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My name’s Ivan, I started this project 5 years ago and guitar 10 years ago as a self-taught. Why do you play in this band? What is the typical fun for this band? The main reason for me to write music is to hear what I’d like to hear from another band, but this band doesn’t exist. So I created it. And writing songs for it ain’t too much fun. It’s mainly about exorcising obsessive, pissed-off thoughts that otherwise don’t let me sleep. When a song is over, it’s not fun but rather relaxing. The real fun is playing live, something I adore but unfortunately haven’t done since over 2 years. Which Disney movie pulls your tears? Why? Hmmm…I guess I stopped believing in God when Bambi got shot by the hunters. For what price will you sell your music for the commerial sells? For a night with your wife. How is the metal scene in your area? Lot of gigs? Easy to get them? Paris sucks horse balls, I hate about everything about this city: its arrogant, self-indulgent population, its stinking 4x4’s and scooters, its automatic radars, its cops, its dog shits, its dick-eater Mayor, its 10 € Guiness pint pubs, its feeble fashion-victim youth, its mongoloid tourists who say it’s sooo romantic, and last and leastly its metal scene. You don’t need to be good to achieve local success, it’s all about having the right friends and being in the right place at the right time. I much better like the suburban scene. Petrified, Diktat, Kaemorph - among a few others – really are or were amazing bands. As for concerts, death gigs have become rare in my area. Everything is getting more and more centralized in fucking Paris as ticket fees constantly rise. What do they have to do to obtain free tickets? Aspiring to be part of some elite and thinking you can achieve it by trying to be a musician’s friend is beyond gay. React on these three words (random order): * sperm swallowers * green blood * tumbtorture I guess the first has to do with masturbation, OMG what a waste of life. The Lord will punish us all for not covering the face of Earth with so many babies we’ll run out of air within 2 generations. We should also beat to death all those lowlives that support abortion, right? Green blood obviously evokes the aliens, a mankind’s fantasy that reflects the frustration and fear subsequent to an isolation that’s grown huge since the death of God. Tumbtorture? A good song title for the average death-gore band, uh? What is your drive to make music? Did you study for it? Expressing myself, sounding like no one else. Music is such a powerful and rich language, you can express the most complex feelings with music if you master its ”words”. Metal especially has a long tradition of freedom of language. I started taking classical guitar courses and learning the basics of theory 1 year1/2 ago, it didn’t radically change my guitar playing or technique but it meant a lot in terms of approach of the instrument. And it brings me what I knew I was lacking of in terms of vocabulary. How do you keep your memories of your musical career alive? Write it down, video? Did that for a short while back in my teen years, but there wasn’t too much to write about so I quickly stopped. My everyday life ain’t nothing special. Do you play covers? Some when rehearsal? All the time. Metallica, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Dark Angel, Possessed and so many more…You can’t be a good composer if you don’t know your classics well, and it helps keeping your playing tight. You’ll always learn something from them, that’s actually what makes these songs classics. And this is where the actual fun mostly comes from. Ask Metallica. Which bands will appear on your tribute album in 2008? Hahahaha, that’s a good one! Well, I’d really love to hear an Abyssal black-ish cover by Blut Aus Nord. They’re the only black metal band worth the listening since Emperor’s split. Their stuff are fuckin’ scary, it’s incredible, it’s a new sonic dimension. They sound and think like no one else. Maybe I’ll do a death version of a BAN song some day, who knows. Do you have other activities in the metal scene? Used to write reviews and live reports in a webzine. Then I realized it was time for me to focus on my own music after all these years of devotion to others’ stuff. Interest outside the music bizz? What are your hobbies? Sport interest? Motorcycling. It can bring you as much adrenaline as any extreme sport, but the difference is you can experience that everyday, even when you go to your job or go buy your bread. Hazarding your life everyday makes you feel more alive, more free, as well as more aware of the fragility of your own existence. It also helped me recording the new demo ‘cause my left foot got broken in a bike accident 2 months ago. I had to stop working 45 days, so I took the time to record the demo at home hahaha! Life in the suburbs is so boring. It’s yet another way to fight boredom, depression and conformism. Is there life after metal? You know, I can understand the people who loose interest in metal after a certain age, but those who completely turn their backs on their past in an attempt to be more normal are pretty pathetic. You can never be fully normal when you’ve spent your youth as a metalhead. You’re marked for the rest of your life, that’s like getting tattooed. You can outgrow metal and have interest in other stuff, but you can never despise your roots, otherwise you get lost ‘cause it’s like part of your life is erased. That’s like Ken of Carcass, I feel sorry for his new music taste but in his case it’s not his fault at all. What prejudice do you hate people have of metal musicians? You mean those coming from regular musicians? Well, I don’t really pay attention to it anymore… I’m more bothered by these “educated” metal musicians coming out from some expensive guitar-hero plant-ish school, and who despise self taught guys like me. This actually happened to me in another band last year, I always regretted not thrashing that arrogant little fuck’s babyface. And more generally, I’d say some death metallers’ childish obsession for technicality. Say something in your language that makes my wife horny as hell? Salut Paulette, viens que je t’épile tes aisselles et tes tétons velus avec mes dents… Last rites? Thanks for the interview. website Abyssal Suffering email Abyssal Suffering BACK |
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