NAME: Elias Viljanen
INSTRUMENT: Guitar
DATE OF BIRTH: July 8th
EQUIPMENT: ESP, Engl
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE
SONG FROM EACH OF YOUR
ALBUMS?
ECLIPTICA: Full Moon
SILENCE: Last Drop Falls
WINTERHEART'S GUILD: Victoria's Secret
RECKONING
NIGHT: Don't Say A
Word
UNIA: In Black & White
THE DAYS OF GRAYS: The Last Amazing Grays
STONES
GROW HER NAME: Alone In Heaven
HOW DID YOUR FIRST
GIG WITH SONATA ARCTICA GO?
- Teatria Oulu, 2007. Playing was fairly ok, but still I was pretty terrified of the fireworks.
HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF
(WITH THE BAND) IN TEN YEARS?
- (dead) tired…Ok, just kidding. I see us playing in a huge stadium, and having some cool opener, like Metallica… :-)
HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR A
SHOW? ANY SPECIAL RITUALS INVOLVED?
- Just basic stretching, warming up, getting nervous and making jokes about basically everything like myself, the band, fans, god, love, getting drunk, being drunk, being sick etc..
WHAT IS THE
THING YOU MISS MOST WHEN BEING AWAY FROM HOME (BESIDES
FAMILY)?
- Sauna
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO TAKE WITH YOU
ON A PLANE?
- Flight socks
WHAT LIVING PERSON WOULD YOU LIKE TO
MEET THE MOST?
- Steve Vai
WHAT BOOK ARE YOU CURRENTLY
READING?
- The last book I read was Dave Mustaine´s book.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE
FOOD/DRINK?
- Thai Chicken with chili+onions, beer
CAN YOU COOK? IF SO, WHAT IS YOUR
FAVORITE RECIPE?
- Apple pie
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE
GAME?
- Gran Turismo
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF
LIFE?
- Eat, sleep and you know.
IF YOU ACCIDENTLY ENCOUNTERED A TIME MACHINE,
WHERE AND WHEN WOULD YOU GO?
- Somewhere to the past where I could be the one to build the first sauna of the whole world...
IF YOU COULDN'T LIVE IN
FINLAND, WHRE WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE?
- Depends on the mood, sometimes I would think it would be cool to live in L.A. for instance and sometimes I´d rather choose, I don´t know, Greenland. I´d move to some nice pacific desert island and build my own sauna!
WHAT IS YOUR
FIRST (MOST COMMON) THOUGHT WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
MORNING?
- Coffee! Beer? Toilet….No, but seriously, "Where am I?"
IF A MOVIE OF YOUR LIFE WERE MADE, WHO WOULD
YOU LIKE TO PLAY YOU, AND WHY?
- I don´t know, Robert Downey Jr.?
ANYTHING ELSE YOU
WOULD LIKE TO BE KNOWN / ANY LAST WORDS?
- Be nice!
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