– Hello, thanks for your time. What are you currently up to?

Hi! Right now not much, having vacation from my work. So i try to enjoy the time as much as possible. Barbeque, have a beer and have a good time.

– First off, could you please make some history of PUTERAEON?

Puteraeon started out as a one man project by me back in 2008 or so. I had moved a couple of years earlier away from Gothenburg to this smaller town called Alingsås and wanted to do some music again. I did 3 demos on my own, but was in contact with both Daniel & Anders back 2008 about getting started as a real band, but you know..it took some time before we accually got together and started rehearsing (i think that was in late 2009 or early 2010). In early 2010 we were in contact/contacted by Cyclone Empire and we signed a deal with them. We changed line up as Hasse Gustavsson (later Sörensen) left the band and Rune Foss entered the band. We recorded our debut album «The Esoteric order» during summer 2010 and it was released in January 2011. So there was a little span of time there

 

My first choise for a bandname (wich only lasted for a few days) was accually Meus Obscurum, but that didn’t feel very death metal but more black and since the music was in my ears pure death metal i changed the name. A friend did the logo and the cover artwork for first demo «Fascination for mutilation». I though it was cool to have a name «no one else had» hehehe. It’s easier to have a original name if you do like i did, combine both latin and english and put it together into one word. Puter means rotten and aeon, well that means aeonhehehe.

 

– All of you have played in different bands and are seasoned Metal musicians. What does this band provide you? What keeps you motivated?

This band is the only active band i’m in now. We feel that we’re not going to create the wheel again. We want to play this type of death metal cause it’s what we loved listening to when we grew up. I don’t feel that we need to prove ourselves for no one. We play the music we love the way we love it. We’re not trying to be the best musicians, we’re not trying to come up with the craziest riffs. We just do it for the love of the music.

This is also the band with probably the best composition of people..uhh..you know everybody really helps out for our goals and no one is trying to put work on the other guys, getting a free ride. So what i’m trying to say is that we got really good teamwork and feel tighht as a unit. Everybody gets really along. That’s enough for me to get motivated.

 

– Your first full-length album, «The Esoteric Order» was released several months ago. How was the feedback and the reviews it got?

The feedback and reviews has been better than with any of my older bands. Funny thing that it happens just as you stop trying to please people and just doing what you want. I knew that the reviews of the demos was also very good but the album reviews have obviously been more and better. It’s really fun to read of course.

 

– And if you had the chance of changing something in the album; what would it be?

I’m happy with the result and of course there would be some details here and there that we would probably change but that’s just small things. Nothing big.

 

– I think this album has a great production which seems to use new technology to make each instrument breath without losing the rough and raw sound. How was working with Andy LaRocque like?

I’m not alien to use new technology, but i don’t want it to sound to much computerized. I like it to sound as a drumset, (just hate those bands that have so trigged drumsound that it doesn’t sound like a drumset anymore. I knew i told Andy just that. Whatever you do, we want the drums sounding like drums. Sometimes the vocals are a tiny bit off but that’s the way it shall be.

I hate when it sounds clinic, too perfect. I think that looses the «soul» of the music.

We have worked with Andy before in other bands so he was our first choise really. His studio is not that far from our home and i rely on him 100%.

 

– Though this album sounds like old school Death Metal I noticed certain different elements as some guitars that remind me to Black Metal or some «Crust» drums so, how was the songwriting for «The Esoteric Order»?

The songs are written from 2008 until 2010 and you know mayby there have crept some small black & crust influences in there i don’t know. I can’t say i’ve listened to any black metal for inspiration to this album. But what you might see as a black metal inspired riff i might see as something else.. If you listen to like Entombed, they also have alot of crust, punk influences, but i think perhaps that’s jus what death metal is. A combination of different influences. I think that we also have some minor thrash influences in there but mayby someone else might think not.

