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Celebrating Anniversary with a European Survey Right in time for their 20th anniversary, Finnish crossover pioneers Waltari are releasing their 10th studio album "Blood Sample". In the beginning labelled as a punk band in the mid 80s, Waltari started to create something unique quickly: Taking rock music as the common ground, the band based around mastermind Kaertsy Hatakka mixes opera and death metal, powerpop and grindcore, techno and noise rock, catchy metal riffs and eurodance, punk and electro, flower-power and monophone ringtones. This crazy mixture hit the right nerve with the audience more than once, some of Waltari's biggest successes were the singles "So Fine" and "Atmosfear/Feel" in the early 90s followed by the hit album "Big Bang" which marked the commercial break-through to the European market: Waltari were the first Finnish band ever to hit the charts in Europe. Waltari were never the band to rest on their laurels: After expand...