Состав / Line-up:
Aleksandr Mokin – vocals, recorder, zhaleika Sergey Stepanenko – guitars Viktor Khaychenko – bass Artemiy Gorchakov (Morgoth Hel) – drums, backing vocals Dmytro Herasymov (Kim) – session drums
Let's go for some explanations. The first is that this is an album that was re-released. It was released in 2021. The members have already been placed and we also placed the full album.
WELL, FRIENDS OF THE ARISTOCRACY!In an exclusive way, we speak and show the fiftieth interview with Russian Band Sieta.Alexander answer our questions.Now,in all our emotions,Let´s go.
A1:Talking about the composition work in Novgorod?
Aleksander Mokin:All the music and lyrics are composed by me (Aleksandr Mokin). I got to tell you right away that Sieta is a studio project and it was planned so from the start. The music was written in Guitar Pro 5.
A2:Not that it's bad, because it's excellent. But what differences do you feel playing Death Metal and making Folk\ Black Metal?
Mokin:When I was composing for Skyglow, I wanted to invent the new things and experimented a lot. With SIeta I knew what I want to achieve in before. I felt the lack of such a project and wanted to fill it myself.
A3:I don't seek the band to be the authority. But, I seek to ask: Of course, folklore will influence a folk band. But, how do they arrive at these influences. Where were these memories found?
Mokin:Our original pagan folklore was significantly wiped out by Christianity, so my image of Slavic folk unconsciously relies on its interpretation by classical composers, such as Glinka, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov. Some portion was taken from the European folk overall.
A4: Making an alternation of Folk with Black Metal is not something new. But, there is always doubt. Is this treated in your sung story in order to report a fact from your point of view or does the music structure itself naturally?
Mokin:It was my deliberate approach to use Black Metal when a song is about Christians and Folk Metal when a song is about pagans, to show the contrast between the two ideologies.
A5: You live in the capital. Is this paganism still very latent in super Moscow?
Mokin:I no longer live there, I left Russia after it started a war. Sadly, paganism is a very maginal idea in Russia, both in Moscow and in regions. Russian people have a very post-modernistic ideology, they are kind of Christian, but an overwhelming majority of them do not go to church or read the Bible. At the same time many of them support the USSR, which used to blow up churches. Russia is a country of paradoxes. Paganism is very rarely spoken about, and mostly with a negative undertone.
A6:Rest assured that I am also a lover of the Doom that the band practices. But can we categorically say that the Stoner\Sludge divisions despite respect, are not part of Sieta?
Mokin:Not sure what you are talking about, maybe only "Dream", which has a sense of nearing doom in the first part of the song.
A7: What´s the idea behind artwork´s album?
Mokin:The cover art is an illustration to the last verse of the last song. It is a shrine somewhere deep in the forests that still keeps the secrets of our ancestors. It represents the hope to one day restore the myths, the music and the traditions of the Slavic paganism that were wiped out of existence.
A8: Is creativity for new music happening?
Mokin:Right now, I'm working on the next Skyglow's album. I have a lot of raw material, but still work on the composition. It will be an old-school Melodic Death Metal album with progressive elements.
A9:It's clear that it's a concept album. But I don't usually see that on a first album. How is a decision like this made?
Mokin:This is my second album if you also consider Skyglow. The initial idea was to write a prologue to the first album, namely the title song, which also tells about the destruction of our pagan traditions and the imposition of Christianity. I felt a need for such album, because I wanted to find a new national idea instead of the ones offered by the government. I always felt myself a Slav rather than a Russian. And when I visited Novgorod in around 2010, I felt that there is a different Russia rather than what the government imposes. A Russia closely tied with Europe, with its own ancient culture and once highly developed political structure, and this Russia is ancient Novgorod.
A10: If you want to evaluate in percentage, how many % Satanath helped and how many % Red Rivet helped? which is not a value judgment, it is an assessment that the band will make.
Mokin:Actually, our first label was Earth and Sky Productions (Italy), Satanath offered us to make a reissue. In any case, 100% was done by us, the label only printed the CDs.
A11: Which bands influence your band?
Mokin:Mainly Moonsorrow, especially their EP "Tulimyrsky" (especially the song "Battle"). Besides that, Ensiferum ("Our Spirit") and Bathory ("Novgorod" and the overall idea).
A12: How did Russia manage to make such a strong metal scene?
Mokin:I wouldn't call it strong. There are some underground gems here and there, but metal is quite unpopular in Russia.
A13:Forgive me, but the last question is controversial. Is Putin a crazy patriot or a confident patriot?
Mokin:Putin is not a patriot, but a former KGB agent an internal organ which terrorized the Russian people that came to power to steal as much money as possible, but after 20 years in power started to lose sense of reality and believe in his own lies. He is a 100% Soviet in his brain, which means that for him Russia and its people mean nothing more than an instrument in his games.
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