All photos by Cerulean Midnight.
It’s been a couple of years since we last interviewed King Aleister Satan, and a lot has happened in the King Satan camp since then! With the recent release of their third album Occult Spiritual Anarchy (our review of which can be read here), it was long overdue for us to have a catch up and talk about not only the new album, but spiritual anarchy as a whole, controversy (as ever!), symbolism, the story behind the band name and much much more. Get yourself comfy – it’s a long one!
The last time we caught up was just after the release of your second album, at the very start of 2020. You’ve now released your third album Occult Spiritual Anarchy, how has the response been for it so far?
Haa! We are quite overwhelmed with the incredible response that Occult Spiritual Anarchy is having at the moment! To get chart positions in Germany’s Deutsche Alternative Charts for the first time, and reach viral playlist and chart positions in Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal etc. has been really wild. Even the album reviews look pretty awesome! But of course, the controversy is still there, outside from our core fans and listeners, and so it should be! Especially with this trilogy of albums we have made so far considering the themes, I would be disappointed if it wouldn’t be there actually, I mean without it, it would mean that what we do is not completely working. Spiritual Anarchy and Clowning is serious business, but it’s still clowning – which in our case is of course kind of hateful, blasphemous and sarcastic irony towards certain instances which you can figure out by the reactions who and which they are.
However, for me, the most important and the most meaningful response has been the one that has came from our fans, followers and devoted Satanites (especially those who have followed us from the very beginning), and that they have been very receptive and praising towards our new, more metal oriented sound. You know, they are really the main reason and major driving force why this eccentric and underground industrial metal freak show is getting to any kind of places when the rest of the world seems to have no clue what kind of band we are and what we are even doing. (And of course we have a fantastic crew, labels and booking agents too who are big part of this, as well!) So of course them being supportive towards our new sound means the world for me. It kind of proves that our style is more than the music itself. It’s between the lines and behind the form too!
What prompted the idea to rerecord your track Spiritual Anarchy from your first album, and to name the entire album after it?
Occult Spiritual Anarchy is the end of a trilogy, theme-wise speaking, and as the name suggests the fundamental undertone and the theme in all of these albums is this this so called “Spiritual Anarchy”. To have that song to be a part of this album kind of encloses the circle we started already years ago during our debut album around 2017 and even before that. The song itself has been also solid part of many of our live set lists over the years, and during this time it has evolved a lot into a much stronger version compared to what it used to be. Especially with this new line-up and all (especially human drum parts), we thought it would be nice to have this current arrangement of the song to be re-recorded in the studio too.
So what exactly is Spiritual Anarchy?
I’m so glad you asked! Even though it has been our fundamental theme ever since the beginning of King Satan, it is not really something I get asked about so often in interviews (I understand we raise many questions!). So this might be a bit of a loaded question, especially that it might mean lot of things to different people, let alone what it would mean to me.
“Spiritual Anarchy” is a term and a title I chose to describe the fundamental undertone of the lyrical themes of the first King Satan album King Fucking Satan and it was even the original title of the debut. The way I wanted to represent “Spiritual Anarchy”, it is supposed to represent this kind of a spiritual and psychological method and attitude for sincere truth seekers which aims to help to establish the individual self and “cleanse the doors of perception” as English poet William Blake suggests in his famous quote. Something I had been going through personally during those times with very strong emphasis. And I did realize I wasn’t through with the theme at all after the first album, so it became a fundamental undertone of the 2nd and the 3rd album as well.
So what is “Spiritual Anarchy”, then? Most of us know what anarchy means in societal and political context, and the term anarchy originates from the Ancient Greek’s “Anarkhia” meaning “without ruler or chief” – nowadays referring to a to society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing elements. However, like the name suggests, “Spiritual Anarchy” is NOT a political thing, but psychological, philosophical and of course spiritual thing instead. It shares the similar logic of course than original anarchy, but only when it is adjusted into the one’s mind instead of societal context.
