“I see myself much more in an amphitheater or an abandoned castle in the middle of nature, setting up the show like a sort of sequential tale, staged with scenery and animated sequences in the background, preferably with an accompanying orchestra.”

“We have always done music on our own terms and not being afraid of how people would take it.”

“Deitus is the knife in the back of man.”

One could think that living under the impression of Nazis about 70 years ago should have left an impact, but that’s just wishful thinking. Fascism works because it’s so easy to blame others, and fighting against this will always be a nuisance in the view of these people.

“Lithopaedic came from a dream that Frank had. Lithopaedic deals with discovering an alternate self in a parallel world, and challenging or reckoning with that self. Afterward a stronger version of yourself emerges at the behest of some mysterious force of chaos and change.“

“Technology has ruined everything already, now it will even ruin art. We are doomed as a species, and we deserve it. Fucking stupid arrogant humans. We have way bigger things to worry about than the metal scene.”

“All of the artists that are worth their shit, they maybe had like ups and downs in their career, but the only way that they've ever been satisfied is by knowing internally that they made something that they really wanted to make that was unaffected by any sort of, outside influence.”

“Finding fans who have tattooed our logo or cover art on themselves has been pretty crazy. I’ve had fans come tell me how they wanted to kill themselves and my art has helped them with that.”

“I did care a lot when I was younger what people thought of me, but I do not anymore...I don’t judge anyone for their choices or for what they like or do. When you accept that, I think it's way more easy to just go through life curious and make out of it what you want.”

“I'm inspired by topics like the middle ages, nature and very personal, dark things that happened in my life. ”

“Narco life is here to stay so why shouldn't I make music about it if that’s how I grew up? It’s not fake, it’s real, I wanna make music that I myself and others that grew up in the USA, Latin America and other parts of the world can relate to.”

“For us, in the first place there is always quality and customer satisfaction. Profit is also important, because we live from what we do, but our business is NOT profit-driven. It’s quality-driven.”

“The biggest driving force for everything Hellripper is simply my enjoyment of doing it! I’m very grateful for the support people give me and I’m glad people like the music.”

“We incorporated a lot of harsh imagery and completely avoided showing any of us musicians. As the song intends, it should slightly drain and confuse the viewer with a somewhat sober perspective of our world.”

“Propaganda was everything back then [WWI]. People were told glorious stories about pride, dignity and honor. In the end, most of them died in the mud, torn apart by shells.”

“I believe that regardless of our advancement as human species and as a society, there’s no way of finding something that can universally be described as “meaning”.”

“Metal is based in emotion and conflict, which indigenous people are no strangers to, so I think a lot of us are drawn to music like metal or punk from a very early age.”

[In reference to war] “Don’t ever expect for it to end. It never will. ”

“I think it's pretty obvious that Finnish black metal and Finnish melancholy drive us all. All of us listen to a lot of various music besides black metal and all that stuff influences us.”