Old Napalm Death, Hellhammer, Kuolema, Repulsion, Disclose, Eyehategod, Galvanizer, Fuck-Ushima ja Scumripper. Sometimes all you need is a good old list of bands that influence bands to be loud and dirty. You know this has been spreading for four decades now. What a wonderful thing!
(The list was compiled from the ancient archives of Benedict XVI with the kind help of Jusa from Rutsa).
Goddam! Seems like the Metri Painaa Kilon will never get their tape out. So I'm just going to go ahead and post this. You just need to keep your eyes open and order it when the tape is out. Metri Painaa Kilon is another brand new band that includes old (seriously, these guys are older than your granny), but active people (like your granny). Like previously this post is only about one band. In future I will cover other bands these guys are in (and other bands other active people are in, old or not). See, that's how I get more posts.
Raine's mushroom bread:
Handful of yellowfoot mushrooms
(Craterellus tubaeformis)
Red onion
Rye bread
Fry the yellowfoots. Mix the yellowfoots with chopped raw red onion and add on top of dark rye bread. Enjoy with Emmylou Harris or with Dolly Parton if Harris is not available.
Huolet ja Murheet are a brand new band with not so brand new members. If you consider all the hours spent in musty basements with a bunch of dicks, out of money and beer, it's a wonder that the need for writing songs sticks with some.
Miro: If I start to play something that sucks, the feedback is instant. We are all responsible for the outcome. I like the idea of simultaneously being and not being accountable for the songs alone. For Huolet ja Murheet, singer Iiris is writing texts too, in addition to mine. I'm not a fan of writing text, text and vocal melodies are always there to accompany the music. Vocals are just my orchestration for strings or whatever.
Combat Rock Shop, the only punk rock store in Finland, will close it's doors permanently tomorrow. It's sad.
What next, Jani?
Jani: I will go to college.
I met Jani the first time at a show in Lauttasaari in the late 90's. He was trying to sell me the latest Aurinkokerho ep. Who remembers what they costed back then?
Here's Janis late afternoon choice for an anxious undergraduated 40 year old punk.
...How each agony wore the aspect of a struggle with some invisible foe...
(Edgar Allan Poe: Ligeia)
As a huge fan of aggressive music I get frustrated pretty often. A lot of bands suck sounding aggressive, destructive or just plain mad. I guess it has to do with the world we're living in. It gets more safe and sound all the time, surgeons and jet pilots listen to Carcass, yoga teachers recite Bolt Thrower and dogs collect their own turd. Still, there's plenty things fucked up, scary and mad and the essence of it all makes the feeling more collective than before. Which makes it better or worse? I don't know. A goddamn cycle of shit and nightmare that's what it looks like.
So, what would the world be like without Heavy Metal?
"Without heavy metal there would be only chaos, because heavy metal rules!"
When everything turns to shit, I thank bands like Turhuus. Thank you Turhuus.
Why did you start a band?
Antti: Just for fun. Turhuus started as a bedroom project in 2008. In 2011 I gathered some of my friends to play a gig. It was fun, so we played more gigs and recorded the Apatia syvenee EP. Years later the project came full circle and I recorded the second EP myself. It's still fun, but it has also become a form of therapy.
Did you have a very clear vision when you started Turhuus and did you get close what you wanted? Or do you even think that it's even important?
Antti: The musical direction and aesthetics of Turhuus were pretty clear from the start. Writing songs is fairly slow because I will discard every idea that doesn't have just the right feel to it. But the earliest songs were actually created quite spontaneously. I recorded some improvised drum tracks and then hastily added the first riffs I would come up with. Oh, the energy and innocence of youth! It's not necessary to have any kind of vision when making music. The outcome is what matters. However, with Turhuus there's a set of limits and I enjoy the challenge of creating things within those limits.
Do you have other therapy projects besides Turhuus and how does the future look like for this band?
Antti: I make basic pop/rock stuff under the name Mikael Huovinen. A third Turhuus EP is in the making, and the latest live lineup has proved to be lethal!
