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Remains of the Day

"For sure the most pop and danceable but yet crushing stuff we've ever done. Big guitars, disco beats & atmospheres! We’ll do this by ourselves and we’ll make it fucking rock."

End Of You keyboardist/producer Johnny B. wrote that blog entry a few months before starting to record the band’s third full-length album. Although the group has grown significantly in its six-year existence—from a small band at Semifinal club to a big live monster act and a seasoned performer —there’s a consistency to the group that can’t be measured simply by record or ticket sales. "Remains Of The Day" may not initially sound like the same band that was born in the Helsinki goth/metal scene, but it inhabits the same spirit. It’s groovy, danceable, yet dark but truly catchy—all characteristics that the band and its fan base have come to expect over the last years. The true foundation of EOU.

"We still feel like we’re the same group as the one that did [2006 breakthrough album] "Unreal" back in the days frontman Jami Pietilä stated in an interview just before the album’s completion. "We could never write that record again, but as far as we’re motivated, we’re doing it the same way as we ever did. And the same emotions lie within the music. This time it was just a matter of taking some musical responsibility / freedom and producing it by ourselves. The results are overwhelming."

Remarkably, "ROTD" feels both like results of six years of hard work, talent and something that could only be created right now. It’s same time the most hopeful and yet melancholic piece of music band’s ever made. Musically challenging, personal and universal in every way. Easily the most divers but compact record and musical entity EOU has ever created. A heaviest pop album on the planet.

This is the most hard-hitting album in the band’s career. That fact is made abundantly clear and loud during the first single, "Star Parade". A heavy percussive disco drive, filled with dance synths and ridiculously catchy vocal hooks, featured by a sing-along choir at the end of the song, truly sets a pace for the rest of the album.

In the end, "Remains Of The Day" is simply the artistic statement End Of You wanted to make in 2010. End Of You continue to look toward the future and can't wait to see what the next few years have in store for them.

"Lot of hard work and sleepless nights was put into this record but we came out on the other end happier than ever just knowing that we've done this together and it was fun. We really love this record and this is just passage in the grand scheme." Watch out!



End of You - Band

The band’s rise has been the result of consistent hard work since Mr. Pietilä first met some of the bands current members Mr. Lehtinen (bass) and Mr. Karppanen (guitars) in Helsinki back in the days. After adding Mr. Keijonen to drums and Mr. Borodavkin to electronic department, End Of You was formed in 2004. They played their first show in Semifinal Club, Helsinki and were soon building a local fan base and also gathering lots of fans thru the internet. After just a few months of composing and gigging, the band had their first big break in early 2005, when Sami Tenetz got a copy of the highly acclaimed “Walking With No One”-demo. He was instantly struck by their talent and songs, and he immediately signed the band to the label, widely known as Spinefarm Records.

Unreal

Upon the release of their debut album, “UNREAL", in the beginning of 2006, the music community began to buzz and took immediate notice of songs and the band itself. The debut album gathered lots of killer reviews and much anticipated “Tour De Silencio” was roaming around the Finland throughout the 2006 keeping the rock clubs and dance floors busy!

Mimesis

In 2008, after two years and hundreds of hours of work it only took one listen to “MIMESIS” to see the depth of the band’s growth in the past couple years. Produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa (HIM, The 69 Eyes, Apocalyptica), the music had taken on a richer, deeper, more intense and sophisticated direction, without loosing any of the melodies and killer grooves that had been bands trademark from the very beginning.



Hilights

2003

End of You - BandIn the year of 2003 first cloned mammal Dolly the sheep dies. About the same time elsewhere rock-group End Of You turns into flesh. Some say there’s a connection between these two significant events and that the spirit of Dolly haunts and torments the souls in End Of You.

2005

An old air bomb from Second World War is found from a construction site near Mikkeli. The Year is 2005. Regardless of that or maybe therefore End Of You releases the hit single "Walking With No One"

2006

March 29th, 2006 End Of You strikes with debut album "Unreal" and a partial solar eclipse is arranged in order to celebrate the album! 44% of the suns diameter is eclipsed in Helsinki. "Complete solar eclipses are so damn hard to arrange that we had to settle for the partial one", tells an anonymous assistant from the bands organization. Nevertheless on Turkish soil the eclipse is presented as complete.

2008

March 26th, 2008 "You Deserve More" single.
April 23rd, 2008 Sophomore album Mimesis.

2009

April 15th, new drummer Otto Mäkelä
May 30th, new bass player Marko Borodavkin