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Balancing The Scales With MARCO PASTORINO From TEMPERANCE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So my name is Mark. I'm a guitar player, single producer, some
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  writer, blah blah blah, and my main band is called Temperance, and
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  we're going to release our new album and retached the Roumasize Part two tomorrow and
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  I think in a few hours in Australia. And so we are very excited
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  about the album. We work soart on every single detail and we really can
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  wait to come back on tour. I mean, we'll play just one more
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  show this year to celebrate the release of the album in Netherlands in ten days,
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  but then in February we will come back on tour in Europe and we
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  have tons of plans for the next year. So let's see what will happen.
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  Yeah, Marca, thanks for joining us all my pleasure. Does you
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  say Temperance releases your new album Hermitage Rumor's Eyes Part two on October twenties.
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  Tell us a bit more about the album from a musical point of view and
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  what you're going for with it. So, since it's the first album of
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  the band, the first concept album of the band. Sorry, the sobriety
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  process and the recording process was very very funny and cool, exciting, also
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  difficult, I have to say, because when you have to follow a sort
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  of script, a story, it's totally different. But I finished the work
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  on the story of the album almost two years ago and then I started collecting
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  ideas here and there. But it was a very cool journey. And since
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  in this album we have six characters, we decided to have six singers.
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  I mean with Temperance we are three singers, not only me but also Christine
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  film singer and Mikael. But since as I said, since there are six
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  characters in this album, we have also Abi and Ernie from Elvet Micheade,
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  Lava Fella from Foun and Alexander Conti from Three or Threat and Twilet Fourth and
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  it's it's very cool and it was great. And plus as a narrator on
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  the album, we have one of my personal heros, Arian Lucasm from Arion,
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  and we are so honored to have him in this album. I mean,
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  it was a it was a challenging because for sure it was a totally
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  different process. We change also uh the way to produce the album. We
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  we work with Simon and Roni from the GM about the mix he did the
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  album from Michael Romeo from symphonics or rhapsody, and for the very first time
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  in our career, we work for the orchestration with an external guy, Daniel
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  Matsa from Ancient Barts and the final result is great. I mean, it's
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  very epic, symphonic and I would say also dramatic cool can dive into the
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  the concept for us the David, I know, what do you expect for
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  now? The album's well the story of the concept, he said, sorry,
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  okay. And so this is a full story based on time travel and
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  a sort of file between two brothers, an Ingham alias Me and Irene alias
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  Christine. But the main character of this album is called the Victor, and
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  Victory is a guy from New York and it's not basically, it's not completely
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  satisfied about his life and that's the reason why he traveled the world to reach
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  Japan, Tokyo to try to find himself. And they're in the Temple of
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  Asaksa and this is a real place in Tokyo. He found this small doll
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  called Daruma. And when I found this doll and it touched this doll,
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  it traveled into another world, another dimension, and this world is called Ermitaje.
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  In this place Victor will meet some new friends and it will be able
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  to change his destiny. Basicly very cool. And you released the singles Jerema
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  and Irachan and Darkness is just a drawing. Now, I'm guessing you chose
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  singles for a specific reason, So can you run through them individually and tell
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  us why you chose them to represent the album. I mean, for every
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  album, it's always very difficult to try to try to decide a single to
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  release, but especially for this one because it's a concept album. Basically every
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  there is a connection between every track. So first of all, we decide
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  to release that because this is the opening track, and we thought, okay,
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  this is the best way to introduce the album, the concept, the
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  story. Then the second single, no Return, it's just a part of
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  the beginning of the store because there is the song number five, and it's
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  for sure also it's very catchy, but we are just at the beginning of
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  the story. And then the last single release a couple of days ago,
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  was Darkness is just a drawing and we are totally into the story. This
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  is the song number nine, and in this album there are fourteen tracks,
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  and this is a sort of speech between the trimming characters. So that's the
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  reason why we decided to release this one as last single and have had sonically
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  like good sonic representation of the albums I think. So, I mean,
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  there are tons of different elements in this album, but yes, basically the
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  first track is a mix between the old Temperance stuff plus the symphonic elements.
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  Then the second is one of the most full oriented track of the album,
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  and Darkness is a sort of mid temple ballad, but the chorus is totally
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  Temperance. And we have these tons of vocal layers at the end of the
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  tracks with some solo part made by me, some are made by Christine and
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  this is one of the trademarks or the Temperance history, and I think it's
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  a good representation. But for sure, there are tons of cool surprises in
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  the album. So I I mentioned you guess that as Fabien, Laura and
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  Alessandro running through the songs that I appear on, and why you chose them
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  to represent those characters. So basically, I think we decide to work with
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  people of our generation and that's the reason why basically Fabien Laura we have the
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  same age. Alessandri is a little bit older, but don't tell him.
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  Just kidding, but I mean they are some of the best singers in the
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  scene right now. My opinion, Fabian is one of my favorite female singers
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  out there, together with Christine and Melissa Bonni from Adimfinito for example, and
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  Laura. She's the perfect voice for her Carter. I mean, I never
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  was a big fan of Found, I have to say, but one year
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  ago I saw her in Milano, I think, with Fauna, and I
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  was quite impressed by voice and I decided to call her and for Alessandro.
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  Al is one of my best friends in the music business since ten or twelve
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  years, and I think it's still one of the best prota metal singer out
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  there, together with Tommy joansm from Majestic I think. And the album was
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  that comes with a book which is written by your good self, I believe,
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  so it's about that. I mean, honestly, I wrote a story
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  and just to write the lyrics for the album. But then when I started
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  to talk with someone about the album, everyone suggests me to release also the
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  book, maybe in a limited edition or something like that, because for our
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  Diir fans all over the world could be a very cool thing to have in
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  their collection. And I have to say it was the right choice because I
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  mean, I think so far the book it's almost sold out, is just
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  a short book. But if you want to go totally into the album,
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  you have to listen to the album with a book in front of you and
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  follow the story because there are fourteen chapters and for every chapter there is a
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  song. So this is the best thing in my opinion, and it was
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  the right choice, I think. And is it a concept that you'll you
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  need to explore on future albums or does it finish? Yeah, I don't
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  know, because we have a sort of open end at the at the end
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  of the album, so let's see what will happen. We have no plan
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  so far, but as usual in temperance, there's no rule at all.
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  So maybe we'll release the Aromasaes part three, maybe a sort of flashback in
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  the past. Let's see. And that's the playing these songs live like if
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  they're on an album in chapters telling a storyline, you have to play chronological
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  order for to make sense or do I still make sense headline songs? No,
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  I think I I mean, we'll play the next shows, for sure,
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  we'll play in one week in Netherlands for a festival in February. Well,
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  we'll go on tour and for these shows we'll play just a few tracks
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  from the album, but no because basically every track we can play every track
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  a sort of standalone track. But the thing is for the next year,
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  since it will be the tenth universary of the band, we really would love
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  to do a sort of special show and play this album from the beginnings to
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  the end. And let's see if we'll be able to do it. But
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  maybe with a string quart or a sort of choir or something like that,
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  because this album is very epic and symphonic and I think we need some something
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  more than just all five on stage. I will plays very much to the
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  album. I have a teach the room. His Eyes Part two is out
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  October twentieth, and She's a cracker from whatever it might, best of luck
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  with it and try