Tiziano Sbaragli
Angel Martyr
Hello there, glad about it too! Well nothing special, as many people in these bad times I just trying to go ahead, working, playing my music and spending time in my passions.
Ohm… not exactly unfortunately! I think we still have a long way to go for coming back in a normality mood! The virus is still alive; it keeps on killing people and destroying job places. The sanitary emergency is not as bad as the previous wave, but we're still not out of this hell! Honestly, I am not positive at all about it.
I think people easily forget things in general… I mean, we saw military trucks bringing out from the city of Bergamo so many coffins of many victims of this virus and last summer many people have been on holidays, discos, restaurants, etc. without wearing any mask… yes we will come back to normality, maybe some rules will remains to prevent future disasters like this (I hope so). Of course I miss concerts, being on stage, travelling and going to metal pubs and discos.
I usually take my inspiration from my living, my readings and my reflections. The title came out from my mind after I relived some mental trips about situations that make a person sink in a deep sense of guilt and shame. So I created a character that I made to experience these negative feelings, following lived episodes, certainly much more serious than mine! Then I made myself a question: which kind of sense of guilt could a person feel that would generate terrible actions in case of a new sense of humanity rising? How many heavy are all voices he would hear inside his head and in his silent moments? I think sometimes being alone with our inner silence could be very painful as if ten thousand voices are screaming inside your mind.
More than dark arts I would rather speak of alternation between light and darkness in the human spirit. I would say that the record takes more into consideration the classic question "Is a man born good or evil? And for what reason?". Certainly also in this record there are elements taken from the dark arts and from theology, an example is the last song "My name is legion" in which I tried to give another interpretation to this passage from the Old Testament! Very often religious people are too blind for giving a different vision of that who has been declared "Untouchable"…
I just found those stories funnys heheheh….. That's all!
Yes I do, and I also used my music to reply to some inner questions
For sure I am not that kind of person who regardless say no to all modern stuff, anyway, yes I think that Traditional metal is the Real metal! I think that about this album, and in Angel Martyr in general, we never prefix something like "we must play that way" or something similar! We play what we feel, our attitude is classical, and all the songs are the proof!
Well I honestly believe that evaluation is a task for the fans! Although we often hear that classic metal is dead, but I still see some very good bands at the Underground level, and beyond! Visigoth are actually my favorite one! What I hope is that this record can carve out a place in the heart of some lover of the genre, that the CD can be put several times into the player without taking too much dust on a shelf! However, I can say that I am very satisfied with the final result, with the evolution that "Nothing Louder Than Silence" highlights compared to its predecessor "Black Book Chapter One", and I think this is a more objective than personal opinion!
I think that the riffing is most mature, same thing for voice and guitars, the sound is most accurate and the tech level is definitely higher respect to te past.
Wow what a great compliment, thank you so much! Sure, Biff influenced me a lot, but honestly I think that my favorite singers, who mostly influenced me, are Dickinson, Shelton, Hansen and Dio m/
I believe it is actually a universal principle! Life is dynamic, in constant evolution, and the society in which we live every day becomes faster and faster. Just think of the new generations who manage to discover hundreds of bands in a very short time, since they have everything within reach of touch screens! People my age will remember how harder it was to discover new bands by setting aside weekly allowance to buy new records! Following this principle that I have just explained, it is clear that even the public's need to listen to new sounds comes over time…. it's normal! Just as the human race has evolved over the centuries, music has also had its own evolution and whether we like it or not, it will continue to have it!
He is definitely a skin ripper, he just played death metal in Profanal and heavy metal in Axevyper. He gave a most powerful and technical sound to the band. He has a good fantasy direction that has been very helpful for caring the arrangements of the songs!
I could write a book about it hehehe! Firstly, I recorded the guitars just after surgery; I lived in a camper for 15 days in front of the studio in the height of summer. I couldn't stand up and I recorded the entire record almost lying on a sofa! After a couple of months of recovery I started with the vocals. However I had to deal with my job and the two hours' drive distance between my city and that of the recording studio (the Paraphernalia studio)
In short: I finished work in the late afternoon, got into the car and ate a sandwich quickly. After that I recorded for 3 hours, once I finished singing, returning, halfway through I was dying to sleep! So I always ended up, or almost sleeping in the car, and in the early morning I would return to work around 7:30 … all this for about 2 weeks hehehehehe. What can I say? I won heheheh
Honestly, I didn't fix it in my mind to make an old school record, it sounds like that because my style belong to the ancients, but I never give any rules to myself about composition! I can say I am satisfied about the result… but we can do better!
The song talks about the difficult coexistence between light and darkness within the human soul! It is possible to always live under the sign of light, but life will always give you the opportunity to bring out that darkness that perhaps you did not even think you had! It's a song that partly concerns me, since I'm part of the zodiac sign of Gemini
I remember when I wrote this song I was at home in front of a bottle of Glen Grant, I was probably not in the best mood as you can guess … so I picked up the guitar and started strumming some furious picking! I made the riff but I was not sure about the lyrics for a long time. One day I watched a YouTube documentary about the dwarf Abhartach and his evil tyranny…. Somebody says that this Irish legend inspired Bram Stocker to write his masterpiece Dracula! I simply loved at first sight the story and I just said "ok, that's what I need for this song"…. So just go and read something about it!
Definitely "Climbing the Walls of the Abyss", it's a kind of confession about personal problems of insane dependences and it perfectly describes my character: strong in the depths but fragile on the surface.
For sure trying to recover the gigs we lost and fixing new ones to promote the new record!
Sure, I have almost all material that a new record needs, we will see how to use as best all time we have during this bloody pandemic
I was really glad to participate and very honored you appreciate our music! Cheers, enter the Martyr's force!
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