Helalyn Flowersis a very interesting band, mixing synthpop, heavy rock, eletronic music, and others. I recently interviewed the duo Max and N0emi, exclusively for 
Groundcast.
GROUNDCAST Well, we’re grateful for this interview with the Helalyn Flowers. Please, to begin, inform a bit about your occupation as musician. When did you start to compose track?
(Max) I began to be into tune given that I was a child and that i at all times tried to do my very own as neatly. I started singing in my first band at 13 and used to jot down my first riffs and lyrics. The very first tune type I performed was metal and Punk/Hardcore; these are my own ‘imprinting’ sounds. I went on forming bands on bands and started to play bass and guitars too. all the time I felt writing music with an honest attitude. that implies now not hiding your proper influences and seeking to be a hundred% your self and let all of your historical past come out. so far this is the way I never modified.
(N0emi A.) I approached song as a baby, because of my older brother who performed guitars in a band. I by no means handed someday in silence, tune surrounded me every seconds of my existence, so I become hooked on metal and difficult rock due to the fact my early days. Over time i found hobby also to other genres, from grunge to vintage rock up to the electronic music. My vocal influences commenced with guns N ‘Roses’ “urge for food for Destruction”, Megadeth’s “Countdown to Extinction” and “No more Tears” by means of Ozzy Osbourne. From there, I by no means stopped singing. I had a brief experience into musical container, then I straight away devoted to my very own initiatives, ranging from my very first new metallic-goth band “The Claw”.
GROUNDCAST And the title Helalyn Flowers, what does it mean? Is there any special meaning?
(N0emi A.) in fact it has a specific which means. Helalyn is an archaic time period, because of this “hidden, arid”. Literal which means’s Floewers (symbols of lifestyles) that grow up from the place they wouldn’t. So, our moniker’s a metaphor describing pure vitality breaking down the cage. a symbol of our concept of lifestyles, the place nothing is unattainable when you truly need.
GROUNDCAST When did you come to a decision to type an electronic-oriented song project?
(Max) Helalyn flora had its very first embryo titled “The Claw” back in 2004. This used to be the first band that Noemi and that i shaped and it was the traditional rock line-up with drums, guitars, bass and vocals. participants came in and out because each person needed to play like the most well-known bands of those years like Evanescence or Lacuna Coil. unless Noemi and i made up our minds to continue as a duo, sold racks, synths and drum-machines and began to depend a hundred% on our means, ideas and objectives. which is when Helalyn flowers officially start. actually, i feel we never performed ‘electronic’ tune. contrary, guitars, bass and vocals play the most important function. Synths and drum-machines give a deeper dimension to our songs, and even when synths are so much ‘sung’ it by no means becomes a beat-pushed factor.
GROUNDCAST Noemi used to be a singer that sung heavy steel and tough rock genres. When did you come to a decision to change the musical course?
(N0emi A.) my musical direction has no longer changed, fairly it has developed and has taken many nuances which are part of my type. What I largely need whereas singing is to offer the maximum in ‘interpretation in step with the environment of the tune. because “Stitches of Eden” is an album rather more oriented right into a surreal darkish rock wave line , my acid pop technique to vocals has been largely current. this is the angle of now not giving limits, but to take as many forms you need to play your world.
GROUNDCAST How are made the Helalyn flowers’ compositions? who is the “ingenious mind” within the venture?
(Max) on a regular basis, I come up with a basic structure of the song or riffs and whatever while all vocal strains and lyrics are N0emi’s. but there may be now not a specific rule for this. indeed, for the brand new record, we’ve got equal elements on the songwriting. This underlines that the “inventive thoughts” is N0emi and me. Helalyn plant life is not a solo-mission including guests.
GROUNDCAST the place does the inspiration for the lyrics?
