Päiviö Selänne

## Career

### Occupation

Singer • songwriter • music producer • actress • screenplay writer • short film director

### Genres

Heavy metal • hardcore punk • gothic metal • nu metal • alternative metal • symphonic metal • punk rock • hard rock • alternative rock • emo • folk • industrial • country • classical • pop • dark ambient • symphonic black metal (early) • melodic death metal (early) • doom metal (early)

### Instruments

Vocals • guitar • piano • keyboards • harmonica • synthesizers • violin • cello • harp • flute • trumpet • turntables • sampler • drums

### Years active

3848 A.A. - 3898 A.A. (hiatus: 3860-3865; 3865-3868; 3868-3869; 3880-3896)

### Associated acts

Our Fragile Echo • Terminal Flames • Stargazers • Aytac Sabanci • Drowning Hibiscus

## Family

### Parent(s)

* Martta Härmälä (mother)
* Antero Selänne (father)

### Family

Serafiina Räisänen (cousin)

**Päiviö Selänne** (October 31, 3831 A.A. - November 1, 3906 A.A.) was a Finnish singer, songerwriter, and actress. She is the former lead vocalist and bassist of Finnish heavy metal band Our Fragile Echo, as well as one of the band's five founding members.

While she learned how to sing at a very young age and wrote her first song, "The Night He Died", when she was barely 12 years old, Päiviö first rose to promience when Our Fragile Echo released their debut studio album *Parasitic Cruelty* in 3721 A.A. to critical acclaim, with it being the most successful extreme metal album in history and the first to go platinum within the same year it released. Since then, the band has not released an album that wouldn't go platinum in similar timeframe.

She was in a relationship with her long-time friend and bandmate Kullervo Venäläinen up until her death, with whom she has a daughter, Päivi Selänne Venäläinen. Her parents are Martta Härmälä and Antero Selänne, both of whom are deceased.

Päiviö announced her retirement from her musical career after the release of Our Fragile Echo's ninth studio album and the non-album single "Unbroken Metal Onslaught". She explained that this was out of her desire to explore other interests, such focusing on her acting and filmmaking career, and engaging in space exploration alongside Anya Starveil Castella and Rhavonian "Rhav" De'Laka, with assistance from Maggie Scott's spacefaring bussiness, Starsgenix.

Päiviö passed away on November 1, 3905 A.A.; more information is available on the article detailing the events surrounding her death.

## Personality

On the surface, Päiviö is rough around the edges and her normally scary, intense, and dark demeanor can be off-putting to those who do not know her. But to her friends and the little family she has left, Päiviö is hiding a lot of depth and pain on the inside. She is also surprisingly chill when she's not performing with her band on stage. Unfortunately, most who know her only remember her for how scary and foreboding she acts during concert performances.

Päiviö is very caring, is open to helping those close to her, and would never do anything to upset those she loves. That said, she is strongly loyal to her boyfriend Kullervo, a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist in her band, and would do nothing to ruin their relationship. While she has a daughter with Kullervo and loves them both dearly, she has no desire to ever marry him, believing that an entire ceremony to bond officialize their love for each other is necessary. She doesn't need a wedding dress or a gemstone ring to be happy, as long as she has Kullervo and their daughter.

Like anybody, Päiviö is not without her flaws, of course. Living in a world constantly assaulted by violent category 6 or stronger hurriances and EF8 or stronger tornadoes has meant she's lost several homes, usually ones that she and Kullervo constructed herself from scratch, has not been easy on Päiviö's mental health. The constant destruction of her last several homes over the last decade has left her struggling with intense bipolar disorder, and she often finds herself struggling with feelings of not feeling good enough to ever have anything she can call her own. She never self-harms, but on her really bad days, there are some days where she finds herself asking "Why the fuck do I even bother trying to build a life for myself?" On her good days, she wishes to make something out of her life other than just being the lead vocalist of a heavy metal band and a country singer making short horror and drama films.

