Funeris Nocturnum - Koodi WCH6.66:n lukkoon
(haastattelija: Serpent)

Ave Torment! How are nightly funerals going? What are the latest news from the cemetary?
At the moment everything is going pretty well. We have even had a few more gigs than usually, and we intend to do them as many as possible. The new line-up has affected our playing and spirit positively, and everything is going damn fine.

As FN is a relatively young band, could you tell the band's history here?
Nope, as everyone reading this interview also has the possibility to read the 'biography'-section from our webpages at http://funerisnocturnum.cjb.net. Laziness is not a vice.

What about your discography and current line-up?
This far we've released our debut album Pure Satanic Blasphemy (2000), second album From the Aspect of Darkly Illuminated (2001) and our demo Slay and Burn as a mini-cd with some bonus cover songs, also on 2001. All releases have been on Woodcut Records. The third album Code 666 - Religion Syndrome Deceased will be released 2.8.2002, also by Woodcut.
The reason for the rather fast pace of the releases is probably that previously we had so few gigs that there really was nothing else to do than compose new material. And I'm personally so impatient that everytime we have had enough material for an album, it has been necessary for me to get it recorded.
Our line-up hasn't changed for 2 years, except for the drummer, whom we replaced with a better one a few months ago.

As there are plenty of people unaware of Funeris Nocturnum's musical style, how would you describe it with a few words?
Hmm, how should I start..few words… The first album is fast and raw, though melodic, in the vein of Dark Funeral, Marduk and Emperor.
The second album goes along the same lines, but it is more thought over and progressive, and with some thrash/death -influences.
The upcoming album is something else, then. It will be quite a varied album, with lot's of influences from different kinds of musical styles, and not only of different genres of metal. It's kind of a hard to explain. Musically, it's a quite of a mess of different styles, but in the end it's probably easier to get into, compositionally and considering the
arrangements. And it's an abomination to old-school metal -people. Well, you'll hear. Now, as we have composed new material with the new guy on drums, it has been more straightforward, and possibly most brutal Funeris Nocturnum for a long time. We've into that again, and will leave all sorts techno and sentimentalisms and that kind of crap to those who know them better.
On the lyrical side, FN is about anti-christianity, and denying the standards of the "normal" man set by the society.

You have got quite much attention - both negative and positive - in the Finnish metal scene and your pace with releases has been quite fast. Do you think there's a connection between these two factors or are they just purely coincidental? Has Woodcut helped you to make a name for the band or is it because your gigs and so forth?
Yeah, we've received negative response as well as positive. We have recorded in a quick pace, and the reason for that was already in a response to an earlier question, and I don't think that it has anything to do with feedback we've got. If somebody is pissed off due to the fact that we do an album a year, then so what? I'm not very interested in feedback anyway. All kinds of crap has been floating around about us, but we know what we are doing, and what other people say won't affect or interest us. Of course positive feedback is always pleasant, but being satisfied with my own doings feels better.
Of course having a record-company behind us has helped "making a name", but the fact remains, that making one's music known is an issue of the band itself. We haven't been making supershitty music at any point, so I don't wonder if somebody hears, and even likes our music. And that's probably the case, as we haven't had that much advertising, not in magazines or anywhere else. So this music speaks for itself.

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