Current interviews

robocop656 · Post by **robocop656** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 8:04 am

brought2ubyletterC wrote:Robo, you and your sexy beasts!

Do you wanna see my sexy beast?

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 1:24 pm

http://planetmosh.com/stratovarius-interview/

robocop656 · Post by **robocop656** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:26 pm

mocobhc wrote:http://youtu.be/KY71U-BL8W8
http://youtu.be/OdrsWY68Uz0

Can the interviewer stick the camera any closer?? Any closer it'll be in his ass.

I'm having a hard time viewing the pores on his skin....please, we need this in blue ray.

RazielSR · Post by **RazielSR** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:35 pm

robocop656 wrote:
mocobhc wrote:http://youtu.be/KY71U-BL8W8
http://youtu.be/OdrsWY68Uz0
Can the interviewer stick the camera any closer?? Any closer it'll be in his ass.
I'm having a hard time viewing the pores on his skin....please, we need this in blue ray.

Robocop days! jajajajaja

No, but the interview is amazing, anyway, the camera was I suppose on the interviewer's eyebrow or ear or something

The best part is when Jens says the craziest audience is in "southamerica, spain and places like this"

. Robo, you must come here to see them next april!

robocop656 · Post by **robocop656** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:15 pm

I wish I would come to Spain right now to swim in the ocean nude. Then listen to celestial dream.

RazielSR · Post by **RazielSR** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 3:20 pm

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:40 pm

Two French interviews:

http://www.radiometal.com/article/timo- ... ratovarius

http://artnroll.net/ConfPressIndex.html ... RATOVARIUS

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:15 pm

My interview should be up shortly, we run into problems with interviews because we really only have one editor, and how I do my interviews is to simply record the call and then transcribe it. This is more than 2000 words, which is just hell to transcribe and edit.

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:55 pm

http://youtu.be/rRIRo8Uxm_A

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:50 pm

The new issue of German Metal Hammer features an interview with Timo and Jens, there are some nice statements which aren’t featured in the online video interview http://www.metal-hammer.de/magazin/feat ... mesis.html though, so I’ll post some of the other statements here:

Jens talking about the need of good musicians in a band: “In the past it wasn’t usual to use backing tapes that much, but nowadays they’re everywhere. No need to wonder why Justin Bieber can even sing while vomiting.”

About the album title, Jens says “Matias came up with the name. Probably he just thought it to be cool and didn’t even know the meaning behind it back then.”

Metal Hammer talks with them about the new “democracy” after TT left (Metal Hammer called TT the “former dictator”) and then mocks the lyrics in Fantasy, especially the “fantasy can become reality”-part, and Timo and Jens laughing about it: “That was Lauri’s idea. The demo version was actually called “Save The World”. Then Lauri changed it – and here you have why our new democracy in the band can also bear some problems – when we choose a song to appear on the album, it WILL appear. Also when the composer suddenly changes the lyrics.” And Jens: “For Elysium, we sorted out many of Lauri’s songs, which surely was kind of unfair to him, but of course we can’t release a two-hours-album” (why not…) and Timo adding: “In the past you were touring to sell your albums. Nowadays it’s the other way round. But we’re dumb enough to spend a lot of money to make the album and to make it sound good, although you hardly make any money out of it nowadays. But that’s how we want it! We could record an album for a third of that money, but that’s not how it works for us. Fortunately metal fans still buy CDs, they are the last remaining loyal fans. That’s what saves our asses, and the asses of the labels and the of whole scene.”

SatanicSmile · Post by **SatanicSmile** » Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:34 pm

mocobhc wrote:Jens talking about the need of good musicians in a band: “In the past it wasn’t usual to use backing tapes that much, but nowadays they’re everywhere. No need to wonder why Justin Bieber can even sing while vomiting.”

Well said.

