LUST FOR CHAOS - "DerDRAKOS' music stands
for innovation and originality. If you think that openmindness is one of your virtues,
then here's your way to find out..." Christine.
1. HELLO THERE! FIRST OF ALL SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
WE GET TO TALK, COULD YOU TELL US A FEW THINGS ABOUT DerDRAKOS AND THEIR FUTURE PLANS?
PLEASE ALSO PRESENT THE CURRENT LINE UP.
DerDRAKOS: DerDRAKOS HAVE BEEN FOUNDED IN 2005 BY
YOUNG ALEX DRAKOS (WHO WAS BORN WITH A PLAYSTATION AND KEYBOARDS IN HIS
HANDS) IN LEAGUE WITH HIS FATHER S.J.DRAKOS (A PUNK-ROCK BASS'N'GUITAR PLAYER, HOT
GIRLS PHOTOGRAPHER, WRITER), BOTH SHARING A FIERCE PASSION
FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC TRACKS AND FOR HAMMERING SUBWOOFERS. THE
BAND ALSO FEATURES THE DARK LYRICAL VOCALS OF FRONT-WOMAN SUZY MG. OUR PLAN IS
TO CREATE WILD POWER TO BLAST IN YOUR CARS, CLUBS, HOMES, RAVES AND INDIVIDUAL WARS.
2. OK! MY WEBZINE DEALS EXCLUSIVELY WITH HEAVY METAL MUSIC AND IN
FACT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I REVIEW AND INTERVIEW A BAND WITH THIS SOUND. SO, IF YOU WERE
ASKED TO REVIEW “LUST FOR CHAOS” WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TRYING TO BE AS OBJECTIVE AS
POSSIBLE?
DerDRAKOS: "INDUSTRIAL-TECHNO LACED WITH SPEED METAL
RIFF-LOOPS AND STABBING CYBER-PUNK SYNTH LINES" (review from Sleazegrinder.com).
3. NOW, LIKE I SAID THE INTERVIEW WILL BE READ BY METALLERS. SO,
GIVE THEM REASONS WHY YOU THINK YOU DESERVE THEIR ATTENTION ALTHOUGH YOU DON’T PLAY
METAL MUSIC.
DerDRAKOS: THIS IS WHAT THE GREEK METAL BAND DEVISER WROTE ABOUT DerDRAKOS: "HELLAS SALUTES
THE BRAVE ONES, DerDRAKOS: POWERFUL TUNES, BLASTING BEATS! A FETISH
SOUNDTRACK FOR THE APOCALYPSE..." IT'S
GREAT WHEN WE GET WILD FANS FROM OTHER KINDS OF MUSIC HEADBANGING TO OUR SOUNDS.
WE PRODUCE EVIL MUSIC, ON A PLANET THAT IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKE THE
MADHOUSE IN THE MOVIE "ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO's NEST", WHERE EVERY SINGLE
THING IS CONTROLLED BY A HORRIBLE 'GOODNESS'. EUROPE IS ALREADY LOOKING LIKE A SORT
OF MOMMY's POLICE STATE: YOU CAN'T DRINK, YOU CAN'T SMOKE, YOU CAN'T DRIVE, YOU CAN'T BE
OFFENSIVE, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE MARKET, YOU ARE ONLY FREE TO BE A USELESS
'CORRECT' WANKER. OUR ANSWER IS PURE LUST FOR CHAOS.
4. BY THE WAY, WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU MAINLY LISTEN TO? COULD
YOU NAME SOME OF YOUR MOST BELOVED BANDS, ARTISTS AND ALBUMS?
DerDRAKOS: WE LISTEN TO ALL ORIGINAL MUSIC THAT IS AN EXPRESSION OF ARTISTIC POWER,
FROM MUSSORGSKY's "NIGHT ON THE BARE MOUNTAIN" TO SLAYER's "GHOST OF
WAR", FROM DANZIG's "BLACK ARIA" UNTIL HARD-TECHNO THAT YOU CAN DANCE
AND SHAKE YOUR HEAD TO (NOT SILLY COMMERCIAL STUFF OR FACTORY-DEPRESSIVE RUMORS).
