Python Interview

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

Yeah Python is a black metal/funeral doom whatever you want to call it one man band centered around a very non traditional banjo. But really i just call it hypnotic swamp shit.

2.So far you have released a full length, can you tell us a little bit about the musical style that you went for on the recording?

I live out the woods literally back in the swamp and what came out on the record is so appropriate for the setting here. Very raw, creepy, and hypnotic. Originally i was going to just be making banjo songs and i ended up getting carried away adding bass and drums and rolled with it.

3.Instead of using regular guitar's you use a banjo as a lead instrument, can you tell us a little bit about the decision behind introducing this instrument to the genre of black metal?

My extended family has always been involved in bluegrass and my great uncle is the legend Dock Boggs. Honestly, i bought a banjo because of family and started learning traditional bluegrass and being who i am, i got really bored quickly and B lined into making this record.

4.Can you tell us a little bit more about the lyrical topics and subjects you have explored so far with the music?

Everything is about Florida nature and the spirits that inhabit this land.

5.How does the name 'Python' fit in with the musical style that you play?

The reason i wanted to use the name is because of the invasive Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades. It’s something i have studied heavily and am counting on hunting myself soon. This record feels like being on mushrooms alone in the glades so i felt it was appropriate.

6.How would you describe the artwork that is presented on the new album cover?

I love Warhead art so much. It’s so raw and primitive. It’s a swamp spirit fuckin his skeletal corpse while hallucinating on shrooms in the bog DUH

7.With this project you record everything by yourself, are you open to working with other musicians or do you prefer to work solo?

I did record this with a friend who gave me inputs, helped me with things, mixed it, and added sample sounds and shit like that. I just wrote and recorded everything. But yes i am open to it. I have a split recorded already but i will be starting a new full length this year with another friend and i am very much looking forward to that.

8.The album was released on 'Jems Label', how did you get in contact with this label?

We just chatted on Instagram a bit and we are boys now. Jorge rules. I can’t thank him enough for helpin with the release.

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

Seems pretty good so far, i haven’t seen much negative or any really. Honestly i am glad people like it, but i really mostly made this record for myself. After being in a very large death metal band for years and stepping back from music for 5 years now i really needed to make something for myself like this.

10.Where do you see yourself heading into as a musician during the future?

I’m just going to keep evolving this project for now and trying to make it weirder and more mind bending. I have two - ten minute songs for a split with a friends swampy black metal project. Then i will do another full length probably all this year.

11.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?

Ak’chamel, Craft, Leviathan, Esoctrilihum, and Xasthur are my top influences for this I’d say. And honestly i mostly listen to Ak’chamel right now and i keep putting on Invunche, Cuntroaches, and Kūka’ilimoku.

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

I just hope everyone enjoys the weird shit i have made and will make.

Stop moving to Florida, it’s full.

Skunk ape is real. He’s a spirit that takes physical form and he lives out here.

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