Beyond all of that, Päiviö can be rather lustful and full of desire when it comes to her and Kullervo's love life. While not particularly kinky as they do not desire having a second child until the endless barrage of storms come to an end, Päiviö still has some tricks to spice up their love life without getting pregnant again. That said, she is very intelligent and capable of problem-solving about any issue, hence her wishing to find a solution to the endless barrage of violent storms. She believes that a mysterious organization is behind it all and seeks to find the truth, but not even Päiviö will be ready to uncover the truth behind the cause of all the storms.

## Artistry

### Style

Päiviö's musical style has changed several times over the years, with critics describing her early style with Our Fragile Echo as symphonic black metal, doom metal, melodic death metal, pagan metal, death metal, and thrash metal that infused elements of gothic metal and nu metal. The band would soon shift away from black metal, pagan metal, and doom metal, showing greater focus on thrash metal, nu metal and gothic metal, and a brief stent with metalcore. At this point in her career, she had only demonstrated growling, screaming, shrieking, and snarling vocal styles with occassional use of singing.

Her and her band's first true stylistic change, however, would happen with *Rapture*, their third studio album, which was described as heavy metal, melodic death metal, gothic metal, doom metal, horror punk, shock rock, and death rock. *Rapture* would be the band's first album to feature prominent use of singing, with shrieking and snarling vocal styles being phased out entirely.

The band has a whole would be forced to make a major sylistic shift following Päiviö suffering severe vocal chord damage due to her overuse of poor screaming and growling techique. Prior to the band's announcement of a hiatus while Päiviö underwent vocal chord surgery and subsequent recover, the band released an EP titled *Temple of the Autumnal Ghost*. This release was primarily described as dark ambient, experimental rock, industrial, progressive rock, art rock, alternative rock, dungeon synth, and instrumental rock, and featured very little use of vocals, and no unclean vocals of any kind.

Following a five-year hiatus while Päiviö recovered from her vocal chord surgery, the band would release its fourth album, *Our Fragile Echo*, which again featured another sylistic shift for the band, with a return to use of unclean vocals, but much less so than on the band's first-three albums due to Päiviö being unable to perform such vocals again. It was described as alternative metal, nu metal, post-grunge, hard rock, hardcore punk, and alternative rock.

While the band would release a non-album single three years later, it would be another five years before the band would release a new album. In the meantime, Päiviö released a self-titled solo album that was described as country, southern rock, blues, rock and roll, outlaw country, and country rock.

Päiviö's next release with her band, "Childhood Memories", would feature another major stylistic change. It is a rock and roll, alternative rock, country, pop punk, emo, punk rock, and post-hardcore album.

The band's album, "The Pyramid Texts", features the biggest stylistic change in both the band and Päiviö's career, with critics dubbing it a Music of Mesopotamia, Music of Old Kingdom Egypt, folk rock, ambient, and instrumental album that infuses elements of musique concrète and minimalist.

The band's seventh album, "Radiant Heart", is a country, southern rock, roots rock, cowpunk, and outlaw country.

Päiviö's music with her band has featured a wide variety of stylistic influences infused in their music, including speed metal, grindcore, screamo, thrashcore, powerviolence, old school death metal, folk metal, Finnish folk music, deathcore, emo, gothic rock, electronica, post-punk, post-industrial, pop rock, rapcore, nu metalcore, goth-pop, electropop, R&B, post-rock, djent, blues rock, post-nu metal, symphonic death metal, spoken word, classical, war metal, death 'n' roll, grunge, symphonic rock, riot grrrl, anarcho-punk, peace punk, power pop, blues, southern rock, soul, hip-hop, and synth-pop.

### Influences

Päiviö cites a wide variety of artists as influences on her career with her band, including Linkin Park, Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, Metallica, Death, Slayer, Scorpions, wikipedia:Black Sabbath, Kansas, Venom, Cannibal Corpse, Blink-182, Green Day, Simple Plan, Nine Inch Nails, Ice Nine Kills, Falling in Reverse, Escape the Fate, Fall Out Boy, Nirvana, Korn, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Rage Against the Machine, Rise Against, Evanescence, Nightwish, Black Veil Brides, Kiss, Mötley Crüe, Motionless in White, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Hollywood Undead, Sum 41, My Chemical Romance, AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Tiamat, The Pretty Reckless, Within Temptation, Papa Roach, Deftones, Godsmack, P.O.D., Of Mice & Men, From Ashes to New, Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Suicidal Tendencies, and Body Count.

