(Single from their upcoming 2015 album.)

I’d love to visit Finland but I’ve never been there so I’m not convinced it’s real. But let’s just say that it is… what is the metal scene like there? Is there a bigger push for avant garde material over there?

A – The Finnish metal scene is quite strong and varied. I wouldn’t say that there’s a push towards stranger sounds, every genre is represented evenly but most musicians here seem to appreciate individuality and approve of the things that set them apart from others. Thrash and traditional death metal have been on the rise lately.

N – Nobody wants us to play gigs haha.

J.K – People want us to play but we might just be too lazy to promote our stuff. We live in Jyväskylä, and the “scene” here is mostly based around the local bands; Lost Society, Frosttide, Prayed and Betrayed and so on. Look it up.

J.A. – There’s a bunch of small death metal bands playing to almost empty halls we included. I’m not personally that involved to any scenes but I have made observations and it seems the black metal related stuff is much richer in people. Also the avant garde/obscure metal here is often toying with black metal or having their roots in there, like Jumalhämärä and Oranssi Pazuzu to name a few. Also I’d like to recommend Circle (and all related projects like Arkhamin Kirjasto, Rättö ja Lehtisalo…), Opium Warlords, Abyssion and Obscure Burial.

Are any of you beer drinkers? Do you all have some beer recommendations for the readers?

N – Murphy’s, Guinness and Közel Lager for taste, Sandels or Koff for getting dizzy ass funky.

J.A. – Punk IPA from brewdog. Drank one this Easter at the bonfire, tasty liquids yees.

A – I’m not a heavy drinker but Közel Dark is pretty good. If I can’t see through it, I’ll probably like it.

J.K – We are beer drinkers yes, but there’s also this one tradition which we have around our friends who have done technician/promoting/marketing stuff for us. Usually after a gig we go to crash at our friends place, and the first thing we do is crank up a one liter bottle of Tapio-viina, which is a basic vodka named after the forest god from ancient finnish mythology (folk metal as fuck). Then everyone takes four mouthfuls from it and passes it on. It’s called “Tekniikan tasottava”, the Technical Equalizer.

What do you find is the best shameless or shameful method of self-promotion? Which is the most successful outlet for you to get Status Abnormis’s music out into the masses?

J.A. – Playing music live is the best way and probably the most successful, although shameful at times.

N – I don’t like to promote myself but sometimes you just have to. It is a shame that people don’t promote smaller bands in social media that they like so much nowadays.

A – I think we would be more widely known if we took the whole promotion thing seriously. Small bands can’t really count on anything but their own work even if it’s made easier by the million different shades of social media.

J.K – Tinder.

The production on Call of the Void is stellar! But I have a confession: I don’t know the first thing about gear… but many of the readers here do! Can you tell us about the gear that the band uses?

N – We have inexpensive mics, decent instruments, middle priced interfaces and Cubase as DAW. We record our music by ourselves and I’ll do my magic in the mix and most of the time it works.

Keep your eyes open for the new album Amor Fati (which I will surely be reviewing); but until then I absolutely urge you to check out Call of the Void, available on Bandcamp. Status Abnormis has an active presence on Google+ and Facebook. They like +1’s and stabs.

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