Aarni
Aarni
Background information
Origin	Oulu, Finland
Genre(s)	Avant garde metal Doom metal Folk metal
Years active	1998–present
Label(s)	Firebox Records Firedoom Music
Associated acts	Umbra Nihil
Website	http://www.aarni.info/
Members
Master Warjomaa

Aarni is an avant garde metal band from Oulu, in Finland, which consists primarily of Master Warjomaa and, occasionally, some session musicians. Although many sources claim the existence of other band members, these are fictional characters^[1] (probably created by Warjomaa himself) and include a French count born in the 17th century and a cartoon character with a T-shirt with Aarni's logo. Image File history File links Aarni_band_trans. ... City Oulu (1605) Administrative Province Oulu province Historical Province Ostrobothnia Area (2004-01-01)  â€“ Total (excl. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a cross-genre reference to metal bands characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Folk metal is a diverse collection of music, encompassing a wide variety of different styles and approaches. ... See also: 1998 in music (UK) other events of 1998 Musical groups established in 1998 Record labels established in 1998 list of years in music 1990s in music // February 15 - Sir Edward Elgars unfinished third symphony, completed by Anthony Payne is performed for the first time at the Royal... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Firebox logo. ... Firebox Records is a Finnish record label based in Seinäjoki, Southern Ostrobothnia. ... Aarni is an avant garde metal band from Oulu, in Finland, which consists primarily of Master Warjomaa and, occasionally, some session musicians. ... Avant garde metal, sometimes called experimental, is a cross-genre reference to metal bands characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and song structures. ... City Oulu (1605) Administrative Province Oulu province Historical Province Ostrobothnia Area (2004-01-01)  â€“ Total (excl. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sideman. ... (16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...

Aarni's music sounds sometimes similar to funeral doom metal (in Reaching Azathoth, for example) and sometimes similar to folk metal (The Weird of Vipunen). Their style has been described as almost orthodox doom metallish Lovecraftian-Jungian Kalevala avantgarde music.^[2] The band themselves sometimes use the term Chthonic Musick.^[3] The lyrics of Aarni include varied themes such as Finnish folklore, transhumanism, paganism, parapsychology, psychoanalytical theories and mythology as well as other obscure themes.^[4] The lyrics are sung in English, Finnish, Latin, and perhaps occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, and/or Glossolalic. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Folk metal is a diverse collection of music, encompassing a wide variety of different styles and approaches. ... The Kalevala is an epic poem which Elias Lönnrot compiled from Finnish folk lore in the 19th century. ... Posthuman Future, an illustration by Michael Gibbs for The Chronicle of Higher Educations look at how biotechnology will change the human experience. ... Parapsychology is the study of certain types of paranormal phenomena (parapsychology comes from the Greek para, “beside, beyond,” + psychology, derived from the Greek psyche, “soul, mind,” + logos “rational discussion”). The term was coined by Max Dessoir (1889). ... Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods based on the work of Sigmund Freud. ... // For the Derek Sherinian album, see Mythology (Derek Sherinian album). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic (languages such as Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew). ... Tongues redirects here. ...

History

Aarni was founded in 1998, in Oulu, Finland, by Master Warjomaa (by his real name Markus Marjomaa).^[5] Master Warjomaa is also an active member of a doom metal band called Umbra Nihil, playing lead guitar.^[6] Aarni released a demo in 2001, and a split album with Umbra Nihil the following year. After a second demo in 2002, Aarni finally released its first full-length album, Bathos, in 2004. Sources sometimes disagree on whether Aarni is independent or signed to Firebox Records's subsidiary label Firedoom Music or if it is independent. Encyclopaedia Metallum, for example, claims the band is independent.^[7] Despite this fact, Bathos and the split album with Umbra Nihil were released with Firedoom Music and Firebox Records, respectively.^[8][9] Image File history File links Pandemia. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... City Oulu (1605) Administrative Province Oulu province Historical Province Ostrobothnia Area (2004-01-01)  â€“ Total (excl. ... A split album (or split) is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. ... Firebox logo. ... Firebox Records is a Finnish record label based in Seinäjoki, Southern Ostrobothnia. ... Bathos is the first full-length album by the Finnish avant garde metal band Aarni. ... Firebox Records is a Finnish record label based in Seinäjoki, Southern Ostrobothnia. ... Firebox logo. ...

Controversy

Information about or from Aarni is often unclear, doubtful, or purposely erroneous or confusing. Below are overviews of different controversies existing around Aarni that may confuse someone researching the band.

