Karelia is a French heavy metal band created in 2000 by Lionel Vest and Matthieu Kleiber.

[citation needed] The lyrics deal with various themes such as blinding and misleading of people by a charismatic leader ("Raise"), religion wars ("Cross and Crescent"), childhood ("Child Has Gone", "Unbreakable Cordon"), depression ("Breakdown").

[citation needed] In autumn November 2007 Karelia opened for the well-known German hard rock band Scorpions for three of their shows in France.

Finally, on 26 August 2011, the album Golden Decadence was released, with the guest Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions playing guitar on two songs and Keep Watching Me The Way Across The Hills and 3 bonus tracks, including the resumption of Queen The Show Must Go On.

In this concert, Lex, singer and leader of Koritni came to sing with the band the title of Misfits Attitude.