixed and mastered by Juho Räihä at SoundSpiral Audio. You can be the judge of the quality of the music. Share your thoughts about it.
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| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Releasing New Album In 2015, Stream New Single
After a long silence, To/Die/For just revealed that they are recording demos and writing new songs. So, good news for the fans of the Finns! In fact, the band has already released for streaming their new single "Screaming Birds", which is available now for your listening pleasure below. The band is filming a video for the song today in Helsinki. Regarding the new album, Massacre Records will release their seventh studio album in Europe on May 22nd, 2015.
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| Source: | facebook.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Shows In Mexico Cancelled
To/Die/For will not be performing in Mexico after all. The band had booked two shows for October but now confirms they were cancelled.
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To/Die/For - New Video Online
Finnish suomi metallers To/Die/For have launched a new video for the song "Hail Of Bullets". The track comes off their freshly released sixth album Samsara and you can now watch it below.
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| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - New Line-Up, New Material
To/Die/For mainman and vocalist Jape Perätalo has checked in with the following update:
"Time between Wounds Wide Open and 2010 is been too long time without doing "almost nothing" with To/Die/For.
We tried to create it with Tonmi Lillman and we used one year but things did not go forward as it should go. Tonmi is very great drummer and recorder and musician. But he is having so much other things to do also (Vanguard, Ajattara). To/Die/For is a thing I wanna do with all of heart and that's why I decided to be free, and do it without Tonmi again. It is sad but I have my life too and I cannot just wait and wait all the time. Of course there is other reasons too but nothing personal problems. I love him as a friend always. So... I saw two possibilities: Trying to it with Tonmi it would take too long and album would not come before 2020 or do it sooner with guys whos are living more near me, rehearsing would be easier etc. etc. many reasons.
Now on the 5th of October we finally start to record the sixth To/Die/For album with Santtu Lonka, Juppe Sutela and Josey Strandman. Now I am praying that also Antza Talala and Juska "Zoltan" Salminen would join us permanently too. Anyway, with this line up we will play next show which is like a new beginning (again) for us! To/Die/For is like a Fenix bird. Buddhism and hinduism are right when they say "we will born again and again as long as we have found nirvana. Now I guess that if we someday will release our last album it should be called Nirvana but that´s in the future... hopefully far away.
At the first studio sessions we will record songs: "Cry For Love" (an Iggy Pop cover), "Death Comes In March", "Into The Storm", "Bittersweet Bleeding Heart" and something else too.
Now we´re spending our evenings at our rehealsal place for composing, and recording demos and doing new stuff for our Chaotic To/Die/For and when I am at home I will write lyrics, drink coffee and beer and plan things. So I would say life is for To/Die/For again."
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"Time between Wounds Wide Open and 2010 is been too long time without doing "almost nothing" with To/Die/For.
We tried to create it with Tonmi Lillman and we used one year but things did not go forward as it should go. Tonmi is very great drummer and recorder and musician. But he is having so much other things to do also (Vanguard, Ajattara). To/Die/For is a thing I wanna do with all of heart and that's why I decided to be free, and do it without Tonmi again. It is sad but I have my life too and I cannot just wait and wait all the time. Of course there is other reasons too but nothing personal problems. I love him as a friend always. So... I saw two possibilities: Trying to it with Tonmi it would take too long and album would not come before 2020 or do it sooner with guys whos are living more near me, rehearsing would be easier etc. etc. many reasons.
Now on the 5th of October we finally start to record the sixth To/Die/For album with Santtu Lonka, Juppe Sutela and Josey Strandman. Now I am praying that also Antza Talala and Juska "Zoltan" Salminen would join us permanently too. Anyway, with this line up we will play next show which is like a new beginning (again) for us! To/Die/For is like a Fenix bird. Buddhism and hinduism are right when they say "we will born again and again as long as we have found nirvana. Now I guess that if we someday will release our last album it should be called Nirvana but that´s in the future... hopefully far away.
At the first studio sessions we will record songs: "Cry For Love" (an Iggy Pop cover), "Death Comes In March", "Into The Storm", "Bittersweet Bleeding Heart" and something else too.
Now we´re spending our evenings at our rehealsal place for composing, and recording demos and doing new stuff for our Chaotic To/Die/For and when I am at home I will write lyrics, drink coffee and beer and plan things. So I would say life is for To/Die/For again."
