Änterbila interview (01/2023)
With: | Jerff |
Conducted by: | Netzach (video) |
Published: | 02.01.2023 |
I had the pleasure to talk with Jerff from Änterbila about their inspirations, their future, and - you know - stuff like that. Particularly interesting was the talk about their lyrics, I think. About how Scandinavia is such a great place to live in now, but it wasn't always so. And this is what Änterbila sings about. How we got here, how we came to be a place like this. Abuse, starvation, shit like this. Well, see for yourselves, I guess!
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ScreamingSteelUS Editor-in-Chief Admin |
I found it funny to learn that 1) there's a guy in the band who's a blacksmith and he's not the drummer, and then 2) he's not even the only blacksmith in the band. After that I was just watching his arms the whole time and wondering how hard he can punch. It's definitely true that I, as a non-Swede, know very little about "middle-period" Sweden: there's the Vikings, there's IKEA, and in between is just... the Hanseatic League? The Swedish Crusades? And then a bunch of grey. Pretty much everything I know about pre-modern Swedish history that isn't directly Viking-related I've learned from Sabaton. Your discussion about the social systems in modern and pre-modern Sweden was quite interesting. I'm almost the opposite of you in that I almost never care about the lyrics. I read lyrics if I want to be able to sing along to a song, but other than that, beyond a broad appreciation for the concept if that seems interesting, the vocals are just another instrument to me. There are definitely cases where I can passively pick up on lyrics, if they're intelligible, and a strong or intriguing set of lyrics will enhance my appreciation for the song (Dio being an obvious example), but I never go out of my way to find that for myself. Thus I always find it interesting when you delve so deeply into the concepts when you write your reviews, and I like hearing you talk about it here; it seems like Jerff was appreciative of that as well. I imagine it is extremely difficult to play bass with one arm. But you might as well, because you're right in that bass is the least important instrument in metal. I wish that it weren't, but if there's anything we've learned from Metallica (let alone black metal), it's that you can record a great metal album with no bass whatsoever. Bands that respect their bassist tend to be more interesting than the ones that don't.
---- "Earth is small and I hate it" - Lum Invader I'm the Agent of Steel.
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musclassia Staff |
Written by ScreamingSteelUS on 02.01.2023 at 22:56 On the first part of this - I'm very similar to you; I don't know any of the lyrics to a lot of my favourite songs, I just appreciate the melody or instrumental element they bring to it generally. However, I do enjoy reading people discuss concepts, such as Netzach does with his reviews. On the second part of this - first of all, nobody be dissing the bass around me. Second, I remember a one-armed bassist auditioned for Machine Head when they got rid off ... Adam Duce? I was very impressed by the audition video he lifted. I was more impressed when I saw Elder Druid at Bloodstock in 2021 and saw they had a one-armed guitarist - I can't imagine it's particularly easy to hit specific strings with the end of a handless arm, but he'd clearly worked it out
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ScreamingSteelUS Editor-in-Chief Admin |
Written by musclassia on 02.01.2023 at 23:08 Consider this your official challenge to put a bass solo in every song on Vulgaris's next album (and any time the song sounds like black metal you have to slap).
---- "Earth is small and I hate it" - Lum Invader I'm the Agent of Steel.
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Netzach Planewalker |
Written by ScreamingSteelUS on 02.01.2023 at 22:56 Yes, Swedish history streches back way more than thousand years and we were responsible for a lot of shit, both bad and good, during the last millennium. The founding of the Russian Empire, the Sacking of Rome, just to mention a few... This is also what I appreciated a lot about Änterbila's album - it delves a lot into the facets of Swedish life that we today take for granted (as one of the indubitably best places to live in), but also as a place for which a lot of people in the past sacrificed a hell of a lot in order to make it so for us today. It is both inspiring and humbling to think of it this way, I think, and I appreciate this about the album. I translated the lyrics to English. Check them out, if you will. Written by ScreamingSteelUS on 02.01.2023 at 22:56 Bass is so important for metal, it makes me sad every time I hear a black or power metal album where the bass isn't audible at all. It is what gives the entire character to the guitars and even drums. It's vital.
---- My "blackened synth metal" solo project: maladomini.bandcamp.com. Whenever I write something funny, weird, or pretentious... I learned English by playing Baldur's Gate, okay?
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RaduP CertifiedHipster Staff |
If I'm doing an interview and they tell me that they looked me up, I'm legit closing the meeting
---- Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking One day there will be no heart at all?
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Bad English Tage Westerlund |
04.01.2023 - 15:37
Northern Scandinavia and Suomi in internet era always has been great place to live... Lappi
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Bad English Tage Westerlund |
04.01.2023 - 19:18
Cool apartment dude
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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