Few questions - interview with death metal band from Greece - Ectoplasma.
Ave,
can you introduce your band to our readers? – When was it founded and what style of music do you play , etc.?
Hails from Greece !!! We are
Ectoplasma and we play death metal in the vein of our death metal masters such
as Gutted, Baphomet, Autopsy, Judecca, Demigod, Death, Morta Skuld and more...
We try to remain in the style of simple and raw brutality and nothing more. We
started the band in the grip of winter of 2013.
Where
and under what conditions were you recording the new album? Who was in charge
of sound, production and mastering?
We recorded SKELETAL
LIFEFORMS in Underground Studio at Nikaia City. Kyriakos Kontoven was in charge
of the mixing and mastering with our participation of course. We recorded it
quite rapidly without any obstacles and we are very satisfied that the result
was genuine and archaic in the sound.
How
many copies were released and which
medium was used for this new edition (CD, digital, vinyl, cassette)?
It was released in 100 tapes
by Metal throne Prods and in 500 cds through Repulsive Echo.
Who
is the author of the lyrics and how were they created and about what do the
lyrics deal with?
For all the lyrics Giannis
Grim is responsible and the lyrical themes are about death, spectral entities,
horror movies, gore and ghastly incidents. For example, Human Taxidermy is
about a maniac who embalms his victims alive, Skeletal Lifeforms is about the
armies of the dead who return to life as spectral skeletal entities to kill
every christian hypocrite, Slain Meat For The Beast is influenced by the movie
Nightbreed and preety much it describes a sacrifice to Baphomet, Awakened In
The Coffin is talking about the burial of a man who finally was alive and wakes
up in the coffin and starts suffocating and his soul is travelling to the dead
until he dies and the soul finally finds the way for the underworld.
Who
created the logo of the band, and who took care of the graphics and the
website? What about you and social networks? Do you consider these things
important?
The logo was made by Gilian
Adam who plays in a band called Vigilance. The truth is that we don’t promote
the band every day through social media and we don’t have a personal website
because all those money to maintain a site we prefer to use it in new recordings.
But however we have a bandcamp and when we have to announce smth we use
facebook.
Which
label did you choose for releasing your
album and why this label? Are you satisfied by how your label represents you
and takés care about you?
We are extremely satisfied
with Metal Throne Prods who supported us since the beggining and of course we
are very proud that we worked with Repulsive Echo Recs because Kostas Vaxevanos
did and keeps doing a great work and promotion, he is a professional and he is
not fooling around.
Which
bands do you idolise and where do you get your inspiration?
As we said in the first
question we love bands such as Gutted, Demigod, Baphomet, Morta Skuld, Morgoth,
Autopsy, Necrophobic, Judecca etc and of course we are getting inspired from
horror movies and real life incidents about psychopaths and killers and also
situations that driving humans to do ghastly things.
Did
you send your record to some Labels - which are the labels? How was the
response?
No we didn’t send our album
to find a label because we already had a deal with Repulsive Echo Recs and
Metal Throne Prods.
How
many gigs have you played? Which type of gigs do you prefer, whether it's
(clubs or festivals) and which of your performances would you consider as the
best?
Until know we managed to
play live 3 times here in some Greek clubs with other bands and we were
satisfied a lot with our performance in every gig.
What
about your plans for the future? What do you want to achieve with the band?
Our plans for now is to
crush humanity with more live shows. And the great thing is that we just signed
with Memento Mori Recs from Spain and we are going to prepare a new full length
album to get sick and rot with it !!! The only achievement is to be active and
play music. Nothing more, nothing less...
How
and where can your fans contact you? Can you provide some contact information?
Everyone can contact us in
the fb pages: Ectoplasma, Spawn Of Flesh Recs and at the following emails ectoplasma187@gmail.com and fleshspawn187@gmail.com
Thanx
for the interview.
Thank you very much for the
interview !! Stay deadly and rotten!!
http://www.repulsiveecho.com/releases/skeletal-lifeforms-ep/
https://www.facebook.com/Ectoplasma-1579524392276613/
