YOU NEED TO FEEL BERLIN

picture by Alex Karatzas

The alternative rock band Face of God was for the first time over in Berlin/Germany. After just a couple of hours in Berlin, Leo Stillman frontman of Face of God statement was: "Fuck, Germany is a great country".  The Finnish rock trio played 2 shows: 17.05.2013 Comet Club in Berlin Kreuzberg and 18.05.2013 in Werk 9, Berlin Mitte. They showed their talent on stage: dynamic, energetic and giving everything. The audience of both nights were more than impressed how good a Finnish rock band can be! Nina the amazing vocalist from First Aid for Michael stated: "I loved them. Wow, what a great show. They remind me of my favourite band Biffy Clyro." 

Werk 9 got turned upside down from Face of God. Frontman Leo Stillman was walking into the audience and animated people to clap their hands and dance, he was jumping on top of tabels and interacting with the crowd. The German people were in love with the show. FOG introduced themselves and showed what for amazing musicians they are: Benjamin was first in performing an great bass solo, then Oscu on the drums; beating the shit out of it and last but not least frontman Leo Stillman on the guitar, yep tune it beibis. Both clubs Comet and as well Werk 9 on Saturday was packed. The German audience was very open for the music from Face of God and people were dancing and jumping to the songs. FOG has so many good songs that even 40 min playing time went so fast and people wanted to have more. And jeaaahh sure they got more. "ZUGABE"!!!
Face of God succeeded in both clubs with their show. They felt in love with Berlin and Berlin was falling in love with Face of God. It couldn´t be better!!!

On Saturday 18.05.2013 Face of God had as well a promo shooting with the talented photographer Alex Karatzas from UK. An industrial area of Berlin got collected as photo location. Alex took also pictures during FOG´s live gigs in Berlin. The new promo pictures will be out soon. Till then check out Alex work: www.ampleman.500px.com  "I really enjoyed the shows, Face of God is very talented. You are a bunch of nice people and it was a pleasure to work with you." (Alex Karatzas, Berlin May 2013) 

On Monday 20.05.2013 Face of God was visting the Music TV studio Yagaloo. Howie from Yagaloo was welcoming FOG with coffee and tea? ...No it is Berlin so with coffee and cigaretts. The guys felt like being at home. An acoustic set video with a new song from Face of God got recorded and will come out soon. Howie and also his intern Helge enjoyed FOG´s music. "The singer I would marry immediately" (Howie, Yagaloo, Berlin May 2013). 

picture by Jennifer Kuhn 

It was great that everybody was soooooo in love with the rock trio from Finland.

The next shows from Face of God will be in Finland, so come and see yourself what a great live act Finland had brought to Germany!!!!

1.6 at Motor Cafe Suviranta, Hämeenlinna
2.6 at Bar Bäkkäri (Leo Stillman solo), acoustic, Helsinki
7.6 at Bar Loose, Helsinki
8.6 at Jalostamo, Hyvinkää
19.6 Espan Lava, Helsinki

More about both Berlin shows and the other bands that joined Face of God in the metal and rock nights can be found from heavenofrockmusic: http://heavenofrockmusic.wordpress.com/2013/05/22/berlin/ 
Check it out!!! Also a live video of "Born To Lose" is included in the article.

Bar Solo / London

The show from Face of God in Bar Solo just rocked the shit out of that place. Better and stronger sound than in the Notting Hill Arts Club impressed the UK audience. They loved the energetic trio. Lot of positive comments after the show were given to the guys. Timo Kaltio from Hanoi Rocks who lives in London followed the show in Bar Solo and was impressed from the talent FOG came along with. "Their sound blew me away. These guys got it!" (Timo Kaltio Hanoi Rocks/Cherry Bombz).That is an awesome compliment from such a legend like Timo. London can be booked under a great success for the dynamic rock trio.
Next month Germany is coming up. Two shows will be staged in Berlin: 17.05.2013 Comet Club, Berlin Kreuzberg https://www.facebook.com/events/147571785414174/  and 18.05.2013 Werk 9, Berlin Mitte https://www.facebook.com/events/431884996895729/?fref=ts .
Plus today it is frontman Leo Stillman´s birthday. So help to share the BORN TO LOSE video and support FOG as a birthday present to Leo!!!
Here the BORN TO LOSE youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsHtS5UQZo

BORN TO LOSE

The brand new "Born To Lose" video from Face of God came out in the night from Sunday to Monday. Till now the video has almost 1200 likes on youtube. Monday 15.04.2013 Face of God staged a powerful show in the Hard Rock Café Helsinki. Hard Rock Finals were calling. The guys had fun to play and the fans were very supportive. In the end 3 points to the first place were missing, but well yeah... "We are Born To Lose". Even that singer Leo Stillman let his pants down to impress the female judges didn´t helped that much. After performing the show without shirt, the judges ask for more and suggest that the next band (Santa Cruz) might play without shirt and without pants, so Lende took it by word. Didn´t worked out that well, but we should concentrate on music and not how much naked people are on stage ;) Wednesday morning 17.05.2013 very early the airplane to London left. In the evening the rock trio stage a show in the famous Notthing Hill Arts Club, one very impressive underground location in London near the Notting Hill Gate. The house was packed with people and fans from Finland and Norway came to see FOG playing. Thank you FOGers for that support. Although the guys felt weird to not play with all of their own sound equipment, the show went pretty well. One London celebrity was the DJ of the night, I assume you all might heard already about it: drummer Dave Rowntree from The Blur was in the house.
Friday 18.04.2013 an other London show is coming up in Bar Solo. So be there!

Here the link to the brand new "Born To Lose" video, like it on youtube and raise the views FOGers!!!
Greetings from London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsHtS5UQZo

"I don´t really care where we play if it is Finland´s butt or London" (Leo Stillman)

The last two Face of God shows were outside of Helsinki. The rock trio played in Vaasa and Lahti. Also if it wasn´t Turku it was still somehow a part of "Finlands butt". The guys are doing great. On Monday the Final of Hard Rock Rising is calling. Face of God will battle against Strong Addiction and Santa Cruz. On Wednesday morning it goes to London. The energetic trio can present their dynamic live show finally abroad for the first time. New songs are created and hopefully performed soon on stage. Face of God get´s better and better in the creativity of song writing and sound. You all will be surprised what is coming next :) Free Willy (whales on the sand) was just the start, let´s wait and see what Face of God is producing in the future.

Here one of the newest interviews Leo Stillman was giving to the girls of the scandinavian Face of God Streetteam. Check it out!
http://faceofgodscandinavian.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/interview-with-face-of-god-april-2013/ 

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!