1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the band?
We’re an old-school black metal band, based in Israel. We’ve been playing since 2004, released a demo and two albums, do awesome live shows and love beer.
2.In 2025 you had released a new album, musically how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past?
I don’t feel these songs differ much in the style of writing, as most were written shortly after our first album, “Eternity”, was released. Some of the songs were even performed in our European tour, in 2006.
What differs greatly is our skill as musicians, and our familiarity with various aspects of music production, which brought the result we’ve been looking for in “Bellum Nostrum”.
3.This was also your first album released since 2006, can you tell us a little bit more about the 19 year wait in between releases?
The first time we’ve recorded the second album was in 2009, but we were not pleased with the result and scrapped it. Later, various changes in the lineup postponed the recording until 2019.
After that the album was stuck in mixing for a few years, and finally released in 2025.
Better late than never, but hope the next album will be ready quicker.
4.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the newer music and also how would you describe your progress as songwriters over the years?
Several songs deal with the state of the world, full of blind followers and false prophets, and various violent solutions to this situation.
Other songs are less related to physical reality, and deal with spirits, demons and the apocalypse.
5.I know that the band name means 'Bones' in Hebrew, how does this name fit in with the musical style that you play?
Be it bones or skulls, they are very prominent in the imagery of death in general, and metal specifically. A lot of the lyrics I write deal with death, destruction and the undead, so the name feels quite fitting.
6.What are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and also how would you describe your stage performance?
Oh man, we had a lot of great shows. Among the most memorable I’d say were the gigs on our tour in 2006, with Lord Belial, Dark Fortress and Born of sin. Especially amazing were the ones in Graz, Lucerne, Munich and Hamburg.
In recent years I think the most memorable was the gig with Mgla, in Israel.
We put on corpse paint and enshroud our mind in darkness, evil and chaos. When the audience responds well, it’s always an incredible show of demonic fun.
7.Do you have any touring or show plans for 2026?
We were invited to play in several shows in Israel, so far in March and April. Unfortunately, we have some logistical problems, with our drummer going briefly abroad, so it’s still unclear whether we’ll be able to perform in these.
Other than that, we’ll be sure to organize a show of our own, with great bands like Svpremacist, as soon as it’ll be feasible.
8.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of black metal?
People seem to be thrilled to hear the old-school, riffing black metal, which sort of died out in the last couple of decades.
9.Are any of the band members currently involved with any other bands or musical projects these days?
Not really. Ratimus, our bass player, has a few one-man projects that are still active, the most notable of which are Geist, Mucous Scrotum and Witchcraft Sadomizer.
10.Where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?
We will always play black metal, though I think we’ll be moving towards a less melodic sound, and possibly slower tempos.
Hopefully we’ll be able to reproduce the sound and feeling of the early-mid 90’s.
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?
At the beginning, our main influences were Immortal, Gorgoroth, Dissection, Satyricon, Ulver, early Marduk.
These days each of us listens to a huge variety of music, so it’s tricky to summarize.
In metal specifically, I listen to mainly 80’s and 90’s black, death and thrash metal bands.
From newly released music I tend to mainly listen to bestial metal.
12.Does Occultism play any role in your music?
Occultism provides a lot of the imagery I use in the lyrics, discussing various spirits and demons.
13.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?
It’s been great. I’ll leave you with a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche:
“Relatively speaking, man is the most botched of all the animals and the sickliest, and he has wandered most dangerously from his instincts—though for all that, to be sure, he remains the most interesting!”
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