Read it here: http://uk.sonispherefestival.net/2009/07/report-the-sonisphere-booze-cruise/

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Rainer interviewed at Finnish-Metal.net

Suit you sir!

Check it out ladies and gents http://www.onlinedrummer.com/article.php?id=65

Check it out lads and lasses at http://metalchaos.co.uk/DIABLO%20INTERVIEW.htm

 Welcome to the real world!

Okay, it was the first own headline gig after the tour. I must admit that I had no expectations until we heard a "rumour" that the evening was sold out. At that point even our stone-faced drummer Heikki "Hezul" Malmberg said that "man, now I'm a little nervous" and got a big smile on his face.

When we arrived in Turku Markus Vanhala was already there waiting for us. Markus was supposed to replace Marko Utriainen cos' the maestro himself was hung again. Well, this was really no problem at all cos' Markus had already rehearsed all the livesongs that we planned on playing. The soundcheck was longer than usually because all microphones had been changed since the recent tour and we had to re-arrange all gains etc. I also wanted to try one special sample for the song Queen Of Entity. We played maybe two or three songs during the soundcheck and then all balances were ok. After that it was time to let Hateform do their soundcheck. Those guys supported us on that evening.

The last time we played in Turku was something like two and a half years ago. So I kept wondering whether or not the local audience would still remember us. That was an insignificant worry, really. Audience bellow was really loud when we hit the stage and I could just sense that everyone was there to enjoy and nothing less. So we just released the parking brake and let go. Playing in Turku after such a long time was really something, thank you all!



After the show I met a guy who was collecting signatures to album covers. There is nothing really new in that, but that guy had for example a promotional copy of "Chagrin" single. That piece of plastic must be pretty rare beause I didn't have a clue that it has been released in the first place, hah hah!

We were nominated at Finland's Emma gala too (Finnish Grammy equivalent). My quess at the beginning was that we're not sweet enough to get that reward and I was right. BTW: why am I always right when it comes to forecasting a loss, eh? Anyway, our congratulations go to C.O.B. You guys we're cuter than us, hah hah! We also salute all Diablo fans in Finland who have bought "Icaros" from the stores. Without you we wouldn't be nomitated at all.

Rainer "Slow And Evil" Nygård

Todays aphorism: First step to becoming a successful martyr is to outsource all responsibilities.

Check out these great photos by Graham Hilling @ The Concrete Shell

http://www.the-concrete-shell.com/d_gall.html

Asif Salam of SoundShock.net conducted an an interview with guitarist/vocalist Rainer Nygård of Finnish metallers DIABLO when they played the Forum in London, England on February 19, 2009.

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Check out these live videos from Norwich UEA 15.2.09

Icaros:



Mimic47

It's over!! (according to George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher)

Hi everyone! European tour is over and it's time to put some things together after a week of recovery. I am not going to reveal everything that happened on that tour, but some main points and feelings. At first, I must say that the tour was very memorable and in many ways didactic too. At least for me it was.

I'm not into tourism myself, so this tour gave me a chance to see many different countries, cultures and meet so many nice people that I would’ve never discovered just by myself.

With Children Of Bodom and Cannibal Corpse we were able to reach so many new fans that I never could’ve even dreamt of. Most of the places were fully packed, so we really had a cool position to be the opening act and show our skills. During the tour we met lots of people who said they didn't know us beforehand but that they had checked us via Myspace or Youtube and liked what they saw or heard. So in this case internet-broadcasting shows its strength again.

In the beginning of the tour I had problems with my voice because I was still a little ill when we arrived in Berlin. That goddamn flu literally tried to eat my voice and after a few shows I had to take some serious medicine to handle a gig properly.

When the first day off came, I finally got a chance to keep my mouth shut for a day and a half. I just read a book and rested. That really helped a lot. After that I started to make some warm ups for my voice before every soundcheck and because of that I managed the rest of the tour pretty well. Each band member suffered some sort of flu and cough, but luckily nothing very dramatic after all. Unfortunately though, we had to cancel one show in Austria because Heikki had a bad fever of nearly 40 degrees.

Of course there were also few minor technical broblems with microphone cables and so on, but we could handle those during the soundchecks. First real and mean backfire came finally in Helsinki where my guitar amp started to produce nasty and shitty sounds in the middle of the gig. Well, in a thirty minute set you don't have the luxury to catch the problem because the show must go on, you know. Monitors just up to ten and rock on 'till the bitter end! Later on we found out that the problem was in the output of the amplifier and now it is fixed.

At the beginning of the tour we also changed our setlist for almost every evening because we didn't have a clue about which songs would work nicely for audiences who had never heard us before. After a couple of shows we had that part in order. Later on we changed our set only a couple of times. Like in Sweden for instance, where we wanted to play an Abba cover, "Dancing Queen", and for the second night in Switzerland's Z7, where a couple of fans wanted us to play something they requested. Because we are a band only aiming to entertain people, we were certainly pleased to execute their wishes, hah hah!

It was a stunning thing to notice that music is really a universal thing. We got truly great responses in London, Paris, Milan etc. And like in London, the moshpit started to roll already at the beginning of the first song. That was an amazing thing to watch! And special greetings for Italian fans: you people are absolutely insane, hah hah!

I was born and raised in a little town in the west coast of Finland and when I was just a kid I couldn't even dream that one day I would play metal outside our hometown. Well, things have changed a bit since...

So now we will slap that "high five" to fans in every single country where we played on this tour! Thank you and keep that metal faith alive! Also we wanted to express our gratitude to C.O.B, Cannibal Corpse and their crews. All of those people treated us very well and fair. Big hand goes also to Sakara Records, Livenation Finland and to our own crew: Meelis Niin, Jukka "Lightmasta Zei" Henttonen, Aleksi Ripatti and Roger Keene.

Next thing in the near future is to do some gigs here in Finland and after that we try to spend some free time from the rock'n'roll business. Then maybe we have enough time to pick up our guitars just for fun and write some new riffs also, who knows?
Best,
Rainer "slow and evil" Nygård

Read it here in two parts:

http://www.metal-discovery.com/Interviews/diablo_rainernygard_interview_2009_pt1.htm
http://www.metal-discovery.com/Interviews/diablo_rainernygard_interview_2009_pt2.htm

Gig review also available at

http://www.metal-discovery.com/Live/Live3/childrenofbodom_nottingham_feb2009.htm