This took a LONG time to complete as we invented and tried all kinds of special effects. Now all these things look so simple! Anybody who complains about the technology today should be sent back to early 80s too see how complicated things used to be! Any Video Camera cost an absolutely ridiculous amount of money, weighted tons and batteries lasted 10 minutes. We needed hell of a lot of light equipment. Nowadays a £200 Digital Video camera has 10x better image quality than the 80’s £200 000 camera kit!

Kirka (vocals) was very excited about the video shoot! He had grown his hair for the Studio shoot and was wearing all black leather and had adopted a heavy metal attitude! That’s how things should be done! Muska (vocals) was slightly reserved with all the hassle but we got everything done, no problems. Jukka Ritari (vocals) was a natural performer so he was right at home in front of the camera. The rest of the band of course had done the Heavy Performance a few times already :)

The actual “band on stage” footage was originally taped in two days. Unfortunately on the second day the 1” Video Tape recorder had a malfunction and erased the whole tape on rewind. I don’t know how that’s possible but that’s what seemed to have happened after the day’s work! We had to re-schedule which was complicated as Kirka was very busy. Unfortunately Juha (bass) was not able to come for the re-shoot and we ended up having my good friend Jari Lintukankare to “play act” the bass. Jari has been there all along from the very beginning of my music career adventures, to the present day, helping with all kinds of things. His latest “job” was at the first Metal Expo in Helsinki where Jari was dressed up as a monk carrying a plaque advertising Sarcofagus: “The end is near. 2nd Coming Imminent.” A true friend there.

We did all sorts of stuff; blood, chroma key (seven finger guitar playing :), dancers and The Flame Throwing Guitar. The Flame Throwing Guitar appeared on the “Cemetery For The Living” video. Of course I had to burn crosses in it.