DARK TRANQUILLITY - Shadow In Our Blood (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
сряда, 17 февруари 2010 г.
неделя, 14 февруари 2010 г.
Catamenia - New album coming soon!!!
Catamenia - New album coming soon!!!
This is an old interview with Riku, I post it so you can read some of his thoughts last year, days before the album is out and if we get a new interview we can compair them ;)
Cheers and enjoy
.Lets start with a question, which answer everybody wants to know: Why the new album has no keyboards?
Riku: Well, we just decided to make our latest album without keyboards with two reasons – we didn’t find a suitable keyboardist in the band (read crazy and drunk enough, heheh) and secondly we wanted to have a little bit more aggressive sound on that album. Also I wrote the new songs without thinking of any keyboards and they sounded good so with a mutual agreement in the band we decided not to use anys anymore. And we’ll stick with that decision in the future as well.
.Is the music of Catamenia still Black Metal?
Riku: We have always said that everyone can say their own opinion how do they describe our music. We’ve always hated the ‘too-detailed-categorizing’ thing in general though we know it’s important for new listeners and for someone in general. We would describe our music as Melodic Nordic Metal. Of course you can hear some black metal elements in our music, but not anymore in our lyrics. Lyrics are more mental and philosophical nowadays.
.In your opinion what are the strong and the weak points in "VIII - The Time Unchained"?
Riku: The strong point is the songs in general. From the start we all loved them and we were so anxious to get into the studio. The weak point is in our opinion the production – but that depends only on a bad equipment at the studio where we recorded the whole things because the studio we wanted to go first was not finished yet from the reconstruction. We only mixed it there, but there were some problems when transferring the data from the other studio’s hard disk and we lost some data. Because of the lack of time, we did not have the time to record the missing part or to seek the missing data – mainly supporting guitars and doubling guitars.
.You have a new line-up again. Are you satisfied with your new members?
Riku: We are absolutely 110 percent happy with the new line-up. It feels like that Catamenia would have reborn again. I feel like the same when I formed the band and made the first couple of records. I am thrilled cos this line-up holds together in every situation and works like a well-oiled machine.
.Do you like playing outside Finland? You have played in Bulgaria twice. What are the differences between Bulgarian and Scandinavian fans?
Riku: We love to play outside Finland. Our main crowds are centered in Europewide among Russia and U.S. Example playing in Bulgaria, the both times, it’s been so damn awesome! The fans are crazy there in the good meaning of the word, heh. You’re so liveful and you have always fun! We have met so many Bulgarian fans and they all have been so kind, but still having this flame kicking inside! Hopefully we’ll play again there in Bulgaria soon cos we already miss you guys and playing there.
.How importans are the lyrics for the band?
Riku: They are quite a big part of our music cos they bring the songs alive and make them to have a ‘soul’. When there are lyrics that includes just words taken from the dictionary and has no meaning what-so-ever, the song loses it meaning.
.What kind of feeling does the music of Catamenia express?
Riku: That’s the opinion which has to be asked from the fans and listeners of our music. We just make music we want and express the music what’s close in our hearts. Of course we want our listeners to get a good feeling when listening to our music, but if someone likes our music, then it has created a good feeling to the listener. If someone hates our music, then it creates hate for them.
.The cover artwork of "VIII - The Time Unchained" is a little different from the other albums. Could you explain what the hidden idea is?
Riku: There is no hidden idea. It was kind of a decision to make it different cos the whole album is totally different from the others. We saw this tribal wolf which also reminds us of the Finnish lion crest, we wanted to have that on the cover as simply as possible. Then we gave the idea to Anthony Clarkson and he made couple of scheds and that’s it - the cover was ready!
.What thing change your mind about the evil corpse paint in the past and can we expect to see it someday again?
Riku: No, you will never see corpsepaints on our faces ever again except on those old pics and videos. We just thought after changing a bit of our music that it’s not our thing anymore. We were just not comfortable to wear them anymore cos our music did not represent that ideology anymore. And I think we were too old to look like pandas!
.What are your musical influences?
