Leo Stillman solo at Meri Rock 2013

The Rockstone Agency http://www.rockstone.fi/  organized a rock cruise from Helsinki to Tallinn and back on 19.01.2013 - 20.01.2013 with Viking line. Face of God´s front man Leo Stillman got invited to perform solo in acoustic on the boat. The festival on the sea was called "Merirock". Also the Riot Soul, Santa Cruz and Hybrid Children were performing together with a band from UK the Fallen on the main stage. In acoustic Leo Stillman from Face of God, Tom Eklund from Caroline and Annabella from Vanik Ink gave their voices to its best in the pub of the boat. Leo Stillman presented himself with a lot of fun on stage. It was very nice to listen to song´s like Diamond, God and Mercy which were not performed during the Helldone Festival 2012. When Leo Stillman is performing solo the facets of his voice shows even more. He played a very well acoustic show and ended it with a little joke as he performed a "Silja line" song... uuuuuppppsss it was Viking Line. Wrong boat, but we can forgive him this.
The next show of Face of God will be on the 25.01.2013 in Bar Bäkkäri, Sika fest. See you all there.

New Face of God Interviews

Interviews during the Helldone Festival 2012, check them out:

Online Magazine "Kulturen" Germany: http://194.95.94.164/wordpress/2013/01/band-face-of-god-im-interview/

Melodyofsoul blog "Interview": http://melodyofthesoul.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/an-interview-with-face-of-god/ 

Medlodyofsoul blog "Review from Helldone 2012": http://melodyofthesoul.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/helldone-2012/ 

The Spanish translation from Face of God street team Spain: 
http://faceofgodspain.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/entrevista-a-leo-y-benjamin-credits-melody-of-the-soul/

HIM street team Spain: http://himspain.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/him-spain-entrevista-a-leo-y-benjamin-de-face-of-god-despues-de-su-actuacion-en-helldone/ the english translation can be found here: http://www.scandikmusic.com/EN_english.html

HIM street team Denmark: http://himdenmarkstreetteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/interview-with-face-of-god-for-the-danish-him-street-team/

His Infernal Magazine Italy: http://himagazine.altervista.org/hisinfernalmagazine/interview-with-face-of-god-in-helsinki/

Helldone Festival 2012: Face of God opening the show

Yesterday night the alternative rock band Face of God was opening the show on Tavastia´s stage as warm up band for HIM. HIM is one of Finland´s famous bands abroad, this attracted an very international audience to the start of the Helldone Festival 2012. Face of God played for 45 min with lot of fun on the stage and the audience seems to like it. It was a big honour for the alternative rock band to open up the festival and they were really proud to be supporting act of HIM. Benjamin, Oscar and Leo appreciate HIM a lot.For a warm up band Face of God was brilliant. They showed up on Tavastia´s stage and succeeded in it. Lot of  songs with a fast tempo speeded up the start, a bit slower in the middle and continue with a fast tempo in the end was a perfect strategy from the trio. A very good song collection to show the best of Face of God in just 45 min. They looked very good on Tavastia stage as they would belong there already since years.  A perfect start of the Helldone Festival, just HIM struggled a bit. After the HIM show a lot of disappointed faces could be found in the audience, people expected more or maybe too much of their favourite band.  A come back is always hard for a band and there are still a few other nights left where HIM has the possibility to show what they really can do, but yesterday they had a hard time to engage the audience. Face of God´s show on the other hand couldn´t work out better.  A very great sound and Leo could engage the hungry waiting HIM fans to celebrate with him. Positive feedback was given also by the organizer of the Helldone Festival to the band. They were really happy that everything went so smoothly and Face of God played after schedule and they got described as a really easy going band, no star attitude. The guys also cared a lot about their fans and came outside the backstage after the gig to talk to the audience and to collect more fans as friends. A lot of interviews happened today the day after the Helldone opening. Interviewers described the band as very friendly, happy and open for anything. For Face of God a great contact to their fans is very important and they appreciate people that like their music a lot. Helldone was a perfect start for the young dynamic alternative rock band and we will follow the success story....More soon...

Face of God, Interviews before Helldone

Benjamin Lehti the bassist of Face of God and Leo Stillman the front man gave a few interviews in the last couple of days to different music blogs and online magazines that showed an interest into the music of the band and the news that the alternative rock trio got chosen to the Helldone festival 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. The photographer Lars Johnson was providing the promotion picture he took from Face of God to the interviewers: http://larsjohnson.net/
Find all the interviews from the link list in this blog. Here is a publish list of the newest ones. Enjoy and have fun to read it:

Mixolydian blog:  http://mixolydianblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/leo-stillman-from-face-of-god-opening-for-him-soon-interview/

HIM Street Team Spain: http://himspain.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/him-spain-entrevista-a-leo-stillman-vocalista-de-face-of-god/

Scandik music webpage (Spanish) http://www.scandikmusic.com/SP_spanish.html

Scandik music webpage (English) http://www.scandikmusic.com/EN_english.html

"Push to fire" blog, feature artist: http://pushtofire.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/feature-artist-face-of-god/ 

His infernal magazine (Italy) http://himagazine.altervista.org/hisinfernalmagazine/interview-with-face-of-god/ 

Vampire social club: http://vampiresocialclub.net/2012/12/interview-with-face-of-god/

Musarysä, kaupunki TV (Internet TV): Leo in the interview
http://www.livestream.com/laajasalon/video?clipId=pla_fe808208-c1bb-4e95-af37-2f965e37af81

Chaos Tube Interview with Leo Stillman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=50hPYZbHdyo


A big thank you to all the interviewers!!!

