Below is taken from Bravewords.com (http://www.bravewords.com). What's next? Michael Kiske joins N'Sync? Oy Vay!!!!!!!!
Former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske has posted the following statement regarding the break-up of the SUPARED project:
"I officially like to announce my departure from the Hard Rock Music scene now. I simply dont fit. Especially on the last record I did experiment around again with Hard Rock sounds, trying to keep things interesting for me, but it doesnt lead me to anything. I guess subconsciously I was working with these sounds again trying to get more in peace with my past somehow, but it simply isnt me anymore. The extremely bad record sales of the SupaRed debut was the final bit and answer I needed for this decision. My interpretation of this sort of music doesnt get accepted. So I dont want to waste my and other peoples time anymore. Big thanx to everybody who supported this band-project and me! I am sorry if you are disappointed now that I have to finally close this chapter for good, but I am not the person who goes on forever with something that is not meant to be. A big Fuck-Off goes out to everybody who only burned or downloaded SupaRed instead of buying the CD. You may say you love music, but all you do is destroying the financial existents of bands and musicians. People like you make sure that all free Music that is not just a fake set-up by the industry will die out completely. The same fuck off goes out to all smart-ass critics who can only treat music as a stinking product to please the market. Instead of trying to understand a musicians work or the mission of art in general, you think you can dictate musicians what they have to do, misusing your power over the public opinion. As long as artists fight against your stupid kind, theres hope. If your type wins, theres no future for the real thing. People like you dont deserve any real music! - For a number of years now there has been a strong conflict in my chest. A completely different conflict than most people would guess. Every part of me says: no more! I made myself physically ill making this last record. That says it all. And as everyone can see, it leads to nothing worth it. All I want to say is: Hardrock isnt my music anymore. I cant cope with its mentality, ideals or musical language. I have found much better artistic arguments, and certainly much higher morals than what the Metal scene has to offer. And you wont hear anything Metal-like anymore coming from my address for the rest of my life. I will also lead no more useless discussions anymore with people around the world about things they simply dont have a sense for. Its a waste of energy and time. People dont necessarily become wise when they get old: an asshole will only become an old asshole. In the same way young people dont necessarily are alive, just because they are young. Many people are spiritually dead already as teenagers. And brutalizing music, that makes us dumb, numb and morally def does its part. If you dont agree with me, and dont like my talk. Fine! To each its own. Its absolutely right for me. I say it again: I simply dont fit into the Metal-Scene. I am not what the scene wants, and I dont want the wimpy artistic truth this scene has to offer. I didnt even really fit into Helloween as a person. I was always a stranger in that band, because I wasnt at all like them. I liked Metal in the eighties, and still like some records, but I was never really the typical Metal-Head. Even in my hardest Metal days I was always just as much listening to U2, ELVIS, BEATLES, EURYTHMICS, KATE BUSH, PAT BENATAR, classical music and so on. What a heresy, right? But I am happy that I never isolated myself in Metal. I was always open to anything good in music. And believe it or not: I am totally convinced thats the reason for my success as a singer in Metal. My approach was different! Metal is certainly not any law for me. My love for God, Christ, free Art and Humanity is. Weve got to do what we believe in. If you dont follow your convictions, youre dead. A person that doesnt follow his believes, or doesnt even have any ideals or morals is just a pitiful hollow existents in my eyes, no matter how smart or modern that person might see itself. I wouldnt trust someone that has no believes for a minute. Theres nothing holy for him or her. As Carlos Santana said in an Interview: All that matters is what we do in our lifes with our energy, light and love.
Thats all. Peace!"
Former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske has posted the following statement regarding the break-up of the SUPARED project:
"I officially like to announce my departure from the Hard Rock Music scene now. I simply dont fit. Especially on the last record I did experiment around again with Hard Rock sounds, trying to keep things interesting for me, but it doesnt lead me to anything. I guess subconsciously I was working with these sounds again trying to get more in peace with my past somehow, but it simply isnt me anymore. The extremely bad record sales of the SupaRed debut was the final bit and answer I needed for this decision. My interpretation of this sort of music doesnt get accepted. So I dont want to waste my and other peoples time anymore. Big thanx to everybody who supported this band-project and me! I am sorry if you are disappointed now that I have to finally close this chapter for good, but I am not the person who goes on forever with something that is not meant to be. A big Fuck-Off goes out to everybody who only burned or downloaded SupaRed instead of buying the CD. You may say you love music, but all you do is destroying the financial existents of bands and musicians. People like you make sure that all free Music that is not just a fake set-up by the industry will die out completely. The same fuck off goes out to all smart-ass critics who can only treat music as a stinking product to please the market. Instead of trying to understand a musicians work or the mission of art in general, you think you can dictate musicians what they have to do, misusing your power over the public opinion. As long as artists fight against your stupid kind, theres hope. If your type wins, theres no future for the real thing. People like you dont deserve any real music! - For a number of years now there has been a strong conflict in my chest. A completely different conflict than most people would guess. Every part of me says: no more! I made myself physically ill making this last record. That says it all. And as everyone can see, it leads to nothing worth it. All I want to say is: Hardrock isnt my music anymore. I cant cope with its mentality, ideals or musical language. I have found much better artistic arguments, and certainly much higher morals than what the Metal scene has to offer. And you wont hear anything Metal-like anymore coming from my address for the rest of my life. I will also lead no more useless discussions anymore with people around the world about things they simply dont have a sense for. Its a waste of energy and time. People dont necessarily become wise when they get old: an asshole will only become an old asshole. In the same way young people dont necessarily are alive, just because they are young. Many people are spiritually dead already as teenagers. And brutalizing music, that makes us dumb, numb and morally def does its part. If you dont agree with me, and dont like my talk. Fine! To each its own. Its absolutely right for me. I say it again: I simply dont fit into the Metal-Scene. I am not what the scene wants, and I dont want the wimpy artistic truth this scene has to offer. I didnt even really fit into Helloween as a person. I was always a stranger in that band, because I wasnt at all like them. I liked Metal in the eighties, and still like some records, but I was never really the typical Metal-Head. Even in my hardest Metal days I was always just as much listening to U2, ELVIS, BEATLES, EURYTHMICS, KATE BUSH, PAT BENATAR, classical music and so on. What a heresy, right? But I am happy that I never isolated myself in Metal. I was always open to anything good in music. And believe it or not: I am totally convinced thats the reason for my success as a singer in Metal. My approach was different! Metal is certainly not any law for me. My love for God, Christ, free Art and Humanity is. Weve got to do what we believe in. If you dont follow your convictions, youre dead. A person that doesnt follow his believes, or doesnt even have any ideals or morals is just a pitiful hollow existents in my eyes, no matter how smart or modern that person might see itself. I wouldnt trust someone that has no believes for a minute. Theres nothing holy for him or her. As Carlos Santana said in an Interview: All that matters is what we do in our lifes with our energy, light and love.
Thats all. Peace!"
