1. How did the band get started? How did you meet
and how long have you been together?
Christof: "WaterHells"
is our third and first Album. KorovaKill rose from the Ashes of Korova,
a Band that already released two CDs, "A Kiss in the Charnel
Fields" (1995) and "Dead like an Angel" (1998), through
the Austrian Label Napalm Records. The first Concert of that Formation
took place in 1991, so we have our 10 Year Jubilee this Year.
Last Year we decided to mutate and burn all Bridges behind. Drummer
Moritz Neuner, who has been in KorovaKill since 1993, and myself did
separate from the four other Musicians and united with Keyboarder
and Sound-Architect Renaud Tschirner to turn the Herd into a Trinity.
That's the Story about how we met.
2. How would you describe
your music?
Christof: Words are just Illusions
of Worlds. I am glad that it isn't our Work, but the Work of the Press
and our Label to violate our Music into the hollow Prison of Descriptions.
Our Promoter chose the Words "A Trip into New Metal". Some
of the Reviews chose Terms like "Epic Avantgarde" or "Death
Pop." Red Stream labelled it as "Avant-garde Black Metal".
We can live with everything.
3. What are your biggest
influences?
Christof: The Word "Influence"
is just a euphemism for "Influenza." Anyway my biggest Influences
are those strange Dreams which come to me every Night. But since Dreams
are something, that comes from within and not from the hollow Fashions
of the outer World it would be better to call them "Outfluences".
4. What influence do you think your bands has in music and
metal today?
Christof: Hopefully we didn't infect
too many People with our "Influenza". The World would be
a better Place if there wouldn't be so many Idiots just copying and
stealing their Ideas from others.
5. What made you want
to be in the band? And if you weren’t in the band what would
you be doing now?
Christof: The only Reason for
us to be in a Band is, because we thought that we could get many Girls
by doing that. But some Time ago I found out, that you can get even
more Girls by being an Astrologer. Therefore I am thinking about changing
Profession totally at the Moment...
6. Are any band members
in side projects? If so what are they, and explain a little about
them.
Christof: Our Drummer Moritz has been involved
in uncountable Bands and Projects so far. To mention just a few he
already has played in DREAMS OF SANITY, EVENFALL, DORNENREICH, ENID,
ANGIZIA and is still active in ABIGOR, DARKWELL and SIEGFRIED. Renaud
is working on THE NEW ARCHITECTS at the Moment and on other Stuff
in the Pop and Electro Direction. I also had some other Projects and
Guest Appearances on CDs of ANGIZIA and SHINING OF KLIFFOTH, but nowadays
I am concentrating on KorovaKill exclusively.
7. How would
you feel if a band took their sound from yours and became very well
known?
Christof: Unfortunately that already happened
to us in a very obvious Way. It's a Problem, which you always get,
when you have an own Identity. You just get robbed when you are creative
and innovative. Actually you cannot do anything against it except
of being angry.
8. What current bands do you like or respect?
Christof: The Group that made me start with Music
was ADAM & THE ANTS, but unfortunately they are no current Band
anymore...
9. How many demos/albums do you have? Tell
me about them!!
Christof: The Albums I've already
mentioned. We never released any Demos.
10. What demo/album
do you like the best?
Christof: If you speak about
our own Albums: none. They are always just a Picture of a Moment,
and when the Work is finished we don't listen to it anymore.
11. What is the meaning behind the songs?
Christof:
"WaterHells" is the Story about the eternal Cycles of
the Great Sea. The Great Sea is the total Sum of all Atoms, Waves,
Things, Movements and Stimuli in all Scales and Zooms of all Times,
Places and Ages all around in all Directions together in one Entity,
the World of Worlds...the All. The Great Sea is where all comes from
and where all will end. Others call it Tao, Brahman or Parabrahm,
Apeiron, Hyle, Chaos, Ain Soph Aur, Substance, Central Monad, World
of Will, Alpha & Omega or Grand Unified Energy. There are a Myriad
of Names for it.
A Thunder explodes and a little Drop is born into the visible Part
of this World-Work, out of the Invisible. A Man awakes drifting aimless
and nameless in the Nowhere of the Sea. After Untimes of drifting
without ever stranding he recognizes, that all Directions are meaningless
except the Way down to the Ground. He drowns beyond the final Frontier
and enters the Realms of the Underwhirls. At the Bottom of the Sea
stands the Skull Palace, a Castle built of Bones with the Shape of
the Devils Head. Mermaids and Undines wait in the beautiful Gardens
before the Castle and try to decoy him away from this awful Place
with their hypnotic Song. Heavy and dowsy he gets from the Honey and
Opium of their enchanting Voices, but in the End he decides not to
follow them into their delusive Paradise of eternal Dreams.
