interview with The Sarcophagus

What´s the name of your band? The Sarcophagus

How was the band formed? A good friend’s band was formed in 1996 by me and Thyrouth who is not in the band now.

Can you tell about your band? Turkey’s one of the oldest Black Metal band wandering on earth since 1996

Where are all band members from?/Who does what in the band? Niklas Kvarforth (vocal) Nahemoth (guitar) Frostmourne (bass) Oktay (Drums)

What was the ambitions of the band when you started? We were just planning to release the cool albums to spread out disease to the whole world.

Could you explain your music to someone that haven't heard you? It is anatolian raw black metal influenced by Chaos

Where was your first gig?

It was a local gig in Ankara, Turkey

Where was the latest gig?

The last one was in İzmir, Turkey

Who writes your songs?/Who writes the music who writes lyrics? I and our old band member Thyrouth is writing the lyrics and they are about mainly chaos and evil forces.

Who has the best since of humor in the band? What's good/bad with the band?/What genre do you feel you are? I think the only bad thing is all members are working in companies so we  are not doing rehearsals much often and album releasing period is very long.

Do you write your own material or mainly covers? Our own material

Have you made any albums?/If yes what are they? A self made album Infernal hordes of the ancienttimes, an album form Osmose Productions called Towards The Eternal Chaos and preparing the new one now.

Do you have any clips on YouTube? Not yet, for the new album song maybe

How old are you?/What got you started in music? I’m 35 and Frostmourne is 33.We started music around 14-15

At what age did you start playing? 14-15

How old were you guys when you first stood on stage? We were around 20

What year was the band started? 1996

Best/worst gig you've played? We just played in a few gig, most of them was ok

What places will you be playing in in the imidate future? It may be any country that people still believe Bm is the wrathful darkest music

Where have you played from then till now? The Sarcophagus is not a live band.We prefer not to play live but in recent times we played in some local shows.

Witch band is the best you´ve seen? Emperor, Belphegor and Dark Fortress is cool bands

Have you had any bigger tours from start to now? No but maybe this year

How big crowds do you usually play for? Not for big crowds but true less people who understand it

What are the plans for the rest of the year? Releasing the new album and then touring maybe

What are your goals with your music? Our goal is not being a big band.We are just making music because it makes us happy and only goal is spread The Sarcophagus disease to whole world and share it with the metalheads.

Is it easier to get your inspiration from older bands or from bands more modern? The Sarcophagus gets the inspiration only form the old band and old releases but this doesn’t mean that we will not include different thing into our music.

What are your sources of inspiration? Books about secret arts, chaos, night & woods

What's the first step when making a new song? First step is spiritually being ready for the new stuff and mostly the new guitar riffs define the rest.

How do you feel about the downloading of music instead of buying albums? To be honest it is good to reach all bands and albums by downloading because it is not always easy to find and buy them in huge scene, on the other hand it is a disadvantage for the labels and the bands because if everybody downloads it freely then who needs spend large amount of money for recording and publishing the albums

What would be your greatest fears for the future?

Fear is for the weak so being strong makes you successfull.

When you are on stage, what do you fear most then? I haven’t thought about it but severing of the guitar string would be terrible.

Have you been part of any other projects? I made additional vocals in some other band projects

Have you been in any other bands? Frostmourne is still playing with Turkish band Raven Woods.I am also the old member of the same band.I also played with some BM bands in Turkey

What would you do if there was no music? I would be a photographer

How important are your fans? We are sharing all the darkest things inside us only with them

What's the funniest/most memorable thing a fan has done for you? During  90’s all the correspondings were being made by mail and we were receiving mails including bloody letters, funny and cool drawings.

How often do you rehearse? Once a week

Where do you rehearse? In our friend’s studio in Ankara

Name 2 of your own songs you like at the moment? Age of demons and Misanthropic

What do you feel is the best live band you've seen? Watain

Do you have any webpages? Only official one is facebook now.

How do you view the music in durty of today? It is the fate of all the music genres that, at the end they became popular.Black metal also became trend.It is in a very different condition since the beginning.Hundred thousands of bands existed in the scene and most of them doesn’t know about music and especially black metal and new good albums are very rare, I can not find a unique staff to listen and old band’s albums are very ordinary. On the other hand there are still great bands dare to listen.  

What advice would you like to give other bands? We have no advice, everyone knows what is ok for themselves

What are the biggest obstacles for a band?  If the band is not working with a label and manager, financial problems to promote their music

What is best/worst with playing the clubs? Stages are mostly small and most of them doesn’t have backstages

Tell us about upcomming gigs and why we should be at them? They are not clear now but if you be there then you must prepare yourself for the wrath of elder gods.

What is your favorite crappy instrument? All of them is ok for me

Do you have anythingtoadd? Thank you for the interview and big hail goes to the fans all arounf the world.Keep the black flame burning.

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