DARK FUNERAL To Begin Writing New Material

Joe D. of Metal Hell magazine recently conducted an interview with DARK FUNERAL guitarist/founding member Lord Ahriman. A few excerpts from thechat follow:

Metal Hell: How much of the next album is written?

Lord Ahriman: Not much, but the plan is that we're gonna finish off the touring we have scheduled at the moment, I think we're gonna be done on November 26th. After that we're gonna have a short break and then I'm gonna start writing for a new album, and I guess depending on what happens, the plan is to keep a low profile during the next year and focus on a new album.

Metal Hell: Did you have much involvement with the reissues?

Lord Ahriman: Yeah, pretty much, I'm the only guy who still has stuff that's unreleased, so I thought all that part out.

Metal Hell: Why wasn't the original 1994 EP released with those?

Lord Ahriman: We don't have the rights for it, and also that had been reissued under various names without our approval. I wanna make clear that all of those reissues of "In The Sign" are not approved by us. I think it's all about ripping the fans off, making different color(s) on the booklets and stuff like that, and I've told them about it, that I'm not too happy about it.

Metal Hell: It seems anti-Christian ideals are accepted now more than in the past. Do you think people are thinking more for themselves these days?

Lord Ahriman: I guess so, but I think people don't really need religion anymore. It's belongs to the ancient times. It's not like a 2000th century kind of thing. I think humans have progressed in the world a little bit, but there's still a lot of religious excrements that seems to get more extreme by time, which is of course a worrying sign. It's all about hypocrisy. Religion is nothing but a hoax, so I guess the stories are finally getting out. Before I guess they managed to keep it behind locked doors, but now the press have really got to it so they are exposing what's really going on, that's it's a big fraud; it's good that people realize that it's just a big fraud.

Metal Hell: I noticed the live sets are usually around 70 minutes, why not longer?

Lord Ahriman: In two hours, I think both us and the crowd would get bored, so it's better to keep it instant and as quick as possible. I think the set we are doing now is around… under 80 minutes and I think that that's enough with our kind of music. It all depends on what kind of music you play, 'cause we are mainly doing the faster stuff live. I think the audience would just get bored if we kept on (playing for) another 20 minutes.

Metal Hell: Would you like to include any slower stuff on the next album?

Lord Ahriman: We'll see, when were writing & recording the last album the idea was to actually go a bit slower, but I guess you know what happened. So even if we plan some stuff; how we want the next album to sound, it never goes that way, so that's why I usually say whatever comes out comes out. To plan things doesn't work really.

Read the entire interview at MetalHellonline.com.