tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52297421437719053362024-03-19T01:24:53.029-07:00STORM WINDJAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-39867627785679859272020-12-13T17:30:00.002-08:002020-12-24T05:17:45.138-08:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <b>13-12-2020</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>STORMWIND FANZINE</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>AWFUL NOISE INTERVIEW </b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYUKap7ucQc6wmeUbU5yJk7KJxBdRLAR6C7_XqrUffodobmSHRevjJf0we-Zp2vGa7OHjrjrVhQazBEHoyDVMGrQiLODaBkWpK6CJ5G5HATbeOqxAU7lCuuubOa3oPrCaAGoK1a87CEbd/s632/AWFUL+NOISE+LOGO+02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYUKap7ucQc6wmeUbU5yJk7KJxBdRLAR6C7_XqrUffodobmSHRevjJf0we-Zp2vGa7OHjrjrVhQazBEHoyDVMGrQiLODaBkWpK6CJ5G5HATbeOqxAU7lCuuubOa3oPrCaAGoK1a87CEbd/s320/AWFUL+NOISE+LOGO+02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: All hail brothers. It seems like a
Grindcore/Brutal Death Metal monster is growing in Australia, step by step.
What are the reactions to the new split named Segregation?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: So far the responses have been positive,
I’m sure someone out there hates it and we’re glad they wasted their time on
us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: So after two split work with other
brutal bands, I think it is time to release an EP or maybe an album. What are
the plans for the near future?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: We have an album recorded, just had some
shit go on behind the scenes that needed to be attended to before any form of
progress was or could be made. The 2nd split was done as a way to get something
out there and keep us somewhat relevant especially during the pandemic. Also
our first split didn’t go as planned so “Segregation” was making amends on
that.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: I see the split also released as a
cassette. It was something unexpected that such a glorious return from
cassettes. Even for the brutal music and now there we go. What do you think
about the cassettes? Is it still really a good way to reach the fans or just a
nostalgia?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: Yeah tapes are still selling well in
underground metal/punk. It’s a bit redundant but that just fits in fine with
the grinders I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhY1JIc4y0fVe94XYRlsvAMsRA-7yeoNybO9spH7RDZQcR8ruBXdvPa1OlaeqIL06XKbQ1pcXf9bzdRYdZhu7MqNvV65zg7XiGR1rOrAUZWIEATsh4p7ghbi70SkKzRNdF0ieMsCkjY-7/s1092/AWFUL+NOISE+01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1092" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRhY1JIc4y0fVe94XYRlsvAMsRA-7yeoNybO9spH7RDZQcR8ruBXdvPa1OlaeqIL06XKbQ1pcXf9bzdRYdZhu7MqNvV65zg7XiGR1rOrAUZWIEATsh4p7ghbi70SkKzRNdF0ieMsCkjY-7/w400-h266/AWFUL+NOISE+01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: If there will be an album in the near
future, what would be the concept of the lyrics? Are you taking the lyrics
seriously or it is just a supporting element to brutal music?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: The lyrical theme in general is a mix of
societal observations, the human condition, political and religious ideologies
and it’s all tackled with a dry, sarcastic sense of humour.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: I believe the cover art is very
important for a release. What do you think? Is it just music that matters or
the music and the visual art are pieces of one body?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: Yeah, totally agree on that especially if
you want people to wear your shirts, you need a killer design. We have only
shown off the back piece of our album art but I can guarantee the album art is
absolutely amazing, and bit different compared to your typical death
metal/grindcore affair. We had a local artist Nick Draney do the art and killed
it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: Do you think Australian metal scene is
some kind of a parallel earth for the rest of the planet or it is known and
connected to other countries?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: I’d say the scenes are similar exempt we
have drongos, bogans and bastards. Plus any international act(s) can hug koalas
when they’re not touring so yeah that’s something. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurptbHKHPMJiNq8Xwx3C8OEqyD3Ou1VSy19h4aoTz6oTEPWYkrILbaAa5QMtKr2JynXXAI1M3V50UtdeVT0tqn7mxvPTISjCOjyMcLnFTvpWyVGlML3pZlFQmapwJuXsyNaUF9ZAfKPOi/s1092/AWFUL+NOISE+02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1092" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurptbHKHPMJiNq8Xwx3C8OEqyD3Ou1VSy19h4aoTz6oTEPWYkrILbaAa5QMtKr2JynXXAI1M3V50UtdeVT0tqn7mxvPTISjCOjyMcLnFTvpWyVGlML3pZlFQmapwJuXsyNaUF9ZAfKPOi/w400-h266/AWFUL+NOISE+02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: Could we expect some live shows in
Melbourne in 2021?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: Fucking oath. We played Ausocalypse in
Bendigo and would love to hit up Victoria again. Could knock out Melbourne,
Bendigo, Ballarat and Geelong in a weekend I reckon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: Are the bands on the split releases
friends of yours or they are just bands selected by the records label? If they
are friends, do you have any new future projects with them?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: I personally reached out to all the bands.
First split was done through Ungrateful Dead Promotions and our second split
was released through Grindhead and Huffing Asbestos Records. We’ve got a very
good relationship with Grimenity and Mendacity. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjgrskyY1nMx3KMPDIguFeIOppkHIEZJb0H9GSU3DE5MXV3E1STnYYMGXl4jMpigwkSm8Cd1ZTTndCxlYmpQCLjJFMEgy4VSxQ8TS5qgQGt6Q2ivTZg3FmW1jPJFNJ4dVH5zVDs4W6WXei/s1092/AWFUL+NOISE+03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="1092" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjgrskyY1nMx3KMPDIguFeIOppkHIEZJb0H9GSU3DE5MXV3E1STnYYMGXl4jMpigwkSm8Cd1ZTTndCxlYmpQCLjJFMEgy4VSxQ8TS5qgQGt6Q2ivTZg3FmW1jPJFNJ4dVH5zVDs4W6WXei/w400-h266/AWFUL+NOISE+03.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: Which one you personally prefer as a
collectors item? LP, CD or Cassette?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: CDs for sure. I own at least 3000 of the
bastards.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR">SW: These are our questions mate. Thanks
for being part of this interview. Any last words?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="TR">AN: Cheers mate, enjoy our new album single
“Synchronized Drowning”, out on December 25th. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/awfulnoisegrind/">https://www.facebook.com/awfulnoisegrind/</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://awfulnoisegrind.bandcamp.com/music">https://awfulnoisegrind.bandcamp.com/music/ </a></p>JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-8245670869278288992020-01-29T01:50:00.001-08:002020-01-29T01:50:27.076-08:00VETRAHEIMR INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>10-01-2020<br />STORMWIND FANZINE<br />VETRAHEIMR INTERVIEW</b></div>
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<b>SW: There we go! Thank you for accepting our interview. Now please tell us about the process from the creating the project to the first recording of Vetraheimr.</b><br />
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V: The first EP I did was mostly to test new ground. Making a project under the name Dungeon Synth was something new to me even if I did that type of music already as a kid in the early 90’s. Writing and recording at home by yourself is also a nice thing as you don’t have to be in a band situation arguing about ideas and planning rehearsals.<br />
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<b>SW: You released an album named “The Renegade” and I listened to it couple of times. The first thing I noticed is, it is a dungeon synth album not with only a synth but with also acoustic guitar parts. It even has some beautiful flute melodies which are so charming. Maybe we shouldn’t call this album just as a dungeon synth album. What do you think?</b><br />
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V: I am not very concerned if it is dungeon synth or more. I think it is not necessary to label music except for making people find things easier that share similarities and makes sense to them. It is probably wider than dungeon synth but I have never thought about it. I am only interested in creating melodies and songs. However it is not real acoustic guitars, its acoustic guitar sounds on the keyboard.<br />
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<b>SW: You also released a compilation CD which includes the early recordings. This one is different than “The Renegade” album which sounds more dungeon synth. It seems that your creation goes to more brave and new path with the album. Please tell us about your creativity process from first recordings to the Renegade album.</b><br />
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V: The first two EP’s was like I said in the first question merely to test the ground. It just happened to sound like it did because I felt very comfortable to make it sound in the way it is. After that I always have to bring something new to each recording to not just repeat the same thing as I think it would just create a big loop. The interesting thing is to figure out how to evolve and go further with new untested ideas.<br />
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<b>SW: What are your influences for creating your music? There is a vanderer or a traveller image on both compilation and first album covers. Probably they are the same person. According to the cover art, could we think that you are that person travelling all around the world and having some inspirations for your music?</b><br />
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V: My choice for cover arts are mostly to symbolize a lonely journey that is not always understood by other people. It symbolize myself and how I experience the world. A lone wolf on a journey seeking. More than that I will not say as it is personal.<br />
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<b>SW: Are you in fantasy fiction novels? If yes, which books and writers are your favorites?</b><br />
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V: I am afraid to say that I am not in to fiction or fantasy novels mainly because I can’t focus enough on reading made up stories even though as much as I would like to be able to appreciate that. My imagination is in the music that is open to interpretation.<br />
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<b>SW: Do you have connections with any other dungeon synth musicians? Please tell us which musicians are your favorites.</b><br />
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V: I can’t say that I have real connections with other dungeon synth musicians. Just some acquaintances online. As for favorites I in general scroll on bandcamp to find different things to discover. It was Fief that got my interested in making something myself. But then I don’t know if that is really considered pure dungeon synth either but it is not important.<br />
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<b>SW: What are your hobbies? I am asking this questions because I want to know if there is a connection between your music and your personal interests.</b><br />
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V: I like movies and to collect them even though I don’t buy much anymore. I used to have 2.000 movies on dvd, blu ray and VHS but got rid of half of it as it took too much space. Aside from that I sometimes like to play some retro games like nintendo and sega to unwind. I also like spirituality and meditation. I lift weights regularly too as I like strength training and have done so since I was 15 years old.<br />
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<b>SW: After releasing “The Renegade” you also released a digital album named “Unchained” Will we have a hard copy of this release as CD or LP?</b><br />
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V: I am speaking right now to someone that has offered to release it on CD but unfortunately it will be released later this year but it is coming.<br />
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<b>SW: Now please tell us about “Unchained” Where are the stories of the album coming from?</b><br />
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V: With “Unchained” I wanted to go more epic and include more diversity in the songs and bring in some electronic music vibes that merge with the acoustic sounds. I am very happy with the result and feel that it is a powerful beast. The meaning of the album is that the beast is unleashed. As for the stories, song by song I want the listener to imagine their own fantasies and for them to experience it in their own unique way.<br />
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<b>SW: These are our questions mate. Thanks again for answering. Any last words?</b><br />
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V: Thank you very much for interview and your interest in my music.<br />
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<b>SW: All right, let’s start mate. First of all, thank you for accepting our interview. So we have two albums and one split. They are all released as CD and Cassette. What was the reaction of the Dungeon Synth scene all around the world? </b></div>
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AD: At the start it was fairly slow, I shared it among friends and online, people began to pay attention when I put it on bandcamp and started sending physical copies. Out of Season approached me and released ‘Askeladden’ with the b-side ‘Astral Monastery’ – once those sold out I re-issued it under Skaventhrone. A musician from Indiana who I’d been in correspondence with had some great tracks I really enjoyed, we decided to co-release the Ash Nazg / Algiz Dawn split ‘From the Isle of Mist’ – some of these songs I’d written as early as 1999, it was good to get them out there. Lastly, ‘Purple Clouds in Kingdom Sky’ was a collection of darker, more focused material which I release in September last year.</div>
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AD: I began composing music in the mid-90’s, I wanted to create ambient music that had a ‘medieval’ sound to it, combining celtic reels and ‘new age’ synth sounds, similar to fantasy soundtracks such as The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and computer games like Zork, Myst, and Riven. I was 15 when I composed the first Taur Nu Fuin material under the name ‘Nightenland’. Algiz Dawn was a continuation of the ambient material I’d been writing with a lighter theme, less ‘darkness’ and more nature inspired. I wanted to create a sound that feels like you’re floating in space, ‘Asleep, Being Carried By The Wind’ is the closest I can think of that has this feel to it. ‘Lightships Over Bifrost’ was inspired by my vision of extraterrestrial life – but let’s not get into that 😉 </div>
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<b>SW: Please tell us about the first album and second album. What are the stories behind those beautiful melodies? It will be our pleasure to hear all the details so that will help us understanding your art better. </b></div>
