tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18622268608372201342024-03-13T08:44:05.356-07:00Black Herald: Underground Reviews and InterviewsBlack Heraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02747598265298478540noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862226860837220134.post-47436805344351460662013-05-13T09:21:00.003-07:002013-05-14T09:27:49.984-07:00Interview with Gebrechlichkeit<br />
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<span lang="DE"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Chaos: Black Metal
is not just music, it´s a attitude towards life and that´s the fact making it
easy for me, playing Black Metal and writing songs for it. It´s because for
doing this there is no need for me playing a role or pretend myself, I can just
be me. Living the life I´ve devoted to Black Metal.</span><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="DE"><span style="color: white;">Andras: You released your
first two albums independently, but recently signed to Asatru Klangwerke for
the release of your 2012 album "Glanz und Elend". What was the reason
for moving to this label, and will you stay with them?</span></span><span lang="DE" style="color: #a8184b;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Chaos: Asatru is a
good label, recognizing my qualities. It don´t have to be a major deal for me,
but it should be a label which has manifested itself in his position and which
has good experiences; that’s what Asatru can offer me. The work with a label is
good for better structures, so that I can focus more on making music and less
on promotion and something like this. For the future I go on working with Asatru, what the next years will happen, no one knows, but from my side I would
stick out beyond at the label.</b></span><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Andras: Pestengel is listed as
a past member, and has credits on the first album, but no longer seems to be
active in the band. What was his role in Gebrechlichkeit, and why is he no
longer a member?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="DE">Chaos: A question
ask in every interview, the past with him will probably stick me forever. There
were a lot of disagreements responsible for the separation. For the first on
the human hand, because of knowing each other still not long. But this fact
changes during the intensive joint working for the album and I noticed that he
don´t understand the music of black metal like I do and he has not the respect
which belongs to the genre and I would expect from a musician of the band Gebrechlichkeit. Build on this, his
interests in music were not only the black metal adhered. In principle this is
okay, but he often had no time for the samples, because of attending on other
projects far away from black metal and this is the fact I begin to think there
were worlds between Gebrechlichkeit and his interests.</span><span lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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decided after the album, it´s time for a divorce.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I won´t
tell I was pleased or saddened about the divorce, but it was an essential step
for the today sound of Gebrechlichkeit. I had used the time for learning much about
me and the music, growing and develop myself and my black metal.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="DE">Listening
to my first black metal solo album – “Gebrechlechkeit” – I</span><span lang="DE"> </span><span lang="DE">aptly named so in
order to lay the foundations of the real Gebrechlichkeit sound, you will quick
feel that something has changed. Writing and producing alone makes the music
different, becoming more pure, it comes all out from within.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>It´s quite
clear an advantage for me working alone, because of not making compromises with
anyone, only running my ideas free. But on the other side, it also means for me
to work harder, because of the long way from the idea of a song till the ready
song.</b></span><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Chaos: Since the
beginning of this week I´ve started recording the first songs for the fifth
album. There is still a lot of work in front of me, because not all songs are
written yet and I´m still searching for the right kind of sound I imagine for
this album.</span></b><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Andras: How did you get into
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the black metal for me in the age of 13 years. This kind of music addresses
deep rooted needs in me. I could immediately identify with the music.</b></span><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="DE"><span style="color: white;">Andras: Which artists do you
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Chaos: I like
listen to other bm bands, but there are differences between listen and listen.
