Blind Stare was formed in 1999 by the guitarists Anders Öström, Heikki Raisio and drummer Henry Valkonen. Soon after that bass player Tuomas joined the group.
At spring 2001 Eino joined the band as vocalist. At the time Blind Stare was playing melodic metal with melodeath influences. At the dusk 2001 Sakari joined us as a keyboard player and the music was changing to more epic melodeath.

After 3 months of that, without any rehearsal Eino, Anders and Sakari decided that it would be better if Henry, Heikki and Tuomas were no longer part of the band.

Jaakko joined the group right away as a guitar player and rehearsals took part again and Anders started to wrote much better songs than before. Soon after that Blind Stare recruited Timo as drummer and Kalle as bass player.

October 2002 the band recorded "Ender" demo-CD. After that it has been songwriting and rehearsal mostly, few gigs coming up soon and studio is also booked at August 2003.

August 2003. "Once a True Story" demo was recorded and published. With "OaTS" the band starts to get some underground reputation and good reviews also more gig offers. New songs coming up, even better again.

Between May and August 2004 the band recorded a new demo entitled "The Reborn Genius" (demo of the month in the wellknown finnish metal website Imperiumi.net.).

In October 2004 Blind Stare signs a deal with Arise Records. First result will be the recording of the Blind Stare´s debut album on X-Mas 2004/January 2005 to be released in April 2005. One of the most impressive newcomer bands from the finnish scene in the last years!

Recordings of the debut album titled "Symphony of Delusions" have been finished, at the Noisecamp/Musamuusa studios. It took two and a half months altogether, and definetly was worth it. Blind Stare has created a fresh package of melodic deathmetal with fantastic orchestral and synthetic sound worlds without forgetting the rawness of deathmetal. The CD will come with great illustrations by Jan Yrlund from Danse Macabre. Meanwhile three of the guys are doing their mandatory military service. No more hair!

Official biography