LIFEND
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THE SURE IS THAT LIFE END'S! OK, BUT
BEFORE IT ENDS I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO LISTEN GOOD AND QUALITY
MUSIC. LIFEND SURELY KNOW TO WRITE DARK MUSIC, LET THEM NAVIGATE US TO
THEIR WORLD...
1.GIVE US A SHORT BAND BIO. FROM THE
VERY FIRST DAY THAT THE BAND WAS FORMED. WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO CREATE
A BAND AND WHO ARE LIFEND?
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Actually Lifend is a group of friends
and musicians who decided, in September 1999, to create a musical and theorical
project in order to enjoy themselves and to spread out this particular
point of view.Originally (in 1999) the band was called My Dark Side (born
by the fusion of two other bands: Mourning Star and Haternal) and just
after a few live-shows (in September 2000) decided to change monicker in
Lifend.This period coincides with the split with our bass-player, the coming
of our new one (Rob) and a musical change too, our proposal becoming more
aggressive and dinamic.
2.HOW DID YOU SELECT THIS BAND NAME?
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY? DON'T YOU THINK THAT YOUR BAND NAME IS A LITTLE
PESSIMISTIC? DOES IT DERIVE FROM YOUR VIEW OF REALITY?
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No, sure we are the most realistic
and positive people you know!!! We've chosen this moniker to underline
the relativity of the existence and the weakness of the human being.Lifend
is a word, as you can simply understand, composed by "life" and "end" that
is death at least.And death, the end of life, is the only certain thing
in life.Death and Relativity are concrete figures; life with senses and
perceptions are just "feelings", subjectives feelings.But we don't deny
life, we've never thought about suicide or something similar; we don't
chant homicide, neither the other idiot lyrics or contents played by lots
of other stupid and empty band.In our songs you can find life and experiences,
filtered through senses,our objective senses; we chant just these "entwined
emotions" and these feelings.All seen through a different perspective:
death and its meaning radically lives in our heart and in our mind.
3.TELL US SOME GENERAL STUFF FOR YOUR
MUSIC. HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE IT? WHICH ARE YOUR INFLUENCES? WHICH BANDS DO
YOU LIKE AND WHICH DO YOU DISLIKE?
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Ok, actually we play swedish death/gothic
metal with lots of influences (first of all black metal), but I want to
say that we don't want to make part of a particular genre or to be similar
to other most famous bands.We play all that comes out from our instruments
and sessions.It doesn't matter if this guitar riff is more melodic or less
or if this particular kind of loop is electronic or not.Definitely, we
play the music we feel.Influences: we are six guys and each one listen
to a particular music.For exemple Rob (bass) listen to brutal/grind/death,
Alberto (guitar/vocals) prefers swedish death, I listen to death and gothic
and so on...Personally I adore Opeth, Novembre, Katatonia, Winds, Arcturus,
Borknagar, Ensoph, My Dying Bride, At The Gates and all the bands that
can transmit emotions and particular feelings while I dislike clone-bands,
the ones that don't communicate anything and power metal with its chains,
iron-slip and fucking sword!!I think it's funny!But this is only my point
of
view...
4.WHAT ABOUT "ENTWINED EMOTIONS"? TELL
US SOME THINGS FOR THAT. THE PRODUCTION, THE MUSIC, THE RECORDINGS...ARE
YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT OR IS
THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO CHANGE?
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"Entwined Emotions" is our first mini-cd,
completely self-produced. In that period we played different music we play
nowadays, but we are satisfied for the critics it received.In this promo
you can find some gothic partitures and some death guitar riffings; it's
quite melodic (due to synths parts, piano and true violins and cellos)
and aggressive at the same time.The recordings and the mixing lasted at
about two months.The work is completely recorded in digital.Sure, we are
quite satisfied for the product, except for the guitars parts that are
a little bit low-recorded...
5.WHAT ABOUT THE LYRICS? THEY ARE WEIRD
AND DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND... SOMEONE HAS TO READ BETWEEN THE LINES TO
REALLY UNDERSTAND AND REALIZE WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY. WHY DO YOU EMBRACE
SO MUCH THE IDEA OF DEATH? DO YOU REALLY THINK LIFE'S SO FALSE AND FAKE?