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AD: I’ll get into more detail about the debut – but will explain the second album, and the e.p. ‘From the Isle of Mist’ were three seafaring journeys, I’d composed some of them a long time ago, with a vision of maritime travel in the dark ages. It’s as close as I got to composing ‘celtic reels’, I was going for some kinda Clannad/Secret Garden/Deep Forest type production for this. <br />
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A Goblin who is trying to defend his home and the forest from the evil overtaking it. The goblin is friends with giant ravens who help him and his kind flee when the evil becomes too strong. A stinky toad that belches and excretes purple mist, the toad represents greed. <br />
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AD: ‘Askeladden’ or ‘Ashlad’ is a Norwegian folk tale that really struck a chord with me. As a child I was a bit of an escape artist, explorer, outsider, and often ‘went missing’ on various adventures. My imagination would create other worlds to explore as well, usually in the forest near my house, which is a vast nature reserve. I guess that explorative nature developed in my creative works too, the earlier Algiz Dawn compositions reflect a bit of that ‘lost child’ sentiment. <br />
‘Perihelion’ is basically a sun-worship festival song, and ‘From Under The Soil’ is about the circle of life, I put a jazz swing at the end – I was inspired by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for some of this music. ‘Astral Monastery’ is another imagined world which I would compare to Soria Moria – also in Norwegian folklore, similar to Askeladden. </div>
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AD: I originally incorporated Theodor Kittelsen’s artwork to accompany the story, however, it had been used by too many other artists, someone pointed this out (very rudely) on a forum and had dismissed my work. So I used photography from my own explorations in Uppsala, Sweden, and redesigned everything. </div>
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AD: To assist the vision and story for this record, I’d asked Silvana Massa to create two pieces of art to accompany the story, and Damien Lee to illustrate some characters. I’ll continue this story in later works. Silvana and Damien pretty much ‘complete’ the visual and storytelling nature of the album. </div>
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AD: I’m working on something right now actually, it’s taking a bit of an interesting turn, not so much ‘Dungeon Synth’ as the previous release, there’s a dark 80’s pop element to it, with a nod to Dead Can Dance, and a larger focus on heavy bass synths, percussion, and keyboard leads. It still has the airy ethereal feel in some tracks. I guess I’m composing more ‘songlike’ music for this one. I imagine ghosts dancing in an abandoned amphitheatre at night, and try to make music for them. </div>
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<b>SW: Hi, thank you for accepting our interview. Well, we have a very beautiful presented dungeon synth album here which named “The Shadow and The Flame” Congratulations for the good job. May you please tell us about the process of music writing? </b><br />
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BAL: Hi ! Thanks a lot, I'm really happy that you enjoyed my work ! This album is for me one of my greatest work to date. I wanted to reach something really specific for this album in terms of atmosphere, translating my very personal interpretations of the Lord Of The Rings, as well as other Tolkien's works. Of course, "The Shadow And The Flame" had to be an improved successor of my first album "Khazad Dûm", which was more minimalist. To date, this is my most complete work, talking about the shape of sounds, the textures of my synths and the variety of medieval instruments used.<br />
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<b>SW: Tolkien world is a very big and charming one which gives influences to the dungeon snyth musicians. My question is, why most of the dungeon synth musicians are prefering to have the influence from the dark side? No one is writing songs about humans, elves or dwarves. If there is, I didn’t see it. What makes the musicians prefer the dark side of the Tolkien world? </b><br />
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BAL: I think that what makes Dungeon Synth so particular and attractive is the mysteries that could be hidden in a big and obscure castle for example. Its roots came from Black Metal, and most of the synths sounds that introduced this new "genre" were quite dark, to fit with the rest of the albums; even with an inspiration from Tolkien's world, so it were more accurate to write about this side of the story. But some Dungeon Synth projects have written about more luminous things, like Uruk-Hai who talked about almost every aspects of Tolkien's universe, or Sirion for his album "Quenta Silmarillion". For my part, I recently published "Night Settle On The Mountains", that deals with dwarves in the Hobbit story, and I still have some unpublished demos about more joyful things.<br />
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<b>SW: Do you have new projects these days for the dungeon synth music fans? What are the plans for the future? </b><br />
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BAL : For now, I am working on a new EP that might appear very soon. Some demos might follow, before a new album. I prefer testing new sounds in my demos before using them to create a whole new record. I'm also thinking about creating my own musical videos, and maybe a few shows.<br />
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BAL: Easily Morgoth. To me, he is one of the most thoroughed character in the books, as well as the most charismatic and feared by everyone.<br />
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BAL: Starting the introduction in Udûn, the next song directly introduce the Balrog and how I imagine him. The other songs are put together in a coherent set of sounds to my ears, and each one deals with a scenery that marked me greatly in my readings.<br />
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<b>SW: Will there be a chance for Balrog fans to see this beautiful album on an LP version? </b><br />
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BAL: I received a lot of requests about this format, I'm of course thinking about this too. It would be beautiful to be able to give this album the chance to be pressed on a vinyl, but for now I'm still looking for a label interesting in doing it !<br />
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BAL: In my collection I own many cassettes, it's my favorite format, I find it particularly beautiful. We have the chance in the Dungeon Synth scene that a lot of labels still release a great amount of tapes like back in the days, and each one is unique and original. None of them disappoint on the quality.<br />
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<b>SW: Ok, now I will choose a song and I will let you to tell us the story behind. “The book of the last knights” What’s the story behind? </b><br />
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BAL: Great choice, because "The Book Of The Last Knights" is the first song I recorded for the album ! I composed this one as a rendering of the feelings of how you read a battle in a Tolkien book. You know, this kind of feeling as a child when you first hear a story about knights or chivalry. It's really epic in your head, and I wanted the listener to understand how I was blown away when reading those scenes, so that's why it is one of the most dynamic songs of the album. The song ends on a wasted battlefield and how the last knights still standing there perceive it. That's also why the next song, "The Swords In The Old Tomb" is very sad, because it deals with the feelings of loss and damage after the battle.<br />
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BAL: Well, it seems that the fanbase is patriotic. Even if I received a lot of positive feedbacks from almost all around the world, most of my devoted supporters are in France or Europe. A great friend of mine who create videos about the world of Tolkien also used many of my songs for his channel in French. It's called "Glaz" so if you understand french, you can give it a try !<br />
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<b>SW: Do you have connections with some other dungeon synth musicians? </b><br />
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BAL: Yes, I'm on the scene since the very beginning and most of my friends / contacts are also a part of this wonderful genre. I worked with Erang and Uruk-Hai in the past, and more recently with ElixiR, The Inquisitor or my friend of Master Scarecrow. Many other ones of course, and I work with a lot of musicians and labels since many years for my other projects.<br />
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<b>SW: These are our questions. Thank you again for accepting us. It will be our pleasure to hear if you have any last words. </b><br />
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BAL: Well, thanks so much for your interesting questions ! I'd just want to thanks all the people who support my music, that's something really heartwarming for me every days. I wish Tolkien were still here so I can thanks him for his amazing works that still inspire people nowadays.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: Look mate, I’m not some kinda pervert, and if I’m looking through anyone’s window it’s not for their kids, it’s for their worldly possessions, see what I can rip off when they go hit the slopes for their winter holidays. However, if any of those little shits scream all excitedly when Santa delivers his lame gifts under the plastic tree, I start feeling a rumble in my tummy. Might get a bit peckish, may have a gobble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The music I make is usually derivative of existing melodies and songs, but I at least play and re-record them to my own style, unlike ripping the midi file straight off the internet and pretending I sequenced it like that ElixiR guy’s Harry Potter album *vomits* - and, I suspect a fair few other artists who will all be exposed eventually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: I’m currently working on a new album in time for December 6th, you know, Krampusnacht. This will incorporate music from around the world, used during various culture’s festive celebrations, and maybe the music of Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ – without consulting any composers, arrangers, or representatives of the cultures I’m appropriating, because you humans keep mis-representing cryptids, so fuck you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: Ah the fucking ‘C’ word again. I think even Jesus is sick of it. Anyway, definitely. The entire season tests my patience, dealing with all the St Nick worshippers, it stresses me out. Since the Roman Catholic Church shifted the date of Yuletide celebrations to the end of the month, after the night of the 6th, I usually get really fed up with all the commercialism, the shoppers, the shitty humans getting all excitable and fat, so, I hide away in my cabin, with vague memories of melodies I’ve heard playing at the supermarket, and rework them in my own style, which just happens to be dungeon synth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: Mostly good, there were some pissed off nerds who thought a ‘holiday’/’christmas’ themed dungeon synth album was an abomination to their precious genre. However, they failed to see the point. This is not a fucking CHRISTmas album, these are not originally Christian songs, they originate from folk melodies, pub songs, reels, chants, nature worship, pantheism. Not churches! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: It’s certainly a faithful representation of my loyal cohorts and their general distaste for the period. That said, they’d never be caught dead in such gauche footwear. What sort of practicality do loops above ones foot serve? Otherwise, it was certainly an entertaining and rather inspiring piece. I’ll be sure to utilise some of the guerilla tactics those characters displayed before the years end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: I’ll look in the mirror, and say “This is not my beautiful house!? This is not my beautiful wife!” Then leave. But actually, I’ll be in my own fucking house at Christmas. Avoiding all the cheerful frivolity, fulfilling mail orders and putting coal in people’s letterboxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: Well, I really wanted to redefine the music that’s often associated with Christmas, it should be taken away from Christmas and re-paganised. Even the most popular Carols, Hymns and narratives around the Christmas story were taken from European pagan traditions. That was my original intention. I heard later that some people on an internet page were talking about doing this first, and Krampusnacht ultimately beat them to it, without even engaging them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">KRA: Well, don’t mind me for correcting a few spelling errors on the way, hey English is my second language too! I probably made a few grammatical errors anyway. I’ll take a closer look at your zine once I learn how to type with these hooves. If you need any pictures, I don’t have any current ones – but there are plenty of historical images of me on google, just please only use the public domain stuff, or the pics from bandcamp, not someone else’s precious artwork. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Thanks for your questions, please remove Christmas from your calendars and replace it with Winter Solstice, Yuletide, the Wild Hunt, Mōdraniht, Krampusnacht, Hogmanay, Kwanzaa, fucking Yaksmas, Snowflake Day, Snoggletog, Prixin...anything but Christmas!</span></div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-90699773118852740192018-09-06T01:45:00.001-07:002018-09-06T01:55:06.020-07:00BAVINGR INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
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BAV: Just THANK YOU! I’m amazed that someone would want to interview me about my music, it means a lot. The DS community as a whole has been great and supportive especially the people on the forum and my GIBDUS/Dungeon It! comrades. </div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-40528060588496382342018-05-26T06:50:00.003-07:002019-05-14T02:57:58.987-07:00OLD SORCERY INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
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Thank you for accepting our interview. As you know social media has a massive
affect on promoting albums but you don’t have a facebook page which is most
popular platform these days. May I ask why you are not in social media? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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promote themselves on social media. However, I don't feel the need to promote
any more Old Sorcery there than I do on the Dungeon Synth -forum, I think that
the followers of a sub-genre like this want to have that kind of discovering
feeling, you know? The whole genre kinda draws it's influences from the past
glorious times, the tape-trading scene and the real underground movement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Debut album hit the scene just like a bright moon in the sky. As I followed on
social media, dungeon synth fans paid so much attention to the album “Realms of
Magickal Sorrow”. Please tell me about the reactions of the fans. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: Yeah, I was overwhelmed by the reaction. My
first plans were to dub the cassette myself, like 5 copies to my friends or so.