Riku: My musical influences. How would I say this without sounding a total brick, heheh. I have so many musical influences, from classical to extreme metal. I just try to get ideas and influences from the songs I like and I do not care from what genre it is. I hear a song from radio and I like the song or a part of it, I have absolutely no problem to say I like it, regardless from what genre it is. I think it’s kind of a narrow-minded to stick with only one genre cos that may make the music boring. I am not saying that it is, but there’s a big chance and danger in it when you do not consider other genres as a source of a possible influence! I just try to keep my mind open for all music!
.What is your opinion about the underground extreme metal scene today?
Riku: It depends on the country, but I think the underground of extreme metal is again quite alive, well and kicking in Finland after few bad years cos everyone was only concentrating on making albums which will hit the crowd. Every country needs these undergrounds movements in music cos once in a while there comes a band with new ideas and new concept behind. So I am glad the underground is alive again.
.What about some big European tour with some big names? Is that possible?
Riku: We just had a quite a big tour in Europe with Finntroll, Primordial, Eluveitie, Equilibrium and Månegarm. Had a blast time with them all and after the tour we made a really good friends with Finntroll, so hopefully we’ll make some more gigs with them again.
.Are you religious? What is bigger - Satanism or Atheism?
Riku: No, we are not religious and we let someone else to analyze these things. This issue is not our cup of tea, heh. Everyone is entitled to believe in what they want. We believe in ourselves!
.Have you kept in touch with what's going on in the metal scene?
Riku: Sure, once in a while we want to know what is going on in the metal scene and nowadays it’s easier cos we have made so many friends in the other bands, magazines and radios. So it’s kind of a natural thing to ask what’s going on with the others when you see them.
.And some stupid question ;) - When you were writing a new songs, where the inspiration comes from?
Riku: The inspirations just come into me from different things and issues. Usually from my own life and experviences. If I have a bad moment while I am writing, usually the song is written quite fast – like in a day. But when I’m feeling happy, I want to focus on the song more cos then I am enjoying the composing more. Not saying that I hate it when I’m feeling down, but then you just want to make the song and start to drink or something, heheh. It’s just a mental game and that’s something the human mind cannot struggle with or prevent.
.What do you whink about writing a lyrics or composing music in the woods? Is the spirit of Black Metal totally dead?
Riku: Again I am quite wrong person to answer that cos I do not consider myself as a black metallist. But of course the people who has that ideology, they have all the right to go to compose and write lyrics wherever they want. If someone laughs at that, they just make themselves look stupid. Example writing lyrics whenever you need to write or have the inspiration, then go ahead – regardless if someone thinks that’s lame. Myself I get a lot of inspirations while I am walking home thru woods or have a some kind of an issue going on in my life.
.Recommend us some good bands from Finland?
Riku: Oooh, there are so many good bands here so it would be so long list to write them all, but let’s just say couple of not-so-known bands like Kätyri, Wrathage, Mors Subita, Decrowned, ZeroCrowd and many more. You can find quite a lot of them from our friends on our MySpace site.
.How you feel when you read some bad reviews for your albums?
Riku: Of course it feels bad for starters cos you have given so much into it in studio and in composing phase. It’s like someone would come into your office and said that you’re really a bad worker and you should do these things in different way. Though in this work we have the power to make all the things how we want and see them. But then again it goes away quite fast cos you really cannot please everyone.
.What is your best selling release? It it's not a secret?
Riku: Actually I do not recall that for 100 percent sure, but if I recall right our best selling item has been either Morning Crimson, ChaosBorn or Winternight Tragedies. But the new album has already sold quite damn good so I think that will reach the same quite soon.
.Do you have any other jobs outside the band?
Riku: In short, some of us are working and some of us are studying.
.What do you want to achieve with this album?
Riku: New listeners worldwide and happy fans. Of course we want to open more doors for us to make more gigs and all.
.Can we expect something new soon - a DVD maybe?
Riku: Our next step is to go to record our next album sometime around next Fall – maybe around mid-August. It depends how do we get the studio time scheduled cos the studio is quite booked at the moment. But in anyways we’ll record a new album next and before the end of the year, that’s for sure. More surprises are planned for our tenth (10th) release sometime around 2010-2011 so please be prepared for that!
.Wish something to DEVILRY magazine and to your fans.