Band members

Aarni's official website is full of unclear content. The band section contains four members (also referred to as "Responsible Cultists"), as well as strange information concerning each of them. The four members of the band are Master Warjomaa, Comte de Saint-Germain, Doomintroll and Mistress Palm.^[10] Warjomaa commented on this in a 2004 interview:

The number of Aarni is five and five is the number of Aarni. Think a while about this and you will see... because Aarni consists of four personalities plus me. Why four? Because I've chosen to adhere to the (Jungian) concept of quaternity - four personality types, four seasons, four equinoxes, four elements, four stations of the sun, four stages of the human life, four cardinal directions, four Qabbalistic worlds, four limbs of the human body, four main themes in Aarni's songs, four basic human brain circuits of Timothy Leary's theory etc. Visualize the pentagram representing human existence: there's four points combined in/ruled by the fifth. It's all of course symbolic. Or is it?^[11]

Master Warjomaa

Master Warjomaa of Aarni

Master Warjomaa is the alias of the band's only non-fictional member, Markus Marjomaa. According to the band's official website, Warjomaa was born in 1974.^[12] It is stated that he is influenced by Joe Satriani, Taoism, Camel, and H.P. Lovecraft, that he belongs to the Homo Superior species, and that his favorite place is Cydonia. Along with many other artists, Warjomaa has named Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Hawkwind, King Crimson and Van Der Graaf Generator as his musical influences.^[13] Master Warjomaa is apparently an atheist. In a fan interview in June 2006, Warjomaa stated: Image File history File links Aarni_Master_Warjomaa. ... Image File history File links Aarni_Master_Warjomaa. ... Joe Satch Satriani (born on July 15, 1956, in Westbury, New York, USA) is an American guitarist and guitar teacher. ... Taoism (pronounced and often written as Daoism (dow-ism)) is the English name for a religious and philosophical tradition in China. ... Camel are an English progressive rock band formed in 1971. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... The original batch-processed photo (#35A72) of the Face on Mars taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976. ... For other uses, see Black Sabbath (disambiguation). ... Candlemass is a Swedish Doom metal band established in the 1980s by Leif Edling (bass), its leader and songwriter. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... King Crimson is an English musical group founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969. ... This article is about the band. ... The 18th-century French author Baron dHolbach was one of the first self-described atheists. ... June 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Extraordinary renditions. ...

"While I prefer a female unicorn deity to a gaseous alpha male vertebrate of cosmic heft anytime, I'd rather choose no deity or deities at all. I think it's high time we stopped worshiping gods and started to aim at becoming gods."^[14]

Comte de Saint Germain

Le Comte de Saint Germain (translated from French: "The Count of Saint Germain") is one of the claimed members of Aarni. His role in the band is stated as "Sensation, alchemical processes and keys to secrets".^[15] It is written that he was born in 1665 and is an "ex-human", which probably infers that he is not alive as of 2007. It is unclear whether le Comte de Saint Germain was an actual individual that lived centuries ago or if he was a completely fictional character. It is possible that le Comte de Saint Germain has something to do with the Count of St Germain, an actual count living in the 18th century. Count of St Germain by unknown artist The Count of St. ...

Doomintroll & Mistress Palm

Doomintroll is represented by a cartoon-style drawing of a person with a very prominent nose, a pipe in the mouth, the Aarni logo on the T-shirt, and a hand sticking up the middle finger. According to Aarni he "originated" in 1998,^[16] which would make him 6 years old at the time of the release of the band's first full-length album. It is written that Doomintroll belongs to the "Duumipeikko" species. "Duumipeikko", roughly translated from Finnish, gives "Doomintroll". This is a reference to the popular Finnish cartoon series, Moomin, in which Muumipeikko is one of the main characters. According to Doomintroll, the band wants to support the anarcho-shamanistic attitude of moomintrolls.^[17] The Moomins, comic book cover by Tove Jansson. ...

Mistress Palm (also referred to as Mrs. Palm) is the fourth claimed band member. She is depicted as a rather elderly woman in an apron holding a toilet brush and opening her mouth as if angrily screaming. She has been thought to be a computer program^[18] or artificial, phlogiston-driven rectoplasm.^[19]

Website

Certain parts of the official Aarni website are mysterious, unclear, or controversial. At the top of the band page is written "4=1".^[20] The motive of this equation is maybe to consider the situation of the 4 declared members and one actual member and/or can be a reference to the Jungian concept of quaternity. On the news page (also reffered to as the "Unspeakable Tidings"), the news are listed chronologically. However the dates are said to be written in the form corresponding to these in the Discordian calendar. These dates follow the "DD/SS/YYYY" form, as stated on the official website.^[21] Therefore e.g. the year 2007 CE is noted as 3173 AM. Carl Jungs autobiographical work Memories , Dreams, Reflections, Fontana edition Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil, – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) (IPA: ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. ... The Discordian calendar is an alternative calendar used by some adherents of Discordianism. ...

Lyrics

The lyrics are sung in English, Finnish, Latin, and occasionally in French, Ancient Egyptian, and/or Glossolalic. The official website claims that rumors have said the band also sung in Swedish and Enochian. However the website does not give any argument for or against the factual accuracy of these rumors. In several songs, the lyrics refer to the Cthulhu Mythos. In an interview with Nocturne Magazine, Master Warjomaa admitted writing lyrics in Ouranian Barbaric and Enochian, thus confirming certain rumors. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Written records of the ancient Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC. Egyptian is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic (languages such as Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya and Hebrew). ... Tongues redirects here. ... This article is about the Angelical Language recorded in the journals of Dr. John Dee. ... Cthulhu and Rlyeh Cthulhu Mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. ... This article is about the Angelical Language recorded in the journals of Dr. John Dee. ...

