Hteththemeth o trupa despre care am auzit si vom mai auzi mult timp de acum inainte sunt pe cale sa lanseaze cel de al doilea album din cariera lor :BEST WORST CASE SCENARIO. Una dintre cele mai enigmatice aparitii pe scena muzicala reuseste sa surprinda in mod placut de fiecare data asa cum au facut-o anul trecut la GBOB unde au castigat marele premiu calificandu-se pentru a reprezenta Romania la finala din Germania, iar anul asta alaturi de For the Wicked s-au calificat in Finala Wacken Metal Battle.
Turneul de promovare a albumului BEST WORST CASE SCENARIO incepe in Bucuresti pe data de 1 aprilie, in Club Fabrica alaturi de invitatii speciali Tiarra si Aeon Black.
BEST WORST CASE SCENARIO este asa cum afirma membrii trupei, "coloana sonora a unui film imaginar". Asa ca avea nevoie de un trailer.
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Pe Tanin i-am ascultat live prima data in PUB S4 BACAU, in deschiderea concertului Kistvaen alaturi de Hteththemeth si False Reality. O trupa de death metal melodic, o trupa realmente tanara despre care speram sa se auda mult timp de acum inainte. Mai jos gasiti un scurt interviu.
1. Salut, ce mai faceţi voi şi ce s-a mai întâmplat în ultimul timp? Salutare! În primul rând muncim cu drag şi spor! În ultimul timp suntem ocupaţi cu repetiţiile. 2. Sper că nici eu şi nici alţii nu greşesc când afirmă că Tanin e un fel de Hypocrisy mioritic :) De ce acest stil şi cum aţi reuşit că în scurt timp de la înfiinţare să va strângeţi o mulţime de fani în zona undergroundului metalic de la noi? Trebuie să recunosc că Hypocrisy este o sursă de inspiraţie pe lângă multe alte trupe. În timp am încercat să ne conturăm stilul şi să sune cât mai aparte . Am ales acest stil dintr-un simplu motiv: diversitate! Încercăm să nu ne limităm muzical în ceea ce priveşte melodic death metal. Nu ştiu ce aş putea să-ţi spun despre fani! Presupun că muzică.Dacă avem fani atunci le mulţumim că sunt alături de noi. 3.Povesteşte-mi despre începuturi, cât de greu sau uşor a fost să dezvoltaţi această trupa în aşa scurt timp şi cum reactioaneaza publicul la ce cântaţi voi. Totul a început "într-o frumoasă zi de vara în anul 2014!" Eu şi Em ne-am gândit să înregistrăm câteva idei într-un studio improvizat la el acasă şi am hotărât să rămână doar un proiect pt internet (youtube, feisbuci,etc) Într-o săptămâna sau două am făcut deja 5 piese şi ne-am bucurat tare mult cum a ieşit treaba! Iniţial aveam foarte multe piese care încă nu erau finalizate aşa că am ales ce-am crezut noi că ar fi ok că structura compoziţională. Am selectat 5 piese şi aşa a apărut EP-ul "A new Journey". În momentul ăla chiar nu ne gândeam la ceva spectaculos însă reacţiile au fost surprinzătoare! Foarte mulţi din afară ţării îşi doreau EP-ul în format fizic însă am considerat că e mai bine să-l lăsăm aşa, doar pt internet. Subit am avut primul nostru turneu alături de Kistvaen. Practic ei ne-au ajutat foarte mult! Legat de cum reacţionează publicul la ce cântăm noi: zbatere, iureş, plete, coate, şuturi, ţîţe.
4.Descrie te rog acest ep . Pe cât primul album?
Ep-ul tratează mai multe teme: demoni( This is not the end) creaturi care iubesc întunericul sau oameni care îşi doresc singurătatea (We are going down) războaie inutile (Brothers die for me) fanatism, narcisism, nestăpânire (Madness) extratereştrii care îşi părăsesc planetă ( Home) Albumul vrem să fie gata anul acesta mai exact prin vara, toamna! Ne-am propus să fie "THE BEST"! O să se numească "Argathan" şi momentan nu ştiu exact câte piese are. Argathan este un nume inventat şi o să povestim mai multe despre acest nume când o să apară albumul. 5.Care a fost concertul perfect pentru voi până acum şi pe scenă cărui eveniment de la noi sau de afară aţi dori să ajungeţi ?
