Interviews

SINKING CHARLIE: “If you like our tunes, come to see us! If you don’t, bullocks, and bring you girlfriend to our gig!”

Posted by Nelli Perkkiö on September 8, 2011
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SINKING CHARLIE was formed in June 2011,after the previous incarnation of the line-up with a different name disbanded, due to musical/artistic differences. After a few line-up changes and demo songs, the band landed a production deal through GRP Records. I got to interview Henri Piispanen (vocals) and Markus Suomela (Guitar) from this rising band from capital area of Finland.

1.      Tell us a little bit about your band?

H: This isn’t only a band, it’s a group of retards and friends who hang around together.
M: Six youngsters trying to express themselves by creating this type music.

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Interview with FRANTIC AMBER: All-Female Heavy and Low-Tune Kick Ass Metal from Sweden!

Posted by tarjavirmakari on September 1, 2011
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FRANTIC AMBER is a Stockholm, Sweden-based all-female group delivering straightforward melo-death growl spiced up with clean vocals. Featuring members are from four different countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Japan). A video for the song “Wrath of Judgement” made quite an impression on the metal scene, paving the way for the worldwide digital release of the band’s debut five-song EP via the Australian metal label BlueFreya Media.

Some days ago I had a chance to interview Mary (band leader, guitar) and Elizabeth (vocals), and here’s our chat…

Hi Mary and Elizabeth, I’m Tarja. welcome to Metal Shock Finland! How are you doing today?

Hello Tarja, thank you we’re doing great!

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Interview with TONY MARTIN: “In Music Business LOTS of things need to change …today it’s just fuckin’ crap!!!”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 25, 2011
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TONY MARTIN, is a heavy metal vocalist best known for his work with Black Sabbath from 1987 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 1997. Tony has since been involved in many other projects (such as the Tony Martin Band, M3, The Alliance, Misha Calvin, The Cage, Giuntini Project II, Phenomena’s Psychofantasy album)… A few days ago I had a chance to interview Tony about his projects and what he’s thinking about the Music Business in generally…

Hi Tony, and welcome to Shock Finland! how are you doing today?

Thanks .. i’m good.

Well, there are so many things to ask, however I’d like to talk first about you as a musician… despite  you’re performing almost exclusively as a vocalist, you’re a multi-instrumentalist… you play guitar, bass, drums, violin, keyboards, harmonica, bagpipes, and pan pipes… so, what is your relationship with these instruments, and how you “met” them?

They all come to me by way of curiosity… I never study them.. just pick ’em up and experiment.. if I can get them to work, I use them….

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Interview with VADER: “This is real life, and it’s sometimes more scary than fairytales…”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 22, 2011
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Polish death metallers, VADER, are very few bands that have managed to weave a web of mystery around them. Very few have survived and kept going strong until today. Theirs is the cult of musical brutality and the urge to succeed. Few may remember that VADER were the first band ever from behind “the Iron Curtain” to sign to a Western label while their 1990 demo “Morbid Reich” is still considered to be the best selling demo tape in the history of death metal. Only a few days ago was released their 9th studio album “Welcome to the Morbid Reich” via Nuclear Blast… I had a chance to talked about it, among many other things, with Piotr “Peter” Wiwczarek, please join our conversation…

Hi Peter, welcome to Metal Shock Finland! How’s your day been so far?

Thanks Tarja, I’m fine! and as we’ve started the promotion, so I’m sitting here at home, doing some mailers and interviews by phone, as now with you 🙂 …so we have a little break in performances, we’ll have some festivals next week, then on august we’ll start to do also other shows besides the festivals. But everything will start after the album comes out, in Europe 12th of August.

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Interview with HUMAN SCULPTURE: “Our World/Torn Down- album is about the future of earth and mankind”

Posted by Nelli Perkkiö on August 18, 2011
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HUMAN SCULPTURE is death metal band from Järvenpää, Finland. They just released a mini album named Our World /Torn Down on 5th of August 2011. We got a change to interview the guys and ask how’s the future looking for them!

1.Tell us about your band please?

Human Sculpture was formed in the spring of 2010 in Helsinki, and we have been active since August 2010. We felt the Finnish metal scene, while having a lot of oldschool death&thrash bands, was lacking the more modern kind of music in the death department, so we were aiming to fill the gap.

                                                                            
2.How has your summer gone?

– It’s been good, thanks for asking, although quite busy. In June we were figuring out which studio we should go to for the recording of Our World / Torn Down, and it took a lot of time and hard detective work. We had to think carefully because of the costs of the studio sessions vary so radically, not to mention the quality of the recording. We ended up going to D-Studio in Klaukkala, and so far it seems we made the right choice. After the recording, we’ve been writing more songs and practicing for gigs.

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Interview with CORRODED: “Exit To Transfer” heading towards worldwide Battlefields

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 14, 2011
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Swedish heavy rockers CORRODED was formed 2004 and quickly went from unknown to household in their native country, when national TV station TV4 handpicked their debut-single “Time and Again” to accompany the promotion of their blockbuster show “Expedition Robinson” internationally known as “Survivor”. CORRODED‘s second album “Exit To Transfer” came out on last October, via Ninetone Records…  Some days ago I had a change to interview Jens Westin (singer and lead guitar) and Peter Sjödin (Guitar), and this what they told me…

 Hi Jens and Peter, I’m Tarja. Welcome to Metal Shock Finland! what was your first thought of this morning?

J: I think that speak for the whole band when I say, we really need a shower (no showers at the venue yesterday).

What makes you so corroded? what is the story behind your band name?

P: We are all old farts 🙂 and all metal eventually goes corroded in the end.

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