5. WHICH DO YOU THINK WILL BE THE MAIN CORE OF YOUR FANS? I MEAN
DO YOU THINK YOUR ALBUM WILL BE APPEALING MAINLY TO INDUSTRIAL METALLERS, ELECTRONIC MUSIC
FANS OR WHATEVER?
DerDRAKOS: STARTING A BAND MEANS STARTING TO FIGHT, SPECIALLY IF YOU WANT TO DO
SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND BREAK ALL THE FUCKING LIMITS.
SOMETIMES THE SITUATION IS ABSURD. ANOTHER ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN FROM SPAIN
(ED GORENDE, RAVE PARTY ANIMALS) SENT RECENTLY AN EMAIL TO US SAYING THAT: "the problem is that bands like us do something
that is too metal for techno-heads and too techno for metal-heads... and instead of both
people liking our music, we do not usually get to neither of them... too close minded, in
my opinion, everything is
frustrating fucking difficult!"... IT'S JUST LIKE TWENTY YEARS AGO,
WHEN SLAYER STARTED AND PEOPLE WERE SHOCKED BECAUSE THEY DARED TO MIX METAL WITH
PUNK, WHICH WAS A SACRILEGE TO MANY. TODAY IS STILL THE SAME: THERE ARE MELODIC-DARK-METAL
FANS WHO WILL NEVER LISTEN TO THRASH-DEATH-METAL, AND EBM-SYNTHPOP-INDUSTRIAL FANS WHO ARE
LOOKING DOWN TO HARDCORE ELECTRONICA... AND WE EVEN HAD AN ELECTRONIC
MUSIC LABEL THAT REFUSED TO PROMOTE DerDRAKOS BECAUSE THEY SAY THAT WE ARE TOO
'TECHNO', WHICH IS A NEW WORLD RECORD OF PERFECT NONSENSE... SO WE JUST DO WHAT
WE WANT AND DON'T GIVE A DAMN. DerDRAKOS ARE FAST RAGE FOR ALL THOSE WHO
ENJOY HIGH ENERGY, WHOEVER THEY ARE.
6. WHAT’S THE BEST AND WHAT’S THE WORST PART OF YOUR
MUSIC, ACCORDING TO YOU?
DerDRAKOS: THE BEST, IS THE RELEASE OF THIS VITAL FURY EXPANDED THROUGH
TECHNOLOGY. THE WORST, IS WHEN COMPUTERS CRASH.
7. ARE THERE ANY NEW ELEMENTS YOU’D LIKE TO ADD OR EXPERIMENT
WITHIN YOUR SOUND IN THE FUTURE?
DerDRAKOS: MORE GUITARS ON TECHNO KICKS.
8. YOUR LYRICS ARE DARK AND LUSTFUL. WHY? WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES OF
INSPIRATION? TELL US THE MAIN TOPICS OR IDEAS BEHIND THEM.
DerDRAKOS: WE LOVE WOMEN AND HELL... AND WE FEEL LIKE ANGRY WOLVES
WHO HAVE BEEN KEPT IN THIS STUPID SOCIAL CAGE FOR TOO MUCH TIME!.. PLUS, WE HAVE
A CULT FOR SPECIAL MOVIES LIKE "THE BRIDE OF
FRANKENSTEIN", "THE WILD ONE", KUBRIK's "CLOCKWORK ORANGE",
HERZOG's "NOSFERATU", MAYER's "FASTER PUSSYCAT", FOR SEVERAL '70s
VIOLENT SEXY B-MOVIES, FOR LUXURY FETISH-HARDCORE VIDEOS, FOR HIGH STYLE
PHOTOGRAPHY LIKE HELMUT NEWTON's, FOR THE BEST LITERATURE FROM THE ILIAD TO DE
SADE TO NIETZSCHE AND FOR RACING OUR CARS FAST AND FREE.
9. WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COVER ARTWORK?
WHAT’S ITS CONNECTION WITH THE MUSIC AND LYRICS? PLEASE DESCRIBE IT FOR THOSE THAT
HAVEN’T SEEN IT.
DerDRAKOS: OUR SINGER SUZY MG IS THE CREATOR OF OUR SPECIAL
GRAPHICS. WE USE OUR IDEAL OF ART-THRU-FORCE IN BOTH DerDRAKOS' SOUNDS AND VISIONS,
BE WELCOME TO OUR WEBSITES AND SEE IT.
10. HOW ARE YOU THINKING TO PROMOTE YOUR WORK? WILL YOU
DO ANY LIVE SHOWS? OH AND HOW CAN SOMEONE ORDER YOUR RELEASE?
DerDRAKOS: DARK ANGEL PROMOTION OF Ms SERPENTINE IS COLLABORATING WITH
US, WE ARE ALSO SUPPORTED BY SEVERAL GREAT GOTHIC/INDUSTRIAL DJ's AND INTERNET
RADIOS IN THE USA: DJ LORD DRACUL FROM RADIOFREESATAN.COM (THE VERY FIRST DJ TO PLAY
DerDRAKOS), DJ ZEPH FROM FREAKRADIO, TOMMY T FROM CYBERAGE, DJ DEATHWISH AND MORE... WE
ARE VERY DETERMINED ABOUT OUR BAND, WE'RE NOT HERE TO LOSE OUR TIME AND OF COURSE WE WANT
TO BE ON STAGE! PLAYING LIVE IS MAYBE THE MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGE, FOR AN
ELECTRONIC BAND THAT DOESN'T PLAY ANY TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENT. AND IS ALSO ANOTHER HARD
POINT FOR OUR KIND OF MUSIC, AS OUR FRIEND 'PUNISHER' FROM GERMANY'S BAND CYBORG ATTACK
SAYS: "Whether you have a label pushing your band or not, we all have the same
problem about booking gigs". THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE NON-COMMERCIAL TECHNO
IS IN MANY CASES A SORT OF SADISTIC AND MARTIAL COMPUTER MUSIC, THEREFORE
IT CAN BE A VERY CONTROVERSIAL FORM OF ART THAT SCARES THE NORMAL
MUSIC BUSINESS (AND THAT'S GOOD), BUT WHEN OUR BANDS MANAGE TO GO ON STAGE THEN
IT'S A STORM OF GREAT SOUND!.. BY THE WAY, AUSTRIA's BAND DER BLUTHARSCH TOLD US THAT
THEY DID GREAT GIGS IN GREECE, WITH HUNDREDS OF CRAZY PEOPLE AND THAT'S WHAT WE ARE
HERE FOR: TO BLAST SOME GOOD HARD PERFORMANCES INTO YOUR BRAIN. WE LOOK FORWARD TO PLAY
LIVE IN HELLAS, WE HAVE GREEK BLOOD IN OUR VEINS AND WE ARE IN HELLAS NEARLY
EVERY YEAR, WE ALSO SPEAK SOME ELLINIKA'. ABOUT DerDRAKOS RELEASES, OUR OFFICIAL WEBSITE
www.derdrakos.net HAS ALL THE LINKS FOR GETTING OUR CD's.
11. IF YOUR MUSIC WERE AN EMOTION, WHAT WOULD IT BE? IF
IT WERE A PAINTING, WHAT WOULD IT SHOW?
DerDRAKOS: EMOTION: JOY THRU FURY. INSTEAD OF A PAINTING, WE'D
CHOOSE A GREAT SPEECH ABOUT THE 'EVIL MOLECULES' FROM DE SADE's BOOK "JULIETTE,
OR THE PROSPERITIES OF VICE".
12. LET’S SUPPOSE THAT YOU HAD A BIG BUDGET TO SHOOT
A VIDEO CLIP. WHICH SONG OF YOURS WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND HOW DO YOU IMAGINE IT TO BE?
DerDRAKOS: SHOW US THE BUDGET AND WE'LL TELL YOU WHAT WE CAN DO.