Ai să te miri dar toate concertele au fost perfecte în primul rând pt noi că trupa! ! Am omis să-ţi mai zic un singur lucru: şi băieţii de la Bucovina ne-au ajutat foarte mult şi a fost o onoare să cântăm alături de ei şi aici în capitală şi-n Timişoara! Buţi e chiar det şi-i mulţumim pt sprijin! Anul acesta mi-aş dori să cântăm la un festival mare...şi ne-am propus să mergem cât mai sus! Probabil şi căderea o să fie foarte frumoasă! 6. De curând îl aveţi în componentă pe Alex de la Kistvaen/Depths. De ce această schimbare de percuţionist ?
Simplu: e un tobar excelent din punctul meu de vedere! Ne cunoaştem de foarte mult timp, am cântat împreună ceva timp şi este pe aceaşi undă cu ce se întâmplă în Tanin. 7 . În afară de lansarea primului album Tanin şi presupun că şi un turneu de promovare, la ce surprize să ne mai aşteptăm de la voi?
Probabil timpul o să ne ofere multe surprize...totul ţine de timp şi de împrejurări! 8. Mulţumesc pentru interviu. Dacă mai ai ceva de adăugat ultimile cuvinte îţi aparţin. Eu îţi mulţumesc! This is not the end! INTERVIU REALIZAT DE ARHICON EMI
Hello Mortiis this is an honour for me to take this interview with you ! Your new album sounds a bit different from the other ones. It's an evolution ? or you just realised that this kind of music (industrial) fits you better? I don´t know what fits us better categorically speaking, all I know is that we just evolve naturally, and whatever happens musically, just happens. We´re not cynical in the sense that we analyze the market to see what people want, etc. When we make music, it´s all instinct. Whatever feels right, we do. But yeah, the new record is a bit different, a result of going with the natural flow. I think it´s darker, more layered, and musically a lot better than what we did in the past. Tell me a bit about your new album Well as said it´s darker, denser and to some extent heavier and angrier than before, but also more dynamical. There´s a good variety on it. I still explore the darker, bleaker, and more disturbing sides of myself, in some sort of futile attempt at self medication… I'm still curious your new stuff is so different from what you were doing in the early days with Emperor that I have to wonder what prompted you to leave the black metal thing behind and take your work in a more ambient direction. Can you tell me what is different for you now? Emperor era vs now I just drifted away from the black metal thing when it started getting overcrowded in the mid 90´ies. Like everything else, once a cool thing gets discovered by the masses, it tends to get watered out and generic. I went back to my roots of Hard Rock, while simultaneously I got deeper into the underground industrial/experimental scene.
In the Emperor days I was a cynical, naïve son of a bitch. Today I am just a cynical son of a bitch :) What are the basic themes and ideas behind the Mortiis project? What is your source of inspiration? I tend to look at all my various psycichal weaknesses and the sources behind them. I have spoken to therapists and doctors but nothing came out of it. I self medicate through my music. In the old days, the early Mortiis records, I created a universe to base everything around, that was very Tolkienesque.
What do you think about nowadays underground music scene? Admittedly I don´t pay a whole lot of attention. I am very fascinated and interested in the 70´ies and 80´ies underground in many genres…Ranging from obscure hard rock of the 70´ies and 80´ies, to unknown releases by metal and electronic projects in the 80´ies. There´s a lot of unknown gems out there very few people know about. For every huge IRON MAIDEN type band, there was 500 unknown ones that never had a shot…Some of those were pure gold. You just have to discover them. What kind of music do you listen in your free time? A lot of times I don´t listen to any music at all. I have kids, they make a lot of noise, so sometimes pure silence is better than anything. I do like to listen to the aforementioned obscure hard rock and metal… I like late 70´ies and early 80´ies electronic music, southern rock, 80´ies industrial/electronic, and a bunch cool alterntative music came out of the US in the 90´ies, as well as the UK big beat culture in the 90´ies (the Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, etc).
