A statement regarding a ghost from our past: Quart festivalen.
Friday, 3. October 2008, 22:38:08
So, history bites its own tail again, and i see a certain mr. Pål Hetland making some desperate attempts at revealing the "truth " from the Norwegian Quart festival in the form of a "shocking" book from behind the scenes. Drugs, sex, shock, outrage!!!
I thought i should make a "official" statement regarding this issue, in the eventuality that the subject be brought to attention again in connection with the release of this great new litterary masterpiece.
Hetland, offcourse was the person responsible for publicly making very disfavourable comments regarding the kovenant and our now fabled "bible burning incident" at the Quart festival in 2000.
Lemme say...he is now, as then...full of crap.
His ignorant and speculative comments concerning our performance and consequently "banning" us from performing in the city of kristiansand and the festival itself, was a hypocritical bunch of consious lies and a copout to the conservative forces and beurocratic fingers of the local legislative and clerical posse.
Why do i say that?
Well, becouse it was the festival itself that encouraged us and made sure we followed thru on the idea of mocking god in the city of godness.
They even went as far as to supply us with lighter fluid to make the motha burn. !!!
Then in a blaze of make-believe shock and outrage, they went ahead and publicly denounced our performance, and Mister Hetlend made a bunch of comments for the Norwegian media that drew very infavourable comaparisons to Hitlers nazi regime, and a whole other range of infentile subjects.
So anyways, i encourage people NOT to buy his book, i have no idea if this is even mentioned in it, but he proved himself as a creature of low moral fiber, and to be deemed that by my standards...makes you pretty fukkin low.
Also, if they were feeding people with drugs, we never saw any of that down there.
...and we would be the most obvious candidates to...errr..ask, so again...i think this is a token of selective history, and indeed...the mind of a bitter nobody.
-PZy Clone
WIDGETIZE
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Rodrigo # 5. October 2008, 19:34
Pzy-Clone # 5. October 2008, 21:24
I dont care... i just wanted to say it, in case it was mentioned in the book he wrote.
lol, wish i had the clip from the national newscast where he denounces us and calls us nazis lol.
We actualy made headlines with that stupid thing, and had bishops and whatnot openly calling for boicots etc.
So offcourse, we had to instigate as much as possible, and the festival people loved it. More pr..., and hell, it was good old fun.
And as a bonus, all of our families were ashamed and embaressed, so we knew we did somethign right
Also, great fun the day before at Roskilde, where we refused to cancel our show when all those people got stomped to death.
Hell, we needed the money goddamnit.!!!
And made headlines with that as well in the national newspapers, with the snappy header "Tears in church...satan on stage" LOL!!!
Ahh, good times.
-P
Anonymous # 8. October 2008, 10:59
"Ahh, good times."
You can do nothing to make them come back, but you can hope for some more fun during the future shows.
Because you will perform in the future, right?
Pzy-Clone # 8. October 2008, 21:25
...but that does not distract me from the fact that they are good memories indeed, whatever the future will reveal.
-P
Rodrigo # 9. October 2008, 04:58
Pzy-Clone # 9. October 2008, 14:04
And besides...its not LIke we gave a shit, we were just stoked to be playing roskilde, u know.
Dammned if some dead stomped-on people were gonna take that away from us.
-P
Rodrigo # 9. October 2008, 20:14
Pzy-Clone # 9. October 2008, 22:46
-P
Rodrigo # 9. October 2008, 23:47
Yes..
Anonymous # 12. October 2008, 12:10
While I don't agree with that Hetland dude, I personally think it's a very weak sign to do such a thing during a live show. Your awesome music already makes clear that you guys don't take kindly of some personal life choices that people make, but burning a bible on stage is like degrading yourselves to those terrorists who think it's fun to burn their enemey's flag and kill prisoners and then broadcast it to the public.
you guys toured so much after Animatronic came out, but it was pretty quiet after SETI, so I'm really hoping to see you as soon as Aria Galactica is finally released!
Pzy-Clone # 13. October 2008, 21:20
We did that alot here in norway ...remember?
Weak? realy, i shall let you do the passing of judgement in that matter, i dont care...from a politicly correct point of wiev, sure...maybe so. But we are a band, and could not care less.
yeah we did, we toured our asses of after Ani...and With Seti...we also wanted to...but we were not so well received.
