1349 - "We’ll Never Move Away From Black Metal Because We Are Black Metal"
July 22, 2014, 10 years ago
Norwegian black metallers 1349 are set to release their new album, Massive Cauldron Of Chaos, on September 29th. Bassist/founder Seidemann spoke with Metal Blast at Hellfest 2014 in Clisson, France back in June about the release. An excerpt from the interview is available below:
Q: What can you tell us about this new release?
Seidemann: "It’s 1349 at our best. We have taken everything from before, refined it and built it up; we took all the influences we could and put them together. We’ve always felt that if we can’t do a better album than our previous one, then we shouldn’t release a new one at all. This is why it has taken us four years, which is quite a lot of time, to get this done, but we’ve been touring, writing, and selecting the right material for it. Massive Cauldron Of Chaos represents where we want to go now, we didn’t want to just do a new Demonoir, since we always want to move up and get better."
Q: When you compare the material in Demonoir to Massive Cauldron Of Chaos, I felt that the latter is a bit flashier than your older material. Are you maybe trying to move away from the traditional black metal sound?
Seidemann: "No! We’ll never move away from black metal, because we are black metal! 1349 is black metal, no ifs, ands, or buts about it! What we do will always be black metal; however, we can’t just redo the same thing over and over, we have to move on. The new material is a bit broader, there are more influences, it has some thrash vibes (as it’s obvious from 'Slaves', which has very obvious thrash influences), especially stuff like old Atheist, Bay Area thrash like Exodus and, of course, Kreator and Sodom. We have all of those in there."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
Massive Cauldron Of Chaos tracklist:
"Cauldron""Slaves"
"Exorcism"
"Postmortem"
"Mengele's"
"Golem"
"Chained"
"Godslayer"
Check out the new song "Slaves" below":