Riku: You all have a blast summer there and hope to see you soon again there in Bulgaria. Do not forget to drink beer once in a while, that’s a doctor’s order (read Catamenia’s). Cheers, beers and rock on!
This is an old interview with Riku, I post it so you can read some of his thoughts last year, days before the album is out and if we get a new interview we can compair them ;)
Cheers and enjoy
.Lets start with a question, which answer everybody wants to know: Why the new album has no keyboards?
Riku: Well, we just decided to make our latest album without keyboards with two reasons – we didn’t find a suitable keyboardist in the band (read crazy and drunk enough, heheh) and secondly we wanted to have a little bit more aggressive sound on that album. Also I wrote the new songs without thinking of any keyboards and they sounded good so with a mutual agreement in the band we decided not to use anys anymore. And we’ll stick with that decision in the future as well.
.Is the music of Catamenia still Black Metal?
Riku: We have always said that everyone can say their own opinion how do they describe our music. We’ve always hated the ‘too-detailed-categorizing’ thing in general though we know it’s important for new listeners and for someone in general. We would describe our music as Melodic Nordic Metal. Of course you can hear some black metal elements in our music, but not anymore in our lyrics. Lyrics are more mental and philosophical nowadays.
.In your opinion what are the strong and the weak points in "VIII - The Time Unchained"?
Riku: The strong point is the songs in general. From the start we all loved them and we were so anxious to get into the studio. The weak point is in our opinion the production – but that depends only on a bad equipment at the studio where we recorded the whole things because the studio we wanted to go first was not finished yet from the reconstruction. We only mixed it there, but there were some problems when transferring the data from the other studio’s hard disk and we lost some data. Because of the lack of time, we did not have the time to record the missing part or to seek the missing data – mainly supporting guitars and doubling guitars.
.You have a new line-up again. Are you satisfied with your new members?
Riku: We are absolutely 110 percent happy with the new line-up. It feels like that Catamenia would have reborn again. I feel like the same when I formed the band and made the first couple of records. I am thrilled cos this line-up holds together in every situation and works like a well-oiled machine.
.Do you like playing outside Finland? You have played in Bulgaria twice. What are the differences between Bulgarian and Scandinavian fans?
Riku: We love to play outside Finland. Our main crowds are centered in Europewide among Russia and U.S. Example playing in Bulgaria, the both times, it’s been so damn awesome! The fans are crazy there in the good meaning of the word, heh. You’re so liveful and you have always fun! We have met so many Bulgarian fans and they all have been so kind, but still having this flame kicking inside! Hopefully we’ll play again there in Bulgaria soon cos we already miss you guys and playing there.
.How importans are the lyrics for the band?
Riku: They are quite a big part of our music cos they bring the songs alive and make them to have a ‘soul’. When there are lyrics that includes just words taken from the dictionary and has no meaning what-so-ever, the song loses it meaning.
.What kind of feeling does the music of Catamenia express?
Riku: That’s the opinion which has to be asked from the fans and listeners of our music. We just make music we want and express the music what’s close in our hearts. Of course we want our listeners to get a good feeling when listening to our music, but if someone likes our music, then it has created a good feeling to the listener. If someone hates our music, then it creates hate for them.
.The cover artwork of "VIII - The Time Unchained" is a little different from the other albums. Could you explain what the hidden idea is?
Riku: There is no hidden idea. It was kind of a decision to make it different cos the whole album is totally different from the others. We saw this tribal wolf which also reminds us of the Finnish lion crest, we wanted to have that on the cover as simply as possible. Then we gave the idea to Anthony Clarkson and he made couple of scheds and that’s it - the cover was ready!
.What thing change your mind about the evil corpse paint in the past and can we expect to see it someday again?
Riku: No, you will never see corpsepaints on our faces ever again except on those old pics and videos. We just thought after changing a bit of our music that it’s not our thing anymore. We were just not comfortable to wear them anymore cos our music did not represent that ideology anymore. And I think we were too old to look like pandas!
.What are your musical influences?
