Seregor, guitarist and singer of CARACH ANGREN answered to our interview and spoke about sujects like the beginning of the band, his inspiration, the process of song composition as well as the incoming album.
Hi, I’m fine thank you. CARACH ANGREN is also doing great. We are currently preparing for our release in February. We are very busy with our work at the moment and more and more interesting things have been happening for CARACH ANGREN lately, so I proudly can say the band is doing very well.
Well, I was young and I always felt attracted to the metal side. I was 12 and I listened to RAGE AGAINT THE MACHINE and PANTERA. My taste for extreme music grew. I didn’t take long for me to become a dedicated death-metal listener. I got into bands like DEICIDE, CANNIBAL CORPSE, OBITUARY etc. Then I got inspired by metal acts like CRADLE OF FILTH, DIMMU BORGIR, MÖRK GRYNING, EMPEROR etc. Meanwhile I was already playing bass guitar. Lead/rhythm guitars came later.
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The previous bands I mentioned were a big influence on me. I still listen to them! Just listened to CANNIBAL CORPSE this morning 😉 But like everyone knows, when you get older, it’s normal you start listening to other kinds of music. I can listen to everything around me. Today I’m more inspired by simply film-music because I watch a lot of movies. Bands can inspire us these days especially when we work with them. To see and feel their energy everyday on tour. Bands like DARK FUNERAL, SEPTICFLESH and BEHEMOTH. But for me these days, movies and their music are maybe more of an inspiration than other bands. I think because Ardek is responsible for composing music that I’m very comfortable with. His music inspires me when it comes to guitar writing. I just try to write that, what I need to feel, when I hear it. But the main ingredient here is ‘horror’. I try to be inspired by the darkness and horror around me. I find it in movies, shocking news etc. But that’s more for concepts and lyric writing. Musically, things in CARACH ANGREN go naturally. We cannot imagine to be out of ideas.
Do you remember the first concert you saw?And on the other side, do you have some souvenirs about your first gig ? Was everything alright as excepted ?
Damn! I think it was a tiny open festival not far from where I lived. There played some death metal bands. One of them was GOREFEST. I got their autograph on my jeans. But It got washed out. I was like 16 years old. I believe that was the first concert I ever saw when it comes to ‘metal music’
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Our fist gig was in ‘Dingus’-Venray. And the funny thing here is. I remember a GOREFEST interview where I read that also they kept their first show ever in Dingus. I remember being nervous like Hell but all went great. It’s been closed for years now. But I somehow really liked that fucking place!
I’m not really picky about gear on stage. Of course I have to have a kick-ass sound on stage. But sometimes you simply have another amp when you cannot take yours on the plane or whatever. Normally I simply use my Engl Powerball amplifier. I play a Schecter Hellraiser 7 strings. If the sound has enough balls… the sound man will complete the job. Also it’s important to hear myself clear enough on monitors. As long I can do my job I think it’s good to improvise on different kinds of equipment. Personally I like the fact of not having ‘one’ specific sound on every show. After all.. It’s live. And CARACH ANGREN has already a specific sound by Ardek’s keys and Namtar’s drum-style. You will recognize us in a heartbeat, even without guitars. So guitar sound can change as long it kicks ass off course!
Patrick Damiani is an important member of CARACH ANGREN here. He is the studio/sound engineer and is responsible for all the technical matters. I bet even he doesn’t remember exactly what pedals/equipment we used for each recording.
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Well, I swing my arms around a bit. Stretch my fingers. Especially when it’s cold my warming-up takes more time. Sometimes I jump around a bit so my heartbeat goes up. All to get that blood flowing. I used to just start playing songs right away in the old days. It got me some nasty time consuming injuries.
Then I start to rehearse the complete songs when I’m warm. I can never train enough. My guitars are not that easy. Combining that with vocals is a hell of a job that needs constant practice.
Let’s speak now about the band, CARACH ANGREN, which I really love for many reasons, like for your creativity, the risk taken, the thema chosen and so on. I prefer to alert you, here are a serious bunch of questions, but I do hope that these questions will really help to better promote the band !
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Did you ever think in your previous bands, INGER INDOLIA and VAULTAGE, to create a massive horror atmosphere or did this idea only come out later ?
Yeah! It was quite certain Ardek and I wanted something like we are doing now. We always had a thing for horror. We just never knew in what shape it would come. And of course we never expected to have success with it like we do now.
Ardek and I met up in VAULTAGE. This was after Inger INGER INDOLIA. We already knew each other but in VAULTAGE we personally and musically clicked immediately. He and I always had a strong taste for symphonic black/death metal. If you listen to VAULTAGE you can clearly hear this trash/death metal style. On the other hand Ardek’s keys and my vocal sound already give it a symphonic black feel. During VAULTAGE we started CARACH ANGREN as a project. We rehearsed CARACH ANGRENsongs during the breaks of a VAULTAGE rehearsal hehe. Yeah. You can simply say we put our whole heart in it. Pure passion. Later Namtar came in the picture. He was also in VAULTAGE for some time. So when things started to fall apart in VAULTAGE it was time to call CARACH ANGRENa ‘band’. Since that time we are used to call our thing ‘The triangle’
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Why did you choose the name “CARACH ANGREN” for the band name ? Seems you were quite inspired the Silmarilion, is it the best book from Tolkien for you ? Many tales are present into this book but as far as I know you didn’t use them for the band.
The name Carach Angren goes way back before even Inger INGER INDOLIA. I was like 16/17 years old and I was inspired by Tolkien’s literature. I loved the sound of it. And I never read shit about dwarves or hobbits. Only the evil work about the land Mordor. About the Nazgul and the witch-king of Angmar. Sauron and Saruman. Tolkien’s work is fucking amazing! I think it still is one of the best stories that projects good and evil in a perfect way. There were already many bands/artists like GORGORTH, CIRITH GORGOR, MORGUL, DIMMU BORGIR, Shagrath, etc. who used this language. I remember writing a few songs during that time. I even remember titles!!! J “Moria’s Mysticism” “Valinor’s Darkening” “The forgotten gardens of malice” hehe Cheeky-ass teenage lyrics now I guess, but it meant something back then. It was our learning process.
Anyway, I had the Silmarrilion and I found the name Carach Angren. My other bandmates didn’t agree and we choose a Romanian name INGER INDOLIA. So.. maybe 8 years later! INGER INDOLIA died and Ardek and I needed a name for our project. I was at home and I had 3 drawers next to my bed. I was cleaning them. You know how it works when stuff falls behind the bottom drawer. You never look there. And because I was cleaning I took out that bottom drawer and what did I find? A folded paper covered with dust. I opened it and there it stood inside. The name “Carach Angren”. You have to know; I forgot this name all these years, since we chose for Inger Indolia. I thought FUCK YEAH . Later, Ardek agreed on that. So you see? It’s always hard to find a good band name. And CARACH ANGREN simply sounds “BAMMM”, like power to me. It’s not all too original because some bands already took some Tolkien names. But then again. The name was still free. It means “Iron Jaws”. Because it’s a passage through mountains of Iron. Their spiky tops look like teeth. So in Tolkien’s world if you walk through that passage, you walk straight into the center of Mordor. The plateau of Gorgoroth. So it’s all about the name. No further Tolkien lyrics/concepts.
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Speaking about bands speaking about Tolkien, I am sure that you know SUMMONING, do you share some interest into their quite atmospherical music ? It’s quite different for sure but maybe some alchemy with their style maybe possible.
Hmm.
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