It’s been a while since Rocked Out properly. If you come here often, you’ll know what this series is about. If you don’t, it’s about recognizing Metal’s roots in Rock and respecting the quality music that’s being made in that genre. Of course there’s a lot of shit being made in Rock – as there is in Metal – but what we’re focusing on is the stuff that’s worth to waste your eardrums on.

Today we’ve got a Finnish band, called Fall of the Leafe, suggested to us by Rufio. Unfortunately I had to learn this band is no longer together. They existed between 1996 and 2007 and then each went his way. Vocalist Tuomas Tuominen for example ended up with The Man-Eating Tree. Earlier, he also contributed the clean vocals on Noumena’s 2005 Absence album.

Rufio suggested a track off the band’s last album, 2007’s Aerolithe. I’ve only heard the one track and don’t know what the rest of the album sounds like – though I will eventually, because that one track landed it an immediate position on my ‘to-buy’ list – but that one song we have to classify as Rock. I’m hearing clean vocals only, a lot of open chords, very limited amounts of palm muting, and steady strumming chord schemes.

Still, the band can be found on Encyclopaedia Metallum. Perhaps that’s due to their earlier stuff being more Metal, or perhaps I’ve just got one Rocky song by the balls. Whatever it is, I don’t fuckin’ care, as today I’ll feed you Rock. Solid rock with heavy distortion and a damned-shit-fuckin’ catchy chorus! Listen to All the Good Faith.

If you like visiting relics of ages past, you can visit the band’s still operative but no longer updated MySpace.

Tags: Finnish, gothic, rock, Rockin' Out

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