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"Negative" The Finnish band Negative started as three piece during 1997 in Tampere, Finland. Current line-up: Jonne Aaron (vox), Hannu "Hata" Salmi (guitar), Antti Anatomy (bass), Jay Slammer (drums) and Snack (keyboards). Negative's long time guitarist Sir Christus is no longer in the band. The band has decided not to replace him. Also Larry Love left the band (may 2011). He is replaced by Hannu "Hata Salmi". Negative's debut single The Moment ... Of Our Love and the first album War Of Love has sold gold in Finland. War Of Love has also been released in Scandinavia, Italy, Russia and Japan. Negative has already played a huge amount of shows in Finland and the band has performed in Japan, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well. The first single from Negative's second album, Frozen To Lose It All, went straight to number one in the official Finnish charts. Negative's second album Sweet & Deceitful was released in September 2004 and the band toured extensively after that. In May 2005 the album was also released in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and a tour in those countries followed in September 2005. Their latest record Anorectic has been released in September 2006 and from November to December Negative are on tour in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Finland. Negative-guys have always loved the bands like Guns 'N' Roses, Hanoi Rocks, Mötley Crue, Kiss, W.A.S.P. and Finnish 80's rock/pop legend Dingo so it's not very big surprise that band have set their ultimate goals outside the borders of Finland. And this has been the case since the Negative's day one... Negative's current line-up has been gathering together slowly. Jonne tells some examples. Negative signed a record deal with Tampere-based Gbfam Records in 2002. The band started the recordings of War Of Love in Cosmic studios with the highly acclaimed producer Lex Luthor (who has previously worked for example with Paleface and Ezkimo). Negative toured extensively in Finland after the release of War Of Love. The band saw all the corners of their homeland, from fjelds of Lapland to the shores of southern Finland. Negative's second album took shape under the overseeing eye of veteran producer TT Oksala (HIM, The 69 Eyes, Lordi etc.) during the spring 2004. Their third album "Karma Killer" was released on May 7th 2008. See more [+]