“Spiritual Anarchy” is about breaking the proverbial chains which enslaves your mind. It’s not about the absence of order and meaning. Instead, it is development of your own sense of meaning and order after breaking these chains of all pre-established answers, rules, conventions and behaviour codes when it comes to the existential struggles, moral structures and ways to think, feel or to live in general.
It is a method, process and attitude which aims to help a person to really become oneself and establish genuine connection with one’s own emotions, (spiritual) experience, and intelligence. In a way it is quite a similar attitude to the original Oriental “Left hand path” method (known as “Vamachara”) regarding the different methods of trying to reach enlightenment, but executed by the post-modern western mind with some more added and adjusted aspects included. In both “Spiritual Anarchy” and “Vamachara”, one must throw the societal or pre-established collective norms and values outside from one’s own mind before really being able to witness the surrounding reality as it is. And only then person is free to choose one’s own values and personal truths – a very Nietzschean thing too, I of course admit that Friedrich Nietzsche has influenced me a lot, which probably doesn’t come as a surprise. And most often this process involves real actions too, not just thinking or brainstorming, hence blasphemy, clowning, non-conformity and rebellious and carnivalesque attitude are closely related to it.
Without cleaning the mind from the outside influences, these outside influences, authorities or entities make the thinking on behalf of the people without them even knowing about it (never trust a God!). So “Spiritual Anarchy” destroys figuratively or challenges everything on the way during the one’s journey dedicated for the search of enlightenment and the truth, or if there are even such things in life as holiness, meaning, deeper purpose etc. to be found at all. Spiritual Anarchy questions everything, ridicules everything, challenges everything and also it destroys everything that should be destroyed, as like Mihail Bulgakov put it mystically, metaphorically and eloquently in his fantastic novel The Master And Margarita: “Manuscripts don’t burn!”, referring to the idea that the true meaning can’t be destroyed, or won’t be destroyed – but the person must be purified in order to witness the meaning. So, whatever true meaning there is to be found, its aspects remain unaffected with this process and even if they would be lost for a moment, they will be coming back to you quite fast afterwards if staying true to oneself, or to the one’s “True Will” as Aleister Crowley would’ve put it.
So, the way I see Spiritual Anarchy, I see it as the ultimate method of individualization (not alien to Left Hand Path philosophy), as most of the people tend to live in very dreamlike herd mentality, conditionalized only to react according to some kind of collective hive mind of the surrounding culture instead of your own thinking and judgement. It is a process of awakening! It’s like Anton LaVey, the founder of Church of Satan wisely once commented: “I think the man creates God in accordance with his own needs, and if he doesn’t, someone else will create it for him“. A Spiritual Anarchist will kill these Gods in order to find out who or what is the real “God”. Or if there’s such thing at all!
In a way, every Satanist, regardless of their ideological school (Theistic, Atheistic, Agnostic…), is also a Spiritual Anarchist, but every Spiritual Anarchist is not a Satanist. It exists outside of that too, and the elements and influences together with my own life experience which led me to work with these ideas under this term are heavily influenced by the thoughts and writings of C.G. Jung, Aleister Crowley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Fjodor Dostovjeski, Anton LaVey, Mihail Bulgakov, Sun Tzu, Diogenes the Cynic, Carlos Castaneda, Plato, Michael Bertiaux, Colin Wilson, G.I. Gurdjieff, Baruch Spinoza, Peter J. Carroll and Chaos Magick, Jiddu Krishnamurti and of course Pratyeka Buddhism, Aghora philosophies and of course Left Hand Path philosophy together with ancient mythologies and folklores in general. Yeah, namedropping lists are ugly, but if anyone really is interested of this theme, one can exceed their interest for this by reading the works of aforementioned authors and movements, as I frequently get asked reading recommendations, so here goes!
