Concrete Swine Interview

Genre: Hard Rock

Country: Finland

Questions by: Nick Parastatidis

Answers by: Jukka Penttinen (Drums)

Site: Facebook 

1. Hello. First of all my congratulations on “Zeppelin over Chernobyl”. How do you feel about it? Is there anything that you would like to have done differently?

Hi! Thank you so much. Feel quite good about. It has some best stuff we have done so far. I quess there is always something you could have done differently but there is five guys in the band, so you cant always get what you want.

2. The cover of your new album has straight references to LED ZEPELIN’s debut album. Why did you do that?

EPs name is Zeppelin Over Chernobyl and the cover is exactly that. Simple and sweet.

3. One other thing that I have noticed is the love that the band has for pictures referring to the Soviet Union. Why do you do that? Do you want to provoke people or is it simple nostalgia?

It started as a joke and stuck around. It’s basically like a theme for the band but maybe next time it will be Bulgaria. Who knows?

4. Based on the previous question let me continue and ask you; We all know how communism suppressed people in the Soviet Union, but how free is a person in the free west world?

Oh, man. Maybe we should keep away from politics. All politics suppress people.

5. Why did you choose this time “Chernobyl” on the title of your new EP?

Because it rhymes. It was quite catchy name.

6. Are there any new elements or a different approach on how you composed the songs in your new EP? Can you tell us a few things about it?

Well, our keyboard player Tomi played the first time as a permanent member on this EP. So there is more hammond and moog in the songs but overall approach was basically the same.

7. I am also interested in your lyrics and especially of the one entitled “Way High Tsar”. So in a few words please give us a hint about the lyrical content of each song.

First there is a title and then you just start writing some kind of story or put sentences together in line. Catchy title is quite important. Lyrics in our case aren`t that serious. That kind of sums it up.

8. I have seen many hard rock and heavy metal bands in our days trying to be politically correct in order not to offend or lose any audience. What do you think about it? Have you ever tried to be politically correct when you write music or lyrics?

One word: No. Our CD covers have Soviet Union theme. So there goes politics.

9. If I asked you to do a best of compilation of the songs that you have composed so far, which ones would you choose and why?

Tough question. I think we all have different favorites. Probably something from every EP we have done.

10. Thanks for your time answering my questions. Wish you all the best. Please close the interview in any way you like…

Thank you for your time and support.  Check out the new EP and hope you enjoy it, everybody.