(N0emi A.) i exploit to write down lyrics after having composed the melodic construction of the song. on this means, my source of concept turns into our song itself. I live it like a soundtrack of imaginary scenes. Is this mixture of pictures and sounds coming up in my thoughts that encourage my lyrics. Human race living our technology, growth and destruction created by way of himself, the lack of sensitivity and necessity to react our collapsing world are major themes of my words, mostly positioned in a metaphorical-surrealist key .
GROUNDCAST I see you are very participative in social media, as facebook and Twitter. How necessary are this media to your work?
(N0emi A.) i have to admit that at present social networks play a elementary role for a band advertising. So we try to be as participative as possible, however with out falling into the compulsive presence that hits lots of acts, posting a myriad of useless information simply to seem on the monitor. in accordance with our followers, our information are filtered to the strictly necessity to keep up-dated on the band’s activity. but as lover of the bodily way to song, i can say that the expertise we lived years ago, touching by hand fanzines, paper interviews, demo-tapes exchange, and many others. … was once many miles centred and directed in comparison with the digital overtures created via social networks, which might be additionally too dispersed to me. i believe that stability is all the time the key to ensure that things work.
GROUNDCAST and how do you define the Helalyn Flowers’ track? in your website online you outline your sonority as “80s-like New Wave/Punk, alternative, Electro and Rock”, however I see influences from electro-pop, industrial-rock and different ones?
(Max) We’re actual fans of song and our likes quilt a large amount of genres. after all, all these you mentioned are keys to our sound. When you want your tune to be heard by using more people you are likely to label your tune so that individuals can feel addressed at first. truthfully, i do not prefer to label my song. we’re merely Helalyn Floweers.
GROUNDCAST What are your influences?
(Max) My private history is steel and Hardcore Punk plus some devastating Industrial stuff like Ministry, Skinny pet, concern manufacturing unit, top-rated Wound Profile and many others. On “Stitches Of Eden” i wanted to let emerge my 80s influences like Iggy Pop, Killing comic story, Duran Duran, Ultravox, speak talk and the onerous Rock plus some Hair metallic stuff of these years. it’s been my personal tribute to these years by which I used to be a child extremely taken by way of music, so those bands are part of my imprinting too. but principally, i am into steel sounds, Thrash and classic Heavy in particular.
GROUNDCAST Your songs are preferred via goths and, in fact, performed in goth golf equipment. Is your music for goths?
(Max) in truth, i don’t play for “goths”. To me this is just bullshit. I play for myself and i like the concept everybody who feels good vibrations with our tune is welcome. i don’t like the up to date Goth scene. To me, it’s just more about style and how you appear than the song. Plus, i do not like that pseudo-decadent whining and anti-existence perspective. There are few bands I really like (faith & The Muse, London After nighttime) that have intelligent concepts and music.
GROUNDCAST Do you believe the mission as “gothic-oriented”?
(Max) Musically, Helalyn flowers is influenced by way of bands like Lords Of the brand new Church, Siouxie and The Banshees, Killing joke and Marilyn Manson. So sure, that is goth rock, but we now have also a steel and Rock aspect that supply the whole a extra “Punk” way. I like the Goth of the 80s however i do not really understand how much is our music “Goth”. maybe that you would be able to tell me extra! 😉
GROUNDCAST With what artists would you love travelling?
(Max) With the bands I at all times listened to: Metallica, Iron Maiden, Megadeth and many others. only for my joy of sharing their own stage (even a bit piece!). it’s a sentimental thing you know, i am fascinated about music no longer in folks’s private lives.
(N0emi A.) i might add bands like Rammstein, ache, Paradise lost and even Evanescence as feminine fronted acts. but mostly traveling with nice individuals is important. there is nothing worse than sharing a tour with arrogants!
GROUNDCAST What artists do you counsel lately?