When it comes to the songs they were mainly done like this. I come up with one or two riffs, put them together add some more stuff until i have a skeleton of a song. Then i arrange drumpatterns (with a drummachine) add bass and finally adding the lyrics and lyricpatterns. I record the stuff and show the other guys. Well that was how it was done on this album.

In the future the other guys will help writing aswell.

 

– Your lyrics are dark, creepy… Could you please shed some light on this aspect of the band?

The lyrics are there to help out the mood of the song. We play death metal and it would kill the hole atmosphere singing about something else. Look at Helloween for example when they did that album «Pink bubbles go ape»…what the hell was that?! We get most of our inspiration for the lyrics from HP Lovecrafts works. Horror in general also perhaps. Clive Barkers works have also been a big influence for me earlier but in Puteraeon we focus mostly on Lovecrafts themes. That and zombies and that type of stuff. It fits the rotten aura we trying to build so much better.

 

– If I’m not wrong you shooted a video for «Experience Zombification»; how did everything go?

Yes that’s right. This is our 2nd video from the album. Our first video from «The Esoteric order» was the song «Coma». We worked together with a friend of the band Pontus who helped us out and i think the results are a combination of mainly my ideas with the collaboration between Rune Foss’s shooting and Pontus Bengtssons editing. On «Experience zombification» Pontus shoot more scenes than on «Coma». But they worked together since Rune is also an excellent photagrapher. I am very pleased with how both videos turned out.

 

– You released a couple of demos in 2008 and 2009 and then, two years later, this album. Where you creating it during that time?

As i said earlier we weren’t really a band in 2009. We started rehearsing together and playing the demosongs. We recorded the album in summer 2010 so duiring that period of january 2010 to summer 2010 we were rehearsing the songs for the album mainly. After the album was recorded Rune joined so we had to get him rehearsed and the we started focusing on our first video «Coma» wich we wanted released a few weeks prior to the album was released. That’s why there are only 2 tracks that were completly new on the album. The other ones were demosongs recorded once again.

 

– We could say this CD has a more «modern» sound, refreshing for this scene, while your demos sounded more «vintage», in a certain DISMEMBER vein. Is there a concrete reason for this?

No there’s no real reason for this. When we play live we use the classic dismember sound. I think that might be one of the small thing i would have changed accually. Adding a little little bit more Dismember crust guitarsound to the album. I think it will be really interesting to hear how our next album will sound heheheeh.

 

– The Death Metal scene has always been huge and legendary in Sweden; what bands have influenced you and which of them are (in you opinion) overrated?

I like the older stuff and dislike the newer stuff. I’m not going to pass shit on anybands i let other people do that. But bands that clearly influenced us fromthe swedish scene is among others Entombed, Dismember, Grave, Unleashed, At The Gates (mainly the older albums). Other non Swedish bands that we have influences from are among others: Death, Autopsy, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Gorefest and more.

 

– When someone thinks on Death Metal, let it be melodic or not, always comes Sweden to mind; why are there so many DM bands?

I think that Sweden skipped the thrash metal wave wich led to that there became a huge death metal wave from Sweden instead. Nowadays i think there are two few REAL death metalbands from sweden, but lots of other bands doing more modern type of «death» metal or death metal inspired metal.

In sweden we had (at least when i grew up) support from the goverment to start play instruments. I remember i went once a week for guitar lessons and mayby this has helped out the many skillful musicians i don’t know.

Our main focus right now is our first show abroad. We will play on Party San Metal Open Air on friday the 12th of august. That will be fucking crazy! After that we have a couple of gigs in Sweden during the fall. And if everything works out the way we want it we will start recording a new album during December.

 

– That’s all, thank you once more for your time. If you want to add some final words; last lines are yours.

Thank you so very much for this interview. Hope my answers work out. Check out both our videos «Coma» and «Experience Zombification» and of course our album «The Esoteric Order»! If you are in Germany next week don’t miss us at Party San! Ia Ia! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

 

Sergio Fernández

sergio@queensofsteel.com

 

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