Pete Pardo at SeaOfTranquility.org recently spoke with BELPHEGOR frontman Helmuth about the band's new album, Blood Magick Necromance. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

SoT: Blood Magick Necromance is perhaps one of the most cohesive albums the band has released so far. You took a little extra time to put this one together-did the band do anything differently from a writing perspective this time around?

Helmuth: "Well, we rehearsed our asses off, and tried a few new things - added new structures and new elements to made our sound more epic, more monumental but still fast and brutal, was the masterplan/ rule as we started the songwriting process. It's a very special album to me, music-wise we developed a lot, to write, create and record this LP was a trip into insanity. More shredding - more dynamics - more magic. First time that we used orchestrations in our arrangements, which give the tracks a haunting atmosphere here and there. Blood Magick Necromance is our most intense album yet, exactly how we wanted to sound in 2011."

SoT: Belphegor is a band that has always pleased both the death metal and black metal fanbase. Can you talk a little bit about how you see the band from a style/genre perspective, and where you fit in the extreme metal world?

Helmuth: "First off, I dont care if or where we fit in any scene. We've done our own thing since 1993, in our own Reich, always stayed hermetically to all and everything, walked our own path, made our own decisions. Belphegor shred the diabolical Metal of Death. We have alot of NWOBHM influences, which I adore - also from classical composers, such as Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart..."

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