EIGHT MOONS

BIOMECHANICAL

Super band biomechanical with their life changing music are about to burst through the scenes and after 200 sold out shows around the world are about to embark on a Herculean crusade playing (for the first time ever) on a satellite over Mars. The gig will be transmitted live and special effects will include the destruction of the sun!! Unfortunately nobody will survive this (including the band) but it's going to be one hell of a show!Please post you comments now before the gig 'cause you won't survive it to praise us on a later date.

1. FIRST OF ALL THE 4 SONGS FROM YOUR NEW ALBUM THAT I HAD THE CHANCE TO LISTEN TO LEFT ME GREAT IMPRESSIONS. GIVE US A SHORT BAND BIO. HOW DID YOU GET TO ENGLAND FROM THESSALONIKI AND WHO ARE THE REST BIOMECHANICAL?

Happy you like our stuff!! We are working our asses off at the moment to finish off our debut album 'Eight Moons' which we plan to release this summer.The band has been together since the summer of 2001.I first recorded a production demo with guitarist Steve Forward. Shortly after this recording the band was managed by Steve Brown the producer of "The Cult" and "The Manic street Preachers" who introduced the band to a wide array of collaborators and supporters including Malcolm Dome-the senior editor of Metal Hammer UK. Also introduced to the band was the conceptual artist and web designer Lee Ellis.
After the Biomechanical site was on line the band released a four track demo titled "Distorted" which gathered good reviews from both Internet metal sites and magazines such as Metal Hammer UK, Terrorizer, Metal Hammer GR and many others. As I wrote above we are now mixing our debut album "Eight Moons" and we will also open this year's Bloodstock 02 metal fest.
As of how I got to England, I got a OA323 flight from Macedonia Airport and met my girlfriend at Heathrow Airport at about 5.25 PM (only kidding :-)) ). The truth it's that going from one country to another must be one of the most difficult things ever!-that's if your parents aren't loaded-. It was a big decision but I realised that even if there was a chance in a million to make it I had to give it a go( I know..you're probably thinking "what a dick!"). The beginning was horrific from any point of view. I won't go into the financial situation but musically there was an absolute darkness around me. I came to England around 1995 and by that time the only bands that were making good metal music were Pantera, Maiden and.....Pantera and Maiden. The Oasis phenomenon had obliterated any chance of Metal making a comeback and the only music with distorted guitars that had any success was from Elastica, Pulp, Blur and this kind of shit (oups!...did I say that out loud??). So as you can imagine there were no bands, no valid musicians and everybody took the piss big time.
It's only at the beginning of 2000 that things started to change quite a bit. I know that die hard fans hate linkin Park and bands like that but they have brought back some mass attention to the metal music- just watch Rob Halford with Sum 41 and Tommy Lee on the drums-. It was then that I got inspired to give it a go and decided to put together Biomechanical..the rest is hysterectomy..:-)

2.TO BE HONEST WHEN I HEARD THE BAND NAME I THOUGHT THAT YOU PLAYED INDUSTRIAL. I WAS WRONG! HOW HAVE YOU SELECTED THE BAND NAME?

I was watching Independence Day over a large backed of salted popcorn and a large coke and at some point the mad scientist on area 51 said 'these aliens wear some sort of a biomechanical suit' and I said to my self 'what a f*^&%ing great name for a band!!! I was also interested in the comic 'Spawn', 'The Darkness' kind of thing so I felt the name was great for what I was trying to do.

3.YOUR CD COULD EASILY BE THE SOUNDTRACK FOR A SCINCE FICTION MOVIE. AT LEAST I HAVE THAT IMPRESSION. DO YOU AGREE? WERE YOU THINKING TO CREATE SUCH AN ATMOSPHERE? FOR WHICH MOVIE WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR MUSIC TO BECOME THE SOUNDTRACK?

You get this impression probably because my main influences come from the filmscoring world. I was listening (and still do listen)to soundtracks from composers such as Williams and Goldsmith since I was eight years old and I always wanted to combine metal with orchestral music of this kind. The result -I hope- is both interesting and powerful. As for the movie ...I have no idea how about Eight Moons:The movie? :-).

4.TELL US SOME GENERAL STUFF FOR THE ALBUM. WHERE WAS THE PRODUCTION BEEN MADE, WHO WAS THE PRODUCER, ABOUT THE MUSIC...

The album is recorded @ my studio and I produced it-what a pain in the butt!!!- by myself. The music was actually written sometime ago but I had no band to play it. It has taken me a lot of time looking for musicians and after about two years I finally put together a very good line-up that is featured on the demo and album.

