Interview with Mats Funderud (Kraanium): "SLAAAAAAM!"
Kraanium. If you're into more brutal bands, you probably know them. Like them or not, this shit is heavy. With their new album coming up soon, their guitarist and founder Mats Funderud found a little time to answer my questions. 1: How did the name "Kraanium" come to be? We just thought about a brutal name and thought about cranium, but then it was already several bands called this. So we just made it a bit more Norwegian-inspired, 'cos in norwegian we write it like Kranium and it means the same as in English. 2: How did you guys get together as a band? Started around ten years ago when me and my brother wanted to make a new type of band, 'cos as of that time we had mostly played stuff like hardcore, black metal and punk. So we talked to a drummerfriend and he was down, then we put out an add on some norwegian board that we needed another guitarplayer and we found Vidar, then we started playing and just having fun, took us around 4 years before w...