PSYCHEWORK

The Finnish sextet have battled against adversity to find hope in the face of almost overwhelming odds.

JM

If anything has come to define Finnish prog metallers Psychework, then it has to be the undercurrent of optimism that runs through their music. Across three albums – The Dragon’s Year (2016), Karelian Hills (2018) and 2023’s Spark Of Hope – the sextet of singer Antony Parviainen, guitarists J-V Hintikka and Juha Takanen, Otto Närhi (keyboards), Konsta Vehkala (drums) and bassist Ville Koskinen have constantly come up victorious despite circumstances having the potential to dictate a very different outcome. Hailing from the south-central city of Jyväskylä, Psychework formed following the split of Parviainen and Hintikka’s former band, Machine Man. “I got really sick with leukemia,” says Parviainen, “and when I was in hospital, I got the idea for the new band. I called J-V and asked him what he thought about…

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