MORTAL
LOVE
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MELANCHOLY
AND ROMANTICISM IS THE THEMES THAT MORTL LOVE LIKE TO HURT WITH THEIR LYRICS,IN
THEIR SEARCH FOR ETERNAL LOVE, MORTAL LOVE ANSWERED TO OUR QUESTIONS. FRIENDS
OF GOTHIC METAL CHECK 'EM OUT!
1. HOW DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR NAME AS
A BAND?
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It is inspired by our love story, and
of course of the Goth genre, witch often regards the tragic romantic sides
of life.
2.DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME SOMETHING
ABOUT YOUR STYLE?
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Well. We are described as a Goth metal
band, and are fine with it. We think though that our music contains elements
of other genre, like Black Metal, pop, Rock and heavy rock. If you listen
close you may hear things you didn’t noticed at first.
3.WHAT ARE YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES?
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On this album, bands like: Cradle of
Filth, Theatre of Tragedy, The Gathering, HIM, Ram-zet, Paradise Lost,
Tori Amos…….
4.HAVE YOU STUDIED MUSIC OR YOU ARE
SELF - TAUGHT?
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We are more or less self-taught. We
have played in different local bands, since we were kids, actually. The
only thing I can think of is that CAT has gone to a song and acting school
in Oslo.
5.YOUR SOUND IS VERY EMOTIONAL AND
MELANCHOLIC. ARE THE MEMBERS OF MORTAL LOVE DEPRESSIVE PEOPLE?
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Not at all. As you will learn from
the question below, the album covers a certain time of a person’s love
life.
6.DO YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT
YOUR LYRICS? WHAT INSPIRE MORTAL LOVE TO WRITE THEM?
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It’s in fact based on a true love story,
and covers the circle of love. We all relate to this story a lot, and every
lyric and every song is inspired by the story. The inspiration is to try
to capture this feeling, and make a concept album out of it. Music has
always been a part of our life, so to mix that with true emotions, and
see how well it mix’, is a pleasure in itself.
7.AT THE MOMENT ARE DOZENS OF FEMALE
- FRONTED BANDS AROUND. WHICH DO YOU LIKEE MOST? DO YOU THINK IT'S GOOD
FOR YOU TO HAVE FEMALE SINGER?
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Personally I have fallen for “The Gathering”
cus they are not over doing it. But there are also many great singers and
some of my other favourite bands are: Theatre of Tragedy and Lacuna coil.
The female singer in “Ram-zet” is also a fantastic singer. We think that
the quality CAT have as a singer makes no doubt that we made the right
choice. I don’t think MORTAL LOVE would have so much to give without the
expression of CAT.
8.ARE YOU SATISFIED WITH THE PRODUCTION
OF THE ALBUM?
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Yes. We have a lot to learn yet. But
Zet from “Ram-zet” did an exceptional good work on “All the beauty…”. He
knows us, and our music, and knew what we wanted. We hade a great time
in “Space Valley Studios”
9.TELL ME SOMETHING ABOUT THE SONGWRITING
OF MORTAL LOVE. WHAT DO YOU FIRST, WRITE LYRICS, COMPOSE MUSIC - A COMBINATION
OF THESE?
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On “All the beauty..” we had
a basis of an already written story, but we worked with the material, until
we were satisfied. One or two comes up with the idea, and pass it on to
the rest of the band. We really use each ones musical strength in every
song to make the most out of an idea. So we all took part in the writing
process.
10.WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS AS A BAND?
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To make our music available to the
world, and hopefully people will relate to our music enough to help us
put out another CD on “Massacre” (Thanks to Massacre of course). We also
hope that our music will make a difference to people.
11.WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE PLANS? WILL
YOU GO ON TOUR?
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We hope we can go on a support tour
in Europe, and maybe play some festivals this summer. We are playing a
couple of gigs in Norway soon, and are of course writing new material.
12.TELL ME THE 10 MOST IMPORTANT CDS
AND RECORDS OF ALL TIMES.
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OK I’m young and are probably
taking guy’s like : Elvis, Lou Reed, David Bowie, for granted…. but
for me personally:
- Moving Pictures– Rush
- Made in Japan – Deep Purple
- Sgt. Peppers lonely hearts club
band- Beatles
- Grace – Jeff Buckley
- IV – Led Zeppelin
- Ten – Pearl Jam
- Bad motherfinger – Soundgarden
- Black Album- Metallica
- Destroyer- Kiss
- Misplaced Childhood- Marillion
13.WITH WHICH MUSICIANS DO YOU WANT
TO WORK WITH?
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Bands like: Ram-zet, Madder Mortem,
The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, TOT, would be fantastic.
14.DO YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO
THE GREEK FANS?
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Thanks for showing such intresst for
MORTAL LOVE. We are very thankfull to you all. To get this much positiv
feed-back from Greece, means a lot to us. “Turn of the light, have some
of you’re great red vine, lay down and let us guide you trough our great
musical soundscape”
Love from LEV – Mortal Love
We reached at the end of the interview.
I wish you luck as a band, and fulfil all your expectations.