BiografieFinnugor was formed in 2001 (September). My good friend Tomi Kalliola (in Finnugor band formerly he was using the name “Nikolai Stalhammar”, currently he´s using the name "Godslayer N. Vassago") was telling me about his plans. He already had a lot of bands in those times... (he´s the leader of Azaghal, Hin Onde, Wyrd, Vultyr, Oath of Cirion, Decay´s Delight, Valar, With Hate I Burn, etc....) ...but he was planning to create one more (!) new black metal band. Most of his bands were true black metal bands or viking metal bands and he wanted to create a symphonic black metal project with gothic influences. In those times I spent most of my time for my industrial band (Infra Black)... I told him, I would be really glad if I could be a member of his new black metal band, because I really liked black metal and I wanted to be involved in something different than electro-industrial music. For first he asked me to be the singer of the band. (at the very beginning) Later I started to write lyrics too... and also started to compose gothic songs and intros for the songs. I became the cover designer of the CDs too... and I found out the band name and the album titles too.... At the very beginning I was invited almost as a "guest singer". But later I became the leader of Finnugor band. I´m organizing almost everything alone around the productions (the CDs, videos, etc...).
1 - A short story behind our first album (Black Flames):
John Caldwell is the most famous fantasy writer here in Hungary. He´s a friend of mine, and he´s also a big black metal fan. When we finished our first Finnugor album with Tomi, I sent it to him as a present, because I knew he liked black metal very much. He liked the album so much; he started to write a dark fantasy book, based on our Finnugor album. The story of the book was based on the lyrics of the "Behind the Mirror" song. The whole book was written in the same mood, it´s very dark, and the story of the book is exactly about our song lyrics. Every chapter begins with quotations from the Finnugor song. The book was released about 2 months later, after we sent the Finnugor CD to him. This book is one of his darkest and most special books what he has ever written. The book became a popular, best-seller fantasy book in Hungary at the very beginning, it was really successful. I think they´ve already sold all the copies... what were about 20000 copies. (that´s a BIG number here in Hungary for a book!) I also could get a copy very hardly, because most of the copies were sold out already, some weeks after the release date of the book. The book made us (me and Tomi) some kind of legendary black metal group... (in the army of the John Caldwell fans...not world-wide of course) Unfortunately in Hungary there aren´t a lot of black metal fans, but the people who like it, I think they´ve already heard about this album for sure. In the next year, (2002) Adipocere Records signed the band and they released the first album in September.
2 - Later in 2003, when we started to work on the second album (Death Before Dawn) I started to write different stories (song lyrics). This second album was not about only one conception. The album was telling about a lot of scary horror stories (or sometimes about MY OWN visions).
This time there wasn´t a main topic for the whole album. All the songs were different stories, like short horror/fantasy novels. The main topics of the lyrics were:
- vampires and sick, unworldly lust (Princess of Eternity)
- a shaman travelling to Hell... through the fire (Death Before Dawn)
- Armageddon, the last day on Earth... the Judgement Day (Solar Eclipse)
- energy vampires from an unknown dimension...from the deep space (Astral Fornication)
- the Lord of the Worms... who comes back from the dead. He gives his wisdom from the grave (decay) to the people... (Cosmic Nest of Decay)
- necromancers who are stealing bodies from a cemetery to re-animate them (From Hell I Still Remember)
- a demon from the darkest Hell, called "Korg Polaris". This one was based upon a book, written by "Leo Mills"... a good Hungarian fantasy writer.
- memories and thoughts of an insane, serial killer king, who slaughtered twelve young women (Ghosts Around the Bonethrone)
- I didn´t mention the two instrumental songs here. (everyone can decide what are they all about. Or everyone can dream or imagine his own story for the songs....)
About at the middle of the work I invited Attila Csihar for guest featuring on the album (for the song called "Cosmic Nest of Decay"). Some months later, Attila came home to Hungary and we recorded a video for the Cosmic Nest of Decay song. When the video was ready, I sent it to the biggest music TV channel in Hungary (VIVA+). They liked its eerie atmosphere and Attila´s scary performance very much. They have been playing our video for about one and a half year almost every week! (in their metal show, called "Megawatt") It´s a very popular black metal video here. And also infamous. haha! Because it´s so disgusting and aggressive. Maybe the most disgusting Hungarian metal video ever. Who knows? Maybe this is why it´s so popular! So, the first thing what made us well-known in my country was the book, called "Black Flames" (written based on our song lyrics). And our second attack (for terrorising the people) was the Finnugor video (with Attila Csihar) for the second album. Nowadays, I think most of the Hungarian black metal fans heard about Finnugor band. And many people fear this name. (who saw our video on the TV) Later when we were working on the album, I invited Domina Mystico for female vocals (I mean “narrator speakings”...) for the album. I think her angelic voice made the album very interesting and individual.
3 - Concerning the newest album (Darkness Needs Us)
I wanted to come up with something new...something interesting. So I invited my friends, who I respect the most, from all over the world, to be featuring on this album.
- Attila Csihar (Tormentor, Aborym, ex-Mayhem, SunnO))), ex-Emperor, ex-Limbonic Art, Keep of Kalessin, Korog, Plasma Pool)
- Ville Sorvali (from Finland - Moonsorrow band)
- AOD (from Belgium - Dagorlad band)
- Peter Meynckens (from Belgium - Axamenta band)
- Sture Dingsoyr (from Norway - Windir and Ulcus bands)
- Marcus Ehlin (from Sweden - Siebenbürgen band)
- Christopher B. Wildman (from Spain - Asgaroth band)
- RMS Hreidmarr (from France - Anorexia Nervosa band)
- Morfeus (from Norway - ex-Limbonic Art and Dimension F3H bands)

The reason why I have invited these guest artists for featuring on this album:

quotation 1 (by Gabriel Wolf):
In my opinion they are the best bands of this whole grub-eaten universe!
Darkness commanded me to invite them. Because Darkness Needs us!

quotation 2 (by an advertisement of the album):
Some people thought, the Hungarian black metal scene is dead. But it was re-animated by Gabriel Wolf, the representative of the “burried hypnotic philosophy”. He invited great names of this music genre to prove its reason for the existence. From the deepest pits of bloody dreams of fever, something screamed for help. Something wanted to reborn. Gabriel said: "Darkness Needs Us to keep him alive. So, we re-animated IT."


(by Gabriel Wolf)
©2004




Quelle: http://members.lycos.co.uk/ywolf/DiscografieBlack Flames 2002

Death Before Dawn 2003

Darkness Needs Us 2004


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