Lunatic Gods come from Slovakia, a place where truly original bands are surfacing. This guys make a style that they define as "Lunatic metal". Having heard the music of the band I can say that they are blending a lot of influences coming up with something totally original. We spoke to Hirax, the guitarist of the band and one of the main composers:

How would you define your music?
Well, to tell the truth we don't like to characterise our music very
much, but if I really have to do it I can tell you that we call it "lunatic
metal". It's maybe because it's really a mixture of styles. But mostly there
are doom metal and death metal influences. On our new album there are even
black and some exotic influences. We basically put stress on melodies and
atmospheres but I think that it's obvious. I really don't know what more can
I say about our music.

Why did you change your name from Bestialit to Lunatic Gods? Why did you
choose Lunatic Gods as the new name of the band?
We changed our name because it was unevitable. With BESTIALIT we played
brutal death grind, which was very different from what we play now. In times
of BESTIALIT we were just four-man-band but soon after we recorded our debut
material two other members entered the line up and our new compositions were
different. Therefore we felt necessity to change the name as the old one was
not very suitable for our new style. We chosed the name LG as we believed it
characterised our music well.

 

What do you find atttractive in your deal with Metal Age Productions that
you didn´t find in Polyphemus Records?
Actually we had an offer from Polyphemus for other two albums but we refused. Mainly because we had some problems with Polyphemus mainly in comunication however the main reason why we decided for MAP is that Polyphemus didn't do almost any promotion and advertising. We believed that MAP was able to do much more for us

How would you describe the music contained in your first two albums?
What do you mean by first two albums? Do you mean our debut with BESTIALIT
and our LG album "Inhuman."? If yes then as I said before the BESTIALIT
debut was in the vain of brutal death grind. Unfortunately the production
was terrible. Our LG debut "Inhuman." is in the same vain as our 2nd album
"Sitting." however there is a bit more death metal, I would say that its
more brutal but still very atmospheric.

 

Why are you using two vocalists in your music?
Well in the times of our beginnings it was very popular to have a female
vocals but we didn't want to do it as well, but still we didn't want to have
only brutal vocals. In fact Mortis was in the band from the very first
beginnings and we knew Emil from the school. He had always been our good
friend and we knew he can sing and likes this kind of music so we asked him
if he would like to join the band and he did it. In fact I think this is
also one of the things that makes us diffrent from others.

Are you recording the follow up to "Sitting by the fire"? How is it?
There are some changes in the line up. We have a new singer and a new
keyboard player so you can be sure that the new material that was just
recorded is different a bit but I think it is still in the vain of
"Sitting." There is one experimental song on this material, maibe it is
again a bit more brutal.

 

Is it possible that you rerelease the material recorded under the name Bestialit as a collector´s item?
I would say that it's almost sure that we will never record it again butone never knows. We have no reason to do it as our music now is very
different.

How is the slovakian metal scene? It seems to be growing...
Yes you are right our scene is growing every day and you can believe me
that our scene is really very good. There are a lot of bands, mainly death
bands, that are really perfect but the rest of the world igneres us because
they are afraid that they wouldn't earn money on it. One day we will defeat
the world scene.

What do you think that expects Lunatic Gods in the future?
Cervo says that the only thing in our future is death and that's truth.
What for our band we would like to release our new material abroad, but I
really don't know. Maibe in a short time we will record a concept album.

Any final words?
Thank you for your help. All the best with your work.
Contact about LUNATIC GODS

c/o Pavel "Hirax" Baricak
Jana Martaka 33
036 08 Martin 8
Slovakia

Email: pavel@rebeca.sk

Fuckland - Split with Dehydrated (as Bestialit) (1994)