Autumn Doom Quiz pt.
III
Here we go for another tour around the globe of Doom with this 3rd part of Aleksey's quiz. Thanx comrade for such a titanesque work in a very short time, and also for your extreme dedication and passion for the underground scene! Well, there's lots of geographical and musical diversity once again, and who gives a shit if all five questions are still the same that you found in pt 1 & 2 ?! everyone has his own sensibility and actuality, best proof is that there's loads of great shit to read about here again, so, enjoy while listening some heavy sounds full of chilling vibes !!!
1. What is the band’s state at the moment? What
kind of sinister affairs does the band plan to perform for autumn and the following
months?
2. How did listeners and critics meet band’s last
album?
3. "Paranoid" of Black Sabbath is an
iconic song, what in this Earth can turn you paranoid?
4. Who was your childhood hero? What kind of
dude did you want to become?
5. Last TV-news reminds me about it – this
question is about "War Pigs". What is your opinion about conflict
around Syria
From this
quiz you’ll know that Portland Venezuela ), Fanttasma (Brazil ) and Poema Arcanus (Chile Netherlands Sweden )
and The Curse of Wendigo (Ukraine Canada
Booze Lords (USA
Inebrion and Drunkus Crom
Drunkus
Crom: Our recording sessions have been very prolific as of late. Our guts have been filled with good brew and
our minds frothing with good jams so I would say our state of mind is the best
it’s ever been. The fact that autumn is
approaching only makes our creativity that much more furtive! The smell of decaying leaves and the ominous
loom of black clouds overhead sends us deep into our beer drenched dens to make
even more great music!
2.
Inebrion: Well…we have about 21 likes on Facebook the last I checked; now, if
that’s any indication, I would say that about 10 people legitimately like it
and 11 people don’t like it, but they’re relatives, so they feel obligated to
like it… As for critics, we have had a singular review, done by this very
publication, the Temple
of Perdition
Drunkus
Crom: We were like two homeless men finding a worm-infested sandwich! Both of us were overjoyed by the feedback
from our fans and critics. Every word spoken on our behalf helps us to become
that much better at our jobs, drinking and playing music!
3. Drunkus
Crom: There is only one thing on this earth that truly makes me paranoid. It stalks all inebriated wanderers and
vagrants and at some point consumes them and strikes with terrible vengeance. That beast that all should beware is… awaking
sober!! Also toilet seats in public bathrooms.
They terrify me! Nothing is worse than going to take care of a beer baby
and some creep emerges with a crooked smile and laughs in your face as you
brave the porcelain nightmare. Bless him who invented toilet covers.
Inebrion:
Simply put, The Human Race. What else is there to be paranoid about? Everything
else pales in comparison to a race of beings out to ruin everyone else fun. I
will simply quote those fine modern minstrels of doom, Saint Vitus. “I made a simple plan, they complicate it!”
4.
Inebrion: I never really had a childhood hero I can remember, as for who I
wanted to become, well, I wanted to be me; Success!
Drunkus
Crom: The Hams beer bear. He is cheap, he makes me happy and he gives me
something to live for, getting drunk!
5. Drunkus
Crom: I have two words for this topic. Drink and forget. Booze Lords has deep and meaningful message
of peace and harmony. This is easily
achieved by simply subjugating the entire world populace to a diet of PBR and
meat and cheese platters. This is the
quickest way to end all conflict because, let’s face it, when your shit faced
you can’t aim a gun let alone see. Wars result in death and death results in
less consumption of alcohol therefore I personally feel conflicts of a violent
nature are useless unless it is, A: in a pit of mosh, or, B: a friendly bar
dispute.
Inebrion:
While I tend to agree with my brother of booze, I will add that this little
scuffle overseas is about more than the loss of human life. Let’s look at it
this way, thousands of people are murdered everyday by corrupt governments, do
we hear about them? No. But as soon and someone says “Chemical Weapons!” It becomes a big deal, the reason? It’s
simple, only America America
Cultura Tres (Venezuela
Juan de Ferrari (guitars)
Later, for
the beginning of next year it is being planed an European tour.
2. The
critics so far have been pretty much positive, some even call it "master
piece".
3. The US
government foreign policies
4. Mazinger
Z, it marked every kid in South America in the
80's.
5. There is
no way the killing of children can be justified. From Cambodia ,
to Panama , from Iraq to Afghanistan
Unfortunately
the U.S. government keeps on finding the way to keep on selling their reasons
to start a war to a group of voters and
to the rest of the world.... the puppeteers keep on getting away with it, and
the puppets live silently in fear with their eyes closed... collateral damage
what a beautiful sounding term isn't it?
Fanttasma (Brazil
Rafael Augusto Lopez (guitars, bass)
2. Very
well actually! Was a bit surprised to be honest, reviews all around said the
album is good, so great I guess! But critics, overall, good or bad, must have
little impact on the music.
3. Women I
guess, haha. Other than that, on another level, the government.