We had booked tours actualy..but decided to pull them becouse we didnt like the terms and response we were getting...
next time tho...
-P
Anonymous # 15. October 2008, 18:45
What do you mean by 'not well received'? By whom? The Kovenant'a fans? I thought that most of them liked Seti. It's hard to believe that there was no demand for live shows.
Anonymous # 17. October 2008, 12:11
I think that Hellhammer's departure from the band after SETI was released caused the cancellation of the tour. He stated in an interview that "That was the worst piece of shit I ever played on".
Oh boy, I think he's going to regret he left the band after he hears Aria Galactica...
Anonymous # 18. October 2008, 02:19
Pralat, I've found that most Kovenant fans don't like SETI. They're stuck in the past and complain how how Kovenant isn't black metal anymore. I like SETI, and most of the people who I've assimilated into Kovenant fans think that SETI is the best album. Since Aria will be an awesome piece of work, the old Kovenant fans will discipate and a new order of modern Kovenant fans will slowly arise.
In my opinion, SETI is one of those albums that you have to listen to more than once in order to understand how awesome and intricate each track is. I only really like Acid Theatre at first, but then the album grew on me and now it's one of my all time favourites. I'm sure most people listened to it once and were too stuck up to give it another listen or two. Because it's not "black enough".
Rodrigo # 18. October 2008, 05:37
Anonymous # 19. October 2008, 13:51
Closed Metalheads don't like Seti...
There's a world enough to know.
Pzy-Clone # 19. October 2008, 14:56
-P
Anonymous # 19. October 2008, 19:23
Yes, We should move, indeed.
Rodrigo # 19. October 2008, 20:48
Anonymous # 20. October 2008, 07:08
You are working on AG for a long time. What is your opinion about the first tracks for AG that you made?
Are you satisfied with you work or do you rather think that you should re-do it from the begining?
I'm asking because it's a common thing, that when looking at the past, one often believes that some things could be done better.
Pzy-Clone # 21. October 2008, 13:43
quite honestly, the trax for the album are very well written, and im not touching the arrangements...but what HAS changed alot for me, is my setup and ability to program a symphonic sound...the Aria demos sound very banal now in that regard, and thats basicaly what i have been doing the last years...and now im getting involved in tv work and all them movie biz peeples..wich is a bit strange.
But nontheless, i will try not to go and redo everything, but the urge to always be better....argh...
it rides me like a cheap whore, always.
-P
Anonymous # 28. October 2008, 22:06
Threshold: -30db
Ratio: 6:1
Attack: 3ms
Release: 15ms
Makeup Gain: Infinity
I rest my case :blush: .
Anonymous # 12. November 2008, 16:18
Hey. metal in thirty years. what's it gonna be like when we're all old?
Metal has always been a "young people's kind of music" (maybe I'm wrong) but thirty years from now you guys will probably just be much better musicians. Wise old unholy-men of metal.
Do you think that when everyone gets old, extreme metal will become really "anti-image" or will the physicial appearance of age become part of the extreme metal image?
After all, corpsepaint would look a hell of a lot more terrifying on keith richards face than on my fresh boyish 19 year old face.
Pzy-Clone # 13. November 2008, 01:19
Hes assuming the earths population will somehow fail to reproduce new offspring the next 30 years to make way for new ideas and directions.
My plan is to assimilate myself into popular culture and write music for mainstream movies and television, but to bear proudly the heritage of Norwegian Metal in all my works, and spread the innevitable darkness of my mind into the poor unborn generations to come.
The worst thing i know is not doing things with dignity ...if its gone, its gone, dont cling on the past and become a poor reproduction of yourself. I will walk away from anything that doesnt feel honest and vital, but im sure some of these lesser types will cling on to their makeup and grimmnes like ..errr ,grim death.
But yes, the world belongs to the young, and all things must change and progress...realize this and do things with honour, always.
In other words, dont be pathetic.
its just soo....pathetic.
get old, hit the gym, take care of yourself and meet lifes transition with grace. And we shall all be fine.
Keith Richards already looks like a corpse, he dont need no paint...
Also Wulf, thats much too hard compression, youll end up sounding like all the other overcompressed crap out there these days.
Be aware that compression is often used to compansate for poor contents...as long as it sounds right, "nevermind whats in there" school of tought...just loud sounds that cover the enitre frequency range.
