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Diversity Through Music With PERSEFONE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Wow. Yes, So this is Bobby. I'm the drummer of the band
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  Persephone Band from Andorra, a super small country in Europe with I don't know,
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  seventy five thousand inhabitants. So yeah, it's a pretty unusual place to
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  start a metal band. Vete it is by thanks for joining us the same
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  name, Yes, no problem, Well, thank you. I hope I
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  get the pronunciation of this right. But first off, I release your new
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  EP, linguin Ignota Part one on February the second, So how do you
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  feel about it? Yes, man, I just want to release the new
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  music, you know, because we've been working so much into this new release
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  lately that I just want to release it and people to start listening to it,
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  you know, because we finished their recording in August, so it's been
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  a while now, and since we are about to go on tour in ten
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  days, I really want the people to listen to the new songs before that.
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  So because we are playing the Holy pe Life and I want them to
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  at least know the songs a little bit, you know, more about APay
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  from a beastical point of view and what you're dying for with that. Yeah,
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  So dizzy be is something really special for us because it's the first one
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  with our new singer, Danny, So we had a mark previous singer like
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  for almost twenty years in the band, so it's like really really big difference,
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  you know for us. And also it's the first release in almost like
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  twenty years when we have recorded everything in a proper studio, you know,
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  like we went to Sweden with an awesome producer called David Castillo to record everything.
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  So for us, it's like a game changer, or at least we
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  want to think that it's a game changer in the Persephone history, you know,
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  because the sound is amazing. Danny, the new singer, has done
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  a great, great job, so it's like all the elements are aligned,
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  you know right now. Yeah, so you eventually a new batalist, Daniel
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  Rodriguez s Fly, so tell us a bit more about him by then what
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  he brings to the band sound. Yeah. So when we had to look
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  for a new singer, we have this friend in common also from Madrid,
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  So Danny is from Madrid, which is like seven hours drive from Andorra,
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  which is not easy, you know, Andora is so so small. There's
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  no metal seen here, and we didn't we needed someone professional, you know,
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  for the band, because we've been around for quite a long time right
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  now, and this friend of us, he just told us about Danny,
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  you know, and that we should give him a try, and it was
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  so easy to work with him, such a professional guy. He plays guitar
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  also in another band, and he sings, so he's like really skilled and
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  and we've been touring with him for the last year and a half, so
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  he's done like almost I don't know, eighty shows together. So we already
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  already know each other really really well. So when we when we wanted to
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  record something new already with him, we already knew that he was the guy,
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  you know, to join the band. And he's the youngest, so
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  it's it's really it's really different to have him on the band right now.
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  The press release describes you sound as extreme problem makes the ritual beauty of melodic
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  death metal. That yes, why not? Yes? I mean yes,
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  I mean it's complicated to tag music, you know, it's not easy,
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  you know, to put all the time, like labels and stuff like this.
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  I would say that band, it's obviously we have this metal root,
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  you know, and we are a metal band. But I think we are
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  way more than that, not because we sing with clean vocals or something like
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  this, but persephone fans they know that there's way more than just metal notes.
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  So yes, I even forgot already all the hashtags. You know,
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  you said all the labels A brutal, beauty, melodic metal Mountain. Yes,
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  yes, Now Ligo Part one is only a five track APTE, so
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  I want to run through each song individually and you can tell us a bit
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  more about it and how it fits into the ap So it ipens with Sands
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  and Vessels, Yeah, like you want sung by songs, And it's the
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  intro of of the B and the one that starts like with these search of
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  this unknown word linquig nota means means unknown language, and Sons and Vessels starts
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  screaming with this disparate looking for this sound and and word that is unknown.
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  You know, it has to be learned. So it's I think it's a
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  perfect intro to introduce Danny as a singer because the first part he sings is
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  already a really strong sentence, you know, and with a really powerful scream.
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  So yes, So since we will play the the B live completely,
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  we wanted to have a really strong intro, you know. Yeah, and
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  the second track is one Word, which was also the single tell Us about
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  that. Yeah, that was the first single. One Word, Okay.
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  One Word has like all the Persephone classic elements, you know, like it's
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  fast, and it has like complicated patterns and rhythm, but big chorus.
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  So it's a song that I think it will work really good life. It
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  has like this crazy part in the middle with the poly rhythms and and I
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  don't know the word in English for that, but sound massive sound production,
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  you know, yes, in what word is this this keeping you know,
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  finding this this unknown word? But yes, then you've got the equable equable.
