TORTURE PULSE

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

I go by the name Kimmortal and I´m responsible of our chainsaw sound. I´m also a kind dicktator who brings forth the litanies and unholy symphonies. Father of most evil.

When/where was your band formed?

 

It was the summer of ´95 and I guess it´s safe to say that we were formed in a bar (Hevimesta). This is what happens when hatred comes alive. We surely shared hatred towards melodic death metal and all its forms. At the time old school death metal was pretty dead or at least suffering. Wow - that was over 10 years ago.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

I guess death metal chose us. We had long discussions of the state of death metal and felt ashamed. At the time most the bands were polished beyond recognition. No reek of putrefaction. Just autotuned crap. We had our roots and respected ´em. 

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

Music is mostly done by me, but everyone in the band must agree with my vision. Sometimes I come up with a good one and sometimes we need to change something. But when it comes to drum/basslines, I really want that guys put on their effort. I´m not really a drummer or bassplayer, so I always give them their freedom to do what suits best. BTW - there will be a song written by Hellariser (bass) on our next album. 

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

It´s always different. I mostly come up with riffs and start to work with lyrics afterwards. But in some cases I write music to lyrics. It´s really challenging way to go. Inspiration to music? Fucked up world. Lyrically it´s all between reality and fantasy. Mostly against religions, but also reality and brutality.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

I can only speak for myself, but I have this grudge against religions which keeps me going. I´ve experienced some pretty disturbing stuff in my childhood. When imaginary friend is more important than your successor there´s something horribly wrong... FOAD. Well, they ARE already dead. FUCK THE DEAD!

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

When we started it was weak and kinda "NWOSDM" worship. Nowadays it seems it´s 90´s again. Lots of great bands and it seems they´re in it for real. Also old bands are getting together again and rare gems have been dug out of their graves. Can´t complain. Finland fucking reigns!

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

Well, we have our feet firmly  in the ground. When we started, our goal was to get a record deal. Done. We´re awaiting to get abroad to spread our plague across the countries. I think we kick ass live 666% and the world needs to get it´s ass kicked! Book us and get assraped through your ears.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

Purtenance is doing a really good come back. Good fellows too. You all should check their new album. Invicatio!

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Support the music / band you love.  This is a really expensive hobby. Buy a CD/vinyl straight from the band, but skip those downloads.  Boycott Spotify and others. Give respect to the musicians. Death all over the world!

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FESTERDAY

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

- My name is body, mr. Necrobody. What movie am I referring to? Well anyway, guess I'm the tongue in this band, the mouth and the bullhorn.

When/where was your band formed? 

- Jakestown, also known as Pietarsaari aka Jeppis, back in '89.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

- To us dm was the shit back in the days. To meet up with 5 guys as teens, sharing the same musical taste, was extraordinary, especially in a small town like Jakestown. It was like the first hard-on. And what's better than a hard-on? Yup, down-tuned guitars. We did not want to make the ordinary brutal dm as  90% of the scene was playing at that time, we kinda added bits and pieces from here and there to what we were digging: sometimes a Grave, sometimes a Carcass.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

- We all have our saying. A song can come from a riff, idea, feeling or just when rehearsing, but mainly the fundament is carved from a six string.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

- Our lyrics are pretty different from basic dm bands. We do have the gory parts, but it's in the allegory. You may fling the coin as many times you want, there's always two sides to it.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

- Of course. If you have a voice, you have an opinion. But, depends on how you think of it. Whatever the case, be it political, economical, racial or religious, it's not to be mixed with death metal. The name of the genre should be enough to tell where we're heading.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

- Oddly enough, it's living. The whole metal revival lasted longer than ever expected. A good thing? Not if you ask me. Not that everything should stay on the first demo level, but seriously, metal today, not the fish in my pond, really. Things have changed and  they should, but why are all the good things in the past? Aah, some call them memories. Why not make the best of the best times, and make them forever. Some call it motivation, I call it dedication. That's life.

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

- Achievements as a band? Uuugfh, play together, stay together. Cliché? Naah, there's the answer to your ideology. It's in the bone, it's in the bone - what movie did I just referr to?

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

- Coprophilia.

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GALVANIZER

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

We are Galvanizer and we play Death Metal/Grindcore in the old school way. Band contains three members; Vili Mäkinen plays bass and does the deeper growls, Nico Niemikko plays drums and I am Aleksi and I play guitar and I take care of those high pitched vocals too..

When was your band formed?

