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Head of the Demon is a band that is out to create dark metal without the confines of genre. We'll use whatever we feel that enhances the songs and pretty much don't care about any rules or any genre. The only rule is to follow our musical inspiration. Just recently we released our debut album on LP ourselves and CD on Ajna Offensive. I guess that's pretty much it, short and concise. If I took it in Greek I don't think you'd understand me though, no other Greek speaking person either for that matter.

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He, he, well, I have been working and rehearsing the songs for the Head of the Demon album. Worked with music in general from another point, with simpler recordings and things like that. Experimenting with sounds and just exploring that side. But I have also kept a promise I made to myself a long time ago to submit deeper into my interests within the occult.

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That is correctly observed by you. It is very good working with him and together we are extremely efficient. No bullshit so to speak. I believe that we both find it very inspiring to work together and we are keen on really experimenting with the ideas and have plenty of them. Also we are high school mates and go back quite some time. Come to think about it I have only played in one band where he hasn't been the drummer.

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Yes and no. I can adapt my playing style but not always my writing style. Some styles like Death and Black are easier for me because I have always written riffs like that. But I find it harder for genres that I haven't been much into.  But my advantage is that I can view a genre from outside when writing music and having weird ideas about it.

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I know that many have referred to these bands in connection to the album. And to a certain degree I think it is the reference frame of the listener. I am not saying that this is wrong. But there isn't any band in particular that has influenced Head of the Demon. Rather it is a vision that I have sought out to recreate and illustrate through music. We experimented quite a bit to get there and with a determination to reach it we changed tons of things. Like taking away double bass drums, tuning up the guitars, removing more than half of the distortion and several other details. But of course the mentioned bands together with many other have shaped my musical creativity and taste.

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I agree with it and we have tried to make it mesmerizing, hypnotic and monotonous in order to reflect the vibe we felt guided by. But it's not wholly that we decided to do it in a certain way. Rather this is how the music was written and came out after working with it. We just followed where it directed us more or less.

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The idea came rather automatically and wasn't rationally decided upon. For the past two or three years and during the period where I wrote much of the material I listened to Lovecraft stories each and every night more or less. This resulted in a certain feeling and of course dreams and encounters that somehow spawned the concept of the album. However, I wish to stress that it isn't his stories literally that are the inspiration. Rather it is the worlds, feelings and emotions they manage to stir up in me. Terror, dread, doom, metaphysical darkness and evil as represented by the ancient ones together with the witches, black magic, the supernatural and eerie. But I'd say that the Chthulu-mythos never has been gone so I wouldn't call it a comeback.

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We recorded and mixed in sessions in a studio and then also used simpler means for some recordings. Like rehearsal spaces and home environment. The latter foremost for Tibetan singing bowls, mantras, chants and the likes. The studio we used doesn't really have a name but is held by a guy called King Kalle. We did have good timing though since he had just purchased an analog tape recorder which we could use together with some digital recordings.  It was a long process, the recording that is, since we did it in sessions and also mixing during a longer period of time.  But it was meant to be like this I assume because the result is very satisfying.

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We kept a very low profile with the band up until we had something recorded to show up for it. So when we decided on recording a full length to start with we also decided to do it ourselves all the way up to releasing it. So the vinyl version of the album we released on our own. When it was more or less on its way to the pressing plant I had sent samples of it to some friends. Tyler being one of them and he wanted to co-operate with us. Since the record was more or less being pressed we asked if he would be interested in releasing a CD-version of the album. He was and here we are. The co-operation has worked really well and we are very happy to have a label of Ajna's character working with us.

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Yes, but they are very initial so not much to say about it yet. But we do have some new material that we are working with and we'll see where it guides us. It's quite the process from start to finish and currently we hardly have started yet. We don't really lack the ideas, rather the opposite. It's just a matter of picking the gems.

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We are not strangers to the idea. But practically it is not possible right now. We are short of musicians and the singer resides in Liverpool for the time being. So it isn't really the best time to start doing gigs. Which is why we also are focusing on writing new material and outlining ideas for a follow up.

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To be honest with you I don't know. I have gotten this question a lot and have said that I don't think I will create a band in the vein of Kaamos again. Because I have done the best I can with Kaamos and it won't be better than that. But if I get the chance to play in a Death Metal band where I am foremost a musician and not a driving force then maybe. Like what I did for Dead Congregation's mini-tour in Germany for example.

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- Funeral Mist, Tangerine Dream, Master's Hammer, Sabbath Assembly, Reveal, Goblin, Tormentor, Samael, Venom, Negative Plane, I guess this is what I have been listening mostly to lately.

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Efcharisto poli!