AMONG DOZENS OF NEW COMMING DEATH METAL WORSHIPPERS THERE ARE SOME, WHO PAYING ALL DUE RESPECT TO THE ANCIENT ORIGINATORS OF THE GENRE DO NOT BLINDLY STRUGGLE TO REGRESS THEM SELVES TILL THEIR LAST BREATH. ONE OF THEM IS APOCRYFAL FROM FINLAND. KEEP FINGERS CROSSED WAITING FOR THEIR FULL LENGHT AND DURING THIS TIME YOU CAN CHECK THEIR DEMO.
First of all - congratulations on your demo. Any sygnificant response so far? How does it spread?
Thank you. We made only 100 copies, and we have distributed a little over half of them by now. We have been keeping certain amount of demos to ourselfs, because almost all of record companies demand a promo picture by side with the demo itself. We took our promos last saturday, so now we can send some for the labels. We have gotten few interview demands from all over the world, 1 from Germany in example.
So how did you guys get together - hanging to gigs and getting drunk together and was like: "hay, lets do some sick tunes ourselves", huh?
We have came to know each other along the road of life. Me and Juha lived in the same flat in the late 90's, Juho was in the same school as I was and Joni lived at same village as I lived.
I heard from Juho that they had formed a band and he asked me, if I would like to come and listen to their rehearsals. So I went there, and so I came to know Mikko, our guitar player. They had 4 songs ready at that point, and they had a singer already, Petri Lehmonen, who sings in Craniumblast. I became to visit at the practises more and more, and Petri did not. So we thought, what the hell, lets give me a try at the mic. And so began the story of the Apocryfal we now know. The musical style did evolve since I came around and the style you hear on the demo is our compositions. I am personally glad that I got to have this kind of opportunity! Thanks goes to Petri's laziness, not to mean any harm.
Swamp like origined, purtid sound (reminds me old Disgrace works a bit) + modern and catchy songwriting. Damn, this is what I need! Was it intentional?
The "putrid" songwriting is intentional, and the catchness is in there by mistake. Haha. Seriously, we do the compositions with each other and if something sounds right to a certain part of a certain song we put it there. And if the majority of the band thinks that some riff or melody sucks, we'll dump that, but if it just doesnt fit in the mood of the song, we could put it in our back pocket for later use.
3 tracks - 11 minutes - leaves me gasping for more. Have any more tracks ready? Whan can we expect full length?
We have 9 songs ready, and we have disposed 3 of our songs, because they didnt have the touch that they were intended to have. We have decided to let every song grow to its full potential before even thinking it might be ready. You just know when something clicks to its place. We probably release an EP that consists from 4 songs that we have made. The sound scheme will have much more anger and straight forwardness than Ravens. Tempo will be higher and some parts will be little catchier than in Ravens.
Demo comes just as sleeve + disk so my question is on lirycs - psychological inner struggles, transcendental journeys or feasts over decomposing corpses - what interests you most?
You can find our lyrics on our metal archives profile. I prefer not to explain my lyrics too much, because every makes its own conclusions about the works. I am not the person to tell you how you should feel about my texts. I thinks the most important thing is in lyrics that you really process what you write or read and how you understand it. There are more than one layers in every matter in life and every one should try to realize it and seek the whole truth insted of looking only to the surface.
Have you played these songs live yet?
We have performed the songs Ravens and Script live, but Dark Matter wasnt ready when we had our first gig. We didnt even have our demo planned back then. It was a tiny bar and the audience was formed mainly by our friends only, but you got to start somewhere! Thinking about that now, it wasnt such a good idea; we should have just let us grow for more.
You have quite a bunch of metal scene there in your area. Are there any other bands overe there you would recommend?
Valoton was a huge suprise for me! They came out from nowhere and nobody seems to know who are they or even where they live. I've heard a rumour that they MIGHT live in Jyväskylä, but I couldnt tell for sure.
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Pasi Vastamaki
21 year old, last seen in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Accussed for being inspired by Jan-Chris de Koeijer from Gorefest and Piotr Wiwczarek from Vader, did not even hide his sympathies: `The sound they make is so primitive, yet professional and clean, if you could say that. I dont like these metalcore bands, where you can clearly hear that they hurt their voice and sound pitiful doing it.`
Mikko Homanen
20 years old
Outside normal citizen, suspected passionate towards metal music, especially old school death metal and thrash metal. During trial admitted to being influenced by Chuck Schuldiner (Death) and Jeff Waters (Annihilator). From the records: `They both are master songwriters and incredible shredders who have had a great influence in many genres of metal music.`
Joni Välipakka
19 year old fucker. Judged for annoying his town with his bass guitar playing inspired by Joe Keyser from Skinless and Andreas Lagios from Rotting Christ. Also admited to influence form Les Claypool (Primus) and Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), even dared to call them awesome!
Juha Lausamo
19 years old. Sentenced for his affiliate with death and black metal scene, especially Devin Townsend and Nergal.
