Today, we sat down with Lauri Sillanpää, the back vocals and guitars for Heathen Hearts. We talk about inspiration to write music, type of music listened to while growing up and much more! Be sure to check out the music of Heathen Hearts below on Spotify after the interview.

Interview:

What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your

surroundings?

Humankind in its entirety. In good and bad. And of course I have a lot of musical influences from all the different kinds of songwriting styles that I have listened to along on my musical journey.

What type of music did you listen to growing up?

As a kid I did listen to a lot of 80’s hard rock and some rap music, like Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses and Eminem. And In my early teens I did find about Children Of Bodom and their music took me completely. COB was a gateway for me to the more extreme side of metal music and I did spent a lot of time listening to some Swedish melodic death metal bands and some black metal bands while growing up.

Is there someone you looked up as a hero?

Eddie Van Halen would be someone worth mentioning.

If you weren’t a musician, what would you be doing today?

Probably some other form of art like photography, poetry, painting etc. Different artforms are food for your soul.

What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create

music?

Practice a lot and be determined about what you want to achieve with our music. Listen to different genres as it might surprise you how much it could inspire you.

Music: