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- FOR RUIN: I like to hear hooks and riffs that i can remember and the best
songs are full of them.
- FOSCOR: All is connected from each album to the previous one… and
the next one... like a labyrinth of doors opened which takes you to new directions.
- PROFANE PRAYER: Are there really advantages in being a black
metal band from Greece? If there are I don’t think I’m aware of them.
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- 31/12/09
- ARTILLERY: We have been playing together with new very
young bands who knew all Artillery’s songs, and they are young enough to be our sons!
- 24/08/09
- ARCHIMAGE: I'm not a religious person, but I guess the ideal of a 'religious
experience' is built into all people, and at some black metal gigs that feeling is very
much present.
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- 07/07/09
- ORTHODOX DIVINITY - Raw music has a mysterious and intense
atmosphere to it, which adds to the enjoyment.
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- 12/06/09
- GUTHRUM - I
often think of historical events that have taken place or the lives and background of our
ancestry and heritage because I find it riveting and enthralling but whatever it is that
posses me to spark a soundtrack from my imagination is something I’m yet to figure
out.
- PENSEES NOCTURNES - Nothing we do has an existential foundation aside from spending time. As
if life comes down to everything that allows us to forget life…
- 25/05/09
- THE HELHEIM SOCIETY - As
far as I know we were the first band ever to combine black metal and electronic music. I
guess you can say we are pioneers in that sense.
- THRESHOLD SICKS - Expect
metal for individuals, and for people who grew up on metal.
- PESTILENT GRAVE - Black
metal is capable of expressing raw animal emotion and various ideologies in their most
basic for to an extent that no other genre is capable.
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- 04/05/09
- Solacide - Many black metal bands are too narrow-minded
to explore anything that is not strictly black metal.
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- 26/03/09
- CONTEXT - A complex song already kicks ass for being complex. To do the simple,
catchy song... that's hard.
- BELTANE - Our recording process is much more like an artist painting a picture, with
the varying instruments being essentially different sound palettes
- IZEGRIM - We've gone back to basics, we are more thrashy... more 'us'
- 16/03/09
- WARPATH- The fact that Warpath is a very fast, technical and aggressive-sounding
back just shows how angry and pissed-off we are at everything!
- SKIN INFECTION- We have our own sound and it constantly develops
towards unknown territories.
- PLECTO ALIQUEM CAPITE- We will be becoming more and more experimental with time. Or in other
words, we will be trying to explore different ways to send chills up the listener's spine.
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- 28/02/09
- KADAVER- Kadaver is the draining of the pus of my hate, anger, pain and sadness
through cold electronics.
- SOLUS- Black metal comes from the deep forests, and rises from the moonlight.
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- 12/02/09
- MANIAC: I explore the
feeling of meeting a polar bear without a gun. Meeting life as it is.
- SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY: The
digital environment allows for allows for infinite permutations of noise, there is
literally no end to the possibilities that can be conjured up from ANY sound.
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- 31/01/09
- BAHN (ABALAM/SLITVEIN)- Like punk, black metal really has no boundaries, and that's what makes it
exciting.
- ETHEREAL FOREST- You can do a lot within this style, and it is felt, because it comes from
the heart.
- IMMOLITH (COFFIN/IMMOLITH)- All spirituality, all religion, all of it, is utter fiction.
- AMAROC- I'm one of those guys who try to think a little bit outside the box.
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- 15/01/09
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- MENDACITY- "I absolutely believe that music can convey ideas as well as
feelings"
- ELIMI- "I just love to use metaphors in my creation"
- MYSTICAL FULLMOON- "Things have to evolve, to progress, to transform, it's a natural law
and we can't deny it"
- COUNT BEETLE- "I have found that I am an outsider even to outsiders, and condemned
perhaps to the most obscure of shadows"
- ELITE- "We've always liked challenges, and we continuously challenge
ourselves musically"
- DANIEL JANSSON (DEADWOOD/KEPLERS ODD)- "I don't like the idea of force-feeding people with what I
experienced when creating the music"
- GOTHICK- "There are times when the groove becomes all-consuming, and you are
locked into this other place. At those times it is very ritualistic, very
shamanistic"
01/01/09
CROM- “I think music must be honest”
UGULISHI- “Black metal is a great channel to manifest
Satanism and the destructive powers of chaos”
HELVETIA (THRONE OV DAMNATION/EARTHWHORE)- “Everything you ever wanted is in yourself, not in other people”
FORESTS OF OLD- “I’ve become quite bored with all these
bands who are afraid to experiment, step outside that which you are comfortable with”
EMPYREAL DESTROYER- “A deafening silence can itself be a powerful tool so it follows that
deafening noise would do the same thing”
KORVUS- “For me it is the atmosphere
created by black metal that sets it apart from the rest of the extreme metal subgenres,
not the narrow-minded following of strict guidelines”
NAMELESS ORCHESTRAL PROJECT- “Experimentations and so-called avant-garde music
are possible because there are genres to transgress”
DIVINE CHAOS- “Once we’ve all learned the tune the next
step is to come together in rehearsals to have a massive argument about it ” |
