Интервю с Florin Costachita (DARK FUSION, AN THEOS, KA GAIA AN)
Satania: Your first visit in Bulgaria was on Gothic Fest Sofia 2013. What do you remember from this days?
Florin: Hello. My first visit in Sofia was with my mates from Dark Fusion, a cyber/industrial extreme metal project. We didn’t spent so much time, but those hours that we’d stayed in your town were very full of fun. But the important part was the concert. We saw very good bands, very beautyfull goth chicks…..We had enjoyed the time on stage, the crowd was fantastic, It was a good night for us. In that time we were had thought that is must to come back with that project to Sofia.
S.: On 28 of February I saw a really grew up band with new members. More powerful and confident in what they do. How did you decided from three to become five? Tell me more about new members.
F.: On 28 of february, we had come again to Sofia, but this time with full force, replacing drum machine with a real drummer, We decided to do that because we want pure music to become more havier. Our new members, with their charisma brought a lot of energy to our band. So today we are a full cyber-industrial extreme metal team. So the members are:
Me on vocals
Gabi – lead guitar, backing vocals and programming
Tedy – rhythm guitar.
Tudor – bass
Teo – drums
S.: The adding of live drummer really put in the sound more heaviness. Machine Teo was replaced with live Teo and he is only seventeen. Tell me more about him.
F.: That’s why we decided to go further with a real drummer. Teo is a very talented young man, only seventeen, he gave us what we are looking for from a real drummer, energy and great coordination when he plays.
S.: You win Waken Metal Battle Romania in last year. Is that win opened a new door and challenges ahead? What has it brought and what it took from you?
F.: Wining the national Wacken Metal Battle was a great achievement for Dark Fusion. Those days spent in Germany were exactly what we needed to realize that is the bigest opportunity to go and sing into a big and famous festival in the world.
We have finnished on 6 place in the World Battle, was a great experience to see thousands of ppl enjoy your music and congratulate you after your performance. We are ready for new chalanges, we have a lot of fans in other countries, also in Bulgaria and we are looking forward to do an European tour soon, we work on that. As a conclusion, winning the national Wacken Metal Battle and representing your own country, to the biggest festival in the world, in my opinion, compels us to do a harder work, to evolve as musicians.
S.: The usual suspects Florin and Gabi. Who are the others involved in An Theos? Represent the band.
F.: An Theos is a different story. With An Theos we play epic folk metal. The band was born in 2010 with me as a founder member and 2 friends of mine, later in that year Gabi join us. We are trying to present our folklore music from all the areas of the country, combined with different genres of metal. The band have 8 members:
Me – clean & growled vocals, and sometimes romanian traditional instruments
Elmas – female lyric voice
Irina – violin
? – keyboards (will be a surpise, i will tell you that is a verry talented young lady )
Tedy – rhythm guitar
Gabi – lead guitar and backing vocals
Tudor – bass
Tudor U – drums
S.: What is the conception behind An Theos?
F.: As i said earlier, An Theos is a Epic Folk Metal band. The conception behind our music is about history, our ancestors (the dacians), romanian folklore, mythology. With lyrical parts, with full force parts, with sad parts, with happy parts, we are trying to express the beauty of the habbits and traditions of the romanian ppl and our ancestors.
S.: You will play in Sofia on 8 of April. What can fans expect? Especialy some of them who saw you at Kavarna Rock Festival 2015. Will there be surprises as with Dark Fusion?
F.: We are very honored to be a part of Sofia Metal Fest. We will play on 8 of April, it will be a great night. We want to have fun and we will, we will play with energy and joy, we are preparing a good show for our fans from Bulgaria. After wining the contest in Kavarna last year, we’ve made a lot of fans in Bulgaria, we hope to see them also in Sofia, to having fun together, drink together and make photos together. We are very social ppl, you will see us in the crowd.
S.: What happens with An Theos’s debut album? When we can expect it to be released?
F.: We have finnished to record our first album, we have little details to be worked out. The release date will be anounce on our web site and on our facebook page.
S.: In the beginning of this year was released Dark Fusion second album „Cyber Nation“. Tell me something interesting about its creation.
F.: Yes, on 23 of January we have released our second full lenght material named „Cyber Nation“, by the way you could listen for free our new album on our Dark Fusion youtube page and you can buy it if you like it and if you want the physical copy (CD) send us a message on our facebook page.
It was very fun to record the album, we worked very hard on it, we have spent many nights in the studio, sleep there. This album will take us to the new face of Dark Fusion, we decided to change the genre from melodic death metal with some groove influences to more modern metal with some cyber industrial sounds, aggrotech parts, melodic metal parts and of course we have changed also our outfit.
S.: Which is the „Cyber Nation“? What is the message behind the album?
F.: Cyber Nation is the new era, the new times, the new concept of the human kind. The message is very strong, we are addicted to artificial inteligence in this times. With this story on this album we will try to lounch an signal alarm to us „Don’t forget we are human beens, we must control the technology, not let the technology controls us“ We present the story of a possible post apocalyptic city after a possible world wide war, as a conclusion this album is like a Wake up Calling.
S.: The cover of „Blue“ is in your repertoire from a long time. Why you decided to record it now?
F.: This is the biggest surprise of the album. We decided to record it because we like the original song form Eifel 65 and because fans want our version, so why not?
S.: You play deferent styles in your bands. Which is actually a musical identity of the musicians in An Theos and Dark Fusion? Who are your inspirations?
F.: I play diferent genres because i like it. I listen all kind of music. Because i like folklore and metal, I play folk metal with An Theos and because I like obscure genres i play cyber/industrial extreme metal with Dark Fusion 🙂
S.: Romanian folklore is famous mainly with its dark stories but seems like you chose the lighter side of the things. What stories are An Theos telling?
F.: As you said, most of the ppl know the dark side of romanian folklore, but we have also very joyfull stories. With An Theos we try to present all the parts of the romanian folklore: the sad stories (the songs in romaian language are called Doine), the happy ones (as melodic lines are very alert tempo with arythmic dances, they are called Hore), and of course dark parts called in romanian language Blesteme. The lirycs from our first story are about our ancestors, the dacians, with their moments in their lifes, sadness, happy moments, habbits and traditions.
S.: As the main members of An Theos and Dark Fusion are the same can we tell that in one band you put cheery side of yourself and in the other one give expression to your hiden, dark passions?
F.: You could say so, but the most important thing is that the fact we want to express better our sides, our message and we couldn’t do it in one band 🙂
S.: Is it hard to go on the path to fame?
F.: I prefer not to say that, we are simple persons, we like what we do, it’s a very strong passion, it’s our big part of our lifes and we enjoy every moment on stage.
S.: So, we will see on 8 of April. Why the fans must go and see you?
F.: Yes we are ready for you Sofia. Are you ready for the romanian folk metal machine? Are you ready to party with us? Are you ready to jump with us? Are you ready to drink with us? If you are ready come and join the party my friends. After the show we will see you in the crowd and share the experience that we will have together in that night!!!!
Cheers Brothers of Metal!!!!!!!