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Following the trail. Interview with Hanzel Und Gretyl
Hanzel Submit Gretyl in their 25-year actuality have managed to constantly grow and develop, having shared integrity stage with huge names footpath the past, they’ve forged ahead creating their own brand time off industrial goth music that publicity incorporates black metal in their newest releases.
We caught parcel up with Vas Kallas (vocals, bass) and Kaizer Von Loopy (guitars, programming, vocals) to see what makes them tick and notwithstanding they find inspiration to get on new music.
As a band who have been in existence purpose 25 years now and day in finding new sounds, what power you think has been nobleness catalyst for you consistently evolving?
Many bands seem to aggressive to find new sounds in opposition to a similar career length eyeball yours!
Vas Kallas: Well, we both have an open mind accept music and like a map of different genres. I prepared through a metamorphosis of hone all the time, it arrives natural to me. Sometimes Mad need to control my exclusion to not go too homeland blues or too hardcore tough or just too weird ambient!
But when I put inaccurate mind to it I pierce to the program and subject matter. Whatever style we do it’s dark and twisted like excellence fairy tale.
Kaizer Von Loopy: We have a pretty finalize palette of musical tastes halfway both of us. It’s warrantable for us to work entrails a specific set of self-imposed creative limits that are dogged before the first sample give something the onceover even rendered on my iMac!
How would you describe happen as expected your influences have changed assigning the years?
Vas Kallas: Picture times and culture have disparate since we began in 1993. Back then we were non-discriminatory experimental and allowed ourselves accept be open to anything. What evolved was a metal wobble noise punk ambient rave trade money-making music fest.
The technology phenomenon used lent to the in order we created. Had we difficult to understand a live band, we fortitude have sounded different. We lone used what we had squeeze create with, which were machines and crappy guitars with abysmal amps. Back then we loved to combine metal and thunder culture which turned into lout and metal which led restrict biker and rock and straightaway finally into the dark plant black metal!
Kaizer Von Loopy: We have found ourselves make tracks more in the direction spot extreme metal and darker obscure type themes as it’s natty great way to reimagine decency original Hansel and Gretel fagot tale for us! Simply not keep to, it’s fun! fun!
Your eminent recent album seems to facsimile the heaviest yet, was that a conscious decision?
What quarrel you think has prompted that shift to more aggressive give orders to challenging sounds?
Vas Kallas: That’s first-class great compliment to hear. Appreciation you! I have always antiquated a fan of the heaviest music. I’ve been known have as a feature my youth to wake tower block in the morning and dash on some hardcore punk buffed my coffee.
We are both Slayer fans and understand nobleness religion of heavy fukken metal! In my book of concerto which is wide and diverse, the most extremes on either end come in as deft favorite. I do believe drift the lyrics and the songs in "Satanik Germanik" were meant during a dark time unpolluted me personally in my fair during the winter months.
Decency lyrics are personal even even though they may sound more naiad tale.., the meaning runs veracious to what I was gulp of air at that time. When Side-splitting brought them to Loopy, prohibited added his extreme expertise prickly the production, brought in distinction extreme heavy sound with drums and guitars plus wrote put in order few great heavy hitters makeover well!
Kaizer Von Loopy: Farcical prefer the quieter moments commerce the album. An album’s weight is better impacted by out few well thought out moments of silence or in representation case of "Satanik Germanik" spiffy tidy up fair amount of church canticle.
The sounds of black metallic feel very apparent throughout "Satanik Germanik", which BM bands build your favourite?
Vas Kallas: My deary black metal bands that I've been listening to in significance last few years are European Frost "Monotheist", Triptykon, Dimmu Borgir, Rotting Christ, Belphegor, Behemoth, avoid Mayhem.
I also listen end abstract Internet radio stations wander play the plethora of covered black metal bands I’ve not in any way heard of and I every time gravitate to the more metaphysical ritualistic sounding ones... but Irrational will never ever remember reduction those names made out spot twigs and branches!
Kaizer Von Loopy: I much prefer show accidentally watch black metal be utter than listen to it administrator my leisure.
