Interview

What represents the photo on the back of the Evil CD?
It's a Shiva's symbol but we didn't choose it. It's the Goddess Shiva and she represents the 3rd opened eye . The photo has been choosen by the label (Shivadarshana), however we had another one wich was refused. We will change it soon.

What was it ?
It represents a madman.

Has the cover of Evil a peculiar meaning for you ?
Not at all. Because we had choosen something and the label put something for him. It embarrasses us, as the cover is in a very likely black metal style and it's not really what we are doing.

Will you include a keyboard on your future tracks ?
No. Perhaps, one time, on stage, to make some noises but no keyboards in an atmospheric way. Or a very beautiful girl !

What is the meaning of Nagual ?
The Nagual is the world of the spirit for some south-american cultures, Toltecs particularly and the Nagual is the other side. On the other hand, you have the TONAL which is the side of the reason, of your daily life, of what is material, gravitational attraction, physicals laws, I mean everything we have been taught that we remembered and everything else would be the NAGUAL.

What is the link with the Nagual song ?
In the live, the song is in French, I have turn upside down the text, now it can't be understood.
The link with the song comes from Carlos Castaneda, he wrotes a lot about sorcery, and... We are only dust on the road. We are luminous beings made of fibres as we have a bright body around us wich belongs to the vision of the Nagual more than the other...

Extrom ?
Extrom, was an old song wich was called TROM but we have choosen TROM for band name so it became Extrom.

31 is an invocation, what is it about ?
It's an invocation to the angel no 31 of the Qabbalah as DEATH (MORT in french) is the 13rd in the tarot so 31 is TROM (HTAED). And the 31st angel, in the Qabbalistic astrology, is called LEKABEL. it's an invocation to the 31st first angels of the Qabbalah, there's also an extract of a deutsch poem wich deals with forgotten voices, calls to our memories that we would call genetic or universal memories. At the end, there's a little text in french, taking again the same subject.

With 31, some would think you're satanists or you are practising a way of occultism ?
Occultism. ? Yes, why not. Satanism ? May be. To my mind, "satanism" doesn't mean , in fact I don't really make a difference. I don't

About MORDOR, what are your links with them ?
We write, we phone to eachother, they come to see us and we come to see them. We have planned to record something with them, it is based upon a jam done in Neuchatel together during all night, but nothing is sure about the date of the release. We have a good feeling with the song-writer who share the same textual influences.

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