Reviews & Interviews
Reviews / Interviews

Album: The Eternal Soul ( 2004 )

INTERVIEW

Date: September '04
Author: Alekos
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Language: English
Website: http://www.metalperspective.com
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Martiria's rebirth was an act of nostalgia in the regarding of what it was my first real metal band.

Hi Andy and thanks very much for this interview. I'm not going to ask you about the history of the band, but I'm really curious to know how come a band like Martiria, which exists since 1987, released its first work just in 2004? You also don't mention any demos in your discography on your website, are there any?
Hi, Alekos, and thanks to you and to Metal perlspective for the space you are giving to us. The fact is that, in these years, Martiria alternated periods of great activity and periods of total inactivity. Mainly the two most important periods are: the beginning (around 1987) and the actual... return, with the publication of the first album (2004).
In the middle there is almost nothing, in fact the group disbanded and all the original members worked in other projects, including the Dunwich (do you know this band?). Martiria's rebirth was an act of nostalgia in the regarding of what it was my first real metal band. Indeed, this rebirth brought a change of direction. Now the band plays a sort of epic-metal, while at the beginning we used to follow the sound of bands like Candlemass or Black Sabbath. In those times we recorded two demos that are not mentioned on our website because I consider them to belong to a completely different era.
I would like Martiria to be considered a new band, since the situation now is completely different! At the beginning there were four boys full of hopes and energy playing into an underground garage, now there are four old friends, full of experience, joining their competence in the name of a passion for this music that's still as lively as the first day!! (...)

© Alekos