Clandestine Blaze

Clandestine Blaze
Aspa performing as Clandestine Blaze in 2000
Background information
Origin	Lahti, Finland
Genres	Black metal
Years active	1998–present
Labels	End All Life Northern Heritage
Members	Mikko Aspa

Clandestine Blaze is a one-man Finnish black metal band from Lahti, formed in 1998 by Mikko Aspa. Aspa cites Darkthrone, Burzum, Beherit and Bathory as key influences. Aspa is also currently involved in many other projects, such as Stabat Mater, Creamface, Fleshpress, AM, Grunt, Clinic of Torture, Alchemy of the 20th Century, and Nicole 12.

Aspa is also the owner of Northern Heritage, a record label that has released albums by Baptism, Mgła, Behexen, Deathspell Omega, Drudkh, Hate Forest, Ildjarn, Peste Noire, and Satanic Warmaster, among others. In addition, Aspa is the owner of CF Productions (which produces the pornographic Erotic Perversion magazines and Public Obscenities videos) and Freak Animal Records (a power electronics / noise label).

Clandestine Blaze has performed a few live shows in 2015 and 2016 using a session lineup. With regard to future touring plans, Aspa said: "I won’t even consider any offers beyond the level of Steelfest, which is the best festival I’m currently aware of. I’d prefer small, closed networks completely cut off from the music industry."

Aspa's power electronics project Nicole 12 has also been controversial for its themes of sexual predation. The cover of the Nicole 12 album Substitute appears to depict a nude photograph of an underage girl; while Aspa acknowledged that it is the project's "most controversial" cover, he claims that the image is actually of a 27-year-old woman but heavily distorted so that listeners "feel as if they are doing something wrong."

Members

• Mikko Aspa – all instruments, vocals (1998–present)

Live musicians

• Michał Stępień – bass (2015–2016)
• Maciej Kowalski – drums (2015–2016)
• Mikołaj Żentara – guitar (2015–2016)
• Piotr Dziemski – guitar (2015–2016)

Discography

Demos

• Promo '98 (1998)
• There Comes the Day... (Northern Heritage, 2001)
• Below the Surface of Cold Earth (Northern Heritage, 2002)
• Blood and Cum (Northern Heritage, 2002)
• Goat - Creative Alienation (Northern Heritage, 2002)

Albums

• Fire Burns in Our Hearts (Blackmetal.com / Northern Heritage, 1999)
• Night of the Unholy Flames (Northern Heritage / End All Life, 2000)
• Fist of the Northern Destroyer (Northern Heritage / End All Life, 2002)
• Deliverers of Faith (Northern Heritage, 2004)
• Church of Atrocity (Northern Heritage, 2006)
• Falling Monuments (Northern Heritage, 2010)
• Harmony of Struggle (Northern Heritage, 2013)
• New Golgotha Rising (Northern Heritage, 2015)
• City of Slaughter (Northern Heritage, 2017)
• Tranquility of Death (Northern Heritage, 2018)
• Secrets of Laceration (Northern Heritage, 2021)
• Resacralize the Unknown (Northern Heritage, 2023)
• Consecration Of The Blood (Northern Heritage, 2025)

Split albums and EPs

• On the Mission EP (Northern Neritage, 1999)
• Split with Deathspell Omega (Northern Heritage, 2001)
• Split with Satanic Warmaster (Northern Heritage, 2004)
• Crushing the Holy Trinity split with Deathspell Omega, Stabat Mater, Musta Surma, Mgła & Exordium (Northern Heritage, 2005)

Compilations

• Archive Volume 1 (Northern Heritage, 2008)
• Archive Volume 2 (Northern Heritage, 2008)
• Archive Volume 3 (Northern Heritage, 2008)

External links

• Interview at Diabolical Conquest Webzine
• Interview at Worm Gear
• Interview at The Vexation Sleep
• Interview at Chronicles of Chaos