I believe that we will maintain in this Heroic Folk Metal direction as long as this band will keep together, but it doesn't mean that our next record is going to be boring and one sided. There are a few things that cannot be combined with folk orientated metal music and one is techno music.

Folk music and melodic death metal have always been a big inspiration for us. Bands like Amorphis and Dark Tranquility were important bands for us back then. From the folk music side I can't name any particular bands, because it's mainly traditional folk music that we listen to. I don't know what has been the inspiration for Jari when he wrote the lyrics.

There ain't any particular bands where I personally get inspiration from. I think that Markus, the main songwriter of ours likes very much old traditional heavy metal bands such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Manowar and of course trad. Folk music. My favorite bands at the moment are Joy Division, Talking Heads, Boards of Canada and Autechre, but they change from time to time, because I listen to lots of music.

Markus is the main songwriter and Jari, our former singer/guitarist, made also a few songs for the band. I had not done anything for the band until now when we started to look material for the third album. The other people from the band haven't made any compositions although we all participate in the arranging of the songs.

Our origin and culture have very big influence in the way we make music. I believe that if we wouldn't have long winter for instance we wouldn't make this kind of music. The traditional Finnish folk music has also paid a big importance for us, because it is very melancholic yet also cheerful. The lyrical heritage we have is also important at least for me, because I'm the one who reads lot of books.

I don't believe the number of the demos has got anything to do with getting the record deal. We just had grown as musicians, composers and had good material which Spinefarm liked that much that they offered us a deal. Those demos aren't available at the moment, but we will have to see if we release those three demos in same package someday?

The reason for the delay has got nothing to do with us, it is just our label that has delayed it for some reason I don't know.

We would be very delighted to play in a country like Greece, but we will have to see, it's all about arranging.

We like to play all the songs. There is not any special ones, because they are all very good songs.

The audience has been very great especially at the tour we went with Finntroll. They were pretty crazy and we weren't used to that kind of behavior so we were quite amazed. Many people have also said that we are mainly a live band.

I'm in a high school for adults, because I didn't have the time to get over with it. Markus is working in Spinefarm and the other ones are unemployed.

It is good that people who can't afford to buy our records can hear our music via internet, but mainly it's nuisance for us, because we make big work for the records and we don't get paid, so I think many people would get angry at this position.

Buy our records so we can earn our living 🙂 and Folk On!

Thank you too!