• I don't have much to say for this band. They are simply incredible. I think you have to listen to them, to realise what they are really capable of...

• Ok, the most important moments of the band was when we decided to be a real band and not a garage band and when we reached our actually line-up which is really strong. We’re real friends and we live not so far each other. Well, another great moment was just after the recording session of your second demo…we understood to have some chances to record an album! We’ve just changed a guitarplayer for musical reasons so the actual line-up is this: Sandro Capone guitars, Giorgio Novarino bass, Fabio Privitera vocals, Guz guitars and (me) Giulio Capone drums.

2.WHAT DOES YOUR NAME MEAN? HOW DID YOU SELECT IT? HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IS THE CORRECT CHOICE OF A BAND NAME?

• Our name is the name of the little object that you can see at the neck of some characters of the manga Berserk. It’s like an egg with nose, eyes and mouth which can make your dreams come true. I think every reader who know Berserk will know it better than meJ. We changed a lot of names for many reasons. We had Skyblade, AngelFire and so on…you know, early names very powerfull ahahahaha Then we changed our name into Nightshade which is a poison also because our music was darker yet. When we saw that there was another band called Nightshade with also an album released we decided to change our name for the last time into Bejelit embracing the concept about Berserk for the first time. I think it’s very important to have a name linked to your music don’t  you think so? Expecially if your music is based on a story or a book like our…

3.WHICH ARE THE BAND'S INFLUENCES? NAME SOME OF YOUR MOST BELOVED ALBUMS.

• Some reviews made a parallel between us a some great band of 80’s like Omen, Hellstar and Liege Lord…Well, our sound is similar to the sound of those bands but we hadn’t the will to remake their sound of course…I think that nowdays too many bands are to busy to play something strange, progressive and they forget that Heavy metal is also power and fun! So maybe we have same attitude those bands had. Anyway our influences are too many to be mentioned…my brother Sandro is surely influenced by Children of Bodom albums while our bass player loves Symphony X. Our singer Fabio is a great Iron Maiden fan and about me I listen everything I canJ So as you can see our influences are really different. Personally I can tell you that my favourite three metal albums are: Stratovarius“Dreamspace”, Angra “Holy Land” and Keeper of the seven keys from Helloween.

4.TELL US SOME GENERAL THINGS ON THE BAND RELEASES. ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED OR IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE?

• Well, I think that it’s very difficult to be completly satisfied of a work but anyway we can say that We like Bones and Evil! Of course we could be happier if our CD was a debut album and not only a promo CD… When we listen to our CD maybe we would like to have more power, I mean we woudl like to have more impact but as I told you before  we like it very much! In the next recording session in November we’ll try to improve our sound! In a review a guy wrote that we should explore our Thrash side, so the new songs are heavier and more “evil”J

5.YOU SAY IN YOUR BAND BIO THAT YOUR LYRICS ARE INSPIRED BY KENTARO MIURA'S MANGA "BERSERK". COULD YOU TELL US SOME MORE THINGS ABOUT IT?

• Sure! Berserk is a manga masterpiece of our days! In our early days we wrote lyrics based on tales, books and everything we liked to but without a concept or a link… Then reading Berserk we found very interesting to write music based on it and Berserk fits very well with our kind of music, fast and heavy! The name Bejelit comes from that talisman with eyes, a mouth and a nose which is the key to bring your deepest dreams and ambitions to life. In Bloodsign we speak about the main character Guts and also in Bones and Evil we speak about a cruel battle in a forest between Guts and an horde of evil souls that took some skeletons as bodies to fight. Then there’s Death Chariot and this is our very first song and then The Haunter of the Dark. These two songs are not based on Berserk. The first one speaks about a man who’s dying while the second one is based on a tale of a American writer of  20’s, H.P. Lovecraft maybe as you saw from the title…eheheh The last two songs of our CD are I won’t die Everyday which is our first ballad about the little girl who is trapped in her room in the early issues of Berserk and the last one Bejelit is half-based on Berserk ‘cause it’s not about a particular episode but it creates a parallel episode.

6.WHAT MADE YOU DESPITE BEING HEAVY METAL FANS ALSO TRY TO COMOPOSE AND PLAY YOUR OWN MUSIC?

• This thing was automatic and natural…We were playing our instruments before to listen to heavy metal so was naturally that our way to play was heavy influenced by our listenings. I was used to listen to Queen and rock music but when I started to listen to heavy metal it was obvious to play and compose in that way. For example my brother Sandro was playin’ piano but when he started this band he started also to play guitar and compose this music. The same thing happened to the singer Fabio.

7.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO COMPOSE MUSIC?

• I really don’t know…maybe I'd choose to go on studying biology… But I think that the power to write good music is inside all human being! We’ve just to discover it and not to do it just for a second goal.

8.WHICH WERE THE REACTIONS OF THE FANS AND PRESS ON YOUR CD'S? WHICH WAS THE BEST AND WHICH WAS THE WORST REVIEW YOU HAVE RECEIVED?

