My top 10 symphonies

Ludwig van Beethoven
Op. 60: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major (1807)
Op. 125: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1824)

Camille Saint-Saëns
Op 78: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (1886 - Organ Symphony)

Jean Sibelius
Op. 7: Kullervo (1892 - suite of symphonic movements)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Op. 74: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (1893 - Pathétique Symphony)

Louis Vierne
Op. 14: Organ Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1899)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Op. 27: Symphony No. 2 in E minor (1908)

Charles Ives
Symphony No. 4 (1924)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Op. 65: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1943)

Henryk Górecki
Op. 36: Symphony No. 3 (1976 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

Scandinavian Black Metal top 15 - 1985-2015

Bathory: Son Of The Damned
(from The Return Of The Darkness And Evil, 1985)

Bathory: Call From The Grave
(from Under The Sign Of The Black Mark, 1987)

Thorns: Aerie Descent, Funeral Marches To The Grave
(from Trøndertun, 1992)

Darkthrone: Natassja In Eternal Sleep
(from Under A Funeral Moon, 1993)

Mayhem: De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
(from De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, 1994)

Darkthrone: Graven Tåkeheimens Saler
(from Transilvanian Hunger, 1994)

Ved Buens Ende: Those Who Caress The Pale
(from Those Who Caress The Pale, 1994)

Strid: Det Hviskes Blant Sorte Vinder
(from Strid, 1994)

Ved Buens Ende: I Sang For The Swans
(from Written In Waters, 1995)

Ulver: Nattens Madrigal VI
(from Nattens Madrigal, 1997)

Manes: Uten Liv Ligger Landet Øde
(from Under Ein Blodraud Maane, 1999)

Thorns: Existence, World Playground Deceit
(from Thorns, 2001)

Manii: Dansen Gjennom Skuggeheimen
(from Skuggeheimen, 2015)

Art questions July 2019

Q: What would you say to young artists?

A: Go further with your own ideas. People will remember artists who make use of their own peculiar DNA. If you are a visual artist, ask yourself: why do you want to be one?

Don't let the bastards grind you down. Making art is what I'm here for. Don't just rely on speeches and don't do stupid crap just because it hasn't been done before.

Q: What would you say to people who feel apprehensive about art or art galleries?

A: Show how much you care. If you do that, you will develop some kind of taste. You have to let it develop. We fall in love with different works because they made us stop and they felt interesting. Many of them are deceptively simple on the surface.

Q: What are you working on right now?

A: My 8th album - the second Vengeful Semblance album. It will be out in 2020. I'm planning a wax drawing animation and I've also started writing short stories. Right now I've got ideas for 15 stories. I still have to make 35 wax drawings this year.

Words that are being mindlessly repeated these days

personality
challenge
boring
relatable
satisfying
random
skill
art
...

Odottava - Waiting

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Realistinen - Realistic

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Taiteilija - Artist

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

First drawing with melted wax.

Palvontaa - Worship

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Läpitunkeva huuto - Piercing Scream

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2019.

Speaking is not my main job - My thoughts on artist persona and image

"The thing that enchants people isn't Clive Barker, it's a growth out of Clive Barker."
Clive Barker, Dark Dreamers (2000-2001)

Art makes you go under the surface. The greatest artists surprise, suggest, captivate, excite and invite you under the surface. It's the way they are.

If you are a writer of short stories, it means that people have to read those stories. That's what it means. You can't just meet the person and ask. That's not the experience.

Artists create these experiences for a good reason. One of the best things about art is receiving the work first. Nothing can replace that experience. Ever. You can't mess with that experience.

Artists are people who make and do things. I am here to do the work. I am not here for the speeches. Speaking is not my main job. You have to be able to form a meaningful relationship with a tangible work of art. If a painting doesn't work you can't save it with a speech.

Free digital copy of Vengeful Semblance

This Avantgarde Black Metal album is available
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/releases

Vengeful Semblance: Vengeful Semblance (2019) Avantgarde Black Metal

Melodic avantgarde Black Metal with orchestral percussion.
From Vaasa, Finland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWRg1CUQ5iQ

1. I Am Aching
2. This Force Wants to Influence Nature
3. Slave Clouds
4. Preserve My Opening Eyes
5. Notes in Ash Grey
6. Deride Not the Disease
7. Eusapia
8. And Now You Are Here

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, May 2019.

Length 33:26

Vengeful Semblance questions

How would you describe this album and the sound?

The album is mainly about mental illness, the power of the mind and thoughts. There's mystique and urgency in the atmosphere. This is what I would like to hear right now. I wanted to do something creative with orchestral percussion and this type of music.

The truth is that anyone can put orchestral percussion and distorted guitars together. It's the compositions that are important. And the difference between the songs. I had the basic idea for this album for a long time, but it was just the first step. I wrote down the difference between the songs because I wanted to explore the possibilities. I made this album because I couldn't find it.

The guitars are the main reason why I made this album under a different name. I probably won't be using organs or strings on Vengeful Semblance releases.

Why black metal?

I've been listening to black metal since I was 12 and I realised early on that it benefits from distortion. Vengeful Semblance doesn't remind me of Finnish black metal very much. The early Norwegian black metal had an effective experimental quality and my favourite bands are Thorns and Ved Buens Ende.

Vengeful Semblance is not a nostalgic project. I'm doing things I couldn't have dreamed of in the 1990s. My relationship with this genre is more complex now. Many of my favourite works are dark, strange and beautiful at the same time.

My music is instrumental, but there's more repetition in Vengeful Semblance and more simplicity in the arrangements. Like my previous works the entire album was written on keyboard and then programmed. I also recorded distorted tracks.

Is there going to be another album?

Right now I have one song for my 8th album, but it's going to be classical. My first 6 classical albums were released under the name Rinta-Perälä. For Vengeful Semblance I've only got some song titles. There will be another album.

I had the basic idea for this project for 5 years. In May 2019 the ideas finally possessed me completely and the songs wanted to come out.

- Rinta-Perälä, June 2019.