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Demonic Resurrection Intitviz

My fav. Indian Death Metal Band ( 4get the recent fight blah blah blah) Demonic Resurrection Frontman Sahil a.k.a Demonstealer have a few words with Musicman RJ Mihir. Here's the shout out.
Mihir: Hi Sahil, so how does it feel to be the "Furtados & Emusic Post Artiste of the Fortnight"?
Demonstealer: It was fantastic. We've been around for a while on the scene and it feels great for our music and hard work to be acknowledged.
M: Okay then Demonstealer let’s talk about your music. Actually let’s take people down into the past. Tell me a little about all the changes you guys have been through…and how the current line up of Demonic Resurrection (DR) is different from what it initially was?
DS: Well this is a long story and often repeated story but here goes. Demonic started 5 years ago. We were all kids then in the band and we did our best to write the kind of music we liked. We had a different sound back then with simpler songs and female vocals. Due to circumstances beyond our control we never had a stable lineup. In the first year itself we had about 8 lineup changes. Our most stable lineup was that of me, Yash, Aditya and Nikita which lasted for about two years almost before the entire band almost disbanded. That was the turning point for DR. The band was just down to me and Husain. We were lucky to have Mephisto and JP join us after which we started afresh. So with this new lineup we found a new sound which had more complex songs, more brutal and yet more melodic and we've been together now almost 3 years and looks like we'll be around for a long time to come
M: Yeah man, Mephisto gives you guys an incredible feel.
DS: Yeah Mephisto's keyboard playing style is very different from what we had earlier and that’s really been a big part of the bands sound.
M: You guys have released two albums right? What was the first one called... tell me a little about that.
DS: I released an album called 'DEMONSTEALER' with the old lineup of DR in 2000 just 9months after the band was formed. It was an extremely amateur effort in terms of music, recording, production etc. That album was recorded completely at home with programmed drums. It was a CD-r with a black and white xeroxed cover. We released it at NLS Bangalore in 2000 where we practically sold out everything we carried there. Later in 2001 we re-recorded the album and put it out with a colour xerox cover and about 6months after that we changed the artwork again for it to something that was sent to us by a fan from Mexico.As a matter of fact that album has 3 different covers. The original artwork exists only in the 100 copies of the 1st print of the CD which are no more available. Even I don’t posses a copy of that.
M: So now...let's talk about the new album. This is with the new line up...how is it different for you than your first effort?
DS: It is extremely different from our 1st effort. We were totally professional with the work on this album. We went into great detail with everything from artwork to the recording. The way it was recorded and produced was totally differently from our 1st effort. If you place the albums beside each other it hardly looks like the same band. If you hear it won’t sound like the same band either.We really matured as a band with this album. We learnt so much from the process of recording. I engineered this album for the most part. Since I now work as a recording engineer I was more competent at recording and mixing this album that I was with the last one.On this album we decided shift from programmed drums to live drums. We also got a whole bunch of guest musicians who helped bring out some of the stuff we heard in our heads in terms of guitar solos and vocal parts. Also a lot of work went into the artwork. It was many many late nights and lots of coffee that helped it come together.The artwork was done mostly by Prashant from Exhumation.
M: Let's talk about the songs now. What would your definitive single from this album be...your favourite track…a track that defines the new DR sound?
DS: I dont think any one song can completely define the DR sound because each song is so different from the other. Every song has a different nuance of the DR sound, take away any one song and it would sound incomplete. If we had to release a single it would either be ‘Frozen Portrait’ or ‘Apocalyptic Dawn’. My personal favourite on the album is currently ‘Where Shadows Lie’.
M: Tell me a bit more about ‘Apocalyptic Dawn’...it sounds incredible and I do believe you played that as your first single on the radio?
DS: Yeah it was the 1st song we had aired on radio by RJ Mihir (hehe). It features a lot of guest musicians on it. One of them was Warren who used to play with Zero. Prashant from Exhumation, Pervez Quadir and Kanika Nagpal have also contributed.Apocalyptic was a song that just came together. It is structured very different from all our other songs. I guess maybe that’s why it stands out. It is a completely melodic song.
M: It was brilliant for sure…I’ll agree with that. And ‘Frozen Portrait’ has also been quite successful for you right...I mean even before the album ‘A Darkness Descends’ was launched. Tell us about it.
DS: Well actually ‘Frozen Portrait’ and ‘A Darkness Descends’…the song, were released at the same time and were sent for GIR in 2004. Both songs were rejected. We had them online for download and Frozen Portrait received a lot of positive feedback. Even ADD did but Frozen Portrait stood out.In 2004 end we recorded 'Spirits Of The Mystic Mountains'. It was meant to be our GIR Entry for 2005. I decided to put Frozen Portrait and A Darkness Descends on the CD any ways and to our surprise Frozen Portrait was selected this year. So through GIR, a lot of Online promotion, putting the song for download and just people liking it and spreading the word about the song it became a huge hit even before the album.
M: Damn cool man...I wish you a lot of luck with the new album. Now let’s talk about DR LIVE! You guys had a mega gig recently...Resurrection IV...tell us about it? How was it...the response...the bands?
DS: Well Resurrection is a show that is done by Barcode* to specifically promote Extreme metal bands and that kind of music. So Resurrection was the perfect place for DR to launch our album. We got Myndsnare, Kryptos and Exhumation to come down and perform at Resurrection IV which was held at Marine Centre in Vashi. This was the 4th installment of the event and we saw a huge turnout as there hasn’t been an extreme metal gig for over 6months.The response from the audience was phenomenal. Not for any one band in particular but for every single band. There was a lot of wild head-banging and moshing throughout the show. All the bands put up an amazing performance. The show was basically a very successful one.*(Barcode Entertainment is an artist and event management company founded and headed by Husain Bundukwala (DR BASSIST). The team includes the Demonstealer and Deepti Unni. The company's main focus is towards extreme metal music.)
M: So what's the next step for DR? What's on the chart for the next few months?
DS: Right now it is to just go out play every show possible in every city possible and promote the album. We are also looking at getting it out in retail music shops like Planet M across many cities. Also GIR is on the cards for us. Beyond this we are looking at getting the album out abroad by sending it to labels and magazines and webzines and basically get the music spread far and wide. We are hoping that something will come out of all this and then we'll start getting ready for album number 3.
M: Any final words to your friends and fans?
DS: We'd like to thank everyone who has supported the band through this album. Especially Furtados Music, that has helped us right from the recording to the merchandise to promotion. To all our fans…do buy our album!!! Cheers and Stay Demonic!!

posted by electrya @ 11:36 AM