This is where you can ask us anything and we reserve the right to answer you anything, depending on the question and it's level of intrusiveness, interest, intellect and stupidity. Jukka will probably be answering most questions, unless you specifically point someone else... and even then it might be him, pretending to be someone else.
New questions will appear at the top and old ones will sink to the bottom, as is just. Submit your questions to abhorrencefin@gmail.com.
Date: 17.8.2025
Why the AI generated video?!
The video for "Old Age, Sickness and Death Metal" in done with Blender tools, which is a open-source 3D computer graphics software tool set and hand-crafted by the awesome Jarkko Mikkonen a.k.a. backmasking_tape on Instagram. Rest of the images are actual photos of gig posters, album covers, tapes from Jukka's collection and one open source 3D model which is cleared for use.
The point of the video is to celebrate albums we held dear back then and the artists who made all that inspiring music. The first death metal release is widely considered to be Possessed's Seven Churches, which came out in 1985 (so 40 years ago!), about 3 years before we started the business of forming Abhorrence. The room in the video is very similar to the ones we had (between the ages of 14-17 or so), and represents that time period quite accurately... well, most of us didn't have a televison or VCR in our room, but anyway.
And hey, you really should read the description for the video if you have no clue what's going on. From the mind-bogglingly clueless commentary around the internet I can only reason that not all in the metal community do that. Don't be an uncultured swine and think you know everything. Read, learn, be empathic and most of all don't comment anywhere if you've got nothing contructive to say. You know, be nice.
Date: 25.1.2024
When are you going to play MY COUNTRY?
I don't know. How much are you willing to do for it to happen? Would you take care of our travel, venue booking, gear rental, lodging, food and how we are compensated?
What I'm trying to say is, we're a small band with a small following and while we would love to play everywhere, it just not financially viable. We're also family men with obligations, we've jobs and resposibilities, as well as hobbies and personal interestes, which means we don't want to spend time traveling in a van for weeks on end.
Keep following our socials, we usually post info to Bandcamp and Facebook when something is happening and Bandsintown has our confirmed gigs listed. Links to everything can be found from our Linktr.ee page.
The basics a.k.a. "Origin Story"
Where are you from originally?
We're from Vantaa, which according to English Wikipedia is "a city and municipality in the region of Uusimaa in Finland". Original members lived in Martinlaakso and Myyrmäki districts.
How and when did you meet?
It started around 1988, with Jukka, Kalle, Mika and few other dudes, as a band that kept changing members and names; Disaster, Re-Birth and many others. Early on we had a really fluid personnel situation, because it was just mates from the same school playing speed/thrash metal and having fun, so people came and went. When we found death metal things started getting serious.
Tomi was in the same school as Jukka and Kalle. He was in a speed metal band called Violent Solution with Jan Rechberger and Esa Holopainen, which he then quit to join us to play death metal, in late 1988. Soon after Jussi and Kimmo joined in early 1989 and the band finally came together. They were from the next town over, but familiar faces from metal gigs and such. Eventually we settled on the name Abhorrence, for that was what we wanted to sound like.
It was Jukka Kolehmainen on vocals, Jussi Ahlroth on bass, Tomi Koivusaari and Kalle Mattsson on guitars and Kimmo Heikkinen on drums, with Mikael "Arc666" Arnkil briefly on the drums for few gigs like the one in Oslo, Norway.
Did you really meet Dead and Euronymous?
Yes. We spent a night at the Mayhem rehearsal house. That night we opened up for Darkthrone, alongside Cadaver. You can see an image of the poster for said gig at our Instagram.
This is however covered in numerous interviews, so you should start with reading some of those.
