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Hi Aurelius

Thanks for taking your time for conducting the interview with PromoFabrik.
Maybe you should introduce yourself a bit to our readers / listeners as they may not know you that well yet.

1) You have been around since 1996. Can you Disclose some more about the work and history of "Anima Virus"?
1) The project was born as Anima Virus strictly personal need to represent musically some of the most common concerns of our time (beginning of the Age of Aquarius) such as social alienation, cynicism, oppression chemical / mental, rampant materialism, the agonizing feeling of the end of an era, the radical change of nature, etc. ..

2) What does the name "Anima Virus" stand for?
2) The project name comes from a few games with words and meanings, often overlapping in different languages, which have as their basic etymological words taken from Latin and ancient greek.
The term "soul" is meant the human spirit, a sense of being that attached to the term "virus" that is poisonous substance and essence evil they create a very broad meaning in relation to reflections on the 'humanity and its current condition.
I think that humanity has experienced and is experiencing its evolution destructive and self harm for their actions on this planet. Symbolic behavior in many respects similar to viruses. It 'a name that includes a reflection on anxiety el'inquietudine thus far the single "virus" that is, human being, be aware of their condition, its nature and the corrupt world around him.

3) Your album "End of the Eden" has been released a few days ago. The name has inspired me on many Speculations before listening to your music. What is this the core or common topic? Is it meant to be a concept album?
3) From the end of Eden, and then the beginning of "our inevitable infringement" stems' s continued momentum groped and harassed in the achievement of a threshold "Gothic".
Threshold equalize. A limitation of contact with an entity or to a civilization that shatters the illusions and the inaction anthropocentric spirit.
Could be interpreted as a concept album if you intend to frame the atmosphere inside the tracks, so their background or soundscape, like a dive inside so strong reflections on the origin of man and his passions, illusions or conquest over the centuries. In this sense is a concept album.
But the correlations between a song and the other shall be construed as less intuitive or direct.

4) When listening to your music, I personally feel a touch of old gothic bands and David Bowie in it. What are your musical heroes and influences?
4) Yes, I was very influenced by some historical scene goth bands (most of all: Christian Death, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Play Dead, Neon), but also by Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis, Roxy Music, Billy Idol, the Japan and Duran Duran and many others in different genres and away from the gothic rock! However you need to keep in mind that a lot of stuff that is and has been described as "gothic dance hall from" the early 90 'on, I was not influenced in any way and has piqued my interest ... and I think that this difference Note.

5) Despite "normal" contemporary gothic bands, you enrich your sound with electronic flavors Which make it much more fresh sounding an new. How do you create the songs?
5) I start with a concept from an idea. I guess the song.
I move away. Contemplate it again.
I switch on the sequencer, connect the power tools to Daw, synths and amps to let flow all ideas as if they were rushing rivers that feed the river and generate high waves and black ....
However it is not easy to retrace all the steps that combine to create what you hear on the album. It 'a job that is diversified forever. I do not have a "method" standard in programming samples or in the actual voices or guitars or healing slicing rhythmic loops and drum machines.

6) If you are asked to describe your style of music, what would you say?
6) Dark, original, morbid, "powerful", very catchy and full of nuances.
I often say that all of my songs sound like goth-hits unmatched in the market and completely out of fashion or trends.
And this is also very rewarding because I've always avoided epidermis. I find the thought repulsive to adapt to the scene to float in it. In all honesty, it would be pointless for me to "normalize" in a barren scene, and especially repetitive.

7) In your songs I PERCEIVE a strong philosophical background. Are you interested in such topics, or in biblical backgrounds like "Eden"?
7) I am very interested, from historical point of view, the hypothesis that Eden really existed many thousands of years ago on this Earth (or around ..). What happened is a kind of rebellion of the human race against a racial "superiority", which has resulted in a "physical and cultural extinction ', hence, probably, I think there is a strong correlation between the images, representations of superhuman and divine concepts very similar in most ancient cultures and far on our planet.

Who or what is Zdzislaw Beksiński? Is there a story behind it?
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929 -2005) was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, sculptor and representation, with the best-known examples coming from his 'fantastic realism' period when he painted disturbing images of a surrealistic, post-apocalyptic environment. He soon became the leading figure in contemporary Polish art. He created very disturbing images, showing a surrealistic, post-apocalyptic environment with very detailed scenes of death, decay, landscapes filled with skeletons, deformed figures and deserts.
The icy surrealism, the disturbing visions, dreams, silences post apocalyptic artist have influenced me tremendously. For this reason I wanted to pay a instrumental track in "The End of Eden" trying to play in key sound atmospheres dilated and agonizing of his paintings.

9) If you sing about Adam, Eve where did you leave behind?
9) In the song "Adam" by metaphors describing the genesis of the human race, which could be a bit 'different from that described by Sir Darwin!
But also very different from the "truth veiled" of the sacred writings ...
However there is a song called "Eve" and speak of the human being and his spirituality: the other side of the moon symbolically.
The hidden and closer to the "ancient sages who came from heaven."
And I will be present in future productions.

10) How comes that a band has such a strong Italian influence from Californian death-rock bands in it sound? Have you lived there once?
10) Never been to California.
But many who listened to audio tapes or LPS were produced each day until dawn in these parts!

11) I have listened to the Echo and the Bunnymen-cover a lot and I have been surprised to get the song interpreted by somebody else at all. Why did you choose to cover that specific song of that great band?
11) Killing Moon is a song that I always appreciated. It 'a piece of dreamy, romantic. My cover is a more decadent and "poisonous", perhaps more in line with the desolate landscape of our times.

12) I have sadly never see you performing live yet. Are there any plans to go on tour?
12) Of course, the intention is precisely to perform on several dates in Europe this year. Www.animavirus.com through our site you will be informed of all concert activities. For more information please contact the following email: information@animavirus.com

13) Talking about the future, what are your plans for the future of "Anima Virus"?
13) Propose to my music, have a good impact on the market, performing in major European cities and beyond. Above improve, evolve into new compositions ...
Pass me, always ... and step over the threshold Gothic.