I just never witnessed these elements together with the same context before and when removed some unnecessary things from there, I wanted to find some kind of unifying terminology under which I could represent these aspects together and tie them together with my own personal existential angst, so – Spiritual Anarchy. And of course, write rock’n’roll lyrics and musical pieces from them! Like I said, the first three King Satan albums deals with this “Spiritual Anarchy” theme as its fundamental undertone and carrying theme, which I feel is strongly related to the archetype of the Devil as well, when you look through the history, how it is represented in myths, folklores and literature, and also even in modern Occultism and Psychology as well as sometimes even in contemporary entertainment! But that is whole another topic to talk I think, heh.
However, I want to emphasis also that the albums do have of course more lyrical and thematic meanings than of “just” Spiritual Anarchy, which is why I always say its a thematic undertone, not the whole truth, as there are also texts very loosely related to this theme, like just personal angst born from it. I wrote these lyrics to work also as an independent work, as I did with the albums too, but they can be also understood together if someone want to embrace the whole concept and all levels of it. I try to write the lyrics to have always several levels, that could also work for the people who don’t even care about these themes consciously.
Huh, I think I got little bit carried away here, but like I said, this was kind of a loaded question, as most of the interviews always wants to know the views about Satan and Satanism really.
Keeping on the subject of Spiritual Anarchy, what inspired you to use the term, then?
My relationship with the term actually dates years back, even before the times with King Satan. I had some lyrical concepts developed already in 2014 for my older band Saturnian Mist which I had named Spiritual Anarchy and which was supposed to be the follow up for Saturnian Mist’s Chaos Magick album, but it instead came into the use of King Satan, after I founded it in 2015.
I wanted to find some kind of a term or a roof concept to describe these lyrical themes that I’d started dealing with King Satan’s lyrical and thematic side already in 2015-2016 when I was writing the lyrics for the first album. And then I realized that I already had a proper term and title for it and it was Spiritual Anarchy. Whilst I first intended to be for Saturnian Mist, it kind of grew outside from there and I started using it for King Satan instead, as it was the closest one that I felt could combine most of these ideas and tie them together with my own personal ranting very well. And the term wouldn’t exclude my resentment towards ready chewed ideologies and -isms in general, and it also had very nice ring in it.
I felt also the term “Spiritual Anarchy” as being in strong kinship with the term “Chaos Magick”, as “Chaos” and “Anarchy” are easily associated together. And of course Chaos Magick, as being kind of meta-theory of Occultism, has been very influential movement for my thinking and therefore for the lyrics with King Satan, and then of course for the whole “Spiritual Anarchy” theme in King Satan context. In a way, my older band Saturnian Mist had dealt with these themes partially, in more primitive and intuitive form, before King Satan, if anyone reading this interview is interested. (Chaos is the Law!)
And actually our followers and especially our die hard fans have asked quite frequently about if “Spiritual Anarchy” is an existing ideology. I just wanted to find an aesthetically fitting title and term for my desired lyrical concepts, so for me, it was initially really an artistic and lyrical concept with earlier mentioned reasons, but like all my artistic and lyrical concepts are tied to more or less philosophy, psychology and occultism really, this is not an exception either. And they kind of start to live their own life really afterwards, and it became much more than just an artistic concept for me during the process. The method seemed to work and attitude seemed to be rewarding, and therefore it became very important part of my world view actually.
I found out only years later that there were some authors and other musical artists also dealing with the concept of Spiritual Anarchy too elsewhere with little bit different angles (yet some of them with same spirit, like Indian mystic Rajneesh a.k.a. Osho in the 1970’s and he tied it together with Buddhism.). I didn’t ever really think its an unique term, but based on my findings back in 2014-2015 (which was not too thorough apparently) I thought it was not so common so I thought I could use it without causing too much wrong interpretations. However, it still caused such things of course! No way around it in art and entertainment I guess, C’est la vie.
