• Do you wanna listen to some really interesting, weird, original and not necessarily "metal" music? It might not mke your heads band but the metal feeling is always there. Not behind heavy drumming, not behind fast guiatrs and steady rhythm sections, not behind blastbeats, but in the whole dark atmosphere that grips you and holds you tight. It could be a soundtrack of a contemprorary man's thoughts, dreams and feelings. Sounds pretty scary doesn't it?
• You only have to lift the veil and see behind it... Do you dare?

1.HELLO MANOLIS!FIRST OF ALL I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT YOUR WORK IS PRETTY STRANGE AND WEIRD AND AT THE SAME TIME VERY ORIGINAL. CAN YOU GIVE US A SHORT BAND BIO AND THE BAND'S LINEUP?

• Manos:A year ago I recorded a track that was to find its way in a cd for another band in which me, Aggelos and Aris played back then. But the band broke up.We{me and Anggelos)at some point also wrote some new tracks,some friends found them interesting and offered to help us  out in order to record them{those friends were Alexis and Eleni}.At that time no conversations has been made for us releasing a demo...but we did.And at that time we were not even a band.We had made no live appereances together...drummer and vocalist{Alexis} have never before met.
• Line up for the cd was :
• Aris{drumms}
• Anggelos{vocals/guitar}}
• Alexis{voals}
• Eleni{vocals}
• Manos{bass/guitars/keys}
• Since then Alexis left the band Giannis{guitar} and Marianna{bass/keys}came to help. Valueable has also been the help of Ninos{bass/vocals}, Lefteris{percussion}& Lefterisp{lyrics} who still help us out anyway they can.

2.HOW WOULD YOU CHARACTERIZE YOUR MUSIC? IT'S DIFFICULT FOR ME TO CATEGORIZE YOU...

• Manos: I Only can say that for us this is a creative way to express ourselves,without sticking to any forms. Music{or noise if you like}for us comes us a result of spontaneous inspirations.Nothing is  reset or pre organized. We think that we manage to combine various elements that finaly serve a purpose..create atmosphere. And black metal can be atmospheric like hell.But so can death metal or gothic or classic music. All these different styles of music have managed to touch and influence us. You cant talk about anger without being brutal and angry, you can talk about death without crying. And any means is acceptable in an attempt to seek the right way to be expressed. I believe that the most appropriate characterazation for our music could have been ambient / atmospheric / black ...Metal...well maybe

3.YOUR MUSIC IN SOME PARTS HAS A SOUNDTRACK FEELING. WAS THIS ATMOSPHERE ACHIVED ON PURPOSE IN YOUR DEMO?

• Anggelos: Well no...Not something we had in mind.Just happened. all of the songs are created without any particular stracture As mentioned are spontaneous inspiration.Song it is not something we had in mind when creating this release.

• Manos: Well Actually it is not a concept story...{but as we found out when we finished it could have been lyricswise} That is Because Lyrics talk about more or less the same pesimistic things. We tried though to create a cd that has a concept musical stracture...meaning that the line to were songs start and were they end is indistant. we could describe them us thoughts... "Screaming face" talks about a suicide. "Erevos" about attraction of the dark side, "Black condemnation" is a song about end of the mortal world. "Torture for the human eyes" about killing in the name of artificial gods{money,science}. "So far" about being in the darkest age ever,that is to end dramatically, "Deadesires" about deasires lost and tortured never to be satisfied.

5.HAVE YOU DONE ANY LIVE SHOWS? HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO REPRODUCE YOUR MUSIC LIVE AND KEEP THE SAME FEELING?

• Aggelos: Well,We made one..for the time being.As we mentioned we are not actually a band.So we had to form a line up to play live. We actually played only one song of the demo cd and some weird stuff Feeling i thing in live shows manages to be the same although we use no keyboards {marianna plays bass for lives}. Different line up,almost different group from what you hear at the cd but same feeling I would dare to say.

6.WHICH ARE THE BAND'S INFLUENCES? CAN YOU MENTION SOME OF YOUR MOST BELOVED ALBUMS?

• Marianna: Band influences? Every body has his own.We in a way keep them out of the band. Music we play has little to do to what we hear.
• Anggelos:Beloved will always be Epicus Domicus Metallicus{candlemass,Zoon{nefilim},Turn loose the swans{My dying Bride}
• Manos:Black earth{Arch Enemy},Burning the fields{fields of the nephilim}Sons of fire and steel{graveland}
• Marianna:Estragement{dreadfull shadows},Cowboys from hell{Pantera},Elodia{Lacrimosa}

7.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE GREEK METAL SCENE? IS THE GREEK AUDIENCE SUPPORTING?

