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Thank you Tuska!

Posted on June 30th 2008

Photo: Kalle Björklid

We had a blast! We wish to thank the organizers, staff, bands and especially the audience at Tuska Open Air. Our greatest show so far and it's all thanks to the amazing audience – thank you all so very much! Also thanks to our crew and people who helped us: Tupi, Impola, Paldanius Paldanius, Hekuli, Terhi and Kalle.

Helsingin Sanomat seemed to like us and Huumakuva folks were there as well, so keep your eyes open for some amazing photos. What did you miss, if you weren't there? Only 45 minutes of this: Sotajumala – Kuolinjulistus @ Tuska Open Air, June 28th 2008.

Death Metal Finland worker shirts

Posted on June 25th 2008

Record Shop X have just received Death Metal Finland worker shirts, so you know what to do if you fancy one. We will also be selling these at our shows this summer.

European and North American release date for Teloitus

Posted on May 23rd 2008

Teloitus will be released in Europe and North America on June 13th 2008. Check your local record store and/or online stores and get executed.

Show in Tampere cancelled

Posted on May 13th 2008

We regret to announce that the show in Tampere on June 6th has been cancelled – this was beyond our control. We're working on a new show in Tampere for the fall.

Show in Pori, new video and Global Domination

Posted on May 11th 2008

A new show has been confirmed: Finn Hits Fest in Pori on July 12th.

We filmed another music video roughly a month ago, this time for the song Oikeutus. It should be finished within a month or so and we'll put it up on Youtube as soon as possible (and hope they don't take it down).

You might also want to take a look at Global Domination as they're getting better and better all the time (more shit about us, that is). You can find “extremely triggered” Teloitus in audio autopsy as well as a new interview. Nice!

Tuska Open Air and Sauna Open Air afterparty confirmed

Posted on April 17th 2008

We are thrilled to announce two new shows for June: Tuska Open Air on June 28th and Sauna Open Air afterparty on June 6th.

Pay attention to the ridiculous Tuska line-up this year: Morbid Angel, Nile, Slayer, Carcass, Behemoth, Dying Fetus, Entombed…

We have also slowly started writing new material. Typically this is a painfully long process for us, so don't get excited about a new album anytime soon (in fact we have news about the worldwide distribution for Teloitus in matter of days!) but there's a small chance we might play one new song at the summer festivals.

Kouvola show has been postponed

Posted on April 9th 2008

Due to the venue's double booking we will not be playing in Kouvola on Friday April 18th. This was completely out of our hands and we will announce the new date for this show as soon as it's been confirmed.

Photos, videos and a couple of reviews

Posted on March 18th 2008

The things you come across online when you should be sleeping…

The booklet issue on the first pressing of Teloitus

Posted on March 1st 2008

Those of you who have a copy of the first pressing of Teloitus might have wondered how come the booklet is in two pieces. This wasn't intentional, rather a fuck-up and we finally have correct booklets for you people. From this day on we will be having these booklets at shows and will be giving them to people against the booklet of the first pressing (you can still keep it, but we need to be sure you really have one).

Seeing the first pressing was sold-out almost instantly, if you buy the album now, you should be getting the correct booklet.

Pellavarock confirmed

Posted on February 20th 2008

Seems like we'll be executing plenty of people towards the end of the summer. This time we're happy to announce that we'll be playing Pellavarock on August 9th.

FME special on Finnish national TV tonight

Posted on February 19th 2008

A short Sotajumala interview and most likely some live footage will be aired on Ääripää's FME special tonight on YLE 2 channel starting at 11 PM . You can also stream this show on YLE Areena starting at 9 PM tonight.

Teemu Suominen is our new booking agent in Finland

Posted on February 18th 2008

Teemu Suominen from Live Nation Finland is our new booking agent for Finnish shows. If you are interested in booking us abroad, get in touch with us directly.

Jalometalli Metal Music Festival confirmed

Posted on February 16th 2008

We are proud to announce that we will be playing Jalometalli Metal Music Festival in Oulu on August 16th! This is a great festival organized by great people and it's growing bigger and bigger each year. We played in Jalometalli back in 2005 and we're thrilled to do it again!

Supporting Obituary!

Posted on February 6th 2008

We will be supporting Obituary for their show in Nosturi, Helsinki on August 1st 2008! Tickets cost 24 € and are already available.

Obituary is the best band in the world, right after Iron Maiden.– Tomi Otsala

Death Metal Finland special edition

Posted on January 29th 2008

Our debut album Death Metal Finland will be re-released on February 20th as a double cd special edition. The second disc contains all the tracks from our mcd, split and single releases from over the years, including an unreleased version of Pommitus from 2003. So basically it's everything we've ever recorded that isn't on the albums.

Woodcut will be selling this version in advance at Finnish Metal Expo on February 15—16!

