01: HOW ALL STARTED?

           

First of all, here I leave a brief biography to begin;

In the cold winter of anno satana 1996 under the frozen cloak of Pyrenees SPELLCRAFT was born. After a year of tests they recorded their first demo: ” Funeral in the Night”, harvesting good reviews at local level and giving several concerts in its closest surroundings. In 2001 Midgard ex vocalist of the legendary OUIJA, joined the group; and so the band evolved in a remarkable way.
In 2002 a promo was recorded, with which SPELLCRAFT takes their first steps in underground at state level.
After years in the shade, in 2005 they turned something upside down obtaining colder and more aggressive subjects for their new album.
In 2007 recorded and mixed the promo “The Souldevourer”  The Room BCN Studio and also in Sweden by the recognized Taylor Maid is mastered (Marduk, Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir,…). The target was achieved, the recording was powerful and of high quality, being the band very satisfied with the result.
In 2008 “Stirpe Obscura” was released under Grosteque Music, old school Black metal raw, blasphemous and full of a truly dark atmosphere.
Currently the band is recording their new album ' Yersinia Pestis', this work will be released at the end of year 2012 under the record label Xtreem music.

02: WHAT´S YOUR INFLUENCES?

I only listen to metal music; from old heavy, thrash, death to current black metal…I like the old school very much, we were influenced by bands such as Slayer, Kreator, Sepultura (old), Morbid Angel, Sabbat (English band), Mayhem, Bathory, Rotting Christ (old),Entombed (old) and so on...their sound and attitude will always be in my heart, but nowadays there are also great bands...generally speaking, Metal music is still in a continuous evolution that makes this style great and different from all the rest.

03: HOW´S THE ACTUAL LINE UP?

This the current line up; Fulgur (drums), Aldromk (guitar), Murcilag (guitar), Scythe (bass) and me Midgard (vocal).

  

04: TELL US MORE ABOUT DEMO TAPE: ¨FUNERAL IN THE NIGHT¨.

This is our older stuff, it was a demo recorded with a low budget in a clandestine studio of a friend of us, in this stage of the band I wasn't singing with them, but I know that with this material. The band attracted the attention of a great legion of fans.... it's a primitive stuff but really effective; only Black Metal.

05: COMMENT ABOUT PROMO TAPE: ¨SOULDEVOURER A¨.

Souldevourer is a preamble of our album Stirpe Obscura, firstly we recorded four tracks just for using this as promotional material, looking for a good record label for us, once we signed with Grotesque Productions for the releasing of Stirpe Obscura, we decided to include these songs in this album.

06: AND ABOUT ALBUM 2012 ¨YERSINIA PESTIS¨?

Yersinia Pestis is our new album. It will be released in May of this year under the Spanish record label Xtreem Music, in my opinion is the best record label in Spain in reference to extreme Metal in general. This album was recorded in in the Room Bcn in Barcelona with a good budget, we've wanted to get an excellent sound, totally professional and it entails to make a great recording and an exhaustive production.

I think that is the better work of SPELLCRAFT up to now and speaking about this I have to say; that you'll find in it a more elaborated album and with a better production than 'Stirpe Obscura', that's a new stage for us. It's a natural progression in our sound but without lose your roots; I think, it is possibly more bestial and compact.

07: WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

Nowadays all the old merchandising is sold out, we only have some t-shirts with the cover of Stirpe Obscura, but when the new album is out, we'll make new t-shirts with the new cover of Yersinia Pestis...hahaha it is a really blasphemous and bestial picture, perfect for a metal t-shirt.

08: DID YOU HAVE PLAYED MANY GIGS?

SPELLCRAFT is going to play a few times just in carefully chosen festivals. We will fuse our old songs with new stuff so that our fans also enjoy our legendary anthems. In our gigs you’ll find only true Metal Negro, we enjoy our new material and we also want people to join us in our live concerts to get together a totally dark atmosphere and aggressive at the same time; all of us, together, will open the gates of Hades…

09: HOW`S SPANISH BLACK METAL SCENE?

In our city there is one more band, they are Temple Abattoir; they play raw and excellent Black metal, they are good friends of us, as well …The Spanish  underground metal scene is totally alive currently, other Spanish bands that I would mention would be ERED, MARTHYRIUM ,LUX DIVINA, BALMOG, PROFUNDIS TENEBRARUM, etc…to mention just some of them..

10: COMMENT ABOUT THE  ÄDAEGIA¨ MUSIC.

This song is very special for us, because it speaks about Adaegia, the goddess of Iberian hell, in a way it's a homage to our pagan ancestors and culture, but always with our peculiar focus...it's a magic song but with lots of feeling and at the same time a blast of pure hate.

11: AND ABOUT THE ¨STIRPE OBSCURA¨?

This album has been a referent for us, because it was recorded in a totally professional way; investing a lot of time in all the details, it has also been the work with which we achieve to cross the frontiers of our country, getting great reviews world-wide and giving to know the name of SPELLCRAFT to many people.

It's an album that I will be always very proud of, because the album was recorded in a natural way without search complicated pretentions; we just wanted it to be primitive and raw but with our touch of distinction from other Black Metal bands, so you'll find in it clearly aggressive songs with others; more enveloping and magical as "Beyond the lost forest", for example.

12: WHAT`RE YOU FUTURE PLANS?

I don't like to do too many plans for the future, because generally they don’t come true. The most important is the present and this entails the release of our new album, promotion, live performances and so on... but the future is uncertain; only death is real...everything else is ephemeral, so the future will speak...

13: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT!!! PLEASE, ANY LAST COMMENTS?

Thanks so much for your interview and interest in SPELLCRAFT.

'AFTER PLOTTING THE DESTRUCTION OF AN ENTIRE ARMY,

THE MAN DEPARTED SHROUDED BY THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT

TO SOW THE SEED OF DEATH WITH HIS SWORD...'

HAILS TO ALL BRAZILIAN BLACK METAL HORDE;THE BLACK BLOOD JOINS US;

Md.