Riku: My musical influences. How would I say this without sounding a total brick, heheh. I have so many musical influences, from classical to extreme metal. I just try to get ideas and influences from the songs I like and I do not care from what genre it is. I hear a song from radio and I like the song or a part of it, I have absolutely no problem to say I like it, regardless from what genre it is. I think it’s kind of a narrow-minded to stick with only one genre cos that may make the music boring. I am not saying that it is, but there’s a big chance and danger in it when you do not consider other genres as a source of a possible influence! I just try to keep my mind open for all music!
.What is your opinion about the underground extreme metal scene today?
Riku: It depends on the country, but I think the underground of extreme metal is again quite alive, well and kicking in Finland after few bad years cos everyone was only concentrating on making albums which will hit the crowd. Every country needs these undergrounds movements in music cos once in a while there comes a band with new ideas and new concept behind. So I am glad the underground is alive again.
.What about some big European tour with some big names? Is that possible?
Riku: We just had a quite a big tour in Europe with Finntroll, Primordial, Eluveitie, Equilibrium and Månegarm. Had a blast time with them all and after the tour we made a really good friends with Finntroll, so hopefully we’ll make some more gigs with them again.
.Are you religious? What is bigger - Satanism or Atheism?
Riku: No, we are not religious and we let someone else to analyze these things. This issue is not our cup of tea, heh. Everyone is entitled to believe in what they want. We believe in ourselves!
.Have you kept in touch with what's going on in the metal scene?
Riku: Sure, once in a while we want to know what is going on in the metal scene and nowadays it’s easier cos we have made so many friends in the other bands, magazines and radios. So it’s kind of a natural thing to ask what’s going on with the others when you see them.
.And some stupid question ;) - When you were writing a new songs, where the inspiration comes from?
Riku: The inspirations just come into me from different things and issues. Usually from my own life and experviences. If I have a bad moment while I am writing, usually the song is written quite fast – like in a day. But when I’m feeling happy, I want to focus on the song more cos then I am enjoying the composing more. Not saying that I hate it when I’m feeling down, but then you just want to make the song and start to drink or something, heheh. It’s just a mental game and that’s something the human mind cannot struggle with or prevent.
.What do you whink about writing a lyrics or composing music in the woods? Is the spirit of Black Metal totally dead?
Riku: Again I am quite wrong person to answer that cos I do not consider myself as a black metallist. But of course the people who has that ideology, they have all the right to go to compose and write lyrics wherever they want. If someone laughs at that, they just make themselves look stupid. Example writing lyrics whenever you need to write or have the inspiration, then go ahead – regardless if someone thinks that’s lame. Myself I get a lot of inspirations while I am walking home thru woods or have a some kind of an issue going on in my life.
.Recommend us some good bands from Finland?
Riku: Oooh, there are so many good bands here so it would be so long list to write them all, but let’s just say couple of not-so-known bands like Kätyri, Wrathage, Mors Subita, Decrowned, ZeroCrowd and many more. You can find quite a lot of them from our friends on our MySpace site.
.How you feel when you read some bad reviews for your albums?
Riku: Of course it feels bad for starters cos you have given so much into it in studio and in composing phase. It’s like someone would come into your office and said that you’re really a bad worker and you should do these things in different way. Though in this work we have the power to make all the things how we want and see them. But then again it goes away quite fast cos you really cannot please everyone.
.What is your best selling release? It it's not a secret?
Riku: Actually I do not recall that for 100 percent sure, but if I recall right our best selling item has been either Morning Crimson, ChaosBorn or Winternight Tragedies. But the new album has already sold quite damn good so I think that will reach the same quite soon.
.Do you have any other jobs outside the band?
Riku: In short, some of us are working and some of us are studying.
.What do you want to achieve with this album?
Riku: New listeners worldwide and happy fans. Of course we want to open more doors for us to make more gigs and all.
.Can we expect something new soon - a DVD maybe?
Riku: Our next step is to go to record our next album sometime around next Fall – maybe around mid-August. It depends how do we get the studio time scheduled cos the studio is quite booked at the moment. But in anyways we’ll record a new album next and before the end of the year, that’s for sure. More surprises are planned for our tenth (10th) release sometime around 2010-2011 so please be prepared for that!
.Wish something to DEVILRY magazine and to your fans.
Riku: You all have a blast summer there and hope to see you soon again there in Bulgaria. Do not forget to drink beer once in a while, that’s a doctor’s order (read Catamenia’s). Cheers, beers and rock on!