But, during those years 2014-2015 when I was teaming up with the term, I didn’t find anything that definitive that would’ve made me not to embrace it. I remember most of the things I found out then were some Christian anarchists or Judaistic anarchists who just combined politics to their religions which was exactly the opposite what I wanted from the term anyway and which were far away enough. Other things that I mostly found out back then were some kind of Abrahamic religious scholars using the term as a warning for “what Satan wants for the people” and it was just word play for them given the context. I thought it was very appropriate, as the term Satanist was also used as an insult way way before LaVey coined the term. I remember thinking that, “Yeah, I’m a Spiritual Anarchist then!” and that it indeed is something the archetype of the Devil “teaches” to the people as the Devil being “A god who invites you to become one”. And of course through the act of rebellion and non-conformity towards the status quo of whatever prevailing ideology or spirituality would be in reign. Very suitable for the lyrical themes of the band project named King Satan then!
And I have actually found that lots of essays and even philosophical books have been published about the “Spiritual Anarchy” theme after 2018, and that there are indeed musical artists and poets also dealing with the topic more and more these days compared to the past. I think this so called Zeitgeist is real though, and similar things are being developed and processed without apparent relation to each other in different places almost at the same time while drawing from same cultural surroundings, and I am sure that real authors will develop this theme much further and much more intelligently than I, the lyricist-artist-musician ever could. It is promising sign though to see the themes of Chaos, Chaos Magick and Spiritual Anarchy are nowadays becoming more and more part of collective consciousness through art, music, movies etc… as these things usually gets chewed into the real world first through art and entertainment. The same thing is happening again with the archetype of the Devil actually, in the context of spiritually elevating and mentally uplifting thing, instead of some Hollywood scarecrow shit. (1970’s was the first wave yes?) But, I think the artists and entertainers are the channels for all these things! Even without knowing. Always! New Aeon approaching.
I am glad this is not a magazine interview, as like said, this topic is very loaded, and no way to fit all this in regular magazine interview! But, even I am lyricist first and foremost, I try to channel my interests towards to the lyrics and my interests includes seemingly unhealthy amount of these themes.
Moving onto the album itself, with Occult Spiritual Anarchy taking a more ‘metal’ approach, I’ve found it sounds a little closer to how King Satan sounds in a live environment. Was it a conscious decision to shift to a sound closer to your live sound, or was it a natural progression?
It was both a conscious decision and a part of natural progression. Already in 2017 we added live percussions and drums on our stage shows together with excessive beats, to make live shows more powerful, instead relying to beats and backing tracks alone there. So, we kind of started gradually adding more “real band” elements to our stage shows after that over the years, even the albums were much more electro-industrial/EBM oriented with some exceptions.
When our drummer Pete Hellraiser joined the band in 2019, it became kind of a game changer towards this new sound, as he started playing the most of the beats and all the drums with his hybrid set combining electronic drums and acoustic drums during live shows. And after the shows followed from 2019-2020, right before the Covid-19 pandemic erupted, it became very clear that we wanted our 3rd album to sound just like how we sound on the stage and live environment. To reach this goal, we hired our live sound engineer Antti Välimäki to be not only the sound engineer of the album, but also to co-produce with me.
How did you go about approaching the songwriting this time around? Was it a similar case to your previous release, with it being more of a collective effort?
The initial recipe was the same as always I guess. I compose a bunch of songs, make demos from them and when I start to see a complete concept there, we then start to work on them together further as a band. But this time I already worked actually already in the demo phase much closer with the rest of the band. I worked especially closely with keyboardist Hekate Boss in the demo phase, and also with Pete, and we bombarded each other with different drum arrangements which influenced also to the structures of the songs before the studio too. EF-13 made also few compositions and partial demos which one of them ended up on the album after we combined our riffs and melodies together and it became the This is Where the Magick Happens song. And still in the studio we changed things at the last minute if we collectively agreed upon it! So, yes, this was most band oriented album so far with King Satan.
