Spotlight On 'Europe's Only Heavy Metal Karaoke Club'
October 15, 2005DailyTimes.com.pk is reporting that Helsinki, Finland's Hevimesta — literally, "the heavy place" — lets customers take the microphone twice a week, becoming Europe's only heavy metal karaoke club. Owner Jouni Lanamaki launched his first heavy metal bar in northern Finland before branching out to the capital, where in a few months Hevimesta has won a following of young (and not-so-young) would-be headbangers. At 10 p.m. on a recent Wednesday the cavernous basement labyrinth of brick-walled rooms was still quiet, with just a few students on a Microsoft-sponsored outing venturing up to the microphone.
Some dressed the part, in black from head to toe. 23-year-old Antti-Pekka Sarin, the most convincing singer that night, wore white jeans and a red baseball cap for his first visit to this bar. "I like this place a lot," he enthused after a spirited rendition of "Back in Black". "Finnish people love heavy metal almost as much as in Eastern Europe and Germany, where it’s huge."
After midnight the action really hotted up, though one fellow in an business suit — slumped over his table — was so far gone he could hardly stand much less spring to his feet and belt out IRON MAIDEN's "Run to the Hills". A mix of office workers on a night out, students in search of cheap beer (all drinks cost one euro) and diehard heavy metal fans clad in clunky boots and studs took turns at the microphone before a tolerant audience that eventually hit the dance floor.
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