•  IN PECCATUM have the ability to create a strong emotional music with great melodies and heavy riffs. Their music is noticable. Let them travel us to the beautiful myths of their country...

1.BRIEF US ON THE BAND HISTORY. WHO ARE IN PECCATVM AND HOW HAVE YOU DECIDED TO FORM A BAND?

• First of all, IN PECCATVM is formed by three friends. We know each other since we were 10 years old. Since then, we always appreciated heavy metal, so forming a band was the next step. About four years ago and after many musical projects we got together as IN PECCATVM.

• IN PECCATVM means something like “Into sin”. Well, we all are sinners, aren’t we? So the band’s name represent something that is common to all human beings, and of course,to all IN PECCATVM’s members..

• The change was not intentional. As time passed by, our sound became more doomy than thrashy. We think it was a natural evolution and besides that, when Alvim (the ex-keyboard player) joined us, he contributed to lead our music to different paths. It was not about getting fast success and fans, that’s for sure!

• First of all, it is indeed more difficult to compose a concept album than writing songs that doesn’t have nothing in common, but when you have an idea (or a concept) like the one we had (about a local tale) things turns to be more easy because we are writing songs about a theme that is familiar to us.

• The concept of “Antília” is about the Sete Cidades myth, that is about a princess that fell in love with a shepherd, but their love was forbidden, so they cried so much that their tears formed two fantastic lakes. The princess had blue eyes and the shepherd had green ones, so today, the two lakes have this colors. The cover of the cd is a shot of one of these lakes. Our main goal is to spread a part of our local (Azorean) myths, so if you listen carefully to our songs you will be able to feel the melancholy and sadness about their forbidden love.

• At the moment, people are enjoying “Antília” and the reviews have been extremely encouraging. Our best review came from Germany (“Walls of Fire” WebZine) were we got a score of 5/5 and besides that they said that “Antília” was the best self released album from a band without contract. At the moment we haven’t had a bad review!

• It might sound odd, but for now, signing a label is not our main goal. We are a small band with little projection, and there is no advantages recording albums that will become forgotten on cd stores. But who knows? Things might change in a near future and maybe in the next 4 or 5 years, IN PECCATVM might release an album with the stamp of a record label.

• First of all, the fact that we come from a “lost” archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Secondly, we think that our music reflects our solitute and melancholy, two factors that gothic/ doom metal fans use to appreciate.

• Mainly, performing live is our main objective to promote the newly mini-cd and along that, writing new songs that will form a future release.

• If we thought that we had lost inspiration we would stop writing and wait that it would come again!! If inspiration would never come, maybe we would quit writing songs in order to become shepherds or fishermen!! We don’t think that musicians have the courage to express their loss of inspiration, the proof is that after so many years of successfully albums some bands keep releasing shity albums…

• Believe it or not, classical music is a great influence for us.

• Starting to listen to heavy metal was maybe our most important incident as humans and musicians. Another thing is the fact that once we were audience and now we are the artists.

• Gouveia (bass) would probably be a rally driver!!! Almeyda (drums) maybe would be a poet and Neves (guitars/vocals) would be a computer games addicted.

• Maybe the most irritating question that we are always being asked is if we are a metal band why don’t we all have long hair!! About the question that we would like to be asked… Maybe one of the type: “Who would you like to see naked?” and our answer would be: Mainly, who we wanted to see naked we already saw!!!!

• We think that “The Perfume” from Patrick Süskind would be a great movie! But we wouldn’t like to play a role on it.

• Terrorism would be a great thing to erase from the world…

• Thanks for the interview and stay tunned to Portuguese underground bands! Check our website (www.inpeccatum.8m.com), buy “Antília” and best regards for all metal fans!