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| Source: | blogs.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Two New Songs Online
Finnish metallers To/Die/For have uploaded a demo version of two new songs, "Angelica" and "Sad" [working title], on their MySpace page.
"Angelica" and "Sad" [working title] are two of four cuts, alongside "Unknown III" and "My Hysteria", which are set to appear on the band's forthcoming album.
"Angelica" and "Sad" [working title] are two of four cuts, alongside "Unknown III" and "My Hysteria", which are set to appear on the band's forthcoming album.
| Source: | myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Band Update
After Jape Perätalo's last - somewhat confusing - message, he decided a few months later he will continue To/Die/For after all. What's more, the band is busy working on a new album. Here's the update:
"At the moment, me (Jape Perätalo) and Tonmi "Malakias IV" Lillman are writing new songs. We have a lot of material and in August we will hit the studio in Helsinki for the first recordings.
We have no guitarist(s) yet. At the studio we will use... someone.
It is not that easy to find a human being who would be able to work with me and Tonmi, and especially he should not be 'a metal' guy at all.
We are not gonna fill new songs with guitars! (Which does not mean that there is not guitars at all!) This time we will create something new, but it will sound as To/Die/For, for sure. Main idea is that it must be fresh!
Most of the gothic rock scene is so fucking boring that we do not see any reason to continue on that road! So many bands sounds almost same. There is no new ideas.
I do not mean every gothic rock band, but anyway... That is something we are gonna change! We will be melancholy and everything we have been before, but we will renew our music and ways to handle it.
On our MySpace does not happen a lot for a while. We will create new sites when it is right time for it. Now we need all of our energy and time for the new songs.
We are not gonna look for any record label for releasing this album! All we need is find right labels which we could sign license deals with. Now it seems that licenses for Russian, Japan and Finland are already in our hands. And I am looking for new license deals all the time. So... things will happen mainly through our own company."
"At the moment, me (Jape Perätalo) and Tonmi "Malakias IV" Lillman are writing new songs. We have a lot of material and in August we will hit the studio in Helsinki for the first recordings.
We have no guitarist(s) yet. At the studio we will use... someone.
It is not that easy to find a human being who would be able to work with me and Tonmi, and especially he should not be 'a metal' guy at all.We are not gonna fill new songs with guitars! (Which does not mean that there is not guitars at all!) This time we will create something new, but it will sound as To/Die/For, for sure. Main idea is that it must be fresh!
Most of the gothic rock scene is so fucking boring that we do not see any reason to continue on that road! So many bands sounds almost same. There is no new ideas.
I do not mean every gothic rock band, but anyway... That is something we are gonna change! We will be melancholy and everything we have been before, but we will renew our music and ways to handle it.
On our MySpace does not happen a lot for a while. We will create new sites when it is right time for it. Now we need all of our energy and time for the new songs.
We are not gonna look for any record label for releasing this album! All we need is find right labels which we could sign license deals with. Now it seems that licenses for Russian, Japan and Finland are already in our hands. And I am looking for new license deals all the time. So... things will happen mainly through our own company."
| Source: | blogs.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Call It Quits
Vocalist Jape Perätalo of Finnish metallers To/Die/For has issued the following lengthy announcement about the band calling it a day:
"My nerves, stress level and Life came to the point that I really need to get some rest, and say goodbye for these Stressful and still nice days with To/Die/For. Since 2005 we have been through so many shitty things. We have been unlucky to meet so many shitty promoters etc. FUCK YOU ALL (this is for all of those so called promoters who ruined some of our tours, and are also one of TDF's killers.) Also I have to thank some promoters, like AYU from Mexico. And of course we met other great and friendly promoters too around the world! But... a few asshole really can kill you!?
Italy visit a couple of years ago, and US tour 2007 really sucked a huge part of my/our energy and motivation. It was a miracle that I continued after US tour until these days! Now, one booking agency tried to handle our first South-American tour and also things with this did not work. Local promoters here and there did not pay their part for the main promoters in time etc. They just could not handle things which had to be clear. I am so sad and pissed off this tour did not happen... AGAIN! We are so sorry for our fans there.
