Genre:
Thrash Metal
Country:
Italy
Questions
by: Nick Parastatidis
Answers
by: METHEDRAS
Site: Facebook
1. Hello.
What made you choose Thessaloniki for your live show on October 18th? Have you
had any experience with the city or its music scene before?"
Hi and thank you for the opportunity! Thessaloniki was
since the beginning of the tour planning one of the best choices so far, a city
with a great metal scene and great bands as well like Firewind, we can’t wait
to be there, never had the chance so it’s very exciting to play there for the
first time!
2. In
your early days featured two guitarists, but you've since scaled back to a
single guitarist. What led to this change, and how has it impacted your music?
Have you found that the streamlined sound has allowed for new creative
possibilities, or has it required adjustments to your songwriting and
arrangements?
Since “System Subversion” we decided to have only one
guitar player, there isn’t a specific reason about it, we just found out after
the second guitarist left the band that it could be perfect to us a 4 elements
band. In the end this didn’t affect too much our way to compose music, it could
be more of a live trouble because of the guitar riffs under solos for example,
but it’s fine also with just one guitar and a huge bass to fill the lack of
another 6 strings.
3. Why
did you choose to self-release your latest album 'Human Deception' instead of
going through a traditional label? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
this approach, and do you see yourself continuing to release music
independently in the future?
Basically we wanted to completely control everything
about our music, without agreement limitations. Labels are still good to work
with, but if you find the right persons to take care about promo and media
nowadays you can have all the ways to spread your music all around the world,
even if radios and magazines are still largely followed it is indeed true that
the music is running on the web, which is the main place where to let your
music goes.
4. METHEDRAS
has been active for over two decades now. How do you feel the band has evolved
musically and personally since your early days?
It has changed so much since the first albums, we
started with a thrash/death metal arriving to “Human Deception” which is full
of orchestra, electronics and so on. We always felt the desire to experiment
album by album putting new elements at every step, and especially in the last 3
albums we developed more and more the electronic parts in our songs, because we
wanted to add some fresh and unsettling ingredients that could make the music
different than what came before.
5. As an
Italian band in the thrash metal scene, what challenges have you faced, and how
has the Italian metal scene shaped your sound?
Italy is not the best place where to play thrash/death
metal, it’s an underground scene with very few exceptions, so it’s not that
easy to emerge from the others. That’s the reason why we decided to focus more
on touring abroad, because especially after the pandemic era some venues
disappeared, making the Italian live scene less rich of stages, but with more
and more bands willing to play… Speaking about influences from the Italian
metal scene, I think that great bands like Sadist and Extrema could have
inspired us in the past, these bands are more related to our sound.
6. Can
you walk us through your songwriting process? Do you write collectively or does
someone take the lead?
Usually it all starts from a guitar riff or a drums
rhytm, then we all work on it jamming in the rehearsals room and speaking about
the ideas and the direction that a song should take, this part of the
production process of an album it’s always fun and stimulating!
7. Do you
prefer smaller, intimate venues or large festival crowds, and why?
I think that are both exciting, i have to agree with
who says that in the clubs you can really feel the heat of the crowd on your
skin, the persons are closer to us on stage so it’s more physical, on the other
hand I love also the festivals because of the big stages (more space while
playing!) and also for the crowd, it’s good to play in front of somebody who
didn’t know the band and make new friends.
8. What’s
the biggest challenge you face as a band when you’re on tour?
It’s been hard when we had to drive ourselves the
caravan, we did a couple of tour like that and it’s tiring to play after you
drove a lot of hours (sometimes all night long because of the big distances
between two gigs) and then you play again and all the circle starts again.
9. Can
you tell us about any upcoming music or projects you're working on? Will the
Thessaloniki show feature any new, unreleased tracks?
Actually we’re still promoting “Human Deception”, so
we haven’t start yet to compose new music, but there will be something more
from the past in the setlist, to let know better our music to the Greek crowd!
10. What
are you most looking forward to seeing from the audience in Thessaloniki, and
how do you hope they will react to your new album 'Human Deception'? Are there
any specific connections or emotions you're hoping to share with them through
your music?
We’ll do our best on stage to connect the crowd to our
music, the best feeling is when you’ve shared all your energies and the crowd
notice it by telling it after the show, we want to share our songs and to let
it be impressed in the memories of the fans.
11. Thanks
for your time. Please close the interview in any way you like…..
Thank you for the opportunity, big hugs to your
readers and see you in Thessaloniki!
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