King Weird is a heavy-rock band from Helsinki, Finland. King Weird's music can best be described as heavy riffing with hooky melodic vocals, if you've ever liked bands such as Alice In Chains, Corrosion Of Conformity, Soundgarden or Alice Cooper, King Weird will please you well.
The band was formed in 2007 by Pete Pohjanniemi and Jani Karvinen. Pete is also touring with longtime Finnish rockers Peer Günt and Jani is acting in National Finnish Theatre. Pete and Jani have also played in the same band Below Me, where they initially met in early 2000's. With the same goal in mind from the start and after Below Me was finished they started working on their debut King Weird album "I" released in 2007, which got good feedback. Not long after that it was time to put a whole working band together and after finding Tommi Koski (My Sobriety, Clumsy) and Kalle Könönen (My Sobriety, Clumsy) King Weird is a unit that is now active on playing live shows.
With the first very successfull gig behind, King Weird has released it's follow-up to "I" titled "Ballad Of Dirt", released March 9th, 2009 which delivers 10 uncompromising new songs with beautiful melodies and very heavy banging. Get your copy now and get your ass to the King Weird live shows.
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