How I´ve explained, the truthfulness of the artist is important for me, but you
can´t often find it.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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bm is undergoing a change, there are sub genres of sub genres and so on, the bm
had lost it´s black shine, so this is the reason why you have to filter the
truthful bands out.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>For me in
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<span lang="DE"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Of course I
also listen to other kinds of music like gabba, hakke and so on, but not in the
same way I listen to bm, however I see other genres just like music, but bm is
a lifestyle, a feeling for me. And music like hakke (techno, electro) or gabba,
I sometimes listen to it, for getting my mind free.</b></span><span style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Chaos: Gebrechlichkeit
will always consist of one fixed member. I don´t want someone to talk into my
music and that's why I prefer to write it alone.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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interested in presenting my music life in public, but it´s very hard to find
live musicians. Currently I have contact to somebody who would provide his band
for me, but I won´t – as we say here in germany - make the horses shy.</b></span></span><span lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="DE"><span style="color: white;">Andras: Finally, can you tell
our readers what your message is? The ideologies behind the band?</span></span><span lang="DE" style="color: #e36c0a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Antichrist,
sadist, misanthrope<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Black Metal
is a way of life.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Gebrechlichekit
is Black Metal.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="DE">Life and
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<span lang="DE"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks for your time,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: What inspired you to start
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sternenfrost: Hey, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm inspired by black metal and the fascination of this music. It starts as a "hobby", to tell
feelings of life and those thoughts you have in young years.</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: All of your releases, but in
particular "Einsamer Winterweg", contain </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">depressive, melancholy riffs,
dark choirs and an eerie, cold ambience. What </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is the creative process when you
come up with these songs, and how do you </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">create such powerful pieces?</span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Sternenfrost: Thanks for your words. It's not about to create this way of music. I
don't stay here and say to myself "Damn, create some depressive
stuff..". The feeling of the songs is like my feeling at this moment of life. It's interesting to hear many years
later my own songs. Strange feeling! </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: You say the project is for you alone, but would Wedard ever perform </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">live with session musicians?</span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sternenfrost: Mhh, I thought about, but I live in a small town in the south of
Germany. This art of music isn't very popular. So it's hard to find some good
members for a live show. And I don't know if this music is so good for live
acts. But we will see, maybe one time!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: What is the message within
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<span lang="de"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sternenfrost: The message is clear. I would say its about the many different
feelings in different moments of life. We have our majestic moments full of
love and our dimension of the blackest dark. I never thought so many guys think
Wedard is depressive Black Metal. I would say it's more a mix of atmospheric
parts and melodies for dreaming. But anyway, every person has his own view and
own opinion. <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Sternenfrost: I often thought about the end. Many problems in past and a scene I don't
want to be a part of. With the time I
changed the sound, the themes about the songs and so on. Ideas come and ideas
go. At least I would say, the end is here when no fire is left to make this art
of music. For this kind of genre you need 110% feeling. </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: What sort of music and bands
do you like personally? Do you listen to </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">depressive black metal?</span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Sternenfrost: I don't listen to much
depressive Black Metal. It makes me sad (haha!). No, private I listen to (old!)
Blut aus Nord, Rotting Christ or some atmospheric bands like Midnight Odyssey.
Some good DSBM Bands? In Germany I would say Nyktalgia. They fuck your mind.
Incredible good sound and vocals.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: Wedard does not publish its
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Sternenfrost: Some lyrics of songs are published, but the most are private. In
future all lyrics will be printed.. I think. </b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="de"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;">Sternenfrost: Maybe a split with Thy Light and the new full length. Can´t say
anymore. Still working on the full length: 2014 or later is possible, too. And
how it sounds? Puh, the first previews sound like a mix of Einsamer Winterweg
