Hails Pete! Let’s get to the heart of the matter, your latest album, Wiking Division, who cames out last year (2015). We can say that this is your most radical production in your discography, both musically and conceptually speaking. Are you agree with this? Can you tell us more about the concept of this album? What has triggered this wrath? Petri Ilvespakka: Musically it`s pretty much black metal as always but lyricwise it`s a bit different. In 2011 I read "Jewish Supremacism" by David Duke and that really opened my eyes to this global jewish tyranny that we live in. Since then I`ve been reading a lot about the subject, and that has naturally influenced the lyrics. So, unlike the writer of "Pirunkehto" -book claims, I was not "radicalized" in jail, the political awakening happened much later. Have you recorded everything yourself? Yes. The album was recorded in few different sessions. On one track, you pay tribute to Reinhold Elstner, a former Wehrmacht soldier who set himself on fire in protest to this perpetual repentance. Why this man in particular? His call to a national awakening seems more relevant than ever nowadays, don’t you think? Yes. I don`t have too much information about Mr. Elstner except he was from Sudetenland, was a doctor of chemistry, a soldier of Wehrmacht and a POW in Soviet Union. Now, if a man fights against Bolshevist Commies, survives couple of years as a POW in Soviet Gulag and burns himself to death as a protest against all the zionist lies that have been told about National Socialist Germany and Führer since 1945, if that person doesn`t deserve a tribute song then I don`t know who does. You're working with Northern Heritage since the release of Kirous. How goes this collaboration? Is it the perfect label for you? What are your relations with Mikko Aspa ? Things are working great with NH, no complaints. Let's go back to 1992, the genesis of your project, which was still called Sigillum Diaboli. Do you remember what motivated the creation of the band? What were your musical influences? Do you remember how looks the Scandinavian scene at this time? We thought about forming the band already in summer of 1991 but dismissed the idea because there already was a couple of black metal bands in Finland at the time, and we thought it might get trendy if too many bm bands starts to appear. Then we thought about the idea again after one year in summer 1992 and decided to start rehearsing. Bathory, Venom, Celtic Frost, Beherit, Impaled Nazarene and stuff like that were definitely an influence in the beginning and around that time Norwegian bands started to appear too. I tape traded "Deathcrush" and CBR compilation tracks from Mayhem. The debut album of Burzum and "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" from DarkThrone was released and those two albums we listened a lot, they were like a breath of fresh air. At the same time we read The Satanic Bible by that jewish swindler Anton Levi and some other literature and identified with that and thought we were satanists. In 1995, after two demos, the band became DIABOLI. This change means your beginnings as a one-man band. However, the former vocalist Hrim Grimn'r (R.I.P.), who was in Sigillum Diaboli, is a part of the line-up on Anthems of Sorrow. Did he come back in the band at that time? Why did you choose to go solo? Does it suits you? There was some power struggles in the band so I had to fire Grimn`r from the band in 1995. I was recording "Anthems of Sorrow" in 1998 and thought vocals are not my strongest area and asked him to record vocals for the album and he agreed. Musically speaking, your style has evolved a lot. The first album in 96, Mesmerized by Darkness, was very fierce and bestial, the following ones more atmospheric and "True Black", Kirous and The Antichrist were more melodic and catchy, and the last one, certainly the rawest of all, not so far from some CLANDESTINE BLAZE releases. With hindsight, how do you see this evolution? Are you agree with the term we used? What would be the common identity to all these albums, all of these aspects of Diaboli? The first album was intentionally bestial black metal from start to finnish and after that I had to add some variety for the second album. Then I had this more melodic material written and I put all those songs to "Anthems...", so that`s the story of the first three albums. I think "Anthems..." is best of the first three albums, especially the new remastered version (on NH) sounds quite good. On the first album the sound got fucked up during the making of master tape because the DAT recorder in the studio was broken, and there are some fuck ups on the mixing so I can`t really listen to that album. On the second album, wrong version of the last (synth) track ended up on album just because of my own lazyness so can`t really listen to that album either. Those are the couple of things that I would change on the earlier albums. "Kirous", "The Antichrist" and "Invocation" were all pretty much 50% old material and 50% new material. "Invocation" was recorded and mixed in 2006-2008, and was supposed to be the last album because I was totally bored with black metal at the time. After some years I got inspiration again to write lyrics and record some songs and that material became "Wiking DIvision". Unlike many other Finnish bands, which multiplies projects and releases (splits, EP, demos), you are still rather quiet, with almost only full-length albums, and a few projects outside DIABOLI. Why such a discretion? Basically I have never had much leftover material, when I record new material my goal is a full lenght album. And I don`t remember getting much offers for split albums or EPs either. You have released two albums with the famous label Full Moon Productions, who released many classics of the Scandinavian scene (Burzum, Mysticum, Hades, etc.). How that signature happened? What do you remember of this old time? FMP ripped me off. To this day they haven`t even told me exactly how many copies they pressed of the albums. Both albums were on sale for about 10 years and I think they took two pressing of both albums. If I had the money I`d sue them. Your experience inside the Black Metal scene offers you the possibility to see all of its evolution over the years, as birth of the classics, the fall of some idols, the explosion of the productivity, the arrival of social networks... What