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| I ONLY HAVE YOUR "MUTANT STAR" ALBUM, DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER ALBUM AFTER THAT OR IS THERE ONE IN THE WORKS? No, this is the last one. As I said when presenting our history, we have two recordings: "MS" & "TWP" (the second one is also placed in the form of mp3-full version-in the CD-Rom track of "MS", so the disc contains our complete opus; 1.5 hour of DEMIMONDE). The thrid material is not in the works, we sleep now as a band, we have not one simple idea & we don't meet each other. But it doesn't mean, that the comeback is not possible & that we don't know how to continue. We spoke about it few times after the split & we have some basic ideas, how the evolution of the DEMIMONDE music could continue. I am sure we will surprise you once again. Haha. THAT ALBUM WAS RELEASED A LITTLE WHILE AGO, BUT HOW WELL WAS IT PERCIEVED BY THE UNDERGROUND SCENE? The "MUTANT STAR" was actually released 2 years ago (22th of November 2000...11-22-00, do you see the magic of numbers?), so we gathered a bunch of reactions until now... Since now, honestly, I don't know about any bad review or response. Usually we recieve 95/100, 6/6 or 9/10 points...hahaha... You know, DEMIMONDE probably will never be some band for the masses, we are too much avantgarde & for the specific listeners. But those who were caught & charmed by our music, those who understood it, became very devoted & commited to "MUTANT STAR"... Mainly the journalist appreciate it, because when they must review tens of hundreds of recordings, almost everything sounds similar & they are happy when recieving something different, which steps out from the average & offer some kick to the ass to stereotypes... (I know it very well, as I work as a journalist too...haha) As I read the reviews, I think that there emerged a closed & well selected ring of the intellectual journalists & fans, for whom the album has the cult status, while the rest of the listeners, who prefer the easier music, don't accept it & search for something other... That's the life & that's what we expected. Anyway, we didn't compose it with the idea to be loved by everyone. First of all, the music must be loved by ourselves, that's the only criterion for us. We are not searching for a quantity of fans, we prefer the quality...hahaha. I think (and hope) that "MUATNT STAR" recieved more attention than the previous album. Usually the people tells that "MS" is more mature, more original & interesting than "TWP", but I know also about the "more conservative" fans of DEMIMONDE, who still prefer "THE WARRIOR'S POETS" music... When I read the reactions of journalists, I think sometimes that our style could be best described as "journalists metal" or "music for the press". Haha. THE CZECH REPUBLIC SEEMS TO HAVE A REALLY GOOD SCENE. WHO ARE SOME OF THE BETTER BANDS, LABELS, ZINES, ETC...? I don't agree with you so much, I don't think that our scene is generally so strong, as some people says, but it is true that we can offer to the world some few excellent & surprising bands... First of all, Czech Republic= country of sick & brrrrrutal Death/Grind. Some of them are technically perfect with fine ideas & musicianship. I can suggest for example LANIENA MENTIS, INTERVALLE BIZZARE, ALIENATION MENTAL or IMPERIAL FOETICIDE. But the majority of the bands playing this genre here are a little bit boring & stereotypical. Also here (mainly in the eastern part of the country) is a home of sleepy Doom Metal. I don't like the stereotypes & the way how so many bands here play (and copy) the slow Doom or the brutal Death/Grind, so I am glad to play in DEMIMONDE, a band that doesn't sound like a Czech band. (haha) To play a really original & worthy music, without copying anyone other, was our main focus when creating the band. Yes, it is true, that some of the Czech bands offer some strange & unique atmosphere. But this is really a minority; believe me. the rest play a very standard & monotonous music. I hope we reached just with our first material the catagory of the more original & different bands, out of the Czech average; this was always our primary goal. And the second material "MUTANT STAR" was mentioned in tons of reviews as "one of the most creative, experimental & innovative stuff coming from the Czech scene". Me, personally, i am not really happy when DEMIMONDE is compared with the Czech scene, because in my opinion there were always only around 10 original & worth bands here, in time when we recorded both our materials. Haha. I can suggest some few bands from here, who are out of stereotypes, namely FORGOTTEN SILENCE (Jazz-Thrash-Death-Doom fusion), CONTRASTIC (elektro-Grind-HC-Alternative), LIVORES MORTIS (cold dark atmospherical Metal), THE RAYS OF THE SUN (Alternative Doom), VUVR (technical Jazz Death Artrock) etc. These are some fine examples of the few Czech bands that i really like & appreciate... We don't have any big Metal label here, but some smaller who release sometimes some interesting stuff (REDBALCK PROD., SHINDY PROD., EPIDEMIE REC., OBSCENE PROD., etc.) HOW WOULD YOU COMPARE THE CZECH REPUBLIC MUSIC SCENE TO THE SCENE HERE IN THE U.S.? It seems that we have a lot in common. Lots of musicians here adore (and copy) bands like MORBID ANGEL, IMMOLATION, CANNIBAL CORPSE, etc... On the other hand, we are part of the European scene, & that means, that the big part of the Czech Metal scene is focused in playing some more melodic & atmospherical genres of Metal. As i know yet, the majority of the U.S. listeners don't know, that something like Gothic/Doom, atmo-Black, Avantgarde Metal & similar genres can exist. They know usually only Death Metal bands or Nu-Metal bands & they are not able to imagine that here, in Europe, the Metal music sounds differently. When my friend studied in USA, he offered to listen to DEMIMONDE to some of his American friends & they were absolutely confused... They told him that is is for the first time they listen to the similar music, they called it "Opera Metal" & asked how is it possible to play such music...haha. HAS DEMIMONDE PLAYED OUT A LOT? WHAT IS A DEMIMONDE LIVE SHOW LIKE? I'M SURE IT'S QUITE INTERESTING! No, you are not right. DEMIMONDE playing live was (except one or two shows) totally uninteresting! Haha. Of course, it would be nice, if we could use the special clothes, stage design, lightning, projection, performers, etc. during the shows. The answer why we don't have it is simple-money. Just only for our first live presentation of the "MUTANT STAR" (release party in Prague's Rock Cafe), we used a good backing projection & had some nice lights. That's all. After all, DEMIMONDE live is only probably a boring show where tons of people staying on stage try to present live something which is almost impossible to present live... Because our live line-up consisted of nine people, our band was called "Chinese metro". Haha. Generally the live presentation of our music is a "sad chapter" of our existence. During the whole career of DEMIMONDE (more than five years), we played only 10 live shows!!! The reasons are very difficult. F.ex. the size of the stages in the clubs, because the "live-line-up" of DEMIMONDE consisted two guitars, bass, drums, two keyboards, two vocalists, one guy with samples... And not only that the stages were small for us, but also it was a sound chaos. The majority of our live presentations were chaotic regarding the sound, so the people, who didn't know our studio album, also didn't recognize, what we try to play...(haha). Another reason is that such styles as Death/Grind or standard Doom are really very popular here, as I said yet in another answer, & the people (mainly outside the big cities) is very conservative, so we are too much experimental for some of them... I think generally DEMIMONDE is very much supported by a part of Czech fans, but it is only because our studio albums, not the concerts, because we were not able to transpose our music from the album to the stage. (continued...) |
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