Dani: The things we grew up on was the isolation, in the area which we live. We
live very much in the heart of the countryside. And although it is only 70 kilometres from
London, it is very rural, so there is those feelings of isolation, but it is very
beautiful, and it is beautiful at night, and this is something we've grown up with. Also
the quality of English Litterature, as well, especially from the last century.
Stuart: I think a great thing is that most of us have a healthy disrespect for
modern society, and behaving in a civilized manner, to actually answer your question I
think how it started was, whenever you developed logical thought we decided that something
was a miss, and we lost interest in the normal system of things.
Dani: Firstly the term Satanism or Satanist is refered to anyone that lives outside morality. And the maxim of this band is to do what thou wilth, we do exactly what we want to do, all the time. And we get a lot of bad press for it, from the people, but if you can't enjoy yourself or live your life to the maximum of its ability, and make people do what you want, rather than the other way around, to us it's a negative concept to live our lives like that, so that's the maxim, do what thou wilth, and basically because of that we do piss a lot of people off, and people label us as various things. But Neo-Nazis, No! Nein! No way! That's a concept generated by the whole Norwegian affair. Satan is a tag, as I said, the people just use it to describe people that are irreligious or free thinkers. It's literally a Middle Age, isn't it a Dark Age concept?
Stuart: He was arrested in a red light district of London, at about midnight,
with the Jesus is a Cunt/Vestal Masturbation T-shirt.
Dani: But they didn't see the backprint of the shirt which reads: Jesus is a Cunt,
all they could see, because he had a coat on, was the masturbating nun, in the middle of
an area that is associated with Hardcore sex, which is peculiar.
Gian: And we have as much respect for the church as the Church has respect for
anybody else.
Dani: And that's my point, the Church is not important. The power of the Church of
England is weining considerably due to all the sex-scandals that keep coming up, which is
totally ironic. The whole business about this T-shirt scandal was, that it would affect
art in general, in talking about any media interest, films, books, just cencorship in
general. If they can bring back laws that are a hundred and fifty years old, and then
throw them out the window again, just for rare cases, where is it going to end?
Interviewer (Micaela Metso): Black Metal music is really rising and
shining in Finland at the moment, and it seems that Black Metal music is getting more and
more people surrounding around it. Why do you think this is like this?
Dani: Because I think it has passion and it hasn't got any barriers, and it hasn't
got anyone saying: It has to sound like this... Burp! ... Excuse me. There's no barriers,
it transcends certain characteristics i.e. guitars, drums, it could be anything. We use
orchestration, we've got a celloist, we bring in a violin, we also use sequenced stuff,
female vocals. It's got nowhere to finish, and it's all atmosphere. The whole thing
springboards from atmosphere and the invication of emotion, and I think that's what people
like, the fact that it's just raw, untamed emotion.
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