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"What we do is incomparable to anything else. We have a unique sound and that’s the bottom-line. You would think labels who sign us would know that too, but nope… " |
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CR: Lord K, thanks so much for the opportunity sir! How are you doing?
Lord K : The pleasure is mine, man. I’m doing all fucken fine. Just came home from work, about to continue work on the guitars for the next album and some other stuff that needs my attention. I’m a busy fucker these days and I like it that way.
CR: Have to ask this and please excuse my ignorance, what’s the meaning of MCMXCIX in your name? (is it the roman number for 1999? Wikipedia RULES!!!)
Lord K: I seriously have no fucken idea how many times I have answered this question over the years, so for once I’m not going to answer, hahaha… Wikipedia might be on to something though but I’m not saying anything.
CR: Could you quickly just explain to some of our readers what The Project Hate is all about? Sort of a musical reference to the ones that haven’t enjoyed your music!
Lord K: If you like death metal without boundaries, death metal full of beauty, electronics and groove, death metal with the most fierce growls in the business together with some astonishing female vocals… If you have a passion for Domination and quality like no other band possess – we are for you.
CR: The new album came out last year “In Hora Mortis Nostræ” (Made it to our top albums of 2007 by the way http://www.leviatan-magazine.com/top22.html) I presume you guys are busy promoting the new work; what is the most difficult thing to work on after you guys release an album? Or at least the most boring one?
Lord K: The hardest thing is definitely to have the label make sure the goddamned fucken album actually gets out to the stores. We are getting very used to the situation now after having to deal with shit labels like Threeman and Massacre Records, but it’s frustrating as all fuck. I will never understand why a label signs the best fucken band in the world, a unique unit by all means, and then don’t put any work into it. That’s just beyond all comprehension. I like all the other aspects that comes with doing this, it’s my life and all that cheesy crap, you know. One of the most boring things is to answer what the Roman numerals mean, together with any question about us playing live…
CR: Are you guys playing live?
Lord K: I think I must kick you in the cunt for this one.
CR: Everybody, (I have done this quite a lot) after a band releases and album always asks…”so how’s the response from the fans been so far”, well I just want to ask this but from a different perspective… Have you ever received some really, really bad and I mean hate email after the release of an album?
Lord K: I have seen some comments about some people not liking it at all, but they liked our album before that. To me that is just weird. Well, I suggest you should listen to the album before “Hora” then, haha… It’s always like this, you can’t please everyone and we never intended to either. Hatemails? Nah. No hatemails. It’s not like we have changed much since we started, we have only grown stronger, more vicious and more complicated. If you ever liked us I can never understand what’s not to like with what we do today since it’s simply the best damn material available to a pair of ears.
CR: By reading some comments on your web site, I notice that you guys are not very happy with the way some of your previous labels have pushed the records around, what’s your situation now with “In Hora…” do you think you are going to get some good distribution? (Man the album really deserves it, if you ask me!)
Lord K: We, The Haters and everyone with a decent taste for quality know that we deserve much, much more recognition. What we do is incomparable to anything else. We have a unique sound and that’s the bottom-line. You would think labels who sign us would know that too, but nope… We knew when we signed with StormVox that it was a very small label with even more limited resources, but hey, it’d be nice to at least see the album in ONE store somewhere, sometime. Don’t the labels want to make some money off of us? That won’t happen if you don’t push the release for shit, you know. You have to put out some ad’s in some important magazines, you have to work on getting us some interviews. We, the band, can only do so much ourselves you know, and we are definitely doing more than most bands out there. We haven’t seen any distribution yet for the album and I think it will stay like that. We were prepared for it though so… But nonetheless it’s frustrating as shit.
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"We don’t worship the devil but his horns are hella cool. Some of us are more anti-religious than the others." |
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CR: Is it true that “In Hora…” is the first album from TPH to have some real Drums? If so why didn’t you include that feature in the past; were they all drum machines until this album?
Lord K: Yeah, this is the first album with real drums. All the other albums have programmings. I’m a drummer originally so I always knew how I want shit to sound and since no one around could play the shit accordingly, we stuck with programmings. I don’t even think about that fact when I listen to our shit becoz it’s done so well. Always was, always will be. Flesh and blood or not. I’m really happy Mojjo (the drummer) is with us coz he’s ace. He played everything as I had programmed it for the album. He’ll have his work cut out for him on the next album though, that’s for sure.
CR: Still talking about In Hora… after listening to it, it sounds like the guitars are more “predominant” in it, I mean those industrial sounds you use to include in the records have diminished here; this sounds like a record mainly focus on the great riffs on it (like every metal album should be, if you ask me!); do you see a further development on the way TPH integrates industrial/atmospheric/electronic sounds to their records, you know diminishing their importance?
Lord K: There’s actually more electronic stuff on this album than on anything we have ever done in the past. It might be becoz the industrial bits and pieces are mixed a bit lower at times, but I don’t feel that the guitars are more dominant than they used to be, nope. “HDCE” is the one album I think of when I think “dominant guitars”. Maybe it’s just the fact that the riffs have gotten even better than on previous albums so you pay more attention to them? Fuck if I know, and fuck if I care too much. I love how it all sounds and to me that’s all that matters.
