BIOGRAPHY

Playing catchy, melodic, politically aware and melodramatic rock, with ferocious guitar riffs, Lines of Leaving has been stirring the Finnish music scene since the band was formed in the end of 2003. The members decided to create a band that would feed its musical hunger from wretchedness and distress of the world and the crimes against humanity. The band doesn’t fit easily into just one genre thus it combines styles from guitar-based rock to punk and heavy metal even to ethnic music, never underestimating the listener. With every song they try to raise awareness and provide something new and interesting to the schooled and boring “mass-production”-music industry with nothing to say. In their music they will ask questions and give answers that others won’t dare to ask.

 Although several Finnish record labels showed interest in the band, they founded their own independent record label called Independent Sounds in January 2007 who released their debut album Battle for Humanity in June 2007. Lines of Leaving have two clear and distinguished objects:

1) To make people more aware of the alarming problems that others usually keep quiet about, and
2) To get people to empathize for the weak and powerless who can't stick up for their rights on their own so that the world wouldn't become a place where survival of fittest (equals wealthiest these days) would take a place among humans too.

 In order to achieve these goals Lines of Leaving (Timo Nyman- Vocals, guitar & song writing, Janne V. Väänänen-guitar, Juho-Heikki Visakoivu-bass and Jens Källström-drums) have already e.g. organized a campaign for the Finnish Homeless, taken part in multiple benefit concerts and perhaps most importantly are constantly giving information about the much avoided problems their song tell about on their homepage with the help of their controversial and speaking up products like their Anti-Bush t-shirt. 

”The best thing is that this band doesn’t just try to benefit from being fashionably politically aware but actually do and write about things that others just talk just about.” – VALPASVUO, DESIBELI.NET