http://www.geocities.com/dtinterviews2/deathfrost1.htm Interview for DEATHTHRASHER MAGAZINE by ARMANDO MUTILATOR : DT: When and why the band was formed?. Het Hidden (hereafter HH): It was year 2000, when the first demo tape "Death To All" was spread according to some promotion list in August 2001. Then, on 10 Sept.2000, track "Flight 666" of DEATHFROST was played in STAR TRIPS SHOW by SILVIO NOVELLETTO Jr. on his RADIO STAR SUL Fm 102.9 MHz Metal Show at Sao Paulo (BRAZIL). (It appears that South America Metal Heads have definite interest to DEATHFROST releases.) A bit later, in October 2000, the website http://nav.to/deathfrost was started. "Why" is nice question. This "one-man band" audio project is simply a part of my existence. Apparently, it implements the principle "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of your law" (the main commandment of ALEISTER CROWLEY) because "pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect" (His "The Book Of The Law", [I]:44). Since 2001, DEATHFROST involves a research sub-project entitled "is it possible for computer to write music", which was started by me more than 20 years ago. The available technical devices form the present shape of the outcome. For the outer world, these are audio-CD's and a website. The mp3's are available for download at http://www.geocities.com/hethidden/dfmp3.htm page. You can also imagine that DEATHFROST is a three-piece team: CYNOPTIK OF DEATHFROST (guitars & music), HET HIDDEN (lyrics & production; research & webdesign), and MATH_DAEMON (riff composer). The first two are human sub-personalities, while the latter is an unhuman being of spiritual nature. (Still not enough people here to give a live performance:) DT: What topics do you consider in your lyrics?. HH: The topics are mainly concerned with the general imperfectness of our world (which therefore deserves total destruction:). SATAN is often mentioned... but never worshipped! Actually, he stands for the top (secret) 7ew1sh deity who seems to be the real master of this world. I am trying to make each piece of lyrics as a kind of spell unifying its own sound, rhythm, and some (maybe vague) sense. Whatever the lyrics be, these are the base for the vocally derived sounds. The latter "instrument" support the noise/percussion component rather than melodic lines. DT: Your influences?. HH: Since I never tried to copy somebody, my answer splits into two parts: (a) the bands I like to listen to (that is, "what I eat") and (b) the bands sounding somewhat similar to DEATHFROST from the viewpoint of reviewers (that is, "what I shit"). (a) When I started playing guitar, there was few, in any Metal. In 70-th I liked early BLACK SABBATH... maybe some tracks of THE WHO, LED ZEPPELIN, GRAND FUNK... and ALICE COOPER of course. In 80-th I liked AC/DC (Please note that T.G.FISCHER, the frontman of HELLHAMMER and CELTIC FROST, highly valued this band). In 90-th I was a fan of HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, BURZUM, DARKTHRONE. Also SLAYER, USURPER, BOLTTHROWER, CATHEDRAL. (b) Reviewers are usually in a big confusion when trying to describe what they hear when playing CD's of DEATHFROST. They recollected such genres as Electric / industrial and Dark/ Black/ Death Metal. The bands to compare with were APHEX TWIN, BURZUM, BELMEZ, HELL ON EARTH, ULTRAVIOLENCE. (I have never heard the sounds of the latter three bands, alas.) DT: Why the name of DEATHFROST?. HH: (a) In 2000, the query "DEATHFROST" submitted to www.google.com returned no results at all. That is, the name was absolutely unique in the net. That was the ultimate reason to choose it. (b) This word sounds a bit alike to DARKTHRONE or BOLTTHROWER. (c) One of the early signs of imminent "natural" death is not the agony. The symptom is: slow successive cooling of peripheral parts of your body. This is exactly: DEATHFROST. (d) Consciously or not, the concept of individual death is fundamental for any human personality. It separates a person from the outer world and brings a new shape of existence, quite different to those of animals and other "lesser" creatures. Each moment, one has at least 3 possibilities: to be an occasional victim of some accident, to commit a suicide, or (normally) to continue in a longer daily "waiting loop" until being slowly decayed in chronic diseases. Animals do not think of it; they are completely busy with food, sex and money:) The time limit imposes a time structure. If you ignore your future death, you can easily accept the lack of sense in your existence. On the contrary, if you properly acknowledge this time limit, this can be very inspiring and productive. DT: What do you think about Church & Religion?. HH: Apparently, the mentally disabled need these to stabilize their state of the mind. As known from the history, the christianity was especially popular among slaves who worked in the mines with poisonous Heavy Metal deposits... gaseous mercury is especially harmful for brains. Here