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THE DEVIL’S BLOOD is quite the phenomenon. If you see pictures from one of their concerts, as was the case for yours truly, you might think the Dutch band is a grim and bloody affair through and through. Perhaps Black Metal?
This, however, is a stark contrast to what you experience when you listen to the new album ‘The Time of No Time Evermore’: light, progressive, 70s sounding hardrock as catchy as the sight of Rihanna’s arse.
The Power of Metal.dk’s Thomas wants to know what the entire concept is all about. THE DEVIL’S BLOOD guitarist and song writer SL answers as best as he can.
SL, ‘The Time of No Time Evermore’ is a fantastic album with a lot of soul, atmosphere, power and melody! Tell us about the band that created it. What made you do what you do and how did you come together?
SL: The Devil's Blood is basically a medium used to speak of the spiritual journey I am currently undertaking. My dreams, hopes, despairs, conquests and defeats on the left hand path are the building blocks I used to create the music and the words. Somewhere in early 2007 I had recorded some demos along with our singer and we then released this demo through our MySpace page. A great deal of interest followed this demo and it was decided that instead of keeping this a studio project to start performing live as well. Band members were selected and we started to perform our first Rituals in April of 2008.
Which tune off the album is your personal fave? For me, the hit potential of I’ll Be Your Ghost is obvious…but a song like Christ or Cocaine with its 80s guitar rock riff is also amazing…
SL: I have no personal favourite, each an every song on the album is perfect in the total. Each time I listen to the album myself, different pieces jump out at me and take me to new places, I think this is one of its great strengths; the ability to allow the listener to experience a new story each time you listen to it. I have of course listened to the album a lot in the last few months and still it is impossible for me to pick one out of these songs.
If I’m to trust the pictures I saw from your concerts, it is quite the experience. Do you work from a certain concept or does spontaneity rule when you play live?
SL: There is a certain amount of Chaos indeed, sometimes strange and wonderfully horrid things can happen and we relish in the opportunity to break down the walls of reason and allow the participants to become at one with a form of hedonism and chaos they have not seen before. We ourselves, as musicians, take a definite step back from the attention and let ourselves be used by the music to create as powerful an atmosphere we can by becoming "entranced" and entering a meditative state. The Music itself becomes a mantra through which we invoke the sinister energies which we call forth through the Words.
You will be heading out a European tour this winter, I trust?
SL: Actually not really, we will be doing a lot of one-off performances and a few very short trips with 3 or 4 performances in a row. We will be doing four Rituals with our brothers of Swedish Griftegard and we'll do a couple as support of Pentagram and Trouble. Also we'll be doing several other headline concerts and festivals all over Europe.
What is your audience like? I see before me a mixture of all sorts of metal fans?
SL: Indeed a rich mixture of metal heads, hard rockers, stoner rockers, psychedelia fans, spacers and droners, rock n rollers and punk rockers... A wide mixture but this is to be expected I think; we make music that is quite eclectic in its nature and thus can appeal to many people of different backgrounds. However, the most interesting demographic are the ones who seriously find some spiritual connection and are affirmed or introduced into Satan through our music and words.
If you were to point out the bands that you share kinship with in the present music scene, who would you mention?
SL: Watain, Urfaust, Saturnalia Temple, Hour of 13, NOX, Heretic amongst others but not that many to be honest, I see kinship as a form of "spiritual kinship" not musical. I could care less about musical kinship.
What are the five albums that you enjoy the most right now?
SL: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices / Tom Waits - Raindogs / Nuggets - Original Artyfacts from the first Psychedelic Era Compilation Part 1 through 4 / Roky Erickson - Evil One / Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions! Any last rants for our readers?
SL: It was my pleasure, we hope to haunt your dreams and corrupt your essence! Hail Satan!
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