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"Promised Land Of Heavy Metal": intervista radio per il documentario sulla scena finlandese

News inserita da: Marco Manzi

3/19/2010

Il produttore e creatore di "Promised Land of Heavy Metal", documentario riguardante la scena Heavy Metal finlandese realizzato come applicazione per IPhone, è stato intervistato (in inglese) sulla radio americana WXRX.
Di seguito il comunicato ufficiale in inglese:

"Promised Land of Heavy Metal" film producer and forefather of Finnish Metal Kimmo Kuusniemi from Sarcofagus was interviewed by FM Rock Radio station WXRX, From Rockford, Illinois USA, on 17th of March 2010 (St Patrick's Day).
The interview was made by the daily rock radio show "Stone and Double T".

The subjects were the Amazing Finnish Metal scene in general, Metal Mass in the Main Finnish Lutheran Church, the "Promised Land of Heavy Metal" documentary and it's iPhone App...

You can listen to the whole interview here: http://www.promisedlandofmetal.com/WXRX/WXRXInterview.html

About "Promised Land of Heavy Metal" Documentary:

Promised Land of Heavy Metal is a HD TV feature documentary film about the history and philosophy of Heavy Metal and how it became such a big deal in a small country called Finland.

We tell the story of Finnish Metal, from its early “underground” days to the present success stories, by interviewing famous - and infamous - musicians, experts and events organizers, a psychiatrist, a priest and a doctor of theology. Can metal survive when it becomes mainstream, and Eurovision and Pop Idol competitions are won by metal? Metal has even entered the Finnish Lutheran church, that organizes metal masses.

The film includes all the big stars of Finnish Metal (HIM, Lordi, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish...) many international celebrities (Entombed SWEDEN, Dimmu Borgir NORWAY, Killswitch Engage USA, Carcass UK...) and finally Madam President of Finland, Tarja Halonen.

The film takes us - literally - from the graveyard to the Finnish President's palace!

The documentary is entirely in English. It's co-produced by Finnish TV YLE. The film is aimed to the mainstream market, and not only to the metal heads! TV distribution is being negotiated and DVD distribution has already started. It's the first indie film available as an App for iPhones from the Apple Store.

‘Promised Land of Heavy Metal’ is narrated by Kimmo Kuusniemi, a filmmaker and forefather of Finnish Metal. After forming the pioneering metal band Sarcofagus Kuusniemi left his homeland 16 years ago despairing of it’s apathy towards the music he loves. Now based in Britain Kuusniemi sees the current popularity of Finnish Heavy Metal as a surprising phenomenon, after all he was the one fighting for the cause more than 30 years ago. And now, in ‘Promised Land of Heavy Metal’, he sets out to discover what exactly happened to Metal in Finland while he was gone.

More information at:
www.promisedlandofmetal.com