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1. Finally after seven
years of unrelease any material you becomes
with your latest work RITUAL IV which is a
sample of your new musical direction and
upcoming official album. Which was the
reason for this relative period of
inactivity?
Musical direction of a new material is extreme as it
has always been and this time we really made
the best that we could create so far. We
combined some new aspects to our music which
we used before also but this time we made a
perfect combination of a death/black metal
at its best i dare to say. Together with
that we added some old metal riffs but also
some new and modern sounds even some
industrial parts.Songs that could describe
us the best at the moment are the two songs
released on our promo cd for the upcoming
album Ritual IV and those are "Devil
speaks" and "One with us". With those two songs we
achived what i think we were searching for
and that is our own sound if i can say so.
We were active during the last 6 years only
not so much live.We decided to dedicate
ourselves completly to the great work on the
new songs which were to represent a new era
of the band since all of the old members
departed and i was the only one left from
the original line up.I gathered new souls
for this purpose only and needless to say we
had lot of problems also during the
recording period with almoust all the
aspects that you can imagine and that was
the main reason for recording it for such a
long period of time but we do not regret for
a single minute spent.
2 .I would also like
to know about your newest deal with CASKET
MUSIC RECORDS in order to release your debut
album, how did they happen and what are your
expectations for this new era on your
musical carrer?
Yes,we signed a contract
very recently for the U.K.CASKET MUSIC
RECORDS for the world wide distribution with
our debut album "RITUAL IV".The
reason for getting this deal is our Management agency from Germany, HEAVY
SPACE AGENCY ( RE-ARMED, AGATHODAIMON,
ETERNAL TEARS OF SORROW, SEMARGL),only to
mention the few bands that they are working
with.They are working on our behalf and we
are very satisfied with their work for us
and everything that they did for us so far.
Plan is world domination, first in europe then in the
rest of the world.Album comes out somwhere
in the end of the summer 2010.Also new video
will be recorded soon after, for this year
we will play only one show on METAL BREED
FESTIVAL in Hamburg,Germany at Markthalle on
24.10.2010. After that we are preparing for
our first european tour which is starting
around February of the 2011.This is our near
future plan for this year and the next one
and we hope to see most of our fans out
there. 
3 .You are almost
twelve years on the scene. I would like to
turn back and remember one positive and one
negative moment of your careers?
The negative one would be
definetly the wrong people involved within
the band in the past and postive is
definetly the day that we meet our Managers
Robert and Nicole.
4. In your opinion,
what makes a band special? What is that
vital ingredient that separates a good band
from a great one?
That is a good
question!Well there are lot of factors or
components which define a great band and a
constant search and evolution of the band
and its members would be one of them.There
are lots of other as well. Great band needs
to be focused and dedicated to what they are
doing completly and totaly without this you
can't achive nothing only if you wanna be a
local band for the rest of your life.Big
bands also have a defined
attitude,philosophy or what the band stands
for,image and also are great songwriters,
not neccesarily musicians but
songwritters.Songwritting is teh essence of
any band. And that is all that matters if
you ask me that a Great band needs to
have.The rest depends on the more then few
circumstances that could not be perdictable
such as luck,will power and effort of the
each individual band member.
5. Gorthaur´s Wrath
has been described as Black Death Metal, but
your subject matter is quite different from
the typical black metal band. How would you
describe your music?
Well as i mentioned
before we used to be only black,death metal
but with the Ritual IV we combined
everything that we thought could serve the
greater purpose and added some new
influences that we didn't use before.
We combine new modern
sounds such as
tribal,industrial,experimental also with
that old school riffs and of course the best
that we have made from black and death metal
so far.Because we are extreme band after
all.We made bassicly songs that we wanted to
listen and to hear out there in a metal
world today more and that are simply not
there yet.
We will bring the past back with our own style. 
6. Tell me bro, are
your texts only anti-religious, or maybe
these are words of your satanic soul? Do you
believe in hell and devil as a person?
Our lyrics are my
personal philosphy,occult studies and my own
life experiences. I believe only in
myself,people that suround me and things
that i do here in this world.The rest is an
open discusion.
As for hell i think most of the people are already
there so there is no need for one more hell.
Devil is in each of us if you wanna reach
him.Of course i dont believe in bible or any
such definitions.If you are really intersted
in any of these subjects just read anything
that you can get, don't live your life only
according to a single book.
