Dead End Irony is a Heavy Metal band founded in Imatra, Finland in 2010, which has been welded into a diamond-like entity through years of hard work. Like many bands, personnel changes have also had to be made over time, while the core group has remained together. DEI has grown into a mature group, whose brilliant debut album Battles & Brotherhood we now get to hear. The album is an eight-song strong Heavy Metal record that honors the roots of the genre with a modern touch and an uncompromising attitude.

“We’ve been preparing this album for a long time and it’s great to finally have it out for the crowd to listen to. These songs embody what Heavy Metal is in 2025; melody, aggression and with a touch of epicness,” says the band’s vocalist Vesa Winberg about the new “Battles and Brotherhood” album.”

Listen to the album on music services (Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/dei-battlesandbrotherhood

Battles & Brotherhood was recorded at Teemu Aalto Music Production studio and the album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Teemu Aalto.

Tracklist / ISRC-codes:

1. Fight! – FI3FC2551401
2. Patton – QM4TW2364280
3. King of Emptiness – QM6P42333302
4. Day of Reckoning – QMDA72356500
5. Rise Up for the Light – FI3FC2551405
6. Gone – QM4TW2555180
7. Catch My Soul – FI3FC2551407
8. Razor Gods – FI3FC2551408

Dead End Irony is:
Simo Jokela – Lead guitar
Antti Pekonen – Drums
Kristian Valkama – Guitar
Antti Vainio – Bass
Vesa Winberg – Vocals

https://www.deadendirony.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndIrony
https://deadendirony.bandcamp.com/

Catch My Soul is 5th and the last single from the Dead End Irony upcoming album Battles and Brotherhood to be released on end of May via Inverse Records. The song is a heavy metal ballad with a chorus bigger than the Imatra rapids. Verse comes with acoustic guitars, rhythm section is solid and guitar leads fits perfectly in the song with the powerful vocals. 

The song is written by the band and it’s produced by Teemu Aalto (Insomnium, Ginger Evil, Marianas Rest).

Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/dei-catchmysoul

• ISRC: FI3FC2551407
• Music: Simo Jokela
• Lyrics: Juha-Matti Tepponen, Vesa Winberg

“The song’s story about a father languishing in a prison camp and a son he never met is not only tragic but also unfortunately timely. It creates a charge in the song but also offers hope amidst the sorrow. We wanted both catchiness and a heavier rhythm in the song, and we succeeded in this with Teemu Aalto” says the band’s singer and the song’s co-lyricist, Vesa Winberg.

Dead End Irony:
Vesa Winberg – Vocals
Simo Jokela – Solo Guitar
Kristian Valkama – Guitar
Antti Vainio – Bass
Antti Pekonen – Drums

https://www.deadendirony.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndIrony
https://deadendirony.bandcamp.com/

DEAD END IRONY‘s founding words were pronounced at city of Imatra, Finland in 2010 and now the band is about to release their first full-length album “Battles and brotherhood”. The fourth single now released from the album is called “Gone”, which sounds in the tones of classic 80’s European Heavy Metal.

The song is written by the band and it’s produced by Teemu Aalto (Insomnium, Ginger Evil, Marianas Rest).

Listen to the single on music services (Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Tidal etc.): https://push.fm/fl/deadendirony-gone

• ISRC: QM4TW2555180
• Music: Vainio, Jokela, Valkama
• Lyrics: Vainio

“The song combines melodic elements with a hard hitting riff. There is a lot of repressed emotions in the lyrics. Gone is a song about what it feels like to keep fighting even when you know you’ve lost because you don’t know what else to do.” tells the lyricist Antti Vainio.

Dead End Irony:
Vesa Winberg – Vocals
Simo Jokela – Solo Guitar
Kristian Valkama – Guitar
Antti Vainio – Bass
Antti Pekonen – Drums

https://www.deadendirony.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DeadEndIrony
https://deadendirony.bandcamp.com/