4. To be
honest when I was a child the national hero was Ayrton Senna, and I loved to
see him race. Brazillians overall have a feeling of inferiority and there was
this guy beating everyone else from everywhere else, so I kinda wanted to be
like him and beat everyone else. But I was really young, like 10, when Metal
appeared in my life, shortly after, everything changed and all I wanted to beat
was myself and be a good guitar player.
5. I don't
know much about geopolitics, but I have a feeling that the interests in Syria
Huata (France
Benjamin (bass)
2. Pretty
well actually, we had very good responses to our split with Bitcho. It was our
first release of this kind and we didn't know how to expect from our audience.
But our fans seems to enjoy the long psychedelic journey we released. This was
also the beginning of our collaboration with Music Fear Satan (whom we are very
grateful) who reissued Atavist Of Mann in 1000 LP copies after the release of
the split 12". The evolution of the music and artwork we proposed for this
format is special and will remains for our split releases only. We wanted to explore
the psychedelic/space rock part of Huata's musicality separately from what we
write usually for our full-length.
3. When our
amps make strange noises or seem to be broken !
4. My
childhood heroes were and still are Batman, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Lucky
Luke, Han Solo, Michael Jordan and Rodney Mullen. So I wanted to be a tall
archeologist cowboy-super-hero, working for the MI6, traveling in space on a
flying skateboard.
5. When the
TV-news will relate something that reminds us the Black Sabbath's songs
"The Wizard", "Iron Man" or "Planet Caravan",
that will be great, otherwise I don't care.
Officium Triste (Netherlands
Pim Blankenstein (vocals)
Other than
that we’re not doing that much. We do have some ideas for new songs though, so
we’re getting into gear to write material for our next album.
2. Up till
now it has been really positive. We got a lot of great feedback on our album,
which is satisfying as we have been working on that album really hard. Of
course we received some criticism as well, but that’s basically from people who
don’t like our style anyway. Most of the time this criticism is ill-founded.
You hardly see any explanation why the criticaster finds certain facts of our
album bad or mediocre. But hey, that’s a sign of the times where lots of
so-called ‘journalists’ have a possibility to spread their opinion on the
internet.
As a whole
it’s just a minority as the majority of reviews we have seen and the comments
we got are very positive.
3. Nothing
really if you take what paranoia literally means. I’m pretty laid-back and
don’t worry too much. I don’t care about others too much either.
4. Looking
at this question I first thought about a hero within music. But when it comes
to my childhood I have to conclude that football (that’s right it’s football,
not soccer!) was the most important thing for me. One of my favorourite players
was a guy called Kees Kist, who most of you probably don’t know. For those
interested check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Kist.
Anyway, he
didn’t even play in the team I support but he was a fabulous striker who could
shoot the ball real hard. That impressed me a lot as a kid. So he’s my childhood
hero.
Back then I
always dreamed of becoming a pro-footballer, but In wasn’t good enough
obviously.
5. You
know, I only follow this a bit. I only get what I hear on the news and I’ve
learned that you cannot believe anything you see on the news. It’s often
biased.
Based on
that I have no opinion on military intervention in Syria USA USA
Then
there’s Russia , which is a
powerful country and they often seem to disagree with the USA
You know,
it’s all very difficult and complex and most of us aren’t even aware what
forces influence all these decisions. There are big coorporations out there
that benefit from war. I don’t even want to think about it. The complexity of
the matter gives me a headache. Just let
me live my life!
Pantheist (UK
Kostas Panagiotou (vocals, keyboards)
Besides
this, we are practicing for two upcoming gigs, one in Athens
and another one in London
Lastly, we
are also working on our fifth album, which is a concept album, the first one
since 'Amartia'. The album is based on a story called 'Events', which I am
slowly writing and publishing on our website, accompanied by tracks on which we
collaborate with fans! All details can be found on our site.
2. Very
well considering it was a decided departure from our more extreme roots, to a
melodic sound with some of the brutal elements still present. But fans and the
press praised it for its individuality and creative idea's and us for following
our own path without distractions. Also the track 'Be Here' seems to have
become something of a fan favourite, which made us decide to make the above
video. On the other hand, there was in the background the usual murmur of discontent from those who still expect O
Solitude Vol 2 after us releasing four albums that are totally different from
each other, but the voice of discontent is always welcome as it helps us to
push our boundaries even further as a reaction to the innate conservatism of
the genre!
3. People
who are constantly smiling in your face, no matter in what circumstances you
meet them. I automatically assume that they have a darker side to hide, and I
like to believe that usually I am right about this!
4. Oh
that's difficult to answer...I am not someone who worships people (or
entities), so I don't really have heroes. I like to be free and those who
worship are slaves of the object of their worshipping. From the other side, I
do admire people I feel I can learn from. E.g. people who have demonstrated
wisdom in the way they led their lives, such as Siddhartha Gautama and
Socrates. And also less famous people around me, of course.
