Interview by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy
Black metal thrash masters Aura Noir are finally unleashing their anticipated and long-awaited sixth new album titled ‘Aura Noire’ after a six-year gap and follow up to their last album ‘Out To Die’ (2012), and you can expect some of their finest and rawest material to date. I caught up Apollyon (Drums/Vocals) to discuss their origins, the new album and their upcoming tour…
Firstly can you tell us about your formation back in 1993?
AuraNoir started out as a solo project from Aggressor. The music was more avant guard-ish and doesn’t really have much in common with today’s AuraNoir.For his second demo recording, I helped him out with drums on one song and guitar on a second. After that, he ditched the whole project and we decided to continue playing together, still using the name AuraNoir but playing more thrashy music. This was in 1995 I guess, so we don’t really celebrate any 25 year anniversary until then.
How did you come up with your name?
Einar, who plays the drums in Virus and Infernö gave Aggressor the name back when he was playing more weird music.
Grammy® Award-winning band Ghosttoday announced their fourth sacred psalm Prequelle (pronounced prē-KWELL) will be released on June 1, 2018 via Spinefarm/Loma Vista Recordings. Prequelle is available for pre-order starting today HERE. Limited edition bundles including 8-Tracks, Casettes and more are available exclusively in the Ghost shop HERE.
Fans have come along for the ride for years, not knowing for certain who was behind the anonymous band… that is, until Tobias Forge recently revealed himself as the man behind Ghost. Each album is more like a film release than a record release. In addition to serving as director, Forge conceives the role of every character, and oversees everything from the screenplay to video to wardrobe design to artwork to cinematography to soundtrack.
In an interesting twist in Ghost’s saga, Cardinal Copia has been appointed to take over vocal duties for the forthcoming psalm. Meet him HERE. Lyrically, Prequelle delves into the plague, the apocalypse, and dark ages. The entire body of work is also a snapshot of the world in which we live in on a daily basis, brought to life through an emotive, enlightening, and riveting body of songs.
In this current age where political nonsense has become a regular hindrance to the live extreme metal scene, it is becoming less and less common to find festivals, venues and promoters who have been unscathed by the backlash. Steelfest Open Air is one festival in Finland that has had little get in the way of their annual conquest of Hyvinkää.
Fleshgod Apocalypse’s Francesco Paoli shot video yesterday to social media, that the band got robbed durinig their European tour in Gothenburg, Sweden.
As a result of the theft, the band will miss the final tour dates.
Help them to get back their stuff and share the news.
See their announcement and video below,
“IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ AND SHARE!
Hello friends, we’re sorry to inform you that we’ll not be able to make it for the last four shows of this tour: Copenhagen, Hamburg, Brasov and Mannheim.
Last night some miserable pieces of shit broke into our van and stole our full live rig, production tools and stage props, drums gear, our signature custom-made guitars and bass (by Rufini Guitars), merchandise and various spare parts. Please let us know if you spot one of those turds trying to resell our stuff online.
Check out these pics: https://ibb.co/bu74mc https://ibb.co/jT1rXH https://ibb.co/jM9pKx https://ibb.co/mybrXH
If you want to help, you can give us a hand by buying some merchandise from our store (shop.fleshgodapocalypse.com).
This is a tough day for us, but we’re stubborn like a bull and we’ll keep working harder than before, which is the only way we know to overcome adversities.
Old-school we are, old-school we’ll die.
Please spread the word and thanks so much for your support!
Interview by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy
Blackened death metallers Demonic Resurrection from Mumbai, India formed back in 2000 and are at the forefront of the metal scene in their country. Since their formation, they have signed with Candlelight Records and had their music distributed by Universal Music as well as winning some impressive accolades such as Metal Hammer Golden God Winners 2010 and Rolling Stone Metal Award Winners 2010 & 2014 across various categories. Their latest album ‘Dashavatar’ was released last year (2017) but although ideas have begun for a potential sixth album things seem uncertain for the band and a new album may not be on the cards for a while or at all as vocalist/rhythm guitarist, Sahil “The Demonstealer” Makhija honestly discusses the bands past, present and future, including their upcoming UK tour in May which they are very excited for…
Can you tell us about your formation back in 2000?
I was 18 years old when I formed Demonic Resurrection but I had been writing material since 2 years prior and I had been looking for band members since then. I was frustrated with not finding members for the band and was ready to go on stage with my computer and play a show. Lucky for me I ran into an old school friend Prashant (who was studying in America but returned to India for a break) and he agreed to join the band and with him came another schoolmate of mine Aditya who played guitar and a drummer Yash who was living in their area. I asked another friend of mine Farhad who was a keyboardist to join us. This is how I managed to get the first line up of the band together.
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