{"id":44263,"date":"2020-08-20T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/?p=44263"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:17:27","slug":"jaska-raatikainen-founding-member-and-drummer-of-children-of-bodom-joins-mercury-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/en\/jaska-raatikainen-founding-member-and-drummer-of-children-of-bodom-joins-mercury-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaska Raatikainen, founding member and drummer of &#8220;Children of Bodom&#8221;, joins &#8220;Mercury Circle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Founding member and drummer of extreme metal icons <strong>Children of Bodom<\/strong>, <strong>Jaska Raatikainen<\/strong>, has announced to join <strong>Mercury Circle<\/strong>, the brand new project <span lang=\"en\">by <strong>Iconcrash<\/strong>&#8216;s and <strong>Swallow the Sun<\/strong>\u2019s <\/span><strong><span lang=\"en\">Jaani Peuhu<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"en\">. <\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<span lang=\"en\">Being around with <strong>Children of Bodom<\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"en\">\u00a0(short: <strong>COB<\/strong>) for remarkable twenty six years and touring the globe ever since, the band&#8217;s enthralling mix of melodic hooks and instrumental acrobatics have solidified them as one of the leading voices of music\u2019s new generation. It has been hard for <strong>Jaska Raatikainen<\/strong> to make any strict musical future plans since quitting <strong>Children of Bodom\u00a0<\/strong>in 2019,<\/span><span lang=\"en\"> but all of this changed when he heard the demos by <strong>Jaani\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"en\"><strong>Peuhu<\/strong>.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<span lang=\"en\">&#8220;<em>After hearing the demo tracks from the upcoming debut album I thought it would be stupid not to join this band. The music was something I hadn\u2019t heard for a long time. Dark, emotional, epic elements and big choruses.<\/em>\u00a0<em>I am truly excited for the opportunity to be part of this. I know it is a long way to the top but with these guys I feel honoured and ready to do it again<\/em>.&#8221; <\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Children of Bodom<\/strong> is one of Finland&#8217;s most successful bands, whose name has its roots in perhaps the most famous murder mystery in the Finnish country. The band managed to release ten studio albums and reached numerous fans around the world with their technical death metal. <strong>Children of Bodom<\/strong>&#8216;s last performance was at the Helsinki Ice Hall on December 15, 2019.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;44255&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Jaska Raatikainen<\/strong>&#8216;s new musical adventure, <strong>Mercury Circle<\/strong>, just unleashed their well received brand new debut EP, titled &#8220;<strong>The Dawn Of Vitriol<\/strong>&#8220;, on August 14th via <strong>Noble Demon<\/strong> and <strong>The Vinyl Division<\/strong>. Born as a brainchild in 2018 by two times Finnish grammy award nominated producer, songwriter and musician <strong>Jaani Peuhu<\/strong>, and already working on their first full length record for early 2021, <strong>Mercury Circle<\/strong> is creating a diverse offering of atmospheric and darkly music where the songs differ wildly in expression and sonic aesthetics, establishing their very own kind of <em>&#8220;New Doom&#8221;<\/em>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/PF15A5A3W9E&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]More information about the band: <a title=\"Mercury Circle | Noble Demon\" href=\"\/en\/mercury-circle\/\">Mercury Circle<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Founding member and drummer of extreme metal icons Children of Bodom, Jaska Raatikainen, has announced to join Mercury Circle, the brand new project by Iconcrash&#8216;s and Swallow the Sun\u2019s Jaani Peuhu. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]Being around with Children of Bodom\u00a0(short: COB) for remarkable twenty six years and touring the globe ever since, the band&#8217;s enthralling mix of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[943,941,7078],"tags":[7119,8664,8164,8169,8165,8166,8162,8663,8168,8134,7111,8163,7100,8167,8640,8170],"class_list":["post-44263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news-en","category-noble-demon-en","tag-before-the-dawn-2","tag-children-of-bodom-2","tag-dark-metal-2","tag-diamond-black-2","tag-doom-2","tag-iconcrash-2","tag-jaani-peuhu-2","tag-jaska-raatikainen-2","tag-lord-of-the-lost-2","tag-mercury-circle","tag-metal-2","tag-new-doom-2","tag-noble-demon-en","tag-tear-catcher-2","tag-the-dawn-of-vitriol-2","tag-thunderstone-2","category-943","category-941","category-7078","description-off"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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