Kings Of Modesty

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Interview with Kings Of Modesty´s Samuel Hjelt

24 February 2010

Greg Prato of Guitar Site interviewed Kings Of Modesty's guitarist Samuel Hjelt. Below are couple of excerpts from the interview: "Hammering melodic metal - in the vein of Queensryche, Dream Theater, and Kamelot - is the style that Finland’s Kings of Modesty specialize in, as evidenced their full-length debut, "Hell or Highwater," which will see its US release on May 4th (the album was released earlier in other parts of the world). Comprised of members Jason Flinck (vocals), Samuel Hjelt (guitar), Mikael Hjelt (keyboards), Henrik Tuura (bass), and Raino Simoinen (drums), the group is planning on touring the world once the album drops, and have already supported some top metal names, including dates alongside Michael Schenker last year in Europe. KoM’s

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Kings of Modesty has a long history, which leads us back to the year 1994 when the band was formed by guitarist Samuel Hjelt and drummer Rane Simoinen. They asked their friend Henkka Tuura to play bass and Samuel’s older brother Mikael to play keyboards. Band took the name of Face of Modesty. Four years ago and after few lead singers other band members asked their old friend Jason Flinck to join their band and hence the current line-up was born .

Band also changed their name to Kings of Modesty at the very same time as Jason Flinck joined the band. Kings Of Modesty is a band which has gained a lot of attention by gigging around Finland and also in Switzerland. Although Kings Of Modesty hasn’t release any records earlier, has it’s members a lot of experience in music: Jason Flinck play bass and sings backing vocals in the band Brother Firetribe which is a sideproject with NIGHTWISH –guitarist Emppu Vuorinen and LEVERAGE-singer Pekka Heino. Samuel Hjelt is former guitarist from the band called Ancara in which he did two albums before concentrating in Kings Of Modesty.

So Kings of Modesty has been continuing a successful gigging until band wanted to start working for to release their excellent music in 2007 when Emppu Vuorinen, a close friend to Kings of Modesty helped the band to produce their promo EP including four excellent songs “Suicidal Mission”, “Staring Eyes”, “Tailspin” and “Miracle”. Emppu also gave his visions into production and thus the promo EP was recorded at Emppu’s E-Major studios in 2007. The Promo EP gained a lot of interest and “Miracle” was played by several radiostations in USA. The band continued working hard and In the autumn of 2008 Samuel Hjelt and Jason Flinck started to produce the debut album of Kings Of Modesty. After long months of autumn and winter an excellent songs were created and by the June of 2009 the debut album “Hell Or Highwater” was born.

By that time Kings Of Modesty had achieved a lot of interest and started negotiations with several record labels and after a while the band decided to sign a deal with Escape Music Ltd. “Hell Or Highwater” is to be released in all over Europe in September 2009. The songs of coming debut were noticed immediately; although the album hadn’t been released yet, the opening track “Never Touched The Rainbow” has already been played in radio stations in Europe. The debut album is going to see light of day 25. of september! Album was mixed by LEVERAGE-guitar wizard Torsti Spoof and Jari Mikkola at the Studio Audio and mastered in Finnvox Studios by Mika Jussila. Cover art was created by LEVERAGE-drummer Valtteri Revonkorpi and Photos were taken by Kari “Carda” Helenius.

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