Your First time?

First Finnish band I heard? Hmm... I think Children Of Bodom gets that honor.

Nightwish is the first Finnish band I've seen.

First time I heard Finnish Metal, had to be when Lyssa introduced me to Nightwish--she sent me a copy Wishmaster first and then absolutely loads after that, now own album wise
Angels Fall First
Once.

I'm totally in love with Once as well

For me it was Sentenced via a Finnish penpal at the time and Nightwish followed. Then eventually I found myself listening to other Finnish bands (69 Eyes, never really could get too much into HIM although they have a few songs that I do like, idk what it is about them but the others would be Charon, Poisonblack, Norther, Children of Bodom, etc..).

The first Finnish band I got into was more rock than metal, so when it comes to metal it's gotta be Children of Bodom in 2006. ^^ Can't remember which song though...

It was 4 years ago, I had borrowed my friend's ipod and listened to 'Killing Me, Killing You' by Sentenced, they were the first Finnish band I got into..And then I discovered HIM but I wouldn't call them 'metal'.

The first finnish metal artist that I found... Tarja (while she was a part of Nightwish)
I was watching TV, and Much Music played the Nemo video clip.

well mine was sentenced... frozen album. a great band, a great legacy.

my first band was COB..and it was just amazing...the song was Angels don´t kill... which remember me the situation with the guy that i was in love..
and the other of course Sonata Arctica

sorry if my english is a little bit bad...i talk in english but not all the time..
i`m from chile by the way so anteeksi

The first time I heard finnish metal was Children of Bodom's - Mask of Sanity in 03. Since then most of my collection hails from Finland or other parts of Europe.

Well... First bands i've heard were Sentenced (my uncle is a fan), and probably Nightwish, since it was shown here on TV... But that was a looong time ago, what really got me into Finnish Metal was Sonata Arctica... They are the first Finnish band that i've heard live as well... xD

It have to be either Sentenced or Amorphis '94 - '95.

Sonata Arctica..Ecliptica love at first listening

November 2009
Tarot
video: Ashes to the Stars

extremely enthusiastic fan since then. saw em in atlanta, i was in heaven!!

Stratovarius and Sentenced, in 2000, but the first metal band I heard was Judas Priest

I think I'm the first one telling it was Impaled Nazarene, around 95-96 I think.

MNge

I think mine was HIM's "Join Me In Death". I found Ville's voice so deep and, let's say, seductive. From then on, I searched for their works and other similar stuff... but hey, I live in a small place, so not that easy.

First Finnish band live... HIM as well, and they had Paradise Lost as their supporting band. I suppose it was the tour after Venus Doom release. For me, though, HIM's best albums are the first ones, until Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights or Love Metal, and they left DSABH out of the setlist, or maybe they played one song... only. :/

The show wasn't bad, but just to add a final touch, the decoration at the venue -with a couple of palm trees in the bar, in the middle of the dancefloor- was not the most suitable for these two bands, don't you think? xD

i think the moment i started listening to metal was then when i walked into my brothers room, he was listening to Korpiklaani - Joudaan Viinaa, suddenly i heard that they are singing my "name" (my name's vina and it sounds like they sing it) i was very superised ^^

The first Finnish band I ever heard was 'Hanoi Rocks', the Glam Metal/Rock/Punk band back around 1980.

As for my next Finnish band in recent history, fast forward 30+ years: On January 20, 2012 I was watching the documentary "Metal Evolution". 'Nightwish' was featured in the final segment of the 'Power Metal' episode (which included showing parts of the 'Nemo' video) and as soon as I heard Tarja sing my 'jaw hit the floor'.  

I've seen no Finnish bands live to date.

My days of going to concerts has pretty much ended. Been there done that. However, there is only one artist, and only one artist in the entire world, that I would still go to see live and that is Tarja; for both her classical 'Beauty and the Beat' show and her rock/metal show. Hopefully one day I will see both even if I have to travel to Europe to do so.

Amorphis and Childern of Bodom 96 97

I think, Amorphis!