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At The End, founded in 2005 has, despite it's young age, gained a lot respect from music professionals and audience. It has won the 1st place in the demo of the month section in Soundi and Rumba (finnish music magazines), it has won a band competition (their first gig), and the reviews from their records and conserts have all been in terms of praise. The band consisting of Jarno-Erik Faarinen (vocals/songs), Teemu Kiiskilä (guitar), Jussi Kauppila (keys), Aleksi Kastelli (bass) and Mikko Leinonen (drums) has shaped it's music to present an area of catchy melodies and massive themes somewhere between spacy synth pop, distorted indie and intensive post-rock... in a surprisingly specific form. Their first three song ep "Cycle" was recorded in March 2006 with former members, drummer Petri Myllykangas and Marko Tirkkonen. It was considered by Jussi Ruusila in Rumba´s review as "one of the best debuts in 2006. A new single Antilove was released in spring 2007. It consisted of two songs presenting the different sides of the band: Antilove, distorted cynical pop song, and Black Dress, slow atmospheric love(?)song. When asked about future releases Faarinen tells there is a high possibility a full sized album could be released in 2008. "I'm sure that the Album will come very soon, and it's more about 'from where' instead of 'if' it will be released". The songwriter with the band has been constructing the theme album for some time but won't yet reveal no more than the possible name for the product and how he came up with it. "I was talking to my friend Billy, and I miss spelled the word violence as violins. I got hooked in the term 'Violins of Violence', as for me it includes the feelings of aggression and peace, pain and nirvana, and it fits on the lyrical background in major part of the songs we have". It is true, as the songwriter influences his texts from the ongoing wars, conflicts and terror, the "other side" connected to ours by science, and other weird things some people consider scary and don't even dare to think about. "Of course these themes aren't completely forgotten in music, as we have some bands as Mars Volta and Radiohead, in example, who like to go little beyond the normal range of pop lyrics. But I think more attention needs to be payed in these views when separated, are a big disturbing nonsense, but when connected to another, can be peace and symmetry".