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Misery Inc.

Finnish metal band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1502068 ↗
Source-derived summary

Misery Inc. was a Finnish metal band formed in Myrskylä in 2001. Janne on guitar, Jukka on bass, Jonttu on drums and singer Jukkis. Their original plan was to make music without any lead guitars but then it turned out to be a bit boring. Teemu joined the band and so Misery Inc. were complete.

The band's debut album Yesterday's Grave was released through ZYX Music 2003. In summer 2005, Misery Inc. signed a deal with Firebox Records, and in February 2006 they released their second album, Random End. In 2007, Misery Inc.

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The public source identifies “Misery Inc.” as finnish metal band. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Misery, Finnish and metal.

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This entry incorporates text from “Misery Inc.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.