MERGING FLARE
REVOLT REGIME

Kasperi Heikkinen (ex-U.D.O./Dirkschneider) is the guitar player and driving force behind Finnish melodic Heavy Metal band MERGING FLARE. Currently, Heikkinen conquers the Metal world as axeman of Beast In Black, who supported Nightwish on a huge arena tour in late 2018 and followed up with the extremely successful release of their sophomore album in February 2019 (#1 in Finland and numerous additional top 10 chart entries in many other countries). Despite that, MERGING FLARE found the time finish their album #2, titled ‘Revolt Regime. It will be clear that ‘Revolt Regime’ was well worth the wait. MERGING FLARE have created a classic Heavy Metal album which reminds of Judas Priest, Accept, Running Wild, Helloween and Gamma Ray, with that typical Nordic flavor added (think of Tarot). All members of the bands are rooted in the 80’s – and you can definitely hear that. For the mixing of ‘Revolt Regime’, MERGING FLARE hired Mattes Pfeiffer, whom Heikkinen got to know during two U.D.O. studio productions. Mastering was done by another Metal legend, Stefan Kaufmann (ex-Accept). The amazing cover artwork is a creation by Roman Ismailov, who was also responsible for both Beast In Black album covers.