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Azeroth are:
Diego Valdez- Voice
Juan Manuel Villagra-Guitar
Maria Eugenia Ricciardulli- Drums
Fernando Ricciardulli- Bass
Oscar Castro- Guitar
We contacted the argentinian band
AZEROTH, a band everybody will soon know as the new prodigies of progressive metal in
Argentina and maybe in the world. Hereīs what Fernando Ricciardulli, the bassist answered
in name of the band.
1.-Who where you influenced by?
It would be impossible to name just a couple of bands, īcause I think every music we
hear, influences us, since Heavy metal to other stuff like celtic music, etc..
2.-How did you contacted Bauerfiend for the mixing process and Eric Phillipe for
the cover of your debut album?
When we were dealing our contract with NEMS,one of the things they offered us was this: to
mix the tracks in europe with a big producer, and to make the cover with someone as big as
this last one.... they offered us Mikka Karmila, Sasha Paeth or Charlie Bauerfeind, and we
choosed this last one, because we believe he works better the guitar sound, and he is used
to deal with bands with a more agressive sound!!!
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3.-Are
the lyrics based on a special topic or are just inspiration?
It depends on whoīs lyrics: the lyrics I write, are more introspective, while Juanīs
have a more social background... we donīt say "well, letīs write about
this...", it surges naturaly, and if we all like it, thatīs it!
4.-What represented to you, to work with such great musicians like A. Barilari
& Christian Bertoncelli, and now with Hansi Kürsch?
Christian has been a friend of us since long time ago, it was great to work with him,
being a great guy, he is also a great singer, he offered himself to help us in the voice
recording process; In the other hand, Adrian is a great professional, although, I wasnīt
sure if his voice would fit in our songs, since itīs very different to what he does on
Rata Blanca or Alianza, but everything went just ok... the best part was getting a
permanent singer (heīs with us since june from last year), Diego Valdez, owner of a wide
and magnific vocal record, and with a great stage command...Hansi is just a
master...personaly itīs a dream to work with him... when weīre done with all the
instrumental and voice recordings, weīll send him the tapes to Germany, so he can work on
the chorus arrenges and on January 2002, he comes to Argentina a couple of weeks to work
on studio, the recording of those choruses, and maybe weīll make him sing a song on a
duet with Diego ... itīs gonna be really great to count with the support of someone who
works at his creative limit, and it will also help us to grow as a band!
6.-Do you plan to release your album in europe, besides Spain?
The new album( the one weīll start recording on september/october this year), wich will
be released on march 2002, itīs going to be recorded on two versions: one in spanish
& the other in english, because the reviews we received on other countrys were great (
"Rock Hard" gave us 8/10, "Kerrang" 5/6, "Rock Brigade"
& "Roadie crew" from Brasil gave us 9/10, etc...),and even knowing that the
cd in spanish has been already released on Japan, we know that the best way to be
recognized by a not spanish-talking audience is singing in english!, and we believe we
have as much sound power and all that, as any european band , so... weīll see what
happens!!!.
7.-Do you plan to make a tour in the near future(Argentina or abroad)?
Nowadays weīre working 100% on the tracks of our forthcoming album... after the show with
Helloween, we decided to stop the shows, in order to rehearse the new songs; we are going
to play on a big festival on August as one of the headliners, and after finishing the
album we plan to make a minitour around our country.
9.-Any final words?
Thanks for your interest and for letting us to be known by more people, I wish everybody
could get our material (anyone interested can contact NEMS Enterprises in Argentina http://www.nems.com.ar, or ARISE Records in Spain http://www.arisemetal.com). You can also visit the
bandīs official site in http://azeroth.webjump.com.
Greetings to everybody, and thanks one more time.
Interviewed by Jerec
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