13. HAVE YOU RECEIVED FEEDBACK FOR “LUST FOR
CHAOS”. ARE YOU SATISFIED? WHAT WAS THE MOST FLATTERING AND WHAT THE WORST COMMENT
YOU’VE READ?
DerDRAKOS: BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE GET SOME REAL GOOD FEEDBACK FROM
EXTREME METAL FANS, THEY SEND US EMAILS LIKE: "I would LOVE to tell you how much I
truely love ya'll's blasting techno style, so fucking evil!!!" (from USA), "Your
music is literally stratospheric!" (from Italy), "I
NEED to blast my car's speakers with your musiccccccccccccccccccccc!!!!!!!!!"
(from Greece), ETC., JUST LIKE THE STRONG SUPPORT THAT WE GET FROM FANS OF
COMPUTERIZED HARD SOUNDS... THE WORST COMMENTS USUALLY COME FROM REVIEWERS WHO TAKE
MUSIC AS ANOTHER FORM OF IDIOTIC BLIND RELIGION, WHERE ANYTHING THAT SOUNDS TOO NEW
IS SINFUL, AND ALSO FROM PSEUDO-INTELLECTUAL INSECTS WITH NO BALLS, WHO WANT TO KEEP
ELECTRONIC MUSIC SOMEWHERE IN THE INACCESSIBLE CLOUDS OF THEIR OWN PARANOIA.
14. IS THIS A SELF FINANCED RELEASE OR WILL YOU ISSUE IT
UNDER A LABEL?
DerDRAKOS: IT IS SELF FINANCED.
15. WHAT TITLE WOULD YOU LIKE THIS INTERVIEW TO HAVE? A
TITLE THAT WOULD SUM UP THE WHOLE SOUND AND DerDRAKOS ESSENCE IN IT…
DerDRAKOS: SEX AND HATE.
16. BY THE WAY YOU’VE GOT A QUITE WEIRD MONIKER.
WHAT DOES DerDRAKOS MEAN AND HOW DID YOU SELECT IT?
DerDRAKOS: DRAKOS IS OUR FAMILY's NAME. 'DerDRAKOS' SOUNDS WELL FOR
A DARK'N'FAST INDUSTRIAL-TECHNO BAND. WE ARE ALSO HUGE FANS OF THE DEVIL AND OF VLAD THE
IMPALER, WHO ARE BOTH CALLED DRAGONS.
17. THANK YOU! IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO
MENTION AND I FORGOT TO ASK YOU? LEAVE YOUR MESSAGE…
DerDRAKOS: RELEASE YOUR EVIL SPIRIT IN THIS WORLD.
INTERVIEWS AND
REVIEWS LIST:
DerDRAKOS
INTERVIEW FOR "REDRUM ENTERTAINMENT" - 08-2008
DerDRAKOS
INTERVIEW FOR "PHOENIX RISING EZINE" - 07-2008
"BLOOD
TO BLOOD" REVIEW BY "PHOENIX RISING EZINE" -07-2008
"BLOOD
TO BLOOD" REVIEW BY JUSTIN ORDNUNG - 07-2008
"BLOOD TO BLOOD"
REVIEW BY "INDUSTRIALIZED METAL" WEBZINE - COMING!!
"LUST
FOR CHAOS" REVIEW BY "FEASTOFHATEANDFEAR" 2007
"LUST
FOR CHAOS" REVIEW BY "INDUSTRIALIZED METAL" WEBZINE - 2006
"LUST
FOR CHAOS REVIEW BY "ASCENSION" MAGAZINE - 2006
"LUST
FOR CHAOS" REVIEW BY "SLEAZEGRINDER" - 2006
"LUST
FOR CHAOS" REVIEW BY INDUSTRIAL MAFIA PROMOTIONS - 2006
DerDRAKOS
INTERVIEW FOR "BEHIND THE VEIL" WEBZINE - 2006
DerDRAKOS
INTERVIEW FOR "INDUSTRIALIZED METAL" WEBZINE - 2006
DER DRAKOS fast rage.
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