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Have any of you played in other bands? Of course. But no one of them wasn't for us as important as GjeldRune

How is it that you started playing music? SOme of us have become students of musical school in early ages, some of us started to play being teenagers because it was cool

What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you? My name is Fedor, I'm 23. The rest guys who can't answer these questions with me are Jevgenij, Ksusha, Nikita, ALexandr, Alexej. Me and Ksusha are the youngest, the oldest of us has 30.

Have you had other previous members? Yes, a lot. 12 drummers for example

Did you make music even when you were young? Don't about others. I wrote my 1st melody when I was 9 years old. The 2nd - when was 14

Where are you from? Little town Dubna, Moscow region, Russia

What year did the band form? We started to play music together in 2008 but GjeldRune wa built in 2010 so 18th of October 2010 - our Birthday

What's your style of genre? Melodic Power/Folk metal

What inspires you? History, books, nature, travelling

How often and where do you reherse? 1-2 times a week in a small studio in 1 minute of walking from my flat

How have you developed since you started with the music? We have kicked off from the band musicians who didn't want to develop. That's why the quantity of our music always grows up as we think

Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Interests of work? Usually working is just making money. As for us for example. From music we have nothing

Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Yes, we are. Now we are on the way to making our 1st european tour and we will surely do that with booking agency because we need help in systemating of the tour. If we will organise our concerts only by ourselves - it will be chaos.

Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Now yes - we are looking for label. We tried to do self promotion but it was successful. Label is good when you don't know how to promote your band. If you promote your band good - you needn't label, you can be awesome and famous musician even without it.

What made you decide to make this music? Our interests of history, of paganism

What are your songs about? We sing about heroes of different times. About Russian heroes of course and about foreign to. It's the main part of our songs but also we have lots of pagan songs

Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? 99% of composing - it's me and vocalist Jevgeniy. 100% of lyrics - Jevgeniy

Do you start with the music or the lyrics? Always different

Do you compose in a certain inviroment? To tell the truth didn't pay attention at it.

Have you done any covers live? Yes, we have a cover to Russian band Volkolak and we always play it at our concerts

What language do you sing in? Now only Russian. Maybe we will sing some songs o Slavic nations

What are the least and most people to attend one of your gigs? the least - 6, it was long ago. The most... 300 I guess, maybe more. For us the main thing is that we never play for an empty venue.

What ages are most of your concert attendants? I think its 25-35 years. But also we always see young people at our concerts

Do you always play the same songs live, or do you vary? Even at rehearsals we vary because we hate to play all the same all the time. It's necessary to keep listeners interested. For example I was at 5-7 concerts of my friendly band for the last 3 years. They still play the same tracks which they played at the 1st concerts at which I was. And I dont wanna see their live show one more until they won't change the track list.

Do you have a regular place you play live often? 3-4 times a year we play in Moscow Rock House club, it's the most popular place for us. We play not much concerts because of very big distance between cities.

What was your first gig like? It was Monday. 15-30 persons in the venue for 1000 crowd. Wasn't cool but what could we do..)

What was your latest gig? The latest was on 12th of December, simple Folk metal festival, It was cool.

Have you had to cancel a gig? No, never

Where have you played live this year? Nowhere yet but on next Sunday we will play at big indoor folk-metal festival in Moscow, waiting very much for this participation.

Where do you plan to gig the comming year? Moscow, Dubna, Rybinsk, St. Petersburg and we hope that we will play finally in other countries: Belarus, Poland, maybe Latvia and Lithuania

When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? We started to sell it 1 year ago. Now we have 3 kinds of tshirts, mugs, CDs with our releases. We plan to introduce 3-4 kinds of new merchandise every year

Where can people buy your merchandise? They can check it at our facebook page and order through [email protected]

What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? Nobody will recognize your band without internet. We always upload our releases. To tell the truth the age of CDs is in the past time.

How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? Of course.

What do you think of my work? Musical reporters are very important people in our industry

How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? If even 1 person will read this interview and will decide to listen to our music - it will be already success for our business.

Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today? Its necessary to find inspiration from every successful musician

What have been your biggest obstacles? Big distances between cities, less money, bad musicians. Now the biggest problem - economical crysis in Russia

What advice would you give other bands or artists? Don't spend your time in band with people who doesn't care about band's future

How do you get psyched for a gig? I feel very good before gig, I needn't anythig

Do you have any new material? Yes, we are preparing the 2nd album

What are your web sites? gjeldrune.com

How can people reach you? at our facebook page, by [email protected]

What are your plans for the future? New album, 1st tour

Do you have something to add? Thanks for attention!