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Conquering Darkness With AARON TUCK From LUMEN AD MORTEM · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  So my name's Aaron. I'm from Luminade Mortem, where a black metal band
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  based in South Australia. The band's been around. The idea started in about
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  twenty eighteen where myself and the singer Greg decided to write some music. There
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  was a lot more basic than what we've written before and just sort of go
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  back to the roots of all the music that we love from the nineties.
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  Really saw the Norwegian black metal and then some American stuff and you know,
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  all the stuff that really influenced does. Yeah, so we just started.
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  I wrote all the demos myself and continue to write the music myself, all
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  the guitars, keyboards and bass and everything, and then we recorded our debut
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  album at the end of the COVID lockdowns, I guess, so twenty twenty.
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  We got Matt gets involved because he lives in Adelaide now and yeah,
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  we've sort of been playing that album live whenever we can with our full lineup,
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  which includes a lot of guys, well sorry, not a lot of
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  guys. Includes four other guys because I'm writing like the guitars and bass and
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  keys and then the drummer. So yeah, so we've got a full live
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  lineup We've done a few shows like Heavy Essay and New Dead first here and
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  we've played over in Melbourne. But yeah, we're going to do Necrosonic up
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  in Brisbane in August. We're playing at the Crowned Anchor and Adelaide before that
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  with Bullet Belt, who are also playing Necrosonic. Yeah, so luminad Mortem's
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  it started off as a studio project, but basically it's become a live project
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  as well. I'm still working on the music primarily but primarily by myself,
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  so writing everything for the second album currently and we hope to go into the
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  studio and record that at the end of this year. So fantastic Aaron,
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  thanks for joining us, sid I rather jeers, thank you for having me
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  pleasure. So Leumit and Moreen will be just one of thirty metal bands playing
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  at the inaugural Necrosonic Festival, to be held at the Mansfield Tabing in Brisbane
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  on August at thirty first. Must be a bit of an honor braw to
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  be part of something special like that, like it's a it's a good lighte
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  up. Yeah. Yeah, and there's a few bands that I hadn't actually
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  heard before and when I checked them out. They blew me away, so
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  like one of them is Spire, really looking forward to seeing them, and
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  you know, of course cryptsy Croptic Misery. There's just an awesome lineup.
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  So Kent's done a really good job. Yeah, I don't think he's focused
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  a little bit. This year too, was on he was trying to get
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  quite a few bands that hadn't played for a while or that had disbanded,
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  and he's got quite a few. Like I know, Crypt are going to
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  be playing a one off, last ever career spanning show. There's there was
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  another band there too. I think it was a Mortality that hasn't played for
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  a while. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, he's got quite a
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  few there that have sort of come back from the dead so to speak to
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  the helping party, it's good. Yeah, it's going to be awesome.
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  Definitely give our next workout watching all the other bands, and I feel that
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  the week after I Reckon, it'll be for a couple of weeks after.
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  I think it's just great though, to see a new metal festival start up
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  in Australia, like we haven't really had anything fully dedicated to heavy music since
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  the days of over Cranked and Metal for the Brain. Yeah, yeah,
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  absolutely, We've got down in the Essay. We've got Heavy Essay and New
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  Dead and Froth and Fury that are pretty awesome down here, and we've played
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  New Dead, so that's pretty good. But yeah, I think I think
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  it's starting to really come back, and maybe it's you know, the whole
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  COVID thing kicked everyone in the guts and then you know, the amount of
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  the amount of shows is phenomenal. You know, I'm seeing bands I haven't
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  seen in ages coming to Australia and you know, there's almost too many gigs,
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  so it's good for bands like us. You know, you either play
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  to a handful of people at a really small bar or you jump on one
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  of these festivals, and you know, it's just such an awesome opportunity for
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  us to be able to come up there and not play like the smallest dive
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  bar and actually play an awesome stage and an awesome festival. So have you
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  played at the bands you tap it before? No, I haven't no great
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  value bro like the Massive probably one of the biggest stages I've seen for a
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  pub, huge, and it's just like it's probably I think you get about
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  eight hundred people in there in the room. It's like, but it's just
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  just a really really good value, great sound, great production. Yeah,
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  yeah, you go enjoy it well. And then so for the benefit of
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  people who might not have heard or seen, I've believe it had more than
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  before Mane, Like, what can we expect from your set? Ah,
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  Well, I mean we're playing I guess a bit sort of mid paced blake
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  metal, but you know, with a lot of blast beats, and a
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  lot of our music has like orchestral sections, and then we've got a bit
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  of a I'm not sure if we'll have it at Necrosonic, but we've got
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  like a projection show we put behind us. But if we don't have the
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  projections, then we'll probably just end up, you know, having something really
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  dark and lots of fog and lots of atmosphere. But yeah, our singer
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  Greg's as tall. People call him the praying Mantis, and he likes to
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  scream in people's faces. He's got a lot a lot of character. Yeah,
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  So I don't know, we just get up there and play the tunes
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  as best we can and try and create an atmosphere of dark, grim evil.