Jyväskylä and Kouvola shall be executed

Posted on January 14th 2008

Two new shows have been confirmed: Bar 68 in Jyväskylä on March 22nd and Rytmi-katti in Kouvola on April 18th. Both venues are nice, small places with a very warm atmosphere and great staff. We're looking very forward to both of these shows!

Incredibly fucken close to fucken perfection

Posted on January 5th 2008

Global Domination has reviewed Teloitus, go check it out!

Two new shows have been confirmed: Curium Metal Fest in Helsinki (what a line-up!) on March 15th and Lahti on March 21st. More shows will be announced in the near future. We've also come across some "confirmed" shows around the web. Until you see the info posted here, consider it a rumour or a show we're still working on. Once everything is confirmed, we will post it here.

Grimm's Journey are now on Myspace. Go ahead and see if you recognize some familiar faces. This is a band that existed long before Sotajumala and the lads have recently recorded some of their old songs that were originally written back in 1995 – 1996. Vocals on this recording were handled by the legendary Sami Kokko (Paraxism).

Like omg wtf lolz!

Posted on January 1st 2008

We know this is so 2007, but before Web 3.0 hits us, we thought you might want to befriend yourself with the coolest, most badass, strapping young Finnish lads.

Sotajumala on the web

• Myspace profile
• Youtube channel
• Facebook profile
• Facebook group
• Last.fm group
• IRC Galleria community (in Finnish)

Christmas execution

Posted on December 24th 2007

We would like to thank all of our friends, supporters and partners in crime for an amazing year! We achieved a lot this year, with the help of many wonderful people, and the executions shall continue next year. It seems like we will be playing more shows during 2008 than any previous year and maybe a couple of festivals as well. Stay tuned!

New date for the show in Turku

Posted on December 23rd 2007

The show in Turku has been postponed and will now take place on March 1st. The great news is that our good friends Torture Killer will be playing with us, wohoo!

Finnish metal radio show Metalliliitto has also named their favourites for the FMA poll, naming Teloitus as their favourite artwork. Nice!

Finnish Metal Awards 2007

Posted on December 19th 2007

Finnish Metal Awards is back. You can vote for best Finnish album, band, upcomer, artwork, player and singer (in that specific order, in case your Finnish is still a bit rusty). Inferno and SUE magazines already announced their votes. All you need to do is fill in your votes for us *cough* and leave your name and email to ensure you won't vote more than once.

The poll closes on January 31st and the winners will be announced at Finnish Metal Expo.

Learning Finnish, part I – Interviews and reviews

Posted on December 10th 2007

Tomorrow Mynni Luukkainen and Tomi Otsala will be interviewed on Rautaryhmä on SubTV.

Teloitus reviews

• Metal Rules – 5/5, EN
• Noise – 5/5, FI
• Mesta – 4.5/5, FI
• Imperiumi – 8/10, FI
• Vertigo – 4/5, FI
• Tuhma – 4/5, FI
• Korroosio – 4/5, FI
• Desibeli – 3.5/5, FI
• Soundi – 3/5, FI

More advanced students can also read our interview from Vertigo.

Last but not least, we would like to thank everybody for the special Teloitus release show we had on December 2nd: The staff at Lutakko, our second home and the amazing audience who gave us amazing pits. Once again, Kalle Björklid took some amazing photos, go check them out!

Tonight, tonight

Posted on December 1st 2007

Tonight we'll be playing the official Teloitus release show at our home venue, Lutakko, Jyväskylä. Expect our longest set ever! In fact, it'll be divided into two separate sets and there will be a bunch of special guests as well, so be sure to get your ass to Lutakko for some ass-kicking death metal tonight!

Schedule

• 9 PM – Doors
• 11 PM – Ghost Guard
• 12 PM – Sotajumala

New merch!

Posted on December 1st 2007

We have a new shirt design available! T-shirts come in sizes S—XL and girlies S—L. Prices are 17 € for Europe and that includes shipping. For rest of the world, get in touch. For orders, inquiries and hatemail, please get in touch via email: info@sotajumala.com

We still have some old merchandise left as well. The designs, prices and sizes will be up here next week. We're also selling all merchandise at our shows.

The Nile dates were a blast

Posted on December 1st 2007

The four show mini-tour with Nile and Deathchain was a blast and we would like to thank everybody who came to the shows, bought merch, said hi to us, the staff at all four venues, everybody who gave us place to stay for the night, Deathchain, Tupi, Paldanius Paldanius (thanks a million!) and last but certainly not least Karl, Dallas, George and Chris from Nile and their amazing crew, Punchy and Rob. Check out Arkku vailla vainajaa live at Lutakko on Youtube.

Finns prefer execution

Posted on October 31st 2007

Teloitus (which means execution, by the way) is rather popular among Finns, at least judging by the Finnish national charts, where Teloitus can be found at position 17! Not bad for a death metal band whom The Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre described to “have no commercial potential.”

