Almost 30 years of career make Kotiteollisus as one of the most long-lived band on the finnish scene.
We had the chance to meet the band just before their performance at Porispere and talk about their last album “Vieraan Vallan Aurinko”, the plans for the future and much more.
From Croatia EoT is ready to break down the wall with its multi-influenced music and the songs sung in its mother language.
We had the opportunity to talk with the band and find out more about its music, the idea behind it and the plans for the future.
–Hey guys, how are you doing?
We’re doing awesome, thank you for asking!
We’re preparing for gigs and working hard on the new material even though we published our first album this year. Nevertheless, there is no time to lose!
-Would you mind to introduce the band and give us some biographical hints?
EoT is a alter-punk rock metal band formed in Karlovac, Croatia, in 2015.
The members are Maja Kolarić (voice / bass), Boris Kolarić (guitar / voice) and Goran Glavač (drums / voice).
In a very short time we have gained popularity across the country, we have performed in many festivals such as Schengen Fest 2015, InMusic 2016, Demo Fest Banja Luka 2016, UFO, Rock Marathon, Big Rock Explosion, Croatia Bike Week, Rovinj Musical Festival And Moto Meeting – MK Osijek 2017.
We also shared the stage with big names like Ashes You Leave, Underdust, Cold Snap, Fire, Frontback, Bjuz, Ice On Fire, Manntra, Zabranjeno Pušenje, Charlie ButterFly, Stahlzeit, Siddharta, Elvis Jackson, Noctiferia, Foundation, Elemental, SARS , Sassja, Elvis Jackson, Chips and Video Clips, Marijan Ban and Dictators, Cold Beer, Song Killers to name a few.
Last January we released our debut album “Defibrilacija” (Defibrilation) for an independent record label called Spona. From the album were released these singles’ Balkanska Physical Education ‘,’ What is the piont ‘,’ Bye bye ”, ” Defibrilación ” (Defibrilazione) Nepravda “(Injustice).
This June we were selected in the grand finale of the Karlovačko Rock Off bands festival.
Marko Matijević Sekul is the music producer, music and lyrics by Boris Kolarić and for the arrangenents we are responsibles with Marko Matijević Sekul.
Our music is inspired by the wide range of musical influences from classic to modern trends of the 21st century.
-Why did you choose EoT as name?
EoT is short for the name of the band we were all part of and a memory of good times in the past, but since we changed style and almost all members, it’s not the same story.
We kept the initials only for sentimental reasons, although we knew that “the book will be judged by its cover”, but in the end people realized that this is not the same band as the previous one.
-Your songs are sung in croatian, this is pretty unusual but it gives that something more to your music. Why did you choose to use you mother language and not english as many other do?
It’s really hard to sing in Croatian, and more importantly, in a way that it doesn’t sound stupid. English fits everywhere, in poetry, songs, everyday conversation, it is simple and it has beautiful words. It was easier for us to express in English because we’ve been listening to English and American bands since we were little kids. We’ve learned English through movies, cartoons and it’s kinda easier to express yourself in a different language because you can become a different person and not totally expose yourself to everyone.
Making songs in your native language is more personal and, as we mentioned earlier, it’s really hard writing something in Croatian that doesn’t sound forced, fake or like a really bad poetry but it has more effect because your heart is basically naked in front of the audience.
-Your music is defined as alternative rock but where EOT has its musical roots?
We put this “target” because you have to put something. People judge us because we play in a lot of musical genres, but the fact is that we like music and we can do anything we want.
The only difference when a small band does it and international stars do it, is that they have the financial power to persuade people that it’s okey to make a rock album and than an experimental album. We just do it for fun and well…because we can. We love punkrock, metal, rock, classic music, we love everything. We grew up listening to the Beatles, Californian punkrock bands, British pop rock bands, American indie rock bands, well hell, we grew up on classical composers. It’s music, there should be no limits.
-You have played a lot of shows around Croatia and shared the stage with some great names of the rock scene as Guano Apes, are you planning more shows in the future? And what’s about other countries?
Of course we are!
Recently we played in Italy, but the thing is, we are trying to play as much as we can in Croatia in order to promote our album, meet people that can hook us up with venues abroad and similiar.
-How is the rock and metal scene in Croatia at the moment?
There are a lot of bands, but nothing they do is as meaningful as ten years ago.
Today, everyone has a band, or 5 bands, everyone can play everything but there is rarely any meaningful music in them, because the bands are just projects that will fade away after two months. People don’t care about the same things anymore, and because of the rise of technology, people don’t socialize at concerts as often as they would before.
