YDINTUHO interview

YDINTUHO means "Nuclear Destruction", at least guys told me so.
This band from northern Finland is mixing oldschool first-wave death
metal with dis-beat and hardcore punk, and the result is more than
awesome! You have to give this band a listen here:
www.myspace.com/ydintuho

Veke (guitars) answered on my questions (thanx for sending it to me
again!!) autumn '2008

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1. P: Hi Ydintuho! Thanx for doin the interview with our zine. Well,
not so much information on your myspace about when you formed
the band, so can you tell us?..
V: Ydintuho was formed in late summer 2007.

2. P: You're from Rovaniemi, north of Finland. Are there many active
bands in your town and what music are they playin'?..
V: Actually we're all from Kuusamo, small and cold town in

north-east Finland. I live in Rovaniemi nowadays and other

guys in Kuusamo. Not much to say about Kuusamo's music

"scene", a few cover bands and a couple of crappy metal bands.

In Rovaniemi there's some punk acticity and rest is

(at least what i know) somewhat crappy pop/rock
or these shitty modern sounding "metal" bands.
Exitium Terror (formerly Vеmit) from Rovaniemi are great!

3. P: Your sound reminds me of very oldschool examples and its
like oldschool death metal meets crust and hardcore..
This is incredible mixing, why have you decided to play this kind
of a subgenre?..
V: We're all into old and raw metal, raw punk, d-beat etc so it's

kind of natural for us haha!

4. P: What bands influenced you first?..
V: Hellhammer, Discharge, Disclose, Master (US),

The Shitlickers etc etc!

Raw old school metal and hardcore punk in general.

5. P: Seems like dbeat and raw punk are growing these days,

why in your opinion it's happening so?
V: ..Is it? Maybe people are bored with soft and melodick stuff
in general haha!

6. P: What's your opinion on modern underground, what bands
do you like?..
V: Well i dont really follow what's happening around, but

there's sure great bands here like The Carnival,

Black Mass Pervertor, Kylmä Sota etc.

7. P: Finland lately is popular mainly for its softrock and some
mainstream metal bands. Not very much is known about the
underground, maybe you can recommend some good finnish
underground bands of nowadays?..
V: For example those bands i mentinoed above.

The Carnival is a great combination between old finnish hc

madness and old bm/thrash metal. I'm too to lazy describe

every band, just check them out! Of course there's shitloads

of great bands.

8. P: I know your first demo is sold out already..how much

copies have you guys sold?..
V: We made 66 copies of the demo, they sold out in less than

a month. There was also 15 copies of "special edition" cassette

with Bathory rip off covers wich we sold/gave free at Kainuu

Soi festival june 2008.

9. P: Are you planning to record a full-lenght, if yes, when?
.. Maybe you're more into eps and splits?..
V: No plans for full length album yet.. I personally like to

listen music in EP lenght. We just finished two tracks for a

compilation Lp which will be released by Torture Garden Pictures.

10. P: You've also used a cassette format for making different

editions of your demo, do you guys like casstte releases?..

What do you prefer - tapes, CDs or vynil more?..
V: Cassettes are fuckin' cool! Vinyl is of course great, and cd:s

go as well. I usually dont care about the format, but of course

the analog is superb!

11. P: You're a three-piece band, have you ever changed the

line-up?.. Maybe some of you played in other bands before

(or playin now?..)
V: No changes in the line-up except that we just got a real

vocalist! Our drummer Ari played in a couple of death metal

bands in the early nineties. Kalle played Punk Rock in

Monster Hemi for several years and was forming

Violent Hammer (old school death metal) in 2006.
Also Ari and our new singer Matti played in Violent Hammer.
Me and Kalle played in Dirty Funeral which was old and

doomy heavy metal mixed with hard rock.

None of us have any other bands at the moment.

12. P: What are topics of your lyrics guys?.. Are you writing

on finnish sometimes or only on english?..
V: Nuclear destruction, war, death.. Everything is done in

english this far, but maybe we do something in finnish in future.

13. P: 'Ydintuho' - what's the meaning of this word?..
V: It means nuclear destruction.

14. P: Is it hard to exist as a band in Finland, when you must

have a constant work?..
V: We're all unemployeed at the moment except Kalle whos

studying to be that cute nurse in white dress haha! Once a

month we gather up in the rehearsal place to get drunk and

try to rehearse new/old stuff for a weekend. Usually its 90%

drinking 10% rehearsing. It's hard to exist as a band when

they rose up the alcohol taxes here in Finland haha!

(fantastic answer! -ed.)

14. P: You're living in a deep forest zone, i've also grown up in

russian Karelia where forest and lakes are covering all the

territory :) Do you like to make trips/tenting?..
V: There's nothing greater than to take a few beers and watch
the spectacular Finnish landscapes, specially in hot mid-summer

days. I used to go fishing/tenting every summer when i was

younger, but havent done that in years :(

15. P: Do you guys drink a lot? :)
V: Yes we do.. Alcohol is the fifth member of Ydintuho.

16. P: And the last question: (sorry its just for fun!) what
would you do if the cometh would strike the earth tomorrow? ..
V: Propably i would first get drunk and then start to think

what to do, or i would be crying in the closet with a pile

of shit in my pants haha!

Thanks for the interview!

Answered by Veke.
contact: www.myspace.com/ydintuho ydintuho@luukku.com

p.s. originally printed in december 2008 on russian.