Ruoska (In Finnish "a whip") is a Finnish industrial metal band from the Juva municipality. One of the factors making them greatly stand out from those bands to those who listen to them, however, is singer Patrik Mennander's combination of low, growling speech and conventional singing. The lyrics are exclusively in Finnish.

Before becoming Ruoska, the band was Natsipaska.

Ruoska released their fifth studio album Rabies on April 9, 2008.


Ruoska was formed in 2002, with some of the same members from the previous comical rock band Natsipaska. They released their debut album Kuori the same year. Fans and critics, immediately recognized a new type of music in this band, and grew to be very loyal to these new musicians. After having made two music videos, being "Kiroan" and "Epilogi", and releasing one single, "Aurinko ei Nouse", the band returned to the studio and recorded their second album, Riisu in 2003, from which came one single: "Darmstadt". After this release, Ruoska established a sound that had a much more industrial sound and had more machines involved. Their popularity took a big step forward when Till Lindemann, lead singer of the German industrial metal band Rammstein, commented in a Finnish magazine interview on the new single "Darmstadt" by saying that it was "most noticeable". After doing a few gigs, the Ruoska's lead singer Patrik Mennander decided to join the Finnish symphonic metal Battlelore for awhile. After returning to the growing industrial metal band, Mennander and Ruoska started working on a new album, and shortly after that, in 2005, Radium was released. The new album, which had a bold new electronic-pop metal sound and from which one single and music video came out "Tuonen Viemää", which brought a lot of new fans to the band, and they started to have new larger gigs. Then, Ruoska had to make a difficult decision by changing from Kråklund Records to a multinational recording company, EMI Music. When they went back to the studio, and now having to impress more fans than ever before, Ruoska created a new unique sound that was represented by their new album, Amortem in 2006. The singles "Mies yli Laidan", "Alasin" and "Pure Minua" were huge hits, and "Mies yli Laidan" and "Alasin" were turned into music videos, "Mies yli Laidan" being immediately very popular. The album itself debuted at sixth place in Finnish radio charts for almost 10 weeks. Unfortunately, after the release of Amortem, one of the band's guitarists Kai Ahvenranta left the band to be more with his family. The band grew bigger than ever before and, now with some new die-hard fans, Ruoska had a few major gigs, such as Puustock 2007 and Välipuistorock 2007. Ruoska's fifth album Rabies was released on April 9, 2008. Their two singles "Pirunkieli" and "Helvettiin Jäätynyt" from the new album are already starting to be big hits, and their music video is going to be for "Ei Koskaan". Ruoska have continued making live shows, and their success never stops spreading all across Europe, and even in the U.S., in Mexico and South America as well.



Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruoska