Snowfall are an obscure black metal band from the Canadian shores. The two main characters behind the project have been long time komrades who enjoy living their lives in the darkness self destructing with plenty of booze and intoxicating substances. This interview was conducted some time in 2005.
1. gegroet komrades, introduce yourself and your project snowfall!
Cain. Im the lungs in snowfall. Dramen and i started snowfall on a drunken night in the summer of 2002 and we've been pissing in the underground ever since.
2. you have released a split with funeral fog, your side was initially released on the now deceased krist burning prod label (which you ran) in tape format, tell us some about this tape and the label.
It was called "winter falls over the northlands" and we shat it out in 2003 but recorded and mixed it in 6 hours in the summer of 2002. due to your average bullshit we had to dig up the cash to pay for it, and when we did it took forever to sell. Mostly because it isn't trendy at all, no heaviness, no blast beats, no blazing fast technical melodies, no happy goth synths and shit, just hellhammer and bathory pull offs, straitforward black metal in its purest form and since we listened to a shit load of punk it is heavily power chord oriented you know, double bass and old shcool shit. just simplistic monotone too grim for the death metal hippies and the zoned out metalheads.
krist burning productions was created sometime in the winter of 2002/2003 by dramen, but later on we got harrassed by the pigs for our flyers, calling it "hate propoganda" or some bullshit, and the postal office went overboard on checking all packages from the mail box, so we changed the name to Dark Storm Productions to get rid of all the bullshit. Dramen handles all the buisness and shit, i don't mess with that stuff.
3. about bands/labels and such, do either of you run any other projcts or bands or what not you'd wish to shamelessly plug and let us know about?
I had an old band called bloodlust which never released anything, a split might come out, but we havent practiced our material for a year or so. i play guitar and vocals for bloodlust. Dramen does Ashes of christ, and has about 3 or 4 songs and is working on his own released, it is simplistic girm as fuck black metal, just his one man band, alot like burzum and xasthur.
4. I recall one of you (or both?) stating you are a pagan or heathen, what would you say you mean by this, are you wiccan? odinistic? atheist? a religion which predates christianity?
speaking for myself, I have some beleifs of the supernatural, but mostly i believe in nihilism and i do have my own spiritualities in paganism and satanism and such, but niether of us have a "religeon". we do worhsip death and nothingness, celebrate hatred and violence and rape, and any anti-jesus anti-god anti-yahweh and anti-allah organizations and phiosophies, but we don't follow any pathetic rules on morality or helping people. it's all about misanthropy and darkness... thats what lacks from most black metal...these kids or these lazy rich fat fucks...they don't know EVIL or HATE or DARKNESS! its all fantasy and comic book shit, but for us its real. evyerthing we write about is real life shit, with no metaphores. we mean every fucking word and every note.
5. continuing from the last question, what are your inspirations for the music and the lyrics, do you look up to other bands for the musical sides? and what do the lyrics involve? mythology? or?
no mythology, no fantasy or any of that shit. only personal thoughts and experiences. i write all the lyrics, and they are dealing with violence, suicide, death, spirits, woods, self mutilation, drugs, alcohol, molestation, hatred and depression. the more violent side of us is about the real life shit we ahve delt with... i have written about vomiting blood after nights of drunkness, cutting myself open, waking up after not eating for days due to my cocaine intake, offering or rather advocating suicide to anyone, my own personal negativity i deal with almost daily, our hatred of fucking dogs of religeon, kikes, camel jockies or jesus cock suckers, fighting whigger pussies in the streets and the future demise of religeon and society... it is eveyrthing we hate and lvoe about this world.
the more mystical, or grim side of us is about experiences in the woods dealing with the supernatural, rituals, or spiritualities that id rather not talk about... but we mix both together...
as far as music? for me it is mainly old school thrash and black, but im also a huge punk fan. basicaly the bands i listen to most are venom, hellhammer, celtic frost, bathory, sacrifice, exploited, discharge, black sabbath, motorhead, the cockney rejects, verbal abuse, slayer, posessed, sarcofago, gg allin, the cure, sextrash, von, vulcano, beherit, all the old school shit, most music nowadays sucks. i don't mention the nordic bands because we dont listen to much besides darkthrone, and thats not often. i love the msuic, but it doesnt really INSPIRE me.... im an 80's fanatic.
6. As far as i know there isnt much of a nova scotian scene, i have heard of only one other black metal band from there who release the MayheM & misery disk, i cant remember the band's name but i do recall they had a pretty gay vision of things. a false black metal band so to speak. Are there any komrades you might want to let us know about who are worth checking out?
