::Biography::

Scalping Screen started off in late 2001 as a four-piece band with the idea of getting together and making something loud. With Jani's no-holds-barred and cruel guitar riffs, Heikki's insane teeth-grinding beat-downs, Pekka's sub-sonic bass attacks and Mika's gut-wrenching vocal delivery this was quickly accomplished.

The band's musical influences came from heavy metal and hardcore punk. The band also has soaked up influences that aren't entirely musical, but make up an important part of what it means to be Scalping Screen.

The reason the band came into being was due to the vacuum of any kind of music other than brit-pop and garbage. Additionally the driving force behind the music is the love of playing and spend-ing time together, which makes up the core of Scalping Screen. The existing knowledge of the Finnish hardcore scene and willingness to contribute something to the cause was enough to serve as putting out something more brutal.

After a couple of months of training and song writing, band went to the Mediaworks studio in March 2002. The band recorded 13 tracks during their studio session. The intention was to make a DIY record?anyway, the first release was a demo/promo. The demo was noticed by some un-derground zines and was well received by record labels in general. The summer of 2002 gained the band attention from the Finnish hardcore scene and the band was invited to play gigs in southern Finland.

In February 2003 the band was signed to Gods Child Records Ltd. from Hong Kong, which resulted in the release of "13 Revolting Strains", which was the second release from the label. The CD was reviewed by several Finnish magazines, which received a great deal of positive feed-back. In fall of 2003 band has recorded two new songs for couple of compilations.

You can hear pure metallic rage the songs, but there is also an unbridled fury that comes from hardcore. If you are into old school, new school or whatever school and like metal, you'll like Scalping Screen. Mika brings his own perspective to the songs by writing lyrics that are close to his own experience, but also a wider perspective with his point of view on racism, violence and hypocrites. During 2003 to 2004 band did handful of gigs around Finland and represent in Russia for couple of gigs too.
In March 2004 the band returned to the MediaWorks studio for a week of recording for their second album. The record was produced by Hermanni K. The band has become accustomed to getting good results with Hermanni (who has also mixed several gigs). The band generally agrees that Hermanni has a good feel for the kind of music Scalping Screen is into.

The new album, titled "Blood Out...", keeps to the in-your-face beatdown attitude as "13 Revolting Strains", where Jani tears up shit with his brutal riffs to Heikki's drums, which are consequently beat to a pulp, Mika's aggressive vocal delivery teams up with Pekka's violent bass-work to combine in another 33 minutes of thorough grinding thrashy metal and hardcore. According to band the on tracks on "Blood Out..." are heavier and more thought-out?. Band continues how the new tracks sound, this new album is fully aggressive and it delivers all the way to the last minutes till it hits you in the face with "Payback".
In the Fall of 2004 Scalping Screen's line-up changed with the addition of another guitarist, Risto. The band has already been working on breaking the new guitarist in and the results are promising. As for what's to come, the band won't comment any more than it'll be as heavy as it motherfucking gets. "Blood Out..." will be released in early 2005 through God's Child Music.