Sniper interview

Interview with legendary Finnish band conducted just a week ago. Thanks a million to Hungarian comrades from NS Revolution HC blogzine for letting us publish the English version of the interview.

1.GREETINGS COMRADE! WHEN ,WHY AND WHERE THE WAS BAND FORMED?

Sniper was founded in January of 1997 in Kuusankoski, a town situated in the southeast of Finland. Why? Because in that time in Finland haven’t any WP – bands, only Mistreat, and we wanted to get our message to be heard. We were and we are, very worried to where this country is going on. On that time back in ’90 s, Finnish government made ( bad ) decisions to take here more and more refugees mostly from Africa and they also founded refugee centres to many Finnish town. That was then main reason why Sniper founded. We wanted to say with band and music what we think about that kind action and also that we are against refugees and all kind multiculture. We also wanted to get more peoples to notice and thinking what is the best to this land., and best way to get our message thru was spearing our message with music. We wanted and still want to influence peoples mind that they not accept everything what politics and media feed them. There is always alternative to start thinking with own brains and to fight against multicoloured filth.

2. WHAT DOES YOUR NAME MEAN?

The band’s name was inspired by the most successful sniper during WW 2, namely Finnish Simo Häyhä. He shot over 505 enemies just in few months in Winter War against Russia 1939-1940.

3. WHAT IS THE CURRENT LINE UP? HAS IT CHANGED A LOT?

Not much,line up has changed couple times in early days, but current line up formed 1998 when I ( Tappo – drums ) and Kokko ( lead guitar ) joined the band. Jamo ( rhythm guitar ) joined our mirth company 2007 and Korkki ( vocalist & bass guitar ) founded band and he is only original member.

4. HAVE YOU PLAYED MANY CONCERTS, WITH WHICH OTHER BANDS?

Mostly we are played in Finland all of these years in local Blood & Honour events but we are also played in Denmark, Sweden and 2 times in England. We are played with bands like Mistreat, Unborn – SF, White Minority, Bully Boys, Whitelaw, Blackout, Brutal Attack, Bulldog Breed, Pluton Svea, Jungsturm, Odins Eye and so on….There is so many bands that I can’t even remember all of them.

5. COULD YOU TELL US SOME MORE ABOUT YOUR CDS? HOW MANY CDS, SPLIT AND ALBUMS, WHAT`S THEIR NAME ETC…?

First Sniper publication was 12” picture vinyl in year 1998 named Power is white, after that we are released 10 cd’s named:
The moment of truth 2002, Waiting for the good times 2002, Praise & prelude to a new world 2003, In hate of the Russian ( split with P.W.A.) 2003, Sotaa! ( first full-length Finnish language RAC – cd ) 2003, Born to war 2004, One last stand 2005, All hits…No misses! (the best of ) 2005, Hail the white race! 2006 and On the road to victory 2008.
Our songs are also released some collection cd’s like: Die Besten soldaten vol. II and Blood & Honour vol. IV.

6. HOW OFFTEN DOES THE BAND PRACTICE?

Once a week.

7. WHAT ARE YOUR SONGS ABOUT?

Respect for the Finnish war veterans and disgust in communism are two of the main themes in our songs, another themes are refugees, battle songs generally, media, reds, police, eternal friendship, race traitors, politics, white sluts and so on…Oi, we have also few lovesongs!

8. ARE YOU ACTIVELY SUPPORTING ANY POLITICAL PARTIES OR ORGANISATIONS?

We are not very active politically, but our lyrics are mostly very political. We supporting B & H organisation and also all the extreme right parties and organisations + all kind war veterans organisations are close by our hearts.

9. DO YOU AS A BAND GET MUCH TROUBLE FROM THE POLICE, REDS, MEDIA, ETC…?

No, not yet, but we are sure that one day police and politics and also media try to stop us because we speak the truth! Soon we are too big threat to them that they will make new laws where they try to stop us spearing our music and political views. Sooner or later they take a tough line on our music and lyrics. But we still carry on, what ever it takes!

10. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR SOUNDS? WHICH OTHER BANDS HAVE INSPIRED YOUR SOUND?

Early days our music was mostly some kind punk rock with heavy sounds, nowadays it is mixed music with different music styles like hardcore-heavy-punk rock - rock’n’roll,! Heh,heh ( what the hell that even means! :)!)..We play also few southern style songs but mostly our songs are honest outspoken rock’n’roll! We had got influence to our music from many bands like: Skrewdriver , Motörhead, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stahlgewitter, Landser, BFG, No Remorse, Brutal Attack, Mistreat, list is endless….Fact is that everything what we listening influence to our sound.

11. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT FINLAND NS SCENE, ABOUT BANDS, ORGANISATIONS, ETC…?

In Finland is about 500 – 1000 skinheads, we have here Blood & Honour organisation in few towns and also few club houses. Here is lots a different skinheads groups but we are not very united, sometimes we have meetings with drinking and having fun and maybe 2 to 3 times in year B & H Finland organizing some gigs. In Finland are also lots of people who are supporting us and think like us but they don't show their point of view so straight like we do. At the moment here are these WP – bands: Mistreat, Sniper, IVA, White Minority, Vapaudenristi . We have here also few NS– movement but Skinheads / National socialists are not very united.

12. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE EUROPEAN SCENE? DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HUNGARY, OUR SCENE, OUR BANDS MAYBE?

We think European scene coming bigger and bigger every day, it is already strong and getting stronger and stronger every day. People who are organizing all kind gigs and events are doing very good job! There are coming more and more new bands to our movement. More people joining us because they finally understand to where politics action leads. More blacks and all kind non – whites flowing in Europe and we are soon second class citizens. Non-whites get more and more rights and our freedom of speech is soon a history if we not fight back! About Hungary scene, we are really sorry but we don’t know much about it! We know that there is very strong scene and you arrangements “Sons of Europe”- concert in every year and some another gigs too. That is all what we know but we really want to know more of your scene! It would be very great to play in your country some day!

13. WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE?

More gigs, more cd’s and more fighting for our race and for our rights. Let’s try to keep Europe for us! We don’t want just sit and watch until Europe be in ruins and is full of non – Europeans problems and whole continent subscribe be urban decay.

14. THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEWS, ANY MESSAGES TO OUR READERS?

Thank U for questions! Racial Greeting to our Brother Nation!
Sniper contact : sniperband@suomi24.fi
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Faustrecht interview

Few weeks ago you have played in Hungary on "Sons of Europe" fest. What are your impressions of this gig and the atmosphere on this night?

It was really great to see that the European youth was united at this evening. And there where no fights. I hope this will happen again next year. This festival is an important thing for us all and should be continued anyway.

Did playing in a band make you feel younger? Will you ever reach the day when you will be too old for this :) ? What do your families think about your music commitments?

Well, at the moment we don’t feel too old for this at all. The music that we make is an important thing in our lives and will be continued as long as possible. Alright, after a weekend with a great gig we feel very bad at Monday morning and sometimes think, why we do all this. But at next Friday everything bad is forgotten and we go on.
Our families have no problem with our kind of living and our weekend activities. And this is good and very important to us!

One of your famous songs is “The love of my life” dedicated to the skinhead cult. What is the situation in Germany in the skinhead scene? Do you have a lot of young people or they follow the new wave of Hate core bands like Moshpit?


At the moment the Skinhead Scene in Germany is way down, and not many younger people join the scene. The new direction is Hate Core and to be an “Autonomic Nationalist”. All in all in the south of Germany where we live we have a good and strong Scene. But in the north of Germany, and especially in the East, the Skinhead Scene is as good as dead. Which we think is a bad thing.

Faustrecht does also songs in Spanish? Why you are doing this, are you a Multilanguage band?

We made these Spanish songs as a thank you for our friends and comrades in Spain. Every time we played there, it always was a weekend full of comradeship, hospitality and a great experience to us. On the other hand, I (Michi) like the Spanish language very much and I am trying to learn it.

What is the level of political correctness in Germany and why the re-press of “Klassenkampf” cd was seized by police?

The level of political correctness is the highest in the world in Germany, I think. Everything’s that got something to do with patriotism is criticized and not liked. Every kind of opinion which is not in common with the point of view of the state is persecuted and in most of the cases banned. So I think you can imagine what the situation here is. Not only the re-press of the “Klassenkampf”-CD was seized by the police on this day, also everything else our producer had to sell at his shop. He had a House search by the police. So the re-press was not the reason for that.




What do you think about the problems between German and Polish nationalist? Do you think about a possible end of this conflict in nearest future?
Well, the Polish people also belong to Europe. So far, so good. The problem is that most of Polish Nationalists hate Germans. The reason is Second World War, I think. At the moment I see no solution for this in the near future.

What is your opinion about Islam in Europe, and especially in Germany where you have millions of Turks?

The Islam doesn’t belong to Europe and should be kicked out of here. But I am no “Fan” of any Religion, but if I had the choice, I would prefer Christians. Not because I believe in God or something like that, because it has more in common with Europe as the Islam. Yes, we unfortunately have millions of Turks and also many other Moslems. Every big City here also has a mosque.

What do you think about the future of the skinhead scene? Will it remain, or it will fade away?

