Not only did your new album 'Labyrinth' recently come out but you guys recently played a couple shows in Austria and Switzerland and then you were off on tour of North America with Wintersun last month, how's the busy life treating you? Yeah we are not long back from our North American tour with Wintersun, Arsis and Srarkill. It was great to get over there a play those shows. This last year has really been non-stop working for us between composition, recordings and all the rest, but the results are amazing in my opinion. The album is receiving great critiques and this first promotional tour turned out great for Fleshgod from every point of view. We are growing fast.
So when they started working on Labyrinth they had a very clear vision of what to do and how, compared to 'Agony' that was the very first album on which they were working together. After this first part, we move to the studio, where we start working all together on the recordings and many little things are adjusted as we go through the process, while some others are sometimes written and arranged during the recordings.
Is recording and the production of a new album getting any easier for the band? Well, like every other thing, recordings and production improve during time. We had a much more clear idea of what we wanted, with Labyrinth, not only for which regards the The new album 'Labyrinth' is a concept composition, but even the production, we've album. Can you tell us about the story and been learning from past experiences. It's very the history behind it? important for us to have Stefano Morabito Of course. Labyrinth is a transposition of the working on this aspect since he's not just a great ancient Greek myth of Theseus and the labyrinth producer but also a friend who perfectly knows of Knossos, into a very personal experience that us and our music and knows how to translate our I believe everyone has to face sooner or later in requests into sound. Like in every aspect of our this life: the search for oneself. project, this is teamwork. The journey that Theseus intraprehends is actually a metaphor with this particular process There are a few guest contributions on the of knowing oneself and facing the bright as well album isn't there? as the dark side of our personality, and the Yes. We really like to bring other musicians into message is that we need to earn three things to our recordings to give something more to our win this fight for freedom. music. I think our music is really organic and we We need to recognize who we are and that really base a lot of it on the alternance of also means accepting our heritage with all its different timbers, vocals, instruments, etc.. imperfections; we need to face the deepest fears So this time we tried to bring even this and beat them in order to be ready to choose aspect to the next level, with some special what our hearts asks us, at the right moment. We guests, such as Marco Sensi (Classic Guitar on need to admit that we need the others, since "Prologue"), Riccardo Perugini (Orchestral nobody can live only on their own. I believe this snares), Luca Moretti (Cello solo on "Epilogue"), is the only way to free ourselves from and obviously Veronica Bordacchini that we self-judgement and move on to a true freedom to re-confirmed on Labyrinth after her good work on decide what to do with our time in this life. ‘Agony’, and that is now singing live with Fleshgod. Who's idea was it to do this kind of album and was the writing process different from So to your live shows, what will fans have in past FA releases? store when you are out performing this new The main composer behind Fleshgod's music is album? Francesco Paoli, that together with Ferrini, who As for every other aspect of our art, the visual mainly works side by side with him on the aspect is extremely important, and we invest orchestral arrangements, they work in the money and time in that. We believe that a show pre-production bringing about 90% of the music must be a show, and not just the band playing to the recording sessions. the songs. And for this reason we plan Since ‘Agony’ they've worked together, and everything when preparing it, and do our best to obviously as time passes they find a better improve all the time both musically and balance since they know each other much better theatrically. From this first promotional tour for and collect experience in musical composition Labyrinth, we introduce the use of the Piano and as single musicians. even in the American shows (we already did it in
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