Päiviö's persnal influences Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Dolly Parton, Pink, Avril Lavigne, Janis Joplin, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Singer, Hank Williams III, Aerosmith, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Shania Twain, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Band Perry, George Strait, Those Poor Bastards, and Carrie Underwood.

Stylistically, musically, and thematically she is influenced by classical music, classic rock and roll, early heavy metal, shock rock bands, gothic culture, country music, horror movies, issues that the real world faces, straight edge, and traditional Finnish culture.

## Discography

### Our Fragile Echo

* *Parasitic Cruelty*
* *Theater of Chaos*
* *Rapture*
* *Our Fragile Echo*
* *Childhood Memories*
* *The Pyramid Texts*
* *Radiant Heart*
* *Apocalypse*
* *Our Fragile Echo*

### Solo career

* *Bed of Roses*
* *Forever Alone*
* *Battle With Myself*
* *Here We Go*
* *Once Bitten, Forever A Vampire*

#### Polyamorous

* *A New Day Is Like Being Born Again*
* *Polyamorous*
* *Being Emo Never Was Just A Phase, It's Always Been My Lifestyle!*
* *Hybrid Theory — A Tribute To Linkin Park and Alternative Music*

### Guest appearances

#### Terminal Flames

* *Intervention* — eighth studio album; guest vocals, additional guitar, production

#### Drowning Hibiscus

* *Drowning Hibiscus* — debut studio album; guest vocals, additional guitar, piano, synthesizers, production

## Gallery

Concept ArtPäiviö performing "An Ocean To Bleed In" with Our Fragile Echo in 3848 A.A.Päiviö playing her bassPäiviö and Maggie on vacation at The Everlasting CayPäiviö's halloween costumePäiviö with Starveil and Rhav at a barPäiviö with StargazersPäiviö and Starveil on Helion PrimePäiviö and Starveil relaxing onboard *Imperial Spaceship Pandora*
## Notes

Early musical style:

	* Symphonic black metal
	* Doom metal
	* Melodic death metal
	* Pagan metal
	* Death metal
	* Thrash metal
	* Gothic metal
	* Heavy metal
	* Melodic death metal
	* Gothic metal
	* Doom metal
	* Horror punk
	* Shock rock
*Temple of the Autumnal Ghost* styles:

	* Dark ambient
	* Experimental rock
	* Industrial
	* Progressive rock
	* Art rock
	* Alternative rock
	* Dungeon synth
Self-titled album's musical style:

	* Alternative metal
	* Nu metal
	* Post-grunge
	* Hard rock
	* Hardcore punk
Self-titled solo album's style:

	* Country
	* Southern rock
	* Blues
	* Rock and roll
	* Outlaw country
*Childhood Memories'* musical style:

	* Rock and roll
	* Alternative rock
	* Country
	* Pop punk
	* Emo
	* Punk rock
*The Pyramid Texsts'* style:

	* Music of Mesopotamia
	* Music of Old Kingdom Egypt
	* Folk rock
	* Ambient
	* Instrumental
	* Musique concrète
*Childhood Memories'* musical style:

	* Country
	* Southern rock
	* Roots rock
	* Cowpunk
Genres that influenced her style over the years:

	* Speed metal
	* Grindcore
	* Screamo
	* Thrashcore
	* Powerviolence
	* Old school death metal
	* Folk metal
	* Finnish folk music
	* Deathcore
	* Gothic rock
	* Electronica
	* Post-punk
	* Post-industrial
	* Pop rock
	* Papcore
	* Nu metalcore
	* Goth-pop
	* Electropop
	* R&B
	* Djent
	* Blues rock
	* Symphonic death metal
	* Spoken word
	* Classical
	* War metal
	* Death 'n' roll
	* Grunge
	* Symphonic rock
	* Riot grrrl
	* Anarcho-punk
	* Peace punk
	* Power pop
	* Blues
	* Southern rock
	* Soul
	* Hip-hop

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