Art questions February 2021

Q: Do you like revisiting your old work?

A: Yes. I'm going to live with these ideas and that's exactly how it should be. Most of the time I wouldn't change anything. Usually there's some kind of positive surprise waiting. These are my children. I can tell them apart and I'm going to see them again.

If you don't enjoy the doing, you are useless.

Q: Where do you think your independence comes from?

A: The atmosphere down here doesn't really support creativity. You always have to fight for it. I don't trust other people that much. A lot of them are confused by creativity.

My skills were passed down genetically, but my father lost interest and never encouraged me. It's easy to encourage speeches about skills instead of actual creativity.

Shadows Over Sereningia - wax drawing animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lZal3KeSTI

Artwork, music and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Vengeful Semblance - White Trilogy Q&A - part 3 / 3

Q: What are your thoughts on fascism and black metal?

A: I oppose fascist idiocy. These are some of the dumbest people in metal. These idiots say they're the greatest, but I've never cared about them.

Q: How does Vengeful Semblance differ from your Rinta-Perälä albums?

A: The main difference is the distorted guitars and the use of percussion. A fully orchestral version without guitars would be slightly less percussive.

The main approach is not that different. I always want you to feel every note. Jean Sibelius said the same thing. This is not just background music you can forget immediately.

Q: You classify Vengeful Semblance as avant-garde black metal / classical. Could you use any other labels?

A: I don't care. I had these ideas in this medium. That's enough. Maybe you could call it heavy duty kettle metal.

Celtic Frost is one of my favourite bands. How do you classify them? Is it black, death, doom, thrash or heavy? I don't care. The vision and the spirit of innovation are always bigger and stronger than these specific labels. Music in the future will be harder to categorise and there's nothing wrong with that.

You can't just take different styles and glue them together. That's not musical discovery. It's not about the categories, it's about the ideas.

Shadows Over Sereningia - out January 27, 2021

Shadows Over Sereningia is my first wax drawing animation.

Vengeful Semblance - White Trilogy Q&A - part 2 / 3

Q: How and why did you make 8 albums in 2 years? Albums 7-14.

A: These ideas wanted to come out at this point and I had no time to complain. I had no reason to complain. I've also been creating 50 drawings every year since 2014. 2020 was the last year with that goal.

In 2019 I started studying and doing a lot of physical work. Occasionally I was tired because of that, but I never get tired when I'm putting together my own creations. Your inner world is very important.

My first film was finished and released in early 2019. The idea of using orchestral percussion and distorted guitars was something
I already had in 2014. The name "Vengeful Semblance" came from my old notes.

After finishing the first Vengeful Semblance album in June 2019,
I started working on a piece called Auroredie. It ended up on my 10th album, Insomnious Field, made in early 2020. Vengeful Semblance kept haunting and wouldn't let me go.

The first Trilogy was made in 6 months. The albums were recorded in May, August and October. The second Trilogy took 3 months.
A month is a long time if you do things in bursts. I do everything by myself and I don't have to wait for anything.

If I feel a strong pull towards the ideas, I'm not going to resist. Going through my old demos and notes has helped, but I have to change them every time.

In 1971 more than 20 films came out with Ennio Morricone's score. These are full soundtrack albums I still listen to. And it doesn't feel like overkill. That's insane. Even 10 would be insane. He wasn't going to miss those opportunities. Bad artists miss creative opportunities.

Thorns - Thorns, 20th Anniversary

I have always loved the 1992 demo Trøndertun, but this self-titled debut was not one of my favourite albums when it came out. I was an erratic teenager.

The album became that a few years later when I was listening to more avant-garde classical. People still have some ridiculously stubborn ideas about black metal.

Snorre Ruch changed the sound of metal and the electric guitar. His ingenuity lives on. So... where the hell is the second album?

Vengeful Semblance - White Trilogy Q&A - part 1 / 3

Black Trilogy Questions

Q: Do any of your albums feature different versions of your previously released tracks?

A: No. There's only one version of each track in my discography (14 albums, 13 released).

Q: Are you a guitarist?

A: No. I'm a keyboardist and a composer. I can only play sliding chords on the guitar. Most of the music on Vengeful Semblance albums was programmed. The original guitar tracks were clean.

Q: How does the "White Trilogy" differ from the "Black Trilogy": Vengeful Semblance (2019), Instruments of Unveiling, Muses with Tin Tongues (2020)?

A: If there's something I didn't do on the previous albums, it becomes the next motivating thing. The track "Tempest Chant" has orchestral percussion with pipe organ. I also wanted to create even more unusual percussive sounds.

I'm not that interested in doing crazy orchestrations, but I started introducing more instruments. I love the powerful sound of pipe organ and I use it as an instrument, not just as an effect.

Vengeful Semblance Trilogies

Nearly 4 hours of audacious avant-garde black classical.

Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä.

Free digital copies:
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/

BLACK TRILOGY stream:
Vengeful Semblance (2019)
Instruments of Unveiling (2020)
Muses with Tin Tongues (2020)

WHITE TRILOGY stream:
Nyctophony (2021)
Writhing Horizon (2021)
Seita (2021)

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/