Well, Friends of the Aristocracy or Lipeverse Aristocrat.The second part of our trilogy is the Thirty-Ninth Interview that you will now follow in all its dense emotions. Well, here we have the Italians Da DI´Aul. They show us their third album entitled Abracamacabra. They make a beautiful mix from Classic Doom with the most current and strong readings that is Stoner Metal. But, with denser pinches that is Sludge. In studio, it's the fifth album. But as Full work is the third. What matters is that they are :MoMo or Cosimo Amelio Cinieri on Vocal,Lele or Daniele Mella On Guitar,Rex or Andrea Ornigotti On Drums and Jeremy or Carlo Tomaiuolo on Bass.Let´s go to the song.
A1:Talking about the composition work in Abracamacabra?
Di´Aul:Right after Rex joined the band at the end of 2018, we started writing new songs. First, we wrote and recorded a mini Ep, then released on a Split LP with Mos Generator. And soon after we started writing Abracamacabra's music together. The music comes from the ideas of each of us, then reworked in the rehearsal room. We usually work and change a lot the initial ideas, which often come from long jams.However, Abracamacabra was born from our will to push the sound of the band towards more monolithic drifts than in the past works. Above all, we looked for expressiveness through sounds and frequencies.
A2:Was the sixth song based on a true story or is it just a work of the band's brilliant imagination?
Di´Aul:La notte di Valpurga is a fictional story in which the toxic character would to destroy everything and killing,I looked for a dream that I never wanted:Everyone's dead and I'm God, but in the end it's all in his head.Frustration and a sense of failure or helplessness is the leitmotif of the story told.
A3:Why the band have this name?
Di´Aul:Di'Aul is a local word that means Devil.But we liked it even because the pronunciation in Italian looks like “The Howl” in english.
A4:According to a great friend, what makes you more human is failure and not success. Is this more or less the approach that the band brings on this album?
Di´Aul:The theme of failure is certainly part of the concept behind the whole work.Failure makes you a humbler person, but stronger and more honest with yourself. It is a better teacher than success.All the characters of the songs made a decision and accepted their own condition with no regrets.
A5:Is there a vein of Sludge or Stoner in band´s sound?
Di´Aul:Of course! Among the reference bands there are in fact Sleep, Kyuss, Electric Wizard, Saint Vitus
A6:If the mother of the story you tell is the universe, who would be the father?
Di´Aul:Black Sabbath (ahahaha)! Undisputed fathers of the genre, without them we wouldn't have written the record and we wouldn't have questioned ourselves on certain issues.
A7:How is Di´Aul different from your previous bands?
Di´Aul:We all played in different bands:Rex always played thrash metal and grind core. He is currently also the drummer of Gunjack. MoMo still plays in Mooth, a noise rock band. Lele played in a hard blues band called Gasolio. And Jeremy has always played in different funky rock bands.
A8:Some literature or film inspire the band?
Di´Aul:About some books that inspired the lyrics, we could mention: “Heart of a dog” on Mikhail Bulgakov,“the Drowned and the Saved” Primo Levi, “The Book od Disquiet” - Fernando Pessoa.About the movies: The Big Lebowsky, Blade Runner, Shaun of the dead, and many more
A9:What´s the idea behind artwork´s album?
Di´Aul:The artwork was made by Francesca Vecchio of fv_illustrations. Francesca was able to draw all the stories and characters described in the lyrics of the songs. The concept of the image is that, in the end, they all come together.
A10:I know it's just a song, but what is the time you never wanted it to come back?
Di´Aul:“Time of no return”, it tells about the extreme choice of a young mother to kill herself, maybe because during her all life she was unable to fully express herself or, however, she was not fully understood. When she says "changes were too fast and I was always fuckin'late", it means that Time, for some of us, runs too fast and we seem to lose it.In real life, when you grow up, and the years you've lived start to be many, you wish you could always go back, even to the most difficult moments. But you also learn that looking back leads you to crash. It is better to look forward and remember, with affection, the past.
A11:How long did the pre-production of this album take?
Di´Aul:Between the writing of the songs and their musical arrangement, the rehearsals, we spent about a year before entering the studio to record. Unfortunately, Covid forced us to postpone everything for a long time, including the release of the record itself.
A12:Literally Speaking:Is the world ridiculous?
Di´Aul:See what condition where we're living' in, where all the kings are jesters”cit. Abracamaabra.It's not the world to ridiculous, but people.
A13:How the band arrive to Mooddoom Records?
Di´Aul:MooDDoom records is a collective of people never revealed, they don't have facebook, they don't have instagram ,they are 100% doom . We didn't find them, but, like a peyote, they found us!
A14:This album is conceptual?yes or no and why?
Di´Aul:In a way, it is.There are seven parallel stories: the common thread is the sense of frustration and failure that unites them. Both the music and the lyrics have an ascending climax leading to the final explosion of Time of no return.
A15:Is men an animal that carries the corpse on his back all the time?
Di´Aul:As we sing in “The House of the edge of the world (Cannabinoidoom -Ep 2020) : “I wake up every morning then I kiss my corpse” (ahahahaha). Man is more than anything else an animal that decides to drag himself or his corpse
A16:The band feel differences between Nobody´s Heaven and now in Abracamacabra ?
Di´ Aul: In terms of musical composition, Nobody's Heaven was the "bridge" between the more groove metal imprint of the past and the doom direction we decided to take.
A17:Is it better to think of the human being as agony than an animal for health?
Di´Aul:The answer is within each of us, and it is Doom!
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