сряда, 10 февруари 2010 г.
FRACTURED INSANITY - When Mankind Becomes Diseased
FRACTURED INSANITY - When Mankind Becomes Diseased
Първи официален албум за белгийците! Типичен brutal death metal - мощен, бърз и стегнат. За феновете на стила е поредното добро парче от пая, като се има предвид наплива на толкова много групи които се появяват, Fractured Insanity определено не изглеждат следващата еднодневка и определено могат да са на една сцена с големи имена. Едно от силните парчета е All Shall Fade, с две думи When Mankind Becomes Diseased - реже глави!
Даката
SOUND OF DETESTATION – Sound of Detestation
SOUND OF DETESTATION – Sound of Detestation
Доста добро начало за момчетата, кратки парчета, но това е характерно за стила. Разнообразието от вокали разчупва структурата и прави слушането още по-приятно! Шведското в тях си проличава в инструментала Control, който те отнася някъде в пространството за момент! Sound of Detestation са доказателството за това, че дължината на песните не е изобщо от значение, може да се убедите сами!
Даката
понеделник, 8 февруари 2010 г.
Serpentine Creation - Където се ражда "Сатана"
Те са българи!!! Те правят блек метъл, но не какъв да е - първичен, бесен, гневен, хулещ подлата религия, като камшик в лицето на святото.SERPENTINE CREATION - българската блек машина, подгрявала гигантите Dimmu Borgir!
Нямаше как да не ги потърсим за разговор, защото те набират все по-голяма популярност сред ъндърграунда, че и по-нагоре!!За мястото, където се ражда Сатаната, за българската метъл сцена, за новия им видеоклип, за всичко това ще ни разкаже Vlad.
Очаквайте и специално обширно интервю с тях в новия брой 2 (когато излезе, някой обичаше да казва):
Вие сте една от ставнително новите блек метъл банди в България,а вече за вас се говори повече,отколкото за старите кучета в бранша.Доволни ли сте от постигнатото досега?
Здравейте, аз съм Vlad,за Serpentine Creation може да се каже, че е нова група, ако я срвняваме с вече утвърдените банди, но ние изминахме доста дълъг път до полагане на основите за развитие на групата.Постигнатото до тук е само началото.
Преди да създадете групата,имали ли сте други музикални проекти?
От доста време се занимаваме с музика.Аз и Jafar бяхме китаристи в Desolate, но тази група се разпадна. Mephisto
свиреше в Demonism, но доколкото знам и тази група не съществува
вече.Няколко години се подвизавах като клавирист в Korozy, а в
момента заедно с Jafar свирим в Dimension of harm, също така съм
китарист на Embrace by dark.Mephisto също участва в ORK (като студиен музикант) и в SHWARZWASSERBRUNNEN заедно с Димо Димов от Svarrogh.
Как се спряхте на името Serpentine Creation и какво символизира то?
Първоначално групата се казваше Dystopia, но впоследствие решихме с това име да озаглавим първия ни албум, а Serpentine Creation чисто и
просто означава лукаво творение и символизира музиката, която правим.
Какви проблеми сте срещали докато сте правили и прославяли черното си изкуство?
Проблемите са от всякакъв род.Като се започне от финансовите и се стигне до техническите по време на концерт или записи.Мисля, че всяка
група в България се сблъсква с подобни проблеми.Живеем в държава, в
която целите се постигат много трудно.
Може ли да се каже,че един от най-големите ви моменти като банда е подгряването на Dimmu Borgir?
МОже да се каже като един от най-големите ни концерти до този
момент.Наистина незабравимо преживяване, но смятам, че големите
моменти за Serpentine creation тепърва предстоят.
Разкажете как премина лайфа.Случи ли се нещо интересно на и зад сцената?
Концертът, от наша гледна точка, премина перфектно, въпреки че не
успяхме да направим саундчек.Качихме се на сцената, без да сме правили
никакви настройки, просто за нас не остана време,но озвучителите бяха
на ниво и всичко мина добре.
Как се държаха норвежките метъли с Вас?
Съвсем нормално, говорихме общи неща, питаха ни колко хора се
очакват на концерта, кои поред ще свирим, а след концерта си казахме
по едно наздраве и си направихме няколко снимки за спомен.