There was only 9 shows totally confirmed for almost five weeks? And many more not that "handled" things. They seemed to be working very hard for us, but still... Again I felt like "we have been through this shit before". Also all these line-up changes always stressed me a lot and made me sad, but still everyone who played with me in To/Die/For were great persons! Every line-up change killed a little part of me... well exept one!
With our latest line-up we tried to write new songs, and we had some "raw" songs, but there was One big problem! No one seemed to like the same kind of songs. Latest album came out in 2006 and after that we had only one new song? And we are not satisfied with it eather. Somethings must be wrong I think!?
Also I felt like "something is trying to drive TDF's music to wrong direction". I am gothic and that's it. I do not like Heavy metal riffs (actually I hate it!) and too many hooks here and there. I want it more simple! I want people to remember TDF as it was on "All Eternity", "Epilogue" and "IV" days.
I could write many lovely words about every TDF members I ever played with, but biggest Thanks I HAVE TO give for bassist Tonmi Lillman. He is my soulmate what comes to writing music.
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"My nerves, stress level and Life came to the point that I really need to get some rest, and say goodbye for these Stressful and still nice days with To/Die/For. Since 2005 we have been through so many shitty things. We have been unlucky to meet so many shitty promoters etc. FUCK YOU ALL (this is for all of those so called promoters who ruined some of our tours, and are also one of TDF's killers.) Also I have to thank some promoters, like AYU from Mexico. And of course we met other great and friendly promoters too around the world! But... a few asshole really can kill you!?
Italy visit a couple of years ago, and US tour 2007 really sucked a huge part of my/our energy and motivation. It was a miracle that I continued after US tour until these days! Now, one booking agency tried to handle our first South-American tour and also things with this did not work. Local promoters here and there did not pay their part for the main promoters in time etc. They just could not handle things which had to be clear. I am so sad and pissed off this tour did not happen... AGAIN! We are so sorry for our fans there.
There was only 9 shows totally confirmed for almost five weeks? And many more not that "handled" things. They seemed to be working very hard for us, but still... Again I felt like "we have been through this shit before". Also all these line-up changes always stressed me a lot and made me sad, but still everyone who played with me in To/Die/For were great persons! Every line-up change killed a little part of me... well exept one!
With our latest line-up we tried to write new songs, and we had some "raw" songs, but there was One big problem! No one seemed to like the same kind of songs. Latest album came out in 2006 and after that we had only one new song? And we are not satisfied with it eather. Somethings must be wrong I think!?
Also I felt like "something is trying to drive TDF's music to wrong direction". I am gothic and that's it. I do not like Heavy metal riffs (actually I hate it!) and too many hooks here and there. I want it more simple! I want people to remember TDF as it was on "All Eternity", "Epilogue" and "IV" days.
I could write many lovely words about every TDF members I ever played with, but biggest Thanks I HAVE TO give for bassist Tonmi Lillman. He is my soulmate what comes to writing music.
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| Source: | blogs.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Part Ways With Drummer, Replacement Announced
Finnish metallers To/Die/For have issued the following update:
"Hello.
Autumn came to Finland,and it took one sheep from To/Die/For clan within. Santtu who's been To/Die/For drummer from 2004 quit drumming in the band. There is no any kind of fight between us. He is still our lovely Friend!
Reasons?
He had no motivation enough for rehealsaling... as we saw it. Now when we are writing songs for a new album, we need to live in this for 200%. Santtu is having a lot of another things to do, and it is good for him, but time is what we need and especially motivation and rehealsaling. And there must be To/Die/For flame burning in our souls... otherwise this is not worth to do...
Anyway, our feelings at the moment is better than ever! We have a new drummer, and we are friends with Santtu. Maybe Santtu is gonna be our drum tech. On some shows so... he may be travelling with us anyway.
We've been rehearsing with new great drummer a couple of times, and believe me, it works as motherfuck! So you wanna know who is this beast? He is new family member called: Toni Paananen. He will rock you all"
"Hello.
Autumn came to Finland,and it took one sheep from To/Die/For clan within. Santtu who's been To/Die/For drummer from 2004 quit drumming in the band. There is no any kind of fight between us. He is still our lovely Friend!
Reasons?
