> 1. your new album, Genesis, will be out this week.It's Rotting Christ's
7th
album to date, so how do you feel when you think about it?
Actually it is our 7 th full length release but anyway it is an album
succesor of a long history of a band and to be honest i feel stressed and
nervous the same as i was feeling a decade back We have an obligation to
release albums that could stand nowadays and they would be a step forward
otherwise do not make any sense to release albums just to release. That
would be not fair for the people that follow your band all those years and
in the end i am satisfied that we have just released another one album that
in my opinion could stand in nowadays music needs.
> 2.What is genesis about? each of your previous albums seem to have had a n
unique concept behind, so what is this one all about?
It has also a unique concept behind and with that title and album we refer
to
the birth of a new era that opposes to all high principled usages that
opposes to our nowdays moral values to opposes to our so called modern
religious societies that calls all the above EVIL. So with this title we
praise the rebirth of evil with its existential meaning which means that we
praise human beings hidden passions and sins
> 3. In your career you have experienced with a lot of different sounds.Is
there any major change that we should expect from Genesis?
Yes experimentation is a an important part in our carrer and with that
album we have experiment a lot with samples and keybords as well as with the
voice. I do not know if all that are a major change but it is definetely a
change that has created our most atmospheric outcome ever.
> 4. Are there any band/musicians/events that influenced your writing on
this
album?
Hmmmmm i do not think. Even if i love too many musicians' music i can not
say that we were based somewhere to compose this album. That would be the
end of our history as a band because i believe that somwhow we have created
our own sound and we do not really wish to create something that couldn't
characterized as ROTTING CHRIST.
> 5.You have just returned from Poland and tour greece at this time, Are you
planning an extended european tour?
Yes we are currently touring the Greek territory and in January we will have
our headline European tour and later on probably a South American tour. The
band would be on the road in order to feel the absolute energy which only a
gig can offer.
> 6.The cover of Genesis is quite impressive.were you thinking of a battle
between good and evil?
Yes our lives would always be an unending fight between good and evil and
with that cover the winner seems to be the evil so we praise the expression
of your hidden desires your hidden part of your soul in a not "good " way
that doesn't not step with our nowadays obsolete religious societies.
> 7.
You have recently announced the release of a live DVD in 2003.why did you
decide to do it now?
We have released some VHS tapes in the past but the whole situation with
video tapes couldn't be charactirized as official so now as DVD is getting
more popular and you can include too many extras we decided to release it
this time period.
> 8. You've been in this bussiness for a long time now.How is the metal
scene
now compared to the 80's when you started?
Yes we started back in very late 80's so we do not know too many things
about the scene all this decade but the sure thing is that everything was
too romantic back then we helped each other and the word competition was
not inclunded in our vocabluary. It was an expression of true feelings and
with the will to spread our music and our ideas asmuch as we can but later
on the big labels smelt "money" they came into the scene and the whole
situation became a part to the current globalization.
> 9.Who is sakis trolis nowadays? did Rotting Christ affected your evolution
as a person, or are you keeping the music and your personal life
separated?
Sakis Tolis is a person that is still involved with the music as believing
that is the most important part on his life ,he confess that he has
sacrificed many things in his life in order to have the band still but his
artistic concerns would stick always to music even if sometimes he is
disapointed too much from many things that takes part.
Playing in a band is my goal and i think that the experience we have
received as a band has overcome all the bad times and at the end we are
satisfied with what we are doing.
> 10.How do you see the metal in the third millenium?
From a revolutionary musical movement will become a mainstream one. Now if
that is good or not.......we will see.
> 1. your new album, Genesis, will be out this week.It's Rotting Christ's
7th
album to date, so how do you feel when you think about it?