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Interview with ERIK HEIKNE (MISS BEHAVIOUR)

March 22, 2007 Scott Jeslis

Sweden’s Miss Behaviour was formed in the autumn of 2003 by guitarist Erik Heikne and keyboardist Henrik Sproge. With a great passion for 80’s Heavy Metal, they decided to start the band just to have fun and to satisfy their burning Rock ambitions. That “passion” and strong fan reaction have blossomed into a debut studio album, Heart Of Midwinter, that turns out to be a very promising start for a new band. Guitarist Erik Heikne took time out from promoting their debut album to speak with Metal Express Radio and Miss Behaviour fans! MER: Hello Erik! Thanks for taking the time to speak with Metal Express Radio and your fans and hopefully you’ll interest some new fans after this interview. Erik Heikne: Thanx a lot indeed, we’re very happy with all great support we’ve got from you guys at Metal Express Radio so far! MER: So the band was originally a “weekend project.” Talk a little about that. Was it five guys getting together to “jam” in someone’s garage? Was there ever initially a plan to record any tracks? Erik: The whole Miss Behaviour concept is actually based upon an idea that Henrik and myself came up with when we studied music management together at a university in southern Sweden a couple of years ago. We had played together in various bands and constellations over the years, and wanted to take it to another level. Since we shared the passion for the 80’s Melodic Hard Rock and AOR, we wanted to do something like that. At this time, most of the Metal bands in Sweden played Power Metal or Black/Death Metal and stuff like that, and that did not appeal to us at all. When we were still in school, we started to write songs and came up with some …READ MORE

MISS BEHAVIOUR – Heart Of Midwinter

January 12, 2007 Scott Jeslis

What initially started out as a weekend project of fun in 2003 for five guys from Sweden, has suddenly flourished into a respectable band in 2006. When Miss Behaviour released a demo on their Web site in 2004, the band received such rave reviews that they decided to take things a bit more serious and deliver a full-length album, the result being Heart Of Midwinter, which weaves the tale of one man’s faith in a cold and unpleasant society, the society of “Midwinter.” The band’s promos make light of the fact that the main influences of their music come from 80’s Rock acts like Journey, Magnum, and Europe. Some of that is evident here, but on a majority of the tracks the band play Melodic Rock with more of an “epic,” almost orchestrated feel, and the keyboards provide a dash of Pomp here and there. Suspiciously, the album opener, “The Shine,” starts off with a melody line that sounds an awful lot like the opening acoustic melody in Ten’s “The Name Of The Rose.” The track very quickly breaks into a slow-paced epic wall of sound with thick, razor-sharp guitars and a big beat followed by a Pomp-sounding keyboard solo wrapped up by an entertaining guitar solo. Not the most “energetic” opening track for an album, but hey, these guys are learning and this track could do well on the radio. “Precious Times” is a little more upbeat and starts out with a stabbing guitar line and an orchestral feel. This track is where another highlight of the band starts to emerge … the multi-tracked choruses that sound reminiscent of the chorus delivery style used by the band Styx. The hands down highlight on this disc, though, is track three … “Dreams Are Cursed.” A driving guitar line, a strong …READ MORE