1. Warm greetings! First I’ll ask you if you think that interviews are somehow useful for the band or for the fans? How many interviews did you do?

This is our first one. I don’t really know or care whether it inflicts the fans, but I certainly do not have anything against interviews. I enjoy reading interviews myself, but a lot of times I find myself getting quite bored or irritated reading them, because either the questions, the answers or both are just plain useless.

2. I have to confess that I found Kilte thanks to the split album with Funeral Mourning. But I was really excited! I managed to get hold of the older stuff and I can daringly say that the progress you achieved is unbelievable. Do you feel the same?

Yes, we do feel the same. ‘Absence’ was a great leap forward from our demo; and the Deaden Myself tracks even showed a greater evolution from the debut EP. Of course, important reasons for this are the circumstances in which the releases were recorded. While we entirely recorded ‘I’ and ‘Absence’ ourselves in improvised home studios, our part of the split with Funeral Mourning was recorded in a professional studio. Logically, one can notice this when listening to the production of the sound, especially the drums. Another reason is just the natural evolution of the band. As a musician, you get better in showing the emotions in your music. We were fairly young when the idea of Kilte was born, so I guess you can call it a way of ‘growing up’. Last but not least, we know each other better now – both personally and musically – and we know what to expect from one another, we know how to complement each other with ideas, arrangements, etc.

3. There is some kind of mysticism around Kilte. I must say that this kind of obscurity is rather popular these days. Small amount of photos, official site has only a contact address… Are you the kind of personalities that are demanding anonymity?

Every release has a picture of us; so I don’t see why we would need any more. The website has only had some flyers and the contact address, because we didn’t feel it needed more information. All the info that we wanted to be out there, was to be found easily on the Internet. We never really felt the urge of promoting ourselves on a larger scale, for example by a professional website or a MySpace page. Nevertheless, we don’t exclude the option of ever expanding the website for information purposes.

4. Perhaps the biggest change is that there are just two of you. Do you feel that you found your way with this small line-up? Do you find the work more successful now?

Sorath was the third main member back in the demo days, and although it works excellently with the two of us now, he was never really asked to quit nor did he want to quit, circumstances just made him unable to attend rehearsals and recordings. As you might know from the ‘Absence’ booklet, he helped us out with the recordings, although he didn’t participate in them. He was a much appreciated member and he is still one of the closest people to the band. But in the end, I just think the two of us makes it work better. I’ve been in several bands and projects and the main rule is that less people means less problems. We also have the luck of working with a ‘steady’ session drummer, who’s been around since the demo days, and who remains to be a big support for the both of us.


5. The sound and the vocals on the already mentioned split album are quite foggy. Even then you managed to show the melodies in every moment of music. Well it’s hard for me to describe closely the music of Kilte so how you could describe the music you two are producing? You are for sure influenced by black metal, but which genres and actions had an impact on your compositions for the split?

I wouldn’t know how to describe the music besides it being ‘our own’. As said before, the main influences in our music have always been our own emotions. I think that, when one listens to our music, this is pretty obvious. Obviously - musically speaking - black metal is the main influence for us, but we both bring very different influences in the band. Our overall musical taste is somewhat different from each other, so this complements to the music. For me personally, some doom and funeral doom metal is definitely part of the musical influences as well.

6. Could you describe the songs “Deaden Myself part I” & “Deaden Myself part II” more? About their lyrical subject, who did the bigger part of the songs and if those songs include some parts that already appeared?

As can be read in the booklet of the split-CD/Tape, Deaden Myself Part I and Part II were entirely written by me. I would call this more like a coincidence, though, because our share in the music writing process has been 50/50 ever since the demo was recorded. Both the lyrics and music are very personal, and – to me - they belong to the best I have ever achieved. As the titles (‘Emission through Self Infliction’ and ‘Deaden Myself’) imply, the lyrics are about how someone – anyone - can completely mentally destroy him or herself, just by negative and self inflicting thoughts. ‘Part I’ describes an evolution in emotions and feelings which lead to total despair in the end, while ‘Part II’ gets a little more agitated, stronger almost… Finally, it all leads to the conclusion, the ‘emission’. Emit negative emotions by mental self infliction. Maybe a quote from the lyrics will explain this better: “For in the face of true evil, my pains shall be yours, forever...”
Neither the music nor the lyrics have ever been used before; they were written to fit together and were recorded especially for the split.

7. How did you manage to work with Desolate? He is from almost the other side of the world, and your music is not so similar (although the split is really balanced). Are you aware of the fact that this split is maybe the last work which Desolate did with Funeral Mourning? And what do you think about his, now primary band, Austere?

Both Kilte and Funeral Mourning were looking for a band to split with (even before the recordings had happened), so we were on the look-out. As we were both on GoatowaRex, Dani got us in contact. I’m grateful he did, because until this day I still speak to Desolate almost on a daily base. The music is indeed not too similar, but this was never the intention either. It’s all about the idea behind the music, and even more important; the atmosphere it breathes. And while the music might not be in the same style, the atmosphere is. I believe both bands are complementary to each other on the split, which was exactly the intention. About it being the last effort from Funeral Mourning: Although I know about his plans, I don’t think it’s up to me to answer this question.

Desolate’s work with Austere is simply put: amazing. The debut album was already exceptionally good, but the new work tops it all. The Austere parts on the coming splits with Lyrinx and Isolation are excellent, and if Lyrinx succeeds in creating material even half as good as the Austere part, I believe this might be the top black metal release for 2008.

8. Kilte’s music is mostly assorted by the instrumental parts. The majority of the music runs in slow rhythm and sometimes you just play with strings. Are you trying to make the songs versatile? Are you doing it for yourself and for the listeners?

We just play the music that flows from our emotions in the best possible way. Yes, we make music for ourselves in the first place, people liking it is just an extra plus, I guess…


9. Suicidal and self-harming themes are arousing together with the number of mentally sick people in black metal. Various sub-genres are rising and people are classifying genres more than is healthy and the bands are hiding their depressive thoughts behind the poor music (but that’s not important now). Do you think that those bands are created because of the problems of their makers or it is just another trend or even sign of bigger degeneration of this world?

I think the overload of ‘depressive MySpace black metal bands’ is definitely the result of some ‘trend’. Probably, this is to compare with the days when Internet was finding its way into black metal. All over sudden there were bands popping up everywhere, with non-existing discographies posted all over the Internet. Nowadays, bands need a MySpace before they started to even think about writing music. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against MySpace, it’s just another promotion tool with both its pros and its cons, but the majority of the people using it are my main source of annoyance. I’m not too worried about this, though; it’s a problem that will eventually solve itself.

10. I would end this interview with the quite classic question about your future…Go on…

When we started working on Deaden Myself Part I and Deaden Myself Part II, we also started writing for our first full-length. This one is still in the works, but it’s nearing its end. We like to take our time as opposed to rushing into things, so I can’t say when it will be recorded, let alone released. It could be within the next 6 months, it could be within the next 6 years. Besides the full-length, we’re also thinking about a continuation of Deaden Myself on yet another split, which would feature Part III and Part IV. These are mainly plans, though, so nothing is to be taken for granted. We will see what the future brings. I advise you to keep an eye out.

11. Thank you for your answers and for your music, good luck.

Thank you for the interview.
S., on behalf of Kilte

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