Vermilia (Finland) – her music is a mix of epic pagan metal and sweet, raw, and melancholic vocal harmonies in her native language. Vermilia is creating everything as an independent artist, from music to graphics to videos to even shaman drums.
With 200,000 unique listeners and over 3,000,000 streams on Spotify since her debut album, Kätkyt (2018). Kätkyt was one of the best-selling metal albums on Bandcamp during the weekend of the pre-release announcement.
The first 2 CD presses were sold out with the following special C-cassette boxes less than 3 days after release. The album received a huge amount of praise in different media (printed/online).
On March 1st, 2019, she announced her cover version of the Finnish anthem song called “Täällä Pohjantähden Alla,” which has been a huge success on Spotify. After the release, it jumped to number 1 among the most viral songs in Finland on official Spotify charts.
On May 20th, 2020, Vermilia released the “Keskeneräisiä Tarinoita“ EP. On November 6th, Vermilia released ”Suru on kunniavieras”.
Second full-length album “Ruska” came out on September 9th, 2022. Ruska is for autumn foliage. ”This refers to the time of the year when the spectacular natural phenomena of the autumn foliage happen or when leaves change colors and the trees get ready for winter.”
Vermilia has played at major metal festivals and intimate venues across Europe. Ragnarök Festival (DE), Dark Troll Festival (DE), Dark Easter Metal Meeting (DE), Celtic Transilvania (RO), Tuska Festival (FIN), Nummirock (FIN), and Dark River Festival (FIN), to name a few.
By now, with over 2,000,000 streams, Vermilia released on February 14th, 2025, her anticipated third full-length album, “Karsikko“, which reached Finland’s official charts (#3 most selling physical albums) and #30 on official charts. With vinyl she reached most selling physical charts on #7 in october 2025.
In July 2025, Karsikko was chosen as the album of the month on YleX radio. (One of the major radio stations of the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Vermilia has been touring a lot with her live musicians in Europe with the Ruska (Autumn foliage) album, playing major festivals like Ragnarök Festival (DE), Dark Troll Festival (DE), Dark Easter Metal Meeting (DE), Celtic Transilvania (RO), Tuska Festival (FIN), Nummirock (FIN), and Dark River Festival (FIN), to name a few.
Also, she’s been featured as vocalist and flutist for Caledonian metal band Saor in their Finnish shows in 2023.
Vermilia supported legendary SIGH (Jp) in March 2024 in their Finnish shows and then, She did a 6-show headliner tour in Spain during autumn 2024 and 5 -show headliner tour in autum 2025.