Galvanizer saw it's daylight somewhere in 2013 when Vili decided to form a Death Metal band. Back then the band wasn't really active but Vili and I became friends in the summer of 2014 and we wanted to play Death Metal together so I moved to Galvanizer. In early November 2014 we released our first demo tape called Ground Above and it was success. Back then I played drums and Vili played bass and guitars and both were doing vocals like nowadays.. Nico replaced me on the drums just few months ago.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

Well Death Metal is a great way to unload aggression and it is a great style to play. Death Metal just has something that is so enjoyable and there's so much bands to listen.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

This far Vili has done almost all composing and I have done all the lyrics except our shortest song "You're".. But we change ideas between us and those things are rolling  pretty smooth.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

As I said before, I have made almost every songs lyrics. They're pretty much the basic  Death Metal lyrics I could say. Not anything very special but raw horror movie kinda text. About inspiration I can say that it just comes from somewhere and naturally horror movies and this evil world helps me with the creation of horrid tales.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

No. At least I haven't found anything like that haha. We just make music about gory but real things=DEATH...

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

Very very good! Death Metal has found it's popularity again and new bands just pop up all the time. Just have to said that nobody can't say that they have heard everything. There's thousands and thousands of Death Metal bands waiting for founding. Situation here in Finland is very good too. Old bands have made comebacks and there's plenty of new bands too.

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

A full lenght album could be awesome and gigs in europe at least.. We'll see what happens. We got this really great opportunity to play at Finnish Death Metal Maniacs Fest and we're going to conquer Pori!! Hopefully many of you who's reading this are going to there!

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

This is quite easy! AGONIZED!!! Old but gold... Unfortunately they released only one demo in year -91. Sound of the demo just rips, kicks and kills!!!

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Thanks everybody for your time. If there's something you want to ask, contact us with facebook or email! Keep it old school!

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SKEPTICISM

Who are you and what do you do in your band?

Jani from Skepticism. I play guitar, compose songs and sometimes write also lyrics.

When/where was your band formed?

It was quite some years ago. Band was found in a small Finnish town called Riihimäki in 1991.  That’s the town where we’re still having our trainings, even some of the members are nowadays living somewhere else.

Why did you choose to play Death Metal?

A very simple reason, that was the style of the music that we all listened back then. I mean Metal in general, not only Death Metal. It’s quite different to think of anything else. Of course during the years our musical tastes have been evolving and we have gotten influences from many different sources. Not only from metal music. I think, our first songs can be categorised as slow death metal.

How do you compose your music? Does only one guy do everything or does everyone contribute?

It’s a collective process, I would describe. Typically I’m bringing the riff ideas or song frames to our trainings and we will start working on them together. It’s always a quite long process for us to finish a song. An interesting fact is that I might have a clear idea about a song in my head, but after some iterations with the other members, it typically turns out to be something completely different than I originally thought. Nowadays I’m very used to it and it’s only a good thing. I believe, it increases the versatility of our songs.

Tell us about your lyrics, writing, inspiration etc.

I would say they are quite abstract in a way. However, there is always a clear idea behind them. At least in major of the cases. Our organ player is mainly writing the lyrics. For some exceptions I have created a few. Inspiration can come from anywhere; from life situations, nature or death for example. To give an example a song called “March Incomplete” on our new album tells about a situation where a composer is fully capable to write great music but for some reason nothing comes out to his note paper. I believe the most of the people who use to write music are familiar with such situation when the inspiration is completely lost. It might be an ordeal.

Is there an ideology behind your band?

Yes and no. If you meant some higher social or political ideology then it’s completely out of our scope. I think, the ideology behind our music is mainly about creating atmospheres. That’s at least how I see it.

How do you see the state of Death Metal music these days in your country and in general?

I’m coming from Finland and metal music has been doing very well during the past 30 years. There are currently a great number of metal bands and concerts are organized all the time. Even in smaller towns. Pretty good situation I would describe. Not only in Death Metal, but in all metal genres.

What are your long term plans as a band? What do you want to achieve?

Well, we have been active almost a quarter century. I think, we have achieved quite many things already, keeping in mind that our band is playing pretty extreme form of a metal music. We have released bunch of albums and played a great number of concerts here and there. I would say that I would like to see the next 25 years of active band life. I would also like to visit far east with my band (not done yet). I want to be able to constantly develop our music and release new interesting albums.

Name an other Death Metal band from your country that everyone should hear.

I wouldn’t describe us as a Death Metal band, but anyway… This isn’t really a Death Metal band, but is having a lots of nuances from the genre. I would recommend to check out an old Finnish group called Thromdarr. Maybe I’m having here some “product placement” included in my recommendation as our drummer and vocalist are members of the band but whatsoever, I really appreciate the versatility of the main composer of the band. He is nicely utilising ideas from old metal styles, like Trash, Speed and even Black Metal and so on. I’m not sure when they are going to release something new, but they have released a couple of albums already. Definitely worth of checking.

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