interview with Hladomrak
Have any of you played in other bands? Sure! It was a few bands in the past for each member of Hladomrak.
How is it that you started playing music? It's like as for everyone - you have a fauvorite band and try to learn play some instrument to play their songs. Then when you realize that everything is possible you begin create your own riffs, melodies, texts or whatever.
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you? We are: guitarist and vocalist Evgenerator, bass-player Dipa and drummer Hagall. What about age? Who cares!? Metal unites all ages! You can listen to it as an embryo in mothers womb or as oldman listening his last song before getting to the tomb.
Have you had other previous members? Yes we had few guys before and it was different causes why we went separate ways.
Did you make music even when you were young? It depends what we consider as be young. Evgenerator started to play a guitar when he was 16 and was not interested in music at all before. Dipa started play bass and guitar about same age. He is also a guitarist in side band Ognemöt and composes songs for Hladomrak. Hagall played a little bit guitar and drums when he was a child, but just in the age13 he started to play seriously at the drums.
Where are you from? Hladomrak consists just of 3 members who was born at the north part of the world. We are from Sweden, Latvia and Estonia.
What year did the band form? The band was formed as one-man band in 2011, then basist Dipa joined in 2012 and later in 2015 - drummer Hagall.
What's your style of genre? Black metal
What inspires you? Most inspiring we get from nature, it's forms and it's powers. Forest, Ice, Fire, Wind and feeling when you are alone in the forest. In music we are inspired from a lot of bands, mostly it is black metal grands such as Mayhem, Burzum, Immortal, Taake, Dissection. But death metal bands like Morbid angel, Death, Unleashed and some crust metal bands also take a place.
How often and where do you reherse? That's a nice question! Cause we rehearse at the old crematory. Now there is a rehearsal rooms at one part and a center for alcohol and drug dependent people at the other. Oh yeah there is a cemetery as well. Best place for a black metal band rehearsal, haha!!
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Sure! Some of us is interested in Nikola Tesla experiments with electricity and trying replicate them, other like fishing, cars, collecting vinyl or simply drinking a beer and listening to the metal music.
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Hladomrak is underground and independent band so that is us who managing new gigs and other stuff.
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Our first album was released on Winter Solace productions (Usa) and Vomit distro (Belarus) with very limited edition. Currently we are working on a new album. Songs are written and guitars are recorded yet. It will be finished closer to the winter 2015 as we are planning and then gonna released on some labels. It can be the same label plus few new labels.
What are your songs about? Mainly our songs is about the humanity, war, live, death, ice, fire, forest. Nothing is new about that sky but it's eternal things that is cool to sing about. Actually not sing, but scream! Singing we leave to a bathroom.
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? All the lyrics is composed by vocalist Evgenerator. Hagall is also writing some lyrics which probably will be used in next albums.
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Definitely with the music! Then when we have a riff, a melody text come up by itself automatically.
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Lyrics and music can be composed everywhere but visiting a forest or being in some silence places inspiring actually a lot.
Have you done any covers live? Nope. We don't plan to play a covers since we have a huge amount of our own material.
What language do you sing in? On the first album Hladomrak lyrics was in russian. Now we have texts written in english for the second album. Later we may be gonna have swedish as well. There is no borders for Hladomrak!
What ages are most of your concert attendants? 18-40 maybe.
Do you have a regular place you play live often? No, since we are just started to play live we choose a places randomly.
Have you had to cancel a gig? Not yet. It's important to do everything possible and impossible to make gig happen! Sick? Take a cold shower and go on the stage! Show must go on! Life is too short to miss multiple orgasms from the sound of distortion.
Where do you plan to gig the comming year? We send offers to different places in Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Estonia and Germany. So you definitelly gonna see us at some bar, festival or at your nightmares at least!
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? We started to sell merch with a first gig. Now we have 2 types of t-shirts and a first album on CDs and tapes.
Where can people buy your merchandise? At our live or order things directly sending e-mail through our website www.hladomrak.com
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? To download is maybe not a bad thing but it causes less records buying. It's really cool when fans supporting fauvorite bands! There is a lot of stuff which underground bands buy on their own: amps, guitars, drums, studio time, beer and etc.
What do you think of my work? It is really important for metal scene to have blogs like yours. You do a great work man!
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? Mostly from older bands but sometimes something very fresh and new appears. The good thing with old bands is that they are original, charismatic and sometimes even created a whole new genre. But with a time some of them loses the drive and good ideas then one new band with a lot of energy can be much better. It's like a fresh blood or spring that going be a huge river. After some years that river has also risk to get in stagnation and become just a smelling swamp.
What have been your biggest obstacles? It's usually time. Everyone should do their jobs, then not so much time is left for the band. Unfortunately.
What advice would you give other bands or artists? Do you want to play a music - do it! Not sure - take your time in facebook.
How do you get psyched for a gig? We don't need actually get psyched. We just enjoy the moment and the sound we made and it gives unity feeling which can be compared with a feeling being a part of a sect. What is cool with a metal and especially the black metal - it will be always unique and not for everyone. We are the chosen ones, haha!
Do you have any new material? Yes, we are recording now our second album and already have some songs for the third album. They are a little bit more old school and true if you want.
What are your web sites? www.hladomrak.com
How can people reach you? Through "Contacts" on the website or just writing to [email protected]
What are your plans for the future? To made a fairytale be the reality.
Do you have something to add? Stay metal, true to your heart and don't forget the roots!
