Blackened Horde: How did the band get started?
Lord Adragard: Many years ago. Adragard was born in the first months of 1997 as one-man band. The first demo-tape “Tenebrae Factae Sunt” was unleashed in 1998. After 11 years Adragard is reborn as a morbid duo. NifèroN has became a concrete part of the Adragard’s conceptual and musical terrorist plague. After the “Sadistic Delirium Manifest” release there has been another long hiatus but, Adragard resurrect again in 2017, and so we released the last 2 albums in total misery. “Through funeral shadows” is the last album and was released in 2019 by Perkun Records.
Blackened Horde: What kind of music do you play?
Lord Adragard: Black underground fuckin’ Metal. The old way.
Blackened Horde: How has the fan response been?
Lord Adragard: I don’t know… I don’t think we have fan, we don’t have a social behavior or profile. So, only a few deformed dwarfs seem to follow us assiduously.
Blackened Horde: Where did the band name come from?
Lord Adragard: The meaning of the name Adragard is buried by time and dust quoting one of my favorite song. It’s a melting of the names of a demon and a minor pagan divinity.
Blackened Horde: Introduce the band members and what they do in the band.
Lord Adragard: Adragard consist of Lord Adragard (infernal voice and poetry, songwriter) and NiferoN (bass and songwriter). Church Destroyer will continue to sodomize the infernal skins for Adragard as long as he wants. No proper guitarist at the moment but it’s nothing new for us. Probably NiferoN will take the guitar duties for the future release and everything will be more necro and pleasantly unprofessional… we will see.
Blackened Horde: Who writes the music? Lyrics?
Lord Adragard: Lord Adragard has so far written all the lyrics. The music of the first demo was completely written by Lord Adragard (except a riff written by Blackfrost), all the other music were written by Lord Adragard and NiferoN except on the last album where Gemini wrote some songs.
Blackened Horde: And where do the lyric ideas come from?
Lord Adragard: In the beginning was all about Paganism, in particular about the old pagan culture of my hometown. Back then I was really into those topics. After the first demo the lyrics were totally Lucifer addict. But I do not mean Lucifer like the one depicted by the fucking Christianity but like the divinity that exists before Christ. Lucifer is really something that lives in the depths of my heart and inspires all my action. But I am not a religious person and my thought is based on a non-religious-pagan view, as strange as it seems. The lyrics of the last two album moved again and this time the presence of Lucifer is less direct but I can assure you that He is still there. Sometimes the words drops on the page naturally like drops of obscurity and blood. Often I’m only half conscience of what I’m writing, it’s a strange process so dark and obscure and even painful at times.
Blackened Horde: What is your view in Satanism and Occultism?
Lord Adragard: I’m not a Satanist and I don’t care of occultism (at least no more). As I said above I’m a non-religious person and Satanism is a religion so…
Blackened Horde: How many albums/CD’s have you released?
Lord Adragard: Tenebrae Factae Sunt Demo 1998 Tape, Neverending Necro Void Demo 2009 Tape, Sadistic Delirium Manifest Album 2010 CD and Tape, From the Burning Mist Album 2018 CD and Tape, Through Funeral Shadows Album 2019 CD.
Blackened Horde: Tell me about some of the songs on the latest CD?
Lord Adragard: Musically it’s classic black metal the raw aspect is due to the overall sound but musically it’s not so raw, it’s not as primitive as the other Adragard shit. You can find epic and acoustic-folk parts that are something new for Adragard. We spent a lot of time on the arrangements putting aside the punk way of composing, it’s for sure a more complex album but of course we’re talking of pure underground black metal.
Blackened Horde: Do you have any side projects?
Lord Adragard: No.
Blackened Horde: Who are some of your musical influences?
Lord Adragard: In the end the influences are the same as usual: first black metal wave (Bathory, Hellhammer and first Celtic Frost, Venom and so on) second black metal wave (the Norwegian one above all) with a bit of doom ( Black Sabbath obviously).
Blackened Horde: Which current bands?
Lord Adragard: No current bands influence our music. But there are a lot of great bands nowadays not only in Black Metal of course. If you want a suggestion check the Italian Ossario they’re fucking amazing.
Blackened Horde: What is the band like when you play live?
Lord Adragard: We don’t play live.
Blackened Horde: What do you think of the US Metal scene?
Lord Adragard: It’s a big and well-known scene. The last great band that I have discover is Spirit Possession, their new album is absolutely great. US Black metal has become something recognizable with lots of extremely good bands, just to name the firsts that comes into my mind Xasthur, Judas Iscariot, Leviathan, Absu, Nachtmystium, Order from Chaos, Spirit Possession and many more. That’s for black metal but US got a world (better a universe) of good Metal bands and after all one of my all time fave band, Slayer cames from your land so, yes I like the US scene a lot!
Blackened Horde: What do you think of the Over seas scenes?
Lord Adragard: The black metal scene is really big with too much band. From nowadays bands, one of my fave is MGLA, their last two album are pure gold. But honestly I prefer the old bands or at least new bands that sound as the old.
Blackened Horde: What are some of your new favorite black metal/death metal bands?
Lord Adragard: Well… MGLA, Bestcraft (R.I.P.), Black Fucking Cancer, Diavolos, Grift, Malokarpatan, Spirit Possession and lots more.
Blackened Horde: When do you guys plan on writing any new material?
Lord Adragard: … at least one more full-length is planned to conclude the triptych started with “From the burning mist”. But we don’t know when it will come out, at the moment nothing is composed yet.
Blackened Horde: What does the future hold for the band??
Lord Adragard: We’ll continue to lay in total isolation, misery and darkness. The future is black as pitch, in all sense.
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