Despite the members" young age, TOC (formerly known as Throne of Chaos) have travelled a long and winding musical way from the shores of Lake Bodom all the way to Loss Angeles.
The band was founded in the mid nineties by Taneli Kiljunen, Snake Laitinen, Joiku Harmaja and Rasmus Nora. They started their career with demos entitled "Equilibrium" and "Fata Morgana" which quickly lead to Spikefarm snatching them away from the open market. The band"s debut album "menace and prayer" was released in 1999, and was so successful that it was decided to move the band from Spike to Spinefarm Records. On their debut album TOC"s music was best described as keyboard driven old school black metal, dubbing TOC "Children of Bodom"s kid brother" for obvious reasons. Although this nickname brought the band some extra audience, it was found to be more of a burden than a blessing. With this in mind, TOC turned their heads towards new regions and started to prepare material for their next album, which turned out to be something very different and weird indeed...

For their second showdown entitled "Pervertigo", TOC headed into Göteborg"s legendary Studio Fredman. The recording session proved to be long and hard with the vocalist losing his voice among other trouble, but the resulting mixture of metal genres was a huge leap for the band. By combining different styles of metal music TOC categorized itself onto a genre of "impossible to define". "Pervertigo""s classical melodies and harmonized vocals had been sparkled with drops of sheer aggression and moments of death metal, reinforcing the album"s unstoppable groove and raising TOC into a league of their very own.

For their new album "Loss Angeles" TOC headed again to Studio Fredman, but this time the recordings had a more psychedelic aspect to them. The one-legged albino pigeons and such seen on the streets of Göteborg certainly brought their tang onto the lyrics and gave the music many never-before-tried twists. Although continuing on the same line of mixing all styles of metal, TOC chose to make this cake out of non-Pervertigo ingredients. Taking several pints of progressive metal and elements of rock, and mixing those with a couple of ounces of power-ish vocals and even small splashes of nightclub jazz, TOC created the melancholic but groovy story of love and crime that is "Loss Angeles".

"Loss Angeles" brings the band yet to another milestone on their career, and one can only wonder what this band has in store for us next... Dare you take (Official Site)

First albums (as Throne Of Chaos) are melodic death/black metal, the TOC sounds is as described above somewhat different.(MB)