Mind Riot

Tuomo Saikkonen, the guitarist of one of the most successful metal bands ever in Finland, Mokoma, was asked to resurrect his old band Mind Riot to play a show at Tuska Festival’s 20th Anniversary in Helsinki in summer 2017.

The front man said yes to the proposition but also decided to finalize a few songs that were written during the years after Mind Riot quit in 1997. Kuisma Aalto (also Mokoma) joined the band to play the bass, Teemu Saikkonen was invited to play the drums. Come Undone EP was released on Mokoma founded label Sakara Records on April 26th 2017.

In September 2021, the band returns with a new four-song EP Abyss.

"Juha Javanainen (guitar) sent me the demo of this song in the midst of my dark days - I felt that creating and playing music had lost its meaning because of consecutive lock-downs and all that. Abyss projected my feelings perfectly and finally inspired me to activate Mind Riot for another studio release", Saikkonen tells.

Abyss EP was produced by Miitri Aaltonen and mastered by Svante Forsbäck.

Mind Riot was originallly a rather strange metal band from Finland, founded in 1990. The band released two albums, Peak (1995) and Inferno Go-Go (1996) for an Italian label Godhead Records.