5.WHAT ARE THE LYRICS TALKING ABOUT? IS IT A CONCEPT...

yes it is a concept album.The lyrics talk about the need to be strong against our darkest fears. I felt that my way of telling the story should be through a Sci-Fi approach (being a Sci-fi freak!!).It's a story about a guy who is down-and out by day, living on the streets with only hope to die soon so that his torment will be over. Battered by his own fears and weaknesses he created a parallel world were he is becoming a Biomechanical creature strong enough to slay his fears that take the form of unspeakable creatures. It's basically a way to represent real life through a sci-fi story. There is nothing more real than fear.

6.YOU PLAY A MIXTURE OF MODERN HEAVY/POWER WITH SOME SPEED ELEMENTS. DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR ALBUM COULD BECOME A SUCCESS HERE IN GREECE, WHERE THE FANS LISTEN TO MORE CLASSIC AND TYPICAL STUFF?

I think so. The Greek audience is extremely diverse and people listen music from AC/DC to Carcass! So hopefully will like what we do.

7.HAVE YOU SENT THE PROMO TO ANY LABELS? WAS THERE ANY INTEREST? IF YES, CAN YOU TELL US SOME NAMES?

We have done a lot of work promoting our music and I have to say that we had some good reactions from giants such as Sanctuary UK, SPV Germany, Spitfire UK and smaller companies such as Revolver, Nightmare records and others. Unfortunately the big labels want you to reach Judas Priest status before they will consider signing you so we had to put things on hold for a while. But I can't wait to take things further with some other labels and set a release date

8.CAN YOU TELL US WHY DECEPTOR DISBANDED AND IF THERE'S ANY CHANCE THEIR MUSIC TO BE RELEASED IN A CD OR VINYL FORM?

Oh you know...band crap! After a few years of still looking for a record deal tensions grow to huge proportions and the inevitable happens. I think the Cult Metal Classics wants to release some demos and live stuff through vinyl.

9.IS THERE A CHANCE TO PUT ANY DECEPTOR SONGS IN BIOMECHANICAL?

I wouldn't think so. Deceptor was good for what it was and I am very proud of the band but it was very different from what I do now.

10.SURELY DECEPTOR AND BIOMECHANICAL DIFFER A LOT. ARE THERE ANY COMMON PARTS THOUGH?

I think on the singing maybe and definitely power wise there are similarities.

11.WHAT DOES THE COVER OF THE CD SHOW? AND WHICH IS THE CONNECTION WITH THE LYRICS?

The CD will feature our logo which is a Yin-Yan of an embryo right across a mechanical shaped embryo. The logo represents the name. There is going to be a lot of detail on the inlay...too much to write down for you. Have a look when it's out and I hope you'll like it.

12.WHAT OTHER NEW ALBUMS HAVE YOU LISTENED TO AND YOU LIKED AND WHICH ARE YOUR 5 ALL TIME CLASSIC ALBUMS?

new albums?... I quite like Mudvain (Check my spelling on that :-) ) and some of the new stuff. Classic metal albums hmmmm....
1) Judas Priest: Defenders of the Faith
2) Iron maiden: Powerslave
3)Metallica:Master of Puppets
4)Queensryhe: Operation Mindcrime
5)Pantera: Vulgar Display Of Power

13.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?

Don't forget that the music industry is about making cash. Whether we like it or not the actual music has about 20 per cent significance for the financial outcome of a product. The rest is advertising i.e. videos, radio, magazines, etc. So even if the music differs, the way of bringing a musical product to a successful level follows the same principals as any other musical style i.e. Pop, R&B, etc. what actually differs a lot is the amount of money invested on new people. For instance a hopeful pop star can have a Million pound deal were as a metal band will (might) have a 25000 pound deal or even a Â£0 deal!! Great hah??

14.WHICH IS MAN'S BIGGEST TEMPTATION?

Greed

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

I would love to be around the time when Tchaikovsky and Beethoven were contacting their music and just be a spectator in a concert hall! I would'n miss the news that's for sure!..

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

Super band biomechanical with their life changing music are about to burst through the scenes and after 200 sold out shows around the world are about to embark on a Herculean crusade playing (for the first time ever) on a satellite over Mars. The gig will be transmitted live and special effects will include the destruction of the sun!! Unfortunately nobody will survive this (including the band) but it's going to be one hell of a show!Please post you comments now before the gig 'cause you won't survive it to praise us on a later date.

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

Why the f***ck do humans have to have all this f**ing wars over land, money, oil and shit like that???? Why the f**k can't we all live in piece and what is the f**ing deal with the human society??? hah?

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

I think that's all for now, just check out our album when will be out!!!! Thanx for hosting us on your mag!!

Nick "William_Kidd" Parastatidis

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