There is no end to the good news from the Warmen camp. The band reported back at the end of last year and announced a brand new studio album for 2023. After the band re-released their last studio album First Of The Five Elements (2014) in March, they announced the first line-up change shortly afterwards via social media. Seppo Tarvainen succeeds Mirka Rantanen on drums.
Mirka comments: "After 24 years I am happy to have Seppo as my successor and I think he is definitely the right man for the job. Good luck Seppo and Warmen!"
Today, the band can now confirm the complete line-up and introduce their new singer: Petri Lindroos from Ensiferum.
Warmen explains: "Due to the recent more aggressive style of songwriting, we were faced with the question of who should be the singer for the new album. After much deliberation, we contacted Petri as Janne has known him for ages and we thought he would be a perfect fit. We are so excited to announce Petri as the lead singer for our upcoming album. We also think Petri would be perfect for live shows so stay tuned for more updates on the new album!"
Peter adds: "The Wirman brothers messaged me and asked if I would be interested in singing on their new album and I said of course I would. That sounds like a very cool thing and also very metal."
The band is currently in the middle of recording their new, untitled album, due out later this year through Reaper Entertainment.
Warmen started as a solo project of Janne "Warman" Wirman and when the keyboardist wasn't traveling the world with Children Of Bodom, he was regularly recording albums with his brother Antti Wirman (guitar), Jyri Helko (bass) and Mirka Rantanen (drums, Kotipelto, ex-Hevisaurus).
After the much too early end of Children Of Bodom and the tragic death of Alexi Laiho, Janne together with his brother Antti found their way back to music through Warmen. The band recently signed a worldwide record deal with Reaper Entertainment.
Janne comments: "After the abrupt ending of Children Of Bodom I wasn’t sure if I'd ever make music again. We did a couple of songwriting sessions last year with my brother and Jyri and I realized that I still have a lot of desire for music and together we wrote an album of exiting new stuff. We teamed up with Flori and Greg from the Reaper Entertainment as I had worked with them before with great results and knew they understood my past with Bodom and where we wanted to go next with Warmen."
The last official album, First Of The Five Elements, was initially released in 2014 via the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic, which however ceased operations shortly thereafter. Since very few copies of the album hit the market, Reaper Entertainment is now re-releasing the album today (March 17th) to shorten the wait for the new album. The direction of the material is classically inspired power metal, but similar to Children Of Bodom, the focus of Warmen is on the interplay of guitar and keyboard perfected by the Wirman brothers.
In addition to ten original songs, cover versions of Madonna and Alice Cooper provide surprises and for the vocals on First Of The Five Elements the quartet was able to win Pasi Rantanen (Thunderstone), Jonna Kosonen and the too early deceased Alexi Laiho (Children Of Bodom) as guest musicians.
Check out the new visualizer for "Suck My Attitutde" featuring Alexi Laiho.
