Nordenglander
There’s a lot of beautiful music mixed up with the harsher Black Metal tones of your music. Where do your various influences come from? And is nature a big influence, as well as other bands?
Band wise my influences mainly come from the likes of early Emperor,
Drudkh, Graveland, Bilskirnir & that
sort of thing, I'm obviously a fan of the one man metal project too but I also
listen to a lot of instrumental music, I'm a huge fan of the likes of
Buckethead, Vai, Satriani etc. The nature aspect is a big influence on me too,
living in a small town I'm surrounded by acres of moorland & countryside,
so i's kind of impossible for me to overlook it's beauty & not notice
it.
Like me, you’ve had a run in with the Russian sites that
exploit bands and labels by stealing their music. How frustrating is this as
musician when a group of selfish individuals (potentially) ruin all the hard
work you put into creating music.
Yeah, I just couldn't understand why they would steal something I was giving away for free (????) . I feel for us underground acts it is a shame that people feel the need to do this as we've put heart & soul, and often our own money into these releases only to have it uploaded to illegal sites where we receive nothing in return, in my opinion it's like tape trading without the actual trading.
Yeah, I just couldn't understand why they would steal something I was giving away for free (????) . I feel for us underground acts it is a shame that people feel the need to do this as we've put heart & soul, and often our own money into these releases only to have it uploaded to illegal sites where we receive nothing in return, in my opinion it's like tape trading without the actual trading.
As a one man band, you can’t really function without the
internet these days. Apart from the bootlegging, what are the positives and
negatives of the internet for you?
Ah, the glorious internet, you either love it of
hate it. It has it's purposes & it has it's downfalls, I suppose it's best
use is the fact you can spread things far & wide quickly.
Are you obsessive about what you create? I can imagine
someone in your position can change something 50 times before they are happy
with the finished product.
Yes, very. It comes to the point where a lot of
ideas get scrapped, a lot of unfinished material, simply because I can't or
haven't the knowledge to cover all bases needed which can get quite
frustrating. I'm a guitarist , not a drummer or keyboardist, so the writing
& production process becomes very long & laborious indeed, I haven't
any formula as such it's more when it comes it comes, one bit at a time.
I’ve seen you advertising for musicians in the past, is
Nordenglander going to evolve into a full band one day?
I'd like to take the act to the stage if
possible, not sure if the same material would get played live though, I think
there's too many layers & instruments going on all at once, so maybe a
stripped back version without the synths would work, I think I/we would have
to work on material for a full live set.
What’s next for Nordenglander?
I'm currently on with recording my third release, which should hopefully be finished & out there very soon, it has more of a concept to it than previous work, kind of a tale put to music. It will be distributed by both myself & Senseless Life .
I'm currently on with recording my third release, which should hopefully be finished & out there very soon, it has more of a concept to it than previous work, kind of a tale put to music. It will be distributed by both myself & Senseless Life .
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