1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the band?
We're just two guys lie everyeone else in the world who like heavy metal music. We "met" each other thanks to a common "friend / knowledge" on a heavy metal forum.
We played mainly heavy, thrash and death metal for several years then we'll decide to challenge ourselves in a black metal release
after speding several months in focus mainly on study some basic background of the old school bm and honestly we're kind proud
of the result being our first extreme metal EP so far.
2.Recently you have released a new ep, can you tell us a little bit more about the musical style that you went for on the recording?
This is our official debut EP (not a new one); probably the hardest part of it was try to being as more "simple and powerful" as possible
with the guitar lines and found the correct "old school" drum sound in order to have a good BM on the EP.
In addiction, we addese very few piano parts in just a couple of song for not appear to "sinfonic".
The only part that could maybe sound too "loud" in the EP are the vocal equalization/edit but old school BM in
our opinion means also keep a good raw sound. Several people reported us the DISSECTION influences and this
makes us vey happy because without DISSECTION we didn't neither start to work on this project
3.Yout lyrics cover History, Literature and Darkness themes, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest and research in these topics?
Thanks for the question; history is surely the main the we worked on being "Paiting Revenge" and "Medz Yeghern" the first two demo song
we publisehs on Reverbnation. There are several topics in history which in our opinion noone's talk about, and being one of us Armenian
we thought was dutiful spoke of it. Darkness we honestly retain is a theme which matches perfectly with black metal .
As for literature, we just came up with the idea of covering different lyrical themes in our song. We're honestly don't like to focus our lyrics
on satanism or similar like many other bands already did. We off course respect their approach to it and the ability to let it match with the music
(as well as we know that this answer could open additioanl and eventually "polemic" in the extreme side of BM); but you know, we consider extreme metal
a sort of art and art cannot be channel always in the same topics.
4.I know that the bands name comes from the native Sudan Dinka Religion, how does this name fit in with the musical style that you play?
It does not matches at all with the music, we picked it only for the band name
becasue we retain sounded good and easy to remind.
5.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork that is presented on the new album cover?
We did the artwork ourselves; we tried to be as more "dark and sober" as possible because we didn't want
to show details of the Armenian genocide (Medz Yeghern") on the main cover. We thought this abstract
works matches great then we just add some white border frame for a bit of "elegiance" appear
6.Currently there are only 2 members in the band, are you open to expanding the line up or do you prefer to remain a duo?
We're a duo but physically we're 3 person: we think is correct from our side including in this answer also our Italian
friend Damy at UMBRA Studio who helped us in the arrangement and mixing of the entire EP. We're currently don't plan to
expand the line up beacuse once you know the working timing of each other, adding other person could means longer planing
and this sometimes could means "work with lazy people"
7.The band members live in Armenia and Sudan which are located in different parts of the world, what impact does this have on the music style that you play?
Lucky we discover to have same backgroung and musical taste in bands which helped a lot in focus both on the same direction to work on the EP.
We can say that for "correct policy of both", one member picked band name and one member picked EP title .
8.Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label or have received any interest?
Uncorrect, being the EP released via indie label "MedievH3ll Records". We're not looking for a label
even if we already received a couple of proposal / offer to evalue
9.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of black metal?
It's early to say, but basing on your review and as well as on the feedback we got on Twitter / Soundcloud / Reverbnation, we would say quite good
10.When can we expect a full length and also where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?
Currently no full lenght on plan. We release this EP as a "challenge" with ourselved an now we're mainly focus on promoting it.
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?
Indeed we must say Dissection, Old Man's Child and Watain; these three bands were our mainly influences for this release, but off
course we listened again and again to a lot of black metal bands during this last year (as well as famous ones as well as undergound ones).
12.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?
Thank you for this interview. To all of you out chere, remember to check out and support metal music blogs like OCCULT METAL ZINE
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