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  It's the single that is going to be released today in four or five
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  hours, and it's like the probably easiest song we've ever written in the Persephone
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  history. It's like big chorus, easy verse, no complicated stuff, guitar
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  solo. Like I think this one will work really really good life, you
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  know, because it has like powerful chorus and also like new vocal registers from
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  our clean vocalists from Mo that we've never tried before, and so I think
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  this one will be like I hope people will sing this one, you know,
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  because it's like really easy. It's not like it's like complicated. What
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  did he said, like to the laundry now or something? Now? This
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  is like easy one, you know, and I hope it will it will
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  work. Then you've got the title track. Yeah, Linn is a classic
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  perceptionist song, you know, seven minutes long, fast, complicated to play.
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  I hate it, you know, I don't want to play that.
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  I don't want to Yeah, this is lingug not that for me. It's
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  an amazing song with great solo part you know, atmospheric parts with clean vocal
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  like really really nice and frenzy, you know, but complicated, so skip
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  for me. Yeah, I'm joking, but you get the point. I
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  guess like this the people will love this song because it's it's really really really
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  nice and it's super well written. Carlos has put a lot into this one,
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  you know, and he's just he just recorded a guitar playthrough of this
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  one because it's a crazy song to play. But yeah, oh and apes
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  with a viscal communication. Yes, this continues with the with the kept of
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  this unknown language, you know, this communication with the with the unknown and
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  the abyss and everything, and it's a super different track. It's the most
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  different track of Persephone, so Equable for me is the easiest one and more
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  accessible you know to people. And this is like the different one for sure.
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  It has Doney the new singer clean singing clean vocals for the first time
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  with us, you know, like a whole song, and there's no drums,
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  there's no there's just a little bit of guitars. There's a lot of
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  electronic music going on and sound design and everything, and this one will be
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  so much fun to play live because we we've added so much stuff to play
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  it live. And I think this will be like a really nice experience,
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  you know, to to watch, not only to listen, because I think
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  the song is super well produced, but to watch. We've prepared like different
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  lights, different scenes, you know. I think this one will be really
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  nice. And they say it follows on from your twenty twenty two album match
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  Noias. How does it different music from that rease? Yeah? Nothing,
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  it's so so friends. So last year we've been touring so much, you
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  know that we've learned so much for being you know, like touring and learning
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  from on stage and learning from other bands and everything, and so Metanoia is
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  a completely different album. We wanted to have a massive production, you know,
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  with other persephonic classics, and there's like these cinematic landscapes all the time,
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  there's one of sound, you know. It's like we try to do
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  something way different and linguide not that. For me, it's like we have
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  removed all of those elements and keep only the essentials, you know, like
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  easy structures, big chorus and melodies, you know, like memorable melodies and
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  not layers and layers. Meta is layer over layer over layer constantly, and
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  this one is like two guitars bassed. You know, it's completely different.
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  Yeah, so the part one in the Child suggests that there's more coming.
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  So what's on there? Gotrace for us? Yeah, this is a magic
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  trick that we've done. We don't know. I mean, we don't know.
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  We don't know. It has to answer these question I really don't know.
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  I mean, since it wasn't it we have more music, you know
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  regarding we can write more about link not and the concept and the ideas behind
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  this, But we don't have a music plan right now because this album has
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  to be released yet. So maybe it will be like a single, I
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  don't know, like a part to just one song. Like a long song,
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  maybe a second EP, maybe an album or video, you know,
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  something different. I don't know. I don't know if two parts or three
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  or four as you said, but yeah, we'll get older, you know.
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  It's like linkuig not a part seventeen, okaying, like not that.
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  We'll find the word, you know, yeah, and if it comes out
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  on favorite the second so what's the next four post? And after that?
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  Yeah, So we are about to go on tour. In ten days,
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  we go on tour. So from February the tenth to March tenth, we'll
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  be touring Europe as headliners, so it will be like our seventh or eighth
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  European tour. And then after that we have a super special show in Andorra
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  with an orchestra and we will record everything with the DVD and live and everything.
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  It's already sold out, so it will be like super special for us.
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  And then we go to Japan with car Symmetry, and then we have
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  another tour that it's not announced, so it's super busy, busy year.
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  I don't know how we will manage, you know, with the families and
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  stuff, but so far they don't know everything, so you can't tell me
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  that you come to Japan and you're not going to visit australiaway on this sort
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  of the world. Man, this sucks. But since we do not leave
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  out of the band, you know, it's so complicated to to to find
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  balance. You know. We we had this opportunity also to go to China
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  and do five six shows there in the Japan run, and we did.
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  We had to decline, you know, and same for Australia. I mean,
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  I'd love to do that. It's on our bucket least to go to
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  Australia because we have friends there and we really want to go. But it's
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  not easy. You know, just the travel there is so expensive that we
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  cannot go and lose I don't know, k or it's it's complicated. Yeah,
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  I understand, all right, Bright, Well, thanks very much for
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  trying to Bobby. You going rest up by it and I've had a long
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  time but it so yeah one day, yeah, yeah, no problem.
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  Nice to media. Christ's brother. Cheers man, Bye bye bye