I hope and I fight for a great Comeback.

As far as I know some of you are fans of TSV 1860 Munich. Do you remember the Bulgarian footballer who played for this team few years ago?

Of course I remember Daniel Borimirow. And yes, we are fans of 1860 Munich. Fuck Bayern Munich!

What are your future plans, any upcoming gigs, albums or splits?

Next year we are planning to release a new album, we will see…

Any final comments?

Thanks for the interview and for the interest in our Band. Good Luck for the future of your Web Zine! Keep up the fight!



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Interview with Sven, Flemish drummer

From 3rd issue of "Skinhead magazine" (in english)

Give us a brief introduction of yourself, in your own words.

Hi there, and thanks for this interview, what an honour. Well... I'm Sven, most of my friends call me Svenne; I'm 27 years old. Live in Bruges, Flanders ( NO Belgium).

When did you first begin playing drums? Were you a child with a toy-drum?

I started playing drums at the age of 15 and no I didn't have a toy drum, I started "playing" on mums pots and pans.

What was the first band you played in?

My first band was a heavy metal band in the style of Iron Maiden. I think I was 17 at that moment. We did some gigs and were pretty good. But I was getting more and more involved in politics so I called it a day.

Do you play other instruments? Would you like to play other one?

I only have time for drums, other instruments are impossible to combine with work and all my bands.But the piano is my favorit instrument next to drums.

You were involved in Stormwolf; is still this band active?

Yes I was involved in Stormwolf and we made a full album with the old stuff and some new stuff. But the band died a slow dead. We couldn't find the correct people to join the band and continue playing.Maybe one day . . . Stormwolf returns. Never say never.

What are the bands you are currently working on?

I play in 4 bands these days: Kill Baby, Kill!, Les Vilains, The Pride and Headcase.

Who and what band influenced you?

For me bands as Guns 'n Roses, Iron Maiden, AC/DC influenced me the most in the early years. After a few years I tryed different things by listening to more extreme metal bands, such as Death, Cannibal Corpse, Ancient Rites, Absu, Ancient and other bands. Drummers as Mike Portnoy, Derek Roddy, George Kollias, Mikke D and Matt Sorum are people I look up to.

We interviewed Aufbruch recently whose drummer is also the singer, could you do it too? Would you like to do it?

All my respect to those who can sing and play drums at once. But I simply can't do it just because the drums in bands like KBK and Headcase are just not so simple, so I have to be focused.Would I like to sing? Nooooo, I'm not the kinda guy who wants to be singing for an audience. They would run away as gast as possible. I like to sing in the shower, and I continue doing that in there. hahaha.

Have you a favourite song which you love to play?

With KBK I like playing Give Back The Oi! cause the people just go nuts on that song, don't know why ? hahahaLes Vilains: Belgique Hooligan for the same reason as KBK, Headcase: Falling just because its so fun to playThe Pride, hard one. I like to play most of the songs but Skinhead and some new stuff are my favorites.

What was the last concert you played?

That was in December if I can remember with Les Vilains and The Pride somewhere in Flanders.Good gig, had lots of fun and the people enjoyed the gigs so that makes my day to

Was 'This is Belgium' concert a special night for you?

Yes, I think I lost one of my testicals that night cause of the cold, hahahahaha. Special? In a way it was as it was the first "big" concert of The Pride and I believe we made a good impression.

What's best or your favourite make-design of drum?Best drum?

I prefer my Tama, love to have a DW and I like my drums full of cymbals hahahaHave your drums at home?

Do your neighbours love your music?

Ooooooooooooo yes. My drum is in the attic of my house. I have to look at it at least once a day, just loooove drums. I try to play every other day.My neighbours??? I think they love music and mine too. They like to invite "friends" to come listen. To bad these "friends" are dressed in blue, hahahaha. But they can fuck off. I'm allowed to make "noise" till 22 o'clock, but I'm not inhuman so i try to play at a reasonable hour for only one hour.

I saw your myspace and read: Don't judge a book by his cover'... have you been judged by people for being skinhead?

Who hasn't hahahahaha How many hours do you spend with computer every day? Waaaaaaaaaaaaay to much, you could say I'm addicted to it.

You've recorded the KBK new album last week, any good studio anecdote?

This is a hard one to answer, I don't play on the records. I only do the live action.

When will the new Les Vilains album be ready?

The million dollar question, Suck has the lyrics ready, we just don't find the time to start rehearsing. Sorry.Maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe . . .I hope we can make one for the end of the year.

Thanks a million for your answers. Your last sentence?

"Be yourself, not who you want to be !"and for the drummers out there, "Keep the beat"

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