interview with Imago Mortis

Can you tell about your band? What´s the name of your band? Where are all band members from? Who does what in the band? Have you made any albums?/If yes what are they? Why did you pick that particular style? What drives a band that isn't all that famous and renowned to try to make a living on their music and to keep playing? The Imago Mortis, come from Bergamo, a city in northern Italy, near the Alps.  The band's name means "Image of Death" and is Latin. The band was formed in 1994 by my will, Abibial bass and vocals and Maelstrom, guitar. The dynamics that led to the birth of the band were our common sensibility to the occult matters and extreme metal. After some adjustments and line-up changes, the band currently consists in me, Scighèra and Faust guitars and Axor on drums. In these 20 years, Imago Mortis produced four demo tapes: "Malleus Maleficarum", "Danza Macabra", "Daemons Vivunt" and "Mors Triumphalis" and through the cult French label Drakkar Productions (Watain, Tsjuder, Grand Belial's Key, Mutilatiion, Vlad Tepes, etc. ...) three albums: "Una Foresta Dimenticata”, "Mors Triumphalis" and "Ars Obscura" and a vinyl EP "Sgàbula". Today like yesterday, our congregation continues its inner path through the study and artistic expression, this is our greatest satisfaction and for this reason we continue our path.

Could you explain your music to someone that hasn't heard you? How would you describe your sound in one sentence? Who writes your songs?/ who writes the music who writes lyrics? What are your sources of inspiration?The Imago Mortis is a band spiritually advanced devotee to the Black Metal sonorities. Our expression is the result of a sound that evokes the old European Black Metal with topics inspired by our geographic area. The themes and lyrics are my matters, the music processing involves all members of the band. Our land has a strong bond with the dark themes and the world of mystery, is an ancient Celtic land where also a ruthless witch hunt occurred and where the population still persists today believing in the beyond, legends and witchcraft. With this strong identity of our artistic path is bound to be beliefs of art and music that is the expression of it. For this reason we have chosen to sing exclusively in Italian, Latin and our Bergamo language.

Where was your first gig? Where was the latest gig? Have you had any bigger tours from start to now? Where do you usually play? How do you get psyched up for a gig? Describe your show, visually and musically? Whats your Pre-show ritual? The Imago Mortis is a band that has always performed live, through our performance we transmit on to the adepts our energy in the maximum of expressiveness. Many people are involved in our show, for us to play live is the same as officiating a ritual, before going on stage we gather in a phase of concentration and unleashing our energy when we play. Usually we perform in small clubs or festivals of extreme metal, we have recently supported the Inquisition in Milan gig with another band, named End. Currently we only had an opportunity to play in Italy and in France, we also had a tour proposed in Europe but it didn’t get realized. We have chosen not to be part of any agency and not pay anyone to play.

How old are you?/What got you started in music? At what age did you start playing? Besides your own music, what genres and bands do you listen to? How often do you rehearse? Where do you rehearse? I'm 36 years old, I was introduced to music as a child playing the guitar. Besides listening to Metal I listen to dark music, folk music and soundtracks. I had some sporadic collaboration with other bands but Imago Mortis remain my main band. We rehearse at my house twice a week.

Do you have any clips on YouTube? Do you have any webpages? How do you feel about the downloading of music instead of buying albums?

Yes, we are present in the web with our official website www.imagomortis.net and our official you tube channel www.youtube.com/user/officialimagomortis, in addition to this we also have facebook: www.facebook.com/imago.mortis. 1994 - www.facebook.com/imago.mortis.94. I personally purchase exclusively physical musical material as demos, CDs and vinyls. We believe that music is an art form and as such should be conceived, even the artwork and the packaging of a record are very important because they complement the artistic expressiveness.

Any pearls of wisdom for all other bands out there? What advice would you like to give other bands? I suggest young bands to believe in their own strength and be daring. There will be negative times, but we must not give up because in the future our efforts will be rewarded, but above all not to be fooled by greedy metal speculators.

What are the plans for the rest of the year? What are your goals with your music?

This year we will celebrate twenty years of activity, November 1st 2014 we will be performing at Live Keller Curno (Bergamo), a metal club in our old town, near the airport of Orio Al Serio (BGY Milan-Bergamo code), in addition, this autumn will see the release of our new album entitled "Carnicon" CD limited to 500 copies and digital format for Drakkar Productions (France) www.drakkar666.com, to stay up to date on our activities we invite readers to interact with us through our facebook contacts.

Do you have anything to add? Thanks for the interview, we hope in the future to be able to play in your country, we require honest repayments and are not part of any agency, we await proposals! Good luck for your blog

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