Forced Humility

Their formation story: (Tuomas Koykka, vocals): "About two years ago me and our bassist Heikki started talking about forming a more punk-influenced hardcore band. The Finnish scene consisted mostly by metallic hardcore bands so we felt the need for a different kind of approach. I had known Eemeli for a couple of years and knew he was passionate about all kinds of hardcore. He was the number one candidate we had in mind so I mentioned about thisproject and he just replied simply: 'I'm in'. "When it came to finding a guitarist it took a bit more thinking, since there wasn't many young people who'd fit perfectly. Me and Eetu used to hang out in same circles when we were 16 and suddenly I noticed he had moved to Helsinki and gotten into a lot of old US hardcore, so we wanted to just go for it and see how it folds out. After one hardcore fest in Helsinki we decided to go jamming couple of songs I had made, and that's how it all started." Their sound in their own words: "We draw our influences mostly from the early and mid-'80s New York and Boston hardcore scenes. Oi! and hardcore-influenced by it are also a big influence. For more specific influences, I'd mention the New Breed compilation, Sheer Terror, Oxblood, Last Rights/Slapshot, and from the newer bands, I'd mention Shipwrecked. And maybe some Clevo mosh parts here and there [laughs]. "We wanted to minimize the metallic influences in our sound and had no interest to make it sound polished and clean, as lot of bands do today. Primitive, raw, echoing, and kind of dungeon-ish, but our goal was still clear and I think we succeeded in it pretty well."