Kilpi

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Origin Turku, Finland Years active 2003–present Past members Janne Karttila Record labels KillBee Records, MTG		Genres Heavy Metal Website http://www.kilpi.com Genre Heavy metal

Members Taage Laiho, Janne Laaksonen, Petteri Kilpi, Aleksi Summe, Jussi Kattelus, Juha Kukkola, Janne Karttila Albums Juggernautti, Pirun Merta, II taso, Kaaoksen kuningas, IV

Kilpi lautta

Kilpi is a Finnish heavy metal band, singing in Finnish.

Kilpi lautta live jyrkk rock 2012

The band

"Kilpi" means shield in Finnish. It is the guitarist and band creator's last name, Petteri Kilpi. The band's first album, Sähkönsinistä Sinfoniaa, was released on May 28, 2003, some months after their first single, Nerokasta Ikävää.
On September 29, 2004, they released their second album, II Taso.
In 2006 they released the album Kaaoksen Kuningas, and two of its songs, "Toinen Minä" and "Katharsis" were proposed to Eurovision Song Contest 2006. The band lost out to Lordi, finishing sixth overall in the Finnish televoting with the song "Toinen Minä".
The band's first live-album Kaaos-Live was released in 2007.
The band's vocalist, Taage Laiho, was a member of the Finnish band Altaria.