Juho Suomi
20 years old, drummer. Found guilty of Death Metal drumming. He pointed Steve Asheim (Deicide), Timo Häkkinen (Sotajumala), Dave Haley (Psycroptic), Tim Yeung (Divine Heresy) and Max Duhamel (Kataklysm) as his influences.
First of all - congratulations on your demo. Any sygnificant response so far? How does it spread?
Thank you. We made only 100 copies, and we have distributed a little over half of them by now. We have been keeping certain amount of demos to ourselfs, because almost all of record companies demand a promo picture by side with the demo itself. We took our promos last saturday, so now we can send some for the labels. We have gotten few interview demands from all over the world, 1 from Germany in example.
So how did you guys get together - hanging to gigs and getting drunk together and was like: "hay, lets do some sick tunes ourselves", huh?
We have came to know each other along the road of life. Me and Juha lived in the same flat in the late 90's, Juho was in the same school as I was and Joni lived at same village as I lived.
I heard from Juho that they had formed a band and he asked me, if I would like to come and listen to their rehearsals. So I went there, and so I came to know Mikko, our guitar player. They had 4 songs ready at that point, and they had a singer already, Petri Lehmonen, who sings in Craniumblast. I became to visit at the practises more and more, and Petri did not. So we thought, what the hell, lets give me a try at the mic. And so began the story of the Apocryfal we now know. The musical style did evolve since I came around and the style you hear on the demo is our compositions. I am personally glad that I got to have this kind of opportunity! Thanks goes to Petri's laziness, not to mean any harm.
Swamp like origined, purtid sound (reminds me old Disgrace works a bit) + modern and catchy songwriting. Damn, this is what I need! Was it intentional?
The "putrid" songwriting is intentional, and the catchness is in there by mistake. Haha. Seriously, we do the compositions with each other and if something sounds right to a certain part of a certain song we put it there. And if the majority of the band thinks that some riff or melody sucks, we'll dump that, but if it just doesnt fit in the mood of the song, we could put it in our back pocket for later use.
3 tracks - 11 minutes - leaves me gasping for more. Have any more tracks ready? Whan can we expect full length?
We have 9 songs ready, and we have disposed 3 of our songs, because they didnt have the touch that they were intended to have. We have decided to let every song grow to its full potential before even thinking it might be ready. You just know when something clicks to its place. We probably release an EP that consists from 4 songs that we have made. The sound scheme will have much more anger and straight forwardness than Ravens. Tempo will be higher and some parts will be little catchier than in Ravens.
Demo comes just as sleeve + disk so my question is on lirycs - psychological inner struggles, transcendental journeys or feasts over decomposing corpses - what interests you most?
You can find our lyrics on our metal archives profile. I prefer not to explain my lyrics too much, because every makes its own conclusions about the works. I am not the person to tell you how you should feel about my texts. I thinks the most important thing is in lyrics that you really process what you write or read and how you understand it. There are more than one layers in every matter in life and every one should try to realize it and seek the whole truth insted of looking only to the surface.
Have you played these songs live yet?
We have performed the songs Ravens and Script live, but Dark Matter wasnt ready when we had our first gig. We didnt even have our demo planned back then. It was a tiny bar and the audience was formed mainly by our friends only, but you got to start somewhere! Thinking about that now, it wasnt such a good idea; we should have just let us grow for more.
You have quite a bunch of metal scene there in your area. Are there any other bands overe there you would recommend?
Valoton was a huge suprise for me! They came out from nowhere and nobody seems to know who are they or even where they live. I've heard a rumour that they MIGHT live in Jyväskylä, but I couldnt tell for sure.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Pasi Vastamaki
21 year old, last seen in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Accussed for being inspired by Jan-Chris de Koeijer from Gorefest and Piotr Wiwczarek from Vader, did not even hide his sympathies: `The sound they make is so primitive, yet professional and clean, if you could say that. I dont like these metalcore bands, where you can clearly hear that they hurt their voice and sound pitiful doing it.`
Mikko Homanen
20 years old
Outside normal citizen, suspected passionate towards metal music, especially old school death metal and thrash metal. During trial admitted to being influenced by Chuck Schuldiner (Death) and Jeff Waters (Annihilator). From the records: `They both are master songwriters and incredible shredders who have had a great influence in many genres of metal music.`
Joni Välipakka
19 year old fucker. Judged for annoying his town with his bass guitar playing inspired by Joe Keyser from Skinless and Andreas Lagios from Rotting Christ. Also admited to influence form Les Claypool (Primus) and Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), even dared to call them awesome!
Juha Lausamo
19 years old. Sentenced for his affiliate with death and black metal scene, especially Devin Townsend and Nergal.
Juho Suomi
20 years old, drummer. Found guilty of Death Metal drumming. He pointed Steve Asheim (Deicide), Timo Häkkinen (Sotajumala), Dave Haley (Psycroptic), Tim Yeung (Divine Heresy) and Max Duhamel (Kataklysm) as his influences.
Great interview-
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