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Chain Of Command With NICK MELISSOURGOS From SUICIDAL ANGELS · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hello everyone. This is Nick from Suicideal Angels. We're a thrash metal band
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  from Mathens, from Greece. We are about to release our eighth studio album
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  called Profane Prayer, and in a couple of days we are ready to hit
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  the roads, I think from Europe, the first European tour for this album.
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  Afterwards we go to United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal and the whole booking
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  process for the concerts is taking place, so we hope that we can visit
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  other markets as well in the future. We had some plans for twenty twenty
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  to come over to Australia, but unfortunately, due to the COVID situation,
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  we couldn't make it. Thank you very much for having us here on this
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  podcast, on this interview, on this whatever. Just I'm here thrown with
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  your stuff and let's have some fun. Yere for neck. Thanks for joining
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  Spider is a very comprehensive intro. Thank you, no problem. So Suicubtle
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  Angels release your eighth studio album, as you say, Profied Prayer on March
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  the first such is not far away now. Might have with the nerves,
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  what how are the nerves nervous? Oh? A bit yeah, to be
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  honest, because, as I said before, this pandemic COVID, whatever you
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  can call it, stop the whole planet. And actually it hit us quite
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  hard because we had just to release our previous album, Years of Aggression,
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  on August twenty nineteen, and we were about to do a really huge and
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  expensive touring. As I said before, we were even planning to come over
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  to Australia, and we're even planning to go over to the USA and Canada
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  markets that we never visited before. And two and a half years were off
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  the road. Two and a half years were off generally speaking, and then
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  we tried to do some small tours, mostly in Europe and Latin America to
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  promote the Years of Aggression album and gradually and slowly come back to the reality
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  of of the after COVID situation. And it took some time longer than usual
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  to release a new album, but it was because of this situation. And
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  now we're quite quite anxious, nervous, but also excited with this release and
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  we really hope to get back to on the road and to the life that
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  we used to have. All Right, it's like, can you tell us
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  a bit more about profile and prior from a musical point of view and what
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  you're done for with the album. With every album, we tried to do
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  something something that I have said a lot of times in previous interviews, and
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  this is something that this is something that identifies us as a band. It's
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  like with every album, we're trying to evolve, We're trying to move on,
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  we are trying to make a step forward on our music. We try
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  to combine different elements. We try to deliver some different kind of music,
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  kind of music, but of course in the borders of trust metal and of
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  course in the in the identity of suicide all angels. So on this album
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  we have we tried kind of to experiment, if you want to say so,
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  with adding some female vocals on the very last song and some traditional Greek
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  instruments, which actually it was an experiment that we didn't know how it was
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  going to work. And in the end of the day we were in the
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  recording studio and we're like, okay, let's try this out and see how
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  it sounds. We didn't know that we couldn't we couldn't know the results.
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  So we had to try it first, and we listened to it and we
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  said like, wow, that sounds nice. For example, you know,
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  we don't know, we're trying to We don't want to stay inside the box
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  if you want to say so, right, And this is something that so
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  far received really really good reviews and really really good comments from the people and
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  the reporters and everyone not listened that had listened to the album. Cool.
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  Now you've released the singles Virtues of Distruction, Purified by Fire and When the
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  Lions Die? So overall, would those three songs be a good sonic representation
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  of what you expect from the album. If it was in our hands,
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  we would make more singles and more and more and more. We would throw
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  the whole album as singles. But it's not exactly a representation of the whole
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  album because on this album we have like nine songs, which all the nine
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  of them are are How can I say that there are nine songs with nine
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  different personalities. They are different between them. Of course, they are in
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  in the borders of frass metal, they are in the borders of the identity
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  of suicidal angels, but they are totally different between them and your quirless silog.
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  You sort of touched on this a little bit, but the acquire Less
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  signed that the album is a bit different than the ones you've done in the
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  past, So can you elaborate on that a bit more like hous are different?
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  How can I say that, for example, on this album, we
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  have two long songs which are like the one is like around eight minutes,
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  the other is around nine plus minutes, which are like, this is not
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  quite typical and usual for a thrust metal album, And for example, you
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  need you need to pay a lot of attention on the details of these songs,
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  because the line between making a song interesting and making a song boring is
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  very very thin, especially when we're talking about long songs. Of course,
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  we have songs like Ritual Distruction, which is like more typical suicidal, like
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  really fast and really into the face and also purified by fires like that.
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  We have songs like like when the Lions Die, which is more melodic,
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  songs like songs like God of the Insane, which is like with this bass
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  intro that has more and more death metal attitude. Generally speaking, it's like
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  it's a combination of elements that makes this album a bit different compared to the
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  previous ones. Now you started suicideal Angels back in two thousand and one,
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  when you were just sixteen years old, mate, Like back then, were
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  you planning on a career band, I guess, or were you just sort
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  of having fun back then? But then it was just like you know,
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  a school project. We were playing with some friends from school. We're playing
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  covers. We were just pooling around trying you know. I mean I couldn't
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  even play exactly, you know, the guitar. I was just taking lessons
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  and stuff like that. It was more like a school project as before,
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  playing covers, but in after after school and during school, it was something
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  was knocking me from inside to say like okay, try to do something with
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  that, but without knowing where you're going to end up with. So it
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  wasn't it wasn't planned to be like a career, but not something. It
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  was just like there was something inside me like knocking and saying like okay,
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  try to do something something more because I mean I loved music. I loved
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  playing music. So after school I met Orpheus the Drammer around two thousand and
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  three, and the rest is history. We are together twenty one years.
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  Also can say it like even a marriage. I know, my marriage didn't
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  last anywhere near that long, right, So in a way like you've done
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  a large chunk of your growing up and your life experiences in the music industry.
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  So, but what sorts of things have you learned about yourself and your
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  music on that journey. What I learned on myself and on this whole thing
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  and all these years is that you have to be you have to be patient,
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  you have to be dedicated, and you need to follow the passion and
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  the dedication if you want to achieve something. Otherwise it's not it's not an
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  easy path, you know what I'm saying, right, It's not an easy
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  path to follow all these years to be there, to be focused, to
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  be dedicated, to give all your personal time and effort in order to achieve
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  that. So that's what I learned. It's not an easy path to follow,
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  but definitely worth the trouble and it would be made. It would be
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  all right, brother. Well that's a lot of coffee the line next.
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  So The Profane Prayer is out on March the first, and not have the
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  pleasure of having to listen to it before the interview and issues. Well bloody
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  good album made, so well done, congratulations and hope it does well for
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  you. Thank you very much. Hope you'll come over to Australia sooner or
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  later. Tool easy. We'll catch up and drink some beer if you do.