Killing Hellsinki
About the recording
This was just meant to be a recording for ourselves. It was webmaster Marko who asked us if he could record it on his MiniDisc, for personal pleasures. We didn’t think much of it and of course he could. Everyone but K (who attended the Tuska-festival instead) went back to Sweden and when K and Statik met up the day after he was very happy about the recording and said it sounded better than he could ever have hoped for. K listened to it and was amazed by the quality. The release of this one was actually planned to happen on a US-based label (as it still says in the booklet, which is very confusing when you think about it), just to help them out with a first release. It was just a friend-thing.
No over-dubs on this album, it’s all raw and unpolished and was never planned to be an album. To us it’s just a fun thing that it got released thru Threeman.
About the title
If it had been recorded in Spain it’d be entitled “Killing Spain”. Go figure.
About the cover
Our webmaster Marko (aka Statik Majik) got completely free hands and really acomplished a magnificent cover, using live-pictures and backstage-pictures (taken by Jouni Väänänen) thruout the whole thing. The red packaging is definitely top-notch and it was his first attempt at doing an album-cover.
