Pestifer - Disclose First Details For Upcoming EP
After the recent signing with Debemur Morti Productions, Belgium's Pestifer now reveal details for their new EP release. It's going to be entitled Defeat Of The Nemesis and set to come out on April 21s, 2023. David Caryn is responsible for creation of the cover artwork.
Vocalist and lyricist Jérôme Bernard elaborates on the concept:
"Firstly, I must say that I read a lot of science fiction books - from hard science fiction like Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter to classic sci-fi books such as H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Dan Simmons.
"Science fiction novels often tend to put the human race in unmanageable situations, facing uncontrollable phenomena. As a reader, I have a guilty pleasure with a bit of pessimism in witnessing the failure of humankind. And the most exciting thing about science fiction is that it can become reality (especially with hard science fiction). Humans have got so many dark faces and it is always interesting to push them a bit further in the future to see what happens if they go on being so human. So, science fiction brings a perfect scenery to confront humanity with its own flaws.
"The idea of writing about different states of mind came from Pestifer's new songs seemingly having their own personality. One song sounds a bit angrier, the other sounds maybe a bit madder and the next one depicts total hopelessness. The period of time we are living in also significantly influenced me. I started to write the lyrics just after the war in Ukraine was declared. I actually wondered about the fact that we had come up to a situation where a few powerful people can rule the world the way they want. A part of them obviously has no empathy and can kill without shame for money, power or even ego. They can ruin their own planet and the lives of billions of people for that purpose. I have read a bunch of articles about the state of mind of those powerful people, notably a book called 'In Sickness And In Power'. That is how I came up with the idea of writing a story about four civilizations influenced by a specific state of mind, in a world they cannot perfectly manage, far from Earth."
Vocalist and lyricist Jérôme Bernard elaborates on the concept:
"Firstly, I must say that I read a lot of science fiction books - from hard science fiction like Liu Cixin, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter to classic sci-fi books such as H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Dan Simmons.
"Science fiction novels often tend to put the human race in unmanageable situations, facing uncontrollable phenomena. As a reader, I have a guilty pleasure with a bit of pessimism in witnessing the failure of humankind. And the most exciting thing about science fiction is that it can become reality (especially with hard science fiction). Humans have got so many dark faces and it is always interesting to push them a bit further in the future to see what happens if they go on being so human. So, science fiction brings a perfect scenery to confront humanity with its own flaws.
"The idea of writing about different states of mind came from Pestifer's new songs seemingly having their own personality. One song sounds a bit angrier, the other sounds maybe a bit madder and the next one depicts total hopelessness. The period of time we are living in also significantly influenced me. I started to write the lyrics just after the war in Ukraine was declared. I actually wondered about the fact that we had come up to a situation where a few powerful people can rule the world the way they want. A part of them obviously has no empathy and can kill without shame for money, power or even ego. They can ruin their own planet and the lives of billions of people for that purpose. I have read a bunch of articles about the state of mind of those powerful people, notably a book called 'In Sickness And In Power'. That is how I came up with the idea of writing a story about four civilizations influenced by a specific state of mind, in a world they cannot perfectly manage, far from Earth."
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