– Black metal has so many shapes and forms that it couldn’t have been more natural for me the genre still has room for artists to create original music, and even experiment without straying too far. – Did the black metal come with time as a natural choice for expression of your ideas or you were straight forward right from the start and decisive that you want to play black metal definitely? – Do you dream of better world? Or you are on the dark side only? It is merely based on my personal experience, and I know that I’m not alone thinking like that. ![]() – It doesn’t have to do with my mental health, nor is it an ideology cast in concrete. – Why “Malist”? Why do you believe the world is evil? So much that I’d prefer to have it all to myself. Composing music is a pastime I actually really enjoy. Why are you alone in this and how hard it is for you? Or it is easier to go this way in order to realize all your ideas without someone else to interfere? – Malist is a solo project band with you performing everything. I came up with the band name in 2018, when I found myself having a lot of same-concept songs on my plate and decided to try and release all those as one full-length album. In my opinion it finally turned out good enough, so I decided that this concept was my thing – and challenged myself to write more songs this way. I called this song “Spiritual Oppression” (ironically, ended up the only song having a lead guitar part, added on the recording stage). In 2017 I decided to write a heavier black metal song not using any leads or fancy orchestration, only relying on one guitar, a bass and a drumkit. So I decided to write black metal songs only first there were softer ones that sounded more like post-black metal, blackgaze, atmospheric black metal, etc. My first attempts were trash obviously, but I just kept doing it, because I had to stash all these melodies in my head somewhere.Īfter analysing some black metal songs that I loved, I came to realization that this music, given its endless raw emotion and sincerity, wasn’t that hard to play on guitar, and I actually could arrange practically every melody that struck with me in form of a black metal riff. I’d been playing the guitar for 5 years back then, mostly melodic death and metalcore stuff that wasn’t hard to learn, and I also dreamt of writing metal songs of my own, with constant attempts at composing something in GuitarPro. – It all started back in 2015, when I was becoming more and more absorbed in black metal music with each day, digging for its more extreme and obscure forms. – How did you decide to go with Malist? Tell us more about your initial plans when forming this project. ![]() ![]() ![]() If it wasn’t for that union, we probably wouldn’t be talking right now. After getting signed with Northern Silence I got the directions I needed to craft the image for the band and its first album. It’s still hard to believe in my achievement, since I’m new to the scene, and not long ago I wasn’t even sure I’d be able to release my own stuff properly. – Welcome to Blessed Altar Zine, Ovfrost! How are you? Exciting times I guess, with a new album just released? January brought us Malist’s debut album, and what a debut it is! I immediately contacted the mastermind of the Catacombs of Time and all the ghosts there – Ovfrost – to understand more about the Karst Kingdom, the hopelessness of the world, the spectres of the shadows, the empty existence and the grandiose atmospheric black metal Malist delivers.
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