Timeline of my exposure to Stam1na:
Dec. 8, 2010: During our Finland Tribute Week series more than a year ago, Stam1na was recommended to us in a comment. Stupidly, I didn’t check them out.
July 14, 2011: Finnish NCS reader jeimssi leaves a comment pushing Stam1na, with links to sample songs. I have a vague recollection of listening to one of them and planning to write about them. Something must have distracted me, because I didn’t.
Dec. 14, 2011: During the NCS year-end Listmania, our Finnish guest fireangel names two Stam1na songs to her list of favorites from 2011. She wrote: “Stam1na have a huge following in Finland; they were founded in 1996 and nowadays they are one of the biggest and best-selling metal acts. What I like about them is the mix of excellent musicianship, very obscure humour, and outspokenness regarding the protection of nature.”
Feb. 5, 2012: jeimssi takes a break from his compulsory military service to tell us in a comment that Stam1na are releasing a new album that he’s greatly anticipating. I follow up on that and discover that the new album, Nocebo, is being released in Finland tomorrow.
Feb. 6: Heavy Blog Is Heavy publishes a post about a new Stam1na video for the first single from the album, “Valtiaan uudet vaateet”, which is Finnish for “I’m about to get really fucked up”.
I watch the new video, and lose my shit.
At first, it was nothing special — more long-haired Finnish dudes windmilling while dishing out the hammering riffage and a damned catchy chorus melody. Then it got more interesting when satin-gloved hands undressed vocalist Antti Hyyrynen while he was performing. That’s not something you see everyday. I thought to myself, these dudes are livin’ right! But then the video just goes right off the rails.
As the video progresses, Hyyrynen is subjected to more and more vicious treatment — and he just just forges ahead. Must be that compulsory Finnish military training. Hardens up those Finnish metalheads so they can keep playing even while being undressed, drowned, beat up, and . . . well, you’ll see.
By the way, I have no fucking clue what the song title or the lyrics mean (Stam1na sing in Finnish). So if any Finnish readers can explain what the song is about and whether the lyrical content has anything to do with the video, we’d be grateful.
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I think we officially have our video of the decade. The only ones who could possibly overthrow this is if Sakuragakuin go fuck Baby Tentacle Metal on us and record a live birth of the Fucktopus while performing Kiri Kiri Ashikubi. (Sadly, it’s not a real song, but if it were, it’d be about Audition.)
Seriously though, a band with a sense of humor who makes awesome music…I wanna sex them with my (fill in the blank with an organ of your choice)!
Is the fill-in the blank thing a contest?!? What do I get if I win??? Wait — don’t tell me. I want it to be a surprise. I vote for Wurlitzer!
You’ll probably get a picture of my penis. Which is worth more than all of your lorises combined.
Let me guess: the second place winner gets two penis photos.
No, they’ll get all the gold I own.
“…worth more than all of his lorises combined”? But, if all the lorises combined, the super-loris would either have
a super-penis or a compound-penis equivalent in value to yours. Right?
You don’t even want to joke about things like that. If all the lorises combine, it will be the end of human dominance on earth as we know it.
Actually, maybe that wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Except I don’t relish the idea of becoming a loris’ pet. I don’t like to eat grubs.
Well, Phro was the one who brought up all your lorises combining… And you know I love red pandas.
Do they just have a collection of cloned vocalists to go through at each show?
That was intense
Ben, they are not doing that kind of stuff live (at least so far not) – The shows are just rock’n roll (or rock’n metal as it may be). The videos are often more extreme to raise attention and tell a specific story – well, all vids do that but I mean they are sometimes like short movies. Also the production company for the vid, Medialouhos, is co-owned by Antti Hyyrynen. The record company is owned by members of the band Mokoma (also a Finnish Thrash band). So that way they have a lot of resources and freedom at their hands.
No such thing as just “long-haired Finnish dudes windmilling”…. Pexi Olkkonen can undress me anyday 😀
Weird….Finnish dudes usually don’t have any chest hair, but this dude has not only chest hair but ass hair…
Yes . . . glowing ass hair. Fucking Finns.
That ass hair is waaaaaaaaaaay more shiny than it should be…I think someone uses conditioner on their bum.
It’s the latest word in personal hair care.
Oh dear. Finland is the most metal nation on earth, indeed.
Any idea what the lead guitarist is holding in his hand [at 1:55]?
Zippo lighter.
Zippo is also a hint. Each member does something bad to the singer-guitarist.
Awesome! There’s obviously a lotta love in this band. 🙂
One did think figure it was something like that. But, one was hoping for something that would explain their mad skills rather than just their mad.
There’s a little wordplay in the title. The children’s story “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
is “Keisarin uudet vaatteet” in finnish. If you write ‘vaatteet’ with one “t” (vaateet), you have a word ‘demands’. The song itself has nothing to do with the story. Im guessing that since there is not that many emperors around, they decided to use Ruler (Valtias) instead. Thus…
Valtian uudet vaateet
The Ruler’s New Demands
————————————–
A naked critic was made to march down the street
Scarred, tattooed, but singing up straight
Even children are spitting, inflicting shame
He is sweating and climbing the hill up like a horse in front of the sleigh
A maniac on his heels, a dog humping his leg
They pull entertainment out of that sight like hairs from a head
~chorus~
THE RULER IS DEMANDING
A PUNISHMENT FOR THE CHRITICISM
A CENSORSHIP, A BANISHMENT
FOR THE SICKNESS OF THE SINGER
DISGRACE AS A CURE
FAMES ARE STRIPPED OFF
Wags a finger at the ruler
Prisoner’s stocks and shackles are shaken off like dandruff
Sings his end at the public pyre
even though was pointing a finger only at his mirror
Was loaded with millstones
Was drowned in the depths
Not even a thanks anymore
The criticism isn’t allowed to live
~chorus~
THE RULER IS DEMANDING
A PUNISHMENT FOR THE CHRITICISM
A CENSORSHIP, A BANISHMENT
FOR THE SICKNESS OF THE SINGER
DISGRACE AS A CURE
FAMES ARE STRIPPED OFF
THE RULER’S NEW DEMANDS!!!
(the guitar solo)
~chorus~
THE RULER IS DEMANDING
A PUNISHMENT FOR THE CHRITICISM
A CENSORSHIP, A BANISHMENT
FOR THE SICKNESS OF THE SINGER
DISGRACE AS A CURE
FAMES ARE STRIPPED OFF
THE RULER’S NEW DEMANDS!!!
Awesome! Thanks for this.