AMORPHIS Guitarist Tomi Koivusaari - New Interview Online

Spain's Hall Of Metal reports:

"We recently had the opportunity to talk to Tomi Koivusaari, AMORPHIS’s guitarist since its formation. After a couple of minutes of technical issues with the recorder, he told us some very juicy (stories) about the band’s present and about past times too, their change in musical direction and in vocalist, etc."

The following is an excerpt:

Q: Well, first of all congratulations for you last album. How’s the selling going and how’s the response from media and fans?

A: "Thanks! Well, response has been mostly good for what I’ve seen, fans seem to like it, but lately in festival gigs and so, the setlist has been mainly old stuff, so now, when we start touring, it will be the first time we can test this new stuff out live, but so far it seems that people like it."

Q: I heard that the limited edition had a failure in some tracks, that’s too bad! What was your first reaction to this?

A: "Well, we were totally like... pfffffffff... depressed when we heard like one or two days before releasing that there was this kind of problem, we couldn’t believe it at first..."

Q: But... you knew it before the release?

A: "No, no, but it was already shipped to markets and shops. We knew it two days before it was released in Finland, it was on Wednesday, and on Friday it was released in the rest of countries I think, and we knew this on Tuesday or something. We wanted to take it away from the shops, we didn’t want to... like... things like this shouldn’t happen, it’s not normal that the rest of editions are OK and the digipack has this problem, they’re supposed to be the same mastering, all of them... After that, I spent about one week without sleeping well, I was so fucked up about this."

Read the full interview at Hall Of Metal.