Turned out, after the digital release, that people all over the world wanted my
album on cassette! This amazes me. Old Sorcery is music made for myself
exclusively, and I am very glad that so many people enjoy it as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The album cover is magickal itself. Who is the artist and please tell us about
the creation process. Do you give the idea to artist or artist listens to music
and creates his/her own ideas? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: Actually, it is an old oil painting by an
unknown artist. Can't shed anymore light on the matter... As far as my new
release goes, the split with a fellow dungeon synth artist "Haxan
Dreams" titled "Dreams of the Old Kingdom", the cover is made
by Abhot'h Xelpunanic from Haxan
Dreams. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I see that the album has CD and Cassette versions both. However the cassette
version was very limited and it has come to sold out situation fastly. Do you
have plans to make a re-issue for the cassette version? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: The tape version was limited to 100 on Garavluth
Records. Maybe on the future, we will see a re-issue. Don't know yet. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Somehow the dungeon synth fans prefer cassette versions of the albums rather
than the CD versions. What should be the reason for that? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: Well, my own reason for that is the sound. It
sounds OLD, worn, organic! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Please tell us about your dungeon the place that you are creating your music
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: As I am writing this, I am listening to the
"Mark of the Devil" -soundtrack LP by Michael Holm. To describe this
"dungeon" would take away some of the mystery that I want to create
with Old Sorcery. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Are you also interested in 8bit computer synth? If yes than do you have
favorite musicians or songs written by a 8bit computer? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: Can't say that I am. I love old synth
soundtracks though, from the 70's and 80's. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So after a succesfull debut album, fans will accept more of your music. Are you
having plans for a new release and if yes what are your plans to move the
success to a new level? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: I recently released a split album with Haxan
Dreams, a very limited tape release that is sold out. We will repress it soon.
I don't care about the success really, but I think I am ready to delve deeper
into the majestic mountains, endless forests and castles at the end of this
year so, a new album will definitely emerge in some point, whenever I feel
ready. Right now, I am extremely busy with my other projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If the castle on the debut album cover was real will that be a place that you
want to live? Imagine that it is real and you are living there. How would you
spend most of your time? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OS: I would take long walks in the corridors and the
forests surrounding the castle, order more wine from the servants and listen
the walls whisper sad stories from the Dark Ages. That would be the time of Old
Sorcery, of Old Ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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These are our questions. It will be our pleasure to hear if you have anything
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the interview released at 26.05.2018, Old Sorcery also released Lp version of the album "Realms of Magickal Sorrow" which was available at 24.8.2018. It is limited to 199 Black and 99 Gold LP </span><br />
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-57118988233273809872018-05-17T01:41:00.000-07:002018-05-22T06:16:48.849-07:00GALDUR INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>SW: Thank you for accepting our interview. I must say that personally I am really in Dungeon Synth music these days and there are so many of musicians who are doing this type of music. Well, we can’t reach all of them but we should pick the best ones. I believe that Galdur is in this best ones list. Ok, first question. Please tell us about how and when you start to create this music? </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It started from Severoth. I formed it in 2007 and started to do music at all in 2008. In that time Severoth was only ambient project and i just recorded tracks for myself. Some of those tracks was more “fantasy” based than rest of material. Eventually i had 4 songs like that composed in different times of 2010-2013. And then it became “Born by Stars and Moon” album of Galdur. I didn’t have internet then so i just wanted to create some fantasy inspired music for home listening and playing RPG’s. That’s how “Galdur” was formed. And only then in end of 2013 i heard Mortiis first time and then Arath’s debut album.<br />
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<b>SW: This question is from the Age of Legends album. There is a man repeating a sentence in the first song Lord of Iron Fortress. Which language is he talking and what is he saying? </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>English. It’s Saruman lines from LOTR movie. İt said “The New Power is Rising”. “Iron Fortress” is translation of Orthanc so this track is dedicated to Christopher Lee as only true Saruman. Lord of Iron Fortress.<br />
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<b>SW: Personally, Age of Legends is my favorite Galdur album. From the first song to last song, I can feel the dark depths of Mordor in my mind. The inspiration is surely Lord of the Rings trilogy but the question is, what made you to choose this concept for this album? </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I just did what i’d like to hear myself. I love LOTR and album was inspired by Tolkien alot, but also by other fantasy books, D&D, computer RPG’s like Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights.<br />
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<b>SW: What are the reactions to your music from all around the world? Are you getting positive feedbacks from the dungeon synth fans? Tell us about fans opinions please. </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I think yes. I get some positive feedbacks. But i don’t really follow DS scene. You know, since i have several projects (Severoth, Bezmir, Morok and Galdur) i receive many feedbacks about all my albums. Some positive and some not. I like to read them of course but i do all music for myself at first place – so if i glad with result – it’s enough for me.<br />
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<b>SW: Is there a posibilty for die hard fans to have LP versions of the albums? Especially Picture Disc will be amazing. What do you think? </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It will definitely happen someday. We already started to release my albums on vinyl. First one was Bezmir – VOID released in 12” Vinyl this March. Preparations for vinyl release takes around 6 months and alot of effort so process is slow. But “Age of Legends” will be on vinyl definitely.<br />
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<b>SW: Which season of the year is the best one for being creative for you? Spring, summer, autumn or winter. Please tell us why? </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I don’t really pay big attention to this. I do music all the time and get inspired from any weather or season. I just work with different projects. To do quality album you must work many months with it.<br />
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<b>SW: Please tell us about the place and its atmosphere that you live where you are creating your art. </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You know. Since “Age of Legends” release i moved twice already and also i moved before “Age of Legends” so places around me changes alot. All the “atmosphere” is in my head and always with me. Now i live in Dnipro again. I have separate “music room” when all my instruments and gear stored. I work there on my albums.<br />
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<b>SW: It looks like all that charming album covers are created by the same artist. Might that be you or if not who is then? </b><br />
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-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Covers for all my albums created by Unholy Darkness. She is my wife. She created covers for other bands in the past. Currently she is tattoo artist but still creates covers for me.<br />
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<a href="https://galdur.bandcamp.com/">https://galdur.bandcamp.com</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/galdurofficial">https://www.facebook.com/galdurofficial</a> </div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-29044991143326190032017-10-30T02:53:00.001-07:002017-10-30T02:55:34.067-07:00ARES KINGDOM INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
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us know about the underground scene in Kansas City.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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There isn't much to
tell! We haven't played here since 2010. It's a nice place to live, though.</div>
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<b>*Please tell us about
creating process of the latest album The Unburiable Dead and what’s the
reactions of the fans?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Many believe it's our
best album yet. It is a very strong album!</div>
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<b>*What is that
illustration represent on album cover?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The artist is George
Grosz. It represents the result of war. Destruction, suffering and death!</div>
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<b>*You are working on a
new album these days. What would we expect from the new material?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Yes, we're working on
a new album now. The songs are heavier, faster and darker than anything we've
done before. You're going to love it!</div>
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<b>*Which edition of
albums do you prefer to collect? Cassette, Cd, lp or picture disc?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>*Which death metal
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I lose track of which
bands are from the '90s and which became known in the '90s.</div>
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<b>*Ares Kingdom was
created in 1996. What changed in those years? Are you satisfied about the place
that Ares Kingdom came in metal scene?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Sure, we occupy a
unique place in the underground. There is no other band like like us, and that
is a great thing.</div>
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Lots. Most are old
friends. Destroyer 666, Pentacle, Watain, Adorior, Rotting Christ, Varathron,
Begrime Exemious, and many others we've toured with or played shows with.</div>
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<b>*Ares Kingdom is a
precious diamond in my opinion. I like all of your material especially LP
records with diehard editions. Which format of the albums are choosen by the
fans most?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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When it comes to LPs,
fans really like the die hard versions. We do, too, because we get to pack a
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Check out our website
for more information and merchandise. We ship to almost every country.
<b>www.areskingdom.com</b></div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-62388043016209716412017-10-05T05:18:00.000-07:002017-10-05T05:22:40.111-07:00REVENGE INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b>STORMWIND FANZINE ISSUE 4</b></div>
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<b>* Hi bro, please let us know about the Colombian metal scene.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Hi, thx a lot for interview.
Well, colombian metal scnene right now is very strong. A lot of great gigs and
fest are happening here. The most owerful band over the world want to play in Colombia and South America and this is great. Also very important say, that
all days born good band here. Right now the bands want to record, rehearse and
go out to concerts. things like that are the ones that help a scene grow and
remain as one of the most important of the world that has seen the birth of the
most powerful bands in some genres.</div>
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<b>*You have six full lenght album and a new one is on the way. How is the
reaction to your music all around the world?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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We have some friends and fans
around the world who always be allert about our releases and other. We think
peole and metal maniacs around the world show a great reaction about our music
and our merch. We sent packets with our music or merch every week to more than
22 countries and this is great for us.</div>
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<b>*Which Revenge album is your favorite?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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For me, the best Revenge album is
right now the seventh album “Spitting Fire”. I find in this new album a great
sound and a lot of positive things that is not in the past albums. Also, the
lyrics and music compositions are very good and the most important over all
thing is that the band is very exciting about this release.</div>
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<b>*Which edition of albums do you prefer to collect? Tape, Cd or lp?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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I prefer collect only Lps
Versions. I do not know if it's an obsession or what it may be, but I feel a
special magic in that format</div>
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<b>*What do you think about the illegally downloading albums on internet?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Bad, is very bad. For independet
artist, and independent artist in Metal is very very bad. Illegaly downloads
does much damage to the artist because it does not allow him to have an
economic reach and also loses the interest of the people in collecting the
physical format.</div>
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<b>*Do you have connection with other bands in your country? Is there a
metal brother support between bands in Colombia?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Yes, we can say free, we have
friends of all colombian metal bands. Possibly we have some difference in
ideology with some members of other bands but finally we are friends of all the
bands of the country. I think that sometimes there are members of bands that do
not know how to do things or make them bad and that sometimes we criticize but
we respect those decisions a lot.</div>
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<b>*What was the main target for Revenge and at the beginning and at which
point of that path is the band right now?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Well, Immediately we want to try
to reach our friends and followers with the new album and expect to be able to
move quite well between the world scenes. We have 3 major concerts pending in
Colombia with bands like Accept, Sodom, Satyrico, among others. We want to make
good shows and wait for the reissues of the new album that will arrive in
format vinyl and tape. After that and the beginning of 2018 we hope we can go
out and do some concerts outside the country</div>
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<b>*These are my questions bro. Any last words?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Thx a lot for this interview. We
want to greet and hail to all Metal Maniacs who are reading this lines and make
invitation them to know us and to listen to our music, maybe someday we'll meet
and share some beers.</div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-15186547537826155702017-09-05T03:10:00.000-07:002017-09-05T03:10:01.729-07:00ELVENKING INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Greetings from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>
the city of seven hills. Well, bro tell us what are you doing these days as
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> Hello! Well at the moment we are really
working hard on the final details of the new album. The mix is done and we are
valuating the mastering now. We are giving also final touches to the artwork
and at the same time organizing things around the tour in support of the album.
