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Hello, and thanks a lot
for your time! First of all, please introduce your
project to the readers who are not familiar with it.
DerDRAKOS: We are Alex Drakos and S.J.Drakos. We
create and produce high energy electronic music tracks.
We have founded our band in early 2005. Our plan is to
create wild power to blast in your cars, clubs, homes,
raves and individual wars.
Since you are a father-son project, I am pretty
curious to know the answer on this question: how did
things get started with DerDrakos?
DerDRAKOS: The younger one, Alex Drakos was born
with Atari's, Sega's and Playstations in his hands. The
older one, S.J.Drakos was playing bass and guitar
showing his son how the computer programs and drum
machines were working. We soon realized that we both
liked the powerful hammering base of techno music, but
were laughing at the silly sounds and nonsense vocals
they usually put over it. So we started our experiments
of hard electronica with hard guitars (which is still
anathema for both the techno and the metal scenes, but
we don't give a damn and just do what we want). Then we
decided to: 1) build our own tracks, 2) invite our best
friend, artist SuzyMG to cast the spell of her special
voice on the track lines, and also do her amazing
graphics for our covers, 3) produce and propagate our
CD's.
What are your main influences? And how would you
describe your music?
DerDRAKOS: Our music is called Industrial Techno.
It is made of sheer power, as simple and brutal as the
animal instinct and intelligence: they work through the
connections of nerves in our brain and body that convey
the electricity of movements and of decisions. This is
also how the mediums or any persons involved in psychic
practices call the spirits: electricity with will. And
the Moon is a huge magnet, lightnings are electric
blasts, etc. As artists, we elaborate this cosmic
strength that flows in our veins through the machines
that we have at our disposal. About the influences from
other musicians in our sound we don't know what to say
exactly, you may just guess it by yourself.
How do you guys create your songs?
DerDRAKOS: By burning our minds on the keyboards
searching for the best lines, sounds, arrangements,
lyrics, singing, mixing and recording of every track. We
hate everything that tastes of fucking 'Goodness', we
like to shoot our mind's iron on this world through our
hard kicks, our visions and our writings.
Now lets talk about your album. It came out this year,
and got various good critics from DJs and zines all over
the world. But, how do you look upon the "Lust for Chaos"
CD yourself? And did you expect these great responses?
DerDRAKOS: It's interesting to see the reactions
from different people: they dance to DerDRAKOS and have
their own sensations and points of view on every song,
this is great, they email us thoughts on how they feel
about us. The support that we are getting from many DJs,
radios, magazines and our Fans, is super. "Lust for
Chaos" is the first release of our art and sound, we
just started, there’s much more under construction.
What is your favourite song of the album, and why?
S.J.Drakos: Maybe "Out Of Control" for the
matching of guitars and techno that we did in full hot
summertime, or "Dictator Girls Rule" which is my taste
about ladies.
Alex Drakos: "Joy Thru Fury" because I made it in
less than one month, ha ha. But I like the whole CD,
specially the cover with my face on it.
SuzyMG: "Lust For Chaos", it's pure energy, the
lyrics I sing are also a tribute to the 1960 movie "The
Mask Of Satan" ("Come closer, look into my eyes" of
awesome British actress Barbara Steele).
The album sounds really agressive and Satanic, while
the lyrics are really supportive to this. Are you guys
Satanists yourselves, and how do you look upon this
world?
S.J.Drakos: Everyone knows that 'God' does not
exist, is a typical middle-Eastern hoax. Instead, we can
feel very well the presence of mighty energies from the
abyss of Nature, which we can evocate and unleash
through the powers of art and technology: they are our
great ancient Demons. This is the very essence, the
roots of our European culture and identity. All those
revolting monotheistic fairy tales are nothing but alien
tyranny, they have nothing to do with the free spirit of
us Europeans: we are wild and ironic just like our own
eternal Demons. And we are still deeply Pagan,
Diabolical, Atheists, Magic, Rational and possess much
sense of humour even after centuries of alien
mind-repression. It's a force that we have under our
skin, we must learn to use it again. The fast rage that
we are releasing through our DerDRAKOS tracks is no
teenage whining: it's the fury that comes from thousands
years of alienation from our own original nature. Our
industrial music is bringing our Western Demons back (we
will never call them 'Gods' again, because that word has
been poisoned forever by the miserable lonely-God)...
You ask us if we're Satanists: if by the word Satan you
mean Dionysos, the fierce Hellenic spirit of joy, then
our answer is Hell Yes! But there's much more that fuels
our instinctive scorn and total riot. We look around us
and what do we see everywhere? Politicians from the
'left' to the 'right' who are all the same comedians
with their lousy little 'values', sociologists and
psychologists (that sort of fashionable brain-priests
telling everyone 'what is wrong in you') and smiling
preachers of a pathetic 'world brotherhood', holy
teachers of 'tolerance', morality mothers castrating you
'for your own good' (that's their typical phrase), cheap
sharks who became saints of the blessed market, vicars
of old stupid religions and their ass-licking hysterical
nutters, effeminate musicians who squeak for the 'love
of mankind', plus all the clownish press, tv and media
bullshit thrown in our face every single day. All these
buffoons will never lift one finger for you, but they
demand for you to be 'good' and 'correct'. They need you
to be weak, half-ill, afraid to call things with their
real name, full of guilt, remorse, forgiveness,
compassion and other wholesale idiocies, so you will be
their fat 'buyer'. They are all preaching your
sublission to nothingness, your comfortable
annihilation... Now what can you do to free yourself
from this global squalor? First, a healthy laugh. Never
forget that we are the descendants of very cruel
warriors and witches. We can masticate those poor fucks.
Stand strong and proud in your own world, and create.
You have the Devils inside, it's your own fire. Our wise
Pagan ancestors used to say that freedom lies on the
edge of your sword, so you better stay powerful!
Are you doing live shows as well? If no, are you
planning on doing them in the future? And if yes: what
can a stranger expect when he visits a live show of you?
DerDRAKOS: Yes we play live. It's a release of
vital energy for everyone.
To me, Czech Republic is mostly known for their
excellent grindcore and death metal scene. But how is
the industrial scene in Czech Republic? And what are
your personal experiences when it comes to the Czech
people and your music?
DerDRAKOS: We come from Greek/Italian families.
CZ is just great. However, we are more into the
worldwide scene than just a local one. And people is
sick everywhere, the whole planet looks like is going to
enter into a new world war pretty soon, many bands are
laying down the soundtrack for the big show. We'll see.
What can we expect of DerDrakos in the future?
DerDRAKOS: We keep burning new tracks all the
time, trying to go deeper into the storms of our minds.
With new she-Wolf lyrics too, as the female element of
superior charm is very important for us.
The interview ends here, thanks a lot. If you have
some final words to add, please do it here.
DerDRAKOS: Use our tracks to be young and strong,
boys and girls. We love to see your eyes Devil-red with
joy thru fury.
Interview by: Gerardo (September 2006) |
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