The lyrics of the band also show some part of controversy. In "Squaring The Circle", it is said that "zero equals two". This may be a reference to the ideas of Aleister Crowley and similar to the "4=1" statement on top of the band page of the official website. In "The Thunder, Perfect Mindfuck", it is said "I am the shameless and I am ashamed" as well as "I am falsehood and I am truth". These could be considered paradoxical and controversial as the Gnostic poem the lyrics are based upon, The Thunder, Perfect Mind. Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced // i. ... The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in 1945. ...

Line-up

This line-up is the line-up declared on Encyclopaedia Metallum.^[22][23] Encyclopaedia Metallum logo Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. ...

• Master Warjomaa (Markus Marjomaa) - Creating, playing, and producing most of the lyrics and music.
• Ville Vierimaa, aka Vilpir (from Umbra Nihil) - Session drums for Bathos.

Bathos is the first full-length album by the Finnish avant garde metal band Aarni. ...

Discography

Demo 2001

Aarni's 2001 Demo

Demo 2001 was released independently by Aarni in 2001. It was the first CD release of Aarni. Its cover features a picture of the Conte de Saint-Germain. Image File history File links Aarni_Demo_2001. ... Image File history File links Aarni_Demo_2001. ... See also: 2001 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2001 Record labels established in 2001 other events of 2001 list of years in music 2000s in music // January 1 Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues Hum disbands. ...

Track listing:

1. "Myrrys" - 5:00

2. "The Black Keyes (of R'lyeh)" - 5:53

3. "Metsänpeitto" - 0:58

4. "Persona Mortuae Cutis" - 5:52

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Aarni / Umbra Nihil Split

Aarni's split CD with Umbra Nihil

Aarni / Umbra Nihil Split was released through Firebox Records in 2002. Image File history File links Aarni_Split. ... Image File history File links Aarni_Split. ... Firebox logo. ... See also: 2002 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2002 Record labels established in 2002 other events of 2002 list of years in music 2000s in music // 2002 was marked by significant trends in Rock Music. ...

Track listing:

• Aarni

1. "Ubbo-Sathla" - 3:37

2. "Myrrys" - 5:00

3. "Transcend Humanity" - 12:00

4. "Liber Umbrarum vel Coniunctio" - 6:18

5. "Reaching Azathoth" - 11:55

6. "Anima" - 4:14

• Umbra Nihil

7. "Follow and Believe / Fall Without Relief" - 9:12

8. "A Mere Shell" - 8:25

9. "My Way to the Lakeshore" - 2:04

10. "Determination" - 7:09

11. "Water in Lungs" - 8:31

Anima, in Jungian psychology: 1. ...

Duumipeikon paluu

Aarni's 2002 demo

Duumipeikon paluu was released independently by Aarni in 2002. Image File history File links Aarni_Duumi. ... Image File history File links Aarni_Duumi. ...

Track listing:

1. "Myrrys" - 5:00

2. "Lampaan Vaatteissa" - 6:03

3. "The Weird of Vipunen" - 7:22

4. "Transcend Humanity" - 12:00

5. "Reaching Azathoth" - 11:55

Duumipeikon paluu and Demo 2001 were re-released together in 2003.^[24] "Duumipeikon paluu" translated from Finnish means "The Return of Doomintroll".

Bathos

Aarni's first full-length album, Bathos

Bathos was released through Firedoom Music, a sub-label of Firebox Records, in November 8, 2004.^[25] Image File history File links Aarni_Bathos. ... Image File history File links Aarni_Bathos. ... Bathos is the first full-length album by the Finnish avant garde metal band Aarni. ... Firebox Records is a Finnish record label based in Seinäjoki, Southern Ostrobothnia. ... Firebox logo. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Track listing:

1. "Ονειροσκόπος (Oneiroskopos)" - 1:31

2. "Squaring The Circle" - 7:50

3. "Quinotaurus (Twelve Stars In Sight)" - 3:48

4. "Kivijumala" - 11:45

5. "V.I.T.R.I.O.L." - 6:33

6. "The Thunder, Perfect Mindfuck" - 8:32

7. "Mental Fugue" - 6:49

8. "Niut Net Meru" - 9:20

9. "Kesäyö" - 8:59

Vilpir from Umbra Nihil played session drums on the album. Oneiroscopy means interpretation of dreams. V.I.T.R.I.O.L. is an acronym for "Visita interiora terrae rectificandoque invenies occultum lapidem" in Latin, meaning "Visit the innermost of the earth and by rectifying what is there, you will find the hidden stone."^[26] The Thunder, Perfect Mindfuck is a reference to the gnostic poem The Thunder, Perfect Mind. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in 1945. ...

Pandemia

Pandemia is the name of a song by Aarni that was only released on internet, available only on the official Aarni website. It was originally recorded in 2002, and was later remixed and released on the internet in July 2003.

References

Encyclopaedia Metallum logo Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. ... Encyclopaedia Metallum logo Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. ... Encyclopaedia Metallum logo Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. ... Encyclopaedia Metallum logo Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. ...

External links

• Official website
• Official MySpace entry
• Aarni at Encyclopaedia Metallum