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2000, by God Magazine GOD MAGAZINE interview with Tormentor - 2000, by God Magazine Ugly and raw black metal is what you can wait from Gorgoroth and the new album "Incipit Satan" but the guitarist Tormentor informs us more. Here begins the era of Gorgoroth. What’s new right now? "We have some new members and tomorrow we’ll go on tour." Do they play in any bands? "No, they are from a totally different background. They are both into jazz. Incredibly good musicans, very fast and very good. The rest of the members are the same; Me , Infernus & Gaahl." Is it a steady line-up? "I hope so. We work very well together." Do you have any expentations for the tour? "Yeah, we have some, I think. It’s quite a while since the last time we were on tour. So I think one of the last gigs we played was in Finland , Helsinki." One and half years ago. So what have you been doing since? We were supposed to go on a tour with Dismember and some other Nuclear Blast bands in autumn 98 right after the gig in Helsinki. We played in Wacken the same year but we haven’t been doing very much. We have been making some new songs and we started rehearsing in April 99 with a new drummer, but he’s out now. Then it was just Infernus and me. A lot of line-up changes but I hope this line-up will last." Are you going to have anything special on stage? "No, I don’t think so actually, becaue we are gonna warm-up for Morbid Angel and I don’t think we’ll do anything special. We’ll have a very clean brutal show just straightforward old styled kind of black metal show with corpse paint and blood. Nothing more. Perhaps later when we have the ability to make a show, we’ll try to do something really good." How is your life on the tour, only partying? "Eh, yes (laughs). Well usually there’s lots of partying. It’s really great. We have been touring in Germany for a couple of times and it’s such a nice place to party and to have a nice time. You meet a lot of ok people and of course you meet a lot of jerks too, but that’s ok. And we’ve been lucky with the bands we’ve played with. They are great guys. I’ve always been a big fan of Morbid Angel , especially the old stuff and the new album is pretty good, so it’s gonna be great to meet these guys." What does the title mean? "Well, incipit means here starts or here begins. It’s actually taken from Friedrich Nietzsche’s "Thus spake Zarathustra" but anyway it means here starts something completely different or the opposite, you know it’s year 2000. We are Gorgoroth and we haven’t changed much. It just has a better production, better sounds and not Polish shit sounds, you know what a lot bands have nowadays. It’s very brutal." Is it in the same style as "Destroyer"? "Well, it’s different. Some songs are very fast and some are more slower kind of songs, more brutal like Slayer. One of the songs is like Burzum, a bit slow and very monotous. I think that if you like Norwegian black metal, you’ll like it." Did you use synth a lot? "No, it’s not very much and not Dimmu Borgir kind of synth or something like that. It’s very low and in the background and more like kind of soundasex. It’s not anything a chord shit, if you know what I mean aaaah(sings high). You know Ivar from Enslaved helped us out with it and he’s a very clever man." I heard that it’s one step closer towards commercialism. "Yes I heard so too." So you agree? "Well, in one way I can agree. It’s something like, eh..." Easier to get into? "Yeah. Well the sound is cleaner but we’ve done now what we’ve always done. So I agree on the sound thing, but we haven’t become more commercial, we’er not selling us out. We’d like to make the songs more listenable , so you can hear what we’re doing. We make music that people should be able to listen to." Was it intentional? "With thew sound? No not actually. We wanted to have more... you know if you have a lot distortion when you play the guitar, it won’t be more brutal. It’s just gonna be more messy. And if you play like especially live it becomes a problem, because then it will be very annoying to listen to. So that’s the main reason why we chose Sunlight, you know the old death metal feeling. We just did it for ourselves, really heh and we just wanted to have another sound. You know, but it’s not Dismember kind of sound. It’s still Gorgoroth – total Gorgoroth." It was really surprising of you to chose Sunlight "Yes(laughs). It was very unpopular in 93-95. At the time nobody would go to that place. But you know Darkthrone’s first album was recorded in Sunlight. So and it’s very good studio, very nice place to be and very good people to work with. We work with a guy called Jukka. And it was really great." Were you thinking about Abyss? "Yes, we were thinking about Abyss actualy. We did the destroyer in Abyss. But they didn’t have any time for us, you know it was totally booked. But they have actually a really cool sound like with War and they have really cool sounds. The guy at Nuclear Blast said that we could go to Germany to record it with one studio on there, but I don’t like them that much. The studios often are very overproducedand the sound is too smooth, you know. Not brutal at all, just very sentimental and shitty sounds and not good at all. So that’s the reason why we tried to find some place ourselves. And then we thought about Sunlight, you know. Nobody goes there anymore. And the people at NB agreed and said "Yeah try that one" and we were happy about Sunlight. The next time we will try something else, I think. It’s ok to try something new." Have you this time made any music for it? "Yes, I made the title track and I’ve made couple of other songs that more like me and Infernus kind of did together. So I’ve done two half songs and one total song. The rest of the songs are made by Infernus." Why didn’t he do anything for "Destroyer"? "Well, he made most of the music. I think I made two songs. It says so in the back of it, you know." What about Telnes and Tiegs... "Yeah that’s right. I’m Telnes and Infernus is Tiegs. Those are our surnames and Pest wrote most of the lyrics." Shit, you made that just to fuck with the listeners mind. "(laughs) yeah, you could say so ,hehe." Why did you made "Destroyer" in the way that like almost every guy plays every instrument? "It was a lot of experimenting on that album. It was very strange because one of the songs is from 94. The one with Frost on drums. So..." What the hell are you doing? "Ah, okay, sorry I’m picking up the songs. It was a bit hard, because we played three songs live in the studio. And "Destroyer" was the last song, which we made for the album. It was the one I made with a drum machine. So it was always very different situation. We didn’t record it once at the same time. We had the ability to go to Grieghallen when we wanted to, so like most of the time it was just me and Infernus going there and you know he played drums on two of the tracks and I played all the guitars. We didn’t have any boundaries that you know now you’re going to play this and then he’s going do that. We just tried things mostly because of the spirit and atmosphere of the writing and it was possible to do it." Did you do "Satanas" in the same way? No ,we did it as more like a band but there’s one song where Infernus plays everything and did all the vocals." Have you planned any video? Well, I think if we have the opportunity. But if we are going to make a video it must be really good, because there are a lot of shitty videos and nothing is more annoying than a band you really like doing a pathetic video. Nothing is worse than that. I think that most of the black metal videos are pretty boring. I like Burzum’s Dunkelheit, that’s a cool video. So if we have the opportunity and the money we’ll do it. We just do what we wanna do. We did a recording from Wacken and we’ve been using that as a kind of promotional video and it’s very roughly mixed and it has bad sounds. But that works pretty good for Gorgoroth (laughs)." Weren’t you earlier were supposed to make two videos? "Yes, that’s true. You know Infernus and another guy went to England with a guy called David Palser.
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