…m to know that we have every day struggles. We want to eventually do an all-ages tour. Where 15-16 year olds can come to a show, get into the pit, and scream lyrics into a microphone. We want to be accessible to everyone. We want everyone to be able to play music. When I was a kid, I had idols and I looked up to various artists. Going to shows when I was 12 really got me into saying, ‘I want to be on stage. I don’t want to just be a part of the cr…
…e are really dependent on the fans buying our music online, supporting us, buying t-shirts – and the world is a strange place right now for bands that used to be very active and for concerts in general. It will be one of the most challenging things ahead of us in the next year and maybe years. Dead Rhetoric: Name three albums that have had the most impact on your views and impressions for heavy metal – and what was the best concert memory you have…
…precisely to make listening to it too long and boring. Even to a very well-predisposed listener. Doom may be predictable, but if it’s well thought out, it’s an enveloping predictability. A full-bodied dark coat that envelops you slowly, gradual but inexorable. It reminded us of death, doesn’t it? This is basically the doom theme. I am thinking of albums such as The Silent Enigma by Anathema, October Rust by Type O Negative, or Shades of God by Pa…
…e knows what will happen. Our plans for this year, we are focusing on promoting the new album and our additional projects. Very soon we will announce some news. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRcNSwNWeg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZddid_gNpc Crystal Viper official website…
…that we are having a good time. We aren’t the guys who are wearing black t-shirts, work boots, and just mean-mugging in every picture. We are the guys who are smiling onstage – we are happy. We are all best friends so we are having the time of our lives when we are doing anything that involves this band. That said, any time we have a video, we want to get a laugh or at least crack a smile from someone. Dead Rhetoric: I’m sure that you have heard…
…as it comes. We are pretty lucky in the UK, as we are talking about having everyone vaccinated by July, so hopefully things will be back to normal soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lps3L0acORA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyaP3FI6XNU Issa on Facebook…
…d making headway there. Other than that, I have the codex and the rest of the band will play it by ear and wait for the call for being safe to get on the road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhOk_yDTjLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iWsaTLFUOY Summoning the Lich on Facebook…
…ned for this year? van Giersbergen: I am planning and working on something online-ish around the release of the album. Something beautiful to go online with. Other than that, I will continue playing my set and rehearsing until I can go out and play. I hope we can do something live in the summer – something outdoors. But proper touring and traveling, and traveling to the US – that will be 2022. But there are tours, in pencil, in the agenda. We are…
…ill not be before April, because Portugal is under heavy lockdown and I think it’ll go until the end of March. We have to be patient, that’s the main plan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIAfdbVkbyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuD_V16SnIA Moonspell on Facebook…
…o the situation changing daily due to COVID. So we are waiting for a more stable part of the year when things calm down and then we can record the album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rW7Vpep3II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWNdykQY6yQ Epica on Facebook…
…onavirus happened. We want to play there hopefully in 2022- it’s the only main territory we haven’t played yet is North America, and we can’t wait to go there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCReKPDMubs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3ebfRQwqOc Angelus Apatrida on Facebook…
…ing to do that this way. The other way is to just sit out and wait for the dust to settle and maybe tour for Leviathan II, and not be a part of the chaos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESR1Fe5XfpU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1h0pdsC6wQ Therion on Facebook…
…. We have some cool guests playing with us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nas1gemgVo0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpB9BwUT-og Wreck-Defy on Facebook…
…u could say it, the funnier we would sound. If they said yes, we would say buy our demo, it’s a quid. They would buy it. McGuigan: When we first went to London in 2005, it was the first time we were surprised there were other bands who liked thrash. The internet back then, it hadn’t connected people with these old albums yet. We were there before, and it’s got big, and we are still here after that demise. Byrne: No album will ever be deleted again…
…tunate to have that at the moment. It really takes it out of you when you are on lockdown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJuR0y7sjFM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejYS7J-WOM Stälker on Facebook…
