Suiciderock: Since our last interview with Jonne in September 2005 happened a lot. Could you give us a short summary of this one year?
Antti: It was one year ago right?
Snack: Many things happend. We did an album, called „Anorectic".
Antti: The album was released about one month ago so there are still 11 month left... *smiles*. Well, we practised a lot. We had the festival summer with many gigs. Some of the festivals were in Finland and some also in Germany.
Snack: Like Summerbreeze... We also had this tour with HIM and The Rasmus.
Antti: Of course we had some time off. There we did many things but basically it was just a holiday for us. Were we simply did nothing. That's all what I can remember now. One year is so much time. *Smiles*

Suiciderock: You just released your new album „Anorectic". What was the most memorable occurrence in the studio this time around?
Antti: We had many. Normally the recording sessions are pretty much the same. You know? If you take me for example, I play my bass lines which takes about 2 weeks or something like that and the rest of the studio time is free for me. One funny thing that I remember is that we brought some big barrows to the studio when we recorded „We can't go on".
Snack: And some steel plates and everyone was banging on the barrows.
Antti: So you can hear it at the end of the song. Like „boom boom bang, boom boom bang". Everybody in the band did it except Jonne because he was filming the whole thing and giving the tempo. It was a bit industrial.
Snack: Yeah that was funny.
Antti: There was this finnish artist that we all respect a lot, Dave Lindholm. He plays some harmoy for the song „Sinners Night Misty Morning".
Snack: It was an honour for us to have him on the album.
Antti: He did it in 15 minutes or something. He haven't ever heard the song before. He came to the studio, heard the song for the first time ever and he started to try something. Than he said that he thinks he knows what we need and want and so he made it. All this happend in 15 minutes. We all thought wow this is so cool. That was really nice.  

Suiciderock: What are the elements that you deem to be necessary in order to make a great song?
Antti (*laughs*): You should ask Jonne because he is the songwriter.
Suiciderock: I know but he is not here now.... So you don't sit together and write the songs as a group?
Antti: Some of the songs are also by Larry. But I don't write any lyrics or stuff like that. Usually there is this idea like for a melody or the lyrics or whatever. Than they bring it to the rehearsal room so we all can hear it and than everybody starts to bring in his own ideas.
Snack: About the writing.... I remember that Jonne said something like he uses any inspiration around him for instance some stories about braking up. But you have to ask him.

Suiciderock: Planet of the Sun is your current single. How does your planet of the sun look like?
Antti: Funny question. I have to think a little bit.
Snack: I think my home is my Planet of the Sun. It was the first thing I was thinking about when I heard the song. It's a place were I can relax. But it can be everything.
Antti (*still thinking*): Ahm... It is something weard inside my head. My own universe.  

Suiciderock: You haven't been in Japan for a while. Is it still the same atmosphare over there or has it changed in any way?
Antti: Not so much. We have been there I guess two years ago. We didn't do a big tour over there. We just played three gigs. One of them was a festival and some club gigs with Hardcore Superstar. The festival was big as hell. It took place in a big hall with many great bands like Slayer and than we did the club gigs as support of Hardcore Superstar. It was really nice. We played in Nagoya and Hiroshima. It was nice to be in Hiroshima. We haven`t been there before. You know what happend there?
Suiciderock: Yes, ofcourse.
Snack: We went to the place were the bomb exploted. It was a really spooki feeling there. You still can feel this strange atmosphere and that something has happend there.
Antti: Oh yeah you were there. I was the only one who didn't want to got there because I wanted to see Hardcore Superstar at the club. So I don't know what it was like there but the gig was great (*laughs*). The gig was really cool.

Suiciderock: While talking about Hardcore Superstar. Did they choose you to be the support or who did it come up?
Antti: It simply happend. Jonne and Larry were in Japan to promote the album and for some interviews and photos,  like one month before we came to play there. And after they came back to Finland I heard that we might play some gigs in Japan with Hardcore Superstar. The next thing that I heard was that we have thoose gigs and so we did it.
Snack: I think it had something to do with promotion. We have the same promoter. It was nice to meet thoos guys. We had a great time and we got wasted.

Suiciderock: Let's talk about those shows in Russia. You went there straight after Japan. How was it for you to play over there again?
Antti: It was great to be in Russia again. It is f**** crazy when we go there. When the train arrived in Moscow there were like 2000 fans waiting for us. The temperature was like -20 or something. It was cold as hell and dark because we arrived in the night. That already happend when we played there three years ago. It was a big surprise for us. And now it was the same situation. And this time there were even much more people than the last time.
Snack: Of course there is this big difference in the culture when you compare Japan and Russia. The weather was also totaly different. It was summer and hot in Japan and totally freezing winter when we came to Russia.

Suiciderock: Did you get ill because of the quick weather change?
Snack: Yeah I did.
Antti: Me, too.

Suiciderock: You get around a lot. Do you collect any souvenirs?
Snack: I bought this „St. Pauli Shirt" on the Reeperbahn yesterday.
Suiciderock: Yeah, I have one as well. It is kind of a Must Have when you come to the Reeperbahn.
Snack (*smiles*): Yes, yes it is.

