''Harsoinen teräs'' is the third and final album of Hassisen Kone, released in

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. Musically, the album has a

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twist to it. The songs are more complicated than on the group's two previous albums, and the band's lineup was expanded to seven people for this album, featuring a new guitarist Jukka Orma (who later continued with

Ismo Alanko Ismo Kullervo Alanko (; born November 12, 1960) is a Finnish musician. He is known as the frontman of several bands, most famously Hassisen Kone, Sielun Veljet and Ismo Alanko Säätiö, as well as a successful solo artist. Alanko is known f ...

Sielun Veljet Sielun Veljet () was a Finnish rock band of the 1980s. They were formed soon after the disbanding of Hassisen Kone by its former frontman Ismo Alanko. Sielun Veljet never achieved the fame or the record sales figures of Hassisen Kone, but they ...

saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

Antti Seppo,

keyboardist A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instr ...

Safka Pekkonen and

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Hannu Porkka.

Track listing

All songs by Alanko.Harsoinen teräs
on aanitearkisto,fi database - Retrieved on March 6, 2008 # "Harsoinen teräs"—4:40 # "Kupla kimaltaa"—3:30 # "Levottomat jalat"—3:04 # "Totuus"—5:35 # "Eksyneet lampaat"—2:37 # "Julkinen eläin"—3:50 # "Kuollut eläköön"—4:44 # "Olen toki, vain sen tiedän"—4:15 # "Pelko"—6:21

English edition

The track list of an English language edition (which has only vocal tracks redubbed) is slightly different, replacing some tracks with songs from previous releases. # High Tension Wire (Harsoinen teräs) —04:51 # Gold Bricks (Muoviruusuja omenapuissa) —04:00 # Bubbles in the Stream (Kupla kimaltaa) —03:42 # Truth (Totuus) —05:33 # Blood Runs Slow (Hiljaa virtaa veri) —05:19 # Walking Fever (Levottomat jalat) —03:05 # Beast in the Window (Julkinen eläin) —03:52 # Panic (Pelko) —06:57

Personnel

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* Jukka Orma --

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* Jussi Kinnunen --

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backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

* Safka Pekkonen --

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, backing vocals * Hannu Porkka --

xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Antti Seppo --

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

* Harri Kinnunen --

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References

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