ANTHELION - Interview


Italy is a cradle of great bands of genres as melodic/epic/classic metal, now the country present us one of the great promises for the neo prog metal genre and this name is ANTHELION, the band borned in 1999 and put their new demo CD "Lines X" in the list of the great demos now. KREPUSKULUM interviwed Matteo Borselli (Keyboards).

 
KREPUSKULUM: ANTHELION exist since 1999 but the band have some problems change your line up a lot of times. Talk to us about the bandīs history and about the meaning of the name ANTHELION.

Matteo Borselli: Well, Anthelion is an electro optical phenomenon, but is also a tower in the city of Gondor (in Lord Of The Rings).We are in activity since 1999. We began playing power metal and then we changed becoming a progressive metal band. Our actual six elements line up is definitive and we're playing many gigs around Rome promoting our demo LINES X.

LINES X have a good production to a demo, did you already have studio experience?

Yes, we recorded another demo cd 2 years ago and we got impressed by the sound quality! So we decided to return in the same studio to record LINES X..

The music of the band sound like a good mix of QUEENSRYCHE & FATES WARNING . Are you influence by this bands?   Which are your other influences?


Fates Warning is one of my favourite bands! I love A Pleasant Shade Of Gray and Disconnected, two of my favourite albums! Other influences are bands like Pain Of Salvation, Dream Theater, Shadow Gallery and Planet X. I'm also a huge fan of progressive rock music, and I listen often to bands like Genesis, Elp, Yes, Balletto di Bronzo and so on...

Sometimes we can listen echoes of melodic & power metal and progressive rock in ANTHELIONīs music, Do you like melodic metal, what do you think about bands as ANGRA, SHAMAN & HAMMERFALL?


I used to listen to power metal some years ago, and I literally fell in love with Angra's Holy Land and both Helloween's Keeper Of The Seven Keys, for example.. Nowadays I don't listen anymore to this kind of music, simply because my tastes changed!

Some people consider the prog metal music done for musicians, including many exibicionisms producing boring albums (I particularly don't tolerate to listen Dream Theaterīs last album). What do you think on that?

 
That's is true.. many progressive bands lose themself in a sea of exibitionism. We try not to bore the listener with 20 minutes long suites or with 10 minutes long instrumental part! We like to do ear friendly music. Still Prog metal, but ear friendly, so everyone can appreciate our music..

The prog metal fans are very radical sometimes and they hate another genres of metal like death & black. Do you listen thash, death & black metal? If yes give the name of some bands that you like.


To be honest I'm not a great fan of extreme music (Marduk, Mayhem..), but I like very much bands like Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, In Flames, Arcturus, Novembre, Katatonia, Cynic and Atheist!

The 4 musics of LINES X are interesting and with great feeling! Talk us about the creative process of your musics.

You're very kind! I'm glad you liked our demo!!
Well our guitarist Fabio and I are the composer of the songs. We compose the main riffs and then all together we work on the arrangements and we begin playing and playing that song until it come out without errors. That's our creative process...

In the end of the curious track "Son of a Lie" we can listen strange words in italian, what is the meaning of it?

Oh that was a joke! The word you can ear, sounds like "Now that I lose my sight I hit my nose in the wall!" and is a parody of the italian words in Dream Theater's Take The Time.

The ANTHELIONīs music is very good, did you already get a label to release the first full-lenght?

No, unfortunately we are still searching for a record deal and we hope to get it soon...
However we're going to record a third demo with the new songs in order to get attention on new material..

In your opinion what are the 10 best bands of the italian metal scene now?

We've good bands in italy (in all genres!) like Labyrinth, Vision Divine, Lacuna Coil, Necrodeath, Dynamic Lights, Rhapsody and many others i don't recall now!

Thank you for the interview. Give some last words to the prog metal south american fans.

 

Well, you can find an mp3 of Anthelion here: http://anthelion.iuma.com and you can contact me for info at allanon@stargazer.it
I Hope you like our music and you'll support us! We'd be really happy to have some supporters and friends in South America!


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Contacts: band - allanon@stargazer.it