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How popular is Elvenking in your country <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>? Just the metal heads or most
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Well, I would say that in the last years
the things are getting better and better also in our home country. Since a
couple of years ago we were more popular outside </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">. Countries like Germany,
Holland, Belgium etc gave a warmest welcome to our albums and live shows, but
lately also things in Italy are becoming really good for us, even if it’s
popularly know that Italian fans are not really into the local scene and prefer
foreign acts. I would say that most of our listeners are metal heads but I have
to notice that we have a good numbers of fans also between those who don’t
listen usually to metal music, because they like a lot our different
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M:
After all this years and five great albums, do you think that the band stands
the place you wanted it to be at the beginning? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> Well, to be sincere in the beginning of
the band we never thought to be able to reach such levels. As said we come form
a country where there was no space for metal music and in 1997, when we formed
it was absolutely impossible to do something in this market. So everything we
achieved is simply unbelievable for us. And thinking back to the old days and
looking right now to where…well, I really feel proud. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M:
How do you write the main themes for the albums. Just your imagination or ideas
from fantastic books? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> No, it is just from imaginations. But I
guess you refer to the lyrics, and if you read them with attention you will
realize they are about personal experiences and emotions. Nothing about fantasy
or something similar. Maybe some people think that Elvenking lyrics are about
fantasy or heroic stories, probably because of the name of the band, but, with
the exceptions of few lyrics in our first album, this is really far from the
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M:
Is Elvenking main job for you? If it is, is it really possible to earn money
from music these dark pirate free mp3 days? Do you support free share on
internet? Is laws enough in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place>
to protect your art?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> Unfortunately we cannot consider it as a
real job. As you said these are really dark days, and mp3s have ruined
everything. I think that if things won’t change, music is close to the end or
at least quality music, because there won’t be budgets to create and give forms
to your ideas and to promote seriously your bands. I think that time is running
and if there won’t be serious laws to protect all this, there won’t be future.
I don’t understand what music business is doing for this massive problem. It
seems like they do not care. I read the other day that also Christina Aguilera
sold only 200.000 copies of her album. Well this is pretty impressive! When
also pop music will be close to the end I think somebody will do something!</span></div>
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Personallay, which kind of music do you listen? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> Well, I would say everything, from metal
to pop, from rock to punk and everything that has good melodies. But I would
say that the very most part of my listening are good old metal and some new
interesting band. I prefer melodic metal but also death or black metal are
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Do you collect LP? Is it still populer format for you? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> Well, no to be sincere no. I am still with
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M:
Do we have chance to see Elvenking live in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">istanbul</st1:city></st1:place>? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> I would come to play there also tomorrow
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">M:
Thanks for the answers bro. Say hello to crew from us. <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Aydan:</b> Thank you very much for the interview. Our
new album will be release in September, so check it out. All the best!</span></div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-1058184233988229382017-08-01T06:33:00.000-07:002017-08-01T06:33:07.966-07:00ACHERONTAS INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>M: Hi. First of I all I want to thank you very much for requesting our interview. How is the Black Metal scene in Greece these days?</b><br />First of all thank u for the interview. The new scene has nothing to do with the old scene that i admired in the early 90'. Quantity but no quality. I respect only the older bands from our scene..the new bands even are musically good, they lack of a strong background in philoshophy themes. thats why black metal differs from the other kinds of music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">YES indeed.. the hellenic scene gives much more value in the atmosphere , but the others give to blast..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>You changed your name from Stutthof to Acherontas. May you please tell us why you baptised your bands name as Acherontas? What is the meaning of Acherontas?</b><br />Acherontas was the river and the bridge that unites the living world with the world of the dead. IT was the gate to the underworld ,the name changed for estheticall reasons , and that our philoshophy from the beginning of the band at 1996 was dealing with occultismm and not NS , but our ex name was a very good propaganda for the perfect and lovely race of god.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>I see you have some material about Eygpt in your new album. May you tell us what are the stories telling in new album?</b><br /><br />Our lyrics in the last album deals generally with occultism. but many themes have benn taken from old traditions and mysteries that take place in summeria.Like the after life existance and many necromantical arts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Are there any differents between Stutthof lyrics and Acherontas lyrics?</b><br /><br />Not at all, only the name chenged nothing else<b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>What do you do in your ordinary days excluding music?</b><br /><br />Living my life enjoy and master as a predator, trying to live as creative entity<br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>May you please let us know a little about true occult black art? If this is more than a lyric inspiration, just let us know what you have at the other side of the black door.</b><br /><br />Occultism is way of life, it cannot be described in few words, its a way of action..</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>M: </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><b>These are our questions.Do you have something to add?</b><br /><br />Check our split with necromantia which is already out, a split with leviathan coming out on march and also my project nihasa .. for more details visit our websites </span></div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-58973005805382179592017-07-25T23:27:00.001-07:002017-07-25T23:28:45.010-07:00ELIMINATOR INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b>M: Hi. First of I
all I want to thank you very much for requesting our interview. Well lets start
with first question. I see some photos from old Persian Empire in your myspace
page. Are you from Iran?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Warchild:</b> Yes I am from Iran. My parents are anyway, I
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<b>Warchild:</b> It was awesome, took some time to record at
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<b>Warchild: </b>Right now there is a lineup being solidified.
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<b>Warchild:</b> The reaction has been very positive. Some
people think we are the best new thrash band in the world so that was a
surprise. Since we did not tour to support the first album due to other life
obligations, it did not succeed as well as the other bands in the new scene.
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<b>Warchild:</b> The LP sold well but the CD is now sold out
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<b>M: I see you worked with Repka for
the album cover painting. Did you give the idea to him or did he read the
lyrics and designed it free?</b></div>
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<b>Warchild:</b> The original design was my idea but Repka
contributed his own idea. I said it was cool and he went wild with it.<br />
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future of Eliminator?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Warchild:</b> The main aim is to put out at least one album
a year if not more, and tour in the future. That is basically it...constantly
write and release music to the metal community <br />
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<b>M: Do you have contacts with other
thrash bands? Do you have the environment in your city which Metallica,
Megadeth, Slayer and Sepultura has 25 years ago?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Warchild: </b>I have very little contact with other thrash
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words for the Turkish thrash fans.</b></div>
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<b>Warchild: </b>Keep banging your heads, rock hard and keep
metal alive forever. It has a purpose!</div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-28081019098156061672017-07-25T23:02:00.001-07:002017-07-26T03:51:21.606-07:00WARBRINGER INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>20-02-2010</b></div>
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<b>WARBRINGER INTERVIEW</b></div>
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<b>M: Hi. First of I all I want to thank you very much for requesting our interview. Lets start with your lyrical influences. Warbringer writes lyrics about war surely but my question is what is the main message to the listeners.</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>If the lyrics are about war, they are about the horrors of war. We talked about war a lot on the first album and didn't want to feel like we had dug ourselves in a hole on the second album so we talked about few different topics that still worked with the music and shifted more to the horrors of mankind. For example, "Living in a Whirlwind" is about drug addiction, "Severed Reality" is about the spiritual horrors during a nightmarish sort of trip, other topics included starvation of the entire human population, general bad-assery, and the cost of revenge.</div>
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<b>M :Do you think that American thrash metal is different than European thrash metal?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>Totally. But then it always depends on the band. I would say the more successful American bands played slower and had a lot more melody. Honestly some of the main Cali-Bay area bands like Metallica and Testament weren't huge influences on us.</div>
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We were always more influenced the the German approach -- Fast, Brutal, and sometimes even a little reckless. There's not a lot singing in Kreator or Destruction's music, but those bands also managed to become even more technical and interesting as their careers went on unlike some of the American bands that I feel were stuck in a rut. Exodus, Dark Angel, Vio-lence and Demmolitoin Hammer are American bands that are still a huge influences on us.</div>
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<b>M: Is Warbringer a job for the band crew that all members can earn money?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>Only the crew, and we only hire 1 person a tour to help sell merch and maybe drive. We really only break-even as it's very costly to tour, but the goal is that after a lot of touring and work we will be able to headline. Once we can hold our own we're hoping we won't have to deal with being in debt anymore. </div>
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<b>M: If the band gets so famous in the future, will that effect your musical aim or will you go on play louder than hell as you do now?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>With this band I just want to set out and finish what we started when we were 16. The aim is just to write brutal, sophisticated, original thrash metal music The art is in finding a balance between heavy, simple stuff and complicated, prog stuff. Sometime in the future I might see what I could do with other kinds of music.</div>
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<b>M: I can see the cover art work of the ‘War without end’ gives idea about music and lyrics but </b><b>‘Waking into nightmares’ cover art work does not. What does the second album cover art work tell us?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>To be honest, I like the first cover but I think it's kind of cartoony. The second cover was done by a great artist, Dan Seagrave, and the theme is present and a little more subtle. The whole idea of the second album was that the songs were a collection of all sorts of stories about different nightmares and horrors. The cover art is supposed to represent an artifact with some sort of terrible unknown purpose. It could be tied in, as you can see the tanks from the first album, if you look closely. Next time we definitely should do something more direct, but with the second album we really just wanted to push ourselves and everything we could do to say that we were not just another typical thrash clone. </div>
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<b>M: Do you have idea about my city istanbul and the bands we have here?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>No, I've never been but I know there is a lot of history and we're hoping to make it on the second leg of the current European tour, which is being booked now. I'm sure you probably have some great gigs though. I feel like the crowds in the major cities we play take live music for granted because it's so available to them.</div>
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<b>M: ‘War without end’ album has a limited Picture Disc edition released by Cyclone Empire. As a collector, I bought my copy surely. Are you a collector like me? Is the format of the album important for you too?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>Ha,ha, all of them. There's even a picture disc of War Without End that Cyclone Empire printed 666 copies of, that's probably my favorite. They will be doing a split 7" soon with us and Dew-Scented that I look forward to seeing.</div>
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<b>M: Which one is much more amusing? Playing live or recording session in the studio?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>Both, I like the studio because that's the only chance you'll have for the rest of your life to bring songs you fought with your band to write to life as art. Live is also great because everyone in your band knows what they need to play and it's all about seeing how hard and fast you can play the songs, how tight the band sticks together, and what kind of reaction you can get from the audience.</div>
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<b>M: Do we have a chance to see you live in istanbul?</b></div>
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<b>John: </b>As mentioned, there is a second leg to the current European tour where we will headline some dates on our own and we have a tentative date in Istanbul, Turkey that we're hoping will confirm. We would love to have great show in Turkey!<br />
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<b>M: These are my questions. Thanks again and greetings from istanbul. Last words for the Turkish fans?</b><br />
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<b>John: </b>Thanks to all of you for your support and dedication! Hope to see as many of you as we can, we have a few gigs in Turkey coming up. </div>
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- John Laux / Warbringer</div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-10029473473448994022017-07-25T22:40:00.000-07:002017-07-25T23:03:53.265-07:00BRAIN DRILL INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b>22-05-2009</b></div>
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<b>MIRAS FANZINE ISSUE 5</b></div>
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<b>BRAIN DRILL INTERVIEW</b></div>
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<b>M: May you please shortly tell us
the history of the band?</b></div>
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We started in the summer of 2005.
