Learning from his mistakes Kimmo set up to recruit the best and most talented line up possible for his next album - Motorbirds (Moottorilinnut).

Due to record company politics the Sarofagus name was dropped. The band was called Kimmo Kuusniemi Band although the name originally was supposed to be KGB (Kimmo Guusniemi Band).

As Sarcofagus has always been Kimmo’s band he has always felt that this band should also have been called Sarcofagus.

Motorbirds was the first Finnish Heavy Metal album sung in Finnish.

The album was produced and engineered by Kimmo. He also produced and directed a full album length live/story video. This video was the first of its kind in Heavy Metal genre and well before MTV, Video rental or sales and even before home VCRs!
The album received extensive positive media coverage and the video was shown in several TV programmes.

The album turned out being exactly what Kimmo set up to do, except for the worst metal album cover ever. There was an alternative cover plan made but due to personal connection with the cover's artist Kimmo didn’t have the heart to use it.

The record was made in Finnish with a plan to make an English version soon as there was international demand for the album (in Germany, Netherlands & Italy).

This never happened as Kimmo swapped his guitar for a film camera. Part of the reason for this career change was problems in the album distribution by the record company.