Confession Interview

 

1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the musical project?

 

Confession as a band with current band members was formed in 2020, but the idea of the band is much older than last two years. The band is creating kind of extreme metal music based on black and death metal, as well as on other styles.

 

2.Recently you have released your first album, can you tell us a little bit more about the musical style that you went for on the recording?

 

First album is placed mainly between two styles - black and death metal. As you can hear, there is a bit of keyboard music on the album as well. We don't like to categorize music but we would describe it as a dark music with very big influences of those two musical styles. Our goal was to create an interesting album, very hard and heavy with powerful sound and what's most important for us - dark, gloomy, depressive atmosphere.

 

3.Some of your lyrics cover occult themes, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in the dark arts?

 

Well, there is an interest in dark side or dark arts in general. I personally like very much paintings like those one from polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski - they have been created mostly in the second part of 20th century. They are showing death, suffering, depresion and other similar feelings in a very modern way, also using metaphor. We are also inspired from medieval paintings showing motives of death, devil, war etc. Paintings are generally very good source of inspiration in our opininion.

 

4.What are some of the other lyrical topics and subjects you have explored so far with the music?

 

There are mainly topics from human history and past in general. As we know, there were a lot of wars and plenty of death, cruelty and suffering in everyday life in the past. It's about death and transformation between life and death in "Devilish Passage" for instance, or there is a reference to war and death which is main product of human race - you can read about that in the title song "Coloured by the Red Flames of Fire".

 

5.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Confession'?

 

The name "Confession" as a name of the band appeared in my - Yorgal's mind over ten years ago. It means for us exactly that, what the meaning of the word is. Over the music and lyrics we confess our thoughts, emotions, feelings. Everything what's inside us, inside of our souls. Music, art in general is a kind of confession in our opinion. By creating any kind of art, you have to put your feelings and emotions into it, only in this way it is true and honest - by confessing your inner self.

 

6.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork that is presented on the new album cover?

 

The name of the art is "Triumph of Death". It was painted by dutch artist Peter Bruegel in 1562, you can seen it in Museum Prado in Madrid. It presents death in a little bit grotesque form as skeletons, but with real typical human scenery. The art fits very well to our lyrics and to be honest - this painting was an inspiration for our lyrics as well.

 

7.Currently there are only 2 members in the band, are you open to expanding your lineup or do you prefer to remain a duo?

 

We want definitely to get a full member band. Our next goal is to find a good drummer and a bass player. We know that it's not gonna be easy, but it's very important to us to have a full lineup in the near future. It will give us an opportunity to play gigs and will hopefully bring more creativity into the band.

 

8.So far very little is known about the musical project other than than the bandcamp and metal archives pages, do you prefer to keep a lower profile?

 

No, we would like to spread and develop our profiles - facebook page has already been created. We simply need more time to take care about all of these media, that's it.

 

9.Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?

 

Our goal is to get signed with some label in the future and release "Coloured by the Red Flames of Fire" more officially. We received some offers to release the album already, but it's too early to say something more about that, as not any details with any label are agreed yet. Right now we do small promotional actions by ourselves and hopefully in the next couple of month some agreement will be finalized.

 

10.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of black metal?

 

At the moment our album is not very known yet due to lack of professional promotion, but those who heard the album give us very positive feedback. Mostly the opinions are similar - the album is melodic,atmospheric and heavy at the same time. Most of the listeners are also satisfied with the sound quality and production. We are happy about that as the album has been recorded in a professional studio with a professional sound engineer.

 

11.Where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?

 

It is not an easy question to answer:) We don't know what will happen in the future and which direction will be taken, but for sure it will always be a metal music. Confession is a metal band and we will go in this direction in the future. We can maybe say something about the second album which is planned to release at the end of next year (hopefully). I suppose it will be some kind of continuity of the first album as we have some riffs or even whole parts of the compositions which are similar to "Coloured by the Red Flames of Fire". From lyrical point of view- we also feel that the concept and themes from the first album have potential to be continued on the next one.

 

12.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

 

Well, our influences are coming mainly from metal music of course - both old school metal such as Metallica, Sepultura, Iron Maiden and also black/death metal - bands such: Vader, Emperor, Mayhem... Answering to your question about music listened by us nowadays - our vocalist Szczepan is always deep in metal music, trying new stuff and coming back to the old bands. I don't listen to the old bands too much, have a couple of bands and albums which I like the most and these are mostly albums recorded in the last 10 -15 years. I also like electronic music - it brings some inspiration too what you can hear in the keyboard part of the album.

 

13.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?

 

Yes, we would like to thank you for an interest in our album, review and of course for this interview. For everybody who is interested - in 3-4 weeks CD's will be printed out, so if you want a "physical" version of the album, it will be available. Thanks to everybody who listen to Confession music and support us. Stay strong and open minded!!!

 

Yorgal.

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