Sotajumala would like to thank everyone involved in making of Teloitus and especially all those who have bought it! The band members themselves celebrated the event by having some coffee, soda, tuna sandwiches and chili chocolate – what a bunch of party animals!

Jyväskylä's largest newspaper Keskisuomalainen featured our interview today – our faces covered almost a full page and the interview is also online. One new show has also been confirmed: Finnish Metal Expo on February 15th 2008, main stage at 6 PM.

Interviews and show in Turku

Posted on October 28th 2007

Here's a list of various interviews we've done lately (all in Finnish). The upcoming issues of Inferno (#51) as well as Miasma (#21), the latest Soundi, Imperiumi, Metallväktarna radio show on Yle X3M which airs tonight at 9 - 11 PM and lastly Get in the Pit video interview that was shot at Inferno Bar in Helsinki last week is also online.

A show in Turku has been confirmed: Klubi on January 11th 2008.

Waiting for Execution (thank you all)

Posted on October 24th 2007

Teloitus is officially released in Scandinavia today. The writing process was a really long one, but we couldn't be more happy with the way it turned out. For the past year we've focused only on writing this album. All the set backs, hard times and long hours we've spent working on it... it was all worth it. Early morning and late evening rehearsals, driving across Finland and working until morning hours for recording, rehearsing or promoting the release, sleeping way too little and having personal lives suffer on the side. All the sacrifices we've had to make, it's all been worth it, because the only way to do music is by doing it for the love of it. And Teloitus is an album we couldn't be more proud of!

We want to thank everybody who was involved in the process.

• Sami "Hannu" Koivisto recorded and mixed an album we will be proud of for the rest of our lives.
• Mikael "Hekuli" Jänisoja and Mikko "Palme" Soukkala worked hard on Kuolinjulistus video and it turned out nothing short of amazing. The crew also deserves a big round of aplauds: Mikko Lyyski, Ville Sahakangas ja Toni Riihiluoma.
• Anna-Kaisa Reed designed the artwork we couldn't be more proud of. The whole Mainostoimisto Aava & Bang crew supported us from the start, which we are grateful for.
• Terhi Ylimäinen took incredible promotional photos and did a good job in dealing with us for a long day.

All in all we want to thank everybody who has been involved in writing, recording, marketing or releasing Teloitus.

Radio Noise & Lutakko support band

Posted on October 23rd 2007

Radio Noise will air our interview on their show Murskaamo on October 25th at 6 PM. On top of the interview they'll be spinning Teloitus. Be sure the check it out.

Support band for our album release show has been confirmed: Ghost Guard from Vaasa. Go listen to them on Myspace and get ready for a killer evening with two amazing drummers... Er, I mean bands!

Life after pre-listenings

Posted on October 20th 2007

Pre-listening sessions have been done and Teloitus is out soon. It's been fun and we want to thank everybody who's been involved in the events (or have suffered because of them). The special show in Helsinki's Inferno was our first in over a year and we had a great time playing the new songs outside of our rehearsal room. Thanks and greets to the Inferno staff, people who organized the whole thing and all the new and old friends who were there.

Interviews, interviews

Posted on October 16th 2007

In case you're an avid listener of Finnish radio, do tune in on YleX's Metalliliitto on October 18th from 10 to 12 PM. Our very laid back interview and two songs from Teloitus will be aired on the show.

If this isn't enough for you, do pick up Sue in case you're in Finland. Another interview right there with a review of Teloitus.

Supporting Nile in Finland!

October 10th 2007

We have been confirmed as a support band for Nile's mini-tour in Finland! There are simply no words to describe how thrilled we are! And to make things even better, our brothers in Deathchain are also joining this package.

Here are the dates, see you there!

• 2007/11/21 FIN, Jyväskylä, Lutakko
• 2007/11/22 FIN, Oulu, Teatria
• 2007/11/23 FIN, Tampere, Pakkahuone
• 2007/11/24 FIN, Helsinki, Nosturi

Two pre-listenings added

October 7th 2007

Lappeenranta on October 16th, Café Bar G. at 8 PM. Remember, the first 15 people through the door will receive Kuolinjulistus single for free. And the last one, Levykauppa Äx in Jyväskylä on October 19th 2 - 6 PM.

Mynni Luukkainen and Timo Häkkinen will be at the Inferno and Levykauppa Äx pre-listenings in Jyväskylä. What's cool about this is that if you don't like the album, you can say it to our face and go home, hah!

Two songs from Teloitus on Myspace

October 2nd 2007

Three weeks and Teloitus hits the stores in Scandinavia. We have just uploaded two full songs, Kuolinjulistus and Kidutus, from the album to our Myspace profile. Go check them out and let your friends hear them too!