Face of God @ Liberte

Saturday night 23.11.2012 Face of God was performing their last gig before the Helldone festival. Lot of people came to see the show. Everybody had heared about the Helldone news and Face of God was proud to perform infront of so many excited people. The gig was stage in Liberte a night club in Kallio - a citypart of Helsinki-. The night went brillant for the rock trio. An international audience danced through the Face of God songs and rocked out. Leo and Benjamin created a stand - up feeling with their jokes between the music. People had fun and were laughing a lot. Oscar staged a great drum solo and the new song "Born to Loose" was a gift to HIM promoter Silke, who enjoyed the show as well. Face of God was performing that Saturday night in Liberte with The Blanko together, an other very strong and talented rock trio. Now Helldone is coming closer, the guys are looking foward to play the first time on the big stage in Tavastia.
28.12.2012 they are opening the festival as support act of HIM.
Thank you Liberte for the great music night.

Face of God: Opening act for Helldone

                                                    

                                                                                                                                                  

FACE OF GOD is an alternative rock band from Helsinki, Finland. The trio performed more than 130 gigs in Finland in less than 2 years. From the cellars of Helsinki they will show up at 28.12.2012 on the Helldone stage in Tavastia. Ville Valo the singer of the love metal band HIM, who is organizing the Helldone festival over New Year’s, chose FACE OF GOD as one of the first bands to Helldone. Silke Yli-Sirniö, HIM`s promoter was convinced and impressed from FACE OF GOD´s talent and recommend the rock trio to Ville.

Helldone is a festival that is staged almost every year in the heart of Helsinki in Tavastia, the most famous rock club. International audience is expected, people from around the globe are traveling just for that specific event to Helsinki. A New year’s festival with great acts is coming up. Together with FACE OF GOD also other talented bands are supporting HIM: THE SKREPPERS, HELSINKI VAMPIRE CLUB by DJ JYRKI69 and FINAL ASSAULT.

The ticket sale of the festival is already over. On the 24^th of September the Helldone tickets sold out for all 4 days in less than 15 minutes. Especially for FACE OF GOD it is a big honor to play first time on Tavastia´s stage and that in front of a full house. “I still cannot believe that Ville Valo chose us” says Leo Stillman frontman of FACE OF GOD. The popular rock trio is excited about the gig and they are practicing hard to show on the final day what a great band FACE OF GOD is.  

One more gig FACE OF GOD is staging before they open the Helldone festival. In the club Liberte, Kallio, kolmas linja on the 23.11.2012 they will prove their talent. FACE OF GOD is known for great live shows and a good sound. The band is also working very hard in the studio. They are producing their first debut album, which should be ready by spring 2013. The album will be a double nonetheless, consisting of an electric (“Dead Ballads and Forgotten Love Songs”) and an acoustic (“Illogical Psychology”) half. As well a new single will be released at some point.

Who is FACE OF GOD? Leo Stillman is the front man and guitarist of the band, Benjamin Lehti is the talented bassist and Oscar Kuutso is the drummer. All songs FACE OF GOD is producing are written by Leo Stillman. He is kind of a talent in song writing, very inspired by life and text and melody are just popping up without thinking much about it. FACE OF GOD is performing music that comes from the heart and they are scratching many different genres without being ashamed of it, to follow not just one style of music. A very open minded band and talent as hell ready for the show on the big stage in Tavastia during Helldone.

The band is happy to give interviews and tell more about their experience. Please feel free to contact me for additional information and interviews:

  

- Jennifer -

jenni00726@gmail.com

Face of God at On The Rocks

Yesterday night, the alternative rock trio Face of God staged a performance in On The Rocks, Helsinki´s best voted rock bar in 2012. The club in the downstairs of On The Rocks was crowded. The Devil I know, Attempted life and Face of God created a great atmosphere that night. Surrounded by two heavy metal bands Face of God sparkled with a gigantic sound and showed up what a three piece alternative rock band can do. Even Face of God fans from abroad travelled to Helsinki for the show in On The Rocks, this was especially to Leo Stillman the front man of the band a huge honor. He couldn´t believe it that people are actually travelling to see the band performing. Face of God is stepping up and new creative songs like were performed during the show, yesterday night. It was the first time Face of God performed the song "Born to loose" during a live show and the song gathered a lot of attention and applause. As the band entered the stage, Leo was blinding the audience again with his retro sparkling silver jacket. In the beginning the audience were quite shy, but as Lende took the jacket of and ask the people to step closer, they all warmed up and the great sound of Benjamin´s bass and Oscar´s drums made the audience dance. "Dance, what are we waiting for, what are we living for, when we don´t know where we belong". "Black in the night" was the last song and guided everybody back into the party night to enjoy a couple of drinks. Thank you Face of God once more for the great show and yes Leo, "we wanna be your guitar”.