Effective period / Period of releases: 1999 - 2005

Members: Sami Hinkka, Petri Eskelinen, Aleksi Ahokas, Henri Villberg, Samuel Ruotsalainen, Jarno Salomaa, Tomi Ullgren, Seppo Nummela, Pete Raatikainen

Rapture is a band formed in 1997 by a group of musicians from Helsinki, Finland. The members of Rapture have played in several bands, including Barathrum, Diablerie, Ensiferum, Finntroll, Fragile Hollow, The Mist and the Morning Dew, Rain Paint, Shape of Despair and Thy Serpent. They play a vein of depressive doom metal with a lot of light guitar work, keyboards, with heavy riffs combined with clean and growling vocals.