Thanks for having us!

We didn't know what to expect. All the good feedback felt good, of course.

Absolutely not. We got the band going with Tides and we were very motivated to as good a follow-up as possible.

We started recording in the beginning of last July and were done with the mixing by halfway September.

I wrote all the songs on Tides' original version and 8 out of 10 for Blind Fire, plus I've written all our lyrics. In that sense I am responsible for a lot of the noise you hear, but on the other hand we've grown together as a band and even at the home demo stage I have a fairly good picture of how the guys most probably will want to play their parts. I'd say the demos were about 90% there, and the rest was some tweaking here and there. But Torsti wrote 2 fine songs for the new one, and I expect us to write more and more together as a band in the future.

Blind Fire is darker and heavier, and there's plenty more happening in the actual playing side. I feel like Tides was the best we could come up with, back then, and I feel the same way with Blind Fire.

RAINBOW and Blackmore especially has been a huge influence for me, but I've listened to many types of mainly guitar-driven Rock throughout the years. We share common ground with the guys in the band, but Pekka Heino is maybe a bit more AOR-oriented, Torsti is an Yngwie freak, Lampinen plays anything and Valtteri and Marko come from a heavy school of Prog Metal.

There are many pretty damn good bands in Finland, especially on the more power metal side, for example, STRATOVARIUS and CHILDREN OF BODOM have led the way for Finnish bands to get some attention.

I think certain type of minor melodies are fed to us in the mother's milk, and maybe the Heavy Metal style of Rock just fits our mood here. You know, with cold, snow, months of darkness and so on...Plus there really is a big boom going with kids wanting to learn to play, it's been like that already for some time.

It is very two-sided, I think you nailed the issue, and we wouldn't for example be doing this interview without the Internet, but illegal downloading really is robbery, the whole works of artists should not be available like they are. It literally kills less known bands, that would need every cent from the record sales to convince the record companies to prolong their contracts and, with that, their recording career.

It's impossible to tell where this thing will go, we'll just keep pushing to do our best. In the near future that is mostly just about kicking ass live. In many ways, the two albums we've been lucky to get to make is a dream come true already.

That is a long shot, we need to get connected to get worthwhile chances to play abroad. Hopefully sooner than later.

Thanks for the support! Keep rocking!

Thank you.