Fernando Ricciardulli, bassist from heavy metal band Azeroth from Argentina kindly answered all the questions that we sent him. Thanks a lot to Gabriela Sisti for making this interview possible.

Well, we can not complain! Despite the reigning misery (and the bootlegs) it has sold quite well and we have licensed it to Spain and Japan. Also, it has obtained good reviews from important media like Kerrang -Spain- (4/5), Rock Hard -Germany- (8), Roadie Crew -Brazil-(9), Rock Brigade -Brazil- (8,5), etc. And the most important thing is that the people liked it a lot and they show that on every concert...

We are finishing the arrangements of the songs, to start rehearsing very hard before getting into the studio. The date that we have set is september of this year, and if everything goes all right the album will be on the shops in the beginning of 2002. We are going to have an important guest: Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian), who is going to do all the choruses in the album, this is going to be mixed again in Europe and the cover art will be done by Eric Phillipe (Rhapsody, Luca Turilli, Sonata Artica, etc.), who has worked with us on the first album.

The songs have more variety and worked, but they are in the same path than the first record: it´s heavy metal!!!!!!.

Well,it really took us by surprise and it made us proud of all the hard work that we have been doing for the last six years, it gives us strength to fight!.

Because we didn´t want this to be considered as a project of a singer from another band; that record is as Azeroth as those that are going to come: Adrián and Christian only sang what we have already composed (regarding the vocals). In that moment we didn´t have a singer, and we wanted to release our material that was already recorded... and that is also how Dieguito (singer) appeared, and we can not complain about how things happened.

He is called Pablo Gamarra, and we met him thanks to our friend Gustavo Gorosito (guitarist from Imperio). The truth is that apart from being an excelent musician he is a great person…and that is equally or more important than if he plays well.

Yes, in fact the second album is going to be recorded in two versions: in english and in spanish, because we think that we can achieve a competitive sound for the european market…time will tell!

In my particular case I work each song with the computer, with all the instruments in basic state, to show them to the other guys, so everybody can do the arrangements or change the things that we like to change, after that Dieguito and Juan (with the aproval of the rest) work on the vocal melodies. Juan also brings his songs, and we put them on the computer that allows you to see the idea of each song with almost all the instruments and allows to develope much more the arrangements and harmonies.

Básically everything that is heavy, thrash, power, etc., plus everybody listens to other styles of music and we think that all the music that you listen influences you in one way or the other.

Maybe, but it is only arising and the good thing is that there are more bands that try to sound better and be professional!. But we all know that this is not Europe or any other place where the economic situation is different: here there is no money, the musicians can not live of their music (so it can not be dedicated to learning his instrument or composition or arrangements as much as maybe an european), people don´t support national bands ( they pay $25 to see a mediocre band from outside than paying $5 to see one that is maybe much better but is Argentinean - or are you going to tell me that Hammerfall is a great band eh?-)... well, it´s Argentina, what can we do?. But I must remark the strength of this new wave of bands that is arising now trying to do what they do seriously, and trying to be professional.

Mainly rehearse very hard to enter the studio to record in the best way. There are possibilities to make some shows in some places of the country, but I think that we won´t do them until we finish the recording of the new album.