Our performance suffered somewhat from lightspeed tempos and crappy backline.. Darn small venues, bad stage monitors they have. Only thing I heard really loud was lead guitar, that wont help much.... Our lead guitarist has this little problem, he plays way too fast, all or nothing..

Heck, what's that magic which makes gig tempos go over the scales every time? I guess it works with thrash though. I had some pressures about playing live, puked twice before the gig, felt just fine in the head, but my stomach was afraid. What surprised me actually was that I didn't screw up much, listen just the drums, there's only few noticeable mistakes(well to me that is), mostly it's just bit too fast. When I played it felt like I play like shit, but it magically sounds better on the video. I dunno what to think of this.

We're live again next satrday, funnily enough, in even smaller place, but there's some expectations of a HUGE crowd... The place is going to be shut down for some renovation until october, there's gonna be ten bands performing that day and there's some +800 people invited through facebook. It might be really cool! And we're gonna have 45 minutes play time, that means more songs, longer drumsolo, gig intro etc.. Oh yea, and I'm gonna get my drums there too. That's a nice promo for us, I just got our bands logo on my bassdrumheads, you can (faintly) see them on the video... My gear is gonna sit on that stage for about ten hours for everyone to see.

The links say 'private' when I click on them.

hugorune wrote: same for me.

Maybe they've been signed by a major label and have had their videos removed by the suits in charge.

Right now they're probably on a yacht in the Caribbean, snorting coke off the thighs of supermodels and planning which Bentley to buy. I know I would.

They worked for me the other day, now showing as private.

Sorry guys, my bad... They're "unlisted" now so you can see them but can't find them with youtube search.. We did this because there's gonna be much better live videos available soon. So we'll keep these as sort of private videos and make the new ones public if everything goes ok.

I'm sorry to disappoint you Hugorune, no big deals, money and fame here... Yet.

Here's the rest of the gig.. As you can surely hear the vocals sucked big time.... Compare this to the demo and it'll be clear that our vocal/guitar guy is MUCH better than his performance here... The monitoring was nearly nonexistent, he told me he couldn't really hear what he was singing and the result is clearly quite bad. Well, that happens, 2011 I saw Stratovarius live at Saimaa Open Air festival, they had the same problem during the first three songs they played, their monitors were offline. Try to play clearly when you don't know shit about what the other guys are doing... Lack of monitoring is a very big problem specially on high volume setting such as heavy metal.

That's one thing for me to buy, a good high powered active monitor, something with high wattage to work on every stage and every volume level. Well, enough techy stuff.

We're playing live tomorrow again. As I mentioned earlier, it's gonna be a lot bigger thing, I'm curious to see how big crowd we get and will my drums work ok, there's ten bands playing, that over twice what there was last time.

It's brilliant that you're out there doing so well, Hex! On and up, matey.

But.... just one concern - and forgive my ignorance (I write: all solitude and serene and all) is that "smoke" safe for you to be engulfed in?

(Should just add that there's enough hair on that stage to stuff a settee ).

Well done, though. Really good to see things coming to fruition for you all.

Btw Hex - I've often meant to ask: do Antabus and Auringon Hauta (I love that name!) have any meaning in Finnish?

(I might even call my next horse Auringon Hauta - unless it means "stupid, shitty horse that can't even jump a fence" in Finnish! ).

Hello Cantata! I'm sorry I don't have any better videos to show, the vodeo recording of the latest gig failed, the cam broke or something... Last saturdays gig was awesomely good compared to our first..

Antabus is just a name of the drug, you can google it, I think it doesn't mean anything. Auringon Hauta on the other hand means 'the tomb of the sun', That's an actually place located in todays Estonia, in ancient times, before any nation states a huge meteor fell there, the explosion and fire was so huge it was seen in whole Carelia and beyond, it gave birth to many ancient stories and songs, Ancient Finns sang about the place where sun fell from the sky. It also was the origin of Finnish myth how iron became the most useful metal for tools and stuff. The meteor was mainly iron, and ancient people mined all of it and used it fro making tools and swords etc.

The meteor and the resulting small lake are a center piece of many Finnish myths and legends, that's why we chose it as our bands name. I've also visited the place once.

Cool story. I love ancient legends.

I want one of those outer space iron swords. You could rule the world with a sword like that.

hugorune wrote:
Yea.

I don't know if there's any known piece of that meteor iron left anywhere... The thing that's a fact is that there's nothing left of the meteor and that it was mostly iron... Only stuff left in the place is the huge hole in the ground and tons of rocks with burned/glassy surface... I took one small rock from there, it's forbidden, but I took it anyway. It's really cool, nearly all rocks there have a melted look on them. I think the place is called Kaal Kraater in Estonian, In finnish the name is Kaalijärvi these days.

I love legends too. You've told sofme really good Finnish legends on here, Hex. You ought to open a Finnish Legend thread (I'm currently fishing around for ideas for a new story..... ).

Auringon Hauta... that has such a ring to it! I think the next horse just might be called that.

It's sad that your recording didn't come out well enough to post. But at least you know the performance was even better than before, which is a good thing to acknowledge. Keep on matey! Better every time.

BUT - you didn't tell me: is that smoke safe for you to be engulfed in on stage?

Maybe I should make a thread about Finnish legends and myths, there's a lot of those around.

The smoke, well, I've never felt bad after breathing that... Only thing it seems to do is that it dries the throat a bit.

Hexhammer wrote:
Mmm, I don't like that - but what do I know? Just make sure you're not breathing in too much, too often in those enclosed spaces. K. Lecture over.

I think a Finnish Legend thread would be great. You seem to have so many interesting legends out there in Finland. I used to know many of the old Irish stories and tales (about Banshees, the Tuatha De Dannan and suchlike), but we second generation Irish don't seem to keep them alive like the true Irish do. It's a shame, because legends and ancient tales are really fascinating.

Check this out! Antabus @ KoskisLive 23.3.2013.

This is from our second gig, unfortunately, due to a camera malfunction, we only got first two songs on video, but here it goes, this time our performance was top notch, it got even better towards the end of the gig.

Well, getting to be quite the little professional, aren't we? Excellent work, Hex. Your singer seems a lot more into "using" his voice now - I suppose it must take some getting used to, performing as lead singer.

I like the way you all "bleed" the end of the first song into the opening of the second song. Very good.

All the practice is paying off.

Good stuff, Hex!

cantata wrote:
Thanks! The monitros were great on this gig, as you can see and hear, knowing what other guys are doing is vital to the success. Second thing is, we didn't have any pressures about playing this gig, I knew already during the soundcheck that it's gonna be a good one. Too bad we didn't catch the rest of the gig onto video, there was some good moments.

Just after Hit The Lights, I played the best drumsolo I've ever done live.. Camera broke just moments before it.

Yea, that was the vocal/guitarguy's idea, it works very well.. The first songs end and the "intro" of Hit the Lights are so similar we wanted to try this out.. Works really cool. I though maybe I'll do the same thing with the drumsolo next time, guys just stop playing, change their guitars and I keep going on with the solo.