and the last album. But anyway...</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A great KVLT tape. Pleasantly lo-fi, with standard black metal riffage (inverted 5th powerchords). The vocals are sufficiently grim, announcing each track name and then screaming along to the riffage. The drums are moderately inventive and fitting to the tremolo picked riffing. Under this mass of pseudo-genius lies a bass, but it isn't heard much and just plays uninventive single notes; the only negative of this tape, and one which is frequent on many black metal releases. The whole thing is steeped in darkness, and is easily listenable to any black metal fan; whether you're into the melodic riffs of Satyricon or the raw brutality of Satanic Warmaster, this release will appeal to you. GET IT!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Download link: <a href="http://www.4shared.com/rar/TSb9G9yN/Black_Witchery_-_Evil_Shall_Pr.html?">http://www.4shared.com/rar/TSb9G9yN/Black_Witchery_-_Evil_Shall_Pr.html?</a></span>Black Heraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02747598265298478540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862226860837220134.post-63560839044188786542013-01-14T05:05:00.003-08:002013-01-14T05:05:18.078-08:00Lucifer's Hammer - The Burning Church (1992, Demo) Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A decent effort by this U.S. band. Fairly inventive downtuned riffage changes into slow, doomy power chords throughout. Bass is only audible as bass; no treble in there, though it does have a little solo (literally a few notes) in the title track. Drums change style throughout the demo, adding real colour to the riffs, and have a raw feel to the snare drum (similar to Quorthon's on the Octagon album by Bathory). The whole demo tape is quite dark: there are sound clips of dripping water, some mock-satanic speech, then of burning (what we can assume is a church). There's a nice solo at the start of Burning Church, too. The vocal approach of Todd Cushman, the singer of L.H., is somewhere between James Read of Conqueror and Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust. I recommend this to any fans of the early Church Bizarre stuff, and to fans of Blasphemy and early Archgoat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.4shared.com/rar/-jBRD-M2/Lucifers_Hammer_-_The_Burning_.html?</span>Black Heraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02747598265298478540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862226860837220134.post-24486941917039906822013-01-14T04:46:00.004-08:002013-01-14T04:50:59.248-08:00Sacred Crucifix - Realms of Darkness (1989, Demo) Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting my hands on this demo tape was not an easy job. Once I did finally grab hold of it, I was eager to have a listen. What I found was a pleasant mix of early death/thrash metal, gravitating more toward the death sound. The riffage throughout is a cross between death and thrash riffs, under which lie a thick bass sound and pretty standard drumming - a few fills here and there but nothing brilliant. The vocals are more guttural than shouty, taking the whole thing in a short of Possessed direction. In fact, this demo sounds like it could be an early Possessed demo, so I recommend this to anyone who likes "Seven Churches" or anything by early Obituary. A few interesting riffs and such make for a good listen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Andras: Your music from several projects is clearly up to standard of (if not better than) several respective black and death metal bands. Have you sought other labels, or is there a reason you choose to release on Macabre Mastermind?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: At what point did you start amassing a number of projects? Was it always your intention to have so many musical outlets?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob: No not really, but as I started recording more, I found different sounds I liked. I started releasing these under different projects because they sounded different. I mean Goatbleeder sounds different than Chainsaw Dissection; Chainsaw Dissection sounds different than P.H.D., etc. As far as the number of projects goes, they just kind of came about as I found new and different sounds I liked. Plus I like trying to find new sounds so new projects may be in the works.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: You've collaborated with Mike Scrivens, aka The Brutal Postman, a number of times, including releases on each other's labels, splits, and bands together. When did you first come into contact with him, and how did your musical partnership come about?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: When and how did you first get into metal?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob: I got an Iron Maiden tape when I was around 10 years old. I got more of their stuff then I started listening to Slayer, Exodus, Pantera, along with some death metal bands like Death, Obituary, and Possessed. And the rest is history.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: You're clearly a huge horror film fan. Other than this, and your music, how do you like to spend your free time?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob: Watching football, playing my acoustic guitar, taking care of my pets. I like model trains and collecting sports items, playing old school video games (Yars Revenge, Pac Man, Donkey Kong County)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andras: Finally: what are your future plans for P.H.D., Chainsaw Dissection and Satanic Impalement? Do you have any albums in the works? What shall we expect from Bob Macabre in 2013?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bob: I recently had a new Chainsaw Dissection CD out called "My Chainsaw Still Executes." I'm working on a new P.H.D. for the Death Becomes Her label. Not really doing much with Satanic Impalement at the moment. I'm working with Mike on our Perception of Hades project. Also, working on some new Schizogrinder tracks. This is what I have lined up for the next couple of months. I would like to more stuff with my Postmortem Gore Orgy. </span></span></div>
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