MARDUK
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Marduk is
great band in Black Metal Genre. Their new studio album is called World
Funeral and this time Behind the veil has a special guest, the leader of
Marduk., Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson-( Guitar)
KOSTAS : Hi Morgan, thank you in advance
for your time, before we start I want to say that World funeral is a f…ing
great Black Metal album!
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Thanks man, we try to do our best
KOSTAS : So let’s start with the interview
1.HOW CAN YOU DESCRIBE THE MUISC
OF MARDUK?
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Heavy aggressive, all this kind of
stuff in once. I can call the music of Marduk as a WORLD FUNERAL music
(laughs)
2.WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO WRITE THE LYRICS?
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That is a hard question for me to answer,
there are a lot of inspirations such as Christianity, Society, History.
Lot’s of stuff that gives us ideas
3.HOW DO YOU FEEL THE BLACK METAL SCENE
NOWADAYS?
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It’s Bigger that I ‘ve ever expected
to be. There are a lot of bands that play different kind of Black Metal,
but that has positive and negative areas. A lot of bands keep imitating
the older bands and there is no quality in their music. They keep repeating
themselves and they are playing a boring stuff.
4.DO YOU THINK THAT BLACK METAL PROJECTS
LIKE KOVENANT, ARCTURUS GIVE A PROGRESSIVE FEEL TO BLACK METAL? DO
YOU LIKE THE WAY THESE BANDS ARE PLAYUNG?
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I liked the previous Kovenant albums
(Nexus Polaris)\, I don’t really like the way they are playing now. I listen
to electro music, but I don’t really like it in black metal. I don’t think
that fits in this music. Honestly I don’t care how the other bands are
playing, Marduk just try to play their kind of music..
5.WHAT ARE THE FUTURE PLANS OF MARDUK,
DO YOU INTEND TO HIRE AN ORCHESTRA TO MAKE A MORE SYMPHONIC BLACK METAL
ALBUM?
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I don’t really know right now, but
we are going on a world tour, we are going to visit a lot of countries
and then we are going to the studio to write aggressive and hard music
6.WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF THE "WORLD
FUNERAL" ALBUM?
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It’s not a concept album, World Funeral
is the title is one from the songs. The basic feel is the end of
everything. A World funereal, the end of the world
7.ARE YOU A HARD WORKER IN THE STUDIO
OR YOU JUST LEAVE THE THINGS TO TAKE THEIR COURSE?
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I am a hard worker, I work a lot in
the studio. I don’t like to leave everything on luck
8.WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE BANDS AND
WHICH BAND IN THE BLACK METAL GENRE BESIDES MARDUK IS ON THE TOP?
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It’s a very difficult question to answer.
I hear a lot of music, from Classic to Modern Rock, a lot of Classical
Music, Industrial, Hardcore, Black Metal. All kinds of music. In the black
metal, they are a lot of good \bands and I cant make a difference of them.
Every genre has it’s top bands, I try to hear the best of them
9.WHAT WAS THE MOST STRANGE THING THAT
HAPPEND DURING ONE OF YOUR SHOWS?
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I don’t remember a special think, generally
people are very aggressive in the shows, you know
10.WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES, IF YOU HAVE
ANY, AND WHAT DI YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME, IF YOU HAVE SOME :)
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I don’t have a lot of spare time, but
if I have one, I like go fishing and hunting
11.WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE UPCOMING
WAR, AMERICA vs SADAM?
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I don’t know about the situation, I
think they do this for money, they don’t care about people and they are
lying. It’s all for money
12.IF YOU HAD THE CAHNCE TO TURN BACK
THE TIME, WOULD YOU LIKE TO CHANGE SOMETHING AND WHAT WILL BE THAT?
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It’s hard to say, history is full of
goings on.. A lot of things happened from the ancient time, from Roman
Empire, World wars, etc. I can’t really find a single thing that would
change the world
13.DO YOU THINK THAT A WORLD, WITHOUT
WAR AND RELIGION, WOULD BE BETTER FOR PEOPLE?
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No, I think that it’s in the nature
of humanity to find something to bother it. Maybe if there was no religion
or war, our spiritual leaders would be the politicians. People will always
find something else, so I don’t think that world would be better without
War or religions
KOSTAS :We reached at the end of the
interview, thank you for your time, good luck with the “World funeral”
album and I hope to see you in Greece someday.
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Thanks for your kind words man, I think
we will come for two shows on Summer in Greece, we will play to Thessaloniki
too, hope to see you there