THE SLAYLIST
MARKO HIETALA
The former Nightwish man turned soloist has been inspired by Metallica,Master Of Reality, and Moomins
WORDS: MADISON COLLIER
PICTURES: MIKA TOIVANEN
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“MY LOVE FOR BLACK SABBATH began at nine years old. It was a summer day, and I was lying on the couch reading this kiddy book – Tove Jansson’s Comet in Moominland – which had a real doomsday feeling. Seas were boiling, things were dying, trees were wilting. Then my brother walks in with a record he’d borrowed from the neighbours – Sabbath’s Master Of Reality – and the whole weird thing connected for me. The doom of Into The Void particularly, alongside the imaginary doom of a comet approaching in the book… I spoke no English at the time, so I didn’t understand the lyrical stuff at all, but when I got older, I found out just how similar it was to the stuff I enjoyed when I was a kid. That was a funny connection to make!