Which track is your favourite on the album?
This is a tough question always, as I always tend to perceive the albums as a whole. The Faces of the Devil was the first complete composition I made for this new album, and it kind of became a guideline for all of the songs born after that. It also proved that we can indeed translate our older style into a more band-oriented sound in the studio too with real drums instead of drum machines, and still have it danceable and eligible for serious headbanging. And, it still sounded like King Satan, which was the most important thing for me anyway. So maybe it this one, as it probably always will symbolize some kind of a guardian of the threshold-type of song for me because of all this.
Once again I have to return to the subject of music videos – which is your favourite of the three you’ve released from Occult Spiritual Anarchy?
It is even more difficult (if not impossible) to pick up a favourite music video than favourite song. They are all my dear brainchilds as a director, writer and producer, and I had fantastic time working with all of them together with fantastic set of talented people, both in production and post-production. But this time, it is rare actually, as for sentimental reasons I think I could say The Pagan Satan. The music video includes a really personal and ritualistic contribution from all of the band members, including me, as I didn’t want acting this time at all, but something which would be really living the “combining the art and the occultism” statement into reality. We made a making-of/behind the scenes commentary, which can be seen here for all those who are interested!
The Pagan Satan is (as far as I’m aware, at least?) your first video to receive a proper alternative cut in addition to an uncensored version. You’re no strangers to having your music videos banned and censored on YouTube, so what made you want to make an alternate version of this particular video?
Well, since the original version of the music video couldn’t be shown in all countries and not even to all ages (despite it clearly not being X-rated in our opinions) we just wanted to avoid all this nonsense with the alternative version as long as it doesn’t compromise the message. The original one is still online too, if we meet the demands, heh. And you are right, we have had similar issues in the past, but this time for the reasons I am speaking about in in the behind the scenes commentary I mentioned in earlier answer, the video is very special to all of us within the band, so we wanted it to be available for everyone interested.
But yeah, we are not really alien to controversy with our music videos. The lion’s share of our videos have ended up having debates with the platforms about whether they are X-rated / K18 or not, and whether they should be removed, banned or something like that. And some of them did get X-rated and banned after debates. With videos like Fuck Yoga and Psychosadomasochism I of course get that, no arguing there really, but The Killing Of God, Dance with the Devil, Satanized (Praise Hail Satan!) and the original version of The Pagan Satan…I mean, c’mon!
The uncensored version can be viewed here…for now.
Moving onto some broader questions, where did you come up with the band name of King Satan?
There were so many reasons actually behind my motif to choose the name King Satan for this project – personal and interpersonal. It has been asked before of course, but due to lack of space in interviews I only get to tell one side of it usually, yet I promised you an “all-in” and “spill-the-beans” interview, so here we go!
I have been obsessed about the archetype of the Devil for so long and I do hold the archetype of the Devil as the highest ruling and guiding aspect of my life and the world view, so it is the most fundamental reason behind it I guess. Hence, I wanted to dedicate my then-newly founded project for this and I wanted to name it with a name which somehow would symbolize all this. So this influencing me in the background, I remember thinking that I wanted some kind of simple, powerful yet ambiguous name at the same time, basically something that goes well together with the word “Satan”, as Satan is the best known version of the Devil’s archetype in the Western world due to the centuries of cultural influence by Abrahamic religions. In my past I had been accused for being “Devil” actually quite many times when speaking the truth about some things and not sharing some collective lies, or just simply by doing things I thought was right, and not what the other people expected me to, so there was also a very personal link to this as well.