5. No, I
see no reason justifying war in a foreign land whatsoever. But of course I also
recognise that these wars are usually justified by hidden motives such as greed
and the illusion that you are somehow morally superior to the rest of the world
and therefore need to impose your values to others. The fact however that the necessity
of this war has been recently downplayed by the western media, and here in
England the parliament even voted against it, shows that the world is slowly
learning.
Not DOOMED
after all???
Poema Arcanvs (Chile
Pablo Tapia U. (Bass)
2. Our fans
meet the album very well, we are very glad that most of them understand the
music and the emotions that we wanted to transmit despite of that our music
sometimes is a little bit hard to digest. Critics was very good, every review
around 8/10 and we are happy about that too. Of course sometimes you find a
very good ones and also another ones not so good haha, but those are not the
mean.
3. Well,
personal speaking (or writing?)... the monetary system. I think at some point,
people stopped control this shit and now is an entity for himself. It controls almost everything and is driving society into madness. Sometimes you try to
fight against it but nothing happens, kind of Omniscient Opponent... maybe if
we fight all together?
4. I didn't
have any, but if I think in heroes... Che Guevara and Gandhi appear instantly in
my mind. Sadly is really difficult be such an altruist person like them, and
give your entire life for the good of others.
5. The only
reason that the ONU see as a need to make a military intervention is when a
government is using abusive force against their own people. This argument is
reasonable and I share it. But... of course you can not be an auto-designated
"hero", as the US are trying to be, even less when you don't have
enough proof. This situation as I see... is just a make up to justify war against
Syria
Thank you
very much friends of Temple
of Perdition
StoneGriff (Sweden
Rex Nibor (bass) and Molde (guitars)
Molde:
We're preparing for some live gigs we plan to perform later on and we are also
in the process of trying out new songs for future doom recordings.
2. Rex:
Overall, the reactions to "Prologus Magicus" has been above our
expectations. It´s a great feeling when you realize that all the blood, sweat
and man hours you put into the songs and the band were worth it.
Molde: The
reactions from the scene have in general been very positive and judging from
the reviews most doomheads have got our message right. We are here to play
traditional doom metal and we do it with an old school mentality.
3. Rex:
People who claim they "just want to play music", and then go to
auditions for X-factor and those kind of TV-shows.
Molde:
Well, some of the disco style remixes of the mentioned masterpiece make me
somehow paranoid...
4. Rex: I
played hockey as a kid so naturally I dreamed of becoming a pro, I wanted to
play in NHL and win Stanley Cup. My favourite players where Wayne Gretsky,
Börje Salming and Mats Sundin.
Molde:
Robin Hood was definitely a childhood hero of mine. I guess there were some
wizards and knights competing for my attention as well.
5. Molde:
There are probably that kind of reasons but the problem is that it is hard to
know who is to be trusted. The truth has always many sides and then there is
money...
The Curse of Wendigo (Ukraine
Konstantin (guitars, vocals)
With the
winter months coming into full force, we seriously plan to start recording the
new album and correct all those mistakes about the first release. We are eager
about producing the most high-quality stuff. A couple of videos are planned as
well.
2. The
first full-length titled "Eclectic Tail" to have been out back in
December 2012 was positively acclaimed and constructively criticized at the
same time. All these were properly considered and adopted throughout working
upon the new stuff.
Single
titled "Wildhoney" and released this spring got a bit warmer response
and widened the circle of our listeners. The piece turned to be more rocking
than its predecessors.
3. Not sure
about the rest, but I would go paranoid in case of impossibility to make music,
to do my favourite thing:) You know, idleness as a whole is paranoia.
4. Just
like any other kids from nineties, we were fond of action and videogame heroes.
Later, due to certain musical preferences, those got substituted by musicians.
Cobain, Hetfield, Dickinson, Ousborne etc.
I always
wanted to play music, the more serious the better, just strived to create
something making me delighted myself.
5.
Honestly, we’re not into Syrian events very much. However, as it appears, our
compassionate Yankees keep on bringing democracy to poor Arabians, Asians,
Africans etc. Well, supposedly:) The point is surely clear to all – fine not to
have any oil here in Ukraine
We are
rather skeptical about any political games and everything related. All these
are based upon money, deceit and pseudo patriotism.
Towards Darkness (Canada
Kevin Jones (vocals, bass)
2. Our
latest album Barren was generally well received. Most reviews were positive and
supportive. The feedback we've been getting suggests that the album has
traveled around the world so it has diffidently widened our fan base. Many
people are becoming aware of us thanks to our label, Avantgarde Music, who's
reputation is well known in the underground music world.
3. I don't
like surveillance technology. In my city there are cameras everywhere. It
invades privacy and it makes me paranoid to think that I am being analyzed by
dozens of cameras when I go to buy groceries.
4. I think
my childhood hero was Jimi Hendrix. I was introduced to his music when I was
very young by my older brother. I was really impressed by him as a youngster
and he greatly inspired me to be the musician dude that I am today.
5. From my
vantage point here in Canada
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