Yes, we are recording it...at my place this time. It's much more complicated, it should contain about 12 tracks and I sure hope I can get the sound the way I want it. It's the very first time I do this at home. We're halfway by now, drums and bass and guitars are finished. This one will be released officially, my (more famous) friends are taking care of that. I just have to find a new guitar player, Nick had too much other things besides Fleshmould. Can't be that hard to find another one though. I have no title for the album yet. It will be finished at the end of March and it will probably (you know the record companies) be released in May.

The debut sounds great and we sold a lot of them, but we didn't try to get a label to release it. Why? In my opinion it wasn't the Fleshmould I want it to be. Although I like the tracks on it, don't get me wrong. It was recorded after we got together as a band three months before. We weren't ready to promote it or present ourselves. It's not good for a band to start from scratch and make a fool of yourself at first. Those who are there to witness your (possible) failure will never forget, it's just like that. There are way too many bands out there and they all want their slice of the cake. The first concerts went better than I expected, because there were only two of us experienced playing live. The bass player didn't even play in a band before!!! Besides all that, the debut CD was rather short. We didn't have enough songs by then, so it should be released as a mini CD or so and that's not good either. I figured it would be better to wait and do it step by step.

Like I told you, it's been great, we didn't have any mishaps or disadvantages up 'til now. Yet.....

It's a small country, now that's too bad....So, now we're heading for part two, 'cause we wanted to

create a more specific sound for Fleshmould. Hopefully that will help to get us in the picture and across the borders around this tiny, silly country. And I'm quite convinced we're getting it all right now.

Well, to be honest....it freaked me out a little. There we were, we'd only been playing three gigs by then and suddenly on that huge stage. But it rocked, the Fest was organized so well, the sound was fantastic and everyone did the best he could. After two songs or so I felt there was nothing to worry and the crowd was amazing. It was a really good experience and it surely helped the self-esteem of the newbies in the band.

Not so much, it's been used in one song only until now. It's just one of those things. When it's needed for the song, we always add something special. It keeps it more vivid and the tracks are more divers from one to the other.

Yes, I do. Quite a lot actually. Is that important? Let's just say it helps a lot. It's not necessary, I know a lot of great musicians who don't even know what's it all about. On the other hand, I think when you're too theoretic you could even fuck up your music. You might approach it to technical and where are the spontaneous ideas then, huh? To me it's just a back-up, or I can add something special which I learned. Frankly, I don't give shit about notes and none of us uses those. It's all in the head.

Not really, but I think we should use all the advantages of the technology nowadays. It has nothing to do with Industrial, but we do prefer to take death metal to a higher level. Let's call it getting ready for the near future. There are some samples (sounds) to accompany the music itself, there are some FX mixed in the music. It's just an extra layer.... I like all bands that are somehow special and different. Some examples: Meshuggah, Opeth, Death, Morbid Angel. All different in their own way. After 1 minute you know instantly which band you're dealing with. On the other hand, I like Necrophagist, Mortician and Samael as well. They use some electronics too, don't they?

The very most of the tracks are about all kinds of weird, psychotic or even biomechanical stuff. I'm a computer freak and a movie freak. I like to read about this stuff and I love the Internet and what you find there. Take the movie The Matrix or a Giger-painting and you know what you're dealing with.

Now that's an odd question...No politics or so. I'm not the one to tell someone else what to do! My music should just be what it is: music. So you love it or hate it, but if you like it it's like a movie: with a scenario, a climax and some twists now and then. You can listen to it specifically or you can just bang your head. Both ways are great. I'm just trying to have fun and share it with others. The more the merrier.

Well, I've never heard any metal from Argentina....How come? Your country is probably 50 times bigger than my country, so there must be 50 times more metal as well, hahaha. I'm really curious.

Interviewed by Federico Marongiu

Fleshmould - CD (2000)