Burial Shades comes from Russia, a land where new metal bands are surfacing every day. But only a few of them have the quality of Burial Shades. We interviewed Havox and Chaosofist vocalist and guitarist from the band who are in charge also of the orchestration and lyrics of the band.

How is the Russian metal scene? It seems that everyday new bands are arising from there.
To describe russian metal scene is like to sort the mass of grey masks. Yes, you are right.Every year some new bands start their ways.There are so many bands, so that is impossible to know them all and to pay attention to each of them.
Extreme music is very popular here like in whole the world and the main styles are:death doom and black.
But the scene is realy feeble. Quantity of metal bands is not equal to quality.
Last week when visited "Milenium Metal Fest" in St. Petersburg we have seen it again.
The impressions of gig make us say:extreme style, represented with russian bands has no original ideas and development.
Some of "metal stars" have no even skill,so that it obviously tell them from europen bands, which in their turn are not always original too.
To tell the truth we are not interested in russian metal scene. We prefer european bands.

As the final words about russian metal underground (as it comes): here are many distros, labels and zines, but their possibilities are not so big as europeans.


How would you describe Burial Shades music? Do you think is correct to call it an atmospheric metal band?
So many men, so many minds.
Of course you are right when tell about our atmospheric sound. Some times our styles sounds like dark sympho metal,doom-death, etc. We named our music like demonic art.


How do you compose the music? Do you apply some kind of musical theory knowledge to composing?
666 that is the formula.


Have you found a music label to distribute your music?
MC "To The Fleshes" is distributed with Beverina Production (Latvija) in Europe and EX-USSR.
This year CD "To The Fleshes" will be released on "In The Form Of Darkness" (USA)
Of course we take care of our album with our own hands too.We continue to send promo CD-R to every zines and distros, which is interested in it.

What do you think of "To the fleshes of my Livid Everything" now that some time has passed since its recording?
This stuff was recorded in 1999 and it seems old to us. But we realy like it, as it was in those days it was born. Every gig in which we perform this material make it undead.


How important are keyboards to your music?
So how important to have no single eye, but a pair of them?

Do you think that Burial Shades music is going to suffer some changes in the future?
You are the oracle (but one eyed)The changes is going on right now, but not in music.
We leave the people, who prefer their own fucking human life to our dark way. Six years ago we started together.
To live on the earth is to smash the scenery of days or to drown in the mire of human swamp.We come our way. They are drowned. We feel no suffer, but unrest. The new material will be in our own demonic tendency and more agressive and brutal.
666-that is the formula.


Are you composing new material? Are you recording it?
Yes . We compose our new material together with our new comrades.
Probably it will be recorded in autumn.



I have talked to some bands that told me that classical music or folkloric music from their countries are a big influence to them. Is the same for you?
Our music has no influences from folk or classic. Russian folk is not so expressive as scandinavian or orient.
Talking about classic , there are only same modes we use when composing our material. But it's not the mainpart of it.


Who are the bands main influences?
We don't want proclaim the names. we live with REAL
death metal, REAL doom metal, REAL black metal, dark ambient and dark wave music.
And everything, that is unhuman and nondivine lives with us.



Any final words ?
We support antichristian and antihuman aggression in whole the hystory of this world.
EX ORIENTE TENEBRAE.
Stay UNDEAD!

Interviewed by Federico Marongiu

To the Fleshes of my Living Everything - CD (1999)

Chaosofist - guitar,lyrics
Havox - orchestration, vocal
Cerial - guitar
Damian - bass