We killed the forum by not releasing anything cool for you guys.
Nah, seriously, at least I had some problems with logging in, and every time I tried it I failed and always forgot to ask JW about it. :P But now it works again, yay!
And for what it comes to the band update- we´re working on new material, but somehow have felt a bit "uninspired" lately due to massive touring and other stuff. And trust me, the more the "Professional" "Music industry" people come to mess the band- stuff, the less inspiring it gets. Money this, money that, "you got to do this", "it´s good for your career", "but do you need to think how big you want to become with this band"
THE ANSWER IS FUCK YOU. If it was up to me, I´d be still doing some miserable demos at my parent´s garage
and unfortunately the things around the band have gone so "professional" it´s tearing us completely.
I personally couldn´t give a rat´s ass about the business and I hate to see how it affects me, the music I make and my friends in the band.
No- one is forcing us to do anything, but the amount of pressure we get from all the people who want to have their piece of Finntroll is driving us crazy, and in the end you just want to go home and play some fucking computer games or make pizza with your family and go to sauna.
We have thought a lot the new album, actually booked a studio once, cancelled it, booked it again and are now negotiating with one certain company about our upcoming record deal. Mind you, we´re unsigned at the moment. :P We have lots of material, but too much of it sounds too "forced" as we really haven´t felt very inspired at the moment. When the touring is over, deals settled and we have some time to breathe (later this year) I know the "feeling" will get to us again.
I´m also a bit confused myself (not talking about the whole band here) about what to do with the music- very many of my musical riffs and ideas are more "En Mäktig Här" than "Jaktens Tid", if you get the point. I don´t want to drift away too much from our own sound, but then again, I don´t want to keep recording metal with humppa basslines for the rest of my life. And it keeps me confused, even though I really shouldn´t give a shit, I seemingly DO give a shit, which bugs me.
In the end, we´ll propably do a weird album which sounds like a micture between Carpathian Forest, Conan soundtrack and Oingo Boingo. We´ll see.
Confusedly yours,
me.
PS: I know this was quite "too" honest, but I just felt the urge to spill it out. So if you didn´t bother to read it, no, we´re not splitting up or having a break, we are just taking some time off to do what we love BECAUSE we love it, not because someone tells us to do so.
