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Dead Of Night is heavy metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland. Members of the band are: Mikko Haverinen (guitar/vocals), Marko Haverinen (guitar), Miika Kokkola (bass) and Petri Laitinen (drums).
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Internet is probably the best way for new band to inform people all over the world about your band.
But in other hand internet cuts the incomes of record labels and that`s why they don`t offer a contracts for new bands as easily as before.
But in other hand internet cuts the incomes of record labels and that`s why they don`t offer a contracts for new bands as easily as before.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
If that label is willing to invest enough to our band, then yes.
Band History:
Dead Of Night is heavy metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland. Band is formed back in 1998.
Current line-up is: Mikko Haverinen, Marko Haverinen, Miika Kokkkola and Petri Laitinen.
Mikko and Petri started to play together with one other guy somewhere at early-mid 90's.
They played mostly some songs of their favourite bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden.
Allthought they also write some own songs too. At that time playing was really just a hobby
without any big plans about musical carriers or something like that. They were just having a
great time by playing music that they liked most.
Well, that fun ended at beginning of year '97, when Finnish army so desperately needed them.
But when that all army-shit was over, somwhere mid '98, an idea for a band came back again.
Mikko's brother Marko was thrilled about that idea and so those three started to looking for a
place to rehearse.
At that time we really realized how misearable city Lappeenranta was. It was basicly impossible
to find that place. When we asked from our town, they just re-directed us from a one shitheaded
cityofficer to another nad no one seemed to help us out in any ways. Luckily we finally finded
that place on the winter 98-99, however, none of the thanks don't go to our hometown..
Again we started by playing songs from Metallica and Iron Maiden just to see how well/worst
things would started to roll. Things went just great and so we started to write our own material.
Music style was metal with quite a lot influences from our favourite bands like Metallica.
We had our first bass player in '99 but that doesn't worked out and so after a couple of months we were without a bass player.
Back then all of three of us writed songs and in summer 2000 we made a demo-CD including
four songs within two days in a local Digibone studios.
We had a new bass player in autumn '00 and in winter '00-01 we played our first gig. We did
couple of more gigs in our hometown and reception was also quite good but still we decidedto add little bit more aggression to our music. Well, that aggression taked more and more place in our music and after a couple of "intermediate" songs we started to wrote our material from a totally different basis.
Quite quickly we abandoned all our old songs. Guitar riffs get much more
darker, vocals changed to be less melodic, drums get faster and second bass drum came to
to the picture.
Because of the totally new music style and a lack of time in '01, Pasi decided to leave the band and once again we were without the low frequences.
Allmost a year and a half we just wrote, rehearsed and recorded our songs and tried to find a new bass player. Finally in beginning of '03 Ville Pelkonen joined to our band and again we fully functional as a band.
In summer '03 we played our first gig with tthat line-up in our hometown's Pallorock festival.
During the winter '03-04 we decided to bought a somewhat decent recording equipments to
record our first full-lenght album.
With those equipments we recorded and mixed eight songs. Three of them was our first
CD, released at end of '04, titled as "Dead Of Night" Couple of months later we released a CD wich included six songs.
At the beginning of '05 we invested little bit more to our recording equipments and started
to plan a recording the next album. However, it didn't proceeded very fast, because of quite
of lot of gigs and 'cause everybody had their own things to do like work and school.
Also was quite difficult to find a time to record in our rehearse place, because there are
three other bands in the same training place, so times have to share equally.
End of '05 Ville decided to leave the band and we were again in the situation that has became
so familiar during these years.. But luckily former bass player and founding member of
Battlelore, Miika Kokkola joined to Dead Of Night at spring '06
Current line-up is: Mikko Haverinen, Marko Haverinen, Miika Kokkkola and Petri Laitinen.
Mikko and Petri started to play together with one other guy somewhere at early-mid 90's.
They played mostly some songs of their favourite bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden.
Allthought they also write some own songs too. At that time playing was really just a hobby
without any big plans about musical carriers or something like that. They were just having a
great time by playing music that they liked most.
Well, that fun ended at beginning of year '97, when Finnish army so desperately needed them.
But when that all army-shit was over, somwhere mid '98, an idea for a band came back again.
Mikko's brother Marko was thrilled about that idea and so those three started to looking for a
place to rehearse.
At that time we really realized how misearable city Lappeenranta was. It was basicly impossible
to find that place. When we asked from our town, they just re-directed us from a one shitheaded
cityofficer to another nad no one seemed to help us out in any ways. Luckily we finally finded
that place on the winter 98-99, however, none of the thanks don't go to our hometown..
Again we started by playing songs from Metallica and Iron Maiden just to see how well/worst
things would started to roll. Things went just great and so we started to write our own material.
Music style was metal with quite a lot influences from our favourite bands like Metallica.
We had our first bass player in '99 but that doesn't worked out and so after a couple of months we were without a bass player.
Back then all of three of us writed songs and in summer 2000 we made a demo-CD including
four songs within two days in a local Digibone studios.
We had a new bass player in autumn '00 and in winter '00-01 we played our first gig. We did
couple of more gigs in our hometown and reception was also quite good but still we decidedto add little bit more aggression to our music. Well, that aggression taked more and more place in our music and after a couple of "intermediate" songs we started to wrote our material from a totally different basis.
Quite quickly we abandoned all our old songs. Guitar riffs get much more
darker, vocals changed to be less melodic, drums get faster and second bass drum came to
to the picture.
Because of the totally new music style and a lack of time in '01, Pasi decided to leave the band and once again we were without the low frequences.
Allmost a year and a half we just wrote, rehearsed and recorded our songs and tried to find a new bass player. Finally in beginning of '03 Ville Pelkonen joined to our band and again we fully functional as a band.
In summer '03 we played our first gig with tthat line-up in our hometown's Pallorock festival.
During the winter '03-04 we decided to bought a somewhat decent recording equipments to
record our first full-lenght album.
With those equipments we recorded and mixed eight songs. Three of them was our first
CD, released at end of '04, titled as "Dead Of Night" Couple of months later we released a CD wich included six songs.
At the beginning of '05 we invested little bit more to our recording equipments and started
to plan a recording the next album. However, it didn't proceeded very fast, because of quite
of lot of gigs and 'cause everybody had their own things to do like work and school.
Also was quite difficult to find a time to record in our rehearse place, because there are
three other bands in the same training place, so times have to share equally.
End of '05 Ville decided to leave the band and we were again in the situation that has became
so familiar during these years.. But luckily former bass player and founding member of
Battlelore, Miika Kokkola joined to Dead Of Night at spring '06
Your influences?
We are influenced by all kind of heavy/death metal. Someone said once that we remind little bit like Children Of Bodom.