Can you give me some details about the touring? Romania will be also on the list?
Right now we only have a UK tour planned for May. A European tour including Romania would be great. We played Bucarest in 2011 which was a cool experience, that was the first and only time I´d ever been there…I used to have a girlfriend who claimed she was from Transilvanian, and her mother apparently born in the same village as Vlad Tepes, but she turned out to be a compulsive liar so I don’t know how true this is. Of course, back in the old black metal days, this was a very cool thing to say :-D
Thank you so much for your time. Was nice talking to
you! Hope to see you pretty soon live :)
"The Great Deceiver" killed the band, says Mortiis, frontman and namesake for the Norwegian ensemble. As important as is it to myself and who I have become, I havent been able to think about it in any way other than "I need to just get this thing out of my life and behind me before I lose my mind". It´s not that the record, Mortiis´ ninth - is anything less than stellar. Mortiis´ conflicted feelings toward "The Great Deceiver" is a result of its torturous state of constant evolution, leading Mortiis the man and the band - through the darkest of places and back. Its´ themes of anger, greed, confusion, self-doubt and re-discovery saturate the album, resulting in Mortiis´ most labored yet honest record yet. The twisted journey weaves its way through feelings of anger and resentment on "Demons are Back", through the Biblical metaphors of "The Ugly Truth", then takes on a disdain for greed in "The Shining Lamp of God", "Feed the Greed" and "Scalding the Burnt". Self-doubt comes to the forefront on "Sins of Mine"," personal darkness permeates "Too Little Too Late", and "Road to Ruin" expresses a near-admission of defeat, "Doppelganger" hits upon pure schizophrenia. The cycle of "The Great Deceiver" takes Mortiis down a path of reparation, with an attempt to exorcize demons on "Hard to Believe" and accepts the ghosts of the past on "Bleed Like You". The lyrical journey eventually making its way to "The Great Leap", one of the most lyrically affirmative songs of Mortiis´career, with an expression of embracing great change. Musically,"The Great Deceiver" continues along the winding path that Mortiis´ two-decade career has taken. "There are so many layers and experiments on this record, especially with guitars" he explains. "We ran a million tracks through all the effects, pedals, rack units and plugins we could find, with more failure than success most of the time".
In the end, it all came together cohesively, mixing together aggressive guitar-driven crossover metal with industrial-type electronics, for a record that could easily be considered the most accessible in Mortiis´ catalog. Yet Mortiis remains in an un-classifiable musical genre, one that encompasses too many elements to be summed up by a simple two-word description."It just is what it is - too metal for the electronic crowd, too electronic for the metal crowd. It´s a paradox we´ve dealt with before. If it can´t be stereotyped, then run like hell! We just never adhered to the rules, whatever those rules are. I never stopped to check, and I have no intention of ever finding out. If following the rules will make us more like the rest, then no thanks, the rest doesn´t look that great". Mortiis´ last release, "Perfectly Defect", which was issued as a completely free download, came in response to his admitted resentment toward the record industry. "My cynicism of the industry had become like a monster" ,he says. "We decided that instead of bowing to the ridiculous demands and greed of the music industry, we´d rather give a record away to the fans. Why feed the monster that pretends to be your friend, when in real life they couldn´t care less?". Following the release of "Perfectly Defect", Mortiis retreated to a self-imposed music industry exile, disgusted with the lies and politics that surrounded him and began questioning his own drive to continue creating music after more than 20 years. "The Great Deceiver has come at a high price, financially and mentally. It kinda took my sanity away a little too", says Mortiis. But the fortune of having an outlet to express all these intense emotions has not been lost on Mortiis either. "Some people write when they´re upset, angry, sad, anguished, and so on .I can´t do that. I always write in hindsight of events" , he explains. "I never forget. I carry baggage around and when I´m calm and inspired I will bring that crap back out and relive it, under controlled circumstances. It´s nothing unique, but I like that I can do that, and that I have the privilege of turning all that negativity into something productive. Not everyone has that privilege, though, and they carry that shit around until their dying day. I guess that´s why some people go postal".
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