Music|According to Joel Hoka and Niko Moilanen, the band plans to write new music during the break.
“Let’s stay for a break, so that you don’t have to stop”, says the second soloist of the band Blind Channel Joel Hokka for HS.
The decision to take a break was made by the band members already in June. The rock stars told about it publicly now, when the scheduled gigs are still a few months away.
Blind Channel’s last gig for now is in Oulu at the end of December.
Soloists Hokka and Niko Moilanen describe their moods as relieved. The fans have also accepted the news with understanding, they say.
“It was easier to pull on the summer festival stages when you knew there was going to be a break soon,” says Moilanen.
For the band, a break means a break from gigging and publicity. The band members cannot yet say how long it will last.
band have recorded two studio albums in recent years while touring the world.
Last spring in the United States, Hokka says he was “quite upset”. 62 gigs in a row felt like a sporting performance.
“He justified it to himself by saying that it was a teenage dream. You had to push yourself to the limit to realize that you are just a person and the band is just work,” says Hokka.
Hokka says that he went on a tour close to burnout. There were also sleep problems and mild symptoms of an eating disorder, he recalls.
Moilanen was also startled when he saw the first version of the documentary about the band’s tour life. Mightily Darkside-documentary follows the band’s journey towards world conquest.
“I got a bit of a post-traumatic feeling. Only then did I realize how tired I had been,” Moilanen describes.
According to the soloists, the group was encouraged to take a break by the German representatives of the record company. They introduced the idea of a break during a team leisure cabin trip.
“We wouldn’t have realized it ourselves,” says Hokka.
According to Hoka and Moilanen, the band plans to write new music during the break. The goals are as modest as making a “monumental album as hell”, and growing into one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
The rockers seek authenticity in their music, for example, from the band’s source in Oulu.
“We go and think there, what is Blind Channel’s DNA”, sums up Hokka.
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