1) As you know Nadir is not familiar in Asian scene so could you please tell us about your band and your concept of music and how about your life in your country? Well, what can I say: I really know we're not a big band out there in Asia, but we're not even big here in Europe. We started playing some doomier stuff, but with time and rehearsing, we've been polishing our sound and song structures, and nowadays I'd say we've become a goth rock act with tons of elements borrowed from doom, electro and goth metal. As we're not famous yet, we don't see ourselves in the position of repeating the same highlights or mistakes album after album. So we feel free to evolve constantly and make the music we feel in the mood at the moment given. Life in this country is not that memorable, quite calm and easy, except for the wild weekends. We all have regular jobs, which really spoils the vibe, as it would be much better to live out of music, but with so many bands competing for the same goal is quite unlikely to happen. But we live a pretty comfortable life, we can't complain. I just hate people around but that's my personal stand.

2) New release from Nadir is the new album,so please tell us how about response that you getting from world metallers and also please tell us about your problem before record this demo? It's not properly a demo, what we've recorded. It's an official Mcd, called "Big Open Wound". We auto-produced it but it's promoted by a belgian agency and distributed by dutch dealers. We've had a great response from fans and media but it has not ended up with a signature with a label for the forthcoming releases. So we're still doing some promo all over the world, just to see if we can find somebody really interested in our projects. We know we've got the necessary quality and even more than some labels demand for their signed artists, but we need some fortune stroke to hit the nail on its head. Nonetheless I believe we will finally do it.

3) If I see,your concept of music is heavy gothic metal and your music have the own originality,so please tell us how you get the own originality of your music and which influenced of band did give you idea to make your song? I don't really know if we're so original, but we try to do things our own way. I believe we've done something particularly different with our latest effort, though many people try to compare us with everybody out there. We're in this since 89 indeed, as I started my own death metal band called Obscure back then, and never stopped creating dark and sinister stuff in many different styles. My influences come mainly from the period when death started to get more melodic and made a big step to be touched by the hands of goth. Besides, there are not many bands using two bass players to create their sound, and with one of the bass guitars doing most of the usual guit leads, so that's a difference I think. I listen to all sorts of dark stuff, from doom to electro, to ebm, death, black, but I'm not into anything specially. It always depends on the mood. The only necessary feature for music is being dark, the darker, the better.

4) After I read your lyrics, I see you want to story about life,death and familiy (if I not mistaken),so could you please tell us why you choose all of this for your lyrics? I write my lyrics about specific topics most of the times, but never in a direct way. I mean, most of the lyrics are quite symbolic and open to interpretation. In this last work you can find lyrics about an individual who is not fit to his real world and suffers a lot because of that, another about the experiences with drugs, another about cowardice and the temptations and pleasures of suicide and the last one about love forlorn and the taste of it. I wrote in the past about more fictional stuff but this time I felt in the need of expressing all frustrations and bad moods about everything around. Life's a pain in the arse for me and I'm for life the same. Most of the times you can find a feeling of spite and rebellion in most of the lyrics but also negativeness and darkness. Our next work will be more focused in the death topic, all about it, and some love, which is a branch of the same tree.

5) From your bio I know that you still record your album at the professional studio, so could you please tell us why you choose this studio again and how about your deal with sound engineer in that studio? I tell you the studio wasn't that big, and we only had five days for the whole recording and mixing and mastering. That was too short a period for such task, but we came up with a quite decent bunch of songs. Luckily, we spent like three months before demoing the songs and pre producing them at a home studio, property of our producer. So I really think that those home sessions did much for the final result.

6) Nadir was joined many compilation worldwide compilation,so could you please tell us what important compilation for the new band like Nadir and any compilation did Nadir join it in this year…don’t forget Death Die! Compilation..he!he..! So there are not many in which we appear. Of course this one will be very nice as we can spread our word in those lands we hardly thought about reaching. We also participated here in our country in a tribute to the 80s, in which we released a cover of Celtic Frost's "Necromantical Screams", which finally became a very funeral cover with a frightening feeling and awesome atmosphere. We'll see if we use that track in the future for any other purpose.

