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First of all, please introduce your band to the
readers.
Helalyn Flowers is our definitive breaking with all that
we consider usual, boring and trite. We born from our
real will to perform the music we've ever wished and
wanted to buy in a record-store and NOT the usual good
music! We perform Electro-Rock in which powerful drum-beats,
heavy'n crushing guitars, amazing female vocals,
atmospheric orchestrations, synth-pop keys, trip-hop
patterns, catchy refrains, acoustic intimity and digital
asepsis madly live together. We've realized the "Disconnection"
MCD in 2005 and "E-Race Generation" in 2006. Find the
rest in what that follows here!
How did things get started?
Well, it happened in a very natural and spontaneous way...so
it's very hard for us to go back to the first day of
life of the band. We just can say you that both of us
played in a previous band, The Claw, which was in
between the groove and aggressivity of Nu Metal and the
decadent melody of modern Gothic Metal, but we stopped
it because we really wanted to perform OUR stuff in our
way. So, Helalyn Flowers took form!
The name 'Helalyn Flowers' has a cool sounding and
kind of reflects the music you make in a way too. Who
made up the name, and has it any special meaning?
It indicates an absurdity, a paradox, an incompatibility...Something
impossible. But we do believe in impossible. We love it.
The name stands for something that takes life from
something it couldn't.
How would you describe your music, and what are your
main influences?
Our sound is the definitive filter of what we perceive
and feel from all we like to listen to. But we are
stimulated by visual art, erotic/fetish imagery,
alternative fashion too...Yeah, our fetishes are part of
our music too! More strictly concerning what we listen
to, we can say that our record-collection actually seems
to belong to a psychopatic, ahah!!! We simply appreciate
what we like and what gives us intense emotions. It's
very difficult for us to identify our influences... Once
we finish a new track, listening to it we can make out
similarities with other bands, but in the creative phase
we are like sleepwalkers. Our istinct prevails.
The year 2005 brought us your debut release named
'Disconnection'. It recieved various great critics from
press and fans all over the world. Did you expect this
great enthausiasm, and how do you look back on
'Disconnection' nowadays?
To be honest, yes, we expected in some way this success.
We hardly wished that. We born with a very high target
in our minds. And we aim to higher and higher results.
More than one year after the release of "Disconnection"
we look at it as the best a band at the very beginning
can do. We still love it, listen to it and sing it every
day. Yes, we'd change various things concerning
arrangement, but we think it's very natural for anyone
blindly loves playing his own music and is fully into
it. However, all "Disconnection" tracks are going to be
re-arranged and re-recorded together with the new ones.
Your latest release, a 3-track single called 'E-Race
Generation', has just came out and got good critics from
IndustrializedMetal.tk, even better critics than your
debut release. What do you think of the three-track
single yourself? And what are the main differences
compared to your debut release?
"E-Race Generation" totally reflects the period in which
we created it and shows in some way our future even
mantaining the main characteristics of our sound
launched out with "Disconnection". It's a brilliant
point, which has been able to let understand our
direction to our fans and to us too! It's really
powerful, explosive, violent, intense, nervous... It
stands out from "Disconnection" for the more massive use
of electronics, the heavier sound of guitars, the more
immediacy of the songs and 1000 others! The coolest
thing is that people has recognized out trade-mark and
this makes us really happy, man!
Out of all the songs released on both 'Disconnection'
and 'E-Race Generation', what is your favourite song and
why?
"Voices". The synth-riff is extremely attractive, the
groove is really strong, N0emi's vocals are simply
beautiful, the refrain is one of the catchiest we ever
wrote, the middle-part with the strings is absolutely
thrilling and the lyrics are totally acid and visionary!
Is it enough?
How would you describe the other bandmember within
just one word?
Stars.
There are a lot of good Italian industrial acts who
are (trying to) getting more known these days, and some
of them seem really close to a break-through. Do you
think there could be any explanation why all the new
talents seem to be based in Italy? And how is the
industrial scene over there anyways?
The real fact is that Italy has always been full of
excellent acts, but just now they are more considered
outside Italy probably 'coz of the enormous success of
bands like Lacuna Coil. From one point of view all it's
due to the will of labels, promoters, radios, agents,
magazines to discover the next italian big thing and
from the other one I see that the kids here are becoming
more courageous and maybe there's someone more ready to
risk job, family and girlfriend to make the definitive
"jump". But some years ago this wasn't possible and a
lot of bands next to the big foreign deal drew back
giving outside their country the idea of being just
fucking losers and totally unprofessional people. Maybe
this compromised a lot the fame of italian bands in the
foreign lands. Fortunately, now things are gonna change
and it couldn't surprise us at all to see some acts fo
ours making the definitive break-through. But it depends
a lot on the will of the band to do it.
Since I have booked and interviewed several Italian
industrial acts already, I got the chance to ask them
the same question as I am going to ask you too. So far,
they all had a negative answer, but I am still trying to
get a positive one hehe. How does the local audience
reply on new, local industrial acts as far as you know?
People here is totally distrustful, blindly considers as
gold the thousand foreign trendy-clone just because it's
not italian. The mentality of some bands isn't different
at all. It's full of nerds and thugs that spend whole
days in front of the pc having fun to defame the work of
other bands just for the pleasure of having created some
hatred. So, you find bands that stupidly bear them a
grudge and waste their time to justify their actions and
the source of their work and other bands, instead, that
simply ignore these childish behaviours with derision
first and indifference then. You see, a lot of people
play music here just for the satisfaction of showing
others the fact that they play in a band, but they don't
care at all to write really good music. Once they are
near to be 30 they get married, build up a family and
think only to go to work. And fulfill their free time
with stupid hobbies. And they regret. Regret. Regret.
No, there isn't any scene here, just little pathetic
circles of some "allied" bands sometimes really envious
and only ready to make the new gossip. We've always been
out of any circle, pseudo-scene or elite it be. we are
friendly to the ones that are friendly with us too don't
giving a fuck of the rest. We are too busy with our band
to have time enough to waste, sorry.
According to your website, your next step will be
developing some killer live shows. Could you please tell
us what we can expect of that?
First of all, we want to let you and all your readers
note that Jeez from Adam ( the real next Electro/Goth
revelation) has joined Helalyn Flowers playing
synth/samples and FX/noises in the live performances.
You shouldn't have to wait so much for our foreign
live-performances...We just can say you that they will
be based on the impact and the energy. We've seen too
much bands that even having made really good albums
aren't able to transfer the explosivity of their studio-
sound into the live thing. We always loved bands with a
real charisma and that do shake your ass instead of let
you yawn!
What else can we expect of Helalyn Flowers in the
(near) future?
The definitive boom...??!?
Thanks a lot for answering the questions. If you have
some final words to add, please do it here.
Thank you so much for this pleasant interview and for
all your support and kindness as well. Just one thought
in closure...It'd be so much beautiful that people may
start to think with their own mind and may feel free to
appreciate the music they really feel to love. Get out
of the ghetto and just believe in what music has meant
to be: absolute and free communicativity.
Interview by: Gerardo (September 2006) |
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