He had no motivation enough for rehealsaling... as we saw it. Now when we are writing songs for a new album, we need to live in this for 200%. Santtu is having a lot of another things to do, and it is good for him, but time is what we need and especially motivation and rehealsaling. And there must be To/Die/For flame burning in our souls... otherwise this is not worth to do...
Anyway, our feelings at the moment is better than ever! We have a new drummer, and we are friends with Santtu. Maybe Santtu is gonna be our drum tech. On some shows so... he may be travelling with us anyway.
We've been rehearsing with new great drummer a couple of times, and believe me, it works as motherfuck! So you wanna know who is this beast? He is new family member called: Toni Paananen. He will rock you all"
| Source: | blogs.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Enter The Studio In July
To/Die/For have posted the following update:
"One of the newest TDF song is named "Johnny The Vampire", it is parody about a gothic boy. Is it going to be on TDF's next album? Who knows? Let's see.
TDF will hit the studio between the 8th and 11th in July. Recording demos. In July you can hear some samples here at TDF MySpace. Next album will include a cover song of course. It could be a song from the lords of the new church, or from Duran Duran."
"One of the newest TDF song is named "Johnny The Vampire", it is parody about a gothic boy. Is it going to be on TDF's next album? Who knows? Let's see.
TDF will hit the studio between the 8th and 11th in July. Recording demos. In July you can hear some samples here at TDF MySpace. Next album will include a cover song of course. It could be a song from the lords of the new church, or from Duran Duran."
| Source: | blog.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - Taking A Break
On October 19 To/Die/For have posted the following blog on their MySpace page:
"Today we will travel to Russia Moscow by train. We are on same train with Charon so... it´s gonna be blast and we do not know are we still alive after that trip. Anyway, this is our last confirmed show and we really do not know what will happen for us then?
We still do not have a new label, we haven´t recorded new demos yet etc...
So our future is wide open... maybe we will release sixth album someday maybe we don´t who knows? Now there is gonna be other projects going on... Joonas is recording next malpractice album and there will be other "side-projects"coming too... If we will get a new label which would be ready to do real work for us then we will continue. Otherwise we do not. So let´s put our future this way anything can happen."
A few days later, the following was posted:
"Now we are back in Finland and I noticed here is a lot of worried people and I got a lot of mails. Calm down please, we are not gonna kill To/Die/For. Now we just need a break and we are hunting some inspiration... something new into our little thing called To/Die/For.
"anything can happen" does not mean exactly we are gonna stop making music. But still situation is that we do not know what happens next, when we start make shows again, when next album will see a moonlight... all we know is that we love to make music, we love to travel and make shows. Russia (Moscow) was so great. Metal militia guys handled things as real promoters and finally we felt ok after all those fucking shit tours before in this year! Thank you Russia, thank you metal militia guys and especially our friends Charon! Rock!!!"
"Today we will travel to Russia Moscow by train. We are on same train with Charon so... it´s gonna be blast and we do not know are we still alive after that trip. Anyway, this is our last confirmed show and we really do not know what will happen for us then?
We still do not have a new label, we haven´t recorded new demos yet etc...
So our future is wide open... maybe we will release sixth album someday maybe we don´t who knows? Now there is gonna be other projects going on... Joonas is recording next malpractice album and there will be other "side-projects"coming too... If we will get a new label which would be ready to do real work for us then we will continue. Otherwise we do not. So let´s put our future this way anything can happen."
A few days later, the following was posted:
"Now we are back in Finland and I noticed here is a lot of worried people and I got a lot of mails. Calm down please, we are not gonna kill To/Die/For. Now we just need a break and we are hunting some inspiration... something new into our little thing called To/Die/For.
"anything can happen" does not mean exactly we are gonna stop making music. But still situation is that we do not know what happens next, when we start make shows again, when next album will see a moonlight... all we know is that we love to make music, we love to travel and make shows. Russia (Moscow) was so great. Metal militia guys handled things as real promoters and finally we felt ok after all those fucking shit tours before in this year! Thank you Russia, thank you metal militia guys and especially our friends Charon! Rock!!!"
| Source: | myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
To/Die/For - USA, Canada Tour Planned
TO/DIE/FOR on tour in US and CANADA between june26th.-july26th. 2007.
Venues and dates will be announced soon!
Venues and dates will be announced soon!
| Source: | myspace.com |
| Band profile: | To/Die/For |
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