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Disillusion comes from Germany bringing you an interesting sonority. With two full-lengths in their career , the band always re-invent itself every release. If you do not know them and appreciate good music check these guys, you won’t be disappointed.
GroundCast: To warm up, tell us how the band started.
Well, 3 young guys wanted to make music. J One remained. This is Andy. The rest of the current line-up joined later.
GroundCast: What are your influences?
We were always fans of the energy of 90s bands like Emperor, Opeth or In Flames (and now I just forget at least 100 other important bands). I personally love Katatonia. But these days you can get influences from almost everywhere. Not just metal but also other music styles.
GroundCast: The band exists since 1994, but you don’t have many releases, can you tell us how was this trajectory, what changed and if you would believe that the band would have more than 20 years?
Well, as you grow older taste and views on music are changing. At least it was the case for us. It was never the goal to do the same stuff again. But of course the break since the last record Gloria in 2006 was really long. That was not on purpose but due to personal issues. You can’t force creativity and we always have the aspiration to create something new from our perspective. Now we look forward
GroundCast: The band has two Full-Lenghts, Back to Times of Splendor (2004) and Gloria (2006). After that the band is in some kind of hiatus and recently you posted in your facebook that you’re producing new material (correct me if I am wrong). What can we expect for a new release?
It won’t sound like BTTOS nor Glora. If you consider these as two dimensions of music styles within metal we just go into a third one. Let yourself be surprised of a 10 min song. Did I mention the trumpets we use for it?
GroundCast: Let’s talk a bit of the two releases. Back to Tmes of Splendor is one of my favorites albuns – only to let you know – exist some concept behind the two albums, something you’d like to tell?
I think BTTOS takes its power out of emotions that encompassed Andy during that period of writing. Therefore it is a really intimate record about a journey and the struggle whithin. Gloria is different and a step forward. It describes way more East German reality with less escapism. As critics describe Disillusion as an progressive band the record by itself is the meaning of moving forward (“here we go and save the past”).
GroundCast: How are the composition process? Do you have a main composer or songwriter?
It is mainly Andy who is writing the songs. But the rest is participating and supporting him with ideas and opinions. We all have song writing experience from our former band projects but I would consider Andy as the mastermind behind Disillusion.
GroundCast: We are in the internet era where everything can be downloaded (almost everything), what do you think about it?
It has its good and bad sites, of course. It is good that music is accessible so easy now. If you just look in an average 
music library of a young person you will find way more different music than maybe 20 years ago. There is metal next to pop next to hip hop or electro. So it makes people more open-minded which is always a good thing. Artist can present their music way easier. On the other hand it is kind of music listening inflation. Today’s question is not about money to afford music anymore but about the time to listen to it. Do we appreciate music the same way like we did when we went to the store 20 years ago and bought a vinyl or CD with our pocket money? Do we dive into a song like we (or at least I) did those days as we listened to a new record 10 or 20 times in a row? Like with every innovation we win something and we also lose something. There is a shadow site but with a little listening self-discipline I would say the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
GroundCast: And about streaming services as Spotify?
Well, it seems like the sequel of the last question. With downloading music became cheaper to listen (I am not talking about illegal downloading) and with Spotify and other streaming services it now gets hilariously cheap (at least legal). It is good for exploring new music but bad in the inflational way I explained in the question before.
GroundCast: Are you involved in any other project that you’d like to share with us?
There were some other projects before but not anymore. So we fully focus on Disillusion.
GroundCast: What the name Disillusion represents to the band?
As a disillusion is part of a self-discovery it actually represents the way of the band finding to itself. You often first need to be disillusioned to change your behavior and habits. So wait for the next disillusion we are going to have for you.
GroundCast: Germany has many bands (and we know a lot of them in Brazil) and festivals happening all the time. From your perspective, how is the metal scene in Germany?
I agree with you. The Metal Scene is quite strong in Germany in comparison to other countries. That is great.
GroundCast: Thank you for the interview, hope see you live soon (I live near Leipzig, go there and see a concert would be easy), now the space is yours to say something to our readers.
Just stay open –minded. There is so much great music outside and so much potential to progress. Thank you for your support and that you are still with us. We are really excited what you think about the new song.