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FALCHION
CURRENT NAME	Falchion
FORMER NAMES	-
ORIGIN	Finland
STATUS	Active
FORMED IN	-
LABEL	World Chaos Production
GENRE	Folk music; Metal
STYLE	-
LYRICAL THEME	-
BAND ADDED	2005-01-23, 00:00
LAST UPDATE	2005-01-23, 00:00

Band biography

Falchion's music is often called folk-inspired pagan/viking metal. Band has founded in May 2002 in Lahti Finland by Juho Kauppinen (lead guitars, vocals), Joonas Simonen (keyboards) and Ville Vehviläinen (drums). A bass player Seppo Tiaskorpi joined Falchion in December 2002. Also Sami Heinonen joined Falchion in March 2003 as a rhythm guitar player. This composition stayed from March 2003 till October 2003, but it has changed after that.

Falchion started to record their first demo cd "Glory of the sword" in June 2003 with Juha Kallas at LYK school studio, Lahti. It had finished not until November 2003, because Ville Vehviläinen didn't play all his parts for the demo because he went to army. He lost his motivation for the band. So did Joonas Simonen. Ville Vehviläinen, Sami Heinonen and Joonas Simonen left Falchion in October. Falchion got Teemu Peltonen as a drum player and Jani Laine as a rhythm guitar player in October 2003. Teemu Peltonen recorded the rest of the drums for the demo in November. Falchion decided to continue without keyboard player.

Band signed one album with Japanese label World Chaos Production in December 2003. The recording of their debut album "Legacy of heathens" started in June 2004 at Studio Watercastle, Jyväskylä with Arttu Sarvanne. The recordings lasted 9 days and Arttu Sarvanne had professional touch in the studio. He mixed album 8 days. "Legacy of heathens" went to its mastering session in October. It was mastered by Timo Lehtimäki in Studio 57, Alaveteli.

Sami Heinonen had joined back to Falchion in September 2004 as the third guitar player. Juho Kauppinen added accordion to band and he decided to play both guitar and accordion with vocals..

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Juho Kauppinen	2002-	Accordion, guitars, vocals	See also Demonic Cremation, Korpiklaani
Jani Laine	2003-	Guitars	See also Crodonium, Demonic Cremation
Sami Heinonen	2003-2003, 2004-	Guitars
Seppo Tiaskorpi	2002-	Bass
Teemu Peltonen	2003-	Drums

Former members Add - Fetch
Joonas Simonen	2002-2003	Keyboards
Ville Vehviläinen	2002-2003	Drums	See also Waltari

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Unknown / none

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Official releases Add
2003	Glory Of The Sword	No label
2005	Legacy Of Heathens	World Chaos Production

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