A good sepereation of frequencies in the respective parts of your ensemble is a much better way to bring clarity and punch to the sound then squeezing the crap out of every sound untill its at 0.01 DB.
_P
Anonymous # 16. November 2008, 13:02
hehe i was a bit joking there, i agree that smart use of dynamic & effect processors is meant to be heard subtile, unless the material needz to have really audible side effects such as pumping & sidechaining
..and yes, the sign of good mixing is making compromises between fundemental frequencies of each instrument and putting stuff into the right places
r u still a sx3 user or u went with the flock to the version 4 ? =)
Pzy-Clone # 16. November 2008, 18:20
-P
Anonymous # 20. November 2008, 21:23
Hi,
What happened with the announced re-release of In Times Before The Light
that was supposed to happen in 2007 on VME/Head Not Found imprint? Was it actually released or will be someday or actually the entire project was dropped indefinitely?... Any chance to see Aria Galactica finally released sometime in 2009? :-)
Regards,
J.
Pzy-Clone # 20. November 2008, 21:55
-P
Anonymous # 25. November 2008, 23:29
Seems like you didn't even care about those people getting stomped to death... I see why you didn't cancel the show but still it's quite a terrible thing to happen, don't you think? Umm, not to critizise you in anyway, I rather ask out of curiousity.
What can I say, more than that? I'd be euphoric if Aria was released in 09 but I guess that won't happen. I wish you all the best and hope the work with the new album will go well for you!
Pzy-Clone # 26. November 2008, 16:06
People are born and die every day in huge numbers, why should i be affected by the innevitable death of a few strangers?
It was not of my doing , so im not gonna be hypocritical and pretend its a such a big tragedy in the grand scheme of things.
But...Obviously its a tragedy for anyone to be snuffed out under the horrible circumstance of listening to Pearl Jam. That invokes alot of sympathy from my part indeed.
-P
Anonymous # 27. November 2008, 17:08
So you're saying they actually died during a Pearl Jam gig? Oh man, that's rough.
I guess your opinion about their deaths is pretty logic from a little more nihilistic viewpoint. I myself don't feel sad for them, although I think it's a sad thing to happen.
Especially now after being told they were listening to Pearl Jam. D'oh.
(Listening to Star By Star right now, by the way :D)
Pzy-Clone # 27. November 2008, 20:15
-P
Säm Danîel # 28. November 2008, 22:37
Pzy-Clone # 29. November 2008, 00:48
Some good moments, but that Axl character is way to pompous for his own good.
Anyway i never liked guns and roses except Appetite, so i dont realy care much either way.
I think he released it just to spite pepsi, or coke, or whatever it was.
-P
Säm Danîel # 30. November 2008, 00:42
He is isuing a factory of fast food or something like that lol. So yes "I think he released it just to spite pepsi, or coke, or whatever it was". It must be that. LoL.
How long will you be workng on Tv stuff more or less?
Säm Danîel # 24. December 2008, 20:21
Pzy-Clone # 27. December 2008, 04:56
This time of year makes me feel dead and useless, alot of water has passed under the bridge...enuff to keep me flaoting, but too much ...and i will drown.
For now im just holding my breath trying not to stay under for too long at a time.
Be well, and dont let them fukkin pigs hold you down.
-P
Anonymous # 1. January 2009, 14:21
Happy new year psy. Hope this year to be the year of Aria galactica!!!!
Cheers :)
Anonymous # 1. January 2009, 17:36
Happy New Year old guitarist!
Pzy-Clone # 2. January 2009, 22:05
I dont like people who think their age is commodity to be laid forth in bargain, if one cannot offer up anything else then relative youth as a personal commodity, i feel sorry for the day your surroundings deem you worthless and expired.
We create our own reality, or should do so anyway...i never adhered to social dictation or the rigid ideas of age convention.
I was always older then my years, i thought...i assumed as time went on, i would find more common ground with my surrounding innhabitants...
well, big surprise then, that this has failed to materialize.
In fact, its rather the opposite...the youthfull inquisition of coming great mystery and endless option are slowly transforming to bitter indignation, lost purpose and broken illusions ...
IN other words, people seem to grow more stupid as they get older.
...or perhaps they always were that way, perhaps im just less tolorant of it.
