1. HELLO FIRST OF ALL GIVE US SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE BAND HISTORY AND THE CURRENT LINE-UP.

• Hi, it's nice to speak with you, even if my english is not good, I'm sorry. As for your question, we exist since october 2000. We all have some music adventures behind us, before Asbeel came into being we all played in other metal bands. For example Joanna was the vocalist in Mess Age, I played drums in Medebor, Bartek - bass in Dr. Drug and the rest of us, Artur and Krystian, played guitar in groups that even had not any names yet and now they don't exist, I suppose. But most important for us was to play and enjoy the music so with the local press's help we could find each other and create Asbeel. Now we have our debut demo behind us and just now we record the next one. In the meantime we played some concerts and I must say that this is what we most like to do...

2. ASBEEL, I THINK THAT IS VERY STRANGE AND DIFICCULT TO REMEMBER NAME. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? DON'T YOU THINK THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HAVE AN EASIER (FOR THE FANS TO REMEMBER) NAME?

• I think this isn't so difficult name. This is only one word and quite short Asbeel is a name of one of bad angels that came down to the earth. That is an epiloque of "Book of Enoch". This angel, and practically one of their leaders, was coaxing them into the filth of their bodies with human's daughters. After all this mess an upset god sent the flood on the earth. Nice story, isn't it?

3. IN YOUR BIO SAY THAT YOUR MUSIC IS EXPERIMENTAL. CAN YOU TELL US AND GIVE US SOME MORE INFORMATIONS ON YOUR MUSIC?

• In fact this is a little strange music. Riffs are raw and hard, like in thrash metal, with other instruments the music is energetic, but there is also a female voice that makes us differ from other thrash-heavy metal bands, so on the whole our music is... unhumble, if there is such a word, he he...

4. WHICH ARE YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES? TELL ME YOUR 5 ALL TIME CLASSICKS ALBUMS.

• I think I don't have to explain why, it'll be sufficiently if I just give the titles: "Ride the Lighting", "Arise", "South of Heaven", "Symbolic", "Painkiller". There are many more of the classic albums that we'll ever adore, but those five give us most of emotions.

5. DO YOU THINK THAT THE LYRICS ARE IMPORTANT IN THE METAL MUSIC? WHAT KIND OF LYRICS DO YOU WRITE?

• To be fair... predominantly I listen the music firstly, but good lyrics are also very important. For those who listen it, and in the metal music, too (even for me often) and for those who write it. I can say that there must be a text in metal music. This is a species that came into being because someone had something to say or shout out. For us there is Joanna who writes the lyrics. They relate to someone's obseravations, thoughts, images about some behaviours of thinking being, unnecessary human, about imperfection and disobedience of that being's mind, about a sin, condemnation, hate, fight and more...

6. DO YOU THINK THAT A METAL BAND IS HELPED MOSTLY BY THE LIVE SHOWS OR BY RELEASING STUDIO ALBUMS OFTEN?

• Both these matters help. In every place where you can't go with your live gigs, you send the album. The most important is that as many people as possible could listen your music. Then there is most probably that some of them will like it.

7. HOW DID THE PRESS AND THE FANS ACCEPTED YOUR DEMO? DO YOU HAVE ANY PROPOSALS FROM LABELS?

• We received many different opinions about our stuff, some positive and some not. In fact we were expecting that it will be. Unfortunately we haven't got any proposals from labels, but which label will send any to band that doesn't exist even a year? We believe that we have a time for join and play the music that we like and wait for any "great answer". But I must say that the demo "Stronger than Destiny" helped us to some extent. By means of it we could play a few concerts, answer some questions... And as for the maniacs, we see that some of them change their view after the gigs, but we also know that many of them will not do it because of their music taste and sometimes prejudices to female vocals on heavy metal music, so we just do our job, I mean playing instruments and having fun...

8. NAME SOME NEW BANDS FROM POLAND THAT YOU REALLY LIKED.

• There are a few bands that I like or admire. Kobong, the exciting, sick music (I'm sorry that they don't exist now), Decapitated, good technique and power, C.E.T.I., the magic of time, energy and old school of heavy metal. Those are the bands that just came into my mind, but I believe and I know that there is in Poland more good bands like those are.

9. MANY METAL MUSICIANS ACCUSE POP STARS FOR THEIR LIFE STYLE, YET WE SEE SUCH BEHAVIOURS IN THE METAL SCENE AS WELL (BANDS PAYING TO MAKE A COVER FOR SUCCESFUL MAGAZINES, HAVING A GOOD REVIEW, METAL LABELS PROMOTING SPECIFIC BANDS AND GENRES EACH EPOCH,ETC). IS IT MAYBE AFTER ALL TRUE THAT THE METAL INDUSTRY DOESN'T DIFFER FROM THE POP? WHICH ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT?

• I don't know, maybe you're right, maybe in fact that doesn't differ... I didn't think of that from this side. I think that the promotion is promotion, and it seems the same in each kind of music. There can't be any revolusion Covers, magazines, radio, reviews, top lists, those are means or elements of the promotion, so they must be to help for any band, metal or other, I think. In Poland that machine just gains momentum.

10. WHICH IS YOUR BIGGEST DREAM YOU WANT TO MAKE TRUE?

• Hmmm... the biggest dream? Maybe... to play on Wacken Fest.

11. CAN YOU FIND 5 WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU AS PERSONALITIES OR MUSICIANS?

• Oh, no. Only five words??? O.k., so... spontaneous, young, crazy, avid, persistent.

12. WHICH IS MAN'S BIGGEST TEMPTATION?

• There is only one man's temptation: beer! He he... no, seriously I think that every man have different temptations, but all of them are based on one word: have. After that we all can add something from ourself...

13. DO YOU LIKE READING BOOKS? WHICH ARE YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS?

• Yes, I like reading books, but I don't have much time for reading. I read in bus, tram... in every free minute. "Aliens", "The terminal man" and "Andromeda" are my favourite books.

14. THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW... SEND A MESSAGE TO THE METAL FANS.

• It was an interesting talk, thank you. I must say that few questions were quite hard, I had to think and I'm tired, he he... so I'm going to tell only two words, stay open! Thanks one more time and see you in future!
Nick  "William_Kidd"  Parastatidis