Rob Tremblay
Necronomicon
Good, pretty busy but it's normal we the new album.
"Unus" means ''One'' in Latin but also ''Alone'' or ''By yourself'', as for the inspiration, I simply keep going with the progression of where the band is going. I added a little bit of personal stuff in there though, at the same time I don't try to talk about my life specifically but more how and why things happen a certain way and also the big picture of why things are the way they are.
Well beside "Cursed MMXIX", those lyrics are really old style Lovecraftians, I stick to the band's concept pretty much. I do have to admit that this album is a little .... darker in a way.
Interesting that you say that because it is already there. The way I write lyrics is open to interpretation, it is not something that is strictly "occultism''. Maybe for some people it doesn't seem like it, but I take time to see the different way to say things so it mean 1, 2 , 3 or 4 different things. It all depend on at which state the person stand as for personal evolution and understanding of the meaning of life and the universe.
To be honest, I don't really make an effort to ''try '' doing that, it just happens. For me when I add those elements of Black or Death or even the orchestral parts, it's just because it's the way I hear it in my head. I don't sit down practice for hours building songs, it all appear in my head out of nowhere, I take my guitar and play it, that's how it's been since day one. As for the step forward, it's hard to say but for me I just do what I have to do and don't ask myself too much, if it feels right its where we are going and that's it.
I don't see it like a challenge. If people want to do complex music find by me, that's not what I'm about. I don't feel the need to prove anything, I play music, if others want to do stuff that sound like mathematics it's their choice. There is no challenge here, I don't feel any pressure what so ever I simply do what I have to do, nothing more nothing less.
Its intensity, its emotions, its darkness maybe but from another point of view it's the production. The focus of that album is at the same time rawer and more refined in many aspects. But at the end its the listener that decides, some will like it, others won't.
No, no one else is writing any music or do any arrangements but me. I used to not like that, I literally hated that back in the days but I guess I got used to it and it became something natural.
I personally think that these days' people have access to techniques and stuff like that is more easily than before, where musicians like me who come from a shitty background had to learn the hard way if you parents weren't rich. So since everyone is pretty much in the same boat now they play the challenge game, who's the craziest and more technical. People now learn in weeks what it had taken years to develop and by doing so, they don't understand the full meaning of what is music, they do it because it's how things are done nowadays. It becomes sterile and emotionless, there is no soul at all. In short, less is more.
I mostly look at the album as one big image. Well ''Cursed MMXIX'' makes me laugh a lot to be honest since it's a song that totally ''don't fit '' in a way because it's a remake of a song on our first 1991 demo. "Paradise Lost" is really a personal song, probably the most personal song I ever wrote, but I think my favorite is "Vox Draconis", it's the groove in it that really make a difference for me, groove is so important because there so much feeling and it goes with everything that lives, it's not too fast or too slow. I'm saying that but again I see the album as a whole.
It was chosen because we thought it was the song that ''aged'' the best from that demo. OK, yes it totally looks like a dog in the middle of a bowling alley, but I think in a way we still hear the kind of groove we had going back in the days. We actually really enjoyed playing it in studio, to be honest, it was a lot of fun and also it a way to celebrate or 30 years by adding one from the start on the latest release.
We recorded the album at ''Silver Wings'' studio in Montreal, the guy there, Jonathan Levasseur, is amazing and really knows what he is doing, really there's no fucking around there. As for the mix that's a different story. We decided to move away from the previous method of mixing that was more traditional and decided to go with a more modern approach. We needed someone who had the knowledge and experience to do so and there was one name always coming back in the picture, ''Logan Mader''. We feel blessed to been able to work with someone like that, someone of top of is art and in perfect control of what he is doing.
I heard rumors that there was something going on but I thought it was kind of a joke going around until I came face with the fact that it wasn't. Seeing that thing was really stunning and jaw dropping since it's actually a big engraved Metal plaque. Yes, Metal should be seen as something that changed a lot in our world. Metal musicians are, for the most part, more dedicated to their art and less driven by fame and money, even if it happens they usually stay grounded and are more in touch with what's happening in a human level. We are still the marginal and the misunderstood after all, this time we are still the beasts.
Yes, we did twice already and the reactions were totally amazing, looks like people are digging the new stuff a lot. So I'm really hyped for the next tour.
Well for sure we will have another album out by then. Bigger is a different idea because I do what I have to do and make things roll with what I have. Of course everyone wants to have more success and all that but it's not something that is present in my mind at the moment.
Well first we hit the road from October 22nd to November 24th with Belphegor and Suffocation in USA. As for EU we started to look for next years but nothing solid yet can be announced, we are open to proposition of course.
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