…se I’ve got my eyes closed. I’m living the journey of each character in each song that they originally went on. You can feel the intensity all around you. I just wonder if there is no one there, will I just stare straight-ahead and just sing the words without throwing myself all over the stage. I just don’t know. We’ll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3PoTH7LSXc My Dying Bride on Facebook…
…little amount of money we had discovering new bands. This was obviously pre-internet. We would just buy stuff that looked cool, evil, or brutal [laughs]. My friend bought the Cadaver tape, and that’s how I got to know it. It just stood out to me with the crazy tuba intro and the weird, unique sound that they had. It became a legendary album for me. Many years later, when I was filling in for Satyricon in early 2014 – I did a few shows with them an…
…more of the ‘dyed in the wool’ metal types, there’s certainly a group that will appreciate their blend of modern elements into a catchy and heavy formula. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQeqBbSXfm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QyH1SEATvo Ghostkid on Facebook…
…big push. As far as this album goes, we are going to see how it goes and head from there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJi1OkvQLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asit-A2nKUM Falset official website…
…ying cello. I do not own the instrument. It’s really sad, and I hope I can buy it one day. It’s not a cheap instrument! That’s the main problem right now [laughs]. But it would be nice, since we have some orchestrations in our music – to be able to play it on my own. Dead Rhetoric: Do you have any hobbies outside of music? Surmøvá: Heri and I go to the gym together quite a bit [laughs]. Music is killing a lot of my time, especially for Heri since…
…our full-lengths. We have released a couple of songs since the quarantine online that have been total re-envisioning’s of past songs with synths – that has its role, but not completely in the forefront. Where our interests lie as musicians, we are obsessed with them outside of the band. We like to use it to accentuate the song, but not go into full indulgence mode. Dead Rhetoric: The song “Rite of Passage” has special significance to you, putting…
…hope it attracts people enough for them to come see us play or maybe even buying our albums. Marketing-wise it would best to get a song on a movie or a game or something along those lines. Dead Rhetoric: What excites you about melodic/AOR rock music today? Heino: I´m still trying to find the quality stuff from back in the day by checking out certain musicians or producers but I´m pretty much off the wagon when it comes to what´s out there today….
…hool days that we were going to be kicked out of school. So we switched to online so we could continue with GFM and have more opportunities. Now with the pandemic, nothing has changed. We did everything online anyways. Our hearts go out to those kids who are having to learn everything for the first time because it was difficult to figure out how to have that responsibility and time management. But it is possible. For anyone having those struggles,…
…on drummer. Dennis, guitars, is a little bit like me. He always writes different types of music just to be creative and explore different territories in music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEGFcl4eBBA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuyJN8Izwo&t=44s Mad Hatter on Facebook…
…time, I’ve been consulting and helping a lot of artists build their career online. Whatever they need me for, I’m there. I’m really enjoying it. But my big goal is finishing this album for Antiqva and then going into the studio for that. We almost have enough material for a full album and it’s just sitting there. I just can’t live like this anymore – we need to do something about this. That’s going to be the next chapter of my life. I’m very excit…
…oad – otherwise we are putting together ideas for stuff we can fill out the year with. We might do some live streaming, so maybe keep an eye out for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiiZFYvyCw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWJM9C4CSfU Hinayana on Facebook…
…with stuff to do. We will not accept being stagnant, so our plan will be to stay active. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Ny29nNh2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A7BPXEBh1Q Amaranthe on Facebook…
…u have to come back with something really, really strong. Unfortunately, I buy a lot of music, I still buy CD’s, and I see a lot of the classic bands putting out stuff that’s not up to the level of quality I would expect from them. I did not want people to see the band in that way – I wanted to come out with something as high quality as possible. Dead Rhetoric: There seemed to be a conscious effort to keep the songs in a tighter, focused timeframe…
…et into 2021, shows will start opening up again and we plan to be pretty active with our live performances once we are allowed to be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nkl-VZV7rk AfterTime on Facebook…
…hen bought a classic guitar and started playing chords, then bought a very cheap electric guitar and amp and started playing metal. I played in several metal bands but the most important was Imperium (thrash metal). I remember back in the time we won a prize at a battle of the bands festival. As a metalhead living in Morocco back in the time, it was difficult to feel accepted. I had some trouble with some religious people so after spending twenty…
