Interviews

1. Salut, Master! How are You? Let me ask You another one not original question about new Aarni's album. Of course it's interesting first of all talking about Your band; so please share some news with our readers.

MW: Whato, Aleks! I appear fine. How are you? I just ate some rather spicy food and had a shower. My shower curtain features fish on it and on calm nights you can sometimes hear them sing. Do you like yellow showers?
News about Aarni: now we work on the last song of the forthcoming second album and after its completion aim to record some additional extra stuff like vocals, bass and keyboards to the songs. And then comes the mirth of mixing...we have become quite sick with not yet finishing the album and want to get it out of our system as soon as possible! Hopefully all the album artwork will also be completed sooner than later :p
Fuck, I hate making music! I'm not sure if I should continue making love music just because Jesus told me to...hmmm.

2. And I've forgotten to ask: What kind of interview's questions disgust You?

MW: The ones that taste bad, like when I don't understand a poorly formulated question, a lack of basic journalistic skills shows or the interview has been typed without first washing the hands after poopoo.

3. You've said in the one of Your latest interview that You had difficulties with finding motivation and inspiration in the time when You composed the songs for new album. It sounds strange, I always thought that psilocybin mushrooms are not so big problem in Finland?

MW: I had some issues because some of my selves were incompetents. Everything seems ok now as I got rid of them. Also, partly the motivation problems may be the same as with every artistfartist when they haven't yet discovered their most natural style. Can't say I have either, but I might be getting there...the future will show whether Aarni turns out as shit or shinola. Mushrooms weren't part of the problem, they can be part of the solution. I have never eaten psilocybins yet as I have never had a shortage of inspiration.

4. Do You ever care about public relation composing/recording/playing Your music? Dare I suppose that You do not?

MW: Aarni has a MySpace page. Does that answer your question? I only ask because I don't know.

5. What are the aims of Your music? Is it for expanding the narrow minds of humankind or just to evoke some hattifnatts?

MW: Verily they are one and the same! But if I truly knew the aims of my music, I of course wouldn't be making it.

6. It seems that You're too much in occultism or on Your way to illumination. So don't You think that it's only Your way and none would understand it? I mean that's maybe not quite cool to express it to the public.

MW: Well, Aarni isn't a cool band. Everybody understands us sensing great wisdom but also great sadness. The time has come for Spaceship Earth to evolve to the next level of telluric energy vibration. Humankind will turn into glorious interstellar rainbow unicorn dolphins, destined to explore the multiverse in loving accordance with their True Wills. When that time comes in December 2012 of your calendar, all sentient crystal species will only ever listen to whalehugging Aarni. Even the gigantic glass squirrels on the Moon, whose name is LOVE. Because as karmic batteries we radiate girl shoggoth power and YOU ARE THE DOLPHINS! 93/93!

7. Sometimes (especially when I watch the decoration of "Bathos" or Your site) I started to think that You are totally not serious. Are You serious writing Your music and lyrics? What's about Your sense of humor? Do You delimit the space and time for Your art from the space and time for Your jokes?

MW: Music isn't a laughing matter and we are of course gravely serious about being very talented old school true frost musicians. You just have to stand the extreme Northern pain of constant creation in order to produce noble elitist art for your heroic metal tribe. It's a priviledge, not a duty. Jokes are for the weak escapist niggers who run away from the total grimness of life and are afraid to cry like a man. People who think there's humour in Aarni's Antichristian warrior music are blasphemous moronic gay cowards not fit to receive the Promethean runesword blessings of satanic Aarni. Our undying Elven music reflects the vast, racially pure white, amoral fatal glaciers of infernal Finland as well as the mighty Dwarven strength and ancient scary stamina of its pagan polar bears of death. The only time we laugh is when someone falls over.

8. Do You have some musical side-projects? I sure that You can move aside such guys as Tenhi for example and shed the light on some details of shamanic rituals of Your native land.

MW: No side projects, although I did plan some but then decided there's room for everything in Aarni already. Talking of shamanic shit, I think that subject will be featured on the 3rd album...featured pretty heavily in fact and probably mostly or completely in Finnish, because I don't think the concept can be translated to any language/culture which has mostly lost its Stone Age roots. No light will be shed, however. Trust us!

9. Why don't You choose the one and only mythological/occult theme or conception for Aarni's songs? Guess that it's not such bad idea to use only the Finnish folklore theme. I do not mean "Kalevala" but maybe something more deep, something that could open for us the unknown sides of Your native culture.

MW: See the previous answer. But I don't think it would be a good idea to just focus on one theme...I would get bored very quickly with its limits. Besides "folk/traditional metal" has become an empty trend in recent years with many many shallow bands currently playing in that style. Tad embarrassing! And Aarni hasn't anything to open save the third eye, the brown one. Our interests shift and change constantly. Our music reflects that...so sticking with just a single theme would feel retarded and against the basic idea of Aarni.

10. Do You like the books of Tove Jansson? I'm about "Moomintroll" of course. Wonderful book! Doomintroll is such unpretty and drunken-looking, isn't he?

MW: All moomins look like shit when on holiday. Big D is merely stoned, as it and all other Aarni members oppose alcohol, black clothes, water and other evil poisons. We like to spread our message of hygiene, hope and health to all those who shouldn't listen. It's not too late to save the Wiccans. I do very much like TJ's books and the anarchistic lifestyle of the Moomins. Pity they apparently became extinct in the 18th century. We all must continue their work...of LOVE.

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