interview with Gates Of Paris

What are your names? / Who plays what?

Here is the line-up of the project Gates Of Paris :

Raphael Dantas (EGO ABSENCE, SOULSPELL) - Voice

Remch Carrayrou (KERION) - Guitars

Damien Rainaud (ONCE HUMAN) - Drums

Steph Papasergio (KERION) - Bass

Where are you from?

It’s an international project.

Rapha is from Brazil, Damien is french but work in Los Angeles,

Steph and me are french.

What's your style of genre? I played Symphonic Metal with Kerion but with this project, I wanted to surprise the fans and so there is a lot of style in the album but it stay metal.

What inspires you? A lot of different style of music and bands : Rhapsody of fire, Muse, Eminem ! Very different style :)

How have you developed since you started with the music?

We began young with a progressive metal band called Kirlian and at 22 years old I composed the first album of Kerion and we found a label, so the band grew a lot.

Now we’ve lot of fans of Kerion (more than 2 millions of views on youtube).

Do you have other interests of work outside the band? My sons ;)

Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that?

We always worked with labels for Kerion’s album but now deals are not fair at all.

We have searched a label for this project of Gates Of Paris but I’m really

disappointed. They take zero risk, zero investment…

What made you decide to make this music? It’s my friend Chris B. (who worked on lyrics and story of Kerion too) who have the idea to make an album about Paris during centuries.

What are your songs about?

Every song of the album talked about a monument of Paris but in history of the city.

We also have included references of a French artist in every song.

Rapha voice was so incredible on every songs !!

Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? Chris write the lyrics and I compose the songs.

Do you start with the music or the lyrics? it depends but for this album, I worked the music with lyrics first.

Do you compose in a certain inviroment? No, at home :)

Do you have a regular place you play live often? We have played a lot in Nice, but with Kerion, lot of places in France and Italy.

When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? For the moment, only albums of Kerion in every store physical and digital version.

What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records now a days? I understand them because physical are expensive. But I always prefer and love the physical version with booklet and paper :)

How do you think the music industry have changed because of this? They work more and more the deluxe edition and it’s really beautiful for the fans ! They need it to be attractive.

What do you think of my work? I didn’t know and I go now on the blog. It’s really good job !!

Do you have any new material? yeah Gates Of Paris and there is a trailer with lot of guests (Stéphan Forté from Adagio, Olivier Lapauze from Heavenly….) https://youtu.be/oKXOoj8IqGA

What are your web sites? https://www.facebook.com/remchparis/

Do you have something to add? Really thanks to you ! It was great ;

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