7) Nadir was mix your music with thrash style in this demo,why all this happen and how your maintain your stail of music after mix this concept? I don't think there's many thrash bits in our style. I'd better say we come from death metal and scholastic doom, so some of the elements which saw us grow still remain there in a particular way, but we're not conscious of the mixing and we don't pursue any particular sound. We just get together and try to write memorable songs with melody, passion, tension, thrill and tons of sadness. All the rest you experienced in the past is always there, and you must learn to live with it and take all the best from those times.

8) So could you please tell us what their band help you and please tell more news about the band. I don't understand the question much, but the news about the band is that we've fired our last guit player and we're going to play some shows with just one bass player and the other one will play the guitar. We also fired very long back our keyboardist, and now we trigger all the loops and keys from a sample console. That means tha we were a sextet but currently we're just a quartet. We'll try to go on like this until we find a new guit player or we find another way to work it out. More news is that we're already demoing songs in which there will be sadder feelings and many acoustic guitars.

9) What is meaning of Nadir and why you choose this name for your band…who have the idea to use this name? Nadir is in astronomy the opposite to Zenith, that is the lowest situation of the sun, but it's figurative, because the sun never reaches the Nadir. I chose myself the monicker back in 95 while reading some romantic poets and understood the use they did of this beautiful word.

11) Ok let’s talk about your cover…I see your cover have something to say ..so what do you mean by this graphic and what is meaning by this colour and concept…did you contribute any artwork for other band? We normally use the topic of death for our covers. Our previous work had the picture of a militian russian girl who died during the 2nd world war, hanged by the nazis. The picture of her face was so sweet after dying for a cause like hers, that we used it for the cover. This time we were at our graphist's house looking for ideas for this cover and I saw that pic in an old photo album. It's an anonymous photo from the late 19th century in which a girl is making a reverence to the greatest entity of this existence, which is death, symbolized as usual by the skull. It's perfect to represent what we want to transmit to those who approach our music. The colour you've probably seen is not the original one, but something wrong happened in the printing process and all the promos ended up like that. The original background is more like a mixture of brown and purple, which represents sadness from my point of view. I don't think there's much more to explain about that picture. No, we don't contribute with anybody else's artwork, we've got enough problems choosing ours. It's not easy at all.

12) How about your label? did you get any offer to record something under label and did you think label can support your music very well…what do you think about ripp-off by label?? Actually we are not in any label. We self financed our both works and made a promo agreement with Hardebaran and a distribution one with TwoFatMan, but we have no management office or label in charge of releasing our stuff. That's pretty hard to deal with, as we try to get shows and contact the booking agencies, but the answer is always that we need to be a signed band to work with such people and to book shows or tours or whatever. I just think we do it well enough to deserve some more recognition, though I must admit that ours is a long story of misfortune and of being ever in the wrong place when everything around us gets on gear. Call it bad luck or maybe we're like jinx, but that's the way it's always been. What for me is pretty clear is that most of the times you're not getting from labels not even half of what they promised in the beginning, and the deals are sometimes so shitty that you wish you'd put your stuff right up your arse instead of giving it out to those motherfuckers. But business is business and there are few labels interested in the quality and the same musicians, they observe figures and incomes, the rest is a collateral part of it all. Shame!!

13) Can you tell us about your experience in the stage and what is your comment about your showmanship and did you agree if I say metal band must have long hair for the performing? We've done hundreds of shows so far. We're a quite experienced band as I myself and Anselmo have been playing live since 1990. We've been playing fests and shows with bands like Carcass, Moonspell, Biohazard, Napalm Death, Nasum, Kreator and some other international acts. Our performance is quite visual and exciting, with hoods, vinyl outfits, some make-up, and very agressive and mournful attitude at the same time. I take care of most of the show and perform most tricks, and of course I agree, long hair is almost primordial for a band like ours, preferably black, and a serious and misanthropic attitude towards the audience.