(Max) I do not know, I mean… I hearken to a number of traditional stuff and not too long ago i’ve been pleased to know that a brand new wave of Thrash metallic was born and has been in a position to let some excellent bands get up. To all of the Brazilian Punk/ metal-Heads I recommend giving a take heed to my solo-challenge The wet (www.facebook.com/thewetofficial or www.thewetofficial.com)! it’s a dark and violent move between Thrash/death steel, Hardcore Punk and Industrial, like in case you mix Ministry, Sepultura and Throbbing Gristle. Your enhance is welcome!
GROUDNCAST have you learnt any Brazilian band?
(N0emi A.) Sepultura, Sarcofago, Angra are the ones I remember in the intervening time. And what i love of those Brazilian bands is the wild, instinctive and sanguineous technique to play this type of metal. it’s like hearing a ritual of earth and souls!
(Max) besides bands N0emi talked about before, i’d add: Ratos De Porão, Dorsal Atlântica, Krisiun, Eminence, Overdose and a few others. Your method of enjoying metallic and Punk is the very best in the world!
GROUNDCAST Noemi, you’re a stunning lady and that i imagine that many women encourage in you to style and behavior. Do you believe yourself a sex image?
(N0emi A.) the reality? completely no longer! i feel i’m simply beautiful like many different girls on the planet…
GROUNDCAST One factor I at all times ask the artists is with admire to illegal sharing of mp3. What do you think about it, especially in countries like Brazil the place your albums didn’t arrive, and when they come, they cost as much as 4 times the unique value? i personally only knew your work as a result of the web and that i at present use the Spotify’s provider.
(Max) actually i think that a global plan to kill song does exist and it is been in work because the 90s. main labels had been a big responsible of that, they didn’t need to construct advertising and marketing methods and did not cut back prices. it’s a subject of schooling to tune. this present day, i think that a variety of ‘classic’ albums are released but they’re buried below heaps of stupid rush and ignorance. I ‘d building up a big web site through which you have three free listenings of every album so that you can chose if buy it or no longer. each label should link to this web site and get a bigger likelihood than releasing albums within the shadow and spot them bought at pricey prices in nations off this fucking Anglo-American empire. i feel it’d be rather more helpful than spending all of the day on fb posting your individual stupid self-pictures, or no longer?
(N0emi A.) I agree that top prices don’t assist cd gross sales. however users must remember that illegal sharing is no totally different from stealing a physical replica at a shop. And a small band suffers rather a lot this sort of phenomenon. on this way folks’ll lead to that only rich bands will continue to exist. i feel that if people are ready to seek out cash for the ultimate iPhone then also they can have the opportunity to purchase an album of their favourite band if they actually want…
GROUNCAST Europe and the U.S. have skilled a severe monetary trouble. How has it affected you, in a normal manner?
(Max) i believe that this mass-psychosis is worse than the obstacle itself. individuals must react and read, unfold and share the reality behind this disgrace. regarding music, it is a big selection: bands who in point of fact consider in what they do will keep on surviving.
GROUNCAST Has already happened one thing extraordinary and funny throughout a express?
(Max) once we supported Emilie Autumn in London it was humorous! We tried to maintain us sober at any prices sooner than the express however we commenced to toast ourselves just ten minutes before getting into the stage, so we regarded a bit spooky in the beginning sight, Noemi instantly misplaced her belt and necklace and our bass participant held a buzz-popper little bottle in his pocket that… exploded while he was taking part in and burned his right leg! It was like a move between a Punk Rock convey and a survival crash direction!
GROUNCAST thank you a lot via this interview. And now it is your house to let a message for our readers.
(Max) Thanks for this pleasant discuss and a tremendous hey to our fanatics in Brazil! we’ve an awfully warm following in South america so we hope to gig there very quickly. Our new album will probably be launched on early 2013 and we have now a next future stuffed with news and brand new tune to share together. Hornz UP!!!
(N0emi A.) It has been a big pleasure speaking with you and i take party to remind our facebook page: www.facebook.com/helalynflowers where you will find all band’s news and backstage. preserve posted and i wish you’ll be able to enjoy our upcoming album!
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