one may recall the "Antichrist" of F.NIETZSCHE. In general, the religion simply speculates over unsolvable problems of human existence. The actual function of it is to drill some holes in everybody's mind, where the authorities can screw the bolts needed to install their control devices. I am natural born atheist. Around 1960th, in the socialist USSR any "believe in God" was barely legal and normally not imprinted into the children's brains before they learned to speak, read, etc. That time, the authorities used some alternative "opium for the masses", it was the communist utopia. I didn't take it as well. Meanwhile, do you know that the origin of Marxism is likely within a satanic mystery cult? The main work of KARL MARX is not "Das Kapital", it is "Oulanem", macabre drama written in his student years. ("Oulanem" presents a unique poetic creation involving only negative characters!) Being 18 years old, MARX was dedicated to higher degrees of some secret satanic society. Later, this 7ew1sh genius (born as MOSES LEVY MORDECAI) has big success in creating a literally killer theory... More can be found in the book "Was Karl Marx Satanist?" by RICHARD WURMBRANDT. I came across with the New Testament when I was 25 years old (too late to be converted into a good cristian, hehe). This (illegal) book was pretty damaged, and the text started directly from the scene with the herd of pigs possessed by demons... nice intro to the subject! ST. MATTHEW reports there that the Pharisees accused JESUS of casting out demons in the name of BEELZEBUB: "It is only by BELZEBUB, the Prince of Demons, that this man casts out Demons" (MATTHEW 9:34). The utmost absurdity of all similar religions is in their antropomorhic treatments. Clearly, if some "god" exists, its essense and its relation to the humankind cannot be described in terms understandable to humans. Think of legions of germs populating the body (intestines, skin, etc.) of each human being! Is he/she a god(dess) for them? (No way:) OK, the human "as is" and these germs always interact in a very tight and essential way, but is this human being a "very big and perfect" bacteria? (No way:) Does he / she care about (each of) them? (Yeah, each time when these bacteria start to build up powerful empires and develop their micro-mass destruction weapons, he/she notices the "global heating" etc. and tries to kill them all using antibiotics:) Is the human language understandable to these micro-germs? (No way!). Turning back to the human god: if "He" had a chance to understand what our humankind really is, the instant total homicide would be the only sign of notice. Really, life is the cancer of matter, and the humankind is the cancer of life. I suspect that the total cease of nuclear tests was not "a good will of nations" but rather a coward retreat after some kind of warning had come to "the natural born killers" who we are! DT: Are you into Satanism?. HH: At the first sight, Satan deserves more sympathy than CHRIST. Especially if one takes into account that the new testament presents only a part of the story. More can be seen from the (apocryfic) gospel of NICODEMUS, where the descent of CHRIST into Hell is described. With such evidence, this so deranged cristian myth finally takes the standard form, typical for any fairy-tale! CHRIST's suicide via his provoked crucifixion turns to have no relation to the humankind and "all our sins". Rather, it appears as some special-task force trick used to enter the SATAN's kingdom and free imprisoned saints there. By the way, CHRIST has put SATAN in chains for 1000 years, and BEELZEBUB (also known as HADES) temporary ruled the Hell as SATAN's deputy. Definitely, CHRIST was in conspiracy with BEELZEBUB against SATAN:) Here they are, just another HOLY TRINITY: BEELZEBUB, CHRIST, and SATAN... In a sense, Satanic mythology is mainly a part of the whole Christian paradigm. (Just recall here A.S.LA VEY with his "Satanic Bible" and The Church Of Satan.) It is doubtful that Satanism can be efficiently used to destroy Christianity. It rather completes it. Satanism and Cristianity are the two faces of the same 7ew1sh coin ($30, cast in silver:). Put it on its edge and roll it away! PYTHAGORAS said: "priests told us that the gods soon was repent of creating the mankind, but we answer evenly: man is remorseful of creating the gods". DT: Do you like AMERICAN PIT BULLS?. HH: I had never came across closely with these creatures. Here in Russia we have special breed lines of them: they are nearly deaf (voice controls disabled!) and have a bullet-proof skull (a 9-mm pistol shot may result in a ricochete). DT: What do you think about ELIPHAS LEVY?. HH: He is refferred as an outstanding magician of 19th century (1810-1860). Tried to started as catholic priest, but was expelled from seminary for his heresy. Translated to French and compiled a lot of useful medieval grimoires. His "Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie" is considered as a classic of