A new band from Italy, a new hope...,
let them introduce themeselves and their music with their own words. Enjoy!
1.FIRST OF ALL,TELL US IN A FEW
WORD THE HISTORY OF THE BAND AND WHICH IS THE CURRENT LINE - UP?
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Windseeker was born on 17 Feb 1999.
The current line up is:
Mauro Gelsomini (me) - Vocals
Alessandro Di Clemente - Guitar
Marco Berlenghini - Guitar
Alessandro Angelo - Bass
Simone Fracassa - Drums
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Just me and Alessandro
Di Clemente belong to the band since the beginning. Our new drummer Simone
has joined us since about three months and we are now working on new songs
with him. Simone learned old songs in a impressive little time, so we were
able to go live after just a month since he became a Windseeker!
2.HAVE YOU RELEASED ANY DEMO?
IF YES, WHICH IS THE TITLE OF THE DEMO AND DESCRIBE THE MUSIC THAT
YOU PLAY.
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We are working on it. It will be a
three songs' demo. The songs will all appear in the later album (we hope!),
and are part of a concept, that you can read in our Web Site. The music
is with no doubts Heavy Metal,classic one mixed with power, epic, thrash
and a little bit prog and death.
3.HOW HAVE YOU CHOOSED THE NAME
OF THE BAND? IS THERE A STORY BEHIND THE NAME?
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Sure there is! At the beginning all
started as a phonetic approach, well done, indeed, and the idea of this
name is FREEDOM. But there’s more. In fact, there is no freedom IN the
name; there is a continuous search of it; there is the courage to discover
the TRUTH; there is the skill to fight for what we trust; there is the
skill to shake oneself from all the limits, to “find the Wind”: the same
Wind that blow through your hair and fills you with energy, the same Wind
that sweeps away the dark and threatening clouds hiding the azure Sky.
The Wind that brings news, changes, will to change.
4.WHICH GROUPS YOU THINK REACH
CLOSER TO YOUR STYLE ?
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Difficult to say... If I answer to
this question you could think that our music is closer to their style...
But we our style is so different within it, because each of us has a different
musical background... For example, I listen mostly to epic and classic
metal (Manowar, Virgin Steele, Rainbow); Alessandro D.C. listen to melodic
death metal (In Flames); our drummer listen to power metal (Gamma Ray,
Helloween,Running Wild); Marco listen to Dream Theater, Deep Purple and
ChildrenOf Bodom........... I don't tell you what kind of listenings of
Alessandro A....:)We think the most important band influenced us...Iron
Maiden, but also Helloween, In Flames, ... We try to refresh the NWOBHM
with the evilness and power of melodic death metal.
5.WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE MUSIC AND WHO WRITES THE LYRICS? HOW IMPORTANT DO
YOU THINK THE LYRICS ARE?
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We all are responsibile for the music.
The earlier idea comes from Alessandro D.C., who starts saying "I have
a new fantastic riff!", then we all work on the song. I almost always write
the lyrics, because I have to sing them, and must work on the melodic lines,
the methric, ecc... However we together work on the meaning of the songs.
We know that a great part of the public is sensible and emotive (as we
are, after all), so we know that for them lyrics are important... Without
good lyrics a song is just a message in a bottle that will never be opened
by anyone. We couldn't sing, as many do, of castles, swords,dragons, heroes,
without any eye on the real world and its problems: if you read our lyrics
with "attention" you can read our life's philosophy.
6.WHAT IS THE BIGGEST DREAM YOU
'D LIKE TO COME TRUE REGARDING THE MUSIC?
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Mauro: To become a star, isn't it?
:))))))
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Marco: recording an album with Children
Of Bodom, and DreamTheater...then.. i'ld like to become santa claus and
bring metal to all the children of the world :)
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Alessandro D.C.: I think...play at
wacken
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Simone: same as A.D.C., but also to
became a good drummer...
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Alessandro A.: same as A.D.C.
7.WHICH ARE YOUR 5 MOST BELOVED
ALBUMS?
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Mauro:
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1) Kings of Metal - Manowar (1988)
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2) Louder than Hell - Manowar (1996)
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3) Invictus - Virgin Steele (1998)
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4) Keeper of the Seven Keys - Part
II - Helloween (1988)
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5) Painkiller - Judas Priest (1990)
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Marco:
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Images & words !
(D.T.)
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Hatebreeder
(C.o.B)
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Keeper of the seventh kerys 2
(Helloween)
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Made in japan
(DEEP PURPLE)
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Esco dal mio corpo ed ho molta paura
(Elio e le storie tese)
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Alessandro D.C.:
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Iron Maiden "The Number Of The beast",
"Killers"
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Helloween "Walls of jericho",
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In Flames "The Jester Race",
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Death "The Sound Of Perseverance"
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Simone:
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Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys
(pt. 1 - 2),
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Gamma Ray - Land of the Free,
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Running Wild - Death or Glory,
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Metallica - Master of Puppets.
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Alessandro A.:
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Helloween - Keeper Of the Seven Keys
(pt. 1-2),
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Deep Purple - Made In Japan
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Dream Theater - Images And Words
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Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
8.CAN YOU TELL ME SOME LYRICS
OF WHICHEVER BAND THAT EXPRESS YOUR PERSONALITY?
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Mauro: MANOWAR!
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Marco: Metallica... Iron maiden...
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Alessandro D.C.: No one.
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Simone: Gamma Ray - 18 Years, Gamma
Ray - Man on a Mission, Helloween - I Want Out
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Alessandro A.: Halloween - Helloween
9.DO YOU READ BOOKS?WHICH IS
YOUR FAVORITE BOOK AND AUTHOR?WHICH CHARACTER WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE?
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Mauro: I don't read to much, but I
love J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur Schopenauer and Friedrik Nietzsche. I would
like to be Don Giovanni ( :99999)
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Marco: I like Horror... like... Stephen
King! But I can't read much because of my hard study...
:)
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Alessandro D.C.: I read Baudelaire,
De Sade, Wilde, etc. The best book and author?...Wilde with his "The Picture
Of Dorian Gray" and Umberto Eco with "Il nome della rosa".
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Simone: The Lord of the Rings.
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Alessandro A.: Tolkien's books. Character:
Legolas.
10.SOME YEARS AGO MANY INTERESTING
NEW BANDS STARTED TO SHOW UP FROM ITALY. ITALIAN POWER METAL SCENE
HAS STARTED TO GET STONGER UNFORTUNATELY NOW THE RECORD
LABELS SIGN BANDS THAT COPY THE ORIGINAL ONES AND HAVE NOTHING NE TO OFFER.
WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON THIS?
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We agree with you. If I have to copy
the original, it's better that try to do other than music...:) But innovation
is not easy... We think that the new power metal bands from Italy are too
similar, We don't hear their music, we prefer to hear original music also
non-metal. We think that if a band has an opportunity to dimostrate something...this
something has to be the real character of the band because only so they
will be reminded by metalheads (in good or bad luck). Death to the false
ones.
11.OK THANKS FOR THE INTERVIEW!!!
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