Mad About Rock

  Finnish Folk Metal legends KORPIKLAANI and filmmaker KIMMO KUUSNIEMI made an extended and hectic tour of Russia, travelling from St. Petersburg to Siberia and back. On a follow-up tour – this time to Japan with Finnish metal legend, Waltari – they had more time to contemplate Japanese lifestyle and history. Filmmaker Kimmo Kuusniemi travelled with the band. His unseen documentaries are now released online. Here three generations of Finnish Metal; Kimmo, one of the first Finnish metalheads, and Korpiklaani, a furious act of modern folk metal met with another Finnish legend, Kärtsy Hatakka and his band Waltari. The trip proved to be a series of intensive gigs and a journey into the open minds of Japanese metal fans, while on the side Korpiklaani’s shaman violinist Tuomas Rounakari and Kimmo wanted to make acquaintances with the ancient history of the land of the rising  sun. TUOMAS ROUNAKARI: “The Finns and Japanese have a strange connection. We both appreciate silence more th...

  Video Interview: Filmmaker KIMMO KUUSNIEMI Talks Background Of His Two Rock Documentaries With KORPIKLAANI, Relationship, Challenges And Difficulties Doing Business In Music Industry! Finnish filmmaker KIMMO KUUSNIEMI and Folk Metal legends KORPIKLAANI made an extended and hectic tour of Russia, traveling from St. Petersburg to Siberia and back. On a follow up tour – this time to Japan with Finnish metal legend, Waltari – they had more time to contemplate Japanese lifestyle and history. Filmmaker Kimmo Kuusniemi traveled with the band. His unseen documentaries are now released online. Just recently Scars And Guitars' Andrew McKaysmith conducted a long and interesting zoom -interview with Kimmo Kuusniemi, talking about Kimmo's relationship with Korpiklaani, The challenges he faced when taking footage on the road, Editing hundreds of hours of footage into sub-40 minute packages, Almost losing many hours of footage on a train, Kimmo’s history as a film maker and documentarian, ...