Our latest EP is soon being distributed by Levyvirasto.net. In that web music store, it is possible to buy the record in CD-format. You'd better be quick if you want to have this kickass record, because nowadays Circle of Distress is almost sold out.

Metal never ends! Circle of Distress got 4/5 in a review by Finnish music forum Noise.fi. Other reviews also added to Circle of Distress reviews section.

Noise.fi also made an interview of the band, readable here.

Time for a change. Both for me personally and for Arkadia. I'll leave for my exchange period to Malaysia this week, and I won't be returning home until next summer. To replace me in the band for this period of 6-8 months will be Timo Silver from QBA. He has already played with the band last fall when Ade was abroad, is an amazingly talented guitarist, and drinks shitloads of whisky, so he is definitely the right man for the job. Welcome aboard!

Obviously the focus in band action will be set to training gig songs with Timo, but also the recordings of some new songs have started. Expect some new songs and gigs in the spring.

I'd like to thank you all for support during the year 2007. It has been a wonderful year for Arkadia with 8 gigs all around Finland, releasing Circle of Distress, and training new, great songs.

As a goodbye-gift to all of you, I've put "Before the Dawn" from Circle of Distress to our Mikseri.net site. Enjoy!

Stay metal,

Nothing lasts forever. Not even September. Along with the colder fall nights we bring you a new song from Circle of Distress. Check it out @ our Myspace or Mikseri.net site!

Circle of Distress is now being distributed by Levykauppa Äx in Oulu, Musiikki Lukinmaa in Kajaani and Markun Musiikki in Seinäjoki. Go get yours if you haven't already!

See ya in a couple of weeks at our breezing fall gigs in Jyväskylä and Alavus!

We have just confirmed another gig for October; we'll play at Ilokivi in Jyväskylä on the 10th of October. Cheers to Timo & Aki from QBA!

Check out the Media section to see how we looked in the two previous gigs.. And perhaps recognize yourself from the crowd pics ;)

The Lekkeri club gig date at Alavus has been changed because the club isn't held in September after all. Worry not, for the delay is less than a month. We will rock in Hotelli Puustelli on 12th of October.

And a reminder: tomorrow we'll play at Mouthbottomrock festival in Karijoki. Dunno exactly where that is, but I bet we can orientate ourselves. See ya in the front row moshing your brains out, right?

Playing in Ähtäri was great! Check out the Media section for pictures from Club B52. The next chance to see us play live will be next week's Sunday (12.8.) at Huhtalava in Alavus, where the Minirock festival is to be held. This will be the first gig we'll play with keyboard tapes, so u'd better show up to testify the complete richness of Arkadia sound live! No, we aren't planning on getting a keyboard player on our ranks... ;)

Finally, the moment has come.

Circle of Distress was released in the beginning of July, a bit late of schedule because of various reasons, but better late than never, right?

We have made 300 copies of the EP for sale and to be sent to representants of the media and to clubs, festivals, etc to get some gigs. The EP has indeed been liked by gig organizers: we have at least 4 gigs coming before October! I say at least because it looks like we'll have a couple of more in the late fall. Check the "Gigs" page for more info.

If you want a copy of Circle of Distress, you can buy it for a price of 4 euros from us at any of our gigs, or contact us either by mail, e-mail or phone and we'll send you info how to order (contact information on "Contact" page, surprisingly...).

Finally some updates to the site as well. Check out photos from the latest Töysä and Alavus gigs as well as promo pictures taken in February. Expect some video material and reviews from the EP to appear in the "Media" section in the near future also.

Guestbook is still under construction (PHP coding takes too much time considering I have a full-time job on the summer), but until it's ready please go send your greetings to the little guestbook on our Mikseri.net site. Comment songs while there also, all feedback is most appreciated!

We have created a site in MySpace and to celebrate the occasion we have released second track from the upcoming EP "Circle of Distress" online! The song, "Lithium Division", can now be heard in the MySpace page (www.myspace.com/arkadiametal). The song can also be listened to, downloaded from and commented in our Mikseri.net site (www.mikseri.net/arkadia). Check it out 'n let us know what you think of it!

The construction work of this site is still underway. If everything goes as planned, it should be complete with every section available in late June.

Here it is! The new site we've been working on for the past year or so.

All areas of the site aren't complete yet but will be updated shortly.

And now, a quick way around: as you probably can see, this is the "News" page where we inform you of latest updates in the site and tell what's happening in the band in general. The "Band" page contains information about each of the players of the band and a biography of the band as a whole.

The "Gigs" page gives a quick look at the forthcoming gig schedule of the band, and also (eventually) lots of information of the past gigs (who we played with, setlists, etc.). From the "Releases" page you can see the records we've done so far, and be able to download songs also (at some point).

In the "Media" page there will shortly be a collection of pictures, videos, music and other types of downloadable stuff of the band. The "Contact" page naturally provides you with contact information of the band, should you want to ask us for a gig or just say hi. The latter you can also do in the near weeks in the form of writing to our "Guestbook" - it's an easy way of giving us feedback of our music, or this new site, or anything you feel like.

That was our new site in a nutshell, now it's your time to experience it for yourselves.

There's not much to download or anything yet, but in a couple of weeks there will be! The release date of our new EP "Circle of Distress" will be within a month!

Welcome! \,,/