Callisto - formed in 2001 - is a metal/progressive/experimental band from Turku, Finland. With their second album Noir, a follow-up for the widely recognized debut "True Nature Unfolds", the Finnish five-piece has turned a new page in broadening musical expressions. Their cathartically dim and characteristic works are the means for the band to draw from a more diverse and timeless sound. Noir can not only be felt switching between various musical tendencies, but also between different decades. Callisto expand on the whole modern sludge genre innovators of Isis and likes with it's subtle jazz leanings, heavy use of mellotron and experimentation with unconventional rock instruments such as the saxophone. Callisto's short and cryptic lyrics contain strong Christian themes with references to artists such as Trouble and Woven hand.


Callisto is also the name of an ambient electronic music group consisting of David Wright and Dave Massey.