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Have any of you played in other bands? Yeah, all we have played, and actually the lead singer Tomi have two different active bands now a days also (Ultimatium, Viilto, and different projects) And nowadays I have different projects also and another band (Under The Blade) where i play guitar too and genre is old school thrash/death metal

How is it that you started playing music? We all started playing music when we were teenage metal maniacs, haha! Each one by their own way. Personally i started playing guitar when i was 14, at that time i got my first guitar. Before that i was very interested to playing guitar , and a little bit bass and drums.

What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?

Tomi Viiltola, Lead Vocals, age 39.

Petri Hallikainen, Guitar, age 37

Ari Helin, Bass&Backing Vocals, age 44

Kari Hyvärinen, Drums, age 34 

Have you had other previous members?

Lauri Koslonen, Bass (2009-2010)

Jake Kokkonen, Drums (2010-2013)

Erkka Närhi, Drums (2013-2014)

Oskari Kuokkanen, Guitar (2009-2014)

Henri Strömberg as gig guitarist (spring 2015)

Did you make music even when you were young? Of course! Although songs were typical beginner stuff, ya know, fumbling and unclear etc. But hey, somehow you gotta start anyway! Haha.

Where are you from? Me , Ari and Kari were born in Kuopio. Tomi in Raahe.

What year did the band form? It was August 2009 in Kuopio.

What's your style of genre? Heavy Metal. We have influences from hard rock, power metal, progressive metal and thrash metal styles, more or less.

What inspires you? Scifi, fantasy, horror and history books & movies and also real life drama/melancholy.

How often and where do you reherse? It depends do we have a gig ahead or new songs etc, but it seems it goes like 2-5 times in a month nowadays. we also practice in our homes as much we can.

How have you developed since you started with the music? Now a days we have more understanding how to do different songs, as how to compose and arrange it all etc.  And of course personal skills have developed.

Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Vocalist and bassist have their day jobs. Freetime includes video games, movies , books, different fitness exercise. Sometimes beer and drinks, but only for me and Tomi, haha And other bands / projects keeps more or less busy.

Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Actually we are in one called Rytmiputki agency. Yet there are not gigs through this agency, but maybe in the future. Of course we want to get gigs as much it´s possible all around Finland and all around the world.

Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that?Yeah, we are looking for a label which is good and working in every way, and which can release and spread the album etc. to everywhere and all around etc. Big or small label, it doesn´t matter.

What made you decide to make this music? Well, we love rock and metal music!

What are your songs about? Scifi, fantasy, horror tales and true tales or deliberation from the real life.

Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Me and Tomi, together and apart.

Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Mainly we start with the music, lyrics we arrange later.

Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Yeah, usually in my home and sometimes in rehearsal room.

Have you done any covers live? Yeah, many covers from 1970´s and 1980´s rock/metal bands.

What language do you sing in? English.

What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? Can´t remember exactly, we don´t count people there, haha! On some gigs there´s been a lot of people and and on some gigs not, haha!

What ages are most of your concert attendants? It´s usually between 18-50 age.

Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? We vary the setlist. We have very rarely played exactly the same setlist on the next gig.  At least one song change there almost always.

Do you have a regular place you play live often?

Yeah, Henry´s Pub here in Kuopio, it´s so goddamn good place to play.

Lets see if we can get another one or more places too.

What was your first gig like? Our first gig was here in Kuopio, at small club called Resistori, four years ago (2011)  It was very exciting moment, haha! If i remember right, all went fine.

What was your latest gig? It was at Vesanto, a village about 80km to east from Kuopio.The gig was great, haha!

Have you had to cancel a gig? Well, yeah. We were booked to a certain gig, but we had to cancelled it early because the drummer we had that time was booked just before to another gig  lame time.  But it doesn´t matter anyway, gigs comes and goes.

Where have you played live this year? Here in Kuopio three times and then once in Kajaani and once in Vesanto.

Where do you plan to gig the comming year? Yet on this year we will do gigs at least at Pielavesi, Joensuu and Kuopio, maybe more if it´s possible.   Next year is open at this moment, when and where will be the gigs.

When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? We are planning at first as t-shirts for merchandise. I don´t know yet when it all gonna happen, but for example, there will be information in our facebook site, in time.

Where can people buy your merchandise? Then when we will get the merchandise, you can buy it through our facebook, and maybe different shops.

What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? Of course it´s not good for the artists, they loose money from the products they´ve invest money etc. Internet did it possible. Now it seems it´s goddamn unstoppable thing. But people do what they want to do, someone wanna buy records and stuff, someone doesn´t. If you have no money to buy record you want at one time, save the money and buy later.

How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? It is changed to deep smelling shit.... Everyone who look to the state of music industry today, can see it.

What do you think of my work?

It´s just great and awesome!!

It´s good to see there´s people who want to and be able to drive n´roll this kind of media!

How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? I hope it could bring good possibilities for us and reach more people all around the world.

Do you have any role models or idols?

Knight Rider and Macgyver!! Hahaha!! Ron Jeremy! Hahah!

Well, not exactly.

Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today?

I think from older bands, ya know bands like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dio, King Diamond, Mötley Crue, Dokken, Tarot etc..

They´ve been in my life since i was kid.

But i have to say there are some good new or not so old bands too that i like a lot and i can find inspiration.

What have been your biggest obstacles? Nothing big yet.

What advice would you give other bands or artists? Find right guys to play with, respect your bandmates, believe yourself, be patiet, dont give up if there´s problems and enjoy and love  what you do!

How do you get psyched for a gig? Calm down and concentrate. Sometimes beer or two helps.

Do you have any new material? Yeah, we are currently working with new songs. The album will be out 2016 if all will go on correctly. We don´t have any time schedule or deadline anyway.

What are your web sites? Facebook:  www.facebook.com/PerpetualRage 

How can people reach you? For example through our facebook.

What are your plans for the future? Gigs, Album, more gigs, more albums! Haha! This is a lifestyle, can´t stop until the grave is calling!

Do you have something to add? Thank you for your time and interest for reading this! And big thanx to everyone who have supported us! Rock on all metal brothers!