I usually write the riffs, but nowadays the others have plenty of ideas about how to put the riffs in a fitting order, and sometimes we have to throw out some riffs. I think you can call us a democratic band in a way or another, but in the studio it was proved that a band with five members usually have five different opinions, and studio time leads sometimes into arguments, like last weekend when we were in studio! But in the end there's always the results that maybe please everybody, like us, speaking about our demo that we finally did last weekend. The song-writing in a changing process that may last a month or even longer until a song is finished, but it's always up to how hard you work on it.
- Esa "Ertzy" Vähäsöyrinki / Funebre interview, Isten #5, 1990
One of the first Finnish death metal bands, FUNEBRE split soon after their well-received 1989 debut demo - Cranial Torment - was released.
A few months later, with a new guitarist and drummer, the band returned and recorded Demo '90. At the time it was available from the band for $5.00 + I.R.C.'s.
Recorded and mixed over a weekend in Viiala, FUNEBRE completed the demo on this day in 1990.
Away from the usual Death Metal, but it will maybe show through in our newest tunes. It will be a case of moving into original direction a little more. Sometimes riffs are just born in my brain to get some more treatment, it happens naturally. I try to write riffs consciously, but many attempts prove that you don't do just the thing you had in mind and the first idea isn't always the best - it'd need some extra treatment.
- Esa "Ertzy" Vähäsöyrinki / Funebre interview, Isten #5, 1990
Also in 1990, German label Whisper in Darkness released a 7" with two songs from the Cranial Torment demo. In 1991 they released their only album, Children of the Scorn, on Spinefarm.