Interview with Stefania Ponzilacqua, the heart and soul of Eternal Tragedy:

How would you compare Eternal Tragedy´s new demo with the first one?

First of all,everyone who has my first demo and will also get the new one,Voice Of Instinct,will notice that the song writer is the same,even if the two demos are totally different.The first is very
sperimental,contaminated by prog metal and sang in melodic.Here we see very long songs and different feelings and atmospheres.Those two last elements are present in Voice Of Instinct too,but it came out a more violent product from my mind.The songs are shorter,more solid,better played,'cause I gained a little bit more experience.I can say that Voice Of Instinct is for any point of view,design included,more professional.

Thank you.I do my best to improve time after time!I don't use real patterns to compose songs, but I ca tell you that I recorded all guitars and bass tracks in 2003,thanks to a sequenced metronome, as I wanted to record them anyway, even if I was without drummer. About the developement of songs, well, it depends. Sometimes I use one methode, sometimes the other and other times,both.It is something that I cannot control,I mean,I don't know. My mind and its depth make everything with the help of my hands. Of course I am present with my mind if I create a riff that I don't like!Ahaha!

Practically I went on searching for one year for a drummer able to play back to those two songs,and able to record on songs altready recorded.I was aware that this demo was difficult.I don't know how many drummers I tried.Time was passing,sometimes I was depressed and I also thought to release it without drums.But you know how I am!I never surrend!So,one day,during my research, I spoke with a friend of mine who told me that he knew a drummer who was free.So,I contacted Iwan, who lives in Holland,we planned everything, I took the bus and went in Holland to make him record. Now Iwan is in Eternal Tragedy's line up.

What are the lyrics on the new songs about?

Eternal Tragedy is a kinda more dramatic version of Hamlet's monologue:to be or not to be.But my version is more incline to death.Except,in the end,where I say that even death can't cancel our pain.So I can say it's quite a positive lyric.Eternal Tragedy (that is also my band's name) means something that we cannot solve,a perennial human problem.Life oblivion,can you understand?In Outside Of Mercy I try to put under a light of reality the world of the church.You know,I live in Italy,where there is the vatican,and in my position I can see and know more:the luxury and stuff,for example, church is telling us to live in misery, it's trying always to make the brainwash to the weaker,to convince them that as they are "chosen" by god, they have to obey to church, that we must be afraid of a lie called god, that church invented.And so I made this text,because when I see all those priests full of gold,with big belly,consuming money for travelling,and contemporary I see poor people that,when they are "lucky",they eat some roots,I get upset,because it is the same people that church pretends to help.But if this was true,church was poor,to give help to these people,wasn't it?Instead I always see that these people is spoor.Church is putrid,and of course everyone knows this,but I can't stay indifferent,when all these priests profit of poor and ignorant people to practice pedophilia.The system is disgusting.I think all religions are a bad influence for every people and cause a maze of ignorance.It is a curtain where people try to repair from reality.

Are you planning to work with other musicians or do you prefer to work on your own?

At the moment it is not in my plans to do that,but if I'll have some free time,I'd be glad to play with
other bands.Some already asked me,but I couldn't join them,because this period is quite exacting fo me. If you mean to compose,also,with other musicians,well,I must think about it,because I have always created everything alone.

I am writing other songs,'cause I am planning to release a full lenght in which will be contained
Eternal Tragedy and Outside Of Mercy,too,but not Murder Of Souls and Dreamworld because I must work them in a different way,as I became more death oriented.At the moment I am working on several songs.And after this we can speak about gigs.But of couse I will need money to make a record,so it will take some time.

Yeah,I would like first of all to thank you,Federico,and Music Extreme for this interview,and to all readers:support Eternal Tragedy and always believe in your dreams.Don't allow anyone to destroy them.Last,when you make something,you must like it first,stay safe.Thank you!

Interviewed by Federico Marongiu