Funeral fog are the grimest, been going since 87' actually, and we drink with krall(the guitarist of ff) all the time. Hellacaust is definitly a good band to look at, they are more thrash oriented. there are afew others who are decent and whatnot, but i don't pay attention to the scene, mostly because they hate us. in fact the punk community likes us more!
7. You are a partly canadian and partly american outfit. How did this happen? how'd you end up having members for these different countries? Are there other members in snowfall? How does the recording process work?
Technically we have five members, i wont list them all because i know the line up will change before we record again, like always. but the 2 main members are Cain(me) and Dramen, but we have an official drummer, rythym guitarist and bass player, but none of them will be on the next albulm due to money and time. we'll use session players again. jsut read the cd booklets for detail, it would take me years to explain all our past members. bassically, it works like this : i fly to canada and leave this shit hole for a few weeks every winter and summer and we record and drink, and every so often dramen comes here, but america is a shit hole so thats rare. due to our line up and the local venues lack of cooperation with us, we've only done 1 gig.
8. what do snowfall like the recording suroundings to be like? a snow covered forest?
depends, i prefer them to sound grainy but not too muddy, like morbid tales or apocalyptic rights. we have decent quality, not 100 percent necrohell shit or crystal clear. just decent enough, we don't care either way to much, as long as it sounds old school and nasty.
9. I suppose the name snowfall comes from having an affinity towards the winter season. I want you both to list for us what the four seasons mean to you.
it comes because we wanted ot make the coldest shit possible and because its a good name that wasnt taken.
Winter: cold, dark, depressing, lonely. this is when snowfall is at its grimmest.
Spring: annoying, and stagnated. always the spring brings the problems.
Summer: drinking, sleeping in the woods, doing shit loads of drugs, fighting, listening to immense punk and thrash. this is when we are most oldschool.
Fall: the transition into our grimmer phase, when the mystique of samhain darkens the world and hope begins to fade again.
10. lets throw in another opinionated question... How do you both feel about the following.
(i) black metal morons who say "i dont care about nature"
May as well be christians who want to live in the city so they can shop more and ride to work easier. in fact they are. they fear the woods. not just anyone can venture out at night without protection into a place where man has no true control. we sleep in the woods in just our jackets, we dirnk there, ehll sometimes we fuck our girlfriends there! its a place of darkness and serenity.
(ii) recent occurances with varg's escape from prison
too bad they didnt shoot him down before he gave up. oh well, we hope for next time.
(iii) atilla csihar's getting arrested for carrying shitloads of drugs
Don't have much of an opinion, but im glad he still does drugs and hasn't turned into a complete pussy.
(iv) the recent rise in raw black metal across the globe and people who like to state "i like telling xians to fuck off".
Trends. graduated humanitarian nu emtal fucks who don't know hatred anymore then living by themselves and living a shitty painful life... msot of them are rich suburban kids! they dont have to fucking work, they dont do drugs or drink, they just think its cool cuz cradle is on sony now. its all a fucken trend. it will die off.
(v) chuch arson
It needs to happen more. If we had more of a following, perhaps we'd engage. theres plenty of wooden churches in canada just waiting, but i won't state any locations, or if we plan on it. that would be fucking stupid if i did, now wouldn't it? but people lack balls, the old flame still burns, its just a matter of time
11. how do you feel about national socialism or NSBM?
I don't mind it, i don't agree with it, and i think the white race is equally shit as any other, but i don't care if someone holds those ideals. ocasionally the nazis get annoying when they preach more about killing blacks then killing christians. black metal is not about pride, its about hate without pretension, and a lot of these skins dont see that, they see it as only violent music, not dark essence which is as bad as 13 year old bowl short haird christian kids. well perhaps a bit better, but not by much, you know? in fact we've been in a few fights with skins.
12. what are your attitudes towards Americana and the Capitalist dogma the entire world seems to have sold its soul to (what do you think of the people on Ebay who sell Vlad Tepes splits for in excess of $300 each? (altough I know this ties in with the above)?
bullshit. anyone paying that for a cd is either a fat rich fuck or a total dumbass. fuck america.
13. I saw this done in another interview and i think it's a great idea... so ask yourself any question you'd like to be asked in an interview and answer it. I demand you both do this!
well, id ask myself what kinds of drugs do you prefer? then id say what have you got? any strong booze or opiates? how about some coke? as far as dramen, i dont know what he would ask himself.
14. Thanks for taking out the time on this interview, i leave this last bit for you to throw down your curse upon who ever you wish, and advertise your homepages + contacts and such.
rape children, do drugs, kill yourself, start fires and send us drugs. fuck off, die.
www.darkstormproductions.com
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