to begin with, thanks to share some of your time to answer the interview. I knew you with some searching in internet, on the lookout for new bands to hear,
lucky me i found you, Thurisaz is truly nice.
GroundCast: first of all, tell us how everything commenced?
Thurisaz: We started in 1997 as a 4-piece metalband under the name ‘Modilium’. We just performed for enjoyable but issues bought critical when we had our first live shows.
After a small length we delivered a fifth member Kobe as a keyboardplayer and changed our name into ‘Thurisaz’. In those days we performed a kind ofmetalcore. no longer actually the doom/black/dying metal we play these days.
GroundCast: What are your influences?
We try to not copy any particular bands or genres but unconsciously we are influenced via some bands in all kind of completely different genres. Some are more doom-associated, different bands are black steel however even bands like red Floyd can carry concept in creating new songs.
GroundCast: Thurisaz has an extended road, the band is from 2000 97 if we consider when had the identify Modilium), what modified in you with all these years?
Thurisaz: after we started, we have been very young and didn’t in point of fact suppose we might be the place we at the moment are. We just began playing our songs and other people preferred it.
So we continued and kept enjoying for all those years. however over the years, we truly centred more and more. We turned into perfectionist in our
compositions and our songs got more mature. some of us are additionally self-thaught musicians and stronger each year and every album.
GroundCast: closing 12 months you released the album “The Cimmerian Years”, how was once the
acceptance of this album?
Thurisaz: once we unlock an album it’s all the time a thriller for us in watch for the audience’s reactions. The closing album is different than the others. but we have been very happy with the certain reactions and critics claiming that ‘The Cimmerian Years’ is our best album yet.
GroundCast: you may have some special guests in “The Cimmerian Years”, what contains Paul Kuhr from November’s Doom. How appeared the theory and the opportunity to name him to sing on this album?
Thurisaz: We’ve been on a few tours together in Europe and the U.S. so we can call every other tourbuddies. The song of November’s 
Doom fits our track completely and they are actually cool guys to hang out with. So we asked Paul to seem on our album. He has an unbelievable voice and we’re honoured that he agreed to sing for us. His voice added that unique vibe we needed in that song. We also had guestvocals through Thomas A.G. Jensen from Saturnus and Els Blieck from Inis Cathaigh. They both did a terrific job and contributed an additional to the album.
GroundCast: Exist some thought in the back of “The Cimmerian Years”?
Thurisaz: The lyrics on that album usually are not very cheerful, nor have they been within the past. After our earlier album ‘Circadian Rhythm’ we had a tough time within the band. We had a roughly black-out, but we got here out stronger than sooner than. So we tried to depart that darkish length in the back of us by using writing the brand new album .
GroundCast: is tricky see some band from Belgium, to be trustworthy i will be able to needless to say now from Axamenta (sadly split up), He got here From the solar and Enthroned. how can you define the Belgium scene?
Thurisaz: we’ve some actually remarkable bands in Belgium however it’s in reality arduous to to find some recognition throughout our borders. Belgian bands don’t get quite a lot of toughen to discover the global scene. however we’re working very laborious to smash those boundaries.
GroundCast: we’re within the internet technology the place individuals can obtain everything for free and some artists strengthen it and some now not. are you able to tell us your place about it?
Thurisaz: which you can’t deny that occasions have modified and albums don’t sell anymore as they was once. i believe there are a few causes for that and the web is one in every of them evidently. however i believe for many bands the web is a blessing, that gave them the chance to achieve new folks. To be
honest i feel that free downloading principally damages the bigger bands, for smaller bands like us, it can be a blessing as lots of people, that otherwise would never heard of us, can now to find and expertise us on the internet. That gave us various alternatives as for overseas gigs. but let’s also no longer fail to remember that the gross sales from albums on-line and on concerts is what preserve bands going and keep them making new albums. So preserve on helping your scene!!!
GroundCast: this present day is so laborious to find one thing “new” within the musical industry, a lot of bands born and die every day, what Thurisaz does to swim towards the tide and make something totally different?
Thurisaz: We don’t try to copy different music. If we like some new tune or music we’ve made, we don’t attempt to sound like every other band. We try to keep on with our concepts and we try to keep ourselves. we’re lucky we agree on nearly the whole lot in the band. we are excellent chums of each different and best had one line-up trade. That’s something many other bands can’t say and that’s the secret of our fifteen years of existence.
GroundCast: Exist some challenge that you’re concerned that you simply would like to share with us?
Thurisaz: We’re presently writing new songs but that’s an extraordinarily sluggish course of for us. And along with that we’re still selling the brand new album and we’re working in point of fact laborious to put up a new live-show.
GroundCast: How are the longer term plans to the band?
Thurisaz: We hope to tour and play as a lot as imaginable. There are a lot of places we’ve have never been sooner than and we all know we’ve fans the world over, like Brazil as an example. and of course we recently started to write down new songs and we hope to release those one day however we don’t have any particular date but.
GroundCast: Europe is being stroke by a bad challenge, how is it affecting the bands?
Thurisaz: It’s getting tougher and tougher for us, to get some first rate advertising in Europe. gross sales dropped hugely and lots of labels closed their books. Many promoters don’t take the prospect to organize live shows on account of the danger of dropping cash.
GroundCast: you have your entire albums for streaming listening on your web site, the sales increased with this?
Thurisaz: The internet is an effective and low cost strategy to unfold our music. every day we get new listeners and via offering the streaming , we introduce our tune to those new listeners.
GroundCast: neatly guys, thanks to your time, now this area is yours to claim something to your fanatics from Brazil and the GroundCast’s readers.
Thurisaz: keep tuned and preserve the scene alive! Who knows, at some point we’ll meet the Brazilian fanatics in actual existence!