Conducted by Doug and Blasphemer Magazine
Edited by Jonathan Lee/FMP
1. What's up with "Planet Satan?" Mysticum devotees have
been awaiting this album for some time. Will it be in the same vein as the first
album (totally original concept), or totally different?
We are working hard as Hell, and Hell will be recorded this summer in July
sometime. It will be in the same vein as the first album, only more extreme. Much
more extreme drummings, and sounds, more industrial. Not as much old-school
industrial, like "In the Streams of Inferno".
So it's basically in the same vein as our first album, only more extreme
in the drummings I think. But we still got two more songs to make. So if
there is going to be differences, it will be on those. So I'm pretty much
sure it will be the same as our first album.
2. Have stays in a mental hospital actually delayed "Planet Satan?" If so,
explain.
No. It's enough with my psychologist . He has actually recommended, a
mental hospital home for me. But I'm still capable to be among this
shitty society for a while more. Anyway a friend of mine is at this place
called "Blakstad sykehus" which is a mental hospital, and he likes to be
there. That's the problem. I would probably like it there too, but I got other things to do. Like
more music, more drugs, more violence, more sex, all those things that are
enjoyable in life. Yes all those things that can't be done at a place like
"Blakstad sykehus". Yeah, yeah, except drugs, but those are shitty drugs
compared to what's on the streets.
I am working to establish my personal thing. I'm going to start up as a
silver smith, making all kind of silvery stuff and occult-ish jewelry but
that isn't until next year! so maybe I got time for a couple of months in
the mental hospitals then, heh heh heh.
3. Are you aware that "Cerastes" is an asteroid? Will this asteroid collide
with "Planet Satan?"
Oh Shit. I'm having flash back's again. Oh fuck, motherholy fuck fuck fuck. Ahh, that was just a bonus from beyond. Shit yeah! I'm back now......
I hope it will collide with planet earth some day in my life time. Yeah,
than this will be the "Planet Satan". A black freezing burning planet with
an atmosphere of Luciferian spectres. Like those to be felt when your
tripping on LSD or mushrooms (yeah like my bonus-2 minutes ago). only
much more concentrated and much more clear, crystal clear. Like a rainbow
of diamonds, just covering the planet like the ozone. A planet to fool the
good believing. A planet where wrong is right, rape is love, and mankind
are slaughtered by the chosen ones, that are to live forever. But these are
only reflections from the visions of my dreams. So let's just wait for a
biochemical World War instead, heh, heh , heh.
About that asteroid. We did know about it's name of course, but not at the
time Benni got his name "Cerastes" in "Sabazios" seven years ago.
I remember, I read it somewhere? So that is just a coincidence. He
actually named himself after the serpent "Cerastes"! You know the horned
sidewinder, the desert snake.
4. This is old news, but Mysticum was to be signed by Osmose. Word is that
you demanded too much...
Hmmmm. That's not true. Of course we wanted more, because Osmose are cheap
with their royalties. But that is not the reason why we dropped out on
them. Full Moon Productions is a much more polite company, we are also personal,
good friend's with Jon. We also released our debut album there and we
want to grow strong with Full Moon Prod. from the bottom of, not to join a
Mega-trendy label like Osmose. So I think we did a wise thing there! We
like to go slowly upwards, so slow that we won’t fall downwards again.
Other's like to go straight up and then, oops? Bang, smash and crash to the
ground. We simply likes it slow (all slow Oslo, yeah, that's the truth in
Norway).
5. In the states, schools employ an anti-drug seminar called "D.A.R.E." How
is the "Never Stop the Madness" campaign doing at the grassroots level in
your area?
We hope that somebody will take the initiative to make this campaign come to
life. Because we are not doing shit about it (we got too much to do)! We
are only trying to inspire somebody to make this campaign a living Hell
among societies world-over. We want it to make other peoples life miserable.
We have done almost every kind of drug, and it is fun! You see, you have
to break yourself all the way down, to grow strong! "Never Stop the
Madness" yeah, we are too many people on this fucking planet. So go for the
needles! Because there are better things in life! Try an overdose, that is
the best way they say, heh heh heh.
Anyway! Hell, we are all going there sometime.
6. Ever crushed up Ritalin and done lines out of it? Most people are
oblivious to the good shit readily available with some creativity.
I done that a lot of times, snorting and eating it.
Ones I ate 16 Ritalin's. My pulse and heartbeats where so fucking high,
that I thought I was going to die. I really don't like it that much after
that episode of 666 bpm. ha ha ha.
7. How would you say "Mega-Satanic weed" in Norwegian? Or is it
universally known as kind bud?
Heh. Well I think it is known as kind bud. Anyway we got nicknames like
"Grø ndt", "Gress" and " Pot" of course. "Mega-Satanic weed" would be
something like "Mega-Satanisk gress".
8. If someone called you a base-head, would you take offense?
I don't know? Maybe? If I had a bad day, and especially if I had something
to drink (like liquor), I would have reacted to be mad as Hell, and
probably been violent. But not particular because they called me that, but
because they called me something to provoke me.
You know I don't like base drugs that much anymore, I only get so fucking
exhausted of it. I do like normal cocaine very much, not crack! And I
don't like speed or meth-amphetamine that much anymore as I said.
I am actually pretty straight these days with my drug abusement, compared
to how I used to be and compared to how Mean Malmberg and Cerastes are
going on! they are still going on like a fucking mad men on their
abusement. But Cerastes, he's a drug addict, there is no question about
that! I'm sure that he is never to give up.
9. Why did you change the artwork on "In the Streams of Inferno?"
We had to change it because that front cover is the most terrible work of
art-design ever done for a band in our veins. It is terrible, we hate it,
and it didn't turn out to be like we wanted it to be. On our next album we
have to get a professional artwork designer to do this right . So if there
is somebody that think they're professional and capable to do this artwork
design on "Planet Satan" then you are welcome to contact me on my E-mail
address "Svartravn@excite.com". No morons, thank you!.....
10. Where did you take the photos for the "In the Streams of Inferno"
booklet? It looks like a water treatment plant.
Well that explains why the water is so shitty in the states, heh heh.
Water treatment plant does
certainly not look like that in Norway. But a concrete/cement plant does..
We had our photo session for "In the Streams of Inferno" at this extremely
cold and dusty, industrial concrete plant, which have been closed down for
maybe 15 to 18 years ago or something. But this was the best place ever to
take pictures for our debut album. That you can see on our expression in
the pictures. Because that is exactly what the music is about. Cold,
suffering, misery, hatred.
Thanks for the interview, it was fun.....Hmmm..........We are coming over
this end of fall, beginning of winter. And of course we'll have to party
on. I really liked that Castle place in Daytona (Tampa, ed.).
Drugs, liquor, babes and Viagra, that's the way man!..............
Later.....Svartravn......Mystico........