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http://www.silentscreamzine.com/Inte...D=647&lang=ENG
Hi there and welcome on our pages! Since this is the first time we have the chance to interview you, why not to start from a short biography of the band since the beginning so far?
Announcer: The band was set up in ’93 so in the time when probably most of your readers haven’t come to this world yet, hahaha. We’re all from Zory, Silesia (the South of Poland). Line-up has been changing many times out of many reasons. Now the band crew is: Aro (g), Smyku (g), Tymek (d), Kilo (k), Johnny, (b) Kofi (v). In general, we weren’t much successful during all those years. We recorded 4 quite good materials but unfortunately we haven’t had any serious offers from music labels – till now, he he he.
Many years have passed since your previous studio effort: why did you take so long time to release "Frozen Circus"?
Announcer: Yeahh that was a long period of time - 5 damn long years. Why that long? We had some problems those days. The change of keyboard player for instance. The other thing was losing our long-term rehearsal room. It took a time until we found a new one in which we could feel fully comfortable. Family life and work also influence creativity. It’s definitely much easier to create anything being a youngster supported by parents haha!
Everyone of you took a particular identity belonging to the world of circus, and also the title is tied to this theme. Do you want to explain the reasons of such a choice?
Knife Thrower: While creating the songs we realized that it started to recall an ominous circus atmosphere and so we went in this direction. To make it all coherent we decided that both cover and our photo session will be held in the circus tone. Thanks to our friends’ help we managed to do this and we’re really excited about the final outcome.
A band like Eternal Deformity is hard to describe and seems having been influenced by different musical genres. Tell us how should we call your band and what bands do you take inspiration from!
Announcer: We are inspired by music and life in general. It’s very hard for me to point at band which we take inspiration from. Each of us listens to different kind of music. Every member of Eternal Deformity putts something into our songs and the outcome is a monster that we decided to call AVANTGARDE METAL.
I really appreciated the choice to play the cover of "Little 15", a song of Depeche Mode that is less famous than others. Do you think Depeche Mode influenced your sound someway?
Announcer: We chose “Little 15” because we thought that we can make this song much stronger than in original version. We are very proud of the final result. It’s very common procedure nowadays to choose famous songs of famous bands as covers. We don’t want to follow that tendency. Personally I love all Depeche Mode records. I’m really big big fan of them but they haven’t influenced our sound.
Let's talk about live activity: have you already planned a tour to support this new album of yours?
Announcer: I think that until autumn we should have started performing “Frozen Circus” live. We’ll see.
At present there are more and more bands coming from the rest of Europe, you come from Poland: what is your home country musical scene today like?
Knife Thrower: We have very strong metal scene in Poland and of course unquestionable stars such as Vader, Behemoth, etc. But still Polish scene is not only death or black. There are many other bands performing many other kinds of metal. Improved availability of good quality music equipment and recording studios offering wider possibilities resulted in the fact that many Polish bands dropped their inferiority complex to their Western fellows. However, still kind of barrier exists, especially amongst very young people. Despite all of these we have the greatest audience in the world which comes to concerts and supports its favourites. I think Polish scene evolves in extremely dynamic way and a proof for this is the number of Polish bands signing contracts with foreign labels.
I thank you a lot for the interview, please conclude it as you prefer!
Knife Thrower: I encourage everyone to get into “Frozen Circus” – it’s really worth it, find out yourself… You’re Welcome!
Dario Adile