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No, as I said, life isn't fake and
false.It's simply relative...and we chant this relativity.We speak about
sensations, experiences, mood and way of being.We long for a better life
but we always see life as cold.And this coldness penetrates in our soul
as a knife deeply penetrates the butter("This Cold Life").We radically
know that death is the only certain thing, subjective and real.We don't
care if someone judges us as pessimistic people, I repeat, we are just
realistic and we see too much contraddictions and dualities in this existence...
6.FROM WHERE AND WHICH THINGS DO YOU
DRAW INSPIRATION AND WHAT CAN TAKE AWAY YOUR INSPIRATION?
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Personally, I draw inspiration from
the things that surround me, in my everyday life.Dusk, snow, fog, sun,
all natural elements, but even tv, a picture, a photograph, my relatives
and their existence too can be my own source of inspiration.If I'm inspired
I write in few minutes a text, If not I can't write and I don't write.That's
all.There's nothing that can take away my inspiration.But night-time is
my best friend....
7.WHAT ARE YOU THINKING TO DO IN THE
FUTURE? WHICH WILL YOUR NEXT STEPS BE? HOW ARE YOU PLANNING TO PROMOTE
YOUR WORK?
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If all goes as it has to go, probably
next week we sign a deal with an undeground label that assured us a contract
and relative printing, distribution and promoting of a full-lenght album.It's
scheduled for Genuary/February and it will be a bit different from our
last mini-cd.Nowadays we are playing some gigs to support our mini "Entwined
Emotions".In future, after the recordings of the full-lenght (that it will
be produced by Giuseppe Orlando and Max Pagliuso of Novembre in their The
Outer Sound Studios), we are planning a mini-tour in order to support our
new future release...We hope...
8.ITALY IS MOSTLY FAMOUS FOR ITS POWER
PROGRESSIVE BANDS. DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A PLACE THERE?
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I think so!! really I don't know...Here
there are so many good musical realities...I think that the power- progressive
scene is undervalued.When will the metal kids, above all, here in Italy,
start to buy good music and to throw in a bin all that fucking music called
power and epic metal???!!! What can you give that music?I really don't
know...It doesn't transmit any feeling, it speak only about dragons and
dungeons..what a fuck!!!Hey,I repeat, listen to me kids, start buying a
good quality music...
9.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T
ABLE TO COMPOSE MUSIC?
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I'm a quite good writer and I like
drawing artworks, so I think one of this two kind of jobs..for the other
members of the band,..I don't know,...perhaps they could be football players
seen as they play football..!!!!!(this is a little ironic...)
10.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH
EPOCH WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT?
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Everyone was born in his time period,
every man is owned by his epoch.I can't answer you about this question.I
think the best epoch is the epoch you live in now, even it's a cruel and
sad time period.
11.WHICH IS HUMANITY'S BIGGEST PROBLEM?
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Humanity's biggest problem? Well, nowadays
world is full of temptations, but maybe it could be to live for appearance,
to live just for image without being anything...substance and appearance...the
contrast between living to "be" someone and living to "appear",..I'm really
surrounded by ignorance, by people wearing masks of hypocrisy...
12.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?
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I really and completely agree with
you.This is one of the most disgusting thing in the metal scene...If you
have no contact you're out and you're nothing.The label pay to have a good
review from that particular magazine, pay to let its bands play in great
gigs like Dynamo or Wacken, pay to have a brilliant and full coloured cover
on national and international mags...It's sad...In these days you don't
really know who are the best bands or better you know what they want let
you know...
13.WHICH IS THE MOST IRRITATING QUESTION
SOMEONE'S EVER DONE TO YOU?
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I dislike simple questions like: "biography
of the band" or something similar.Well, I know that, above all for the
less known band, this could be interesting, but personally It's the fourteenth
time I answer to this question...patience.I prefer question like this one
for example or like the last two you asked me before...
14.THANK YOU!IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D
LIKE TO ADD AND I DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE
OPPORTUNITY TO SAY?
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First of all I thank you and Behind
The Veil webzine for the support. Last but not least all the people that
believe in Lifend and in our proposal... Thank you guys and good luck!
stay tuned and to get info visit our new website at the following address:http://www.lifend.cjb.net
Thank you so much!!!Why don't you host the poor Lifend's members in your
magnificent and great Greece??I'd like to visit it since I was a child...Dark
Regards
CHRISTINE PARASTATIDOY