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Interview with Santeri Kallio (Keyboards) from Amorphis
AMORPHIS are a Metal band from Finland who celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2020 with a set of three live shows, each covering songs from one decade. Their 2018 album ‘Queen of Time’ reached gold status in Finland and made it to high chart positions in several countries. In 2021 the band hit the studio and teamed up with producer Jens Bogren, the result named ‘Halo’ will be released on February 11th 2022. One Thursday evening I reached keyboarder Santeri Kallio at home in Finland via WhatsApp.
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Interview with Johan van Roy (vocals) from Suicide Commando
“For me music still has all to do with passion, music is my life, music is my passion, music is my therapy!” The new album by the Belgian masters SUICIDE COMMANDO is scheduled to be out in summer 2022. As the band’s mastermind Johan van Roy stated, the works on it are almost finished. We discussed the style of the new release, tour plans and live music experience as well as the vinyl version the of the demo of 1988 that is also to be out late summer this year.
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Interview with Tony Kakko (Vocals & Keyboards) from Sonata Arctica
SONATA ARTICA is a Melodic Metal band from Finland that started as a POWER METAL band back in the 1990s and changed their style towards Melodic Metal over the years. In 2019 the band embarked on a tour to perform acoustic versions of songs from their back catalogue for the fans and since the response of the audience was fantastic, the band hit the studio, to record these songs. The recorded material exceeds the length of an album and so the session was divided in two parts. The first part ‘Acoustic Adventures - Volume One’ was released via ATOMIC FIRE RECORDS on January 21st 2022 and a few days later I reached vocalist Tony Kakko at home in Finland via Skype.
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Interview with Beelzebub (Vocals, Bass, Guitar, Keyboards) from Mystic Circle
MYSTIC CIRCLE are one of the most famous Metal bands from Germany. In 1999 founding member A. Blackwar left the band, so Beelzebub had to continue the band as the only founding member. In 2007 the story of MYSTIC CIRCLE ended after seven unholy albums and tours with bands like MOTÖRHEAD, DIMMU BORGIR and many more. After more than twenty years the visionary heads of MYSTIC CIRCLE have reunited to continue the story and Atomic Fire Records was so kind to get us an interview with Beelzebub.
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Interview with Jonathan Gallant (bass) of Billy Talent
It’s been quite a while since Canadian Rockers BILLY TALENT released their last album and so I was quite thrilled when I heard, that they would release a new album after a long break. Time to catch up with BILLY TALENT and talk about what happened since their last big tour and about the new album. I reached Jonathan Gallant (who confused me for a few moments by his cover name of “Karl Hungus” via Zoom) and he seemed to have a really busy interview schedule. When the interview was over, he told me that he used the name of the ‘Big Lebowski’ character as a joke in his previous interview. It’s good to know, that bands promoting a new album in a difficult time and facing tons of online interviews don’t lose their humour about it.
- Interview: Mesh - December 2021
- Interview: Tailgunner - November 2021
- Interview: Kollaps - December 2021
- Interview: Die Krupps - November 2021
- Interview: Aesthetic Perfection - November 2021
- Interview: Nova-Spes - November 2021
- Interview: Nino Sable - October 2021
- Interview: Sweet Ermengarde - September 2021
- Interview: DIAF - September 2021
- Interview: Zeromancer - August 2021
