Voracity Patch

Voracity Patch is an avant-garde rock band from Finland, who first garnered international fame in the late 1970s. The band is noted for its unorthodox antics, especially during concerts.

Although the band has had a changing line up over the years, two members have remained a constant for fans. The lead singer, Olavi Järvinen, and drummer Pavvi Kyösti are the band's primary creative team, and are responsible for writing most of the group's most famous songs, including Dead Sea Master and Skrælings.

The media-shy Järvinen, who once hurled a life-size ceramic goat into the audience of a Dublin concert, has been quoted as saying "[We] know that Voracity Patch is what the undertrodden peoples of the world want to hear. We are the disenfranchised, we are the homeless, we are those whose lives have been tempered by injustice."

As of 2003, the band has released nine albums:

1. !aamurusko! (1975)
2. Red Cars and Mustard Gas (1978)
3. Coming from a Mile Away (1981)
4. Tumbler Hands (1985)
5. Crag Disputer (1988)
6. Nös Under-Shark (1990)
7. Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? (1995)
8. Live at the Indelburner (1998)
9. Tibet (1999)

Note: Tibet is not considered by many fans to be a true Voracity Patch album, as Pavvi Kyösti is not involved. The thirteen tracks were recorded by Järvinen in a Tibetan monastery.