ritual magic. Converted back to christianity in 1860 before death. (Thus, christianity may be fatal for black magicians.) DT: Are you into Serial Killers?. What do you think about RICHARD RAMIREZ "THE NIGHT STALKER"? HH: In general, the existence of Serial Killers indicate that the Earth is pretty overpopulated. That is, some people should have never be born at all. Note that often, the victims of killers (serial or not) are also of special kind. That infamous R.RAMIREZ should probably wait a little and pass from his favourite AC/DC to listening the emerging early death and Black Metal bands! This would probably pleasured him more than his kills and rapes. And / or he would better join the army and became a "green beret" like his brother MIKE (who has "initiated" the thirteen year old boy RICK into the art of tortures and kills). In the actions of the U.S. army, RICK could probably attain even higher kill score. DT: Do you know about "MACHU PICCHU" ruins & "NAZCA'S lines"?. HH: Yes, I know. These are wonderful creations of ancient Inka civilization. The bad thing is that Machu Picchu may actually be ruined by allowing 300,000 stupid tourist visitors per year (and the plans are to have 400,000 via the notorious "cable car project"). Scientists even warn about the threat of a total landslide which may annihilate this ancient town completely. And Nasca's Lines may suffer from industrial pollution. Nasca drawings were made in such a way that the sand never deposits over them. On the contrary, the wind has a cleansing effect. This way the drawings were preserved for thousands of years. Now, the nearby iron mine produces huge masses of dust and sand, quite enough to endanger the figures. DT: Are you crazy for Cocaine?. HH: I am using another sources of inspiration, see below. DT: Your musical productions?. HH: Hardware: Pentium-II with SB card, 4-track recorder. Two electric guitars, one electric bass (rarely used), some fuzzboxes. Software: TablEdit, GoldWave, WinOnCD. The key point of this interview: besides the two human sub-personalities bearing the names CYNOPTIK OF DEATHFROST and HET HIDDEN, AN UNHUMAN BEING is participating the DEATHFROST project. It is (partly and imperfectly) materialized as the MATH_DAEMON executable file running on PC. It presents a certain principle of perfectness in small-form musical composition, and used to produce riffs of which most of the recent DEATHFROST tracks are composed. I do not claim that "I have discovered the True Law ruling the musical composition". This Law exists and evolves as long as live beings use their ears for the sake of Survival. Rather, I am responsible for the particular restrictions, incompleteness and inexactnesses in its formulation and usage. DT: Do you prefer ANTON SZANDOR LA VEY's "THE SATANIC BIBLE" or ALEISTER CROWLEY's "THE BOOK OF THE LAW"?. HH: Rather the latter. A.S. LA VEY apparently tried to create a widespread hierarchical structure whose main function reduces to the primitive seduction of masses. Is this "satanic" brain-washing less destructive than the christian one? Think of it. The book of A. CROWLEY appeals personally to the reader and definitely have a potential for bringing him/her to a higher intellectual and spiritual level. He told us there: "every man and every woman is a star" and insist that every reader must read the book once, then destroy the copy, and never discuss its content with anybody! Is it a "bible" created to establish a "church"? No way. DT: PC or MACINTOSH?. What do you think about STEVE JOBS? HH: I am using PC. I have never worked on MAC's. The 48-year old billionaire STEVE JOBS implemented a MACINTOSH-based audio player iPod and had nice success with it. Now he is planning many revolutionary things. For instance, he proposed to subscribe bands not to labels, but rather to audio-file distribution networks. Weird idea... by the way, it undermines the very concept of an album. And he promises to pay some money directly to the authors for each downloading... This way or another, the contemporary music industry is doomed to death. So far, I am going the 100% underground path. The CD's of DEATHFROST are subject to "copyleft", that is, these are sent to any interested person FOR FREE without any obligations. Everybody who got a CD can use it in any way, even may copy it and sell, I do not care about all this money shit. DT: Your faves South American bands?. HH: SEPULTURA! Especially their "Roots Bloody Roots" with a cover of CELTIC FROST's "Procreation of The Wicked". Also, in 2001 I saw the show of SOULFLY in Moscow "Gorbushka" concert hall. DT: Do you like STAR WARS?. HH: Yeah, nice movie:) DT: Your future plans?. HH: Further improving the sound quality. Increasing the dissimilarity with other bands, while mounting on the extremities. DT: Any last comment for the most brutal fans around the world?. HH: Fuck 7ew1sh violin-scraping! Free your mind! Truth is on your side! http://www.geocities.com/dtinterviews2/deathfrost1.htm