Имате вече два видеоклипа,втория от който е изключително добър и може да се мери с големите продукции.Как решихте да правите клипове и как протече процесът на заснемане?
Първият клип е на инструменталното парче Demonology и е направен от
Mephisto, като са използвани кадри оттук-оттам и кадри, които лично
той е заснел.Мисля,че се получи добре.Вторият клип е творба на Боян от
група Кълн,който е правил клипове на много български групи, но за
нашия клип на парчето Dystopia, се раздаде тотално.Клипът наистина е
доста сполучлив.
Скоро излезе и новото ви зло отроче Дystopia.Поздравления за перфектния звук.Какви са очакванията Ви от него?
Dystopia е първият ни албум и се надяваме да стигне до повече хора,
затова заснехме клиповете, за да видят феновете за какво става въпрос
и ако им хареса, да се сдобият с албума, който съвсвм скоро издадохме
и в лимитед едишън версия , дигипак.
Къде е Dystopia -The Birth Place of Satan ;) ?
Както знаете Dystopia е противоположно на Utopia.В текста на
парчето съм изразил моята гледна точка, че Dystopia се намира дълбоко
в човешкото съзнание, където се ражда злото в хората.Въображаемо
място, където се ражда "Сатана" и през целия съзнателен живот на всеки
човек злото се изгражда, става по-силно и по-силно в необратим
процес.Но това е само една гледна точка, нещата могат да се гледат от
много ъгли.
Aко съдим по успех на нашето издание - то страшно трудно се прави екстремно изкуство в България.Вие на какво мнение сте?
Екстремните неща, независимо какви, по принцип са трудни и не се
вписват в ,така наречения ,нормален свят.Трябва много воля , за да има
някакъв успех.Но това е и начин на живот, някои не могат без него.
Какво да очакваме от Serpentine Creation занапред?
В момента работим върху парчетата за втория албум, планираме и
няколко концерта до края на годината, засега е това.
Благодаря за интервюто и се надяваме някой ден Dimmu Borgir да подгряват SC!!!
И аз благодаря, пожелавам успех на вашето издание и не е важно кой
кого ще подгрява, трябва да има повече сериозни групи и издания, които
да се занимават с този тип музика, за да се утвърди стабилна българска
сценаи може би в бъдещето някоя българска група ще стане по-велика от
и DIMMU BORGIR.
неделя, 7 февруари 2010 г.
Impious – Death Domination – 2009
Който е запознат с Impious знае за какво иде реч или по-точно сеч! Размазващ death metal, неоставящ и грам почивка. Death Domination отбелязва и 15-тата годишнина и един добър повод да ги видим в БГ.....човек е добре да мечтае!
Даката
Miseration – The Mirroring Shadow
Още едно шведско отроче, а този втори албум показва прогреса и посоката на бандата. Изчистен от чисти вокали и още по – стегнат и корав саунд. Въпреки, че са нова банда хората в нея не са случайни, опита на хора като Christian Älvestam (Scar Symmetry, Incapacity, Solar Dawn…) и останалите четирима никак не е малък, а даже впечатляващ. Има и то доста какво да се чуе в The Mirroring Shadow, още едно добро попълнение за колекционерите.
Даката
неделя, 6 декември 2009 г.
Beneath The Frozen Soil INTERVIEW
BEYOND THE FROZEN SOIL
Can you start first with introducing yourself and your band?
Hell(O))) Devilry magazine, great to make your acquaintance.
Swift introduction: Beneath The Frozern Soil is a four piece, raw blackened doom metal band from Gothenburg Sweden.
Longer introduction:
We started out 2004 in Kalmar on the southeast cost of Sweden as a duo consisting of me (Linus Pilebrand) and ex-lead singer Buster Sporrong as an electrified way of getting out bottle up emotions, hate, anger, depression...
Selfmedication through low rumbling noise if you will.
Over time things evolved, we added a permanent drummer (Olof Holgersson) and recorded a demo that got the attention of Totalrust Music's boss Gad.
We relocated to Gothenburg, released a split with Negative Reaction through Totalrust Music, Buster left the band in order to spend time with his fianceè and their newborn son.
