CENTURION
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USUALLY THE
DEBUT ALBUM OF A METAL BAND IS THE MOST HARD AND INTENSIVE ONE. CENTURION
ARE AN EXCEPTION TO THE RULE! THEIR FIRST ALBUM WAS A PURE HEAVY METAL
WORK AND IN THEIR SECOND THEY COMBIND HEAVY METAL WITH DEATH AND THRASH.
NOW ARE READY TO RELEASE A NEW ALBUM AND WE 'VE GOT THE CHANCE TO TALK
WITH THEM, HERE ARE WHAT THEY 'VE SAID....
1.GIVE US A SHORT BAND
BIO AND POINT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS OF YOUR HISTORY TILL NOW.
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With the monicker "Sharpened Razor",
Germano Quintabà (Vocals and Drums), Fabio Monti (Lead & Rhythm
Guitar, Bassguitar) and Luciano Monti (Lead & Rhythm Guitar) recorded
the never published demo called "Mors Tua Vita Mea" in 1997. The band entered
into a contract with Sacred metal Prod. in 1998 with the new monicker "CENTVRION".
Recruited a session rhythmic section, the earthquaking hypermaniacs, published
in 1999 their debut album called "Arise Of The Empire" in the vein of the
best metal colossus of eighties like Judas Priest and Accept. The album
received great responses from magazines and metal kids all around the world
with very positive reviews and powerful live acts. In 2000 CENTVRION published
the second CD called "Hyper Martyrium" with a new rhythm section. The power
of the beginning meets the Bay-Area Thrash with a very explosive sound,
devastating impact and corrosive hyper riffs. Positive reviews from the
metal world and flaming live acts increase the popularity of the unrestrained
Italian Metal War Machine, CENTVRION became a reality. The success culminated
with the live exibition at “Gods Of Metal 2001” on the same stage of: Judas
Priest, Motorhead, Megadeth. Wasp, Savatage and many more. With the ultimate
and solid rhythm section (Massi Ricci at bassguitar and the new drummer
Emanuele Beccacece), CENTVRION burn the stage of the “Italian Attack Festival”
in March 2002, with the best Italian metal band, by tremendous killing
songs, bestial metal voracity , honour and pride. In September 2002 was
published the 3rd album called “Non Plus Ultra” under Scarlet Recs.; it’s
power is heavy like a thousands hammers, it’s supremacy is real dominion,
it’s thundering rage and amazing meaning is clear and proud, it’s ultra
intention of distruction has no limits on earth. Pure fuckin’ roman hyper
metal. Rome is the heart and CENTVRION is boiling blood in the veins of
the future.
2.YOU USED TO PLAY PURE HEAVY METAL,
IN YOUR FIRST ALBUM, WITH MANY JUDAS PRIEST INFLUENCES (WHICH I LIKED A
LOT) AND YOU CHANGED YOUR MUSICAL DIRECTION IN YOUR NEXT ALBUM TO MORE
BRUTAL FORMS. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? WAS IT SOMETHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO
DO OR WERE YOU FORCED BY SOMEONE TO PLAY THIS WAY?
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Well, we usually recorded the way we
were while writing down the peaces of each album, so the style changes
reflects our nature of the moment. We do not usually plan anything and
noone forced us to make a way or another, only ourselves decided to express
what we felt and we feel. Maybe you will advice an other music direction
change with our new release Non Plus Ultra...
3.I THINK THAT YOU ARE PREPARING THE
RELEASE OF A NEW ALBUM. GIVE US SOME INFO ABOUT IT (TRACKS, RELEASE DATE,
WHERE WAS IT RECORDED…ETC).
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Non Plus Ultra, our latest record has
been released on 9th september 2002, it is a new pure heavy metal style
album which is a perfect melt point of our preciding works. It has been
recorded in tha same studio where we recorded all our albums: Potemkin
Studio – Civitanova Marche – Italy. It contains 10 track of powerful metal,
with a very good production
4.YOU WRITE ABOUT SOME PROBLEMS YOU
FACE IN ITALY IN SOME OF YOUR SONGS. CAN YOU TELL US WHAT IT IS YOU DON’T
LIKE IN CONTEMPRORARY ITALY?
