interview with Sors Immanis

Have any of you played in other bands? Yes, actualy i play bass guitar in a band Called Bahrrecht that i joined in 2006
How is it that you started playing music? When i was young, i started to listen to Metal music with Iron Maiden, this band made me want to play music 
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
The actual line-up is Vahelya on vocals, Sargatanas on guitar and backing vocals, Ariès on Guitar and backing vocals, Haedes on bass guitar, Namethia on Keyboards and Nicko on drums
We are between 30 and 36 years old
Have you had other previous members? Yes, Thulsadoom and Nehsit from Bahrrecht played with us in the past, live and on our first album
Did you make music even when you were young? Yes we did, most of us started to play music during the 90's, i started to play guitar in 1996
Where are you from? We are from Thionville, a town in the north-east of France, in a region called Lorraine, close to German, Belgian and Luxembourg border but Haedes is from Arlon, Belgium and Namethia is from Newcastel, England but lives in France since many years
What year did the band form? Sargatanas formed the band in 2009
What's your style of genre? We play melodic and orchestral Black Metal
What inspires you? We are inspired by a lot of old-school Metal bands like Dissection, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Iron Maiden and many more...
How often and where do you reherse? We rehearse only 2 times a month
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Yes, we like playing video games, role games, cinema, literature..
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? We should look for one, but unfortunately we don't have many financial resources and so we have to work harder to promote the band and find some opportunities to play live
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? We released our first album on Sargatanas own label called "Voices From Beyond", a very little structure but in the future maybe we will look for a bigger label
What are your songs about? Our songs are about our vision of mysticism, philosophy and freedom of souls
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Sargatanas wrote the whole music and half of the lyrics, Ariès made the other half of the lyrics, except one who was made by Namethia
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? We start with the music
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Sargatanas composes alone at home, drinking beers
Have you done any covers live? Yes, we played a song of one of our favorite band called Dissection, a mythic song called Night's Blood, you can find a live video clip on the web
What language do you sing in? We sing in French and some parts are spoken in Latin
What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? I don't really remember but i think the most was about 200 people and the least about 20
What ages are most of your concert attendants? I think 30 y.o
Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? We try to make some varied shows and change at least one song each time, if possible
Do you have a regular place you play live often? Yes, we have one, a bar called No Mans Land where some bands such as Rotting Christ, Nervecell played already
What was your first gig like? Our first gig was in 2011, quite good for a first one
What was your latest gig? Our last one was in Metz, in a mystical cave, a very old school spirit gig, we like this kind of concerts
Have you had to cancel a gig? No we never had to, we try to make each gig we can find, we love playing live
Where have you played live this year? For the moment we made only one in Metz on January
Where do you plan to gig the coming year? Our next gig will be on May 8th at No Mans Land Bar with Swedish Band called Zornheym
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? We started to sell merchandise on 2011, we have our first demo, our first full lenght album, shirts and patchs
Where can people buy your merchandise? People can order on our Bandcamp page
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? It's a real problem for bands, mostly for bands with short financial resources like us
How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Unfortunately, it took a bad way, nowadays only money is important, not talent, it's sad
What do you think of my work? You make good work, with passion, a important thing in my opinion
How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? I think this interview will help us reaching new Metal fans and promote our band, a good thing for us
Do you have any role models or idols? Yes our idols are people we listened to when we was younger, we could say Steve Harris, Ihsahn, Quorthon, and many more...
Why do you think that they exist? I think because they are the first we listened to when we were younger
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? Older bands are more inspirational for us, 90's is the best period we think
What have been your biggest obstacles? Everyone of us have a job, it's not easy to find time for rehearsal or make some gigs during the week
What advice would you give other bands or artists? I think it's very important to propose interesting content such as an updated website, videoclip and to keep good contacts with gig promoters, labels, other bands 
Do you have any new material? We are working on a new ep to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the band
What are your web sites?
http://vfbprod.wixsite.com/sorsimmanis
https://www.facebook.com/sorsimmanisfrbm
How can people reach you? The most easy is to use our Facebook page
What are your plans for the future? Soon, we will start writing of our second album, make a new video clip and continue to search for new gigs in France and abroad
Do you have something to add? I would like to thanks you very much for this interview and ask Metal fans to continue supporting bands, going to concerts and buying albums, bands need this to live

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