Biography

Alase is an atmospheric progressive metal/rock band from Finland. Their music is a melting pot of various genres, but the main focus is on the melody and atmosphere. There are a lot of influences outside metal music as well. Musically, Alase has similarities with bands like Katatonia, A Perfect Circle, The Ocean, Textures and Tesseract, just to name a few. Alase's speciality has always been that they have amazing guest vocalists. Band's latest release "Beyond Our Imagination" EP was released in February 2024.

Current line-up:

Guitars: Janne Lunnas
Bass: Ari Miettinen
Drums: Ville Aatsinki
Lyrics: Ninni Swan

VOCALISTS ON “BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION” EP (2024):
Omar Zouiter: Broken Pendulum
Rioghan Darcy: Love Crime
Juha Tretjakov: When?, A Night to Remember
Janne Lunnas: screaming vocals on Broken Pendulum & male vocals on Love Crime

VOCALISTS ON “A MATTER OF TIME” ALBUM (2023):
Juha Tretjakov: Understanding The Waves, Clear Sky Is Not a Curse,
Unburden, Life Ahead, The Source, Out of Place & Ajan kysymys
Markus Hirvonen: Fate’s Intervention
Janne Lunnas: Feeling Free, screaming vocals on Understanding The Waves,
Unburden & Out of Place + ambient & backing vocals on several songs

VOCALISTS ON VASTAUS ALBUM (2019):
Markus Hirvonen: Vastaus, Näkyvä & Riisuttu
Ville Nisunen: Binary Stars
Jani Ala-Hukkala: Osa minua
Eemeli Bodde: Screaming vocals on Vapaaksi merkitty
Sami Honkonen: Clean vocals on Vapaaksi merkitty

VOCALISTS ON SONGS RELEASED AS SINGLES:
Unburden (2021) - Vocals: Juha Tretjakov
Ajan kysymys (2021) - Vocals: Juha Tretjakov
Vailla nimeä (2021) - Vocals: Juha Tretjakov & Markus Hirvonen
Poissa silmistä (2020) - Vocals: Juha Tretjakov
Jäljet (2020) - Vocals: Markus Hirvonen
Vielä (2017) - Vocals: Markus Hirvonen
On jatkettava (2016) - Growls: Ari Nieminen (Whorion, Dauntless and Hanging Garden), Clean vocals: Ville Saloranta, Screams: Janne Lunnas
Kidukset (2016) – Vocals: Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow The Sun), Backing vocals: Markus Hirvonen
Utopian hellimät (2016) – Vocals: Markus Hirvonen
Erehdykseni (2015) – Clean vocals: Juha Simola (Owler), Screams: Jouni Koskela (Clock Paradox & Abysmalia)
Sanaton syytös (2015) – Vocals: Marko Eskola (Crystalic), Growls: Jukka Marjoniemi