Satan, your kingdom must come down!

16 days

Since i last wrote something.. maybe there is not happening anything in my life ?

last 2 weeks we have been in studio with Weeping Pilgrim, making demo or album? 4 songs are almost ready now, 3 - 4 songs waiting to be recorded. I think they will sound nice in the end.. Not sure what we are gonna make with them, my goal is to make a proper release, but the sounds will determine where they will end up..

12th day went to see Watain, what a show, full of rotten animals and satan worshipping ( birds mainly ) but i have to be honest, watain is not my favourite black metal band, i think they lack in song-writing, comparing like Emperor, Deathspell omega or Dissection to name a few nice ones. Klubi havent smell that bad for ages.. i think they had to clean up that place from the roof to floor after the show..

I think i will start to post some videos here, i have some ideas to film our cooking moments with the guys and some random stuff.. there is some moments that deserve some filming attention! :)

Just bought a tickets to a Dungen show.. and also a newest vinyl of Dungen. Great band indeed!

The smoke rises from the west.. indeed the evil thing is lurking in my weakest times.. but that`s life, i have won the battle, almost..

Callisto ? Everything is slow like always.. we have to force ourselves, and it`s not nice, but after you get pass the awkardness it`s not that bad.. we have some good tunes coming, hopefully! Maybe going back couple of steps and leaving the 70`s where it should be, time will tell..

playlist

Killing Joke

Harvestman

Electric Wizard

Robert plant ( band of joy )

Enslaved

Today is the day!

What happened ?

I have been sick for a week now, at the moment i`m getting better, but still aching little bit...

yesterday activated my weight lifting hobby ( not in the macho way ) thinking to go running tomorrow, got to keep the temple in shape!

We have been rehearshing the songs for my other band, today we are entering the studio, here in Turku. Actually the first time i visited "auran panimo" it was way back in 1999 when i played bass on couple of songs to my friends hardcore band and maybe 4 - 5 years ago we made pre-production demo for Callistos album, i think it was for Noir.. or maybe for TNU.

Our aim is to make good sounding promo-demo and send it to labels ( yes, the old school way) but if the sounds happen to be good enough, we might consider to make it official release ( ep or album depending how many minutes it will contain )

It will be exciting time because my instruments are mainly acoustic ( acoustic 6 and 12 string, bouzuki and banjo ) i will add some soundscapes after all is recorded..

Found some good bands through friend suggestion : Killing Joke and Lucifer`s friend, nice bands..

I have been cleaning the house, washing laundry, cleaning 2 toilets, arranging things to their righful place etc.. so everything will look nice when my wife is coming from work. This is my task for next 9 months.. exciting ? ;) of course i make music all the time, working in my homechurch etc etc.. besides all the cleaning ;)

ok, take care you folks, i will go and eat something..

Summer is gone.. i like it!

Summer is gone, and so are the live shows for Callisto for now ( some single shows might come ) but now we are hopefully starting to make some new songs.

Summer breeze in Germany was nice! Solstafir played with us, great band! and of course there was some other good bands also playing with us. One weird thing happened at the merch table, when i was picking up our merch stuff after the show, there was the singer of Watain also and he heard that i spoke Finnish to our mixing guy and suddenly said "saatana on jumala" ( satan is good ) and i almost responded to him but he disappered quite quickly.. :)

on saturday we played in Helsinki ( 28th day ) it was quite ok show, but we had some technical problems a lot and the sounds sucked on the stage, blaah blaah, i wasnt feeling comfortable at the stage, but what i heard it was quite ok show after all.. Now i am getting sick ( maybe because the weather is changing? )

My other band Weeping Pilgrim is starting to record a demo ( or album ? ) if the recording happen to sound good enough, interesting times indeed! i havent recorded any acoustic instruments before ( except some random mandolin and acoustic things to Callisto albums ) A step away from the electric world, now everything is naked..

playlist

Leonard Cohen

Joni Mitchell

Opeth

Sufjan Stevens

Wovenhand

Brutal Assault

I wish that something like that would happen in my life too..

What has happened ?

I was spending amazing week with good friends and with my wife in Nötö, an island in the middle of the sea, relaxing time. Second week started also with some cottage life in my wifes mother cottage, then on thursday we flew with Callisto to Brutal Assault festival in Czech rep. Maybe the best festival ever ? my words cannot describe the feeling of happiness what i experienced there.. nice bands, nice people etc etc..

Today came back from Europe, i am super tired ( not that much of sleep and miles of walking and listening bands all the time ) but nice tiredness :)

ok, too tired to write anything more..

good night

Seclusion..

Revive life in uncharted woods, as we inhale
Creation wept and understood the unearthly way..

I dont know, maybe this one week in the seclusion makes good for my mind and soul.. i will be completely isolated for 7 days..

i feel better now with my inner struggles and visions.. but i need more from this life..

i had decent week, had one gig with Callisto and did "one" gig with the KK praisemusic group in mikaelinseurakunta

http://www.turunsrk.fi/portal/fi/seurakunnat/mikaelinseurakunta/mikaelinkirkko/

plus i had some interesting meetings with some people who could change some history.. time will tell.. wilhem tell..

i dont know, let see.. i dont have so special to say now..

take care!

on seventh day..

And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.. and on seventh day mr polso entered his blog again.. i have rested enough...

I feel like i am not seeing and doing everything that i should "my vision is blurred" like in Extol song.. i feel like this world is not giving me all the things that my soul is yearning( of course this world is not giving me anything what my truly inner is wanting). Dont get me wrong, i like basic daily routines, but besides that i need more, something more to this dying core!!!! yes, i feel frustrated, bored and i feel useless, what is my purpose here ? i dont know.. days go by, again again i do things that i shoudnt do.. not so bad things but some little things that irritates me and takes my attraction from the highest..

yes i know what i should do, but i am too lazy and maybe i am waiting for some big miracle angel coming next to me and saying "this is what you should do markus" wouldnt that be nice? :) yes it would. i dont know.. maybe someday something happens, maybe i should fast little bit ?

ok, but thats life.. i am not hiding my feelings now..

whats happening this week ? a lot of music playing, Callisto is having a show in Turku, and KK music group is also having a gig in Mikaels church.. come and see.

take care folks, i try to, dont worry, i am ok :)

playlist

Sabbath Assembly

Jex Thoth

Sigur Ros

Down

Sahg

Earthless

Sysmä!!!

Crazy weekend ( 16, 17 and 18th day )

On friday went to Sysmä to celebrate my cousins birthdays, it was nice time, small village in the middle of Finland, nice surroundings, they live by the "päijänne" went to see some "nighttime" of Sysmä, oh boy, it was wild, everyone dancing like maniacs and drunk as hell! :) Small town fun.. honest fun? i think there is like 3000 people living there... stayed up till 3 am and slept in a really hot hot room.. i hate this summer!

on saturday went to Helsinki to meet some relatives and friends, and again went to sleep about 3am or something, so lack of sleep the whole weekend :) on sunday it was jail time, we held a ceremony in local prison in Turku, it was nice time, we have been there earlier before..

ok, this writing seems so boring even to my eyes so i will quit now and come back when i have some real things to say..

playlist

Lilium

Anekdoten

Wovenhand

Sink

Grand Magus

Ataturk band