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Replies by: Mika Luttinen
Impaled
Nazarene
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TGZ:
Impaled Nazarene has lots of fans in
the Brazilian territory, specially because
of the album "Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz"
(1993) that is very reverenced here. What
do you know about our scene?
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Mika Luttinen: Well, we grew up listening
to old Sarcofago, old Sepultura, Sex Trash,
Dorsal Atlantica, Vulcano, Sexfago, P.U.S.,
you name it, we had it thru tape trading or
we ordered from abroad. Maybe you don´t
hear it that clearly on our music but brazilian
scene definitely had a big impact on us. I
am familiar with modern brazilian bands as
well but nothing can beat 1st Sarcofago or
1st Sex Trash albums. Those are like so cult!!!
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TGZ:
The album mentioned above has excellent
tracks, including several ones written and,
of course, sang in an extinct dialectic from
your homeland. How did these ideas arise and
how was it possible to make them come true? |
Mika: Enochian language by no means come
from Finland, not at all. It was old medieval
occult language. I have an english/enochian
dictionary, that is how it was used. Grammar
and everything is fucked up but who cares.
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TGZ:
Impaled Nazarene is a fucking killer band
and also very polemic due to its shocking
attitudes. These said attitudes (stage posture,
lyrics etc) result and influence in positive
or negative manner when the band is commented/reviewed?
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Mika: Negative comments or reviews
don´t bother me at all, I don´t
give a shit. Either you get it or don´t.
What influences me is daily life. I hate the
fact that I have to work like “normal”
people. Every day I see perfect examples of
how stupid common people are. It makes you
cynical and it makes you nihilist. Instead
of killing people, I channel my hatred on
paper or I write a song.
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TGZ:
The live album "Death Comes in
26 Carefully Selected Pieces" recently
released by Osmose Productions gathers several
classics from the band. I believe that the
play list would be a profile of your concerts.
Do you have plans to release it also in DVD
or VHS?
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Mika: That set-list is basically the
same set-list we have had since ATYF came
out, we did not have a special live album
setlist. As for dvd, we did not film the concert.
I think it is stupid to release a live album
and live dvd from the same concert. I wanna
do at least two more studio albums before
even thinking about live dvd. Besides, most
metal dvd´s I have seen suck ass. Low
budget equals shit quality. When we will do
ours, it has to be an excellent quality. Besides,
we need to film more backstage/off road madness
as that is always more interesting to watch
than boring concert footage.
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TGZ:
Did the fans enjoy the contents of the CD
or is it too soon for an evaluation?
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Mika: So far feedback has been excellent.
Of course you get some complains that this
or that song was not on the actual cd itself
but it is hard enough to choose from eight
studio albums and several ep´s what
to play. Personally I am 666% satisfied with
this cd, it is a real live one, no bullshit.
The only thing we really did was that we edited
out most talking between the tracks.
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TGZ:
This gig happened last year, in December
19th. Tell us how was it. |
Mika: It was a sunday night show, there
was around 200 people only but it did not
matter, they were totally into it. Our support
band was To Separate The Flesh From The Bones
whose special guest star vocalist was Jeff
Walker (x-Carcass). It was fantastic to meet
this guy, a living legend if you ask me. On
this show we played the song Absence Of War
but we had to leave it out as it went pretty
wrong (and we did not want to re-record anything
at studio).
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TGZ:
I assume that for being around for so long,
you demand great respect in the scene. However,
it is hard to keep a band for so many years
in the underground. On this matter, is it
possible to establish a parallel so a band
can still be underground but, at the same
time, be surrounded by a mainstream band structure?
Is that Impaled Nazarene's case?
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Mika: Personally I see us as an underground
band. We do everything by ourselves, we have
no managers, no booking agents. We design
our own album covers, we do practically everything
from start to finish. I would not mind if
we would sell more but then again, we are
a brutal metal band with strong message that
for mainstream jerks is too much to handle.
I am proud what we have established so far,
nobody has helped us and we have not begged
any help from anybody either.
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TGZ:
How is the metal scene in Finland? Are there
many concerts? How is the public's reaction?
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Mika: Metal is trendy here again. Lots
of albums end up in national top 40 charts.
We have huge bands (you know the names, no
need to start listing here) who sell like
hell all over the world. Nowdays we have a
lots of concerts, there are some small promoters
who bring smaller bands to Finland as well,
and that is great thing. Finnish public is
drunk and great.
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TGZ:
Talking about public, where in the world
is Impaled Nazarene more appreciated?
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Mika: This kind of question is kinda
hard to answer as in every country you have
places that have fantastic audience and then
on next town the audience sucks totally. Finland
(of course), Russia, Japan, Mexico, Canada,
hard to pinpoint really.
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TGZ:
What is your opinion about the metal scene
of nowadays?
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Mika: I don´t like all these “metal”
bands who are mixing hardcore/emocore into
their sound. Basically modern american metal
is fucking awful. I tend to listen to same
old records rather than check out new bands.
Nothing tops Slayer´s Reign In Blood
or Sarcofago´s I.N.R.I. you know.
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TGZ:
What are the near future plans of Impaled
Nazarene?
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Mika: We are writing and demoing new
material at the moment. We will enter Sonic
Pump studio (here in Helsinki) on 21st of
November on. We are hoping to have the new
album out by March 2006. It will be fast and
brutal Impaled Nazarene once again.
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