{"id":15490,"date":"2014-04-11T10:02:24","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groundcast.com.br\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2014-04-10T23:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:54:57","slug":"interview-grorr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groundcast.com.br\/en\/interview-grorr\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Grorr"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Eng\"<\/a>Coming from France, Grorr plays a Prog Death Metal with unique characteristics. With lots of influences the band creates atmospheres around yout songs, it makes them become one inside a captivating and emotional context. Anthill is a master piece for the people that love music.<\/p>\n

\"grorr-anthill\"<\/a>GroundCast \u2013 To warm up, tell us, how everything started?<\/b><\/p>\n

I knowed Ga\u00ebl since many years but we lose touch after college. \u00a0A day, he called me and he suggested to found a band… Grorr was born. For ou rfirst gig (only Ga\u00ebl and me, playing with a beatbox) Yoann offered to play bass. And a year after, Yoann found Jeremy while talking with his father who is a tabbaconist\u2026 And then, 3 keyboardist succeded at each other in Grorr. We hope we\u2019ve found the good one!<\/p>\n

GroundCast<\/b> \u2013 What are your influences?<\/b><\/p>\n

Meshuggah, Gojira, Tool, Devin Tonsend and apart from that, we listen a lot of type of music \u00a0: world music, orchestral music, scores etc\u2026<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 What the name \u201cGrorr\u201d means for the band?<\/b><\/p>\n

Grorr doesn\u2019t mean anything. It\u2019s a simple word, easy to remember, and when you hear our name, you know what kind of music we play. And, even if our music is serious, our name shows that there\u2019s always ironic things behind our music.<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 You have an album from 2011 (Pravda) and an album from last year (Anthill), what changed in the band (musically)since the creation \u2018till the last release?<\/b><\/p>\n

When we composed Pravda, the aim was to play dynamic and loud songs. When we start the composition of Anhill, we tried to go \"396161_10152447876130179_565817985_n\"<\/a>over that. We intend to narrate a story with our music. I supposed that is getting close to what we want to ear.<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 The album Anthill is divided in four parts, what is the concept behind the album?<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s about\u00a0 the whole story of the Anthill from the awakening at Spring days, through expansion wars, till the end in a Revolution as winter’s coming. It a song of 45 minutes notched in 4 parts witch can be repeated as an endless loop.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t conclued the story to let the listener imagin what he wants\u2026<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 Grorr is different of everything I heard, is something unique and great, the album Anthill will be my favorite for years and years, everytime I listen I can see something new there, how is your composition process?<\/b><\/p>\n

We\u2019re pleased that you enjoyed this album! Before composing an ymusic, we have wrote the story. We notched it in 4 parts, and this parts, in 13 scenes. Afterwards, we tried to associate some themes and instruments with characters and situations. And then, we composed the music on this frame. We employed traditional instruments reinforce the story.<\/p>\n

\"530812_10152447882810179_1542086435_n\"<\/a>GroundCast \u2013 You made a video-clip for the song \u201cWe-Legion\u201d, have some plans to new video-clips? Listen the song only audio and with the video gives me different interpretations for the same thing, what the video represents to Grorr?<\/b><\/p>\n

At the begening, we wanted to create a film with the whole album, but it was too expensive and too complicate\u2026 We entrusted the project to Mederic Grandet, and he worked four month on this clip. He added is own view on \u00ab\u00a0We-legion\u00a0\u00bb, and that why we choose him\u00a0! As an example, he added the red smoke and he refused to tell us what the meaning is… He aim that everybody imagine what he wants\u2026<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 Do you have some project or band that would like to share with us?<\/b><\/p>\n

We often play with two bands form our city. Their music are really different from ours, but you should listen to them: Yurakane\u00a0 and Dawn of Justice.<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 We know that a band normally is something parallel, do you live with music (directly or indirectly)? And if you have other jobs, how do you manage the time to band, family, job and fun?<\/b><\/p>\n

We absolustly not live with music. All money we earn with Grorr is invested in mixing… \u00a0We pay for all the rest\u00a0: practices, trips, promotion\u2026. Grorr is a very challenging project witch need a lots of time. We work for it on all our free time. Fortunately, our families understand\u2026<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 How are the future plans for the band?<\/b><\/p>\n

We\u2019re ending the composition of our next album, and I hope we\u2019ll talk about it together. We \u00a0also try to organize some tours, and\"734306_10152447881330179_1961607217_n\"<\/a> then, we\u2019re form the new grorr\u2019s keyboardist, Sylvain Kansara.<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 We are in internet era, where everything can be download, what is your position about it? Do you think that is it the future to share the music?<\/b><\/p>\n

I think we\u2019re in a tansition period\u2026 Sharing music is good thing to be discovered by new listeners. Today, buying an album is a militant act to support bands. It\u2019s no longer a normal consumption act. But, recording and organize tours are expensive, then, selling some music is a necessary. Therefore, I think it\u2019s normal to continue to sell with a reasonable price and to share a part of our music.<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 We have lots of bands borning and dying everyday, here in Brazil, sometimes I thing we stop in time, because every band here wants to be Sepultura or Krisiun. How do you manage the band to swing against the tide?<\/b><\/p>\n

We no longer think about it… When we released Anthill, a lot of people told us that \u201cAnthill\u201d is too complicate, starts too slowly,\u00a0 that we should compose a more efficient music with a more classical sound. Some of then told us that we\u2019ll never compose an album better than this\u2026 We\u2019ve been afraid of all these comments\u2026 So, we decided to don\u2019t bother it, and to compose \u00a0the music that we want to play with all our qualities and capacities. This interview reassure me\u00a0: it means that someone who leaves at 10\u00a0000km from us had listened and appreciated our music. It\u2019s the only important thing.<\/p>\n

GroundCast \u2013 Thanks for your time, now this space is to you say something to our readers.<\/b><\/p>\n

Support all bands you like, share this pleasure, and stay opened\u00a0!<\/p>\n

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