As a teenager I listened frequently albums of Azaghal and Turmion Kätilöt and in both of their lyrics there was a line Kuningas Saatana which means King Satan in the Finnish language, and it always stuck with me in a good way. It was all vulgar, trashy and elegant at the same time which I loved. I thought that I needed a name like that, but me and my friends were convinced at the time that its such an obvious name that it must’ve been taken already – so we didn’t even bothered to check it out at first. So I just kept thinking other options, even also as a big fan of King Crimson and King Diamond I also really wanted to name my band King Satan inspired by them as well, but like said, at the moment I thought it had to be already in the use for many bands, so obvious it seemed for me. (How wrong was I?)
Remember what I said about synchronizations earlier this interview and their significance in my decision making when it comes to the artistic process and choices? During that time when I was supposed to come up with the name since I already had demo songs ready, I went to a grocery store to buy some Sushi supplies (also a big fan of Sushi) and I saw soy sauce brand named “Soy King” there which I bought only because of its name. And it was kind of the last straw for me that “it has to be King Satan then for fucks sake!”. I actually remember shouting this out loud on the supermarket aisle and not only inside of my head, I was so thrilled about it hahah! So if you were in that particular Pirkkala supermarket in 2015, it was me who was ranting in the front of that oriental food section about Satan. I took it as a very powerful synchronization and then with the help of couple of my friends we searched the internet down if there even are bands named King Satan existing contrary our prejudices. And for our surprises we did not find anything! In that moment, it was settled, and King Satan was born.
So how much of the name consists of irony, and how much of it consists of seriousness?
Especially in the beginning, many of the people seemed to notice only other side of that, rarely both, even I have dropped notes and hints about it basically everywhere around our works. But, like I said already in the previous question, the archetype of the Devil has a very important role in my world view and in my life altogether. The way that it is indeed my prior guiding and ruling aspect, my “Master” and my “King”. So, the name King Satan is of course very serious, but it is also an ironic at the same time actually. They don’t contradict each other, and can even empower each other! I have always been of course very much aware of the name’s baggage and that how loaded it is, and the irony part here is kind of metaironical or self-ironical towards that.
The name King Satan is intended to be a sign of ultimate personal devotion to this concept, yet it is also an ironic statement towards the other people’s expectations and also about the absurdism of what we do in the big picture, because we of course never can live up to the name which is this loaded and includes numerous and numerous different meanings to the different people, and which develops on the way while exploring it even with my own mind, no matter what we do or how deep we would go with the exploration of this concept that is the archetype of the Devil, so. King Satan. And if you want more irony, it is indeed the same kind of irony which takes places in the myths, when the mythological Devil challenges God, and even the Devil knows he can’t win God, he still does it, and he triumphs this way, as he ridicules the whole system where the battle even happens, or better yet, ridicules the battle itself.
This said I think some sort of metairony or self-irony has very strong history with industrial music culture, starting from the whole term “industrial music” itself, which was itself an ironic but also a serious statement in a culture critic and commentary sense. You probably know its origins related to Industrial Records label title in 1970’s, and which became a term to describe the bands related to it while ridiculing the industry-type of thinking regarding the music business and still being seriously part of it. So in this sense the name King Satan is also both ironic and serious statement at the same time. The person behind Industrial Records and Throbbing Gristle band, Genesis P-Orridge (RIP) was actually very interesting and influential person, who was not only the “Godfather of Industrial” but also a prominent and pioneering figure in modern occultism who together with Alejandro Jodorowsky must be the one of the best examples how to combine occultism and art together, and I of course must admit I have been influenced by them a lot as well.
This said, I have always been fascinated about those myths, tales and folklores where the Devil has been posing as a joker or a jester in order to ridicule the conformity in order to expose hypocrisy, charlatans, stillborn moralism or useless conventions. And I wanted to deal with this side with this band project at first, so I thought that the very overkill name would be more than proper for this. Like I said earlier, I was going to name the whole debut album as Spiritual Anarchy, but I wanted it to have something to do with the band’s name too due to it being the debut album. So I wanted to do something even more obscene, something that would provoke even those who claim to like obscene things, but really have just made the old concept of what was regarded obscene, just a new form of conformity. King Fucking Satan it was then.
