Altars Of Destruction are hailing from Kauhajoki, Finland, and are one of the first Finnish Metal Bands, founded in the late 1980s. Due to life and other events, the first official album release, "Gallery Of Pain", took place more than 20 years later, in 2010.
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Tracklist "Gallery Of Pain":
01. Altars Of Destruction
02. Aggression
03. Children Of Misfortune
04. Guilty Or Not
04. Cross The Line Of No Return
06. Heroes Of The New World
07. Suicide, Are You Fu**ing Insane?
08. Gallery Of Pain (Originally "Eve Of Evil")
09. Day Of Judgement
The album-artwork was created by Juha Vuorma, who also designed the art for the first three KALMAH-albums and for USURPER and METUJA, amongst others.
ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION were one of the trailblazers in the creation of Finnish Metal in the 1980s. They were founded in 1986 by the brothers Kimmo and Pasi Osmo together with Jukka Sandberg and went through several line-up changes afterwards. In 1988 existed a somewhat stable band, consisting of guitarists Kimmo Osmo and Mika Ahlqvist, bassist Pasi Osmo, drummer Juhani Mäenpää and vocalist Mika Luoma which played numerous concerts. The EP "Painful Awakening", where Junnu Mäki replaced Mika Ahlqvist, was published in 1989. Due to personal issues the band split up afterwards.
In 2007, ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION regrouped and started on writing new songs and reworking old material. Their intention was to "make a couple of new songs and pick out our favourites from the past and make a record that cuts through two decades of metal the way we lived and loved it."
Jussi Samppala from TYRANT DISCIPLE stepped in as new drummer, and now recording and mixing of "Gallery Of Pain" are finished.
The summer of 2011 saw a line-up change, the long-time vocalist Mika Luoma, who also recorded the vocals on the album, parted ways with the band. New vocalist is Jarno Samppala. Additionally, a second guitarist was added to the line-up, Jussi Arkela.