AT first it was just a side project of mine. I basically wanted to just do a
recording with the 6 songs that I wrote. SO I found marco and paid him 500
bucks for the recording. Then I contacted steve and he say on the demo for
free. AFter that everybody was so stoked on the music they wanted to make it
into a band.</div>
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<b>M: You have a very technical and
brutal music. You signed a contract with Metal Blade Records. I guess you are
the most brutal band at the Metal Blade family. May you please tell us how did
it happen?</b></div>
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We over heard an interview with
alex webster and he stated he had heard of us and thought it was pretty fucking
sick, so we contacted him thanking him for his support and also let him know
that we were submitting a demo to metal blade and that if he wanted to give the
label the heads up that would be awesome. Sure enough a few weeks later we got
a call from metal blade and we worked out a contract with them.</div>
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<b>M: What are the main advantages of
being under the wings of a big metal record company?</b></div>
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Lots of good tours, advertising,
radio exposure. There are alot of good things because a huge label like metal
blade really wants there bands to do good and there records to sell.</div>
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<b>M: I guess, zombie concept means
alot to you. What do you think about the movie Resident Evil 3 The Extinction?</b></div>
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I think it's pretty cool but
there's always a certain element of cheese in that series, but then again I
guess it's that way with almost all zombie movies. </div>
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<b>M: Which bands are your favorites
that plays same style with your music? For example do you like the band The
Faceless?</b></div>
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No, I don't like the faceless. I
like bands like disgorge,spawn of possession, necrophagist, origin and blotted
science and cannibal corpse.</div>
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<b>M: Do you have plans in these days
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Yes I already have 4 songs
written but It it kind of up to the label for when we go into the studio next,
or atleast when it comes to getting advance money for the studio the label
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<b>M: Excluding the music, what are
you guys doing in your ordinary days? </b></div>
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Working full time jobs. None of
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<b>M: Why did the drummer left the
band? Is it possible to fnd a drummer as sick as he is?</b></div>
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I cannot answer that question
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<b>M: Is this band a second business
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This band is NOT a business at
all. Hopefully it will be in the future but for now like I said we see no money
from it at all.</div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-72924012318801280272017-07-22T21:55:00.000-07:002017-07-23T05:52:33.887-07:00ANATOMY INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>16-05-2017</b></div>
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SW: Hi, thanks for accepting our interview. I can see that
there is a mobility just like something’s coming from the Anatomy side. Is it
the loud steps of an up coming album? </div>
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<b>-Yes , Slowly we are
moving in direction of completing New Material , the first since 1999. When the
idea of re activating the band , our intial thoughts were to play some shows
for Nostalgia etc but has gone full circle now and we are few tracks into
writing with our usual long arrangement ideas that take longer than the
"norm " i think. At this stage we are looking at mlp 4 or so tracks
but it might however turn into a full length as well. The New Title for the
Release is ......... " And Death is Forever...."<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: You released your 1999 album ‘The Witches Dathomir’
again with a beautiful new cover art. Please tell us the reasons for this act.
Tell us behind the scenes. Is it a warm up move for a new release or you simply
wanted it to be renewed as a better release as it deserves? </div>
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<b>-We were unhappy with
the original , back in 1999 the concept i dont think we got it right , there
was some budget in our contract to have artist do new Cover and we chose an
underground artist by the name of Badic , who has done Entrails, Master etc. The
Album may have got judged a little back in the day .<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: Why the Picture Disc of the ‘The Witches Dathomir’ has
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<b>-The Picture Disc was
released by Painkiller Records from Belgium back in 1999, so it wasn’t a issue for us at the time. The
Stock that we had sold on the internet store
just last months was some copies from storage left over only 7 copies .<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: Excepting your two full lenght album, you also have
three demo, two ep and one split release. Do you have a plan for releasing this
songs on one CD? If yes, that would be a perfect item for the collectors. </div>
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<b>-In 2016 American
label Dark Symphonies approached us to re release Twisting Depths of Horror..
from the outside it looks exactly like the original but has a 16 page booklett and both demos and one
unreleased studio track from 1994 on it as bonus , Remastered by Jason Fuller
at Goat Sound.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: I can see that there will be live performances for year
2017. According to this live performances, what is your expectation for near
future of the band? </div>
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<b>-Things are alot
different than when we stopped playing in 1999, the internet breeds competive
Artists but our plans are not like others playing , we simply just would like
to play couple of shows to enjoy , play some states in Australia we didnt visit
back in the day . the rare international artist support who we enjoy their
music and hopefully entertain any offers we get from underground fests outside
of Australia .<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: As a band, is Bleed Records satisfying your future
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<b>-I Myself run Bleed
Records , it was started mainly to do vinyl 7 eps but has done cd and promoted
international Artists in Australia ,
Back in the day it ran the same as Modern invasion Music as we had same
distribution but more artistic freedom.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Australia and world for us? <br />
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<b>-We began
playing live in 1992 so there was
prob 10 bands in the whole country , our
main purpose for making band was to tape trade with other fans overseas ..
Today its more to enjoy playing music , the scene is def not the same , Money
orientated an egos are ripe thru social media and behind deals ,, that is just
a sign its proper music business today and not so much headbanging with mates.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: Do you have connections with the bands from all over the
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<b>-Yes we have many
back in day as this is what we made band for.. i have also made many friends
from doing international tours and drinking many beers !<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-It was more secluded
in early 90s and special , today the internet makes nothing special and most
mystique is lost. Bands were always barbaric here today more melodic and the
younger bands have really progressed in most metal genres. The only thing
seperated is most don’t have funds to pay all costs to go on tour but i think
its the same for most bands, usa band wanting to go to europe etc so im not so
sympathetic, just do it if you want too and able too.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-Many thanks for the
interveiw and support , hope to see you at show .. Hail and Kill!!!! <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-15407253886628829962017-07-21T19:29:00.002-07:002017-07-21T19:29:59.305-07:00TÎR INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>25-05-2017</b></div>
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<b>STORMWIND FANZINE ISSUE 3</b></div>
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<b>TÎR INTERVIEW</b></div>
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SW: Hails brother. First of all I want to congratulate you
for your succesful album ‘Mountains’ Tell us about the creation process of your
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<b>-</b> <b>Firstly, thank you. This is the first interview
my albüm Tir.</b> <b>Tir, as a primitive
tradition I might say that I grew up in me. Black Metal and its close variants,
which I have listened to for about 20 years, are certainly a source of
inspiration, but the minimal appearance of my music is much earlier. A music
emblem is for me,</b> <b>know what's
important! The birth of Tir was also a bit of saturation, maybe I had filled
the time I had to wait. Producing is of course nice but unless you do something
that is consumed!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-I can say that the
northern paganism and the middle asian shamanism are the greatest factors.</b> <b>All the traditions of the natural world are
very important to me. The communication you establish with nature before people
start to blind yet is certainly the only truth. For example, Burzum, Mortiss,
Wongraven or Dead Can Dance; you have to understand!</b></div>
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SW: I know that your music style is called as ‘Dungeon
Synth’ What is the reason that makes you choosing this type of a music?</div>
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<b>-</b> <b>When I produce something, I definitely do
not stamp it! It does’nt limit me, but of course the instrument can be set to
block. My story is actually a Black Metal adventure. Black magic and its effect!
Well, this album doesn’t come with electronic guitar, drums or 'hell' vocals,
but I think that the simplicity and coolness I created gave me and you that
feeling. As you say, this album was a Dungeon Synth / Dark Ambient-focused. I
think all this interaction starts with the Black Metal.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-</b> <b>I don’t read fantasy books. My books are
about science and science-fiction. Especially Carl Sagan.</b><br />
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SW: Is there a concept story for your debut album
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<b>-</b> <b>Mountains album was a search. It's a
discovery. All parts are closely related (interwoven). The journey begins and
you feel all the energy of nature in your body. For now the target point is the
mountains. This journey will of course continue!</b></div>
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about the process with the labels. </div>
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<b>-</b> <b>As you said, the album was published from
by Black Candle Distro and Dead Generation Records format cassette; and the digi-pack
released published by Elegy Records. I would like to thank all of the friends
who contributed in this process. I don’t produce much acceptance in the world
and in Turkey which is not very common, but it can be sometimes tiring to rely on all these difficulties</b></div>
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SW: What is the reaction of the Dungeon Synth music fans to
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-<b>I’am creating an
epic thing that is not known. It is much more difficult to understand in
countries like Turkey in particular. But all feedbacks are very positive!</b> <b>I received positive comments from many
musicians in the field, from Empyrium to Markus Stock (Schwadorf) and
Dornenreich to Jochen (Eviga). This also accelerated the journey of Tir. The
album, which was transmitted by Elegy Record to other labelles in America and
other country,. Like England ...</b></div>
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SW: Please tell us your future plans for your project. Does
the fan reactions will effect the future of your music or will you continue
anyway as following the code of ‘Art is
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<b>- Tir seems to be
very young, but on the road with loads of years on it. My second album working
will start at the end of this summer (2017). There are 2 pieces song already
shaped. Maybe a few more instruments can be added. I would say also, I think
that next time I will also clip to the Mountains song.</b></div>
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SW: Thanks for being guest on our fanzine bro. Any last
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<b>-Thank you very much
for your interest and support. Let's keep looking at the stars, because we're
there!</b></div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-29435900482228335632017-07-18T23:20:00.001-07:002017-07-18T23:20:07.028-07:00YAYLA INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>24-05-2017</b></div>
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<b>STORMWIND FANZINE ISSUE 3</b></div>
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<b>YAYLA INTERVIEW</b></div>
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SW: Just simply tell me what is your influence for this
amazing deep dark music? I know this is a very fast start to a interview even
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<b>-Don’t worry Cem, you
and me need no intro as we talk everyday. And as for the others, I am sick of
introducing myself they can check my other million interviews. My influence is
a shell of unexplored mental orgasm through artistic extremity. Concordantly,
anything can be an influence for that, and taken under this looking glass and
seen through it. I want to explore new territory, and I am not afraid to look
into the darkness. I hate the fact that extreme metal is life loving normalized
piece of shit nowadays, danger and darkness influence me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: I know that there are so many good reactions to the
release from all around the world and it is already sold out. Please tell us
the formula of how to create a charming melody. What is the secret behind this
glory? I know this sounds like as the same question that I have asked but this
is something different. This is not a question of influences but the secret
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<b>-The biggest secret
is knowing how to have pleasure, and pushing the boundaries of joy. The more
you enjoy the better it gets. Sounds like a simple cliché but this very thing
is the key to success and extremely hard to do actually. People don’t know how
to enjoy what they do and make enjoyable art (for themselves). They try to
please and do things with fear, so they make disgusting banal shit. So the
biggest secret is just enjoy your work without limits. Fuck people who get in
your way, you shouldn’t get in your own way. On a more practical level there
are many secrets, don't know where to start. I don't take the guitar in my hand
unless I absolutely feel the urge to, which makes me make the best melodies.
When I play I record everything so nothing gets lost. Then I select thee most
elite melodies and make songs with them so there is no mediocrity. I also steal
a lot from orchestral composers, like for example I put a track they did on my
DAW and imitate all the parts with my guitars, and delete the track and add
drums and Vox. I am very creative, millions of approaches like these, I don't
mind sharing them if people want to know, so they aren't secrets really.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-To push
boundaries... We started it in high school with my best friend to push the
boundaries of audial extremity. We listened to extreme bands but we wanted to
exaggerate the things we liked about the extravagant things about metal, which
we did. We don't work together anymore, its been ages I talked with him. I have
been alone in doing this for a long time.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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SW: There is a word as Yayla in Turkish. Is this the same
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<b>-It is the same word,
and we named it when we were 16. I do not believe in meanings to be a constant,
like the swastika, how it used to mean peace etc. Now the general public identifies
it with Nazism. I used that word to signify my love for nature and disdain for
humanity as in not giving a fuck what people thought.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-Of course I was, I
spent a lot of time and effort on making and promoting it. I think it should
have had even more of a reaction but maybe next time. People are generally not
very ready for the work that I make so at the same time it’s a miracle that it
gets covered at all.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>-Yes it is very
intertwined with my life. My music is all about me and my life and how I see life
and everything. The music I listen to influence my life greatly as well. It is
a sublimation tool I use not to do mass murder. But then again, everything is a
tool for me.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-71145587863703992532017-07-15T20:35:00.002-07:002017-07-18T23:21:34.001-07:00YAŞRU INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>28-05-2017</b></div>
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<b>STORMWIND FANZINE ISSUE 3</b></div>
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<b>YAŞRU INTERVIEW</b></div>
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<b>SW:</b> Hails to the heroes of Anatolian land. I am so proud to
make this interview with you. Before starting to ask my questions, I want to
congratulate you for the successful 2016 album ‘Börübay’. Totally charming.