He has to enter the Skull Palace of painful Conclusion, the ulcerous
Skeleton-Brain of hollow Models and dead Images, the drunken Shadows
of his Imagination. Inside there is a pale-white Hall, filled with
a Myriad of Marble Statues. All Time is frozen, all Feelings are stunned
in there. All Unredeemed stand there, carved in Stone and just waiting
for one Drop of his Blood to come to Life. In the Middle of this Marble
Hall stands an Altar with a voluminous Book. Into the Cover his Name
is carved. He opens it and in there 3-dimensional, moving Pictures,
Shapes and Figures are printed and Words which he doesn't understand.
As he leafs through these living Pages he cuts his Finger on the Edge
of one Page. It falls down on the Ground and all Statues leave their
Stones. They come to life and turn into a raving Storm of ShadowHordes.
With ripping Swords and bestial Screams all silent Devils awake from
their Sleep. Red sparkle their Stallions Eyes on their furious Ride
through every Pore of his Body. They guard the Gate to the final Secret,
but all their Threats are just a Game, a Mirror Play of powerful Nothings.
It's just a Fool's World. In the Black of the Void waits the Gold
of the All. As he recognizes that an all-coloured, golden Kaleidoscope
of Pictures, Tones, Smells and Sentiments overflows him. He crosses
the last Bridge, and at the End of the Tunnel he reaches the Heart
of the Sun. All the Waters melt and he sees lucid and clear through
Neptune's broken Nets.
The last Chord of the last Song is a Cluster of all 12 half-Tones,
each one standing for one of the 12 Songs. So the whole Album is united
and gets one in it's End.
12. What does the future hold
for the band?
Christof: At the Moment we are
in the Beginning for the Preparations of our next Release. We are
going to rewrite & improve the unreleased 1997-Work "Echoworld",
a dissonant Opera of supersonic Future Metal.
13. If you
could play with any band who would it be and why?
Christof:
I would never ever play in another Band, since I don't want to
make Compromises. That's also the Reason why I left all other Projects.
14. Who writes the majority of the music?
Christof:
Actually I am the Head and the Heart of the Band. I am responsible
and guilty for all that staying and changing. I am writing the Songs
and constructing the Concepts. But my two Companions are also very
important for the final Result. Moritz Neuner is the Hands and the
Feet of the Band and Renaud Tschirner the Ears and the Spine.
15. Who has been the favorite band you’ve played with
and why?
Christof: I don't want to do Rankings.
So far we've played with many interesting Bands and each of them was
special in its own Way. Two great Bands with whom we played pretty
often are our Friends from DREAMS OF SANITY and BELPHEGOR.
16. Where did you get the band name from?
Christof:
Korova stands for all the Herd-Rubbish, that is euphemized with
the Word "Social". Korova reigns everywhere, where People
crowd together in collective Masses to substitute their very own Individuality
with a fabricated and manipulated Common-Identity. Wherever the Flocks
gather cowardly to castrate the Rights of an Individual, wherever
Mediocrities unite to torture the Outstandings Korova leaves its Cow-Pats.
"Together we are strong!" says the stupid Herd. Individuality,
Originality and Out-of-Norm is like a Red Cloth to the Bulls of Korova.
Therefore we had to create KOROVAKILL, the mighty Beast of Prey, the
Lion King and Golden Dragon in the War against the cruel Collectives
of the Ruminant-State, against the modern SS of the Mass Industries,
that smothers all Forms of Life into the Norms of mechanical Numbers
and Products.
17. Describe what the band is like live?
Christof: The last Concert of our Career did
take place in the End of 1999. We aren't playing live anymore.
18. If you are gonna do any kind of video what would be in
it?
Christof: If we would have the Possibility
to do a Video we would do it without Music, since you can express
much more with Dialogues. We would to the Video about a Dialogue between
George Bush and his Penis on the Lavatory of the white House after
pressing the Red Button.
19. Are there any touring plans
made; if so tell me about them?
Christof: There
are no Touring Plans.
20. Where do you think the band
will be 20 years from now?
Christof: The Band
will be dead and forgotten. |
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