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:56 pm

http://www.metal.de/heavy-metal/intervi ... m-nemesis/
In German, but interesting. Timo says that Matias was "homeless" for some months because his rental agreement wasn't extended due to the house being sold or something like that, so Matias had to sleep in the studio for months and literally spent 24/7 on the new album. And he jokes that the darker guitar sound may come from Matias having been pissed about having to sleep in the studio for such a long time

Rage1979 · Post by **Rage1979** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:04 pm

97/100!

http://v2.metalreviews.com/

bockrocker · Post by **bockrocker** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:18 pm

Powerplay Issue 151

http://imgur.com/a/iaEWk

Sorry for the cutoff, the magazine pages are a bit bigger than my scanner...

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:10 pm

http://vimeo.com/60005635

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:05 pm

Germany's biggest boulevard newspaper BILD currently features Nemesis as "Metal Hammer album of the week" at their online platform, and you can listen to the album stream in full length
http://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/musik/a ... .bild.html
I'm not sure if I like that or not because BILD is by far the downpoint of German media business, but maybe that at least helps increasing Strato's popularity in Germany

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:05 pm

http://www.bravewords.com/news/199617
one of the most interesting interviews by now imo, gives some good insight about the writing and producing of the songs and how they work together!

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:16 pm

New interview with Lauri for a change:
http://www.rtp.pt/play/p652/e109481/metal-global

RazielSR · Post by **RazielSR** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 5:19 pm

Thanks mocob!

robocop656 · Post by **robocop656** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:39 am

mocobhc wrote:http://www.bravewords.com/news/199617
one of the most interesting interviews by now imo, gives some good insight about the writing and producing of the songs and how they work together!

.......Matias is a bit more crazy and is willing to give Jens a chance to have more of his strange sounds on the album

Is he implying they held back Jens in the past?!?

Aksioma.tg · Post by **Aksioma.tg** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:21 pm

An interview with Matias Kupiainen (if you are still interested)
http://headbanger.ru/interviews/337?lng=en

Mormegil · Post by **Mormegil** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:14 pm

robocop656 wrote:Is he implying they held back Jens in the past?!?

Matias: Jens, we've been through this, we can't put Kill It With Fire on the album, it's too... keyboard-y.
Jens: But it's a great song, the fans will love it!
Matias: Jens, you disappoint me. You want to see your family again, don't you?
Jens: *sigh* Yes... yes I do...
Matias: I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly.
Jens: *even bigger sigh* Jawohl, mein Führer...
Matias: That's the spirit!

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:40 pm

Aksioma.tg wrote:An interview with Matias Kupiainen (if you are still interested)
http://headbanger.ru/interviews/337?lng=en

that's a very good one, enjoyed it a lot!

crostrato · Post by **crostrato** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:43 pm

mocobhc wrote:
Aksioma.tg wrote:An interview with Matias Kupiainen (if you are still interested)
http://headbanger.ru/interviews/337?lng=en
that's a very good one, enjoyed it a lot!

Wow, Matias really respect Tolkki, a like that a lot!

Aksioma.tg · Post by **Aksioma.tg** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:25 pm

Thanks! It was really fun to talk to him! I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did!

robocop656 · Post by **robocop656** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:33 am

Mormegil wrote:
robocop656 wrote:Is he implying they held back Jens in the past?!?
Matias: Jens, we've been through this, we can't put Kill It With Fire on the album, it's too... keyboard-y.
Jens: But it's a great song, the fans will love it!
Matias: Jens, you disappoint me. You want to see your family again, don't you?
Jens: *sigh* Yes... yes I do...
Matias: I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you correctly.
Jens: *even bigger sigh* Jawohl, mein Führer...
Matias: That's the spirit!

I imagined it like this:

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Sat Apr 27, 2013 9:41 am

http://blackwindmetal.com/interview-timo-kotipelto/ hey look, this thing finally got posted. Yay.

Metalmieze · Post by **Metalmieze** » Thu May 23, 2013 8:50 pm

This is my interview, I had with Lauri in Osnabrück on April 14th.
http://www.metalmieze.de/interviews/

Enjoy!

mocobhc · Post by **mocobhc** » Fri May 24, 2013 5:48 pm

You had some good fresh questions there, thanks for posting!

Metalmieze · Post by **Metalmieze** » Fri May 24, 2013 6:15 pm

Thank you. I am not soooo happy with it, but since it was my very first interview, it can only get better

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