Yeah, I believe this will end as soon as the vaccines are ready. Yes, some gigs have been cancelled or postponed, but my normal personal life is pretty much as it was before this pandemic. Personally, it has not affected in my life that much. How have you been coping with the situation? Do you see any ending to this cycle of madness, which became part of mankind’s legacy? Well, it appears that this pandemic’s status is vastly an enigma rather with a positive solution, or not, in hand. I have been doing just fine, thank you for asking. Hello Ville, it is great to have you for this interview for Metal Temple online Magazine, how have you been doing sir? I am glad we got this time to talk melodic death. …And Death Said Live colors in the spaces left by so many underwhelming melodic death records of the last…well….let us say a long time. Though the band’s actual lyrical content leaves something poetic to be desired, it is a record which makes sense and, compared to the last few years in melodic death, is nearing achievement. Regardless of intent or not, …And Death Said Live takes on a welcoming structure. The instrumental middle “…And Death Said Live” appears to not just be a mid album jam, but rather the apex of an unnamed story with the later half of the album resolving conflicts from the first. Each track dovetails into the next and the whole narrative appears to take on a subtle conceptual arc. The album is almost symmetrical with an instrumental title track dividing two parts in half. It is never at odds with any other part of the record and has a very functional relationship within itself. By the closing track “Dead Winds of Hope” listeners can ease their fears of being bored or restless through the album. The instrumental dialogue between newcomers Andy Gillion and Andhe Chandler is exquisite and does everything it should but, most of the time, more. Longtime fans of Mor Principum Est will notice a gradually more refined sound, which trades in a slight degree of ferocity for streamlined complexity. In 2011, they took on two new guitarists, filling the absence of long time collaborators Jarkko Kokko and Jori Haukio. Mors Principium Est has relatively stayed the same throughout their career until recently.
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Due to this quality, it is enjoyable when an album does everything it is suppose to do and nothing it is not.
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It is a style which is representative of both sides of metal enjoyment and is the ambassador of the accessible to the extreme. Melodic death, as well as thrash, represent an easy stepping point from clean heavy metal into the underbelly of more extreme metal. Fast but steady percussion, clean and structured guitar leads, and vocal qualities that are gruff but never unrecognizable. Melodic death is very recognizable in its qualities. That is right, this is goody two shoes “always has their homework in on time” melodic death metal. Regardless of any marketing strategies that only involve Japanese melodic death fans, Mors Principum Est has made themselves into the most eager to learn student in the classroom with their hand always up to answer the question. The band’s fourth record …And Death Said Live was released late last year presumably only in Japan. Despite my struggle with the name, Mors Principium Est have steadily been working their way up the melodic death ladder with releases gaining larger critical and commercial success. When read really fast, the name is just “More Principal Estimated.” I guess I have a financial adviser’s relationship with words.
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Mors Principium Est is a Finnish melodic death band with a name I have to look at three times before spelling out. We have not sat down and talked in a while, so I am here. I seem to always be caught up over at the black metal bar or looking for old heavy metal from the 70’s or getting beat up by old school death metal in an alley. Though your style offers many positive qualities, like catchy guitar solos and songs rife with energy, I tend to always miss the high points in your release history.