Please tell us from the start point of the project. What is the main reason for
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<b>Berk: </b>First of all thanks very much for your kind
words.Actually i don’t remember how did
i combined ancient Turkic materials and metal music.But it is not mean we will
keep our music always same.. our style is not rigid. We will float on
folk/death/doom/even thrash waters : ))
2017 is 10.th year of this project founded as Yaşru. Changes are
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<b>SW: </b>After the album released, you had some live
performances. What was the reaction of the fans to the live shows? <br />
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Ömer: </b>Actually,it is a huge thing for me. Despite the technical difficulties
and delays on some concerts, you can see the involment of the people right in
the eye on the stage and people come from various different regions of Turkey
just to see us. It still gives me chills.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Is it possible for us to see an LP version for the release
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Ömer:</b> It is going to be a more diversed than previous album. We have some fast,
thrashy songs aside from folk/doom stuff and we’re trying how the parts and
instruments stuff like that sits on a mix better. The album is going to take
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i think , seeing Turkish folk/doom band
interesting experience for them.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> What is the main approach should be if a musician wants
to create something sounds different from the other bands? <br />
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Ömer:</b> Personally if a song feels good, sounds good i’ll chase right after it.
Even if the small nuances could lead to something different. The major thing
however is finding and creating a concept that people needs but does not aware
of that. For us it’s the myths of the Turkic culture. Then there’s other topics
such as instrumental creativity, the sound etc etc… Like I said, even a small
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<b>www.facebook.com/yasruband</b></div>
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-7874988754628127002017-07-14T19:04:00.001-07:002017-07-14T19:04:26.153-07:00HOKEDUN INTERVIEW<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>18-05-2017</b></div>
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<b>STORMWIND FANZINE ISSUE 3</b></div>
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<b>HOKEDUN INTERVIEW</b></div>
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pleasure for me to make an interview with you because the new album just
released and everything about it is fresh. Tell us about the recording sessions
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Greetings to you Cem and readers
of Strom Wind fanzine, Recording process was pretty straight forward nothing
special, we <span lang="EN-GB">hit</span> Hokedun`s abyss and record the new EP and we had such an
amazing time, alcohol, laughter, frustration and etc..<o:p></o:p></div>
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On yeah spot on sir <span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span> England`s depressing
weather is the best source of my inspiration <span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span> especially druing long dark black winter nights, we get
snow here occasinonaly which is a shame but nevermind. I adore midnight and
silence i would say best time of the day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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you offer to the fans a huge world. Is there a possibility for us to hear
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I must confess that is my dream to
perform our songs in front of our fans, but we have a line up and time problem,
we are pretty struggling, but you never know life is full of surprises maybe
one day. <span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hobby i wish i can take it as a career but it looks impossible for timebeing,
well, beside metal music i am a flamenco guitarist also, i am a big music lover
and music is the best mental theraphy for me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>17-05-2017</b></div>
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We are uncertain of what the reaction were from the fans. However if we had
been selling them at gigs and online, then that is a sign things are/were well.
It’s been great in a very low key way. We had an album launch and played some
interstate shows to promote the album. Whenever we have a gig on in our home
city, we’ll always have a merch table with all of our past and present
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<b>H:</b> It was executed by none other than Bartłomiej Kurzok from
Poland. He did our first shirt design followed by the 7” and now the 12” album.
We did have a vision of what we wanted and gave him the draft concept. From
there, he took it onboard and worked his infernal magic on his craft. It took
quite sometime with us and him exchanging emails and ideas but as always with
perfecting your craft, you can’t be rushing into it. The wait was worth it and
he delivered the goods! We were all pleased with it. A section of the artwork
was also used for our 2nd shirt design. Hails to Bart!!!</div>
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<b>KH: </b>With the concept, we wanted to make sure the visuals would
supplement and enhance the experience when listening to the album. I personally
enjoy immersing myself in the lyrics and artwork when listening to an album for
the first time. It was important for the
artwork to tie into the theme of all songs on the album and since it is our
first full length we also wanted it to represent our band name. We wanted a
busy chaotic scene to represent our music and it was important to work with an
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<b>H:</b> To me, as a vocalist and lyricist for the band, I use the
music to capture fully the words I want to exhume out of my head. I tend to
write random passages, text, prose, poems and cut up words in my writing book.
From there, I will slowly construct that from the very first music and riff I
hear when the band practises and jam.<br />
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It’s very rare that I will have the complete lyrics to the songs/ideas that
Hate Blaze, Korpse Horde and Thormentor have in their mind. I tend to wait till
a song is half complete before I start to piece all the words together. And I
have to see if the physicality, shape, texture, form and atmosphere of the
music matches the words. It has to flow together in an organized chaotic way or
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song first. We typically start with a riff and then work the structure of the
song next so that lyrics have space to come into their own. Inspiration comes
from many different places, daily life as well as new music we hear can most
definitely have an impact. <br />
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<b>H: </b>If one knocks hard enough or dare to open that locked box,
one will discover hidden treasures. I shall not list the names of Australian
black metal, death metal and other metal bands that have made huge impact
around the world. We all know them especially now with the digital age. It’s
not that hard or difficult anymore. If we were still living in the era of hand
written letters, tape trading, word of mouth or zine reading, I would understand that indeed it is a locked
box with the key nowhere to be found unless one dig deep. However you can
always break it open. If one truly desire, you shall receive. In regards to
your question if people are following the Australian scene, indeed it is. We
have over the years seen Australian metal bands playing overseas in some of the
best gigs, festivals and private gatherings. </div>
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<b>KH: </b>In my opinion, Australia has a very interesting music scene
and I don't see it as a ‘locked box’. There are many Australian bands who have
spent time over in the US and Europe and Asia. The rest of the world seems to
be aware of the infernal southern hell that is apparent down under!</div>
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<b>H: </b>We do. Usually it’ll be with bands we are about to play
shows with or in the midst of trying to organise shows. At times when we
ourselves go to other metal gigs, there will always be maniacs from other bands
and we tend to hang out, drink and booze together. It’s a great atmosphere. </div>
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<b>KH:</b> We have many comrades in the Australian Black metal scene,
and overseas as well! The album was mastered by Bornyhake from Switzerland who
is involved in many projects but the most infamous would be Borgne. We did a
split with Terra Australis a few years back and we have Halla and I have
participated in some live shows for our friends Wolfe and Thrall. We make an
effort to play with more eclectic line ups too and different styles of shows -
either punk squat shows and/or house parties as well as the more traditional
music venues. </div>
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as a comparison to Australian Black Metal? In regards to your question if the
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Personally for me, I have a very strong connection, admiration
and feel for this land or in better words, a desert continent. I have done some
traveling in the remote regions of Australia and words are useless to describe
the vastness and desolation of this land. One has to be there in all of its
physicality to experience it. Some of the lyrics I wrote have been influenced
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<b>KH: </b>I think your country of residence and lifestyle definitely
has an influence on the sound. I think it goes a bit deeper than just ‘it’s
cold in the north and hot in the south’. The Australian way of life is very
different to that of Scandinavian countries. I think every country has a signature
‘sound’ which would be influenced by the culture of said country as well as the
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split release with Funeral Moon. What is the reaction of the fans for his
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<b>H: </b>It’s still a recent release and we’ve just completed a
successful interstate tour with them to promote the split release. The reaction
so far has been positive. Slowly but surely it will snake in. However we are
always seeking distribution overseas so that our chaos can be heard.</div>
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<b>SW: </b>For your album and the split there is an information on
metal archives website that the items released only as digital. I have the LP
and CD copies for this releases. Why is that information different? </div>
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<b>H:</b> If someone on Metal Archives can change that will be great.
I don’t think we have access to change it. I believe that was written when we
first announced the release of the album and split. If you have access to it,
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<b>KH: </b>I think it was mentioned on Metal Archives as a digital
release. Before we had the pressed copies back, we were promoting it as an
online version. However this is now out of date!</div>
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<b>SW: </b>Do you have any contacts with European and American labels
to sign contract for your releases? </div>
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<b>H: </b>We are definitely keen and open to that idea if that
opportunity arises. We are definitely interested to push ourselves further and
travel far. Till then we are still fiercely independent. <br />
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sure that the cassette version is sold out. </div>
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<b>H: </b>Indeed the cassette version is long sold out. Hopefully it
will see the light of day on vinyl and CD. Only time will tell.</div>
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<b>SW: </b>These are our questions. Thanks for your interest. Any last
words? </div>
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<b>H: </b>I randomly type Storm Wind black metal online to see if I
could hear a band by that name to do this interview. And indeed it was an 80s
Teutonic thrash metal band. I’ve never heard of them before. The wonders of the
digital era!<br />
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All of our past and present releases are available from us via
hordesoftheblackcross.bandcamp.com or contact us via
<b>hordesoftheblackcross@gmail.com</b></div>
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Hails to Stormwind for inviting us to partake on this issue.
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JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-6358313906518626112017-06-12T02:49:00.001-07:002017-06-12T03:12:43.529-07:00CENOTAPH INTERVIEW<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span lang="EN-US">STORMWIND
FANZINE ISSUE 2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">CENOTAPH
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Hi Bulent, how are you bro? Thanks for accepting our interview. It
will be our pleasure to hear some stuff about the early days of Cenotaph.
Please tell us about the creation of the band. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Hey ! Thanks bro,
appreciate the opportunity, my first interview in more than 15 years </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">First I would
like to clarify any confusion this may cause:I am no way associated with the <i>current band</i> Cenotaph. Their last album
was great, I followed the other releases over the years as well but that’s
about it for me, that’s not my band. So if you are interested in old Cenotaph
just relax and enjoy the ride otherwise you can skip to the next page now! </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The old Cenotaph
was active from 1994-2000 with original members Bulent, Cem, Batu and Coskun.
We recorded two albums “Voluptuously Minced” (96) and “Puked Genital Purulency”
(99) and I wrote most of the songs which may not be so common for a bass
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<span lang="EN-US">Ok here we go,
rejoice old Turkish (farts) scene veterans and for others please allow me to
bore you to tears; this goes all the way back to 94... Angelskull guitarist
Unsal from <st1:city w:st="on">Antalya</st1:city> moved to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ankara</st1:place></st1:city> to get some useless geophysics degree
and he was trying to form a band to get rid of his painful boredom. Batu and
myself responded to his advertisement which was placed in front of HayriPlak
and that’s how we met for the first time. Batu’s voice was too extreme for him
and his riffs were too thrashy for me so eventually it didn’t work out. Months
later we bumped into each other at a local gig. Batu said he was working with
Scalprum guitarist Orkun and they had been looking for a bass player and
drummer. During our first rehearsal it became clear to me that this was a
melodic doom/death band, I emphasized my interest in faster/ technical stuff
and showed them a couple of my songs.
Orkun quickly lost interest and dropped out before we even became a full blown
band with a drummer. At the time I had a friend - Umut- whose drum set had been
sitting in my room for the past couple of years. We had been practicing
together with a distortion pedal on the bass as a two piece and were annoying
the neighbors quite a bit. Umut was doing the vocals too while he was playing
the drums....good old Nocturnusstyle !! He became the first official drummer,
the band name was changed to Cenotaph and Coskun took on the guitar duties.