• We had just few reviews because we recorded it in June and I think we should wait ‘till November to have a main view of our work but anyway we had just good reviews and a great response!!! Maybe the best thing about our reviews is that the reviewers understood the spirit behind our music. No will to amaze anyone, no will to say “HEY LOOK AT ME HOW I’M A FAST PLAYER” just good music and all the feeling we had during the composition. Anyway in our site you’ll find all our reviews uploaded every day…

9.HAVE YOU CONTACTED ANY LABELS THIS FAR? IF YES, WHICH WERE THE REACTIONS?

• Yes, we contacted some labels personally and we sent a ton of cd! We’re speaking with some labels about a possible debut cd…The reactions were always the same, they liked our cd maybe because they saw that we’re a “live” band! We can play everything we recorded and we’re ready for the stage.

10.WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO IN THE FUTURE? CAN YOU SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES FROM YOUR LIVE APPEARANCES WITH US?

• In Bejelit's future there are a lot of new songs we wrote during this summer and maybe a new record session before December. The style will be the same but now we’re more sure about our instruments. There’s also a mini suite long 9 minutes…but it’s anyway a Bejelit suite so no super orchestrations and a lot of heavy metal!!! Of course we are planning to play a lot but it’s very difficult to play live here. So we had just two gigs here, they were really good!!! The audience was great!!!! I can’t imagine a Bejelit gig in Greece where the audience in more wild that here!!!!! Your metalhead rule!!!!!! I played a lot with my old band Pandaemonium where I was the keyboardsplayer and this was my “first time” with drums live!!! Also for some members of Bejelit was the first time to play live!!! We can say just: wow, that’s great!!There’re few keyboards parts in our songs so we don’t need a keyboardplayer of course but anyway we should like to bring our sound complete to the stage, so we’ll use a minidisc with our keyboards parts.

11.IF SOMEDAY YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET THE CREATURE THAT CREATED THE UNIVERSE, WHICH WOULD YOUR BIGGEST QUESTION BE?

• Uh…what a question!J Let’s see…I would ask why he created death…think about this, the world if full of great things, nature, culture, love of your girl, and also heavy metal…then we lose everything…it’s like a waiter that let us try a cool food and then when we want more take the dish away. It’s quite cruel don’t ya think?? I’m not a pessimist but sometimes when I think to these things I can’t hold to say” Fuck!!!”.

12.WHICH IS MAN'S BIGGEST TEMPTATION?

• Sex and money of course! We do everything for those ahahahahahah
• It’s bad but it’s the human nature…the biggest it’s power. Think about some famous characters of the past, who wanted the power to keep everything in their hands! Also the power to give life and to give death!! Also the Bejelit is a power symbol…the man who has it can do everything he wants to!!!!

13.ITALIAN METAL SCENE BECAME VERY FAMOUS LATELY. HOWEVER THESE PAST FEW YEARS WE LISTEN TO MORE AND MORE BANDS FROM OVER THERE COPYING ONE ANOTHER. WHY DO YOU THINK THIS HAPPENS?

• Italy was full of good musicians but metal was really a little thing compared to the trend music so was really difficult also to say “Hey I play heavy metal!” People would say “ahhh great…the music of the devil!”. Thanks to band like Rhapsody and Labyrynth we showed our metal side to the world but a lot of those musicians were playing when the italian metal wasn’t so famous yet! Of course as we have good bands we had also a lot of clone-bands…I know a lot of them which play just to follow the trend and so on…The fastest way to be famous is to play the music people likes! I prefer not to be famous but to play my music without thinking about the vogue.

14.ARE YOU ANNOYED BY THOSE GUYS WHO JUDGE THE ARTISTIC VALUE OF A RELEASE BY THE NUMBER OF COPIES IT SELLS?

• Really a lot!!!! I hate this way to think… We can’t judge an album just because it didn’t sell so much… 200 people can buy a cd of a famous band, listen to it just one time and then close it in a box…while a band can sell just 10 copies but their listeners will listen to their album for two months without stop it!!!! So who knows the real value of a band… I mean that nowadays a lot of people look just if the band is famous or if it’s full of great guests…I prefer to listen to a clip of the album and if I like it, to buy it. I think that internet is very good for this kind of music! You can try an album and buy it if you like! There’re too many albums with great guest and poor about music!

15.THERE IS A RUNNING WILD CONTEST GOING ON. THE BAND'S INTERESTED COVER A SONG AND THEN THEY PUT IT ONLINE IN THE RUNNING WILD SITE AND THE FANS GET TO SELECT THE SONGS THAT WILL BE CONTAINED IN THE TRIBUTE. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING?

• Wow! It could be great! Why not? Running Wild is a band that I like particulary! But what song? It’s a very hard choice.

16.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU MISS THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?

• Another difficult question…I’d like to visit the pirates period eheheheh I like that part of history a lot!!! I’ll miss  most  heavy metal music…

17.WHAT PROLOGUE AND TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE?

• The title could be something like: Let’s talk about “Bones and Evil” with the Bejelit drummer Giulio. Is it good?? And the prologue I think it’s your work ehehehJYou’re the chief!J

18.THANK YOU!HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?

• You didn’t forget anything! Thanks to you, and to all the Greek metal guys!!!! You’re truly the best!!!! We hope to record soon an album and maybe to be able to play there in your great country! I’d like just to mention our website where you can find everything about us at http://www.bejelit.has.it and if you want to order our CD please write to [email protected] Greeting from Bejelit and STAY HEAVY!
• GIULIO