• Marianna: Lots of efforts are being made hear in Greece.Greek bands manage to create their own style. But almost all of them lack of fan support,due to the fact that metalheads tend to support only the big names of metal scene,which happen to be non-greek bands.
• Aggelos: Due to the fact that Greek scene lacks of support most of the groups release lps underground. And due to the limited budget in most cases groups are not able to financially support them selves so they break up.Greek bands as expected are condemn to disappeare whilst time passes,and new names come and take their place.So there are always new bands around with new ideas. If they had a little more support.Little of the support we give to bands that are not Greek.

8.HOW MANY DEMO RELEASES DO YOU HAVE AS A BAND? CAN YOU TELL US SOME GENERAL THINGS ABOUT EACH ONE OF THEM?

• Aggelos: As Morganatiche Machenschaft we have One demo release{dying at the end of us}. We are on the second  and we have material ready fo the third.Lots of stuff ready but not recorded. Manos: Generally "Dying at the end of us",is more irrational than well played,maybe it crosses the line of being not well played at all,cause we did not believe that we would ever release it.Short of a cd that we were testing stuff in. Turned out unexpectedely good. Drummer got fired!!!!!:)

9.WHICH WERE THE REACTIONS OF THE METALLERS AND THE PRESS TO YOUR RELEASE? WHICH WAS THE WORST AND WHICH WAS THE BEST?

• Marianna:We did not have reactions.Every single one of those who listened committed suicide!!!
• Aggelos: Well..got lots of comments.All of which mentioned problems in production.
• About the comments:We loved your review.Think those who ,helped us were Greek metal hammer{8/10}. The one from Antoni Maglara{take care}on radio and Metaleagles{7.5/10}. Worst came from headbanger{4/10}But I dont blame them Seems fair enough,we are not headbangers!!!

10.IN THE END OF THE DEMO IN A PART YOU DECLAIM SOMETHING IN GREEK. CAN YOU TELL US WHAT YOU SAY?

• Anggelos: You must mean erevos.Well These are thoughts that came to me while listening to the music Manos wrote at 4p.m. with me being in a weird period of my life. The song is very personal thats why we have not released the lyrics,and thats why they are in Greek. For those who do not understand the language I can only say that it talks about Desire,pain,Darkness {this is basic lyric of the song}.

11.WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMPOSE THE SOUNDTRACK FOR A MOVIE? WHICH MOVIE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

• Marianna: A movie?Definitely...I believe a goth story would be great...if we worth that much attention. I think that our music fits well horror films,dark pessimistic angry ones.Our music is always combined with images{can been seen in our booklet}So Images of the movie would be a great way to start writing new things.

• Marianna: Best part Vocals and Guitars.
• Anggelos:Song stracture,and songs as a whole.In most cases we get exactly what we want from all sides.
• Manos: Well I believe strongest  is the vocals..We are improving production,which is obviously bad.Lyrics I dont personally like{those I write my self}And surely  weak is drumming. And Manolis{!}guitar performance.That guy writes music that nobody understands how he came up with and has difficulites playing synchronized with the rest of the band.

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

• Manos:Do stars really get laid?
• Aggelos:Man were you stoned?
• Marianna:How come you brought pain and misery to world that is ruled by injustice only to those who really disapprove pain and misery?

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

• Anggelos:Definitely the 70's.Really stoned!
• Marianna:Middle age.Dark times.Witches and magic.And the 70s
• Manos:If I was to live in an other time,i would probably miss technology from our times.

• Anggelos:Probably women...Hey you said man's...Everybody seems to be turning around those beloved cretures.
• Marianna: Souvlaki. We are only joking now. This is an issue that demands conversations and can not be answered in a few lines. Temptation gets so many forms.

• Manos:I would not miss it that much.Life would go on. Definitely there would be another way to express my self.
• Marianna:I would go crazy!!
• Anggelos:Me to.Imagine to work all day in a studio recording bands,and not have the ability to write something that worths attention your self.Probably I would commit Suicide.

17.HOW DO YOU FEEL AND WHAT DO YOU THINK OF PEOPLE WHO JUDGE A BAND'S VALUE BY THE COPIES THEY SELL?

• Marianna:It a shame,beacause I expect people to buy music for what it really means and not for what it sells.I can tell that those people have nothing to do with music education.
• Anggelos:Surely they are not romantic.Picture us,originally giving the cd for free.Ok It was the worst Idea ever but music can and must be for free.

18.WHICH IS YOUR SOURCE OF INSPIRATION?

• Marianna: Pain,darkness,brainwashing,faith,religion,death versus life,innerspace.

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

• Behind the veil of Morgana{t}is{ch} a{e} Machenschaft

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

• We really aprreciate you spending time to prepare this interview and for the interest in our band. Keep it up.To really original and indepened efforts like yours we with the best http://conspire.musicpage.com
Nick  "William_Kidd"  Parastatidis