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ing on a "non-<strong>Metal</strong>-based” form because it’s<br />
the essential for me, a main part of ABIGOR.<br />
TT: For me, the field of Black <strong>Metal</strong> leaves<br />
enough space to experiment, we will emphasize<br />
this with our <strong>com</strong>ing releases even more<br />
than we did in the 90s, where we also moved<br />
through a wider range<br />
of musical concepts<br />
from album to album<br />
– this tradition will<br />
definitely be continued<br />
and strengthened.<br />
But Abigor has a certain<br />
definition and a<br />
reason why we do<br />
what we do - it's not<br />
just a tag, a name.<br />
We want to achieve<br />
something, realize<br />
something. It would<br />
have no sense to do a<br />
Neue Musik or Electronic<br />
album and call<br />
it Abigor. From my<br />
point of view after so many years of Black<br />
<strong>Metal</strong>, and at the same time after so many<br />
years of my interests in other musical styles I<br />
think I have a long enough musical history<br />
(as listener and musician) to be sure what<br />
the musical frame for Abigor can be. If I<br />
wouldn't be so widespread with my personal<br />
listening taste then you could assume that<br />
maybe some day new musical interests have<br />
a direct influence on Abigor. But why should I<br />
want to do an electronic Abigor album after<br />
15 years of Abigor and more than 15 years of<br />
listening to electronic music? Got my point?<br />
PK is totally right when he says the base of<br />
Abigor will always be Black <strong>Metal</strong>, I can fully<br />
agree (and as different as our personal musical<br />
preferences are, as close are our vision of<br />
how Abigor has to be).<br />
TP: Fractal Possession in its entirety is<br />
very <strong>com</strong>plex, there is much to discover<br />
even after several listenings - How do<br />
you arrange these songs, especially the<br />
elements which can't be rehearsed?<br />
Does a song appear as a whole in your<br />
minds or does it grow?<br />
PK: The main fact is that we don’t rehearse;<br />
we even don’t have a rehearsal room. I <strong>com</strong>pose<br />
a lot of basical riffs/songstructures/ideas,<br />
the rest is done in the studio.<br />
There was some kind of pre-demoproduction<br />
but there’ve been so much<br />
changes and it all came to life during the<br />
studio work…<br />
TT: We never rehearse anyway, so we can do<br />
whatever we want. No thought wasted on<br />
live-practicability. So far the songs "grew”,<br />
but for our next album we have a certain<br />
27<br />
concept where the pieces have to subordinate<br />
in length, tempo and mood – unlike Fractal<br />
Possession where each song is about as long<br />
as the other and contains every element and<br />
tempo. On the next album, every track has a<br />
different musical purpose.<br />
Ch: That sounds very enthralling. So<br />
you’re aiming to write a kind of concept<br />
album? Will it not just concern the music,<br />
but maybe also the lyrics? Can you tell<br />
us a bit more about it?<br />
PK: I can’t, and if we work similar to "Fractal<br />
Possession” it’s not possible, even I’ve different<br />
songs and ideas finished/and still work on,<br />
it’ll be different, that’s for sure…<br />
TT: The concept has been developed for quite<br />
some time now, but it's AR's mission to write<br />
the actual lyrics now. We need to "synchronize”<br />
lyrics and music for this album, they<br />
won't be interchangeable track-to-track, and<br />
all I can tell you so far is: angels and demons<br />
vs. human soul. Ungracefully because cautiously<br />
said now, as this topic will actually be<br />
presented and<br />
treated like it<br />
never has been<br />
before (in music,<br />
outside a purely<br />
theological background)<br />
but if I tell<br />
you too much<br />
about my personal<br />
approach to this it<br />
wouldn't be a good<br />
idea because AR<br />
has the final say<br />
about what it will<br />
cover and what<br />
not. How I or PK<br />
or even AR would<br />
describe it to you<br />
now could be quite different from the final<br />
shape as it's too early. But of course it will be<br />
written to hopefully receive a glimpse of insight<br />
to Satan's mysteries again, and it will<br />
be based on a strict catholic background<br />
(which incorporates more than enough anyway<br />
if you follow the roots of Christianity,<br />
where it <strong>com</strong>es from, what it adapted).<br />
Ch: Once you described the cooperation<br />
among you as "Data Exchange”. Both of<br />
you used to write riffs and arrangements<br />
alone. And then you met to make songs<br />
out of your single works. Has it been like<br />
this also for "Fractal Procession” or did<br />
you sometimes <strong>com</strong>pose together for it?<br />
PK: It is data-exchange, but in my opinion<br />
that makes our co-operation to something<br />
really special, because none ever knows how<br />
it all will sound when it’s finished. ABIGOR’s<br />
songs undergo some kind of evolution, and
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