Dead End Irony 2025
From left to right:
Vesa Winberg - Vocals
Antti Pekonen - Drums
Antti Vainio - Bass
Simo Jokela - Guitar
Kristian Valkama - Guitar
Dead End Irony is a modern heavy metal band established in Imatra, Finland 2010. They are known for solid guitar riffs, crunching vocals and striking choruses.
Dead End Irony's tale started with five young guys, Simo Jokela, Antti Vainio, Valtteri Backman, Jori Kauppinen and Mika Kauppinen and with a dream to create awesome heavy metal band! Unfortunately at 2012, Valtteri had to focus on his studies as a sound engineer and the band had to find another singer. In the year 2014, after a run of many candidates they found Riku Kamunen to take place behind the microphone.
Dead End Irony released it's first EP Wounds That Never Heal in March 2015. It was recorded and mixed by Janne Väätäinen at Pill the Posers studio and mastered in Finnvox by Mika Jussila. EP received great feedback and almost all of the copies were sold out within a week. Soon after that Dead End Irony won the biggest South-Karelian metal band competition named Rälläkkä.
At the end of 2015 band's lineup changed so that Mika's and Riku's ways parted with the band. Fortunately Valtteri was done with his studies and was eager to came back to his rightful place as the singer. At the very same time a longtime friend, Kristian Valkama joined the band to take control of rhythm guitarists place.
Like a Phoenix, Dead End Irony emerged from the ashes once again with new drive to conquer the world! At the start of the year 2017 DEI participated to Tuska-torstai band competition among other 99 bands from all over the Finland. Through many successful gigs Dead End Irony reaches it's place in the finals with 3 other bands.
DEI has also acclaimed some international fame by being in Epic Rock Radio top artist list twice. First time in October 2016 at position 4 then again in March 2018 at position 1
In February 2018 Dead End Irony started recordings of their second EP Into The Void. Recordings and mixing were done by bands singer Valtteri at his own Kuma Project studios and was mastered in Astia-studio using analog gear by Anssi Kippo. Into The Void EP was released 11th of June and got very good reviews on local medias.
Dead End Irony's tale started with five young guys, Simo Jokela, Antti Vainio, Valtteri Backman, Jori Kauppinen and Mika Kauppinen and with a dream to create awesome heavy metal band! Unfortunately at 2012, Valtteri had to focus on his studies as a sound engineer and the band had to find another singer. In the year 2014, after a run of many candidates they found Riku Kamunen to take place behind the microphone.
Dead End Irony released it's first EP Wounds That Never Heal in March 2015. It was recorded and mixed by Janne Väätäinen at Pill the Posers studio and mastered in Finnvox by Mika Jussila. EP received great feedback and almost all of the copies were sold out within a week. Soon after that Dead End Irony won the biggest South-Karelian metal band competition named Rälläkkä.
At the end of 2015 band's lineup changed so that Mika's and Riku's ways parted with the band. Fortunately Valtteri was done with his studies and was eager to came back to his rightful place as the singer. At the very same time a longtime friend, Kristian Valkama joined the band to take control of rhythm guitarists place.
Like a Phoenix, Dead End Irony emerged from the ashes once again with new drive to conquer the world! At the start of the year 2017 DEI participated to Tuska-torstai band competition among other 99 bands from all over the Finland. Through many successful gigs Dead End Irony reaches it's place in the finals with 3 other bands.
DEI has also acclaimed some international fame by being in Epic Rock Radio top artist list twice. First time in October 2016 at position 4 then again in March 2018 at position 1
In February 2018 Dead End Irony started recordings of their second EP Into The Void. Recordings and mixing were done by bands singer Valtteri at his own Kuma Project studios and was mastered in Astia-studio using analog gear by Anssi Kippo. Into The Void EP was released 11th of June and got very good reviews on local medias.
Few years after releasing the Into The Void EP, Jori decided to leave the band and pursue other musical opportunities. Jori had been in the band from the beginning and was a huge part in creating the sound of Dead End Irony.
Luckily Simo had been involved in musical sideproject where he had met awesome drummer Antti Pekonen (ex-Frozen paradise). It didn´t take much to convince Antti to come and try jamming with the band. After few auditions it was decided that Mr.Pekonen would be the new drummer of Dead End Irony.
In the year 2020 the band started to produce new songs and rearrange old ones. Even though everything was going in the right direction it was again time to take one step back, as Valtteri announced that he would quit the singer duties for personal reasons, but still remained to help in the backround.
After few months Dead End Ironys line-up was full again. Vesa Winberg (Hogster, Dark Ride Brothers, Mosesgun) joined the band as new lead singer. He was old acquintance to the band, as they had been in talks of Vesa joining the band back in the day when Riku was leaving the band, but at the time Vesa didn´t have time to join other bands.
For the next couple of years the band rehearsed and produced new songs for their debut album, and in the year 2022, it was time to start the recordings with Teemu Aalto Music Productions. Recordings where done in two sessions. After the first session they had to gather funds to complete the second half of the recordings.
Because the album recording project was to take few years, the band decided to release the first songs as single releases. The first single was the song ”Patton” and it was released in the beginning
of 2023. The year 2023 turned out to be busy time. Meanwhile finishing the songs from the first recording session, they released two more songs. ”King of Emptiness” and later that year the ”Day of Reckoning”.
In the year 2024 they finally were ready to take on the second half of the album recordings, and also it was time to start negotiations with record labels.
The year 2025 started with great news, Dead End Irony made a record publishing deal with the finnish record label Inverse Records! The first full-length album, ”Battles & Brotherhood” is to be released later this year.
The 4th single ”Gone”, from the upcoming album was released in february 2025.