“The Metalheadz” presenter Sian Parry conducted an interview with Finnish “battle metal” warriors TURISAS at the Hammerfest, which took place March 18-19, 2011 in Prestatyn, North Wales. You can now watch the chat below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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Long-running metal podcast MSRcast, part of Metal Injection Radio, recently conducted an interview with Timo Kotipelto, lead vocalist of Finnish metallers STRATOVARIUS. They discuss lots of great metal topics, including touring, the band’s brand new album, “Elysium”; Timo‘s solo career; and even get into the topic of STRATOVARIUS‘ former guitarist Timo Tolkki. The podcast also includes music from “Elysium”, some musical choices from Kotipelto, and other classic songs, including an AYREON track. You can now stream the podcast HERE. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Italian Black/Thrash terror bands GHOSTRIDER and NECRODEATH have one common denominator, Peso, the drummer and the founder of these two bands. Saturday, March 5 on the backstage of Bulldog in Genoa, I had a long talk, around a round table, with Peso (Necrodeath, Ghostrider), Helvete (Ghostrider), Claudio (ex-Necrodeath), GL (Necrodeath) and Pier Gonella (Necrodeath). Here are the topics of our marathon interview …
Hi Guys, so where do we start … hmmm, chronologically we start with Ghostrider (pre-Necrodeath). It was formed in 1984, but after just one year you have renamed it to Necrodeath. Why this name change? And what was the initial impetus to form Ghostrider?
HELVETE: The band was formed by Peso and Claudio and with two other guys, influenced by bands like Venom, and other historical bands of that period. The guys were driven to this enthusiasm for this type of extreme music, you know, they were young and lived in the underground metal environment of Genoa, with this adventure. Then after a year from the birth of Ghostrider, they decided to change the name to Necrodeath, especially for a moniker that speaks of a more extreme band. In the first year of life, Ghostrider, composed songs, to leave them “in the ashes” to wait …. but then after the name change, the band has taken a bit different kind of path that leads to our days … after 25 years, in 2010, Ghostrider made a come-back with a new lineup that includes me too.
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Colombia’s Rockombia recently conducted an interview with former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Bella Qvist of Sweden’s CriticalMass.se online magazine recently conducted an interview with keyboardist Janne Wirman of Finnish metallers CHILDREN OF BODOM. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
On recording the new album, “Relentless Reckless Forever”, in the deep dark woods of Finland:
Janne: “Yeah, it’s freaky ‘cos in Finland we don’t have tornados or storms that big but it was crazy, the storm hit the studio and we lost power for three days and we were in the middle of nowhere. The trees cut down the power lines and the trees cut down the roads so we were stuck in the countryside in the middle of nowhere for a couple of days. . . [But] actually we had fun. We played the grand piano in candlelight and sang Britney Spears to ourselves and it was not that big of a problem, you know.”
On the importance of “sauna bathing” during the production of the new album:
Janne: “Well, especially at this studio, they have a great sauna and there’s another one by the lake and when we were recording in the summer time so it was great. [Our] American producer hadn’t been in a Finnish wood-burning sauna before and he absolutely loved it. Every morning he woke up, heated up the sauna and had a sauna and he would work in the studio the full studio day and then in the end of the night he would heat up the sauna again. Actually this time there was a lot of sauna action during sessions.”
On their reputation as a “party-hard band:
Janne: “I think the whole bunch of us just happen to be… all of us like to party and drink and have fun and then the five us got together as a band and then there was a huge party. Although now we are over thirty, we try to… I mean, we’ve grown old so we can’t party like we did ten years ago because that was just too much and crazy. But, you know, we still party.”
On whether CHILDREN OF BODOM is all about sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll:
Janne: “No, to be honest, no. It might have been something like that ten years ago but, like I said, all of us have grown up a little bit in the last couple of years and trying to keep things in moderation. We still party and we still have fun, but we try to do things not too stupid all the time.”
On the best thing about being a rock star:
Janne: “I guess the best thing, seriously, is that you get to do what you love to do. You get to tour around the world with your friends and, you know, all that stuff, and then when you go home you don’t have to go to McDonald’s and flip burgers. The best part is that you get to do what you love to do and you get a living out of it.”
On what the most fake thing in the industry is:
Janne: “Well, you know, there is a lot of faking going on in the music industry. I mean, the whole music industry is kind of fucked right now, it’s pretty fake, the whole thing. I hope somehow there would be a solution so that artists and record labels could still keep doing what they are doing so that it would be somewhat financially, you know, reasonable for everybody, but I don’t know.”
On whether the cold and dark affects a “rock star”:
Janne: “Yeah, I’m not much of a winter person myself anymore. I absolutely hate it, I hate the snow and the coldness and if I was rock-star enough, I wouldn’t live here during the winters, I would simply live here in the summers, it’s too fucking cold. I have a house and I have this driveway and [there was] so much snow this year, you have to like twice a day shovel the snow to be able to drive and get out of your house.”
Read the entire interview at CriticalMass.se. Source: Blabbermouth.net
Pop Culture Madness conducted an interview with Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT when the band performed at the Theatre Of The Living Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 24, 2011. You can now watch the chat below.
VOLBEAT‘s latest album, “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven”, was certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) (The Federal Association of Music Industry) for sales in excess of 100,000 copies in Germany.
In a recent interview with Christina Fuoco-Karasinski of Soundspike, Poulsen stated about “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven”, “It’s our new release and style-wise we’re doing pretty much the same as we did on the three previous albums, flirting around with a lot of different styles. It’s not easy to say what kind of style VOLBEAT actually is. You have so many different elements from punk and metal and rockabilly and country. For us, it’s never been important to be 100 percent one genre or one style.”
When asked about how VOLBEAT came up with its unique sound — which has been described as a cross between METALLICA and ELVIS PRESLEY — Poulsen said, “Mostly my parents would play all music from the ’50s. We were listening to Elvis, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino and Chuck Berry and Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, all the legendary singers from the ’50s. They were listening to them all the time. All those kind of melodies, they were always spinning in my head. Even though as a teenager I was really dedicated and hooked on heavy metal, it seems like later on all the melodies form the ’50s continually showed up in my mind. So, it was very natural to mix it all up.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
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