Most songs we composed with Umut found their way into Cenotaph as well. That’s
how it all started basically...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Later on Bulent
from Suicide took over the drum duties and Umut became the second vocalist. At
this point we had two front men; Batu was doing the growls while Umut was
responsible for the screams. We recorded the first demo Life Immortal (95) with
this line up.</span></div>
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demo “promo 96” we had Cem on drums who had played for Diabolic Yard and
Witchtrap previously. Umut was no longer with the band. This line up also
recorded the first two albums.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Both of these
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<span lang="EN-US">One more cd with
the demo & rehearsal tracks is available from Sevared Records. But I would
go with the re-puked option because I had the master tapes to all those
recordings and was not involved with the other release. Probably the tracks on
that one got extracted from some old worn out tapes.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I saw your band in a
magazine called ‘Rock Kazanı’ which included news about your first live
performance. That only picture which taken at concert was amazing. When I saw
that, I wished that if was there. It should be in 1991 or 1992. Your music was
surely so aggressive for Turkish scene of those days. What was the reaction of
fans at that concert?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Yes that picture
is from 94 and was our first gig. It makes us look like real pros wrecking the
stage hahaha</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US">…but there are of course two sides
to the story...This was the very first line up I mentioned above and the band
had been active only for a couple of months at the time of this gig. We had
limited number of songs and I don’t think the performance was that great.
However, the songs at the time reflected our capacity as musicians and they
wereslower, may be a little melodic and more accessible too. All of these
combined added to an acceptable performance and got a good reaction from the
crowd which was about 1200 people!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The other bands
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Picture Disc LP from Sevared Records. The release includes an early unknown
recording of the band. What was the reaction from the fans for this release?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">We recorded the
album “Puked Genital Purulency” two times. Second recording got released by
Hammer Muzik on MC & CD formats in 99. The first one never saw the daylight
as the mix and recording quality was not that good. The term “<i>good</i>” here is relative and highly
questionable. So it took a good 18 years to realize that it was not that bad
but actually uncomfortable and disturbing. As soon as the perception was fixed
we had it released on cd and picture disc formats. The response was a mixed
bag. Some people were very interested from the beginning and some were quite
pissed off </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> ...the second “some” kept
questioning the quality of this newly surfaced record and compared it to their
beloved official “puked genital purulency” release...why a forgotten version of
puked genital purulency, why not the original record itself ?...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Simple: for me
this one is more brutal and level of ferocity is incomparable. I am a collector
of raw/ harsh sounding records and fell in love with this one after hearing it
for the first time in 15 years. And secondly I do not have the rights and
original tapes, artwork, design files etc. for the official version of the
album “puked genital purulency”, it all belongs to Hammer Music and if they
want to release it on vinyl of course they are more than welcome...</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I think you have had
multiple contacts for the LP release from beginning to end and you worked hard
for this to happen. Tell us the about the process.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">The process was
quite involved. From the beginning to end I had Sevared Records in mind.
However, this label is more focused on cd releases and he didn’t have much
experience with vinyl and on top all that I knew he was pretty uncomfortable
with the artwork of the cd version of this release. So I had to be pretty
strategic because never got a straight “yes” from him regarding the picture
disc. I talked to multiple record labels and worked with two artists. Mike
Hrubovcak and Jon Zig. Mike had already done the cd artwork so he just changed
a couple of things and made it ready for a picture disc release. Jon provided
me two types of artwork after getting into some heavy discussions on what I am
looking for. One was a complete oil painting and the other one was a black
& white drawing. </span><br />
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is extremely detailed and dark. Unless you put the flash light on it like I did
here the details do not come out. So it could have become a recipe for disaster
at the pressing stage. I decided to go with the black & white drawing
because it was clear, not very complicated and was able to leave a memorable
impression upon first look. So he colored that with Photoshop and after many
many iterations on design details involving; colors, fonts, band member pictures
and their exact locations we ended up with the final design you see down below
on my turntable.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Because a vinyl
especially a picture disc release is a pretty complicated process both design
and sound quality wise, I wanted to be in charge of everything at every step of
the process. But of course you cannot ask a label to release your stuff and
tell them that you want to do everything yourself right?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, that’s exactly what happened here for this release fortunately
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> I talked to bunch of pressing
plants, talked about options, got prices and some more. Eventually I ended up
with Pirates Pressing. With the suggestion from label we decided to add a
jacket and a poly bag. The biggest decision was on the 33 vs 45 rpm. As you may
know the last track (most inner) on vinyl gets distorted depending on how close
it gets to the spindle. In order to make sure that does not happen I had to
work out the track order and their timings and did some research as well to
figure out the best option.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the sound: I had the original recording on a DAT tape. This was
mixed and mastered in 97. Because I did not have the source tape with the
guitars, vocal, drums etc. on separate channels, the only option was to master
this again for the vinyl without changing things much. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">I sent the DAT
tape to Ron Vento of Aurora Borealis. He runs a professional studio for all
types of music and he is pretty good at what he is doing. So he extracted the
ancient record and mastered it again. The sound level has gone up and we ended
up with a richer fuller sound unlike the cd version of this release. When you
hear it for the first time bass is upfront but after a couple of minutes you
start hearing the guitars, layers of vocals and other details. Briefly, all the
details become available to the dedicated listener after some time. I am quite
satisfied with the sound. And the vinyl made it sound even better.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After taking
care of all these little details, I submitted the newly mastered record to the
pressing plant along with the jacket and vinyl design. My final task was to
write a description of the release to be featured on Sevared web page… </span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I know you are not in
the band anymore but you are still in the music and playing bass guitar. Do you
play for other bands or do you have plan about playing in a band? And my other
question attached to these; will you play for Cenotaph again in the future?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: I have been living
in US for about 15 years now and had the opportunity to play with a couple of
bands.Sacrocurse, Aversion to Life and Epic Death are some of them. But seems
like my job and kids are almost always getting in the way. I have a couple of
songs on my own that I practice from time to time. Probably that’s gonna be it
for quite some time </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span> <span lang="EN-US">On the Cenotaph
frontit gets a little hairy </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><span lang="EN-US">I tend
to make a strong distinction between the old Cenotaph and new Cenotaph and
perceive them as completely unrelated entities... sadly sharing the same name
and logo... My Cenotaph was Batu, Cem, Coskun and myself as the main song
writer...so in that regard Cenotaph is long gone and dead...Having said that;
hats off to Batu who kept the flame burning for so many years and these two
releases definitely benefited from that sustained existence </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">You are living in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Tell us about the local bands if you have contact with some of them. What are
the main differences between Turkish scene and American scene?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Over thelast 10-15
years Turkish scene has changed a lot. We have a lot of great bands releasing
products through European and American labels. I think things would have been
easier if they were here. There would be more networking opportunities at
shows, festivals etc…even if your music is good another big chunk of the
business is how you sell it..So in that regard definitely being closer to all
these labels, zines, magazines, writers would make things easier/ faster and
better if you know your way around.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">These are my questions
bro. Do you have last words to add?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Bülent: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Yep, sure</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> ….I don’t want to come across asanarcissistic guy but to this day I
still do believe that to some extend the uniqueness of puked genital purulency
is impossible to capture. That is not because we were great musicians (actually
we never had the proper training) but the album was mostly written on bass with
minimum tremolo/ picking and dependent upon the philosophy of discontinuity of
time and space. That is; the songs do not flow…each song is broken down to its
individual unrelated riffs and there is discontinuity. Cem is a great drummer and this type of
structure let him compose his own songs on top of mine with the drums. Batu did
the same on the first recording “re-puked purulency” with layers of vocals by
completely eliminating the words…</span><span lang="EN-US">Aaanyhow</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><span lang="EN-US">…If you want to have a c<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>opy of “Re-puked
Purulency” picture disc it may still be available from Iron Bonehead (Germany)
for those of you closer to Europe. If you are in the states Sevared Recs, Hells
Headbangers and NWN should have it... </span></div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-12891350793598114892017-06-11T05:31:00.000-07:002017-06-11T05:32:29.668-07:00DODSFERD INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b>SW:</b> Hails from İstanbul. I want to thank you very
much for accepting our interview bro. Lets start. Tell me your inspirations for
your music.</div>
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<b>Wrath: Hails from
Wrath! Thanks for your interview and your support to my band, Dodsferd. Dodsferd
is a misanthropic band, that supports chaos and destruction. Human stupidity
and their parasitic behaviour is one of the topics that my songs speak about.
Now about the music, I am inspired by my own demons.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW: </b>Popular
internet metal library<b> </b>Metal
Archives introduces your lyrics themes with Misanthropy, Death, Negativity,
Suicide words. Are you agree with them that these words introduces yoıur music?
Do you have another themes to add?</div>
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<b>Wrath: These are the
most important! <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW: </b>The vocal
performance is not typical black metal style. Personally I like your voice
because it is so remarkable. Is this an intentionally act to have an original
sound for your music?</div>
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<b>Wrath: I do whatever
I want with my music, I don’t follow any kind of recipes. I never did what
others expected me to do. Dodsferd is the diary of my life. At that period of my
life I felt that I could express myself and perform these songs (The Parasitic
Survival of the Human Race) better, by using this kind of vocals. And that’s
what I did. That doesn’t mean that I will continue using these kind of vocals
on future releases.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW: </b>You will have
a live performance in İstanbul soon. Probably in June 2014. What do you excpect
from the Turkish metal fans?</div>
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<b>Wrath: To be the true
followers of Dodsferd!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW: </b>I think that
Greece Black Metal is more mystical than the Norwegian style. As you know this
style born in Norway but surely there are many good bands which are playing
Black Metal. I want you to compare Greece and Norway black metal styles.</div>
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<b>Wrath: I wouldn’t
like to compare the black metal styles from these two countries. It’s out of my
concern. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW: </b>For the young
musicians who doesn’t even has a demo, what are your advices for them to have
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<b>Wrath: To be true to
themselves and not to follow any kind of trends in whatever they are going to
do in their lives. <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW: </b>These are my
questions bro. It will be pelasure to hear if you have something more to add.</div>
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<b>Wrath: I will see you
in a couple of months and all the true followers of Dodsferd! </b></div>
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<b>PROTECTOR INTERVIEW <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>SW:</b> Hey Matze!
Thanks for expecting our interview. It is an honour for me to chat with you.
Actually I have so many questions about the ancient glory days. Lets start if
you are ready too. I have CD and LP versions of ‘A shedding of skin’ album.
Your name is written as bass guitar player on the CD but not on the LP. Tell us
how and when you become a part of Protector.</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> After the
recording of Leviathans desire, Hansi has to quit his <span class="hps"><span lang="EN">guitar</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN">player</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN">career because of </span></span><span class="hpsalt-edited"><span lang="EN">lymphatic
cancer. Michael Hasse decided that Olly should try to replace him and so the
both started to arrange new songs. After finishing the first rehearsals, olly
asked martin missy and me for help by writing new lyrics. That was the reason why
I spent a lot of time in the rehearsalroom with Olly and Micha. For me it was a
cool chance to be a smal part in the genesis of a new Protector Recording. In
august 1991 I spent my time every weekend in the music-lab-studio of Harris
Johns in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berlin</st1:place></st1:state>.
