01. TELL US ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF LAGRIMA?

Tarek Yazbek : Well , the idea behind creating ?Lagrima? dates back to the year 2000-2001, when my older band named ?Enormity? was disbanding. There was also a lot of creativity differences among the band members on how should the band sounds like, also what should I compose or shouldn?t. For me these things were very limiting to my creativity. Since then I decided to make a new band that reflects my ideas and my way of composing, without putting any borders or red lines on any guitar riff. Even choosing the band members have to pass through this criterion.

02. WHAT IS THE FEELING FOR THE CHOICE OF NAME : ?LAGRIMA ??

Tarek Yazbek: The inspiration behind the band?s name comes from a classic guitar piece by the Spanish composer ?Francisco Tarrega? that has 
the same name. I liked the sound of the word and the meaning it holds which means ?Teardrop? or simply ?Tear? in Spanish.

03. TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR INSPIRATIONS AND LYRICS?

Tarek Yazbek: For lyrical inspiration, I chose a theme or a direction for the band that is very intriguing to me, which is Middle Eastern 
ancient history and mythology, and more precise the history of the ?Fertile Crescent? as it is called. In which the first civilizations 
known to Man emerged from there, and not lot of bands write songs or lyrics about this particular subject. So I find it to be something 
unique for ?Lagrima? and differs us a little from the other bands out there.

04. HOW YOU DEFINE YOUR MUSIC?

Tarek Yazbek: As for the music, it?s a combination of many styles of metal into one style, which also sets us apart from many bands out there,
who, some of them just sound like more famous bands. They try to copy their sound or their style and ends up sounding like a cheap copy, or 
simply sound like a typical death or black metal band. What new bands these days need to do is to add their own factor to their music. This 
factor is what made their idols famous. This exactly what we are doing in the music of ?Lagrima?, we set no limits, and we simply compose in 
the way that we find appropriate with and creative. 

05. HOW IS THE ACTUAL LINE UP?

Tarek Yazbek: Since the formation of the band, we had many line-up changes, but currently it consists of me (Tarek Yazbek) on guitars, Bass, 
Drum Programming and Bilal Al-Aghar on vocals who also contributes efficiently on the music of ?Lagrima?. He is a very creative guy with lot 
of fresh ideas and that what I exactly want in the band. We also are adding new members so we can perfume live, hopefully in the coming month the line up would be complete and start preparing for some shows. 

06. TELL US ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND SCENE IN LEBANON?

Tarek Yazbek: The current scene in Lebanon is not that active anymore or not as active as before due to many reasons, Many bands comes and go
but never reaches anywhere because they stay local and never get the exposure they are seeking. With few bands breaking that barrier and 
performing outside Lebanon. Hopefully one day the local scene would get the attention it deserves, making the bands push harder with their 
music.

07. COMMENT ABOUT THE MUSIC? DEATH OF TH FATHER...SAGUINTUM ? AND LYRIC.

Tarek Yazbek: The whole album follows one concept and story, with the music complementing the lyrics and the mood of the lyrics. 
The album tells the story of the war between Hannibal the Carthaginian General and the Romans and the different events in his life. 
In ?Death of the Father? Saguntum?, the song starts with lamenting the father of Hannibal, ?Hamilcar? after he was killed in an ambush 
and sacrificing his own life for his sons. The lyrics continue as a story line telling, briefly of course on how ?Hannibal? becomes 
the commander in-chief of the Carthaginians and how he took control of the rest of the Spanish territories leading to the siege of the 
city ?Saguntum?, which was the reason of the beginning of the ?Second  Punic War? and the famous campaign that Hannibal undertook across 
the Alps into Italy.

08. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

Tarek Yazbek: Currently we don?t have any merchandise produced, since we are doing the releasing by ourselves on the internet and for free, 
so if anybody wants to pick up a copy of the album, he can download it through this link :

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eak43qjuomlaomk/NJ2sK4SVtB

09. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF RELIGIONS?

Tarek Yazbek: Well, I as a person am not a religious person or a believer, for me religion is a thing that progressed through time. 
Starting as way to explain the phenomenon that are occurring in nature, to immortalizing ancient kings who became gods, and then taking 
the shape of a civil law, till it became in its current form. Adding to that every new religion that get created it have its bases in more 
older and ancient religion. It is just presented to the masses in a new polished package with some new fresh ideas. Most of the times it 
have a political direction to control the people through religion. 

10. HOW ARE YOUR NEWS WORDS?

Tarek Yazbek: We are now working on a new album, based on the ?Epic of Gilgamesh?. We already did the music and lyrics, currently we are in 
the pre-recording phase, hopefully to be released at the end of this year. Also, As I mentioned earlier we are adding new members to have a 
complete line-up and perfume our music live.

11. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE LAGRIMA?

Tarek Yazbek: the band has been around for a long while now, we have many materials to be released, hopefully we?ll be able to do that, 
and get the exposure we deserve, and be able to go international.

12. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

Tarek Yazbek: I would like to thank you for this opportunity you gave us to introduce ourselves for a new fan base, hope they liked and 
enjoyed this interview, and would like to ask them to download our debut album, ITS FOR FREE, through this link :  

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eak43qjuomlaomk/NJ2sK4SVtB

and expect a new album release at the end of this year.