14) What is your comment about band from your country which have own originality and many band in the world make influenced from there and what your comment if I say another band from other country make your band for their influenced of the music? I'm not very much connected to the scene in Spain. I'd say I'm one of the guys who know less about it. There are some good bands indeed, but I just know 3 or 4 and I think it'd be unfair to name just my friends without knowing the rest. As for internetional bands who influenced us, it all depends on the moments in our lives. For a time we listened to Paradise Lost a lot, also Anathema, My Dying Bride, then Type O Negative, Sisters Of Mercy, Samael, Tiamat, and more recently Katatonia, Zeraphine, Dreadful Shadows and tons more. Of course classics like Black Sabbath too.

15) What do you think about someone make this metal scene for make a money and how about you did you have another job? There are so many people who are into this just to make money that the list would be unending. In all these years I've seen so much shit in every place I've been that when sometimes I tell the newcomers, they can't believe me. I can't waste my time speaking about those bastards who try to rule all scenes, all of them are the same and deserve the same treatment. I'm against being treated as a band from this or that other scene. We're just individuals trying to make life sound the way we perceive it, and all the rest is a big shitty fake, but we must live with it.

16) Which band give you idea to make your song and please tell us how did you get into metal scene and from your personally what you mean by underground? When I started, one of our bands from which we got some inspiration were Metallica, Whiplash, Megadeth, Sepultura, because those bands set metal to a reachable stage, not just for big monsters as it used to be back then. I got into metal when I was 13 years old and was a fan for many years until one day some people thought I could be the right singer for their band as they saw me "perform" at a metal club. They were doing some thrash stuff and once I joined them we changed the flavour to death metal and called the band Obscure. That was back in 89 so it's rained a lot since that time. And I think that being underground or not doesn't depend on the level of attachment you have with a label, or your success or anything related to it. I guess I could be selling millions of Cds and would still remain underground and shit on the face of the business around me.

17) Did you know about my country and how about our scene..did you now any metal band from my country and any contact from Malaysia did you get? I had some contact with Malasyan fanzines in the death metal times but it's all missing right now. I really know very little about the scene there, so it would be nice from you to inform me. Would you?

18)Can you tell us about your scene and any new band did you want to introduce to the readers? As I told you I hate scenes, but there are bands here like Memest, The Heretic, Nahemah, Amalthea, Lost Emotions, Evadne and some more which deserve your careful attention.


19) In your album can you tell us what brand instrument did you use for the recording and please tell us is it the brand of the instrument important to get the best sound of music did you like? We used a Yamaha drum set, one Ibanez bass guitar, another Yamaha bass, an old Rickenbacker guit and an Ibanez guit too. Then the regular pedals and little else. We used a lot of midi instruments too for the keyboard parts and for the loops we put in. Most of them were from plug ins of the Cubase prog. And don't forget about gallons of red wine and cool beer...hehehe.

20) What’s the future planning and what is your feeling if I invite you to play gigs in Malaysia? Our future plans are doing some shows before the end of the year and continue demoing the songs for our forthcoming CD. And about playing in Malaysia? I wouldn't plainly believe in such invitation, though if it was true, it would be even more unbelievable but fantastic all the way. We'd love to have such chance.

21)How important zine and fanzine for your band and what do think about your scene any improvement or not and what is benefit you get from the interview with underground fanzine? Everything is important in a promotional way. I really thank all you zines which waste their time interviewing people like me. I don't know if I'd think the same if I had 2 or 3 interviews a day, but for now I believe we need each other. It's nice your people can read the words of a person living so far away and agree or disagree with him in a silent moment but plenty of inner growth, or depression.

22) What song did you choose for Death Die! Compilation and please tell us what is the special from this song…how many time did you take to compose and record this song? "So Tired" is the right one, 'cause it's the shortest, the most direct, and very beautiful melodically. It must have something, because when we recorded it, using the same stuff for every song, it just shocked us because since the beginning it sounded much better than the rest. It has to do with sound frequencies used, I don't know but it did sound very special.

23)Last words from you before we ending this interview? Stay Sick & Feast On Fucking Darkness You Malaysian Fuckers!!! The best for you friends.