Interview with Bizarre Uproar
Interview conducted via email August 2024. Originally for use in Putrid issue #2, unfortunately cancelled.
Note: Pasi’s English is clearly broken but I do not fault the guy for it. I have chosen to keep all responses unedited. Some info is obviously outdated, I will add notes to what’s needed.
1) Bizarre Uproar had its final live show back in April. It seems that it was a bloody event from the few photos that got out. Are you gonna miss taking BU out in public?
Aye, live shows have been most likely ended now. I turned to 50 and it is a good time to retire from live activities. I have done pretty much all I wanted in that field. Old and cold. April was a nice ending. I did enjoy the fact that the audience took it over. Almost 10 litres of blood were used spontaneously - Bloodlust. I was also very impressed, that so many people came from abroad to feast the last supper of roman shower and blood.
In a very first BU gig in 2005 There were GRUNT and SS-Pekka on stage to help me out. April 2024 was the same plus one anonymous fine English gentleman. Also, Ravenlord was there in a spirit/recorded voice. Siikala with friends was there as well. Sweet.
Everlasting ejaculating, bursting cock in a back of wall. Yeah, good ending!
2) Snuff made its mighty return with a new 3 track album earlier this year, at points I found myself wincing from the sheer force of the noise. I also couldn't help but wonder if the cover being an outline of a woman with a little boy ties into what you said a few years ago about an interest in "sadist mothers" and "mothers who abuse children"?
At first, I have to include some part from upcoming1 SNF interview (3xLP/3xtape/Printed matter BOX "Potential Rapist" WRATH)
"Interview by KL, transcribed and translated by JB. Questions answered by Mr.J on behalf of the whole band.
1. People say SNUFF is a Bizarre Uproar and Sick Seed collaboration, but that isn't true, right?
Yeah, there seems to be a persistent misunderstanding. We know Markkula and PT and they have released our shit but we're not them. There's actually three of us and a couple of people helping out if needed."
But yeah, we can discuss about sadist mothers etc. for sure!
(Also new SNUFF V is a nasty as geriatric fuck) Mother is suppose to be the one who nurtures and caress. Mother myth. There is something very fascinating when those individuals are taking thing s into a twisted and bizarre action. I do like the contradictions. Lovely GG Allin`s drawing comes to my mind: A mother breast feeding and jerking off a baby at same time. It is an interesting when some chick is hitting someone with a belt in order of sexual gratification, but when mother of 4 is doing the same to her kid - It is something more, much more. Take a standard dominatrix who is giving session to white gentleman. And then take a BLACK dominatrix who is doing the same. The situation gets much more deeper meaning , more tasteful, more excitement... More everything. I do like this "more" when it comes to these kind of things.
3) I have an old advert here for the Sikiöasento LP. You explain the inspiration behind the album as being a session of asphyxiation in a vacuum bag, do you find your perversion worsens with every day? Also, your work has inspired my own experiments with latex.
Like stated earlier, I need more. I do like more. That "a bit of more" is what makes life interesting and worth of living. SIKIÖASENTO was that (asphyxiation), but like all BU albums there are many levels or at least few more. I was very pleased to get Läjä Äijälä to drawn a cover picture. Lovely result, which topped all my expectations. Idea was to have a lad in a latex/leather (in chains) in fetal position, own cock in his mouth and tube deep in arse to collect all the feces. The final result is lovely. I am so happy to have the original drawing in my wall. Also, Äijälä`s oil painting from VIHANMIEHET s/t is in my wall at special spot. Aye go for it mate. Hail rubber! Gummiklinik!!!
4) Filth & Violence released an album from anonymous project Ottis in the Woods which unfortunately is their only release as of this interview. How did you get in touch with these fine lads? Is true crime a persistent interest for you?
Filth&Violence has now pretty much stopped since 2019 or at least it is just a reflection what it was in it`s heyday. Just a very few selected releases occasionally. Thing were starting to get too big. I was in a point where I had to choose to make it official or to stay total UG. I did choose the latter one. Back then releases happened naturally and selected organically from people near me. Only few exceptions, but pretty much all releases were from the people I personally knew and was interacting regularly. So yeah. Anonymous thing. My guess is that some people have too many projects and it is more stylish to keep few of them anonymous hah. OTTIS IN THE WOODS, BLACK STATE, CHLOROFORM RAPIST, VDA etc. etc. True crime - yes, but mainly I am interested in history and politics, Nasty sex and weightlifting.
5) Can you recall what kicked off your sado-masochistic lifestyle? I remember you mentioning ordering Nalle Virolainen's old zines when you were 13-14, were the thoughts already burning in your head by then or was Nalle a gateway drug for you?
You have done your homework well! Oh well. I reckon you are what you are. Faggot, paedophile, transvestite etc. You are born to what you are. It is inside you. I am what I am - I have always been. 1980s Finland, my home town and it`s nasty suburb was a great place to grow and nourish all twisted and interesting though. "Julmia Naisia - Sadomasokisti lesbot kertovat" Book, Nalle Virolainen, Läjä Äijälä, Chains-fanzine, X-comic, (early 90s) Kinky Club etc. etc. mid- and late 80s drunken punk chicks with fishnet stocking and ragged tops. Overall violent and desperate athmosphere. Zeitgeist of hate and lust.
6) Your sound has always been particularly hypnotic to me, the track Vihanmies off of 2022's Cunt Animal is a masterful, sludgey mess. Do you aim for BU to always have such a marching, goose stepping feeling to it?
I have been very interested in monotonous, indoctrination type of approach. Same thing all over again and again. It just works in my opinion - it delivers. BU used to be at early stages more like hits from every possible angle. Now it is a like a 1000 slash of thick belt on your back. Yeah, I aim for that! You can think of it as a marching, or repeat beating or whatever.
7) Your project Vihanmiehet has finally made its righteous comeback too. What sparked the return of Vihanmiehet and Snuff so closely together?
VIHANMIEHET III is on progress as well2! It is very hard to say or plan when something is about to happen. These things are cryptic. I am of course a huge fan boy of Äijälä and it has been my great honour to work with him. Please see this: WORLD OF RUBBER & BLOOD – Special Interests (special-interests.net)
8) What is your relationship with the WRATH label? I've had your split with the WRATH AUDIO DIVISION on loop here, the zine has the striking visuals I'd expect from something with your involvement.
I have known mister WRATH for a quite long - met him few times. Co-operation with him has been great! He is having THE vision and he knows how to achieve it. Ace label! Upcoming FV related WRATH: BU "Bloodlust" 5xLP+2xTAPE+DVDR BOX & SNUFF "Potential Rapist" 3xLP+3xTAPE+DVDR BOX.
9) Do you have plans for a second edition of your book "Roman Shower, Rubber, and Blood" or perhaps a new book altogether?
No plans for either. Would be nice though. Will see!
10) Thanks for your time, Pasi. I hope all is well in your bunker and the decadence never ends. Any final comments or news the readers should look out for?
Thanks to you! BIZARRE UPROAR "Susinarttu" Full length almost completed. Will be released 2025 hopefully. VIHANMIEHET III and Collaboration with GRUNT also in works3. New XE album at some point.4
Boxset has since sold out.