H?ive is a one-man music act coming from the southern part of Finnish present-day Karelia. Musically H?ive mixes various metal styles to traditional Karelian folk music and other styles of acoustic music. Propably the biggest influences from the metal side are bands like Amorphis, Isengard and Ulver, and from the non-metal side bands like Värttinä, Hedningarna, Tenhi and Myllärit. Current line-up: J. "Varjosielu" V??t?inen - Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, mouth-harp, kannel (Solgrav, Tapa!) Lari "Noitavasara" Hammarberg - Session vocals (Chaos Creation, Solgrav)
Current line-up:
J. "Varjosielu" V??t?inen - Vocals, guitar, bass, drums, mouth-harp, kannel (Solgrav, Tapa!)
Lari "Noitavasara" Hammarberg - Session vocals (Chaos Creation, Solgrav)
"H?ive" is Finnish for "trace".