Based in Aarhus, Denmark, the progrock band BOIL plays an ambitious style of progressive rock and metal that balances on the delicate edge of melodic catchiness, intricacy and complexity. With the 5 members drawing from widely different influences, the unique mixture contains elements of both polyrhythmic modern metal, electronica, grunge and classic rock. Some days ago I asked the guys how they’re doing today, here’s what Jacob Loebner and Kristian Outinen told me…
Hi guys, welcome to Metal Shock Finland! how was your sunday?
Kristian Outinen: Mine was spent attending a concert with Toto. I’ve never seen them before and according to family members, I was into them when I was too young to remember. But don’t tell this to the hardcore metal fans. 🙂
BOIL was formed in 2004, tell me about the start and to what refers the band’s name?
Jacob Loebner: Yes the band was formed by the only remaining founding fathers Stig Nielsen (guitar) and Mikkel Ib (drums). For the first couple of years they were trying out different styles and band members until finally finding their way into the heart of the Boil universe. The name Boil was chosen partly to have a short and easy name but also in order to represent dualism in general, since Boil is a word with more than one meaning and can be understood to represent either the dynamics of reaching a boiling point or the repulsiveness of having a boil e.g. in your ass (oops, the interview has just started and we are already talking about ass, sorry for that, we’ll try to get back on track again..what was the question?).
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