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Last Updated on 03:32 PM by Nikos Nakos
Disolvo Animus are not new in the business and they really don’t need any special introduction. Having in the making their new effort, we needed to hear their thoughts and anything else they are planning for the future.
We welcome you to Metal Invader. We would like a few words about Disolvo Animus;
We started in 2006 in Athens with an initial core of two people who widened to five. From then we had various changes in our lineup. 2016 finds us with three members: Animus, Dagwn and Hryshaorr.
Your last full-length album was back in 2012. Why was there such a big gap?
You’re right, since the end of ‘13 we began composing new songs, after some time we decided to enter the studio to write some of them which were completed for some releases. Unfortunately it was then that 3 out of our 5 members decided to leave. So, many things went back and the band actually did a restart which implied deleting all tracks written by people who no longer belong to our band. All of this, combined with the search for new members, brought us to the big gap in which you refer.
I know that we are expecting brand new material soon … I hear something about basements and too much work! Is this taking you to the well known paths of blackened death or surprises await us?
Indeed we are working in my basement where we are preparing the new material, we have completed more than half of the record and we have a pre-production to have an idea of in which direction we are going to move.
It’s not blackened death anymore and that it because from now on the composition has moved entirely on me and a bit at the band’s drummer where we are flirting more with black metal, the compositions that you can listen to the split are distinctive of this sound that we launched together with Enshadowed, also we are convinced that our music is richer and more meaningful. We strive for variety in riffing that creates a feeling in the record and also be complicated but not through a high speed, that in the end it doesn’t give anything to the listener. We are working on the grounds that every track is an expression of ourselves and that we love 100% every track of the album and that is why we got rid way too much riff that we thought that didn’t work out, just right with what we want to do.
When is the new album going to be out in stores and with which record label?
There is no label and therefore it is still unknown when it will be released. This is good in a sense because we do what we have in our minds with neither time nor creativity limitations.
Greece 2016, how difficult is to survive as a band in this period and come out from this unscathed?
In the financial difficulties I won’t even bother to mention, I think it’s quite obvious. However the development of the Greek extreme scene is prominent. We have bands that are killing it in the underground scene whom create gems from black, death, thrash to heavy metal and prog, we have festivals throughout Greece with purely Greek bands, there are online magazines which are doing a great job promoting the Greek scene and there is a crowd behind that which supports the Greek effort. In conclusion, you cannot get out unscathed because budget is all about surviving and possibly your band will come in second place, but you can at least try.
Usually, when there is a new release this portends a tour even if it is a mini one. So is it also true in this case?
Yes, this is the case, we want to play and the world to get to know our music. With the new album we will do everything in our hand to play live in Greece and even for a mini tour abroad.
Though you haven’t released a full-length since 2012, you have been around and recently you released along with Enshadowed a 12inch split vinyl. How did you come up with this cooperation?
The tracks for the split existed and Enshadowed are good friends and this is a band that we listen and we dig, so when we proposed them to do the split, they agreed immediately. We didn’t struggle much to find a label, because the guys from RAZORBLEED PRODUCTIONS are also good friends and they volunteered to help us. So, us three got together and made this record happen, for which we are very proud of it and musically (the tracks of both bands) and as a complete result (sound, cover artwork design by César Valladares Fernández) is even better than our initial expectations.
You released a lyric video for the song “Of Serpent and Man”, taken from your split. Is it in your plans to release a video from your new effort?
The lyric video is the work of Stratos Kountouras and we are very satisfied. In the new album will be very likely to create something, but we would like the song and the video itself to tie together aesthetically to have something to say and not to do something with no reason. Essentially, it’s not necessary to release a video, we would like to get something done nicely that will be an expression of us but also for the fans to like.
2015 was a year that at least the Metal genre gave us masterpieces. The same seems to be happening this year. Tell us some albums that you digged from the new releases.
‘15 had great material from huge bands, like Slayer, Nile, Dødheimsgard, Enslaved, Arcturus and lots of others that right now don’t come to mind, however for us it was also 2014 that some releases had marked us.
At the moment we are listening: The Deathtrip, Den saakaldte, Varathron, Djevel, Mgla, Nettlecarrier, Horna, Ascension, Secrets of the moon, Katavasia, Yuri Gagarin and the list is infinite…
Thank you very much, it was nice chatting with you, I leave the last to you. I hope to talk to you soon.
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