-What’s on plan for the future?
We have upcoming gigs and festivals, we’re trying to earn money and hopefully prizes so we can record a new album.
-We have done with this interview, thank you for your time! Would you like to say something to our readers?
If you do something you like, do it for yourself and your own inner growth, and if you’re good at it, never do it for free.
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For Turmion Kätilöt there are no rules in music, everything happens naturally, it’s a continuous evolution.
We had the opportunity to talk with the mind MC Raaka Pee and with the new singer Shaq-U about their last album, the opportunity to see them on tour outside Finland and much more.
Diablo has celebrated its 20 years of career with a tour around Finland, the hope to play again in other countries is high, and they are ready to work on a new album.
We had the pleasure to interview with Heikki and Marko after their show in Pori and talk about their career, their own beers, the tour with Children of Bodom and Cannibal Corpse in 2009 and much more.
The Helsinki Vampires are on the scene over 20 years and their music is a warranty for who loves gothic rock.
2016 has been an important year with the release of their last work “Universal Monsters” and 2017 is going to be a blast with their tour.
Last December we had the pleasure to have a chat with Bazie and talk about the last album, the long career and the plans for the future.
Peter Tägtgren is one of the most relevant personality in the international metal scene, 20 years of successful career as producer, founder of Hypocrisy as well as PAIN.
The last album of PAIN “Coming Home” has been released last September and now they are burning the Europe with an energetic tour. Before one of their sold out gig in Finland we had the opportunity to meet Peter and talk about the album, the video-clips and the opportunity to see them also in America.
-Hey Peter, how are you doing?
Good, just got here from Sweden so ready to go.
-Your new album “Coming Home” has been released last September, what can you tell about its genesis and lyrics? And what are the main differences compared to the previous ones?
Well, I don’t know for me is a little bit more mixed up. You know, it’s a little bit wider album, same with lyrics it’s about everything and nothing. I mean, there is a little more dynamic stuff in this album. I don’t know it was just feel natural to do it, for me is just a Pain album.
-Your son Sebastian tracked the drums, how has been work with him? Also Joakim from Sabaton made an appearance in this album and you managed to get him singing something else than war, how happened this collaboration?
With Sebastian we live in the same house, so for me it was the easiest way to do it. I wasn’t sure when I was needed a real drum and stuff like that on what I was writing, and when I was done I had to do it very quickly, to do the drums, so it was easier to take Sebastian than David also because he lives 3 hours from here.
With Joakim was easy too because I had Sabaton knocking on the door when I was doing the Pain stuff, and that’s also the reason why Joakim was singing on the album. When we’re done with their album I asked if he wants to put some vocals on “Coming Home”. It was fun to see him singing something different.
-From the album have been released 2 video-clips; “Call me” and “A wannabe”,would you mind tell us something about the making-off of both videos?
I wasn’t really involved in “Call me”, actually they did it here in Finland because our director, that’s been doing a bunch of Pain’s video-clips, had someone who can do dolls and stuff. So he had an idea for it and he started to spinning around a lot. “A Wannabe” was more easygoing, you know, against a green screen and a lot of computer visual effects and stuff like that.
-In 2017 Pain will play for the first time in America, in fact you will play at 70.000 Tons of Metal, How do you expect will be the reaction of the audiance?
This is what we was hoping and we are working on. I don’t know what to expect, I think there are a lot of people that are curious but also a lot of Europeans as well that goes on the cruise, so not only Amaricans on the audiance.
-In the last 2 decades you have been one of the most relevant figure in the international metal scene as producer, founder of Hypocrisy as well as Pain, how would you describe this music journey you have been on?
I don’t know, I mean,I’ve been just lucky to working with a lot of good bands and also doing my stuff. There is nothing that you choose, it just happens. I’ve been just lucky enough to work with all these great bands for over 20 years.
-What’s on plan for the future?
I think a lot of festival this summer, I hope, and we definitely gonna do another European tour more Eastern. We are just going to work it as long as we can and see what happen after when the summer is ending.
-What advice would you give to a young band that is going to record the first demo?
You have to do and redo it, you know, you can only get better what you do. Just keep on believing in yourself and keep on doing it because it’s going only to be better. More experience, better songwriting and so on. I mean, the production is not so important before you get sign in a label. I think the most important thing is to get the feeling that people can hear, it comes from the inside, and then in the future if you get a contract then you can get fancy, producer or whatever but first you have to capture the moment that other people can get into.
-We have done with this interview, thank you so much for your time! Would you like to say something to your fans?
Thank you for your support and I hope to come to your town and turn it upside down.
