Jarkko: That was exactly the same for me because I’m not a singer by any means and, of course, I had to work on it really hard and kind of struggle with it, but in the end, I’m quite happy with the results. ![]() I know that a lot of growlers have difficulties stepping out of their comfort zone with clean singing. In contrast to the harshness that you can hear in the sound, I just wanted to create something more fragile and just to get a lot more closer to the listener. I wanted to introduce as much contrast as possible. And from the very get-go, I think I had a pretty clear vision what I wanted to do with the clean vocals. ![]() The songs are so much more dynamic, so I simply had to bring it in. When the guys started to drop the new demos of the tracks, it was apparent that I just cannot scream them through anymore. Jarkko: It was kind of like a step into the unknown, for me personally. How was it for you to experiment with your voice? The clean vocals are obviously one of the main differences in the sound. I’m just really looking forward to hearing people’s or listeners’ opinions about the whole album. I mean, there are clean vocals, we have more modern metal elements, even some metalcore stuff included, and we have some… I think there’s a great variety in the song material this time, so yeah it’s really hard to analyze myself. Of course, we could not have even done the 100% old sound anymore since there was a big change in the lineup, but yeah, there’s a lot of new stuff. Jarkko: Yeah, we kind of wanted to create something different this time because it just would have been super uninspiring to continue creating the same sound. really happy with the results.ĭo you feel that that’s also the main reason why there’s some sort of a new energy in this album, at least in my opinion? I think we can produce good albums after another, so it’s kind of easy to just go all-in this time with a completely new approach than what we’ve done, never before. Eero had a bunch of cool ideas, which started to develop into the songs by a group effort that we were all very much into – as a group, this time – and pressure… I don’t know, I think – I don’t know how stupid it may sound – but I think we’ve reached the point where pressure is not present anymore. Then, we decided to bring Eero into the pre-production of the album because he’s the brother of Lauri and a very talented young guitar player and composer. But we announced Joni joining the band quite soon or basically right away when Antti decided to leave, and things just started to fall into place, sooner than we actually expected. And, of course, we faced new kinds of challenges to start with the next album, and for a while, we really didn’t know what to do. Jarkko: This time it kind of did that because our main songwriter, Antti, decided to leave the band. Having had a lot of good critique on your prior albums, do you feel like creating its follow-up maybe gave you the pressure to be able to produce something equally good? Your previous album, “Godsend,” was a big hit all over the world. ![]() I was visiting Radio Rock at the start, but yeah, a lot to be done as we’re getting closer to the release of the album. To be honest, you’re the second of the day, or the third. Have you talked to many people today about the new record? a lot going on currently and can’t complain. Hi Jarkko, thank you so much for doing this promo day.
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