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From Cult Mongersa
Not too bad Narimlak
The underground scene in Ireland is very small. The biggest attendance at underground gigs would be about 250 people. Balance this with when a foreign band comes over and you can get up to 800 people, where do they come from? The Irish underground scene has its own dedicated followers and bands such as Primordial, Waylander, Old Season and many others forging their own path. It also has its own dedicated forum called metalireland.com where you can go to find out what most Irish bands are up to at any one time. Ireland also has now its own pro printed and written metal magazine called Metalworks (www.metalworksmagazine.com and this is also put out to help the Irish underground both at home and abroad and it seems the underground maybe growing with each gig I attend but as always only the dedicated and few will remain.
Yes we all live in Ireland (fortunately/unfortunately)
We all have to deal with shit in our lives every day and what better way to vent these emotions than by writing some slow miserable Dooom Metal! Perhaps you can find there are some very small glimmers of hope in our music but this is outweighed by the suffocating atmosphere that is generally created. We deal with all the negative stuff that goes on in our lives through music and lyrics. We deal with loss, be it the loss of innocence or the loss of a loved on, we deal with pain, anger and misery. There is no point in writing about stuff that makes you happy, we will leave that to our memories
Yes I write all the lyrics in Mourning Beloveth and they deal with the topics you speak of, our bleak future, loneliness and how with a world full of humans how one can still feel lonely. Alot of topics I deal with are personal but I deal with them in a broad sense and use a lot of imagery to try to get my point across (if that isn't a contradiction) but sometimes I am just able to drift aimlessly in a new riff that somebody plays at rehearsals and the lyrics go from there. A little known fact is that most of the lyrics on All Hope is PLeading from the Dust album were made up while the song was being played to me, I had the first few lines and the structure of thoughts I needed to convey...and it went from there
The keyboard can certainly bring a different feel to the music but we didn't use it in the recording of Dust for a few reasons, we recorded in a different country and the keyboard player couldn't come and also the fact that we didn't even think of keyboards when writing Dust, a lot of the songs are a few years old. We used keyboards on the demos as they fitted what we were trying to say at that time and they added a link between songs.
Thanks for the compliments but it is Frank our guitar player who does the clean singing, I do the talking parts and the growls. We do spend some time on the vocals in the studio and before the studio as like the keyboard it is just another instrument to weave the spell of Doom with. The voacls on the new stuff will astound you also.
I sang in Old Season (a black/death band) Frank now sings with them. Adrian once played with Kingdom (black/death) but we both left to concentrate on promoting MB. 9.Let's talk about rehearsals, how often do you rehearse,
aside from Yes unfortunately we all have day jobs so our time is a little limited. We rehearse once per week but in between with recordings coming up or gigs we also jam during the week and this is usually the best time to write and prepare new songs for the upcoming rehearsals on a sunday morning, hangover and all
Cathedral is probably the least of our influences from the early days of the doom/death scene, I would more likely mention MDB,Anathema and PL and the list of other bands that have influenced us is nearly endless CAndlemass, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, In The Woods, At the Gates blahblahblah
We pursued it alright but to no avail but we have distribution in a few strange places like Thailand,Japan,Mexico,America,UK,Ireland,France and a few other places besides.
Yeah Dust was self financed and is now out of print so Sentinel Records
(www.sentinelireland.com <http://www.sentinelireland.com>) has just
re-released it with some bonus tracks and new artwork. Sentinel Records
will also soon release a split picture 7" with another Irish band
and it will be limited to 300 copies. We have our new album recorded entitled
The Sullen Sulcus, again in Academy studios with Magz, the artwork is
finished and within the next week we will probably put pen to paper and
inka deal with a scandinavian label 12. How's the crowd there when you play at your home town? Except from Ireland, did you already play in other Country? We have our own dedicated crowd of probably 80-100 people but we only
play once per year our own show and then maybe 2 festivals during the
summer and this does us fine. We have also played in Leeds in the UK twice
and they were both great gigs, playing on a foreign shore was amazing.
In February next year we will be doing a 2 week european tour with Morgion
(US) and The Prophecy(UK) and we will hit countries like France,Poland,Germany,Austria,Holland,Czech
Republic,Belgium and a few more so that is going to be amazing 13.Asian countries like ours is polluted with fucking rip-offs, had you encountered like that in your country? There are not too many rip offs in our country cause everybody doing anything in the underground scene seems to know each other..hehe
Primordial,of course
Thanks for the interview its nice to get one from so far away,watch |