Besides that, I don't care about the ethical descent of bands. They are surely a part of the very beginning, but all this 'church-burning-killing-each-other-and-wasting-graveyards'-shit never had something to do with the music.į: But there are still good bands coming from Norway, e.g. N: I don't give a shit about the events in the early nineties. Do you think it is as important today as people still claim? To me it seems to have become stifled with only a couple of good bands have come out of that country in the past decade. The Norwegian scene is naturally the most (in)famous due to the events of the early nineties.
It doesn't matter if you like 'Black'n Roll', 'Melodic Black Metal', or 'What-so-ever-Metal'. It's a matter of emotions, not of the length of your spikes. On your website it states that black metal today is infirm and dominated by mediocre bands so what values make true black metal in your opinions? Does the latter day, so-called 'black'n'roll' direction of bands such as Darkthrone and Satyricon piss you off?į: You have to feel black metal and inhale the spirit created by the music. This would be the perfect and most important black metal masterpiece. Take all this excellent music, melt it and create one piece of music out of it. And to name my biggest influence: Life itself.ĭark Funeral – The Secrets Of The Black ArtsĮvery album mentioned above is highly responsible for my comprehension of black metal. Before that I only knew Deicide and some other not mentionable Bands. N: I got into metal with Iron Maiden at the age of 7 or 8 and my first black metal CD was Darkthrone's A Blaze In The Northern Sky at the age of 11.
Which bands / albums got you into metal and black metal in particular? Who or what are your biggest influences? What is the single most important black metal album in your opinion? Hopefully the metalheads out there will like the album. He did understand well and shared our vision of Panzer Metal and the reactions in the press are mostly positive so far. Our task was to convey this idea to our producer Eike Freese. N: To put in a nutshell: That's exactly the feeling we wanted to create.į: We had a concrete idea of how the album should sound when we entered the studio.
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The listening experience of Panzer Metal could be likened to being crushed under the treads of an M1-Abrams whilst being pumped full of morphine.Its brutal, its harsh, it's unrelentingly savage and yet thoroughly enjoyable! Did the album turn out as you hoped and has the reaction to it amongst the masses been positive so far? So I think my appreciation of black metal is automatically influenced by their music. I prefer to listen to Marduk's Those Of The Unlight and Opus Nocturne. Panzer Division Marduk did not influence us as far as the songwriting is concerned. Panzer metal is the music you hear when you drive with a tank to a black mess. All this you will find concentrated in 36 min on the album. Now we are back, with a vengeance.Ĭould you tell us why you chose the name Panzer Metal for the new album? Did Panzer Division Marduk have an influence on the songs?į: 'Panzer' is a strong symbol for power, violence, durability and uncompromising hardness. But the passion for this kind of art and the emotions evolved with the music were stronger than any reversal we had to experience. Indeed sometimes it was hard for us to keep the black metal flame burning in ourselves.
Its been five years since the release of your second album, what's been going on in the ranks of Negator in this time?įinnskald: Line up problems, songwriting and life itself needed a lot of attention and time. And we all thought that it would be a very appropriate name for a bunch of guys which are not just accepting every value, dogma or moral-ethical principle. If you translate the Latin word 'negare' in English it simply means 'to abnegate' or 'to negate'. Trolfbert came up with that name as a statement of denial. In 2004 we released our first CD Old Black and in 2005 we released Die eisernen Verse. Nachtgarm: Negator was formed in 2003 by Trolfbert (Guitar), Me (Vocals), Berthelm (Bass) and Tramheim (Drums). I put some questions to them about their new release and their views on black metal in general.įirst of all, thanks for taking the time to answer these questions and congratulations on the killer new album! For the benefit of those who haven't heard of Negator before could you tell us a little about how the band came into being? Negator are one of the black shining lights of the black metal scene at the moment and having just released their third album, Panzer Metal, which I gave 10/10 in my review for IV. Nachtgarm & Finnskald - June 16th 2010 (by email)
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