• What can I say about Summoner? They are a new band from Italy, whose cd left me speechless! The only thing this prologue has is my advice to read it! And of course listen to their music. They have even more to say and give us in the future!

• First of all, thank you very much for what you said about us. All the songs presented in our very first mini CD were born in a simple way. Every musician can write down a couple of riffs, but the very hard thing is to assemble a story. We try to evocate… we try to summon a dark / gothic atmosphere talking about the Summoner, a kind of magician who lives in a lost world and in a lost time… no matter with religion.

2.HOW HAVE YOU SELECTED THIS BAND NAME? AMONG WHICH OTHER NAMES WAS IT CHOSEN? HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK THE CHOISE OF THE "CORRECT" BAND NAME IS FOR THE BAND'S FUTURE?

• The name of a band is one of the most important things. Using your name, you can introduce your image. People who read about you, people who don’t know who you are, design the world in which your music live and from which it flows  starting by your name. As we said before, we talk about the  Summoner, this strange man and his lost world. So it was very simple to associate his figure and his name to our one. He is the Summoner… we are the Summoner!

3.WHICH ARE YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES? WHICH BANDS DO YOU LOOK UP TO AND WHICH DO YOU DESPISE?

• This is a difficult question. There are many influences. I think every song… every band you listen to can influence you. Everyone trying to find an association between bands, we mean: “This band seems that band” and goes on. Certainly we play our music, and we hope that our style will be unique! However we like Children Of Bodom, In Flames…Dark tranquillity

4.INFORM US ON THE PREVIOUS BAND RELEASES. WHICH ARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCIES AMONG THEM? ARE YOU IN THE POSITION TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE WITNESSED AND EVOLUTION?

• Instead this is not a difficult answer. This is our first mini CD. We can say that  the songs we are actually writing down are showing the traces of our growth together as a five piece band.  Every time we write a new song we have an evolution, every time we breathe something new, we try to reproduce the smell of it  better in all the notes born and risen from  the summoner world. We are waiting to have a contract with a label to make the best of us!!!

5.TELL US SOME GENERAL STUFF FOR "SUMMONER' SIGN". WHERE WAS IT RECORDED, HOW LONG, ANY WEIRD OR FUNNY INCIDENTS? ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT OR IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO BE CHANGED?

• We recorded it between October 2001 and January 2002 at Media Sound Studio in Seregno, a little country in the neighbours of Milan. It was a hard work, ‘cause we aimed to recreate some of the atmosphere that we had in our minds. We spent all our time to produce this CD. When we finished our own job, we were running into the studio for about 4 hours every day! Very hard and tiring…!
• We are not  completely  satisfied, ‘cause everytime something could be better,  but it not so bad!!Now ,according to our first recording experience , we have learned something more, that we can profit for the new songs…we have  other beautiful , very beautiful song waiting to be produced!

• First of all many thanks too..it’s not a concept album in a full sense, but all the songs, with regard to the lyrics, are bound in their whole  to unveil the world and the atmosphere of the Summoner,. As we said before, Summoner ‘sign is the story of a kind of magician whose life was made different from a sign, and so the title of our demo, stigmatizing his hand as a scale skin…and then he discovered the neverasked gift that make true to evocate creatures and obscure forces, damned to a lonely path in which good  and evil are melted together in a dark romantic story…the songs would be like some insight, some gothic images , some shadows of a lost world where the Summoner make his deeds. So the inspiration for our lyrics is born from every fantasy medieval and gothic worlds described before us, especially thinking about who talks about magic and alchemy of life, like Dragonlance romance for example,  something who think life is made for!

• We have been looking for the artwork  so deeply and carefully : we might just simply refer to what we said before, when we were talking about the choice of band’s name…give a form, colour, to our suggestions, to our   purposes, to our feelings …let’s communicate a world of emotions, where poetry, witchcraft, melanchony walks together, and the art book paints this walk in the dark.

8.WHICH ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE? WILL YOU DO ANY LIVE SHOWS?

• While we are playing some live performances to present and sustain our first demo and to let the people appreciate our works especially as guest for famous bands, (for example we are going to share the stage with Novembre), we are  writing down some other song, that looks to us very beautiful and amazing…we are waiting for some record company who will like our music to have the opportunity to spread Summoner wings everywhere.

 9.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?

• We think that metal industry is not so far away from the pop one, cause so many times the  matters to get famous, behaviour and relations with the labels, are the same, and we see bands that follow  tendencies and fashions, that lost his soul in every kind of compromises, that have to ask and fight for everything with no one listening…after all, is the typical answer of boastful man, “business is business, and we know what people want !”

• We find your question a good starting point  to make you understand what kind of question we prefer: we like people that try to follow our feelings, the emotions  our music lives for. Instead once, we got angry for a question that sounded more or less like this :”why do you try to scare people to get famous ?” it’s not a question, but a fucking judgement without trying to understand us, and we couldn’t stand it.

11.YOU WAKE UP ONE DAY AND SUDDENLY YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CAN'T PLAY AND COMPOSE MUSIC ANY MORE. WHAT WILL YOU DO? WILL YOU CONTINUE "TRYING" TO COMPOSE OR WILL YOU ADMIT THAT YOU HAVE LOST IT? HOW PAINFUL IS THIS FOR A MUSICIAN?

• This is the worst thing that can happen! However, We can assure you that sometimes you can have some doubt about what you are doing and, above all doubts, about how you are playing your music. We mean, sometimes you ask yourself: "What am I doing? Fuck! This riff is really bad! How does it sound? This is a very bad day!".  The best way to solve these kind of problem is to talk with your friends, your metal brother. They can renew the flame that still burns inside your soul! Friendship is the greatest thing in the life of a man.

12.WHICH ARE YOUR THOUGHTS FOR THE EVENTS WE SEE EVERY DAY IN THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES? FOR EXAMPLE IN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA, WHERE WE SEE FASCISTS WINNING THE ELECTIONS? WHICH ARE YOUR THOUGHTS?

• We don’t care of politicians, but we care that people can live free in everything, in their body and mind…usually is so difficult to breathe ourselves free because people close themselves without thinking in private cage,  and so  having the formal condition to discover freedom is the less  to try to discover our world.

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

• We would like to return to medieval epoch, where the relations with world was so full of magic an pathos, and everywhere you looked you could feel it around you. Going out  of historical borders it would be so much amazing fly back to every lost or fantasy world described in literature.

14.WHICH IS THE WORST AND WHICH IS THE BEST REVIEW YOU HAVE RECEIVED?

• The worst, that it’s not  completely wrong, is that the quality of our registration, the accuracy and definition of sound was not professional, and could be better :as we said, we hope that for the future it could be possible to made a  better product. The best one were the regards of  a guy who listened to our CD and was not a metal guy,  nevertheless he appreciated our work, and told us  he had been travelling in our world following the emotions our songs had given him…it was a big gratification, thinking he didn’t like before metal music.

15.THANK YOU!THESE LINES ARE YOURS...

• Thank you very much, talking with you and answering your question has been really amazing. We hope we‘ll meet one day coming to play in Greece, offering a new more complex and deep CD,that can truly display of our growth and evolution. We would like to stay in touch with everyone who likes our work and Summoner world, and so we remember to visit our site, www.Summonersite.com, to mail us, to ask all you wanted and to give us every kind of information that can contribute to widen Summoner crew.