Nattefrost

Interview with Hellcommander Nattefrost/ May 21, 2006

I (Twi.) never really thought about asking for an interview with Nattefrost, as I heared several times how difficult it is to talk with him. But after the Carpathian Forest gig in Munich, May 21, 2006, when I saw him passing by, I thought to myself: "Now or never, let's give it a try!" So I just asked. And he said �Yes, follow me�. Oh damn! And I was NOT prepared at all. Luckily Claudia was with me, she`s been a long time fan of Nattefrost. So we had this spontaneous chat with him in the tourbus � don�t expect anything special from our questioning!

N = Nattefrost
T = Twilightheart
C = Claudia

C > It was a perfect show today. I was in Ludwigsburg on Tuesday, but today it was even a little better.

N > Was you there?

C > Yeah.

N > Yeah, it was okay too. For me it was good.

T> And how is the tour going anyway?

N > It`s okay. Last tour I was singing in women`s clothing and I think I�ve fucked a bit. So, now it`s better. As a band we play better, and I enjoy better to be on stage. I always hated to be on stage in the past.

T > Is the crowd always as crazy as it was in Munich today?

N > Yes. Today is okay for us. We have experienced better. But today is the amount of craziness I need to perform, because it�s a feedback of energy, you know.

T > You have a really good contact with the audience actually. You smoke their cigarettes, you drink their beer during the gig�

N > I sk�l with them and I share my alcohol with them, yeah, I drink a lot� and I�m more sober on this tour than I�ve ever been, so� even if I drink�

T > What`s the reason for that? Not enough alcohol in the bus?

N > I want to be alive, I want to feel something. It gives me some sort of adrenalin. But I don�t remember the shows I do too. I only remember 15 % of each concert or something like that. Because I�m somewhere else. And if someone would approach me on stage, like to have a fight or to try to cut me up or something, it�d be fucking nasty. Because� I�m a nice guy� but it would be ugly if something would happen on stage, because�. just with the spikes and all.

T > And you like to put out the cigarettes on your own arm?

N > Yes. The sado-masochistic  stuff� that`s between me and myself� it�s something that I do just to feel SOMETHING.

C > Do you feel the pain when you do it?

N > No, nothing. I can feel a bit after it, because there are those yellow burn marks and in bed it sticks to the sheets. But that`s it. 

T > How was the success of your �Terrorist� release?

N > Good, very good. I did it when there was very little happening with Carpathian Forest, because we haven`t done stuff for 4 or 5 years. That`s why I�ve done some Nattefrost shit, and I�m still doing it. I will release a split-CD, a very exclusive one, a split with Isengard, with unreleased stuff from Isengard. It�s a folk album, just singing with clean voice, like folkish. I love the musical work of Fenriz, as he�s a good guy. 

C > Will it sound a bit like �Storm� maybe?

N > Yeah, but a little bit more stoner rock, more Black Sabbath, more like doom.

T > Did you have any possibility to watch the gigs of the support bands of this tour? Do you like them?

N > Yeah, I like this tour better than the previous one, because on the previous one I was not so healthy. I was so sick, and I hated the other bands on the last tour. except from �Tsjuder�. And this time, �Keep of Kalessin�, I really like them a lot, and the other bands, too. �Bloodthorn� was with us for a while, and �Hate� too. I don`t like to speak of other bands, either bad or good, but I make an exception since they are on my tour.

T > This action of you, when you did that photo in the bath tub in your own shit� would you do that again nowadays?

N > It�s like �Do you cover yourself in shit each weekend?� -  �No!� I wasn�t fucking healthy then, I was on a lot of heroin, and I need to say that loud, to kill the rumours about that kind of shit. I wasn�t so healthy one year ago.

T > I heared about this picture that you just wanted to have the most ugly picture that ever someone had of himself.

N > No, I wasn�t feeling so good then. And if you see all the stuff I did for the last 2 years or something, it�s just insane shit.

T > That guy (photographer) contacted you? 

N > Yeah, it�s taken from Peter Beste and he�s a good guy. So we had this agreement like �I can use this picture and he can�. He�s an extreme photographer and we play extreme music. There`s the same agreement with him and Gorgoroth too, or something. Anyway, I�m a different person now than a year ago.

((you can see the mentioned photo on www.peterbeste.com !))

T > What caused that change?

N > I died. I was dead for 2 and a half minutes. I was dead, I was blue. I was on heroin. 

T > And that made you rethink your life?

N > Yep. I really tried to think before that tour and afterwards. I have not been so nice after that tour, but it�s getting better and better. But I have to say that out loud because I want to kill the rumours. Because there`s so much stupid stupid stupid fucking rumours out there. So it�s better to tell the truth.

T > So, how would you describe yourself, if you think that people see you wrong?

N > I am fucking grim when I�m ON something. 

T > Is there a musical inspiration for the Black Metal you make?

N > No, I don`t like BM myself. I listen to every kind of music axcept from BM, so�

T > Why do you play it then?

N > It gives me something. It�s like a ventil. I started with this in 1991, it�s a long time ago. So, it�s still the same, like when I was 16, 17 years old. I haven`t changed, but developed.

T > So, that sounds like you�re not gonna give this music up in the near future.

N > No. We have a new album more or less. It�s partly recorded, so we will finish that one. But maybe we will stop doing corpse paint in the future. Because it�s not the corpse paint that does the music. It�s the music� you know� I�m just so tired of the corpse paint.

T > So why do you still use it now then?

N > Because we`ve done it all the time.

T > Does the new album contain some new ideas or surprises?

N > More Rock`n�Roll and less keyboards. I think the new album is good, for me it�s very good, because I told you for me it�s like a ventil, it helped me to release energy� like the drawing on the cover, I made that when I was very sick, like a therapy. Because I couldn�t write the lyrics for it. Most is taken from the bible, even the paint on the cover.

C > On the CDs, when someone is pissing and shitting, is that really you?

N > Yes, all the time.

C > How do you record something like that?

N > We bring a fucking microphone to the toilet and we do it there. I�m a fucking egocentric, I love to hear myself pissing or shitting or whatever. Is that okay for you?

C > Yeah.

T > Do you need that kick to get all the attention, like also with the Terrorist release to do a cover that would get censored?

N > Everything I do is like a diary. It�s the state I�m in whenever I�m doing it. I�m a very honest person, I�m fucking open and frank. And now I�m much better and people call me �poser� right now, because I�m in better health or whatever. Fuck! Fuck it! I�m still the same menthally. But I don�t need to be sick or whatever. I do whatever I do�

 

 

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