Origin: Finland  
Genres: Doom Metal
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Page online: June 22, 2004
Last update/review: September 24, 2021

Skepticism

Finnish experimentalists Skepticism are one of the leading purveyors of the funeral doom subgenre. The songs contain little standard structure, and consist mostly of ultra-slow, droning riffs, minimalist percussion (often not drums in the traditional metal sense), and vocals that are raspy, growly, and haunting, yet somewhat subdued in their approach. The predominant instrument, though, is the keyboards, which often have that classic evil church organ sound that places the listener in the perfect frame of mind. This is not upbeat metal, and it's not headbanging metal, but what it is is wonderfully done, ambient sorrowful extreme music.

Current Members

Matti Tilaeus

vocals

Jani Kekarainen

guitars

Eero Pöyry

keyboards

Lasse Pelkonen

drums



Discography



Stormcrowfleet  
1995 Red Stream
  1. Sign of a Storm
  2. Pouring
  3. By Silent Wings
  4. The Rising of the Flames
  5. The Gallant Crow
  6. The Everdarkgreen
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



(MCD) Ethere  
1997 Red Stream
  1. The March and the Stream
  2. Aether
  3. Chorale
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



Lead And Aether  
1997 Red Stream
  1. The Organium
  2. The March and the Stream
  3. The Falls
  4. Forge
  5. -Edges-
  6. Aether
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



Aes  
1998 Red Stream
  1. Aes
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



(MCD) The Process Of Farmakon  
2002 Red Stream
  1. The Backward Funeral And The Raven
  2. The Process Of Farmakon
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



Farmakon  
2003 Red Stream
  1. The Raven and the Backward Funeral
  2. Shred of light, Pinch of endless
  3. Farmakon Process
  4. (untitled)
  5. Nowhere
  6. Nothing
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



Alloy  
2008 Red Stream
  1. The Arrival
  2. March October
  3. Antimony
  4. The Curtain
  5. Pendulum
  6. Oars in the Dusk
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



Ordeal  
2015 Svart
  1. You
  2. Momentary
  3. The Departure
  4. March Incomplete
  5. The Road
  6. Closing Music
  7. Pouring
  8. The March and the Stream
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen



Companion  
2021 Svart
  1. Calla
  2. The Intertwined
  3. The March of the Four
  4. Passage
  5. The Inevitable
  6. The Swan and the Raven
  • Matti Tilaeus
  • Jani Kekarainen
  • Eero Pöyry
  • Lasse Pelkonen




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