This heavy metal band is breeding from Kalajoki, Finland. From these melancholic ostrobothnian roots comes iRonica, that has already with mothers milk gotten enough anger and pain to write music about. In 1999 iRonica was founded, and since the band has grown stronger and today is one of the most unique combinations of aggressive melodic metal with female vocals.
iRonica's debut album Consequences was released in 2007, and it collected a good amount of praising reviews, and this album was also released in Japan by EMI in 2008. All of iRonica's singles have climbed up to finnish single charts, and in 2009 the new single Dive from the second album Vivere has been one of the most played songs in Finnish rock clubs since it was released. Ironica has shot one music video from the single Make Me Whole Again, and in April 2009 the new music video from the single "Dive" was out, it can be found on iRonica's MySpace or on youtube! The video was directed by Wille Hyvönen, and it was created by Filmfly. Ironica has also got plenty of airplay in Finland and also some in Europe.
iRonica has also gotten much praise of its live shows, and energetic performances with skilled musicians have been a good proof of iRonica's live condition. The band has performed in rock & metal clubs around Finland, and also in big rock & metal festivals including legendary metal & rock festivals such as Nummirock & Myötätuulirock. With the new album Vivere (2009), one of the band's aims is to do shows abroad and release the album abroad as well.
The new album Vivere was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, The 69 Eyes, Amorphis etc.) and has brought the aggressive metal with nasty guitar riffs, massive keyboards, unique female vocals and catchy melodies, which all combined are something that really gives a fresh view to modern metal.
Band's guitarist and songwriter Ville Nepal Palin tells about Vivere:
Right from the beginning of the recordings of Vivere we were really exited, cos' we knew that his album will be really tight package. The new album is, in every way, more aggressive and heavier than our debut. But it still sounds like us; very melodic and energetic. Influences from melodic death metal through trash to pure heavy metal combined to Elina's unique voice and aggressive vocals will bring something fresh to the world of heavy metal. We really believe that bands like us cannot be found very easily.
ABOUT the NAME
Lets get back to year 1999 where three good friends thought that it would be cool to have a band. They got their instruments; Jani Paavola, our former & current bassist... picked the bass. And there was these two twin bro's. Esa & Jukka Rajala who both played guitar. And there! We have group of rebellious -like anyone on that age- guys, and we can say this is a band. What does band need to be a band? Skill? Talent? No, we have all heard ---insert name of British punk band from 70-80's here--- haven't we? Right answer, in this document, is a NAME! After a long brainstorm meeting with our three amigos, the name IRONIA was chosen. Ironia is Finnish and means exactly the same as IRONY in English. As a band with finnish name, lyrics we're naturally in finnish as well.
As millennium got closer, the music style changed from punkrock to a fast paced heavy metal. Due genre change there was also a swap in language from finnish to english, and Jukka switched guitar to keyboard. If that wasn't enough,IRONIA changed to IRONICA which mostly comes from english word ironical, not from Metallica or Iron Maiden or iPod or iPhone like many seem to think.
Source : http://www.ironicarocks.com/