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  You sort of had this a little bit of the intro Robot Bluemit and
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  Mortim is essentially yourself and vocalist Greg and you started the band back around twenty
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  nineteen after previously playing together in Delusion, asked Volders, so, what was
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  your early vision for this band and how's it changed since? Well, I
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  guess, like a lot of musos when we were younger, we over complicated
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  things. So we made a bit of you know, in Deligent my other
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  death metal bandsas I can, sort of became a bit of a riff salad,
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  and I really wanted to take things back to basics and try and get
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  back to you know, it sounds really cheesy, but just the emotion behind
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  the music. So there's a lot a lot of it's inspired by, like
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  movie soundtracks and a bit of classical music, I guess, without being without
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  being what's the term they use for black metal with heaps keyboards. Yeah,
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  without being that without being that pompous, you know, orchestral stuff. I
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  really wanted to get. You know, I'm really influenced by like Hans Zimmer,
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  Howard Shaw and you know, the really dark soundtracks, really dark orchestral
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  classical music. So I wanted to have that as sort of the basis and
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  not make it like all about guitar solos and all about Yeah, we we
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  really had a really similar we've we've always had a pretty similar musical taste.
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  So when I said to him, do you want to do something that's more
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  this sort of style, he was like right on board. And we've been,
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  you know, constantly talking about what we're going to do and trying to
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  keep egos out of it and keep you know, try and create something that
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  we both really like and discuss it and make sure it's heading in the in
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  the right direction. Yeah. Right, You're released your debut EP, Upon
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  the Edge of Darkness in early twenty twenty three, put out the single and
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  music video for within the Smoke from that EP. So just say, someone's
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  never heard of you guys before, Is that a good song from the check
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  out as an introduction? Yeah? I think absolutely. I mean it's it's
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  probably one of the most straight up metal four four ten time signature metal tracks
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  on the album. It's not it's probably one of the mid sides, mid
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  length songs, but yeah, it's got all the hallmarks of a luminad modern
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  song. Yeah, the whole album it sort of has the same vibe,
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  but it's got different elements coming in and out, like orchestral sections and other
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  songs that might be a bit longer with more lead guitar sections. But yeah,
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  we thought within the Smoke really hits hard from get go, glass beats,
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  evil riffs. Yeah, so it's that's why we chose it as the
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  film clip track because, yeah, it's probably one of the most straight metal
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  tracks we've done. Yeah, you mentioned before that you've started writing the follow
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  up with a view to hit in the studio towards the end of this year.
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  So what sort of direction musically is that going to take? Is it
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  going to be similar to the Dabu app or are you sort of branching out
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  a bit? Yeah, I mean I've got some things on there, like
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  a little bit of acoustic guitar, not heaps. We didn't have any of
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  that on the first album. I've sort of tried to create even bigger orchestral
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  intros for a couple of songs. Yeah, so I'm not deviating too far
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  from it, but just trying to, I guess take it to the next
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  level. You know, you're always trying to write better music and also like
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  editing a bit more so. I guess a couple of songs off the first
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  album I thought maybe a little bit too long, or this bit went a
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  little bit too long, and just trying to trying to figure out what's the
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  perfect length for a song, or what's the perfect length for a section to
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  go on for before it gets too much and you get bored of it yourself.
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  So yeah, a little bit more editing rather than just sitting down writing
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  songs and going that's good. That's the thing. It's a little bit more
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  editing. I know Greg's he's working on vocal demos currently. He's sent me
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  through a couple he's branching off in different vocal directions and with more of a
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  lyrical theme that ties the whole album together. But yeah, it's of the
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  same vein. We're not completely changing the sound of the band at all all
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  right eron what thanks for your toil that I've made been the pleasure speaking with
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  you moretem is that Necrosotic advanced for taving in Brisbane on August at thirty first.
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  Where's the best place for people to keep up to date with the band?
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  What which socials? So we've got Luminadmordem dot COM's, our website,
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  Instagram and Facebook's just at luminad Mortem. People in Brisbane can go check us
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  out at Blackened Records. He's got some of our records in merch and you
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  know, in record stores all over Australia to any of your listeners like Sydney,
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  Melbourne, everywhere, So go pick up a record if you're that sort
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  of person and support your local record shop. That really helps us being able
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  to do things like this tour is yeah if people get a physical copy,
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  but yeah head to Leminadmder dot com dot com or our Facebook, Instagram and
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  our clips on YouTube. So yeah, well then all right brother, Well
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  I'll definitely be in Necrosonic Made, so we'll catch up there. We'll have
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  ourselves a beer. Awesome mate, look forward to