1. First of all I’d like you to fill us in on what’s happening in the TEMPLE ABBATOIR camp at the moment.

Hails, Christine. We are working with the new drummer of the band, DARKGROF, and looking for a bassist. It’s hard to complete the line-up, we are very few people here. Furthermore, we are waiting for the editions of “Sacrilege & Savagery” and thinking about the next release.

Most rehearsals and live shows are great moments, but to see a completed work made by ourselves is fucking great. The worst moment was in our first show, the problems with the insufficient equipment of the pub for the drum machine derived in a bad sound.

“Sacrilege & Savagery” contains eight tracks full of hate, darkness and blasphemy for approximately 35 minutes. It has very much strength, and the songs are varied, always in the black metal vein. This album is made by ourselves, we don’t have a recording studio behind us, and it can bring about a prejudice, despite the final score.

Yes, we have a demo, “Nechronicles”, previous to “Sacrilege & Savagery”. The sound is better this time and the drums are more realistic, due to our best knowledge of the recording process and the help of V, a well known of the band. All instruments can be more seen, without loss of energy or dark ambient, following the way marked by “Nechronicles”.

We can only offer our personal and sincere view of black metal, forged through the effort and the drinking of cheap beer. Nothing new, but well played, at least that’s what we try.

Our influences are basically the Scandinavian black metal bands of the 90’s and others in this line: IMMORTAL, DARK FUNERAL (“Diabolis Interium”), MARDUK (“Panzer Divison Marduk”), DARKTHRONE, WATAIN (“Sworn to the Dark”), GORGOROTH, 1349 (“Hellfire”), SATYRICON (“Volcano”), IMPALED NAZARENE, NAGLFAR, ENSLAVED, RAGNAROK... to quote the most well known, the list is enormous. In the other hand we also listen to death, thrash and heavy metal.

We compose in our rehearsal room. I usually give some riffs and we make the rest of the work, all members of the band contribute with their own ideas. The state of mind required is the concentration, the hard work and enjoying the song at the same time.

I think that “Necromantic Amok” is the cornerstone of the work, due to the oppressive atmosphere, the rage, the dark melodies and the violence that it contains.

Our lyrics are fundamentally about death, war and antichristianism. The inspiration comes from many ways: novels, historical facts, legends, personal thoughts and feelings... 

We use it due to most of the bands we hear use it too, and it goes with our music, evokes the kind of things that we want to cause in our public. It isn’t the most important thing, but it’s an indispensable part of the band, nowadays we can’t conceive TEMPLE ABATTOIR without corpse paint.

The artwork was created by Daguth and me. We were looking for free rights images to use. Before I edit it all, and a friend of us, Wilbour Watheley, gave it the final and professional touch. The album title reflects the ideas contained in the songs. Originally it was a headline from a British newspaper of the First World War, were we found the image of shell bursting on the Rheims cathedral.

We have no plans for live shows, because we are without bassist since the departure of Kalhum. Basically we promote our work by Internet. We live in a town in a not very inhabited area and it’s a great tool to spread the plague. Although I personally prefer fanzines.

We are in touch with several labels (Nigra Mors from Spain, Satanica Productions from New Zealand and Nyarlathotep Records from Brazil). We seek a good distribution for our work and the release in different formats (compact disc, tape and vinyl). A very good deal will be if a label pay a recording studio for our next work, but it is very difficult, because you need very good contacts in the labels apart from the music, and we don’t have it!

Black metal is the music that I most like, to listen and to play, due to the intensity, aggressiveness and darkness that it communicates. We are an amateur band, but to play black metal for me is more a need than a hobby.

As a review of “Nechronicles” said: “(...) a mix between “Panzer Division” and a Norwegian loutish at your will”.

Thanks to you and to all the people who listen and support TEMPLE ABATTOIR.
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