He was replace by Göran Nilsson and Svante Enefalk joined up on bass.
Now we..re set to release a split with Evoken via I Hate-records in august and in September Totalrust Music will release our fullength album.
We will hit the road together with Profetus and marche funebre in september for a two week long tour to promote the releases.
You are another band from Sweden.The scene there is getting bigger and bigger,don’t you think?
Yeah there are alot of realy good bands from Sweden, and they just keep om comin...
I guess it's the whole "gothenburg/stockholm" sound you know...
Unfortunately there aren't that many doom metal bands here, but then again wich country has?
Sure we have the doom metal kings Candlemass who more or less started the whole thing, but people should check out Kongh, Ocean Chief, Runemagik/The Funeral Orchestra and our totalrust labelmater Pyramido form some more low and slow music from the jewel of Scandinavia.
Your band is a doom metal-lover. Do you think that doom music is way too depressed these days?
I don't know if I would say that it's too depressed these days, I would more say that there are a bit to many bands out there acting like emos.. complaining about what not and writing depressed lyrics just for the sake of having lyrics about depression without ever having experienced real depression themselves.
Our basic concept is to invoke emotion, both musically and lyrically. A way to channel the mindset of a given moment, be it real or not. In this we strive to step away from the most common clichés of doom. For example the romanticizing of depression, grief and loss. We rather portray it as one of the uglier sides of being human.
We're a band where 3 out of 4 memebers have lost their fathers to sickness, were our ex-singer tried to commit suicide and som of us have had our fare share of encounters with selfmutilation.
So we know what depression, loss and mourning brings, and it ain't nothing good.
As.. a young band,what are your main targets?More live shows?Bigger label?
You are spot on there, the goal is do as many shows as possible, push things forward.
Cause what's the point with writing music if you..re not willing to show it to people?
We're going to record a new fullength this winter/early spring and look for a suitable label for it, well see what will come out of it.
You said that the main concept of the music is to invoce emotion.What kind of emotion you want to invoke in us?
I think the answear to question nr 3 more or less gives you the answear you need.
We have an understanding in the band that the music should sound like a rusty bulldozer sinking in mud topped with a little stream of hope, if we reach that goal then vi know that it will be a great song.
I don't if this makes any sence, but this is the best answear you are going to get.
What do you think about life in general and the modern society?
Ofcourse I'm glad that I live in a modern day sociaty where you don't have the same struggles as say, someone living in the 18 century had.
Where food and housing is more or less taken for granted and we have a funtioning healtcare.
But at the same time I feal that we as "modern people" have lost a connection to life and the earth we walk upon.
This is something that I think have crept upon us as we have aspired and struggled to reach a higer standard of living, techonological achievements and expansion of our urbanisation.
We're not that gounded anymore, wich is a pity.
Just look at how we treat this planet...
Can you reveal the secret of the sentence: “Fast is light,heavy is slow” ;) Something with doom metal?
It most definitely has to do with doom metal, cause fast music never sounds heavy and earthshattering, it might sound agressive and hateful, but heavy it is not.
When I think of something heavy I don't envision a ferrari speeding away on the freeway, I think of above mentioned rusty bulldozer sinking in mud, big, slow and heavy.
Hence, fast is light, heavy is slow.
Do you get inspiration from some movies?
In some ways, I think that eveyrbody who holds Twin Peaks, Dr Strangelove and The Seventh Seal as their favorite series/movies can't avoid picking up inspiration from them in one way or another.
I know that I do.
Are you depressed a lot?
Without giving away to much of my self or anybody else in BTFS, I believe that anybody who ever has been struck with depression and/or grief always carries that with them.
And it is up to that person to deal with it in their own way,
and try to get out as safe and sound as possible on the other end of it.
But since people are people, some take antidepressants, some do drugs, some drink, some mutilate themselves, some commit suicide, some write books, some write music.
Wish something to DEVILRY Magazine and your fans.
I personaly wish you all the best, achieve the goals you set up for yourself and never, ever backdown.
Always walk proud and tall with your eyes lifted, never let sociaty get you down.
Stay low and slow.
/Linus Pilebrand
Beneath The Frozen Soil
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