In either way, i am far from set in my ways, i have purpose, and destination...and for that, i shall never grow old.
And yes, may the new year be all that you make of it, lets not lay it all to waste and make the world a easier place for lesser beings.
It is , after all...ours to qonquer, and theirs to loose.
-P
Anonymous # 3. January 2009, 07:27
"IN other words, people seem to grow more stupid as they get older.
...or perhaps they always were that way, perhaps im just less tolorant of it."
yes; you are absolutely right. As shown in multiple studdies, a human bening's inteligence deciles as they age. taken to the extreme, this will yeld a non-thinking approach to life. moreover, as you encounter more people, you will inedindably find more idiots; and I know that I am certanly less tolerant myself rthe more idiots I encounter. This is the problem with being inteligent, you cannot find anyone who meashures up to your standards and begin to hate everyone. misanthropy.
with all of that said; I still have to find a female that is as smart as me, or face genetic death. the strong survive; however, the strongest reproduce. (if only we smart ones did not make that so easy!)
for those that care; the mind eveolves along with the body.
Rodrigo # 3. January 2009, 22:30
Pzy-Clone # 3. January 2009, 22:51
Why, in fact it seems to be the opposite...the weaker parts of nature HAS to reproduce in large quantities to be able to keep up, so that why we always see that the poorer parts of the world and nature is overpopulated with more uselessness, while we contain those funfctions to a bare minimum elsewhere. ...simply becouse we dont need 44 children to hold our lives together.
I dont know, i dont think of intelligence in any other way then in practical terms.
Meaning that, one can be as evolved or intelligent as non other, but it means nothing unless put into a practical context, and results in production or some sort of tactile result.
I judge people for what they have done and produced, not from what they are by default.
And strength...in genetic terms is not the same as in Social and moral terms. For instance, a cancer...wich by definition is darwinism and natural selection in its purest form, will not be determined by the morality and willpower of its subject, but by other biologicly determined factors we do not have direct mental control over.
And those that shrug it off, and adapt our common dna towards present and future threats and sickness, will not even be aware of it ...and are by no means certain to reproduce and make sure the right genes are prolonged.
I always found it facinating, that we have in many ways taken command of natures basic principles for the time being, that we have no predator or enemy that will keep us in line other then ourselves.
Man is perhaps another animal, but it is a interesting animal if you manage to look away from all the trite mundanity that surrounds it...we are self made gods in many ways, we cast aside natural laws and design our own reality.
For the time being atleast...im quite sure it will prove futile in the long run and biology will find a way to dispose of the intruders.
But anyway, my point was...dont resent people for being less then yourself, simply ignore them and make important to yourself what is YOUR reality, not the one others would like to impose on you.
That is my approach anyways---i dont care about the ideas and opinions that i do not support of innhabit, i simply choose them away from my life.
And also...offcourse the wear and tear of passing years will dull you senses, but it is within possible reach to always improve and accumulate new experience and knowledge...i think that people grow more content with being nothing at certain ages...all the goals one were told to have have either been reahced... or have dismantled, so people stop aspiring towards anything as time progresses ?
-P
Anonymous # 4. January 2009, 05:46
ladies and gentalmen, here we are the truth seakers corrupt and immoral!
"one can be as evolved or intelligent as non other, but it means nothing unless put into a practical context, and results in production or some sort of tactile result." I have to confess; I agree, but for different reasons. from a gene's point of view, what is the importance of intelligence? that is simple - reproduction; reproduction in any enviorment. inteligence was 'invented' to eliminate the need to addapt to the surroundings by givving the human the abbility to do that without the help ov evolution. that beggs the question: what use then is greater than par intelligence? well, to natural selection, there is no use. therefore, intelligence should be used for something and, as you put it, should produce something tactile.
man must reproduce none the less you see. the more intelligent must then either never see the darwinean poinlessness of their intelligence or face it with conviction. "Man is perhaps another animal, but it is a interesting animal if you manage to look away from all the trite mundanity that surrounds it...we are self made gods in many ways, we cast aside natural laws and design our own reality." the designing of our own reality is how the intelligent support their own reporduction. god is only for the good of his creator, man. therefore, man and god are one in the same.
as for simply ignoring my imbicel cohorts, I already do that! Though quite a bit differently than you it seems. I don't ignore them completely, I don't have that privlage, I simply don't hold them to any standard.
