• Come, come..Join us! Let's travel through our memories. Some are painful, some offer as pleasure. No matter what, one thing is for sure. Memories teach us! So, come on and follow the rain of memories of these Greek guys...

• The band was put together in September 1999. The line up of the band is: Ilias Papadakis (Guitars/Vocals), Alex Doutsis (Guitars), Kostas Bagiatis (Bass), Panos Andricopoulos (Drums). The most important moment of the band was when we played our first live together. It was the moment that we found out that the chemistry that we had as partners was really good.

2.WHY HAVE YOU NAMED THE BAND THIS WAY AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IS THE
CORRECT CHOICE OF A BAND NAME?

• When I started the band I was looking for a name that could travel you and make you think. And that time our former bass player John came with that name, and I thought it’s great. I want to write music that will make people think about some crazy things that happen in our lives. I want with my music to awake some memories.

3.WHAT ARE YOUR LYRICS TALKING ABOUT? IS THERE A DEEPER
MEANING BEHIND THEM?

• In our lyrics you can see real life stories. About problems in human releatioships, war, how our political system works. Anything from an ordinary day in your life. As I told I want to write about things that we’ll make the others think for all the bad things in our live.

4.HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR MUSIC? WHICH BANDS DO YOU LIKE AND WHICH DO YOU  DISLIKE?

• You can say that we are a heavy thrash band, because we have many influences from bands like Megadeth, Metallica, Flotsam and Jetsam. But the funny thing is that you can see in our music more melody than from the other old school thrash bands and the reason is because our guitarist Alex is a big fun of Uli Jon Roth and in his solos you can see the melody and the feelings of pure rock. For me the best band is Megadeth and I have many influences from them.

5.TELL US IN A FEW WORDS THINGS FOR EACH OF YOUR RELEASES AND MOSTLY FOR YOUR LATEST. ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH THEM?

• The first demo was recorded in November 1999 and included six-from traditional heavy to thrash metal- songs . In the summer of 2000 the band recorded a 2 - track promo CD in the same music style. In January 2001  was recorded  "Until You Die". The material which includes 5 songs proves that the band worked hard in order to produce the best possible results. In March 2001 the band recorded a 2 - track promo CD (for record companies only). Also the band recorded one song for the upcoming compilation cd of Vod Records Voices Of Death "Pt5". The title of the song is "The Right thing". Finally last week we recorded one MEGADETH song (Disconnect) for a tribute cd. The name of the cd will be Droogies A Tribute To MEGADETH. We are really proud for all this material, it's a part of our history.

• We have done some live shows and was really great. For us a Memorain live show is a party. We don't care which band is before or after us, the time that we play it's a memorain gig.

7.HOW DIFFICULT IS FOR A GREEK BAND TO SURVIVE IN THE METAL INDUSTRY? WOULD IT BE EASIER IF YOU WERE FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY UP FROM THE NORTH?

• I believe it’s very difficult. Latelly we recorded a 2-track promo cd, the one that I send you, and we try to get in touch with some labels, they do not only want from us to proove them that we can play all these things but also they tell us that we must win their trust. The reason was that some bands from Greece they fucked up their contract and they don’t trust Greek bands. My opinion is that when we ask, I meen the Greek bands, from the labels to sign us but we don’t always show them that we are professionals we must not wait for a contract. I believe when you sign a contract you must be ready to keep this contract.

8.IF SOMEDAY YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET THE CREATURE THAT CREATED THE UNIVERSE, WHICH WOULD YOUR BIGGEST QUESTION BE?

• Why all these?

9.WHICH IS MAN'S BIGGEST TEMPTATION?

• I believe money and power.

10.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY?WHAT WOULD YOU MISS THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?

• I would like to see the birth of Jesus. That will be something else. From our time I believe the only thing that I miss is honesty. It’s something rare.

11.WHAT PROLOGUE AND TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE?

• Rain of memories.

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?

• Music indusry is the same no matter the music style. The labels don’t care if it’s metal, pop or jazz. They see only numbers, nothing more nothing less, they want only to sell. If anyone things that the metal record companies are different from the others I believe that they see it with a romantic way. The big difference is the metal fans, we are really different from the others. We believe in music, we don’t see the music only for having good time, we want from our music to think and learn and many times to travel with our minds. That you don’t find it in pop music for sure.

13.HOW ARE YOU PLANNING TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC? WHICH SONG OF YOURS DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST IDEAL TO REPRESENT YOU?

• We try to do some live shows, I believe that is the only way to really promote your music. In live shows you can see how people react in your music, and it’s a good way to show to people if you are really good. Anyone can play in a studio but in a live show you can’t hide anything, you don’t have a second chance. The most ideal song to represent our band is "Burning Justice". In that song you can see the technic, the aggressiveness, the speed in our music and the lyrics I believe they will make you to thing how justice really works.

14.IF YOU HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO MAKE A VIDEO CLIP HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT TO BE?

• The song that we thing that will be good for a video clip is Burning Justice or Digital Crimes. I don't think I can tell you how it will be, this is not my job. I believe a good director could think something good.

15.WHICH IS YOUR MOST BELOVED MOVIE YOU'VE SEEN LATELY AND WHICH BOOK YOU ENJOYED READING?

• I haven't read any really good book lately but I saw a fucking great movie, Spiderman. You know, I grew up with this comic and watching it was something really great. I felt like 8 years old again.

16.IF YOU WEREN'T INVOLVED WITH THE MUSIC, WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?

• If it wasn’t music in my life I would like to study modern history. For me it’s something interesting.

17.THANK YOU! HAVE I FORGOT TO ASK YOU ANYTHING AND YOU'D LIKE TO MENTION?

• Thank you for the interview. Check out our web site (www.memorain.com) and I hope we will meet soon. Take care.