interviews

Occult Black Metalzine - Mai 2022

1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the solo project?

I started thinking about it in 1996, that's when composition in the Atmospheric Black style.
At that time I composed everything on the keyboard at first and then I added the guitars. A demo was born in 1998 with 6 tracks, but without vocals.
It was in 2004 that I really got serious about composing with Chapter I, for which the composition was done on the same pattern, first the keyboard, drums... then the guitars... And a big sleep phase until 2019

2.In April you had released a new album, musically how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past?

Totally different ! I focused first on the guitars! and then I put on the keyboards!! But the keyboard is very little present, except on the orchestral parts. Technology has also evolved a

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lot, everything has been done by computer. the concept is also very different

3.This is also your first release in 18 years, can you tell us a little bit more about what has been going on during that time frame?

That period wore me out. at that time. I played in two bands, "Spectrums Of Oblivion" as guitar/vocals and in "Ancêtres" as guitarist.
Between the rehearsals every week, the concerts sometimes... a brief passage in a third band but that I don't talk about, bad memory... At the same time, I had an association (Metal C.H.A.O.S.) with a member of Spectrums Of Oblivion. We organized concerts, co-productions, we did a webzine and a fanzine which lasted a year.
So in 2007 I stopped everything.. It took five years... Five very intense years because I also worked at night in my personal life! It was crazy.

4.The lyrics on the new album are based upon the writings and poetry of ;Charles Bauldelaire, can you tell us a little bit more about your interest in his works?

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