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Interviu cu Fredrik Norrman ( October Tide) [RO-EN]

 ENGLISH BELOW 



Bună Fredrik, e o plăcere să conversăm din nou. Ce ai mai făcut în ultima perioadă? Tocmai ce ați lansat cel de al 5-lea album din carieră Winged Waltz. Ce îmi poți spune despre album? Care vă sunt așteptările în ceea ce privește acest album?



Bună! Sunt foarte bine, mulțumesc ! Albumul este gata și asta mă face sa mă simt incredibil de bine. Albumul este un amestec între Grey dawn și Tunnel of no light dar mai întunecat și mai diversificat. Și totodată are un sound mai agresiv lucru care lipsește albumelor precedente. Până în acest moment avem niște review-uri chiar foarte bune. Așteptările mele legate de acest album ar fi să avem numeroase concerte. 

De ce Winged Waltz? De ce acest nume? 

Titlul si albumul sunt inspirate din versurile piesei Swarm.Lawrence Jonathan  este unul din invitatii nostri pentru a scrie versurile. Cand citesti versurile e ca si cum ti-ar aparea imaginile in minte. E ca si cum ai vedea un film. 

Am ascultat cele trei piese postate pe Youtube si preferata mea este Nursed by the cold. Spune-mi cateva cuvinte despre piesa; despre versuri si despre partea instrumentala.

Instrumentalul mi-a venit in minte dupa ce am ascultat albumul nou de la Ghost, Meliora. Ideile au venit rapid si piesa s-a scris singura foarte repede. Nu sunt sigur daca ar trebui sa-mi impart parerea cu privire la versuri fiindca nu as vrea sa le stric opiniile celorlalti. Ramane la latitudinea fiecaruia sa le interpreteze. 

Cand ai in spate o cariera muzicala si o multime de albume e mai usor sa concepi unul nou cand stii ca deja esti cunoscut si lumea are asteptari de la tine?  

Nu sunt sigur. Daca vorbim despre muzica e tot timpul complicat. E greu sa gasesti ceva original si totodata sa nu te repeti. Pe de alta parte sunt asteptarile publicului. Si asta e si mai complicat. 

Acest tur European va include si Romania eventual? 

Din pacate nu. Dar sunt sigur ca vom gasi o metoda sa revenim. Mai devreme sau mai tarziu.   

In 3 cuvinte ce inseamna October Tide pentru tine? 

Distractia de seara, cafea si un mod de a ma detasa de tot. 
Ai ceva sa le transmiti fanilor din Romania care ar fi nerabdatori sa va vada? 

Vorbiti cu promoterii locali pentru a ne aduce acolo. Sper sa ne vedem cat mai curand ! 
Interviu realizat de MIRUNA VITRIOL 




ENGLISH VERSION 



Hello Fredrik, it's nice to talk to you again! So how have you been? Later this month you will release the 5th album "Winged Waltz " so what can you tell me about it? What are your expectations on it? 

 
Hello! I´ve been very good thanx. Album is finished, which feels incredibly good, so there´s not much to complain about. But what´s to say about it. It feels like a mix of Grey dawn and Tunnel of no light but more vicious, dark and diverse. It also have an aggressiveness the other albums lack. So far we´ve got pretty good reviews. My biggest expectation is that this album will generate many gigs.

Why "Winged Waltz" ? Why this name? 

The title and the whole album layout is inspired from the lyrics of the song Swarm. It's the one of our guest writers, Lawrence Jonathan, who wrote the words for that song. When you read the lyrics it really painting pictures in your head. There's like a movie rolling. 

I listened those 3 songs which are streaming on Youtube at the moment, and my favourite is Nursed by the cold. Tell me a bit about it; the lyrics, the instrumental part of it. How have you found reactions to the new material amongst fans?   

The instrumental parts came to me when I had been listening to the new Ghost album, Meliora. I really got inspired and the track wrote itself really fast. I'm not sure if I dare to share my vision on the lyrics since I don't wanna ruin anybody else vision. It's up to each listener to build up his/her own vision around the lyrics. 

When you have a couple of albums to your name is it easier to write a new one knowing that you have a history to fall back on? 
   
I'm not sure. If we speak musically it's always a bit tricky I guess. Finding new ways and not repeat yourself. The other side is people's expectations. That's even more tricky;)

This European tour will possibly include Romania?

No, it will not.  But I'm sure we'll find our way there. Hopefully sooner than later. 

In 3 words describe what October Tide means to you.

Latenight fun, away to ventilate myself, cofee.

Thank you for the interview ! Do you have a message for your fans in Romania, who are many and who wish to see you live again? 

Go nag on your local or festival promoters to book us. Hopefully we'll meet soon. Thanx 
Interview by MIRUNA VITRIOL

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Katharos XIII a lansat o piesa noua ce va figura pe viitorul album de studio “Negativity”




Trupa isi pastreaza vie filozofia de a nu a avea foarte multe aparitii media, fiind mai degraba un proiect extrem de personal ce iata se afla in 2016 dupa mai bine de noua ani in fata celui de-al doilea material.
“Negativity”  va contine 7 piese si continua linia de dark black metal cu puternice accente de introspectie si explorarea a diverselor stari dominate de angoase si izolare ce au caracterizat si celelalte materiale discografice.
In acest moment exista mai posibilitati de a scoate acest material, de aceea inca data exacta nu a fost definita, insa pana la sfasitul anului materialul va fi disponibil atat on-line cat si fizic.
Componenta:
F – voce, chitara, clape
Andrei - chitara
sQ – bass
Sabat – tobe

Discografie:

-Silver Melancholy (demo 2009 – Banatian Darkness Records)
-Split cu Ordinul Negru (2009 – Banatian Darkness Records)
-Dead Emotions (2011 – Arcana Noctis)
-Negativity (2016 –TBA)


 

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Lansare de album Hteththemeth: Best worst case scenario



              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.

https://www.facebook.com/events/958939427531152/

BEST WORST CASE SCENARIO este asa cum afirma membrii trupei, "coloana sonora a unui film imaginar". Asa ca avea nevoie de un trailer.
Il puteti urmari aici:


   

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Interviu cu Tanin

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 




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Interview with Mortiis

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 :) 

Thanks. Check out www.mortiis.com for news and updates.

INTERVIEW BY MIRUNA VITRIOL 


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Mortiis new album will come out on 4 March!



"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".



This information is also availble on The Official Facebook Page !

 Stay tuned an interview will come soon ! 
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