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Xeper
Hello there. Thank you for your interest in Xeper. My pleasure. I am fine, and you?
Well, you must think that this is not our main job in our regular life. My life is not focused on composing music. Music should come from the heart, and when it is the right moment it comes out. I can also say, I've been busy with Gorgoroth in the last 7 years, plus our studio recording was quite busy with other bands, plus our special guests were busy, plus anyway we had to collect money, etc... It is not so easy to record a good album. And trust me, this is a good album, at least for me. And this is the most important thing for me. After that, I can also tell you that I did guest appearance on the forthcoming album of the horror heavy metal band Hell Theater. I guess I am quite active as musician in many ways.
I guess this pandemic shattered a piece of many careers worldwide, not just mine. Of course all this situation sucks, but what can I do or say? I took my time to live my personal life, job, and finish this album. And now that this album is going to be released, I will start to work on new material.
Xeper is the highest expression of what I feel deep inside myself. It's my son/daughter. Hard to explain, but Xeper will go on till I die. Here where I live it's hard to find good musicians with the same good feeling for playing black metal, that's why I play with intercontinental persons, so I am sure I will have the best work from the good musicians that I like and have good feeling with.
I've known Jorn for a few years and I can say he is a very good guy with a lot of truly dedication on what he does, so I am very happy to have signed with Soulseller Records. I think it will be another good step for the band. We've worked with smaller labels with smaller distribution before. Soulseller Records distributes worldwide, and that is a great thing for us.
The proper translation is "Under the inspiration of Satan". We perceive this dark current which inflates the human being who, inspired by the Luciferian will, is guided through its feelings and deeds.
Yes, it is, in the scene Satan takes the form of a serpent. The serpent is a powerful connection to the telluric forces and the secrets of life and renovation of the self. Also, you can find the references about the serpent and the garden of Eden in the ancient Sumerian tablets – many religions have their own reference about it.
I think this is a theological topic which one should explore by himself by proper readings and studies. I prefer to stay focused on the album.
No, it has nothing to do with the pandemic.
We used to write the previous material quite fast. This time we focused on every single detail in order to obtain exactly what we meant to create.
I think the riffs I wrote are good - even if some of them could sound quite predicted, they're not so easy to perform actually (think about the difference to many depressive black metal riffs) and some parts beat 250-260bpm so performing the instrumental parts can be challenging. I think performing fast music can be hard, but performing a fast kind of music you wrote it down by yourself is a more interesting challenge. In addition, we've been honoured by many talented collaborations worldwide we couldn't have imagined to have in the previous years, artists whose talent and musical sensitivity could enrich our work, to whom we're very grateful.
Well, despite the previous experiences of all musicians recording in few sessions in one studio, we found out that working on distance can pay well as long as you have the patience to follow every step. I mean, we had to wait for every artist to send us back their contribution in order to obtain the result we had in mind. But it was worth waiting for.
It was back in 2000 when I listened to V. Einride for the first time playing in Agnen by Keep of Kalessin. I've been enraptured by his drumming since then and that's when I started to wish for a collaboration with him. Finally, I had the chance to meet him in 2012: we performed live with Gorgoroth together while he was touring with Keep of Kalessin. I consider Maelstrom as a majestic drummer. The choice to have V, Einride as drummer is just the coronation of a 20 years long dream of collaboration.
The inner core of "Riding the spiral of Lilith" originally simply came out to life just like the other songs. Nonetheless, it's not been a static but a dynamic process of creation, since this creature kept on growing through the years with the fundamental collaboration of various artists such as Mantus and Bob Axx which had the musical sensitivity to express musically the idea and atmosphere we had in mind to make the sound and meaning enriched and structured.
I can say you could probably find thrash metal echoes in our next musical work, since I've been listening to 70-80-90's bands since I can remember – I also listen to other genres than metal music, which can influence my composition as well, artists from the 70's, 80's and 90's of many different genres.
I've been listening to extreme metal since I was 13-years-old. Honestly, I write music only for myself. I keep on listening to my creations throughout the years without complains, so I can say I am satisfied with that. Regarding "The Hidden Genesis" video, I think it could be a good idea – we'll see what it has to come.
Speaking of this times specifically, I think no one can be assured about what is yet to come. Nonetheless, we want to focus on the promotion of "Ad numen Satanae" and possibly on new material.
We'd like to thank you for your interest in us and your interview. We hope you like our latest album.
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