Widescreen Mode

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Widescreen Mode

Background information
Origin Riihimäki, Finland Flag of Finland
Genre(s) Rock
Metal
Years active 2003 - present
Label(s) Dark Sentiments Records
Playground Music Scandinavia
Website Official MySpace
Official Website
Members
Samu Brusila
Janne Aaltonen
Janne Stenroos
Janne Lahtinen

Widescreen Mode (commonly abbreviated as WSM) is a heavy melodic band from Riihimäki, Finland.

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[edit] History

Widescreen Mode’s members are no strangers to playing together, the four-some originally formed the band Fairlane until career decisions in the 1990s forced them to split up and move on. When drummer Janne Aaltonen and singer Samu Brusila both moved back to Riihimäki they began discussing the possibility of forming another band. But, in the words of singer Brusila they were just that; discussions. Finally Aaltonen’s fiancé intervened; tired of hearing them discuss it but never do anything about it.

The band was once again together, and in 2005 they released a demo EP and soon were playing important festivals and shows both in Finland and around Europe, supporting bands like Paradise Lost, the Cardigans, Anathema, and Die Krupps. In 2006, Widescreen Mode made it to the final round of the MTV-E unsigned competition out of 1,700 competing bands. Since then they have amassed 69,000 fans worldwide on MySpace and rank among the online community's four most popular Finnish bands along with HIM, Children of Bodom, and The 69 Eyes.

Widescreen Mode's debut record Until the End was mixed by Anssi Kippo, who has engineered gold albums for Children of Bodom and Finnish Idol winner Hanna Pakarinen.

[edit] Band members

[edit] Current line-up

[edit] Discography

Date of Release Title Label
2007 Until the End Dark Sentiments

[edit] Music videos

  • "Another Day" from Another Day EP
  • "Everlasting Bomb" from Until the End

[edit] Singles

  • 2007 Everlasting Bomb (Dark Sentiment Records)

[edit] External links