CIRCLE
2005. Finnish front runner of the PSYCHEDELIC/KRAUT/SPACE/TRANCE- rock scene of today with a blasting heavy guitar drenched album. 4 tracks only but 1 of them is spanning over 24 minutes, A true heavy psychedelic te..
KEUHKOT
1990. This artist for years already has his very own universe consisting of exhibitions, performances and recordings. Be prepared for imaginative sounds and rhythms from ethnic instruments and industrial sounds. Thi..
PLAIN RIDE
2005. New on EKTRO, debut by this Finnish band, musically mixing LED ZEPPELIN with NICK DRAKE drenched in country/folk like influence. Very weird, but exciting. A suspected involvement of members of CIRCLE!!
CIRCLE
1990. Exploding walls of psychedelic guitars, "ingenious pop compositions", motorik krautrock, melodic harmonies, intensive riffs and ecstatic vocal performances? This album does NOT contain any of the thi..
KUUSUMUN PROFEETTA
2006. This multi artistic band from Pori have on this album gone partly back to the peaceful, acoustic moods of their first couple albums in Finnish language, but they also have something new to offer. The orchestra..
TAPIO JORMA
2006. Noice instruments sad to say, but armed with flutes, bells, voices, kantele, percussion, Jew's harp and lots and lots of drums, these two whip up a super wild and wooly, ultra dense blast of what we can only d..
ANDROMELOS
2006. Andromelos is a psychedelic supergroup formed by kawabata makoto (acid mothers temple, nishinihon, musica transonic, mainliner, gong. . . ), yamazaki maso (masonna, ..
KRYPT AXERIPPER
2007. What's that I hear? The Earth itself shakes and shivers, as if in fear! There's an evil sound, carried by the wind... The sound of a thousand thundering hooves, galloping on a field of broken bones and helmets..
PLAIN RIDE
2007. 2nd album by this Finnish band, musically mixing LED ZEPPELIN with NICK DRAKE drenched in country/folk like influence. Very weird, but exciting.
CIRCLE
2007. Meronia, Circle's long out-of-print debut album (originally released by Bad Vugum in 1994) has now been re-released by Ektro Records. This new version features updated album artwork and has been digitally rema..
STEEL MAMMOTH
2007. Classic debut album. Refreshing like a cool breeze on a burning post nuclear holocaust desert, Atomic Mountain never fails to strengthen the world-weary warrior spirit. Intensive desert rock grooves riding on ..
STEEL MAMMOTH
2007. Nwofhm!!! "a lonesome engine cries, howling in the cruel night! nuclear nightmare, atomic style! shadow barbarians with lazer eyes, radiation village, the black fire burning bright! steel mammo..
CIRCLE
2007. Rakennus - approximately the seventh full length Circle release this year - is an hour-long snapshot of the band's recent tour of the USA. The concert (recorded in September in Charlottesville, Virginia) thund..
TRACTOR PULLING
2007. Circle, Pharaoh Overls familiar to NWOFHM warriors will find a new omrade standing in their ranks, when Ektro releases the debut single of Tractor Pulling. "Ghost Hungerland" will enter record stores..
MOTORSPANDEX
2008. Black Hole, Torment Star, Sterilized... Listening to side A of Motorspandex's debut 7" can be a traumatizing experience: the very moment the needle touches the vinyl, black smoke begins to fill the room. ..
KUUSUMUN PROFEETTA
2008. New album by this multi artistic band from Pori. On their earlier works, Kuusumun Profeetta has melted nuances of folk, jazz, progressive rock and heavy metal to their highly original musical universe. On thei..
QUEST FOR BLOOD
2008. Quest for Bloods firm basis is the black metal band Magane. Even when the natural Asian elements and experimental spices gave them distance to the nekroic primitivity of your every-day-dose black metal filth, ..
CIRCLE
2008. Circle: No beginning and no end, and when you think youve come upon the conclusion youre back at the start. Perhaps this describes Circle's compositional work ethic more than anything. Circle is a west coast r..
ROYHKA JA RATTO JA LEHTIS
2009. Kauko Royhka, Mikka Ratto and Jussi Lehtisalo (bassist of CIRCLE) began collaborating on an album last year. "Hiekkarantaa" is the debut album of this band.
LUSIFERIININ ARMOSTA
2009. Lusiferiinin Armosta is a trio which comprises guitarist/vocalist Jussi Lehtisalo (of Circle, Pharaoh Overlord and Ratto ja Lehtisalo) and the fumbling rhythm section of Tuomas Laurila and Eetu Henttonen. The ..
MUSIIKKIVYORY
2009. Ektro Records is thrilled to release Tulemme sokeiksi ("We're Becoming Blind"), a retrospective CD compiling material by Musiikkivyöry ("music avalanche"). In addition to being a curio..
RATTO MIKA
2009. The experimental solo album of avant-gardist Mika Ratto (Circle, Kuusumun Profeetta). The album was originally recorded back in 1996 and is available for the first time as a CD release on Ektro Records.
PLAIN RIDE
2009. The third Plain Ride album House on the Hill stretches the band's folk rock expression from decidedly bare, introspective and concentrated recitations to immersive layered washes of psychedelic rock tsunami; f..
CIRCLE
2010. Circle is ever changing, ever Circular. On Rautatie the band is now a six-piece - once again dives into uncharted waters of music, into a miasma of influences that feels vaguely familiar but, in an uncanny way..
LAIVUE
2010. Finish band making their debit on Ektro. The atmospheric pop, the determined experimentality and the almost disturbingly noisy rock, being the main elements Laivue has been associated with, have been carefully..
PHARAOH OVERLORD
2010. Pharaoh Overlord - masters of rigid hypnotic riffing and overlords of rock'n'roll repetition - surprise everybody on their latest offering by propelling themselves head first into three lengthy surreal partitu..
RATTO JA LEHTISALO
2010. 2010 album by Finnish duo consiting of Jussy lehtisalo and Mika Ratto of CIRCLE!!
PHARAOH OVERLORD
2011. Finnish independent recording artists Pharaoh Overlord, who have been working on the dark side of post rock for a decade, have taken a sharp, unexpected turn into the heart of true heavy metal, making the Ektr..
PLAIN RIDE
2011. Plain Ride is a Finnish band, led by singer / guitarist / songwriter Janne Westerlund, also known from Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Chainsmoker, and Sweetheart. Plain Ride was formed in 2004. The music of Plain R..
KEUHKOT
2012. The sixth struggle album of Kake Puhuu. The combat noise and insect world music downpreaching book. Rawer than its precursors, this album strips it down to marrow and squeezes juice out of it. Keuhkot batters ..
