Semifinal, KY Klubi and Vernissa + Studio

Hello.

After Hämeenlinna -gig we've played three shows. First was Semifinal (Helsinki) whit our Estonian friends House Of Games. HOG was preparing for touring with WASP and we were invited to warm the audience. In my opinion that gig went straight to TOP 5 gigs I've played with Grendel. We had such a fun and I also remembered to use the saying "vielä on kesää jäljellä" ;D I also blowed my nose on the stage HAHAHAHAAAAAROCK'NROLL!!!

Next we played at KY Kubi (Helsinki) at Halloween party. And that was also huge success. Sadly, we had to play Paranoid just to get some "jallu" after gig.

And last we played another Halloween -party gig at Vernissa (Vantaa). This was private party and all I can say is that we DID'T drink "jallu" there.

Now we are forced to have a little break what comes to playing gigs. That's because we are about to record our second album and drums parts will be recorded next week. This takes place at Sonic Pump Studios (as usual) and our beloved friend Nino Laurenne will handle the engineering and mixing duties (as usual). We are very excited to hear how our new stuff really works at studio enviroment. You'll here new GRENDEL music next year but before that remember to check our new video "Quicksand" at YouTube or download it from our Homepage


From here to downstairs:
Mika "pissamika" Kivi / GRENDEL




PS. I'll post some pictures here right after our Jussi posts them to me. Hurry Jussi hurry!!!

Hannibal Metal Marathon

Last weekend we visited Hämeenlinna to play at Hannibal Metal Marathon. Our journey started, as usual, from our rehearsal place where we gathered all our shit together and packed them into our van. Then our mad driver (and bass player) Kari took us to Kontula where we bought some Jallu and food.


Mikko couldn´t eat his second pizza so he taped it into safe place.

We arrived Hämeenlinna and carried our stuff into Hannibal. After quick soundcheck we headed towards Jarkko´s place. Jarkko was our host and he kindly gave us some food and place to hang out before the gig.


Our gig went fine although the stage was quite small but you know us. We don´t really care about these sort of things. After the gig we carried our stuff back to van and Kari and I were ready to go home but our mighty knights in the night wanted to take a look Hämeenlinna´s night life so we waited, waited and waited. After few moments we headed home.

This trip was cool excpet one thing: Mikko gave us so bad smelling farts that it almost ruined our happy mood... HAHAHAHA!!!!



"Vielä on kesää jäljellä".



Mika Kivi / Grendel

KYLLÄ!!! Selviytyjät Fest...

We´re back and still little bit drunk MUAHHAHHAHHAH!!! "Selviytyjät Private Metal Fest" was such a blast and I can say that our gig went straight to TOP-3 gigs I´ve ever played with Grendel. We got many new friends and ate many Camping and Wilhelmi -sausages (except I didn´t put my fingers on those "Wilhelmi-sinihomejuusto-whattheshit"-sausages). Only minus was that somebody bought this tube of "Turun mieto sinappi". In my opinion only real mustard is "Turun vahva sinappi", that´s the red one...

Our weekend started on saturday at 10.00 o´clock in the morning. We decided to play our set once through and then pack ourselves in this old ambulance. We stopped few times and everything went just fine. Except we idiots forgot to visit ALKO but happily we had tons of booze with us. So, we arrived "Selviytyjät Metal Fest" and started to wait our turn (read = drinking booze and eating sausages with that horrible mustard).

We went on stage about 21.30 and played like 45 minutes and it was such a fun. Huge surprise was that "Selviytyjät"-CREW gave us bottle of "Jallu" to drink. The thing was that we nobody was allowed to leave the stage before the bottle was empty. Well, this wasn´t so hard mission for Grendel to accomplish.

After our set we started serious drinking and we met some great people. Our ambulance was very popular place to drink and greet.


Kari, Kimmo (our driver) and I slept at ambulance. Allthough my dreams were quite short thanks our bass-emperor who banged the doors several times in the night ;D Rest of the crew slept inside the house. Jarkko woke up from the stage in front of the drums.

Sunday morning. Everyone´s feeling like shit. When we woke up we decided to grap some breakfast from Juustoportti and then pack our things and leave. Everything went smooth until we noticed our car battery was empty, both of them. We kept ambulance´s lights on all night, I mean how can you drink without them? To our luck some nice fellow helped us to get our ambulance start so we could drive safely back home. We gave our album and T-shirt for him.

That´s that. Thank you Selviytyjät Crew and everybody we met. Thank you and sorry ;D



Weekend´s word:
KYLLÄ!!! - Jussi "Juza" Kraft & Mika "Kiven Miksu" Kivi



From here to here:
Mika "Kiven Miksu" Kivi / Grundell