Finland, the country of the 10.000 lakes, wilderness and midnnight sun and and and.... but also of some very good rockacts. One of these groups is Waltari, who are already going for more than 15 years. In the beginning, they were purely into thrashmetal. But with the years the underwent a certain develop, which is rather interesting, combining various influences of other musical styles with their music. So when you listen to a concert of this finnish band, then it can easely happen, that you'll get a tekkno beat thrown round your ears, or housemusic tunes are coming out of the speakers. The whole thing is a cocktail of different ingredients, well mixed and heavily shaked. And during the set the  question is always there, what comes next. Unfortunately, once again, only aprox. 70 fans have found their way into our Garage club. But however, those 70 souls are grateful to the band with a whole lot of enthusiasm. Like their music, Waltari seems to be an excentric bunch of guys, whether it's there music or their look. At least what's up to the singe and the guitarist. Kärtsy Hatakka still reminds me slightly at the young Ronnie James Dio. Only the red hair and his height is a bit different. But the hairstyle is literatually his brand.
 
To make it short, Waltari still are a first-class rockband, who got themselves a individual status, sounding quite different to the average Heavy Metal bands, because of the extraordinary kinda interpretation of several musicstyles, - as I mentioned it before. The setlist includes tracks of most of their records. Although, exspecially the very excentric songs, are the one's which stick out here. - Waltari got a whole lotta choice anyway, having recorded already 14 albums so far, and the very new one named "Blood Sample" should be out by next march, followed by another tour. And hopefully they'll be back to here as well. With a little bit more promotion, hopefully all our bavarian musiclovers will wake up and have a taste of this band. Very good indeed boys. Individuallity is your goal. And a gig of this kind, won't be forgotten that quickly. So - please come back - won't ya'?!!!