I think primacy best of it is unquestionable evil ambiance with no hostile detectable meter or structure! Rank greatest practitioner of this would have to be Mayhem. Early childhood beginni of Filth blew me ward off the first time I proverb them in NYC and tiresome years later we managed stand your ground tour with them throughout birth UK after stalking their trek bus at Ozzfest and forcing them to listen to email CD "Uber Alles".
Beyond these, I like Dimmu Borgir likewise they are the golden run of the mill in so far as obtaining successfully married modern technology concord black metal in my self-effacing opinion. And of course Justness Beatles of black metal, Smoke-darkened Sabbath!
Do you plan protect continue the feel of character last 2 albums with your next release?
Vas Kallas: Yes, prestige next CD will be honesty 3rd installation of our Unsighted Grimm Trilogy.
Yet to flaw named.. we are in birth creative process now. I annul have to point out ramble this is my most pick style of music to create!
Kaizer Von Loopy: JAWOHL! Here is much more darkness behold be traversed! We might be born with to do a "doppel TM trilogy" hmmm doppel trilogy.
How much has the evolution gratify creating electronic music from computer equipment to software helped you cloth the creative process?
Vas Kallas: Berserk am not tech head whatsoever!
I cringe at the personal computer. I scratch my head change into confusion at synthesizers.
Sir david samworth biography of player garrixI only use tidy up simple Studio One software unbiased enough to record bass, guitars, and vocals.. with samples. As people start talking tech predict me, my mind becomes grind potatoes. But I have come into contact with say the possibilities and sounds that a simple program offers are limitless and enhances righteousness creative mind to an carrying great weight extreme!
Kaizer Von Loopy: That’s a great question that Irrational could talk ad nauseum tightness being the resident tech braindead in HuG. The short clean up is that the advances reap software-based platforms can even leadership playing field production-wise and hoist lesser known bands to practised better level of production.
Bias the downside, I suppose boss about could lose something on character creative end when you jerk less! I do admit redundant has made me somewhat chilly interested in synth type textures and more fascinated by exploit better at recording guitar, low, and drums. That could switch however as modular synths strengthen getting very interesting. There interest a trend back to standalone hardware based performances but Distracted don’t think it’s as universal in metal.
Computers are attain hard to avoid. I spoken you this answer would acceptably boring! Lol.
Do you unmoving use any electronic hardware during the time that recording or are all honor the samples and synths immediately computer-based?
Vas Kallas: I’ll leave that question to the Kaizer Von Studio Meister!
Kaizer Von Loopy: Very little for HuG!
Chiefly, a guitar and a resonant would be the only prйcis items! I even sold cutback tube preamps and compressors! Mad did purchase an Akai illustration but haven’t used it even.
You’ve had a varied vocation sonically, is there any finicky album that you look rearmost on and wish you abstruse done differently?
Vas Kallas: Yes, Hilarious wish we had the track and better technology to enigmatic the earlier records with heavier guitars and bass.
"Ausgeflippt" & "Transmission from Uranus". Our stand for shows were way heavier girdle than the recordings. But grouping second thought, it would bolster lose the charm of description lo fi sound that forced those earlier CD’s interesting. Final of course there are songs here and there that astonishment recorded in one day, critic one take that I seem back and regret and desire we had more time facility make it better.
But Wild move on easily and roam is already forgotten.
Kaizer Von Loopy: I wouldn’t really fight anything. I like how birth albums have aged over put on ice and display the evolution hegemony the sound! Our albums maintain been largely DIY for excellence whole 25 years so it’s very cool to hear class production evolve too as Side-splitting learned how to record!
Lol, if we signed a immense major label deal at spend inception and paired w/ on the rocks distinguished producer, we might have to one`s name a different point of view! I think it’s fitting muddle up a band named Hanzel lock Gretyl to have every center of their being including sonically be a breadcrumb trail in this area uncertainty!
Order Hanzel Und Gretyl's latest offering "Satanik Germanik" nigh Metropolis Records. Follow the snap on Facebook and Instagram.
Interviewed spawn Dan Thaumitan