INTERVIEW WITH CARLO/RESURRECTURIS JAN 4^TH 2001 (first RESURRECTURIS intie of the new millennium!)

The band was formed 10 years ago... How do you see in retrospect the career of Resurrecturis?

For the first 5 years we were basically learning how to handle our instruments and we were having a lot of fun. Then we started thinking of the band as something really important in our lives. We decided it was time to become serious and start releasing our music, so we did 3 demos and we got a deal and released some more music. We are quite happy with our tapes and vinyls and cd's. We have done a lot of gigs, many killer ones!! So I feel I have not wasted my time with Resurrecturis... Sure, we could have made more money, or sold more records, but that is nothing when one is happy with the quality of the music he has produced. Also many great things are happening to us! We have a lot of fans and supporters and I believe that not many bands have achieved as much as we have with so inconsistent label suport. I ain't complaining about our friends from Backwoods (who released our tapes) or from Quamby Hill (who did a couple of vinyls of ours) or Wild Rags (who re-released our demo #2 on MCD)... But it is a matter of fact that we have never had the chance of working with an estabilished label. Also the promotion/distribution job done by Power Records (who released the CD version of "Nocturnal") was poor and inconsistent, but that's another story!

Over the years we have developed our musicaltechnical abilities a lot. Every new song is a challenge and we always do our best to come up with something that will push our limits a bit further. Nevertheless the technical aspect is not our main focus, when we write our songs all we want to do is make a good song, we don't need to impress anyone with ultrafast leads and so on we just want to make something that sound cool and meets our tastes!

The new material that is gonna be released this spring has a lot of clean vocals interspersed with brutal yells... So yes we like to have a lot of different vocal patterns in our songs. But the latest material that we are writing now, well, it's like growls and fucked up vocals all the time, so it varies a lot, we don't have a fixed scheme. We always try to do different things.

What has Ivan Di Marco brought to the band musically speaking? What happened with Jerry Di Tullio?

Jerry left the band because he felt like exhausted... He had done what he could and I think that he wanted to make a change with his life. In fact he has quitted singing and is now working as a graphic. He wanted to have a more stable life and could not live a double life with a day-job and the band. Probably that was too much for him to take! I was angry with him at first, but I can't complain about everything he has done. He is a very good friend and I can appreciate the fact that he came to us and told us that he wanted to leave. He has a great talent, a very skilled vocalist!

Ivan is another killer vocalist! He has more talent than he is fully aware of! When we ask him to do things he's never done before, he seems to feel uneasy with that, but after a bit of effort the result is generally great... Besides that, on stage he is the perfect charismatic character. He goes really wild and knows how to get the audience crazy!

Is the follow up to "Nocturnal" ready? Are you going to support it by touring in Europe? How about touring outside Europe?

Yeah, we have 25 minutes of new music already recorded that should be unleashed this spring... Around June we should do some gigs abroad, in the meantime we'll keep ouselves busy doing shows in Italy on weekends... This summer we plan to organize a killer festival here in Fermo with many good bands. So we have a lot of things going on for the time being!

About gigs outside Europe, I don't know, we'd go everywhere, but the expenses for plane trips are quite high and I ain't sure that some promoter would settle to pay for the travel for Resurrecturis. We ain't enough popular to do that!

Actually all our demos, our split 7", our debut album and some inedit songs have been re-released on one double cassette box by Backwoods Productions, so anybody who wants to listen to our past material can get in touch with BACKWOODS PRODUCTION - Làszlò Kaposvàri - H-3530 Miskolc - Corvin u. 17 2/2 - Hungary. This release has excellent production values like full colour two sided J-cards with lyrics, notes, photos and band story, so they are really nice. Also the sound is pretty good!

The demo is really different from the album... We matured a lot from 1996 to 1998 and you can hear it clearly when you listen to these two works in a row. Also the sound on the album is 10.000 times better than the demo, so that also adds to the differences!

Anyway I think that the style of the band has not changed much from the beginning: sure we have become better musiciens and we have focused better on our goals, but the basic ideas and ideals have remained the same from day one of Resurrecturis' history.

This is pretty difficult one to answer, mainly because we have really varied tastes like I'm into grindcore and early death metal and all that extreme old fashioned shit. On the other hand Janos is more into eighties thrash metal, Gianluca Mandolesi (our new bassplayer) is into NWOBHM, Omar likes Pink Floyd and many nowadays metal bands while Ivan is into Cannibal Corpse, Brujeria and so on... So it's pretty varied and it's difficult to say what influences us, still I believe that a lot of different bands/books/movies/art influence us in some way: it would take a book to make a complete list!

Why are some songs in italian and some in english?

We've been the very first extreme metal band to write an italian lyric ever.... We wouldn't say that with our italian lyrics we ever intended to pay any homage to our mother land, the fact that we have some songs in italian hasn't anything to do with the fact that we are proud to be italian. It's just that it's easier for us to express certain feelings and athmospheres in our mother tongue... We were doing this way before the norse black metal trend started: "La Paura del Buio", our first demo's opening track, was written in early 1991... At first people seemed to be confused by that, but as time went by more and more bands started doing their stuff in italian like God Of The Stone, Cultus Sanguine, etc., but we were the first, no one can take that away from us!

Lately the english material is taking over the italian stuff, but from time to time it still happens that some cool italian lines emerge, so that we may want to use them.

 

Any final message?

Yeah, thanx for the interview... It's been a pleasure to reply to your questions, I hope you are satisfied with my answers and that some more people is curious to listen to Resurreturis now... Our new opus shall be released in spring, so keep your eyes well open... CIAO

RESURRECTURIS

Via Medaglie d'Oro, 73 - 63023 Fermo (AP) - Italy

Fax 0039 - 0734 - 62 27 88 (attn. Carlo Strappa)

Evil Confronting Evil - Demo (1996)

Corpses - promo (1997)

Evil Confronting Evil - CD (1997)

Leichname für Immer - Split 7" (1998)

Nocturnal - CD (1998)

Ivan Di Marco - Vocals

Carlo Strappa - Guitar

Gianluca Bassi - Bass

Janos Murri - Guitar

Omar Moretti - Drums