God
Dethroned
God Dethroned released
a while ago their latest musical endeavor entitled "The Lair Of The White
Worm" bringing memories to life wrapped up however, in a fresh and more
mature way! Here we have the band's mainman Arien revealing lots of interesting
stuff related to God Dethroned...
- Hi, this is Costas from Behind The Veil
and I have some questions for the Band and the “The Lair Of The White Worm”
album.
Ariën: Hello! This is Ariën from
God Dethroned.
1. Recently You have released your new studio
album titled “The Lair of the White Worm”. Musically speaking tell me with
your own words what musical direction you have followed on this album?
Ariën: The music on this album turned
out more furious and aggressive than ‘Into the lungs of hell’, and the
songs are catchier to our ears. The elements we used on ‘Into..’, are also
on this album: melody, grooves, blastbeats, pounding riffs and drums....
But we used these elements in a more effective way and with more emphasis
on melody in fast parts and the other way around. And there are much more
breaks, and accents on this album, and songs with a bit different approach
of songwriting.
2. Is it a classical God Dethroned Album? Are
there any new elements the fans must make notice of?
Ariën: It’s a different album than ‘Into..’,
and that’s the same with every album of GD. A new album of GD never sounds
the same as the previous one. One of the elements on ‘The Lair...’ is that
we went back a little bit to the black- and thrash metal days like on ‘The
Grand Grimoire’ and ‘Bloody Blasphemy’. When you hear the songs ‘Nihilism’
and Loyal to the crown of God Dethroned’, than you know what I mean: staccato
riffs and drums, sick melodies combined with blastbeats, evil tone-scales....
A bit back to our old days.
3. Can you tell me why you’ve chosen as a title
“The Lair of the White Worm”? Is it a concept album or are there just songs
with common references from the lyric point of view?
Ariën: Henri came with the idea to use
the story to write lyrics about it. The title is also quite catchy and
the combination of the words is not used that much as well. It’s not a
concept album. Just one song that deals with this story. The rest talk
about different subjects such as the Dutch 80 year war, a killing act,
self-destruction of mankind, corrupt politicians...
4. What is your favorite song from this album
and Why?
Arién: ‘Nihilism’: because it grabs
one’s throat from beginning to end, haha! And because of the melody and
the constant drive in the song.
5. Can you tell me what is that serpent woman
on the cover?
Ariën: The Serpent woman is ‘The White
Worm’. She’s a succubus dressed in white, taking men down to the bowels
of the earth, where she transforms into a snake, and kills her preys.
6. How long did it take you for the songwritting
of “The Lair of the White Worm” and how much time did you spent on the
studio?
Ariën: The songwriting took 5 or 6 weeks.
Henri and I had a lot of ideas, which we put together in 5 or 6 weeks.
We’ve been for three weeks in the studio. Everything went very smooth.
We had a great and productive time with one another and the engineer Henrik
Larsson. It was also far away from home, and that helped us get really
focussed and determined to make the record.
7. What are your future plans after the release
of this new album? Are you planning any live appearences? Will we see you
playing here in Greece?
Ariën: We play quite some seperate gigs
in Holland, Germany and Belgium. We’re also in contact with a German booking
agency called ‘Dragon Agencies’. We’re working to arrange a European tour
for next year. Furthermore we have a mini-tour with Grave in January. Hopefully
we can come to Greece again! I had such a great time when I was there last
time where we played with Marduk in Thessaloniki and Athens!!
8. Do you have some spare songs on the
“chest”? Some material that you havent used in any of your albums so far?
Ariën: No, we haven’t. What we do have
are a lot of ideas that are not good enough, haha. But maybe they turn
out to be useful on the next album...
9. What bands do you think have influenced
you the most?
Ariën: Slayer and Morbid Angel. And maybe
the old Entombed and Dismember.
10. Can you give me a Top 5 records that you
could take with you everywhere?
Ariën: I like every album of Morbid Angel,
Heather Nova- ‘Siren’, the Cure – ‘The Cure’, Osdorp Posse – Afslag Osdorp,
and one album of Slayer.
11. What are your hobbies? What do you usually
do besides writing music?
Ariën: I like to go out and visit friends
of mine, watch movies, play some videogames, cycling, going to concerts,
going to bars and cafés, that’s pretty much it.
12. Thank you for your time answering Behind
The Veil questions! Take care!
You too!! Cheers, Ariën van Weesenbeek
– God Dethroned
Costas “C.O.B.” Meidanis
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