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What we don’t like in Italy is the
usage to put policy and football everywhere. Someone interpreted our symbols
such a way to make policy with our music. And this was the principal cause
of fantomatic problems with some of our lyrics. We play our music and we
use lyrics and symbols of our glorious past and we don’t care about policy!
5.IN YOUR PREVIOUS 2 ALBUMS YOU HAD
ON THE COVER ARTWORK ANCIENT ROMAN SOLDIERS. WHAT DOES ANCIENT ROME MEAN
TO YOU?
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Ancient Rome rapresents the glory of
our powerful past and rapresents the base of our culture. You know that
heavy metal themes always refer to mithological or fantastic stories, we
only wanted to centre out concept on The Story of the ancient Rome and
we built on it also our image...
6.IN SOME OF YOUR LIVE SHOWS YOU PLAY
DRESSED UP IN MILITARY WAY. WHY YOU DO THAT? IS IT PERHAPS CAUSE YOU LIKE
ACCEPT AND U.D.O. A LOT?
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Our concept is about the eternal battle
between the good and the evil, rapresented by the conflict between the
rebirth of the ancient rome and the modernity, well, we dress in a military
way to be the symbol of this war, the centvrion was a military official,
we modernized its figure in our time...
7.WHY HAVE YOU NAMED THE BAND CENTURION?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH THIS?
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I guess I answered this question in
both the preceding ones...
8. CAN YOU TELL US SOME THINGS ABOUT
THE FUTURE AND HOW YOU'RE PLANNING TO PROMOTE YOUR WORK?
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We are now promoting our new albums
making lots of interviews and planning an Italian tour, we do not usually
plan our future, we take what our life and carreer gives to us, without
especting anything. We all have a job and music is the way we enjoy, and
we would like that listeners understand this our vein.
9.WHICH WAS THE BEST AND WHICH WAS
THE WORST REVIEW YOU HAVE RECEIVED?
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I don’t really remind... We obtained
very good reviews... and very bad ones, but we are more interested to the
negative ones, maybe we can find something that helps our growth as musicians
and as band... but sometimes someone intentionally attacks you...
10. IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO COMPOSE
MUSIC, WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
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I don’t really know, I only think I’m
lucky of what I have.
11.HAVE YOU READ ANY INTERESTING BOOKS
LATELY? HAVE YOU WATCHED AN INTERESTING MOVIE?
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Nothing interesting except for the
fact I have read “The Lord of the rings” for the third time... About movies
I love calssic comical Italian 80’s movies.
12. IF SOMEDAY YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO
MEET THE CREATURE THAT CREATED THE UNIVERSE, WHICH WOULD YOUR BIGGEST QUESTION
BE?
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Nothing in particoular... I have never
valuated this availability, so I don’t really know. Surely I’ll improvise
something...
13.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH
HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU MISS
THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?
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Our glorious past, the ancient Roman
Empire. Maybe becouse of their organization and capability to establish
communication with all the people thei conquered. Why? Becouse I’m proud
of what is our past and I would like to meet personally the great persons
which were able to create that great empire, the base of the modern civilization.
Technology and the elevate kind of life that we make even if we are always
not satisfied.
14.ARE YOU ANNOYED BY SOME GUYS THAT
JUDGE THE ARTISTIC VALUE OF A RELEASE BY THE NUMBER OF COPIES THEY SELL?
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Music must be valued by the feeling
that communicates, by the emotions that gives, by the messages that you
can get while listening to a song. Music is a form of art and the number
of copies sold always represents that you were able to reach the hearts
of a lot of people...
15.WHAT PROLOGUE AND TITLE WOULD YOU
LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE?
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Come meet centvrion, an Italian heavy
metal band that plays a real and sincere heavy metal. Title: “centvrion
interview”. Now you can understand why you are a writer and I’m a musician...
16.THANK YOU!HAVE I FORGOTTEN TO ASK
YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?
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Yes since about few days our new web
site is online, you can find it at the address www.centvrion.com.
Thanks for this interview and the availability you give us to be known
by your readers.
NIKOS
"William_Kidd" PARASTATIDIS