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Akitsa (4/2001)
Akitsa is a quite young band from Québec, Canada. Their debut demo "Totale Servitude" offers pure primitive black metal in it's most nihilistic and misantrophic form. The demo was a great positive surprise to me and I was very interested in hearing the bands own opinions on different things, so here's an interview with O.T.
Greetings! Akitsa is still
quite unknown to many people, could you start by telling us a bit about the
band?
-Akitsa is a band (2 memebers:O.T. & Néant) from Québec.
All started in 1999. We are raw, primitive Black Metal. Until now Akitsa
have released a demo rehearsal which was re-released on CDR by AFP. We are
currently working on our next release called "Goétie". Also coming
up (maybe is already out) we have a split cassette with Song Of Melkor.
On your homepage you say
that you have played in many bands before Akitsa. Can you tell us shortly
about these bands?
-These projects were not serious. Most of them were involving me and Néant
sometimes with other members. We were not satisfied with the result of these
past recordings so most of them have not been distribute except to some tape
traders.
What does Black Metal mean
to you?
-Black Metal is war.
Your demo is very grim,
misantropic and hopeless. Do you feel your life to be a complete suffering
or does your music represent only a part of what you
feel?
-Life is complete suffering. The world is stagnant. Society is guide by the
economy. We have no freedom!
What do think about using
drugs, mutilaion or
suicide?
-No comments.
Are you satisfied with
"Totale Servitude", or will there be lots of developement in your music in
the future? What kind of feedback have you
received?
-We are really satisfied with the demo. The new material until now sound
different but it's still primitive. Most of the comments I have heard are
good.
I haven't seen your lyrics
anywhere and I suppose they are in French so I wouldn't even understand them,
but what do they deal
with?
-All our lyrics are in French and we won't write in another language in the
future. Our lyrics deal with the dark side of life such as despair, nihilism,
pollution, misanthropy, suicide, etc.
Your opinions on the modern
society? What kind of world would you like to live
in?
-The modern society is too much superficial. People just care about how much
money they win, how they look like, etc. It's the same thing in the Black
Metal scene. Some Black Metallers pay crazy prices to get clothes to look
like a "cool"/"real" black metallers. Also the society (at least here) is
100% driven by the economy/money. The government don't care at all about
the environment as long as they make money which I find totally intolerant.
In your biography you say
that the only solution that is left is Black Metal terrorism. Could you specify
what you mean by Black Metal
terrorism?
-Black Metal terrorism is making negative propaganda towards our society
using black metal as wagon. Black Metal terrorism caused murder, suicide,
church burning, grave desecration, assault, etc. This ideology is mainly
influenced by The Grey Wolves' Cultural Terroritst Manifesto.
Your philosophy is not
the most satanic and neither is it really national socialistic or pagan.
What do you think of Satanic Black Metal today, or NSBM? What is wrong or
good with the current black metal
scene?
-You are right. Akitsa is not satanic nor pagan. I must say that we are proud
to be from Québec and being French speaking. The Black Metal scene
is now more than divided at my opinion. I think what is truly wrong right
now is that Black Metal have been commercialised and that people associate
subhumans like Mystic Circle, Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, etc with Black
Metal. As for NSBM I think that this scene still spread hatred and Black
Metal is all about that but I don't agree with their views.
What bands have inspired
you most? What bands do you consider worthy from today's black metal
scene?
-Our inspiration are bands like Burzum, Ildjarn, Beherit, Throbbing Gristle,
Bethlehem, Darkthrone, etc. As for worhty bands in today scene I enjoy Puissance,
Haat, Empyrium, The Syre, Bethlehem, Survival Unit, Sortsind, Gontyna Kry
(especially "Welowie"), etc.
There is more in your music
than just Black Metal. Do you listen to a lot of other kinds of
music?
-We listen to different types of music like Death Industrial, Classic, Power
Electronics, Neo-Classical, Dark Ambient, etc.
You have a very well designed
homepage and there's tons of information on Black Metal on the internet.
Do you think this has a good or bad influence on Black Metal in
general?
-Good and bad. It's easier to spread your music to the people all over the
world but the bad side is that any morons that know nothing about True Black
Metal can get informations about the underground.
What kind of plans do you
have for the future? What kind of releases can we expect? Will there be any
vinyl releases?
-Out really soon (maybe out now) is our split cassette with Song Of Melkor.
Also our our next album "Goétie" will be out soon on AFP (CDR version)
and Heavy-Distortion (cassette version). I hope that we will have some material
on vinyl one day but nothing is sure yet.
Anything you would like
to add?
-Paul, Thanks for this interview. By the way AKITSA "Totale servitude" CDR
is available for 30 FIN (Finland)/5$ (Europe)/6$ (World) from:
AFP
c/o J. Niemi
Ridasjärventie 50
05450 Nukari
Finland
jniemi@hit.fi
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For more info check out Akitsa's Homepage
