Torture Killer is a Finnish
death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, feat ...
band from
Turku
Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...
, formed in 2002.
The band consists of five members: guitarists Jari Laine and Tuomas Karppinen, bassist Kim Torniainen, drummer Tuomo Latvala and the current vocalist Pessi Haltsonen. The band was originally a
Six Feet Under cover band adopting their moniker from a Six Feet Under song, but soon began composing and performing original material in the same vein.
Chris Barnes, the original singer for
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band formed in Buffalo, New York in 1988, now based out of Tampa, Florida. The band has released fifteen studio albums, two box sets, four video albums, and two live albums. The band has had little radi ...
and current singer for Six Feet Under, officially joined Torture Killer as lead singer in November 2005 and was a part of the recording of the album ''Swarm!''. He left the band in January 2008. Barnes was not involved with their live performances while a part of the band.
The partnership with Barnes continued after the Swarm! period with Jari Laine writing the music for three songs on the 2013 Six Feet Under album ''
Unborn'': "Incision"; "Inferno"; "Zombie Blood Curse". A fourth, unreleased Laine-penned track from the Unborn period, "Midnight In Hell", was eventually released on the 2018 digital Six Feet Under album, "Unburied".
Barnes also contributed the lyrics and vocals to the track "Written in Blood" on the 2013 Torture Killer album ''Phobia''.
In June 2022, the band released the title track to their upcoming EP, ''Dead Inside'', which was released on July 29.
Members
Current
*Jari Laine – guitar (2002–present)
*Tuomo Latvala – drums (2002–present)
*Tuomas Karppinen – guitar (2004–present), bass (2002–2004)
*Kim Torniainen – bass (2004–present)
*Pessi "Nekrosis" Haltsonen – vocals (2011–present)
Former
*Matti Liuke – vocals (2002–2004)
*Taneli Hatakka – guitar (2002–2004)
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Chris Barnes – vocals (2005–2008)
*Juri Sallinen – vocals (2008–2011)
Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
* ''For Maggots to Devour'' (2003)
* ''Swarm!'' (2006)
* ''Sewers'' (2009)
* ''Phobia'' (2013)
EPs
* ''Torture Killer/Sotajumala'' (2005)
(split EP
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w/ Sotajumala
Sotajumala (Finnish for ''"Wargod"'') was a Finnish death metal band from Jyväskylä, formed in 1998. The band has released four albums, two maxi singles, one single and one split EP (with Torture Killer). They have played a lot of shows in t ...
)
* ''I Chose Death'' (2012)
* ''Dead Inside'' (2022)
References
External links
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Finnish death metal musical groups
Metal Blade Records artists
Musical groups established in 2002
2002 establishments in Finland
Musical groups from Turku