Taneli Jarva

Taneli Jarva
Born January 4, 1975
Oulu, Finland
Genres Gothic metal, Death metal, Thrash metal, Black metal, Heavy metal
Occupation(s) Singer, tattoo artist
Instruments Vocals, bass
Labels Century Media
Associated acts Sentenced
The Black League
Impaled Nazarene
Chaosbreed
Then Came Bronson

Taneli Jarva is a Finnish musician/tattoo artist born in Oulu, Northern Finland. He is a professional tattoo artist at Tatuata [1] in Helsinki. Jarva is best known as the vocalist/bassist in metal heavyweight Sentenced. He left the group in 1995 because he did not like the melodic direction the band was heading into, and therefore decided to move on to other projects. Ten years later, on Sentenced's last live gig in 2005 in Oulu, Jarva joined his former band mates once more to perform five songs from his era.

In 1998 Jarva formed The Black League, which he considers his "brainchild and live's work". The Black League publishes altogether five studio albums. The band was active until October 2014, when Jarva decided to call the band the quits due to "lost of personal inspiration".[2] However, he has not totally left the music scene. Currently he plays bass in Then Came Bronson,[3] a Helsinki-based grock group. Formerly, he was also the bassist for Impaled Nazarene (1992–1996) and vocalist in the old school death metal band Chaosbreed (2003–2005).

Music Style

His way of singing has gone through extreme changes over the course of years. In the beginning of his career with Sentenced he used high-pitched growling vocals serving the purpose of their Death Metal music, on the albums North from Here and the EP The Trooper (Iron Maiden Cover). On Amok his vocals were sort of a mixture of gruff and melodic singing. With his new band he has adopted many Rock'n'Roll elements.

References

  1. "Tatuata". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  2. "Jarva". Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  3. "Bronson". Retrieved 2014-10-06.