is your point of view about that? Do not hesitate to develop if necessary, it is a broad question. In late 1990`s bigger labels started to sign black metal bands and the fanzine/underground/tape trading scene basically died. Black metal became commercial and a joke, grown men on skirts on stage, what the fuck is that? Then in the beginning of new millenium smaller underground bands and labels started to appear again. I guess it was a healthy counter-reaction to the commercial stuff. We can see that Finland is one of the few countries in Europe, with northern Italy, to tolerate openly-NS bands to perform on stage. We think about Steelfest, for instance. From the inside, how could you explain it ? Can the role played by Finland during the Word War II explain this absence of "taboo"? Well, Steelfest is an exception but NS bands can`t play in "normal" rock clubs here in Finland either. At the same time communist punk bands who praise Soviet Union (which was run by Bolshevist jews and killed about 50 million White people) and call for White genocide are playing those same rock clubs. It is the same situation everywhere around the globe. We live in a global jewish tyranny, a communist JWO. In the same topic, what do you think of bands that openly declare to be NS (like Der Stürmer, for instance)? Do you understand those bands that put their political message before the music itself ? Isn’t Black Metal beyond that kind of consideration ? Or, on the contrary, is it the perfect medium for "extreme" ideas? NS bands has saved the black metal scene. Lyrics about defending the White race, JWO, holohoax, uncensored history of the Third Reich, paganism, now we are at the core of all things. This stuff is real and has made black metal dangerous again like it should be.   You should feel concerned by the conquering breakthrough of Islam in Europe. How do you explain the current situation? Isn’t it more complicated than it seems? What solutions are still possible? The current situation, the islamization and destruction of Europe, is a result you get when you let jews enslave countries with their global banking system, let them in high political positions, and let them create EU. They want to destroy Europe and White Europeans with EU. The only solution is to end EU, go back to sovereign nation states and take the right to create money out of nothing away from them. Every country should be independent and have the right to create her own money. No country should loan money outside it`s borders, from privately owned global jewish banking mafia. Simple as that. In France, but certainly elsewhere in Europe, the possibility of a "civil war" is increasingly present in the heads. Our French president itself speaks of a "war" (without actually specifying the enemy) after the attacks, the books on this subject are in the top sales, it almost becomes a literary genre, survivalists journal are being created, etc. Does this fear has a rational background for you? Do you also fears that in Finland? The situation in Europe right now is just like the jews have orchestrated. In France it`s much worse than in Finland. Over 5 MILLION MUSLIMS in France so what do you excpect? Same situation in Germany, over 5 MILLION MUSLIMS in the country and more is coming all the time by the blessing of that jew Merkel. These people (semites, niggers) are low IQ primitive animals from desert and jungle who doesn`t belong to Europe. Look at the "leaders" in France (Sarcozy, Hollande, Walls etc) and Germany (Merkel), they`re jews who are on a mission to destroy Europe and White Europeans with EU. The other "enemy", often pointing out, are the far-right groups and parties, with nauseous ideas. But in fact, and despite this unprecedented wave of migration, their actions are ridiculous, almost non-existent. We are way far from the former actions of groups like Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (NSU) in Germany for instance. What is your opinion about that? Do you have the same speech in Finland? The "Left" and "Right" parties are a joke, they`re all controlled by jews. NSU is a lie created by the jewish press. NSU doesn`t exist unfortunately. The best solution to any independent European country is a National Socialist system, which naturally has the right to create it`s own money. One can have the impression that the Finnish Black Metal scene took over the top on its Scandinavian neighbors regarding popularity this last years. For instance, we just have to look on the triumph of Satanic Warmaster or Archgoat in the charts ! From the inside, how do you see this phenomenon ? In relation to its beginnings, how do you perceive its current state? The great comeback albums from Beherit ("Engram") and Burzum ("Belus") went to official Finnish charts also. There are good Finnish bm bands nowadays and I would say they are among the best, if not the best, in the Nordic countries. Such a democratization of the Black Metal music isn’t it harmful, after all? Does BM music is supposed to remain in the shadows ? Or, on the contrary, this "success" can be used as a big scale propaganda? It was great to see Burzum and Beherit on the official Finnish charts. Major labels will never release the most brutal NSBM though, so it will always be underground. In our point of view, it is not abused to talk about widespread decline in BM music, even if this term is highly overused. But one may ask, is everything really sucks nowadays? For you, what is the most important things to preserve? Where is the hope? There are thousands of bm bands nowadays so naturally most of them suck. I would say hope is in the few good NSBM bands. In the same topic, what are the most deserving bands nowadays from your point of view? Burzum, Beherit, Der Stürmer, Grand Belial`s Key, Absurd, Graveland, Goatmoon, those are the bm bands that I listen to mostly nowadays. And of course Bathory, Venom and old Mayhem. We are close to the end of this interview. What can we expect in the near future from you? New material have partly been recorded already, so there probably will be one more album at some point in the future. Thank you very much for your time! If you want to add something, this is the time. Thanks for the interview. I suggest everyone reading this to watch two documentaries; "The Greatest Story Never Told" by Dennis Wise, and "Hellstorm" by Kyle Hunt & Thomas Goodrich. Interview: November 2016