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I had this very interesting experience a couple<br />
of years ago. I was sharing an apartment<br />
with a couple of friends, and one guy moved,<br />
so we needed a new guy to move in. So it<br />
appeared that this new guy who'd just moved<br />
in was playing in a band called Nidingr. So he<br />
gave me a CD with his band and wanted me<br />
to listen to it, and I thought "Oh no, this is<br />
probably gonna suck". And that wouldn't be<br />
the best way of starting living together. I<br />
mean, I had a huge problem with taking the<br />
guy who had previously been living in that<br />
room seriously, since he liked all the wrong<br />
<strong>Metal</strong>lica and Megadeth albums. I was prepared<br />
for the worst.<br />
So those of you who know Nidingr very well<br />
know that their album Sorrow Infinite And<br />
Darkness rules soooo hard, and after hearing<br />
that, I started to check out more black metal<br />
bands and stuff from related genres. And I<br />
was so surprised to find out that there was so<br />
much cool shit around. You know, I gave up<br />
on the entire metal thing around 2000. I'd<br />
been losing interest ever since 1995, but in<br />
around 2000 I just gave up finding decent<br />
bands. At that time there was more or less<br />
only crap <strong>com</strong>ing out, or at least: All the<br />
metal stuff I ever got to hear was crap. But<br />
these days I'm checking out new metal bands<br />
with a huge appetite, and I'm constantly surprised<br />
that there's so much kickass stuff<br />
around. After a while I also started a new<br />
band with this new flatmate. He's better<br />
known as Teloch, and our band is called<br />
Umoral.<br />
I've seen that you've been having this discussion<br />
about "avant-garde metal" on your web<br />
site, and my answer to what "avant-garde<br />
metal" would be is that it is an aesthetic ideology.<br />
You know, in most other disciplines<br />
like painting or video art or installations and<br />
whatever, it's usual to say that the avantgarde<br />
is dead, in the sense that the wish to<br />
break the rules and try to push boundaries<br />
and all these things that are <strong>com</strong>monly associated<br />
with avant-garde have be<strong>com</strong>e the de<br />
facto norm. These days, if you want to break<br />
the rules in the art world, you'll have to be<br />
reactionary. Or you can just plainly suck. But<br />
metal is much more conservative than that.<br />
<strong>Metal</strong> must be one of the most conservative<br />
fields of artistic practice in the world, second<br />
only to punk rock (perhaps). So metal is a<br />
field where it still makes sense to be avantgarde,<br />
in the sense that your aesthetic ideology<br />
is to make music that's more than just<br />
average metal.<br />
Very interesting remark there, I've just<br />
started wondering what metal music<br />
being always de facto avant-garde will<br />
try to sound like when it will start to rebreak<br />
the new rules, for example, as you<br />
37<br />
suggested, by seriously wishing hard to<br />
be reactionary. Now isn't this what you<br />
in Fleurey are doing nowadays? Well, I<br />
guess time is running out, right... I'd like<br />
to say thank you very much, Svein-Egil,<br />
for taking your time to answer my questions.<br />
I honestly wish you all the best<br />
with Fleurety: you guys ought to be<strong>com</strong>e<br />
the next rock stars! Now what are you<br />
doing nowadays? Any up<strong>com</strong>ing releases<br />
from your part that you’d like to share<br />
with our avant-garde metal enthusiastic<br />
crew?<br />
I don't think Fleurety will ever be<strong>com</strong>e rock<br />
stars. There will be cold winds of funeral frost<br />
in Hell the day that happens. These days I<br />
work and make music, sometimes getting<br />
shitfaced on days off. Fleurety will be featured<br />
on some strange <strong>com</strong>pilation CD that<br />
<strong>com</strong>es out next year with DIY black metal<br />
recordings. We are working in getting our<br />
debut album Min Tid Skal Komme reissued,<br />
but it seems to take forever. After that we're<br />
releasing that new 7” EP I was talking about<br />
earlier, which features some re-recordings of<br />
material from 1993/94, with a more updated<br />
twist, I guess. We're also hoping to record<br />
material for another 7” this winter. This will<br />
be all new material, so this will be our first<br />
proper recording of new material since 1998,<br />
when we did the recordings for the Department<br />
of Apocalyptic Affairs album.<br />
Also: Thanks to anyone who ever reads this<br />
far and to all the people holding that avantgarde<br />
metal flag high.<br />
Yeah, I guess that was a nice chat with a<br />
pretty cool man, don't you think so? Now let's<br />
all do Fleurety a favour and browse through<br />
their back catalogue all at once and together<br />
for a few days, hoping this is gonna send<br />
inspiring and ass-kicking signals out to the<br />
mysteriously slow-moving, Fleuretean miasmas<br />
of cold and dark Norway.
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