Hard Rock Rising Competition

The Hard Rock Rising Competition is an event that is organised world wide by Hard Rock Café. Super great underground rock bands are battling against each other in every Hard Rock Café. The winner from the finals from each city are competing later on international. Yesterday night Helsinki, Finland had the second Heat of bands. Amazing judges were following the show: Andy McCoy (Hanoi Rocks/Grease Helmet), Pasi (The 69 Eyes), Tuukka Hämäläinen (Rytmi Magazine) and Niko (Amorphis). Hosted was the event by Nathan (Sonic Syndicate).

That night it was Face of God´s turn to show where they belong. An amazing audience engagement and the perfect rock´n´roll mood were presented in a full house. Face of God got supported by lot of fans that night. And for that a big thank you too all of you. The sound and the dynamic live show impressed the judges a lot. Andy McCoy comment later on: "In that band i see the future, the others are going under".

Face of God had strong competitors with Raaka-Aine and Freddi Waselius, but they definitely staged the best show of that night. Also just positive comments from the judges came up, Pasi 69 eyes was impressed of the young and talented bass player Benjamin and complimented him. Andy McCoy loved the frontman Leo Stillmann. And also Oscar did a great job with playing drums. Face of God they are just a trio but they are cooperating so perfectly with each other on stage that they sound like there are still 2 people more with them. The audience was impressed of the show, the fans enjoyed dancing and singing their favourite lyrics and a big applaus went to the judges for their positive comments. A very great night and the announcement later on that Face of God not just won the competition, but that they scored also very high against the other bands was the best compliment of the whole night.

There was a reason to celebrate. 

Face of God @ Bar Bäkkäri VepsäFest Vol. 1

Saturday night Face of God played @ VepsäFest. They played after three other bands in the famous Bäkkäri’s Green Room. The alternative rock trio from Helsinki heated the stage with their dynamic attitude.

After the first song, “Alive Dead Monkey”, the crowd started to feel the vibe, but with the famous song Elephant (included in 3 Simoa OST) they hit the heart of the audience.
From that moment the concert was a party that continued with some other Face of God hits like the latest single “Born To Lose” or the also well known “Paranormal Whorebomb”.

After a couple of songs frontman Leo Stillman thanked the audience and the end of the concert was coming, only one more track “Black in the Night” rocked the end of the show. After almost one hour dynamic live performance the band left the stage and we wanted to enjoy more.

Text and pictures: Irene Benavides (FOG Streetteam Spain), thank you Irene! 

Setlist of the night:
Alive Dead Monkey
The Sky is in Flames
Elephant
Whales on the Sand
Born to Lose
Bad
Fire
Price of Glory
Paranormal Whorebomb
Black In the Night

Face of God @ Paksu

Yesterday night in the snowstorm of Helsinki the restaurant, bar and nightclub Paksu was open and the cosy atmosphere were welcoming the guests. Face of God was performing that night. From the cold into the warm also if front man Leo Stillman needed to get use to the Finnish climate again after 2 weeks of Caribbean. Normally showing up without shirt on stage he was even wearing his leader jacket on top of his normal shirt. Yes it was freezing but it heated up quite fast. Bassist Benjamin was the first who got rid of his shirt and after a couple of great Face of God songs also Leo took of the jacket. The girls in the room were clapping their hands, just drummer Oscu was missing. He didn´t impressed with taking his shirt of but he gave a brilliant drum solo to it´s best. The show that night was great the fans enjoyed it and family and friends of Face of God supported them as well. "Whales on the sand" was an amazing closing song and the trio rocked it out and we all enjoyed to watch the show! Thank you Face of God!