ISOLE Bassist On New Music - "We Wanted To Do A Faster Album..."
March 11, 2009, 15 years ago
Scratch The Surface recently spoke with ISOLE bassist Henrik Lindenmo about the band's new album, Silent Ruins. An excerpt is available below.
Q: What were the predominant inspirations and driving forces behind the creation of Silent Ruins, was there any conscious effort to break the mould and slightly stray from the genre standards?
Henrik: “We wanted to do a faster album, with more traditional song writing and dynamics. More like our debut album. Bliss of Solitude was a rather difficult album, both to write and to digest. I still like Bliss very much, but I feel we have done a better album this time.”
Q: Isole are not bashful about their influences and those emanate from the likes of classic doom acts like CANDLEMASS, SOLITUDE AETURNUS, SOLSTICE, etc. Do you feel comfortable when Isole is placed in the same lineage to such icons of epic doom metal?
Henrik: “Of course you are honoured when you get compared to such great bands. But frankly, we are quite used to it, since we have been compared with those bands since the early 90’s, the Forlorn days you know. Personally, I do not think we sound like any of those bands, but we are absolutely influenced by them.”
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