Metal interview blog Bardo Methadoneology interviewed Impaled Nazarene vocalist Mika Luttinen this year.
Mika discussed his past feud with his brother Kimmo, who wanted to sell out and play goth rock after Ugra-Karma, and the craziness of meeting Rok from Sadistik Exekution. Among the best anecdotes is from the mid 90s:
“Mika shares an evidently painful recollection of checking out IMMORTAL’s Battles in the North, which came out a few months after Suomi Finland Perkele.”
– And you know, they played this super extreme black metal while we were doing our…
He hums merrily while rocking back and forth, before snarling:
– … fucking melodic pop shit. I was listening to the IMMORTAL album and thinking, ’What the fuck are we doing? This is so wrong.’”