Pappinen: We were not taking our full potential (into account) at that moment two years ago. Every part from one song is as tight as possible to make the whole song as tight as possible. We wanted every possible note to be the best possible version that it can be. We were critical more to ourselves, which in my opinion was very much needed after the first album. I believe that you can hear it from the songs on the first album versus the latest album.ĭead Rhetoric: Do you think during the rehearsing and composing process, you were more critical of what you wanted to achieve with the songwriting and performances this time that maybe the first time around you accepted what was available at the time to you?Įlo: Yes, I can agree with that. You can hear the difference those songs are more chaotic, and these songs are more structured. We just put them together when we were hanging out on our Maniac mansion, our band place, rehearsal space. Pappinen: On our first album there were lots of like typical thrash metal jam riffs.
When the final versions were ready at the end of the summer, then we contacted and hired the producer of the album. Some songs from Damage Is Done had maybe five different versions two years ago.
Jesse Elo: With ourselves we started composing the first tracks maybe two years ago and then we went to our rehearsal space for the whole summer, with just ourselves, and we demoed every track and took the songs down to pieces and put them together. He managed to get the potential out of the songs before we hit the studio. I believe that we had a lot of help from Mikael Neves our producer in the demo versions also. It was more planned out we took the time to make sure that the songs that we take to the studio sessions were solid true and true. Niklas Pappinen: I believe this album had a lot of thought process behind it. How do you believe the songwriting and recording sessions went for this set of material? And where do you see the major differences between this record and your debut album from 2019 Casualties of Casualty?
We reached out to vocalist Niklas Pappinen and guitarist Jesse Elo to find out more about the latest record, the 50/50 process of creating cover art between the band and artists, lots of discussion on the thrash scene and viewpoints across Finland, discussion on learning lessons touring with Evil Invaders, plus future thoughts including the head start working on album three.ĭead Rhetoric: The latest Maniac Abductor album is Damage Is Done. It’s an outstanding mix of influences from the Bay Area and Teutonic thrash mold – injecting elements of punk, NWOBHM, and death metal in certain instances to establish their own niche. Such is the case for Finnish act Maniac Abductor – delivering potent material for their second full-length Damage Is Done. Some musicians though love to stick to the principles of crunchy riffs, energetic tempos, tight transitions, fierce vocals, and gang-like ammunition to bring these songs from the studio to the stage. Always a staple of this scribe’s listening palate since the inception of the movement in the 1980’s, thrash metal has gone through its ups, downs, twists, turns, and transformations.