HORNED GOD  

HORNED GOD already is one of the most famous brazilian death metal band of nowadays. The band released the new album " CHAOS, BRINGER OF ALL REVELATIONS", an incredible masterpiece of fury, brutality, technic and creativity. Read the interview with the band and listen it now! 

Interview by Thiago A Sousa (aka: Necro) 

Hello guys, it’s good to talk with you. Firstly, I’d like to congratulate you for the great album Chaos, Bringer of All Revelations. I think that Brazilians bands improved their selves a lot, so it’s kind of difficult to make an extreme album nowadays that people listen and says: “Shit, this is good!”. So, what do you think that it’s the secret to do such a great album today, like you did? 

Firstly we´d like to thank you from Krepuskulum for giving us this space and also for your support words about our work in "Chaos...". I  believe there´s no secret, but many tools, beside our huge wish and dedication to extreme metal, are main tools to achieve a goal, and, of course, we like very much what we do.  I believe, to compose a good album the band should give their best, push themselves to the limits and play incessantly the songs, and work slowly, with a good development of ideas and  spontaneous  criativity, with personality mainly, scaping from the cliches, creating and developing the sound and themes, with structure, good studios and gear.  Summing all those elements and also the union´s spirit of the members, the band will have a reference to be achieved. I agree with your opinion, because today we have a lot of good bands, this is the result of dedication and seriousness of our brazilian bands!!!  

As we know, Fabiano Penna joined the band to record this album. Where do you know him?  

Yeah, Fabiano recorded his part produced the album too. We met him since Rebaelliun were living here in São Paulo, they were our neighbours. So, after their return to RS, we knew the band had finished the activities, so we invited him to join the band. 

The band had all lyrics/music composed when Penna joined the band? How did he participate to the music creation? Could you tell us some qualities and defects from Penna while he is playing guitar?

Actually the  band had already some compositions done and recorded before Fabiano join the band, with his joining we changed some parts of the songs and built the rest of the album though. Fabiano is a very competent and talented musician, he summed a lot the band´s sound, and he´s a very personal friend, helped us a lot... 

After recording Chaos…, Penna and Hudy left the band. Why? Have you already replaced these members?  

That´s true, after the recording of the album, both left the band, due major problems but there wasn´t any kind of trouble or plot, they just quit to solve some personal problems. We have new members, they are Ary and Harold (guitars) and Julio (bass). 

What are you doing to promote Chaos… in Europe? Do you have plans to play at Europeans countries? 

Actually, in Europe, US and Asia, Listenable which takes care of distribution and promotion of the CD, this french label owns the rights of "Chaos..." they´re doing a fantastic work, we´re getting a very pleasent feedback. Here in South-America, this work has been done by our label At War Records www.atwarrecords.com , we´re also promoting the album on the shows we´ve done. It´s obvious we have the intention in playing in the old continent, but our main goal is play in our country, and this is what we´ve done. If some good proposals come up, we´ll go. 

Chaos… is a short album, just 34 minutes. Did you think this is enough to show Horned God powerful?  

I believe the albun´s lenght is not what shows the power of a band, it doesn´t work as reference but what matters is the sound throughout those 34 minutes, our goal has always been compose an extreme, straigh-forward yet technical album and this is what happened in these 34 minutes. Slayer´s Reign in Blood has just 28 minutes and I believe it´s a fucking great album, one of the best album ever composed. I believe the albun´s lenght doesn´t eliminate the strenght of any band, but a short set can show what a band can do. 

There’s a song called “Satan isn’t the Enemy of Men” in the new album. Do you follow Satanism? What do you think about White Metal bands?

We follow ourselves, our philosophy, we try to believe in those things which make us well and we develop our ideas according the things we enjoy to do, and the reading and knowledge about the science of Ocultism is part of this process. I particularly don´t like any White Metal band, it doensn´t appeal to me their thematics, I definitely prefer listen to my Death and Black Metal, so, Extreme Metal rules my mind.  

What can we expect from Horned God now? What are the plan for the second semester from 2004 and 2005? 

We intend to play in gigs as much as possible to promote "Chaos, Bringer of All Revelations" and work one the new compositions for the next album.  

Thank you for your time. This is the end of interview. Would you like to add something?

Thanks for your support about the band, we´d like to thank all warriors who like and support our underground. ....THANKS! Horns Up.

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Contacts: 

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