Member in bands
VELI-MATTI KYLLÖNEN IS CURRENT MEMBER IN
| Name | Instrument | Member from |
|---|---|---|
| Pressure Points | Keyboards | - |
Biography
To shortly explain what music means to me, I need to quote the guys of Mnemic who have given a name to my condition. It's called 'audio injected soul'.
I started to listen to real music when I was ten years old. I first listened to bands like Helloween, Gamma-ray, Stratovarius and Avantasia. Power-metal was a really big thing to me, and I never understood people who liked bands like Metallica. (And I still can't, sorry.) Well, I started to play little parts of Gamma-ray with our old crappy piano. It was the beginning. Right away I also started to compose my own (very poor) songs. I don't actually know why I started to play keys, maybe because there were no other instruments at our place. But I've never regretted it: keys are propably the most comprehensive instrument in the world. Well, maybe it is also the most girlish instrument, but it's just how you play it. And I play them like drums.
At the age of 13 I got my first real synthesizer and I started serious practicing. Soon I joined my first band which played melodic black-metal. It was called Nocturnal Sunrise (which later changed its name to Crodonium). I soon found bands like Dimmu Borgir, Norther, Children Of Bodom, Cradle of Filth and many more. To be honest, I first couldn't understand those throat-vocals at all, but after years passed by, I got the point. I got it so well that I wanted to be a singer myself. So I started practicing, again.
When I reached the age of 16, I moved away and started to study writing in the Orivesi College of Arts. I started to search all kinds of bands, so my days as a puritanical metalhead were over. So were the days of Crodonium. At that time, I found many bands that have made a great influence into my style of composing. Just to mention a few: Sigur Ros, Lou Reed, Muse, Soilwork and Jarkko Martikainen. Soon I found myself in a new melodic death-metal band called Down Under. It was fucking cool to play gigs with them, but the cruel truth was that keyboards were useless in that band. So after six months in "Australia" I realized I was without a band, again.
So, if you want to do something right, do it yourself. I formed Nervehell and started to do vocals as I always had dreamed. And I am still on that road, writing my darkness out in the shape of grooving, brutal death metal. At the same time I joined Dawn of Solace as a session keyboard player. But I still had the need to play keys in a real band, not as a session member - I wanted to compose. And that is when Pressure Points came into picture. I was just practicing with our (boozy) Opeth-cover band when I received a phonecall from Vili.
"Would you be interested in playing keys in our band? Our music is something like Opeth."
Guess what I answered.