Suiciderock: Today you will have your first gig in Germany after you released your new album. What are you going to expect from this tour?
Antti: It is really nice to be here. It is really exciting to see how the audience react. Because a while has passed since they've seen us the last time. I hope the reactions will be good. I'm still pretty much excited of playing the new songs live. There are songs which have been played like a million times but the new songs still got this new feeling. We also have a new coreography on stage, a new background, Snakes on the stage and so on.


Suiciderock: Do you have a favourite city in Germany?
Snack: It is always great fun and the best shows are also in Germany. The band get's better and better after every show.
Antti: When we tour you don't happen to see so much besides the venue, the bus, the hotel... It is always the same. After a gig we leave, go to the bus than we drive the whole night and everything repeats itself on the next day: Doing the soundcheck, some interviews, the gig...So all you can see is like the pictures outside of your window change.
Suiciderock: So you live very isolated...
Antti: Yeah it is always dark and you can't see anything. It's different if you have some day off. But on this tour we don't have so many free days. On the day offs on this tour we travel to the next city. Yesterday we have been to the Reeperbahn. It was my first time there. It was very interesting and a little bit fun as well. I don't have any special places. I like porn clubs and stuff like that.
Suiciderock: Did you visit some yesterday because there are a lot on the Reeperbahn?
Antti: Yeah we did.
Snack. Yeah lots of porn stores.
Suiciderock: Did you buy something?
Antti: Yes, some „Souvenirs", as you call them (*laughs*). German Souvenirs from the Reeperbahn.
Snack: Hamburg is a nice city and also Köln.

Suiciderock: Sometimes people are having a bad day on tour? Is it easy for you to go on stage when you are in a bad mood?
Antti: Ahm... We don't have so many bad days. Of course it is a different thing when  you get ill but luckily I was ill only after returning from Russia and there I had like one week to get well again before going on tour. But when I'm in a bad mood or I have a hangover I take the first step on the stage and I feel great. Then you realise that there is nothing to worrie about.

Suiciderock: Your support band of some German shows are Jann Wilde & Rose Avenue. Did you choose them?
Antti: I think it had something to do with our manager. We thought it would be cool to have some supportband in Germany. So we agreed cause it's always better than to tour alone. Well and the band is also from Tampere and we know the guys. We meet almost every week in the same bar and having fun together.
Suiciderock: So you would recommend them to the audience?
Antti & Snack: Yeah, Yeah of course.
Antti: Snack also played with them.
Snack: Yeah I was guestmusician.

Suiciderock: Are you still playing in other bands because somebody told me that you do?
Snack: No, No, just Negative. I was playing in many bands but nowadays I just play for Negative. Of course I play for some bands on their album if they ask me to do so. Like a guestmusician.

Suiciderock: What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of being a professional musician in Finland?
Antti: The most callenging aspect is to get some street credability for a band like us. There you have 6 boys or men or whatever, using make-up and playing some rock`n roll. And this are things that makes it really really difficult to get this street credability. I`m not talking about the fans, the crowd or the people who like us. It is more about some assholes in the media and the big bosses behind this whole thing. Maybe callenge is not the right word but it was always difficult for us when the critics came out after releasing an album. It is hard to get good critics. But we don't take that too seriously. We can cope with it.

Suiciderock: Have you ever commited a crime or have you ever been involved in a crime?
Antti: That's a question you should ask Christus (*everybody is laughing*). When I was a little boy I was very engergic and I did a lot of stuff. But I never get busted or anything I was too fast all the time. Maybe I have been lucky or just quick enough. For example Larry was arrested about 20 times when he was under 18 years old. Maybe Larry wasn't quick enough to run away.

Suiciderock: As you won`t perform at the Helldone Festival this year. What are your plans for New Years Eve?
Antti: I don't know yet. About the Helldone: they try to change the bands for every year. We played there last year so this time they will have some other bands. I don't know what we are gonna do. I think we won't have a gig anywhere. So maybe I go to Helldone just to get waisted and to scream „Hey here I'm".

Suiciderock: Why don't you organise something similar to the Helldone in Tampere? I mean there are so many good bands around like Private Line,...
Snack: Good idea. But we already playing in Tampere in December the date of the gig is really close to New Years Eve... But maybe next year. But we should think about that idea.

Suiciderock: Do you know any German words?
Antti: Yes.... „Fotze", „Scheisse","Ich will","Ich liebe dich", „Du hasst",...
Snack: I know a poem one: „F****, Bu****sen, Bla**sen, alles auf dem Rasen"...
Antti: „Guten Abend wir heißen Negative und wir kommen aus Finnland".

Suiciderock: Your future plans for the band and yourself?
Antti: As usually we don't have so many. Doing this tour also Switzerland and Austria and the Finnish Tour afterwards. Than it is New Year's Eve already and I don`t know what happens after that. Of course we are promoting the album more and more. I hope we can go on tour again and hopefully the rumours I've heard about playing in Spain and Italy are true.

Suiciderock: And some closing words for your fans and the readers of Suiciderock.com?
Antti: There are too many things I like to say. Well, buy our new record „Anorectic". If you already have it, great respect to you. Hopefully you are coming to see our shows. Let's party together! And have a great time! It is always nice to be here in Germany because...
Snack: Nice to be here in Germany again. We are looking forward to the tour. Just chill out and enjoy „Anorectic".  Peace and Love for you.