7. Talking about your
live perfomances, when metal heads come down
to watch your performance, what are they
liable to see?
We will try to bring them
the songs live in a more extreme and
energetic way together with ourselves
inside.
Every live performance is a new experince for us, so
any time we do it again we try to do it
better and more powerfull that the last
time.Also we put lot of effort to bring the
visual aspects of the band in life when it
comes to live performance.But we are still
in primal phase. So you can expect lot of energy releasing and visual
imagination.
8. What do you think
about the present scene in Croatia? Are
there in your opinion many talented bands
around there? Do you always try to find new,
fresh and brutal black/death metal bands?
There are lot of good
bands in Croatia both young and older ones
just to mention the few such as
Kryn/ex-Downfall,Monox,Ashes you
leave,Father,Igut,Mass Hypnosis,Chang FFos
and many others.For those interested you can
visit Umri.info and Cmar-net.org, both pages
cover almoust all the bands that exsist in
Croatia at the moment.
I dont listen to much of
the new bands specially when it comes to
metal today, i rather rediscover some bands
from the past that sliped my attention.To
much copycats in todays metal scene, the
scene is big today, very strong and there
are lot of things going on i can agree on
that one.Together with all of this there are
simply to much new bands that are just
passing by. That wanna become big and famous
over night but you cant stay for a long time
like that.
That is way i prefer past at the moment or only few
rare new bands that cross my path.
9. What does it mean
for you underground respectively to be
underground? What do you think about trends
and riding the trends? It is important to be
original or to play original music?
We were always
underground and i will always have a great
respect for the whole underground scene and
the people involved but for us the time has
come to go overground now after all this
years and with all do respect i can say
that.Trends were here all time and will be
but those are the ways of the world, you
need to be yourself and do what you wanna do
and what you like to do and thats the only
way.
Black metal is still a
rather limited genre that does not attract
large crowds (Cradle Of Filth excluded), do
you think this is the fate of extreme music
for all future?
Extreme music is today
recieving more and more attention that one
could ever imagine so you can never tell.
I think extreme scene is here to stay for sure!
10. Talking about the
band members, I have noticed all of you also
take part in other bands and/or projects,
how do you manage this without affect the
GORTHAUR´s WRATH progression itself? 
Most of our projects are
exactly only that-projects, so we are
dealing with them when we have time from our
main band and that is less and less
nowdays.Some of those bands were also part
of our history.
11. So Let's go on
with a sick/joke question: If Britney spears
would ask you to do a song with her, would
you join? And what would this song sound
like?
Maybe as a backing vocals
for some female screams like in some typical
horror movie scene, he he.
12. Can you explain
the method of songwriting employed by GW? Is
the writing process generally collective or
does one member often craft the song on his
own?
Moric the guitar player
is the main songwritter and myself,lyrics
are done by myself only.
Basiclly we work togeher,
Me and Moric and when we make an idea thats
when the rest of the band comes in.
And then the rest of the process takes over begining
with the drums and when everything is ready
we enter the studi where songs once again
reach a higher level and where we make a
final touch so to say.
13. Maybe you would
now at the end reveal some details about the
future plans for GW and your personal goals.
How far would you like to go with Gorthaur´s
Wrath?
As i said our plan for
this year is releasing Ritual IV our first
official album for the world
distribution,which is a great honour for us
after all the years and effort we put
inside. We are very pleased and exited about
that now.Than our next step is a new video
which is also going to be a big experiment
and unexpected move in the eyes of many,show
in Hamburg on Metal breed festial and the
rest of the year we are preparing our very
first european tour.Lot of work infront of
us, but thats the way it is.It never
stops.This is the begining of a big and
important chapter in the history of the band
and we are sure that lot of people out there
will be extremly surprised with what we have
prepared for them.Some for good some for
worse.The
best is yet to come surely,but the
Ritual has begun!That is all that matters
for us now in this phase of the bands
history.
14. Any last words to
the fucking maniacs out there??? Anything
you wish to add?
Thank you for yor
interview and your support, your propaganda
in our behalf is more than welcome and will
be rewarded!we hope to conquer Usa very
soon!
Until then stay heavy and do your own will!!!
Morbid
DCLXVI
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