Pawel Marzec aka Sonneillon
Blaze Of Perdition
Yes, there are so many interviews I already stopped counting. Something quite new for me, but I don't complain. The album's release is coming closer, there are big plans for live activity, everything's looking good so far.
Metal Blade reached out to us. Our deal with Agonia was already over after two albums and we were thinking what's next - to sign a new one with them or look somewhere else. Metal Blade showed up just in time and their offer was superior, so it was an obvious choice.
As I said there are quite a lot interviews to answer, so I guess the promotions is going the way it should, but I'm not that focused on people's expectations to be honest. People may or may not expect whatever they like, but it's our own ideas, plans and goals that come first and that's what we focus on. I'm pretty sure it will be a divisive album, it already is, judging from the reactions I'm aware of, but it's alright in my book. Any surprise is better than no surprise at all if we talk about music.
My lyrics revolve around the dark side of our nature - personal as well as a collective one - and our struggle to maintain the inner balance. I merge my personal experiences and thoughts with more general views on life, death and humanity and form some sort of commentary on the world around us and on the one within.
It's a reworked version of the Christian concept, "The Harrowing of Hell", which is Christ's descent into Hell between the time of his death and resurrection. Inspired by some of Mr. Jungs' thoughts, heart works here as a symbol of our inner world, hidden and unconscious desires, repressed thoughts, passions and the centre of the shadow side of our personalities. The "Harrowing of Hearts" is a symbolical journey inward, to the core of our minds and our personal inferno in attempt to come to terms with it.
Some of them do, some of them are more generally inspired by my reflections on life, death and everything that surrounds me.
I don't know if we have already reached our limits or not, hard to say at the moment to be honest. With each album we do something a little bit different, try new things and find new ways to complement the core of our music. I don't know if I'd call us eclectic, but we surely look for different kinds of expression to keep things satisfying and engaging for us. Our music became more multi-layered with time, but that's a natural effect of infusing it with so many different influences.
I don't really know to be honest. We always try to put as much attention as we can to every element of the whole work. It's not an easy task and involves a lot of trial and error, but if we talk about leaving something behind in favour of different ideas, I think it's quite obvious that we went even further from the rigid foundations of black metal to adorn our music with something from outside the genre, something less obvious and sometimes quite surprising for a band like us.
Madness is actually one of the topics of the album and "With Madman's Faith" title isn't a coincidence. This idea of being torn between the opposites and playing with our own sanity, realizing one's madness and accepting it, is certainly present in my lyrics, so we can say it was very much present, yes, even if not quite intentionally.
There's always some sort of tension and it was probably the most discussed album we have ever recorded, but most of it was related to mixing process, with us brainstorming over the sound of particular elements and trying to reach a satisfying compromise between our personal tastes.
It's taken from Mr. Jung's work. Full quote goes as follows: "I hold together what Christ has kept apart in himself and through his example in others, since the more the one half of my being strives toward the good, the more the other half journeys to Hell". It's all about uniting the conflicting powers within us and understanding the duality of our nature by embracing and coming to terms with both sides of it.
We don't write the new music yet, so I can't really tell you what's next, but personally I'm a big fan of atmospheric, haunting and eerie melodies, so I certainly hope so. There's something really attractive to me in merging a beautiful melody with oppressive atmosphere.
I'm not the music author, so I might not be the best guy to tell you if it was a challenge, but it's certainly one of the most evocative and poignant songs on the album. It combines so many different ways of expression it's constantly surprising throughout the whole thing, while being a pretty long one. I think it's one of the best BoP songs, gathering together some of the most important parts of our music. It also includes one of my favourite moments of the whole album.
"Suffering Made Bliss", "The Great Seducer" and probably "Transmutation of Sins". But I would probably list other ones the other day, so you know, it's constantly changing.
This cover was in our plans for many years and we decided to do it after Metal Blade told us they were going to release a single EP. It was a suitable idea to fill the B-side with a cover of such a classic. I don't think we were planning to do other songs, we are not that huge fans of covers actually, but this one is special.
That's not up to me to tell. I did my job, the rest remains in the album itself and people who might or might not find it interesting enough to give it enough attention. It's an entity of its own now. What I can tell is that it's an album made with whole lot of ambition, emotions and honesty from us.
Hopefully to grow bigger and better and continue releasing albums that make us proud.
There are many live shows in plans, but I can't share anything before it gets official.
Thank you!
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