"i think that people grow more content with being nothing at certain ages...all the goals one were told to have have either been reahced... or have dismantled, so people stop aspiring towards anything as time progresses ?" I believe and have experinced in my relatives that, as time progresses, the ammount of work required to do anything increases with our increased need for perfection. let me explain. as a human experinces more and more, they become attuned to how things should be done, particularly the things other consider them good at. the more attuned a human is to how something should be done, the more likely they are to execute themselfs this way. as the process approaces perfection it neers impossibility. perfection is immposible after all. therfore, the older we get the less we aspire to anything.
I would like to debug you theory of evolution. "Why, in fact it seems to be the opposite...the weaker parts of nature HAS to reproduce in large quantities to be able to keep up" the waeker parts of nature are the parts that don't reproduce, the strong reproduce in mass. secondly, (if you where correct about their need to reproduce) what would they have to keep up with? the stronger(more fit's) millons of offspring? so you have it backwords, the strong are strong because they reproduce in large quantities, the week week because they don't.
I think that as it turns out, we are both right and the communication causes the dissagreement. I am glad that I can finaly discuss the twisted implications of evolution with someone, so I wish only the best for you (so that we may later converse on other topics).
good night
-jimmy
Säm Danîel # 18. January 2009, 22:40
Pzy-Clone # 19. January 2009, 22:57
I
like
money.
More
specificly:
I
like
to
make
money.
Especially
when
i
spendt
aeons
of
time
and
effort
on
something.
And
im
happy
with
the
results.
Why
Should
We
Not
profit?
The
Price
of
Records
are
not
abusive,
people
are.
If
i
should
set
the
price
of
the
new
album
it
would
cost
one
million
dollars.
Säm Danîel # 20. January 2009, 00:40
Sorry anyway, i didnt want :S feelings!!
Pzy-Clone # 20. January 2009, 15:36
The album will be rendered at 192KHZ 32Bit for future integrity, as well as keeping the option for new formats and possibly a Hi-def surround version as well.
Lps dont fit into that equation anymore.
Neither do cds, and especially not Dloads.
But from the three, a compact disc is the lesser evil.
How much , in theory about 10-15% of the selling price goes into our pockets, in practise, more like...2%.
But that is not the point here, i do not have the time or capacity to start doing single handedly the job, that now requires a full record company of 30+ employees.
I would rather give away our music for "free" (nothings realy free...) if i could, and had no financial interest in it anymore.
But i do, so dont make any assumptions that i dont.
I say so becouse i fully mean that i have payed my dues to the grim reaper and after many years of hard dedication towards myself and my own possibility (wich some will feel iv`e squandered as of late) i deserve a small fortune.
By my own admission, and standards that is.
So i shall get that, eventualy.
or lest i perish in its absence.
_p
Säm Danîel # 20. January 2009, 20:23
I also think that the cd's sucks in a way. So then I'd do what you say, give the best at best price, on my opinion I defend artist sacrification in their work and all the time that they spend creating a huge amount of work, that then is presented on a cd, that sounds simillar to a 320 kb qlity mp3 song that costs 20€, i rather pay something more knowing that I will have something better like a 5.1, than a cd.
Once you said that Aria would be in to pieces, the orquestral side, and the original side. Would you release in hi def both? well you also give a huge presence to the artistic side of the art concepts on the cd's. Have you thought about what kind of design you want for it? Or you will say to an artist to create something?
Pzy-Clone # 21. January 2009, 20:45
On every album besides SETI, i have persosaly made very specific requests for the design and concept, all the way from first conception of a basic song structure, to band photos, albumd design and anything related .
For example, Nexus Polaris was a very weird experience, i simply explained to Lex\Nagash what i thought the album cover should look like in detail, and he went to the record company and told them without me knowing, lol.
So i suddenly got the album design presented without ever knowing it was even made, but it was a perfect visualisation of my idea, from the artist we wanted.
I was very positivly surpised, but somewhat worried that my random ideas would be transcribed so fast into reality without ever knowing they were not mere fantasies.
But anyway, The ARIA cover was started on a long time ago, but the artists has failed to finish it so far, but im on his back.
Its gonna be a perfect embodiement of all the the record is, and all the we envision.
_p