Mikko, I'm sure you've already heard some older Apocalyptica albums, what is your opinion about Apocalyptica without drums?
Mikko: I like it a lot. I'm the one that always tries to push this guys to play without me on shows. Even on this album I tried to insist that they should play one furious song without drums, because I think that the main idea and the sound that the guys have created it's so unique.
Perttu: I agree.
Mikko: It should be like that.
Perttu: We had this idea when we did the Angel of Death cover, to, whatever compilation it was.
About Worlds Collide, who had the idea to make the cover design for the album? I mean, purple colour, green leafs...
Mikko: It was a combination of people, and we really spent ages thinking about the cover design, which maybe wasn't wise but it took a lot time and there were tons of ideas from different other people and also this idea to have this metal colour, cool combination and a sort of unexpected thing as well, I like it a lot.
Actually I saw some hand written lyrics in the booklet, who wrote those?
Perttu: Eicca wrote them.
Wow, that's great! we didn't know that! And who had the ideas for the stage decorations?
Perttu: Mikki Kunttu.
All of them? We knew he worked on lights
Mikko: Yes, he is the guy who design the whole Eurovison song contest in Finland. He did the whole thing and we basically got to know him better on that occasion, and then we started to think to work with him, when he has time, if he could design the stage for us because he is the guy that doesn't do just rock stages, but also lots of theatre stages and opera stuff, and that kind of theatrical elements. And he designed our stage.
And now we have maybe the most coolest and the best lights, and there was also Pekka Martti who also contributed on this, he is one of the best lighting operators, he had a really huge influence on the stage design. He is also touring with us, he is like the sixth musician basically.
Perttu: He is modifying lights all the time.
We actually know Mikki, and he is a very nice person.
Perttu: Oh yes right, you know him (pointing at us).
Yes, he was really generous when we asked him to publish some of his pictures on our website.
Mikko: Yes, it's like his new hobby, he is always buying like this super expensive cameras and makes pictures of everything! (*showing how Mikki takes pictures, and also making the sounds*)
(laughs)
Mikko: Yes, he also made pictures of my drums for the promo stuff.
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