"In the last decade of the old millennium three young men (Tomi Pekkola, Jussi Matikainen and Antti Filppu) introduced themselves to various genres of music, constantly rehearsing and changing stylus. This shapeshifting caused and it was also caused by the growth of these fellows, as they were hungry to reach beyond the ordinary ways of expression. In the beginning of another millennium this band with no name had already grown out of itself, and the men were all living in different cities...." An introduction for the band page, written circa 2007
"Ever since the beginning in February 1994 we have written all music by ourselves. For years we destroyed everything at once whenever there were signs of becoming ripe, dissolved all plans to finish what we had started, and then moving to another kind of expression. However, after the first steps taken as 11-14 year old enthusiasts and after overcoming musical deformity, we have been married to a certain kind of atmosphere which is one part melancholy and one part blending mysticism either with atonality or with various sub-genres of folkish metal and rock. This atmosphere has stuck with us from the early months of 1995 when doom and melodic death metal riffs filled the room. Some of the leitmotives from those days have been used in our later music, thus uniting the different times, and by changing shape carrying on the meanings invoked by these themes." From a note written around 2006-2008
”The Men have two sides to their story. The band’s patience and musical ambition have X.X.X.Xed them, with the help of an expanding stylus like Art Rock, a purposeful contradiction in terms. On the other side, there's just as ambitious effort to write lyrical poetry that ties together the old-school mythic thought and the world of popular culture. Searching for the in spirare vein of classical music and poetry, while accepting today's limits set by the death of art, they are trying to walk the thin line between two options of which one has become impossible and the other just simply banal. It's a path only for.....” TYM, An introduction written around 2002
”The Sun Tryst have many sides to their story. Patience and faith were needed to last through years of struggling in-between, so underground that even the underground scene knew not of their existence, working in silence while ages and styles came and passed.... But these players are still here, walking the same thin line. Many a hard rain fell, many a night was wasted, many were the songs and poems that never made it to see this day, on their long and painful journey to the immemorial caves and back, to finally take the shape of Rock Art Music. Here the oldest form of communication, spirits and spells carved in stone, meet the latest phase in the history of pop culture.” TST, A note written c. 2006
“With three rather strong personalities and visionaries trying to work together around the same rock it may not always be that easy. In fact, it has been so difficult that unfortunate compromises have been necessary along the way, with delay after delay following their trail, and no Echo at all. Despite this, the records (freely downloadable from their net site) show that The Sun Tryst have begun to shine on – for those who want something new, deeply felt and handmade. The rocks will stand their ground, all of their faults once cursed and damned weak have now become the seals of strength that bless the work with a unique trademark. Conquering the world is definitely out, they’re here to show you the way in. Let all decide for themselves the nature / state of this art.” A note from c. 2007
“It should be noted that we do not have a religious or a political message, despite the lyrical content that seems to refer to certain directions. Art is to be freely interpreted by those who experience it. Of course, the content may affect your experiences, but it does not force you in any way. This said, it can be continued that there are different levels in our works, with all kinds of things to be found – for those who are interested in f. ex. mythologies, Western esotericism etc. Yes, the themes can be taken and understood in as many ways as there are interpreters, the doors are wide open for you to make your own perceptions. But no, everything is not round in mythic art. Still there is absolutely nothing that restrains your free thinking, feeling and willing.“ A ritual disclaimer for the ignorant, written around 2006 - 2008
So the story began in February 1994, when Jussi Matikainen, Mika, Jouni and Tomi Pekkola, Mikko Nenonen and Antti Filppu were all thinking of a real band to play in. Originally there were two different bands, the youngsters Tomi and Mikko had been playing guitar for years, the 4 older guys Mika, Jouni, Antti and Jussi had their own ideas. The bassist-to-be Jouni never got himself a bass, and so the boys tried to talk Antti around to take up the thing in his hands and show the world. However, his father was already buying a guitar for the singer with no voice or talent. Thus it came to pass that Mika would eventually change guitar for that bass, when his younger brother Tomi came in to share the lead with Mikko, as the two bands merged into one during the early Spring. Their father Veijo built mighty weapons for the sons - handmade Vekson guitar and bass. Jussi banged on as the drummer, though first striking a few deep chords for Antti to sing a very Guns-and-Rosielike acoustic mental case, hey Joe, it's Wasted Years.
Tomi was rocking hard with an Attitude called Bad (the song title was), listening to Motörhead's all the aces and bastards. Father Pekkola had a good LP collection of paranoid iron men and speed kings with machines getting heads. In June the metal boymonsters of Carnage gathered in an old barn to record their first rehearsal tape, Retribution, three songs of heavy thrash. Plague (efficacious medicine for dying) was a real Sepultura tombday opener, written by Mika and Tomi. Violentic Aggression Of Agony And Death showed a sigh of relief or co-operation, with lines and tones created by Antti, Mika and Tomi. A punk rock style chorus followed the thrashy powerstation riff, with Jussi pounding a double bass run off beat. The title song ended the session, an instrumental jewel box of Metallica hero melodies by Tomi and Mikko. After this, both Mikko and Mika left the band.
A medical dickionary, stolen from the library of Vehkalahti, would provide the necessary vocabullary for the songs cumming. The rest of the summer was spent with a huge amount of grinding and core DIY getting up and done, well, raw. The THREE were now pushing and pulling it out, with black end humour and carclassy irony. The first cofficial demo "Excerebration" was recorded in August 1994 at Vehkalahtisali studio. The pitchshifter turned -6, the music was a mess of shittodick death and that old grind core, young boyzone playing around Carcass and Cannibal Corpse for a lil northern Finnish ugly karma. Sentenced to Death was the epic masterpiece of the year, with a smell of something melodic. The other few shovels of songs were brainless. Priapism, Scrotoplasty, Vagina (The Best a Man Can Get), Drowned in Excrement, Vermians in Prehypophysis, Falling of the Womb, Protuberance of Large Intestine Leads To Agonizing Constipation etc.
Distressing Dismemberment were Andy Sperm, with his voices of anal & vaginal thrilling machine, together with Judas Vulva, the vulvar tongue drummer and Thomas "Phallus" Womb, the young master of the art with no stinking f in his craft - and so Thomas would leave the distress behind in autumn. Andy and Judas were now a dismembered duo with a broken set of drum remains and 40W Marshall amplifier. It didn't look or sound good. But the style changed into Merry-Go-Around Metal, with young Jeff Walker leading the way to a sicker and thicker path. Dismembered & Swallowed, Rotten Flesh To Consume, Thanatophoric Obsession and the rest of it, by the end of the year 1994, all tasted like shit. No wood or bone there. The jokes were over, the style was crappy as the sewer. When the Christmas time came, things would get a bit more serious, the sorry ass dicklames were dropped down, with the return of real names and the maestro himself, the band of three began again.