Interview with Axioma, Progressive Death Metal Band from Italy
Axioma is Progressive Death Metal Band from Italy. They're
are Riccardo Montecchiarini - Vocals, Gabriel Luigi Lattanzio - (Guitars,
Vocals, Lyrics), Andrea Augeri - Guitars, Jacopo Greci - Electric Bass, and
Jamil Zidan - Drums, percussions. Gabriel, Jacopo, and Andrea gave us some
information. Check it out.
Tell us about Axioma?
Gabriel: We are a metal band with
many influences but with the main goal to be death metal. Listening to many
music genres brought to us nice ideas and we try to merge them in a solid work,
"Monolith" is also our cd-title for this reason.
What are lyrical themes of Axioma?
Gabriel: The lyrics are
influenced by philosophy mainly and are about the relationship beetwen humanity
and divinity, self consciousness, time and knowledge.
What are your influences?
Jacopo: Our main influence are
the death metal bands from the 90s, Death, Cynic, Opeth, Atheist, and the
modern dissonant such as the late Gorguts, Ulcerate and Nero di Marte. Other
than that every members in the band have is own personal music culture and
preference outside the metal genre. We listen a lot of post-rock, jazz,
classical, 70s prog, trip hop, folk...
Can you tell us about Metal Scene in
Your Town?
Andrea: There are a lot of metal
bands in Rome, but few venues, so it’s hard to keep on playing original music,
specially extreme music.
Jacopo: In this city were born
some of biggest contemporary European death metal band, like Fleshgod
Apocalypse and Hour of Penance, but they don't play so many shows here or in Italy
in general.
Who are Your Favorite Italian Metal
Band?
Gabriel: Nero di
Marte, without any doubt.
How were the songs written?
(Gabriel) The usual way is: I
write the main riff and structures, then I pass the tabs to Jacopo and Andrea
to bring new ideas and melodies and work on the structures together; then Jamil
writes his drums line (based and similar on what we had in mind), then, as the
final state, lyrics and voice.
How did the
recording process go?
(Jacopo) It went well, for some
of us this was the first time in the studio but it was all fun, recording music
is a beautiful experience. The production was kinda low budget, we are all
students so we don't have so much finances, but we are happy of our performance
and for the final product. Monolith sound a bit like the old 90s albums and we
like this, maybe is not heavy as modern production has accustomed us, but it
have a lot of dynamic and evolve a lot during the listening.
What are your future plan?
(Andrea) Now we’re focused on
Monolith promotion on the internet and whit concerts, but there are some cool
ideas for new songs, so we hope to catch the attention of a record label for
the next album in order to have more visibility. But it all depends on the
reaction of the listeners, of course.. if people likes us the band will grow.
Are there any countries you’re
interested in touring or performing in? Why?
(Andrea) Well, playing in the big
European festivals, like the Wacken open air or the Hellfest, would be great!
Also a tour in the USA or North Europe could be a great opportunity for the
band! But we are a little independent band whit no label or agency, first of
all we have to build a fanbase here in Italy.
What bands would you like to play
alongside?
Gabriel: Nero di
Marte, Ulcerate and Gorguts.
Any last words?
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