So, what about your new album 'Peccata Mundi'?
Tell us about it!
Patric : Well man, its a eight piece
metal work, technical black/death metal. I must say we have an excellent
vocalist now also. He growls, screams like hell and so on. The studio time went
great i think, a little hard to travel all way to Stockholm but it turned out
ok. Sami Karpinen, the producer is a great fellow and an excellent technician,
we had an hell of a time down in his
pit.
The changes are huge since 'Sightveiler'. It
sounds more death/heavy metallish than before... Why?
I don’t know man,
just a natural change for us, when a riff pops up in my head, and if it is
great we use it. I don’t think you sit there and just say ‘Hey man! What if we
make a death, heavy riff instead ?’.
And what about all those line-up changes? Are
you some tyrants or what?
(laughs) Of course we are man,
we terrorised them so much that they didn’t want to play anymore. No
seriously... Rob (drums) left
because we didn’t rehearse anything, Daniel
(vocals) had to go because personal stuff with Stefan (guitars). Roger
(keyboards) because he wasn’t able to play our stuff and Sara (vocals) cause she wasn’t so good to
sing man.
Rob has been replaced by Alzazmon on drums...
Will he stay in the band? How was it to work with him?
It was heaven to
work with Alzazmon. Or maybe hell ? He’s an excellent drummer, very
professional. A nice and funny guy too. He for sure showed where the lock shall
stand.
And how come the keyboards have lost so much
importance in the tracks?
I dont have a clue
man, I think the keyboards on ‘Peccata Mundi’ fits the music perfectly. As I
could read in your review, you said that the keyboard now is more as a
background instrument, that’s correct man, and I think it’s great. It just came
natural I suppose.
Who is your new singer Kai? What happened to
Daniel? Did you kill him?
As I said before
Daniel had to leave because of personal problems with Stefan that’s all... I
can say that Kai is better than Daniel on the vocal parts. Daniel is still a
great friend and he is my cousin you know.
And
what about the artwork/concept of the album? The cover is actually quite
strange...
Yeah man it is! I
think its great. I didn’t liked it at the beginning but now I've realised that
it’s fucking original and cool. The cover fits the music very well, a skull
that makes out with a girl. ‘Peccata Mundi’ is explained in some way in the
cover.
Now, just to change subject, what do you think
of 'Sightveiler' right now? Would you make some changes on it if you could?
Ahhhh!! I love that
fucking album man. Ok, we could have made it better but, hey man! Doesn’t
everybody say that. However I would like to record it again with Rob on drums,
and with a killer sound! I think that could make it very strong!
What are you going to do to promote the album?
Will you finally tour? Who would you like to tour with?
I hope
Hammerheart will put up a tour for us man. I'd love to play and get drunk in
another country (laughs). Hmmm whom
I would like to tour with? I must say Cryptopsy or Deicide, or perhaps Emperor.
I think Cryptopsy live must be an experience.
And would you be interested in releasing some
video clip?
(laughs) I should feel very
ridiculous to stand there and fake play and look grim (laughs). Some friends of mine play in a band called Raised Fist,
they made a video. They said it was very embarrassing (laughs). But what a hell, if Hammerheart wants to release a
video, we will do it!
If you have to go on tour, how will you
rehearse, knowing that you all live in different cities?
Well man, that a
tough piece to handle. We all simply must meet in Stockholm for a week and
rehearse like hell man. That’s the only way, and if we are going on a tour we
must have a keyboard player also.
You also all have different side-projects!
Which ones? Take this opportunity to promote them too...
Me and
Nick mosh like hell in Hellmasker, a grind/death/crust band. Really whips your
ass ! Visit official homepage at http://www.hellmasker.com. I also play bass
in Darkest Season, technical death metal, with a lot of keyboards and stuff.
Influences from Dream Theater to Death. The webpage can be found at http://fade.to/darkest
And then there’s Twilight, pronounced Toaaalat (laughs), Kai is the vocalist and Nick is the guitarist in that
one. Great death/thrash metal, some guy said that it sounded like old At The
Gates… You tell me ! Webpage at http://scroll.to/twilight And finally
there’s Stefan’s other band Sobre Nocturne, I haven’t heard so much, but it
sounds a bit like Therion stuff, really great actually.
And well, just one more thing. In the
'Sightveiler' thanks-list, we could read some stuff like 'thanks to Homer
Simpson, Resident Evil' and so on... That's not very evil, don't you think?
Would that mean that you are not some kind of vampire freaks drinking the blood
of innocent virgins?
(laughs) That stuff is ten
times more blasphemy than a stupid
vampire. Homer Simpson rules man. Resident Evil kicks ass, and Cia my
girlfriend from Otyg thinks so too. I’m lost in the world of survival horror
man. The only things that we do with innocent virgins are beating them up in
Tekken 3.
OK, thanks guys! One last word? Anything you
want to say!
Merde! Tom est un grand
cheval (laughs), my French sucks
man. Well, everybody shall buy ‘Peccata Mundi’, everybody shall drink beer,
everybody shall play Playstation
(laughs). See ya folks ! Thanks to you for this excellent interview!