During that time <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ede</st1:place></st1:city>
quit his bass-playing-part and so I became the new Protector-Member. The Tour
was booked and the release-date was fixed. Before <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ede</st1:place></st1:city> quit the cover and the layout for the LP
was finaly finished. In that tme the graphic-agencys exposed films for printing
and to make corrections were too expensive and not as easy then today. </span></span></div>
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<b>SW:</b> My copy of ‘A
shedding of skin’ doesn’t have an innersleeve with lyrics and photos. Was it
normally have an innersleeve or just a white paper cover as I have?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> Sad but
true. The layout for the LP-Version was finished before the lyrics were finally
recorded. The band and the lable has no other chance as puplishing the
vinyl-version without a lyric sheet. I was always disapointed about and so I
created a lyric sheet on my own. In 1993 we had a guy who asked us to start a
PROTECTOR-fanclub. We thought about give-aways and specials for fanclub
members. Making sticker or poster wasn’t that cheap than today, but to make
some photocopies of the lyric sheet was one of the planned goodies. With the
Split-up in 1994 all these ideas died :-(</div>
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<b>SW:</b> ‘The
Heritage’ is a final glory album for Protector and it was really amazing. I
just can’t remember how many times I listened to that CD. In other hand, there
were no original members on that album. Tell us the days that you decided to go
on recording albums under the name Protector without original members. Did you
talk to them about the situation before ‘The Heritage’ recording session?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> After the
canceled shedding-tour with Funeral Nation and some other crazy shows, Olly and
myself decieded to stop going on with Michael. We tried a lot of things to get
our friend back on the right path, but we lost this fight. Olly wont give up
with Protector and decided to try some gigs with Marco. The record company
gives us the permission and so we started to arrange the songs for “The Heritage”.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Tell us about
‘The Heritage’ recording session. How many days did it took to record the
album? Who wrote the lyrics? Who wrote the music and whose idea to use that
amazing cover art painting?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> We were 4
weeks in Gelsenskirchen in the T&T Studio. Our Producer was Tim Buktu. The responsibility for the Artwork was my part. The mainpart
of the Lyrics are written by myself in cooperation with Olly. And also some
help came from Martin Missy.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Why did you suddenly split up after that successful album?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> It wasn’t
successful! It has got good reviews but it didn’t sold as much as
“Leviathans”-EP or the “Shedding”-LP. After “The Heritage” was released, we
organized some shows on our own all over Germany. We dreamed about a little tour in USA but without management and a professional in booking, it wasn’t
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<b>SW:</b> Do you still
connect with the old band members? Do you have connection with Marco and
Oliver? Did you ever thought about going on as Protector after split up?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> Not
really. I moved from Wolfsburg to Braunschweig an than to Hamburg. I’m in this
cool city now over 14 years. After the PROTECTOR split up I started a band
called SQUARE WAVES (from 1994 to 1997). İn 1998 I joined HEADSHOT for 6 years
but since I played my last show with HEADSHOT in 2004 I stopped playing
bassguitar. That is the reason why I never thought about a reunion. A few weeks
ago I visited Olly in his rehearsal-room with his new band. I think more than
10 years past since we met each other last time. This get-together is the
result of the last PROTECTOR-show in wolfsburg and the interviews martin missy
did for the protector-facebook-page.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Do you have
the LP version of ‘The Heritage’ which was released by the Italian record
company ‘Night of the vinyl dead?’</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> Yes, and
i’m disappointed about. The cover is just copied and scaled from the CD-booklet
and the music is not from the original-24-track-tape. With a vinyl-release our
dream of an AAA production had to become true. Martin and Marco were involved
in the reissue from NOTVD but they didn’t know that Ive got high-quality dias
from the Cover-Artwork.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Tell us about
the Istanbul concert. How was the fans? Did you like Istanbul? ....and a
personal question; Do you have video or sound recordings from Istanbul concert?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> It is my
best Protector-memory! The fans and the atmosphere are unforgotten. İ`ll send
you a piture of a collage which is by my side since 1992.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Do you miss
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<b>Matze:</b> Sometimes
it is nice to remember, but this chapter for me is over.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> Do you follow
the activities of Martin Missy with new line up? If yes, then what do you think
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<b>Matze:</b> Yes! I’m<span class="hps"><span lang="EN"> very excited</span></span>
to the release of “reanimated humunculus”. I think they can bring back the ancient
feeling from 1986.</div>
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<b>SW:</b> These are my
questions bro. Do you have some more to add?</div>
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<b>Matze:</b> I think
now is the best time to sell my last 10 “The Heritage” CDs. If somebody is
interesseted in, watch out on <a href="http://www.discogs.com/">www.discogs.com</a>. </div>
JAMES WHITEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06546895917713033205noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5229742143771905336.post-6250221938778931722017-06-10T07:28:00.002-07:002017-06-10T20:58:27.210-07:00DECIMATION INTERVIEW<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-US">STORMWIND FANZINE ISSUE 2<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">DECIMATION INTERVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">03-03-2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Yes! Finally your third album released. The
band is growing up with getting more power in years. According to this, you are
having more fans in time. What is the reaction to the band from world metal
scene?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Reactions are so good from any part
of the world. General decisions can be summarized as; sound is more mature,
style is more and more Decimation’s own style, sound and production quality is
very high, musicianship is attractive. We are happy from the reviews of
different well known zines too.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I see especially the Turkish fans are so
excited about the album. Near future, Turkish metal fans were not so close to
their own bands. There were barbaric compliments. What has changed in time and
Turkish fans own Turkish bands?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Well I remember those years while
we were doing great job with Cenotaph, Turkish metal fans did not interested in
our albums. As an example, I remember some festivals we played, in which there
was an European or American headliner band, people were staying out drinking
beer with their girlfriends and waiting for the headliner. They generally did
not prefer watching a local band live. Moreover they did not buy your album.
Only thing they do related to your band was writing some bad reviews to
internet forums and arguing with fans of your band. In such an interesting
environment we focused on small group of local fans but more on those living in
all around the world. We heard lots of good words from Europe, US, Far East,
South America and etc. We began playing in festivals in various locations all
around the world, lots our albums were sold. Then Turkish fans noticed that we
have good local bands too. By the time not only Cenotaph but also other local bands
began doing very good job too. Finally there is a small but a high quality
extreme metal fan group currently.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">What are the plans for live performances in
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: We are organizing live performances
especially in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> nowadays. We are enjoying
to play abroad since people watching and listening to you are more into Death
metal. They support your effort. Most of them are modest and true metal heads.
For the time being “Death Feast 2015” was confirmed. We are trying to make a tour around <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> and getting in touch with bands and organizers.
You will be informed via our facebook page (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DecimationTR">https://www.facebook.com/DecimationTR</a>)
We will also take local concerts into consideration but there are not any
festival plan for the time being. If there will be a good opportunity we will
surely want to play here in Turkiye. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Personally I prefer listening high
quality music. Since I am a musician playing for more than 25 years, I not only
listen to the music but also how it is played as well. Jazz to classical music,
brutal death to symphonic power metal it does not differ. But percentage of
extreme metal is higher for sure. Technical brutal death metal is my favorite
category. I am listening to older and newer bands like Suffocation, Morbid
Angel, <st1:place w:st="on">Nile</st1:place>, The Eternal, Necrophagist,
Ulcerate, Hour of Penance, Nefas, Origin. My band members Emre and Erkin
generally listen to every kind of brutal death metal. They are following new
bands better than me </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">When I heard that you have your third
release, before getting that new release, I finally bought your first album and
listened to it carefully. The reason what makes me to do that is to realize
your rising up graphic. Now please tell me what my reaction means to you as a
musician? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Well, Decimation has a demo named
as “Helpless Souls” released before the first album “Entering the Celestial
Ruins”. In both of the releases I was not in the band but I was following them
closely. The band was playing Death Metal with dark mood. After I attended the
band we released 2 albums. Second album “Anthems of An Empyreal Dominion” was a
new step, we switched to more technical and faster path. Then in the third step
that is our last album “Reign in Ungodly Creation” we balanced technicality
with speed and mood. During this period there has been some progress in
musicianship and we thought we succeeded in creating our original style
belonging to Decimation. When we take a look at good reactions coming from
various fans and reputable zines and authorities, we saw that we are in the
right way. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">We are agreeable that your new album is
totally successful. Now I am asking this as a collector. Do we have chance to
have your new and early releases on LP?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Thanks much for your compliments
Cem. Your kind of old metal heads’ decisions are precious for us. Cover art
work of “Reign in Ungodly Creation” is a famous Dan Seagrave work which
definitely needs the album to be released as LP. We are talking about releasing
it as LP but if this happens this will not be immediately. We are now
concentrated on promotion of the album. But LP is one my top concerns about our
new album for the very near future. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">There is an ancient word ‘Support’ which is
used by all metal scene in time. What do you think about this ‘Support’
situation? What does it mean to you? Does every underground constitution
deserve that magical word ‘Support’?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: I have experienced the false method
of support in my country for years. You are supported if you are a friend of a
gut releasing a zine, forum, web site, music shop and etc. This way of
supporting demotivated numerous bands in Türkiye. Number of undeserving
overrated bands released 1-2 demos and did not show any progress since there
were no critics regarding lacking points. On the other hand ltos of underrated
other band which deserve to be supported were ignored. We have a good proverb
you know, “The real friend tells the bitter truth”. A musician definitely needs
applauses and compliments but more of those an honest critic too. Supporting
new bands with lacking musicianship/production and what so ever also required
but by showing them the right way in order to develop themselves. On the other
hand we have football team fans’ like metal fans here </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> Band is from Kadıköy, then fuck Ankara bands, or vice versa… People
we met in festivals in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> hardly understand
this kind of an attitude. As band members, we support each and every deserving
act whether it is from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region>
(Kadıköy, Bakırköy, <st1:city w:st="on">Ankara</st1:city>, İzmir, Haymana,
Çemişkezek and etc) or <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">I know that you are in the metal scene for a
very long time Cem. Even you are a founding member in Cenotaph. Would you
please tell us which days are the greatest times for you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Yes, those were the good days we
have lots of memories. We were working hard on our material and heavily
concentrated on creating a high quality work. Since we were university students
we had so much time to do these. You can see minimum 300 crazy metals heads who
headbands, stagedives continuously in local concerts and more and more of that
number in festivals. On the other hand, Cenotaph is one of the first extreme
acts in our country so limited number of people were following and supporting
us. Moreover Black Metal scene was powerful in those days. Just like Black
Metal there was a powerful heavy power scene too. People and zines from both
scenes did not support us and fight with us </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US">. There were lots of poser fans in these scenes and most of these
kind of attitudes were belonging to them. So we wrote a special fucks list
including these faggots near to thanks list in out well known album “Puked
Genital Purulency” There was a burst of anger at various internet forums, zines
and etc. we were threatened lots of times by those corpse painted teens who
have begun listening to metal only few months ago. We had lots of old friends
from these scenes who did not took these posers seriously. Finally it was so
cheerful for us to see them in the moshpit while we were playing by time </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US"> I was also playing with Suicide, a famous local Death Metal band
too in those years. Suicide was playing old school death metal with catchy
riffs holding hands of both Thrash and Death metal fans. So we played live to
more than 1000 metal heads singing our song with our vocalist in lots of
concerts which was a very lovely memory for us. Those were the very early times
for people to understand the music of Cenotaph, they were watching the hands of
our me, bass guitarist Bülent and guitarist Coşkun and trying to understand the
growls of our vocalist Batu and looking at our faces surprisingly </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "wingdings"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span lang="EN-US">. Greatest thing was, despite this kind of an inappropriate
environment, we never lose motivation and quit working hard and gave up
releasing new albums. As a last note, it was so nice to write and send flyers
to thousands of distros, people all around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">SW: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">These are our questions brother. It will be a
pleasure for us to hear your last words if there are some.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Cem: Well my friend, thanks for your
support. We, as Decimation, hope to meet with all metal heads in our live shows
and have fun together in the near future. We also thank everyone who bought our
albums and merchandise and at top of them Steve from Comatose Music who have
been giving more and more support at each new day. We are going on working hard
to serve extreme metal scene.</span></b></div>
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