I just got a Finnish heavy-magazine called Inferno, wheres a 4-page interview and article of COB and Alexi Laiho. So I will translate a couple of interesting things here.
The musical advancement has been noticable. Hate Crew Deathroll was a specific landmark to a search for a specific style.
- In a way it was the first the first CD, that was really our thing. The newest CD is a logical step after that. And now the thing has been just improved and taken forward.
Regarding the new CD, there has been a promotionevent, where theres been brought up Laihos comments about the CD being more experimental and including industrial-influences. But now he just corrects these statements.
- I'm pretty amazed by all those industrial-jokes. Maybe I've said something drunk in some interview, but they've gotten me all wrong. That CD is nothing industrial. What I was trying to maybe say in that interview, was that the keyboards might have been played somehow industrial-like.
After the Hate Crew Deathroll being more or less a bulls-eye, one might think that it brings a lot of pressure to the band and especially Laiho as the songwriter, and thoughts, that can you make music better. But he just states that he doesnt think like that.
- If you start to think like that, it immediately affects the musicmaking, and particularly in a negative way, thats for sure. You just have to be able to be like, fuck I don't care. If you start to think that like, people now like this and this, you just want to please everyone in the end. And thats just the best way to make music wrong. Unless you are Michael Bolton.
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- The point is that we are trying to do interesting or even surprising things. If I think like that I was a fan, and heard that the band is gonna cover Iron Maiden in the next CD, I'd be like "cool", but nothing else. But If I hear they are gonna cover Britney Spears, at least that brings an interest. Many thinks that "I have to hear it, even though I'm probably gonna hate it."
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Dream Theater has gotten a cold ride from Laiho in one magazine.
- That also raised a fucking big hassle. That thing was just dressed in a misleading form, like I was the one who brought that subject up. But the point is just that I dont like all that abusing and wanking their music is. But in the same breath I must say that they are very great players, and I'm no one to criticize their playing. I just don't find anything rock in their music and thats it.
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- Oh! So you mean that I would've thought Roope as a threat? No no! Really it was nothing like that. I know that many might think, that a skilled player like he gets to play only rhythmguitar. But our thing is always been that guitar-keyboard stuff. And thats one thing that has separated us from many bands whose solos do two guitarists.
This was also one of the things I discussed with Roope when he contacted us. But this doesn't mean that he never gets to do solos, in fact, he does a couple of solos in this new CD.
The musical advancement has been noticable. Hate Crew Deathroll was a specific landmark to a search for a specific style.
- In a way it was the first the first CD, that was really our thing. The newest CD is a logical step after that. And now the thing has been just improved and taken forward.
Regarding the new CD, there has been a promotionevent, where theres been brought up Laihos comments about the CD being more experimental and including industrial-influences. But now he just corrects these statements.
- I'm pretty amazed by all those industrial-jokes. Maybe I've said something drunk in some interview, but they've gotten me all wrong. That CD is nothing industrial. What I was trying to maybe say in that interview, was that the keyboards might have been played somehow industrial-like.
After the Hate Crew Deathroll being more or less a bulls-eye, one might think that it brings a lot of pressure to the band and especially Laiho as the songwriter, and thoughts, that can you make music better. But he just states that he doesnt think like that.
- If you start to think like that, it immediately affects the musicmaking, and particularly in a negative way, thats for sure. You just have to be able to be like, fuck I don't care. If you start to think that like, people now like this and this, you just want to please everyone in the end. And thats just the best way to make music wrong. Unless you are Michael Bolton.
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- The point is that we are trying to do interesting or even surprising things. If I think like that I was a fan, and heard that the band is gonna cover Iron Maiden in the next CD, I'd be like "cool", but nothing else. But If I hear they are gonna cover Britney Spears, at least that brings an interest. Many thinks that "I have to hear it, even though I'm probably gonna hate it."
----------
Dream Theater has gotten a cold ride from Laiho in one magazine.
- That also raised a fucking big hassle. That thing was just dressed in a misleading form, like I was the one who brought that subject up. But the point is just that I dont like all that abusing and wanking their music is. But in the same breath I must say that they are very great players, and I'm no one to criticize their playing. I just don't find anything rock in their music and thats it.
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- Oh! So you mean that I would've thought Roope as a threat? No no! Really it was nothing like that. I know that many might think, that a skilled player like he gets to play only rhythmguitar. But our thing is always been that guitar-keyboard stuff. And thats one thing that has separated us from many bands whose solos do two guitarists.
This was also one of the things I discussed with Roope when he contacted us. But this doesn't mean that he never gets to do solos, in fact, he does a couple of solos in this new CD.
