PROCLAMATION: Interview 2012

PROCLAMATION Is one of the best black metal bands comming out of Spain, on the occasiopn of their imminent  upcoming release NETHER TOMBS OF ABADDON I done this interview with Bestial Offensor.

-Did you claim yourself as a bestial black metal act?

We are influenced by the Black Metal of bands like Bathory, Sodom, Blasphemy, Mystifier, Beherit, Impiety, Samael, Satanic Evil, Profanatica... before all the scandinavian trend in the 90’s.

We also take influences from real old Death Metal like Possessed, Hellhammer, Sarcófago, Necrovore, Holocausto, Sepultura, Pentagram, Abhorer, Obscurity...
So we play traditional Black Metal or real old school Death Metal.
What do you think of the bestial black metal scene, which are the artist that you like the most?
Most of nowadays bands that are labeled with that “Bestial Black Metal” tag are nothing but average modern Death Metal like Incantation’s second album with Black Metal posing pictures and occultist topics.
In the other side you have the gas-masked goat “War Metal” joke...
We like the old school analog productions, the obscure distortion of the tape and primitive riffs of pure evil.
Not technical and triggered drumming but bestial percussion with raw sound.
If you mean Blasphemy/Sarcófago/Beherit influenced bands when you say “Bestial Black Metal”, I recommend you Black Feast and Mockery. They are not well known but both really get that sound we are looking for. Total underground filth from the abysmal graves.

-How does it feel to work with a label like Nuclear War Now?

Best label around for us.

-Which are the main differences between Execration Of Cruel Bestiality and Nether Tombs Of Abaddon?
Not too  much. We are not going to change like Tiamat or Samael did, you know. So this new album is very similar to Execration... In other hand, since all our releases are self-produced, we always improve our sound in each album.

Who Is The main Artist behind your albums covers, and which is the meaning behind the album art?

All the layout artwork in our albums has been made for me.
The race of Azazel, the thousand scapegoats of Lilith, the Se'irim... The cadaveric skull faces reflect the fallen from grace and the birth of death. The horns and hair represent the animal instincts beyond human reason: sleeping bloodlust and hungry bestiality.

What satanism  means to you?

Like some authors in British Romanticism and French decadentism were identificated with the character of Satan in Paradise Lost, Satanism is attracted by the antagonists of the judeo-christian myths, like Lilith, Cain and his legacy, Nimrod, the Watchers from the Book of Enoch... The morals and beliefs of Satanism are closer to the religions of the ancient Egypt, Babylon, Phoenicia, Canaan, Ammon, Akkad... represented as diabolic cults in the old testament, and also closer to the Greco-Roman mysteries than the weak and false pledges of the Evangely. Satanism has risen in Occident as an answer to Christianity, and inversion of the monotheistic dogmas and mysticism.