But anyway, since I was going to concentrate to the aspects which are not so often presented in the context of the symbolism related to the archetype of the Devil, like these jester-like, chaos magick, absurdism and blasphemy-oriented sides influenced with original left-hand-path philosophy, black comedy and carnivalesque aesthetics (so. Spiritual Anarchy) – I thought the name King Satan could have it all and would also reflect about person’s inner world when hearing the name for the first time. I will end the answer to one of the most inspirational quote from one of the most influential book for me behind choosing this road, with King Satan and Spiritual Anarchy.
“There are people who feel very deeply, but are somehow downtrodden. The jester-like approaching in them is some kind of hateful irony against the ones to who they cannot or dare not to say the truth directly to their faces.”
– The Brothers Karamazov (Fjodor Dostovjeski)
And what about the band’s symbol, how did that design come about and what is the symbolism behind it?
I designed the King Satan symbol back in 2015. I wanted something simple, elegant and effective, like our own pentagram, but which also would include the symbolism related to King Satan there. I did combine the alchemical symbol of Mercury and downward triangle there together. The symbolism related to this alchemical symbol of Mercury, the planet and its alleged influence was said to be “The messenger of Gods”, so the channel of higher truths, and which was strongly associated with ancient Greek God Hermes, and Roman Mercury, Egyptian Thoth and later Hermes Trismegistos which all were kind of messenger of the higher consciousness and deeper truths in these old myths, related to wisdom and enlightenment basically.
For me the archetype of the Devil has always symbolized similar role. Like the Serpent in the Garden of the Eden, or Prometheus, Azazel, Lucifer, Samael… all wanted to teach people higher or deeper truths in the old myths. And rebel against the tyranny of God (who I have always thought to be actually against humans). And inverted triangle, downward triangle has been symbol of the Devil, black magick and left hand path in many different context thorough the history.
So I combined these two together! And also it looks a bit like the iconic modern Devil with horns (from that Mercury symbol) and everything, and inverted cross also there which altogether felt more than fit to symbolize King Satan!
Like most bands, you’ve been plagued with bad luck about live shows and tours, with several getting cancelled and postponed. But do you have any upcoming shows in the works?
Well, as you might be aware of it already, our European tour for Spring 2022 supporting industrial legends Die Krupps got cancelled right before it should’ve happened because of Covid-19 security planning issues still taking place in some of the regions we were supposed to play. If only it would’ve happened a few months later. This was supposed to be part of our Occult Spiritual Anarchy album release tour, but it is what it is. We are very glad though that our Finnish leg of the album release tour dates are still happening which ends with the one and only Tuska Open Air Festival 2022 in Summer. We still need to wait a little longer for other European and UK dates, but when this happens, we promise we will make up all the lost time for sure! Something’s already brewing, so stay tuned.
Will you be doing anything different with regards to your Tuska performance, in comparison to the smaller club shows?
I don’t think we have even any kind of one recipe for smaller club shows either! I think I saw Tuska even said in their official statement that with our show one can expect anything, heh. But do not worry, we will bring there a show worthy of Tuska Open Air for sure, so mark your calendars for 2nd July 2022 and see you in Suvilahti, Helsinki!
And finally, what’s in the works for the rest of 2022 (or possibly 2023)?
We just joined the European booking roster of International Booking Department (which is also the home of Die Krupps, Laibach, KMFDM, Priest amongst others) and we are now in the planning process to make King Satan touring in mainland Europe again as soon as possible, and the IBD is working on that for now. However, since everything is already a re-schedule of a reschedule from 2020’s chain reaction of shit, it is most likely that these things will happen from our side in 2023, and not this year. So, we concentrate now on our Occult Spiritual Anarchy album release shows and other live shows in Finland in the meantime.
But of course we have always something in the works. No rest for the wicked they say. Hope to see you on UK soil soon, and thanks for the interview!
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