CR: TPH has pretty much always work with Dan Swanö, can you see a future were TPH departs from working with this almost Iconic metal personality? What’s the most important characteristic that you see on his involvement on the project?
Lord K: Dan is definitely a big part of what we do when it comes to getting the albums completed. He’s not included in any songwriting or anything, he just puts it all together in the end. He’s helped me a lot over the years. To say the least. He’s a fucken terrific guy who always makes sure he understands what I’m after when it comes to TPH. I think he likes to work with the material we give him. We have known each other for so long and we have some kind of a bond thanx to that. Dan is a fucken ace on all accounts. Work without him? It shouldn’t really be a problem if we had to, but I prefer to work with him, haha….
CR: Once again and in like pretty much all the TPH records the lyrics are based on antichristian ideas and blasphemy (love that word), is TPH a satanic band or just a metal band that likes to write about Satan and the end of Christianity? (By the way love the wall paper with the “I love Satan inscription”!)
Lord K: We don’t worship the devil but his horns are hella cool. Some of us are more anti-religious than the others.
CR: There is a small use of Latin on this record in the title and again in “And Damnation Is Forced Upon the Weak” why Latin? (it will be really cool if you ever consider to use some Aramaic… even when I don’t know of anybody that knows how to speak it other than Mel Gibson hehehe)
Lord K: Latin is beautiful and the Latin title definitely made so much sense to us when we decided on it. Sometimes things are not as complicated as they might seem at a first glance, you know. The use of Latin is a nice spice to the rest of the ungodliness we hand out with our music. You will definitely see more of that on future albums…
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"I always wanted a girl and a guy doing vocals for something I created musically. Eventually the time was right and TPH came about. I love having those contrasts" |
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CR: Since the beginning of TPH, the band has always played with that dual vocal work, female and man, how did that came together? I mean did you decided that from the beginning, or in the middle of developing the project the possibility of adding female segments presented itself?
Lord K: I always wanted a girl and a guy doing vocals for something I created musically. Eventually the time was right and TPH came about. I love having those contrasts. There are so many bands using this formula, what fucken sucks about is that most of those bands fucken stink. They have no power, they have no groove and they have no meaning. Fuck them. TPH was always meant to have the vocal wars between a man and a woman. And it must always be like that.
CR: In your bio you say “Late 2002 we fired former vocalissa Mia Ståhl” why did you fired her? (sorry for not been updated here but I didn’t found anything regarding this issue on your previous interviews)
Lord K: I was fucken tired of her shit persona and ideas. This was long ago and we are friends now, so it’s all cool. At the time of booting her I couldn’t stand her and it was either booting her or… booting her, hahaha… We had no choice to do what we wanted to do. I love Mia though; she’s a killer vocalist and a nice gal. I wish her luck with something inside the music business; she’s sure got the talent for it, though I don’t know if she’s even using it nowadays.
CR: I really like the approach of having a female singer that spews so much blasphemy while sounding so “angelical” it sort of gives it a “passive-aggressive” appeal to it that is very hard to find someplace else. Can TPH be TPH without female intervention?
Lord K: Not a chance. This concept sounds as it was always meant to sound so taking away one of those very important ingredients wouldn’t work with TPH.
CR: What happen with the Jackson guitars endorsement?
Lord K: Fuck Jackson. I play Ibanez, hahaha… Obviously Jackson didn’t understand the fuck up of not endorsing me but endorsing tons of shit artists for no good reason. Their time will come. Repent!
CR: There is a Word that I came across while reading other TPH interviews and that Word at least for me describes the “essence” of the music of the band… “Contrast”; what would you say could be a fair way to describe the band?
Lord K: “Contrasts” is a very, very fitting word to use for us. It’s one of many words actually. “Unique” is another. How many bands do you know of that can say that those 2 words fit in on what they are doing? That’s right, not fucken many at all. And we deserve those words. There should be a picture of us in the fucken dictionary next to those 2 words.
CR: The project hate has always have long songs, there is nothing wrong with that, but lately or lets say… currently bands tend to write short tracks, the ones that do write long songs are categorize as progressive (expect for the old school thrash bands); would it be possible for TPH to write and album with songs under 3 minutes long?
Lord K: On the second album we had some short tracks but that’s not how we want to do things now. We always had long songs and that was also a part of the plan. I like long songs as long as they keep you on yer toes, which is something I know we are doing. If we write something that is about 6 minutes it feels like I have written something for radio play, and we can’t have that, now can we?
CR: What does the future holds for TPH?
Lord K: Fame and fortune. Or a pair of sneakers. Fuck if I knew. It definitely holds some good music for you guys, that’s the most important aspect of it all.
CR: Ok man thank you for the time, I have to tell you I really enjoyed “In Hora Mortis Nostræ”; if you have anything else to add, please don’t be shy and be extensive! Cheers!!!!
Lord K: Thanx for a fine interview, man. We appreciate it. Support your local churchburner.
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