band. orden ogan album. To The End Interview with. Seeb interviewed by. f. mainardi
Question: I just listened to your third work “To The End” and it rocks really hard. Answer: Thanks a lot! The working process took much longer than expected, but now in the end we are 100% happy with the result. And the feedback we receive so far is amazing. Q: I couldn't but notice you included in the track list Angels War” and “Mystic Symphony”, why this decision? A: That’s true. Both tracks are very old, from the early days of ORDEN OGAN. At that time making music was only for joy, we didn’t have professional structures, aims or a record company. Both “Mystic Symphony” and “Angels War” date back from these “demo days” of the band, but we play them live ever since. And the fans kept asking us for the tracks of course. So when we started working on “To The End”, we decided to make them available on an official ORDEN OGAN album for the very first time. Q: Can you tell us more about the writing and recordings of “To The End”? A: Writing was not the problem this time at all. In fact, right after the release of “Easton Hope” in January 2010 I had 6 or 7 basic ideas for new songs. But then we got offers for some great tours like Grave Digger, Tiamat and Van Canto later, then the festivals… this pushed our schedule back a bit. In early 2012 we set the release of “To The End” for April, but
to be honest – the album was just not ready. It needed some more months to be completed and refined. I wrote 90% of the song all alone and did all the mixing. Q: You teamed up again with Andreas Marschall to do the covert art and also the comic book for the limited edition box set. What about this strong collaboration? A: The collaboration with Andreas started with the “Vale” album, our debut from 2008. We thought about a cover artwork that should suit the music well. Then our guitarist Tobi said: “hey, why don’t we ask Andreas Marschall”? Well, he said this just for fun, but I couldn’t get this thought out of my head. So I tried everything to get in touch with Andreas. It took some time because he isn’t really present on the scene anymore, but finally I got in contact with him. At first he said that he usually doesn’t do cover art anymore, but then he asked me to send him a CD. A few days after he called me, said that he likes our album a lot and would like to paint a cover artwork for us. It was a happy day for me and ORDEN OGAN! After this, we never lost contact. In fact, we became friends with Andreas and he asked me to compose the filmscore for his horror thriller “Masks”. This movie is very influenced by the 70’s Italo horror movies (Giallo’s “Suspiria” for example). The movie won many prices on film fests and it was a great experience for me
personally to compose the soundtrack. We will also film a third video clip for the “To The End” album soon, where we will team up with Andreas again. Q: Any news and behind the scene facts for the video for the track “The Things We Believe In”? A: Oh, this was really nice! We teamed up with director Rainer Fränzen, who did clips for a.o. Dimmu Borgir before. Rainer is a very enthusiastic guy with great knowledge and interest in role plays. He and his team gave 100% and I’m sure that “The Things We Believe In” became our best video clip so far. It’s great to see that the video is even shown at Burger King TV in Germany. Q: You are very successful live band, what your thoughts about the rock scene here in Europe so far? A: I think compared to other parts of the world, we have a very lively scene here in Europe. But on the other hand there are so many bands and they all want to tour. So it can become something like an “overkill”. I very much like the variety of the Rock/Metal scene. Q: Talking about touring, any plan for gigs in the coming months? We have a tour with Luca Turilli’s RHAPSODY in November/December and first festivals are booked for 2013 as well. We are also thinking about doing a headliner tour in the first half of the next year.
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