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MALASANGRE INTERVIEW
1.You´ve been in a hiatus for some time. What cause this silence from your part? Was this something that happen or was programmed?
VP-33: When we got back from the “Ashes to Ashes…Doom to Dust” festival in 2004, we had to cope with a lot troubles to have Inversus released, as it was eventually deleted from the schedule list of a Dutch label; we decided to take a break, being unable to get further motivation and strenght to go on. Moreover, a bunch of personal problems influenced our decision. In 2005 “Inversus” CD-r was released by Nothingness records and with the newborn year 2006, the old core of Malasangre started to rehearse together once again, played some shows and wrote new tunes.
2.Do you have some new songs already done for a future release or you´re still in the composing stage?
VP-33: Yes we have a couple of new songs whose length is more than half an hour each. They won’t be completely finished until the official recording session is over ( hopefully spring 2008). We harshly recorded them during last summer in order to have a promo (Malasangre anno 2007) to send to labels and a very few people. The new tracks are taking a quite long time to be completed because they need some re-arrangements, since TK-7.8 has joined Malasangre on guitar.
3. The first signal of Malasangre return was your presence in some gigs and a festival (Dutch Doom day) How was the feeling to return to the stage again? In your opinion how was the reaction from the public?
VP-33: Actually, we played four times during 2006 in Italy and played some kind of a “warm-up” show on last September. It was an important one also because it was the first time with TK-7.8 on guitar.
The DDDVI was really cool…JN-18 could not make it but Herr AIDS (Planet AIDS, Sauron) did an excellent job on the microphone (of course we knew he would ). We tested a new track one more time and if I had to judge from the crowd’s reaction, I’d say that it’s a solid one. When you’re due to play with other Extreme-Doom bands you’re likely to get more feedback from the crowd but it’s meant to be a more severe one as well.
Hopefully we’ll be playing some shows next year with our new album released.
4. In every Malasangre release your sound is constantly changing, so what can we expect now almost 3 years after the church of flagellation song? Can you describe how the new material sounds from your point of view?
VP-33: You can expect some changes like an additional guitar, a heavier sound, slower and hypnotic riffs, a lot of drones and ambience layers (FH-37 spent a lot of time manipulating some fitting Hindi mantras). We also tried to give melody and harmonization more attention in order to emphasize negative and obscure atmospheres.
Lyrics are fictional as usual, but way more symbolic and with deeper and hidden ( to people that is not into some subjects) meaning than in the past; the concept develops through two stages (the songs), with a third stage that it’s the solution of the previous two.
5.Do you have anything programmed concerning new relases for the coming months?
VP-33: Plans are to have our new stuff recorded on next spring. As for its release date, it depends on the luck we’ll have in finding a label. We’re quite optimistic so we think it’s just a matter of waiting and people should stick in their minds that we don’t mind waiting.
No problems with pressing our own stuff if needed, as one of the most important things is to sell our latest material at gigs.
6. What inspire you the most to continue with Malasangre ?
VP-33: It’s common but a penchant for music, being satisfied with making songs and with knowing that someone is being carried away by our stuff. The sense of frustration coming from small town living is one of the main reason I started playing.
We’re friends from a long time and it’s always good to hook up at rehearsal and have some fun. After some years spent focusing our mental and physical energies on the same thing, a deeper, psychic relationship between people is very likely to occur.
7. Looking back to Inversus, what are the things that you remeber when you think in that album?
VP-33: A long time spent both in the studio (not the number of hours itself but the time to get the master) and in the rehearsal room to give the song their shape and the problems concerning the release. We tried to sound much closer to Extreme-Doom bands than we did with “A bad trip too…” but I think we managed to give the music a personal touch. From this point of view, “Inversus” put Malasangre on the right track to develop their own sound further.
8.What are the main diferrences from the actual Malasangre and the malasangre that recorded “ A bad trip”, as individuals and musicians?
VP-33: As individuals who have to cope with everyday life we have slightly changed with time but nothing has affected Malasangre in a negative way so far, as if each of us “carved” a Malasangre spot into his life.
As musicians (thanks for the good word) we have clearer ideas on how our music should sound like, so this means that the composing stage is less time-consuming than before. We can also afford better equipment these days, in order to create a thicker sound and to get much control of it at the same time.
9.In your recent news there are a mention to Caput LVIIIm, is this a project of some Malasangre members?
VP-33: We focused our attention on something else during the “pause”, when NC(bass) and I (synth) agreed on FH- 37(drums, lyrics)’s request to put Caput LVIII up. It’s a black ambient drone project featuring also member from other Northern Italy based bands: SP from both Tronus Abyss (experimental dark ambient) and Mord (black metal, dark ambient) played guitar and provided us with additional layers of noise, while MW from Necroart (Death metal) has lent us his throat. A quite long track was born and recorded , we’re proud of it and hopefully it will be released soon.
10.I know that the bands that you see as an influence in Malasangre are a bit different from each other. In what way do those bands influence you? Are you an active listeneer of new coming bands?
VP-33: When we formed, each of us brought his unorthodox approach to music, being totally free from clichés coming from a training as well as his own musical influences, sometimes very far from Doom Metal.
In my opinion, what many people seem to miss is the capability to understand that some of the most extreme styles of music are being linked by a common view , by the will to give the listener a sense of alienation, to be trance-inducing. Actually, I can’t see a big difference whether this is achieved by playing ultra slowed down stuff or harsh Black Metal with a lot of blast-beats; it’s psychedelia in its original meaning.
In this sense, the various Malasangre influences are stuck by a psychedelic vibe, which is something that goes beyond styles.
As for new coming bands, we are neither active listeners nor diggers, but we’re always looking forward to listening to bands that are able to cause the above mentioned feeling in us.
11.To finish. Everytime i see some information about Malasangre the expression Italian Mafia Doom is always present.. What is the Mafia doom and why do you use this expression?
VP-33: We did not pioneered the Sludge-Doom genre here but we got more exposed than any other Italian band playing the same music and things are a bit complicated when you’re from Italy. Moreover, a lot of people is used to talking commonplaces, so we had some fun pairing the threatening word Mafia with Doom, but do not take the MafiadooM as a joke, ah ah…
12.Thanks for your time, and honesty. Any last words?
VP-33: Thank you for the support.
The MafiadooM will catch you!
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