Interview: Renato Sanson
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our exclusive with one of the revelations of the Extreme Metal Italian, ETERNAL
SEX AND WAR. We interviewed the creator and leader Thorshammer (guitar/vocals)
and bassist Dr FAUSTUS.
Check it out now:
Heavy And Hell: The ETERNAL SEX AND WAR comes from a Metal scene where the far sound old school is not as strong, and you swim against the grain presenting a sound influenced by Mayhem, Venom, Bathory among others. As shaping that sound?
(Dr Faustus): Hello Heavy and Hell, thanks for getting
in contact with us! We are glad to be here! I let my mate reply to the first
one, go!
(Thorshammer): Simply, we wanted to create a sound that could incorporate all
our influences as Metal listeners (Metal in the old way we all know it), and
would satisfy us in terms of impact, epic mood, disease and violence.
Even if we are aware we haven't invented nothing new, finding a way to express us in the sonic cauldron typical of Extreme Metal has always been one of our goals. For example, we adopted seven strings guitars to get an heavier and fatter guitar sound; two different kind of voices, to typically characterize Death / Thrash parts from Black Metal ones; drum grooves that come from different kind of metal styles (from Doom to Thrash, Black and Death); basslines that not always follow the guitar exactly to create a deeper texture within the songs; we insert samples from movies into the songs too.
However, I believe that the Italian scene is a lot influenced by the old way to
play Metal, in fact there are (or there have been) bands as: Presumed Dead,
Undead Creep, Sepolcro, Noia, Oath, Gravesite, Barbarian, Abysmal Grief,
Epitaph, Crimson Dawn, Blood of Seklusion, Blasphemous Noise Torment,
Doomhammer, Heaten Lifecode, Haemophagus, Nuclear Aggressor, Assaltator,
Profanal, Loculo, Necro, Valgrind, Khephra, Eroded, Psychotomy, Esequiem, Marbas, Chelmno,
Unctoris, Satanel, The True Endless and many others that do it right for our
ears.
(Dr F): There are a lot of other bands like Restos
Humanos, Blasphemic Forces, Voids of Vomit, Morbo, Dominhate, Necromutilator, Hateful,
Saturnine, Uncreation, Doomraiser, Mephitic, Funest, Fuoco Fatuo, Torment, Ad
Nauseam and much more, also into Brutal Death & Grind styles.
We have also bands that were born in the golden era
like Death SS, Paul Chain, Bulldozer, Schizo, Necromass, Strana Officina,
Necrodeath, Mortuary Drape to name few of them. Even if they are not so many,
they had all a big impact into the worldwide scene and we are proud of having
these guys before us to play the music we like, creating killer albums and
growing us in the right way!
HAH: Tell us also about the history of ETERNAL SEX
AND WAR.
(T): We established toward the end of 2001 as a duo
(Thorshammer-Guitars and Vocals and Gornhar-Drums), we had a pair of line up
changes at the bass guitar. In 2007,our first self produced album “Abuse or be
used” come out and was distributed in a limited edition and DIY way.
In 2010, we have renewed the line up with the
introduction of Dr Faustus at the bass guitar and we recorded our second album “Negative
Monoliths” in 2013, released in Europe by Quality Steel Records and in South
America by Shinigami Records in November 2014.
We did some shows across North Italy with bands like
Vulcano, Essenz, Presumed Dead, Nuclear Aggressor and many other good bands
from our country.
HAH: You released this year his second album,
"Negative Monolith" which is extremely sound violence, but with good
influences of Doom. How were these inserts was something deliberate?
(T): We are not afraid to mix riffs and tempos of
Heavy, Thrash, Death, Grind, Black and Doom Metal, since we are enthusiast listeners of everything that the past underground
of Metal offers. So these Doom inserts have
been searched deliberately, when we have to slow down to “stench-of-the-dead”
mood.
(Dr F): Some of our gods play fast, some play slow,
but like both sides of the medal. So we use different moods to represent our
musical ideas and give to our songwriting different features.
HAH: The disc theme is very explicit, as in the
lyrics, with hymns of hate and repudiate the religions and dogmas. As it is
seen in the Italian scene, rolls much repression by religious extremists?
(T): For sure, being against religious dogmas belong to our personal background, since we were
teen-agers, it is natural to bring this anger with us and to put it in our
music. But in ESAW's lyrics there is a lot more: the mistrust in the human
kind, the certainty of a grey future, the disgust against the corruption and
the bigotry, the free thought against moldy political doctrines, the prophecy
showing a next nuclear winter coming because the madness of few bastards produced
by the means of the mass.
Also you have
to know that we are very influenced by apocalyptic visions of great movie
directors as Margheriti, Lenzi, Mattei and Romero, just to name a few.
For sure Metal in Italy was and still is ostracized by
the Vatican and generally by the ignorance and fear of millions of middle men
and women. I remember Deicide were forced to cancel their show in Italy years
ago thanks to this brainwashed italian scumbags.
(Dr F): I remember a festival was forced to be
canceled near our hometown, because Marduk were supposed to play and the local
church and their loyal attendants made enough pressure to make it happen. New
millennium, old shit.
HAH: "Negative Monolith" was also released
in Brazil, you expected the album come so far?
(T): Quality Steel's collaboration with Shinigami
Records made this possible and we want to thank Malte of QRS for believe in us.
It's a blast, 'cause for sure we are fanatics of Brazilian Metal and most of
the ESAW sound was forged in admiration for the bands in Cogumelo's roster. In
our early days, we only want to make noisy Metal for our pleasure, we never
ever expected that one day one of our works would go so far: we are 100%
satisfied.
(Dr F): Yes, we have to thank Malte at QSR for his
amazing work and support! They are signing many good bands, check their website
out.
HAH: And the receptivity of the new album, is being
expected?
Art "Negative Monoliths" |
(T): Currently, Brazil is the most prodigal of
compliments in the reviews we recieved and this is a great pleasure for us.
In Europe, it seems that there are discordant opinions
about the album, someone like it and someone not, and it is clear that can
depend only on the fact that this album is oriented to a certain type of Metal
listener. However we respect all the opinions, but only if the criticism is
constructive and can make the band grow up better. We can't take reviews that
don't even specify our influences seriously, that's for sure.
(Dr F): It’s only the beginning, but many people are
enthusiast about the album, especially the ones really into the old releases of
Metal and that are opened to many genres.
Thanks for the space you gave us! We are always glad to be interviewed and shoot out our own thoughts about the album and what’s beyond this work.
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