Spain
2005 ; a strange flying craft not
of this world (U.I.O - Unidentified Industrial Object) crash
landed in Donostia (San Sebastián). Reports of something being
recovered by the government are strongly denied, but at the same time
as this event, an inter-galactic
industrial rock trio dubbed KRELL emerged, blending
what could be discribed as KMFDM,
meets Depeche Mode meets John Fryer
on the Moon...
Et Heit
Ant Flaten
Mik Mothma
First - who and what is Krell, and what does the bandname mean?
Krell
is a three-head techno monster! No seriously, Krell is a project that
tries to mix some electro components with a rocker attitude.
We think that electronic music needs a bit of rock to gain a human feeling,
for not to be so cold.
The name cames from a classic science fiction movie, "Forbidden Planet"
(1956). On the film you can hear about a society, The Krells, that became
extinct after reaching a perfect knowledge of technology. We liked that
concept, and we took that name, Krell. It's like nowadays, we are reaching
a techno-perfect world but we are forgetting about humanity, about thinking
on the other, on what he thinks, he feels....
We
started about 3 years ago from now, we knew each other from other bands...
One day we started to talk about to make a project together, mixing technology
and rock... and here we are!
Our musical
influences are really wide... we can say that we hear every kind of music
that reach our ears. From pop-rock to grind-core.
For example: Et loves electro and goth music. He hears a lot of classic
EBM stuff, he loves bands like Nitzer ebb, Front 242, Bigod20... and in
goth stuff he loves Bauhaus, The Cure, Systers of Mercy... and so on.
For Ant, music is music... he hears everything. From pop, to grind. One
day he is on R.E.M and the other he is headbanging and trashing with Napalm
Death. He is a huge fan of Faith No More.
I, Mik... love classical metal bands like Judas Priest, Maiden, etc...
and of course industrial music like NIN, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Front
Line Assembly... Also I'm a huge fan of classical grind bands like Napalm
death, Carcass... and Nasum!! So basically we've got too many influences...
from Bowie, to Merzbow.
photographic evidence
of extra terrestrial life
What's the message you try to spread lyrically?
You should ask Et...
he writes all the stuff, but he tries to write about everything...from
science fiction, like "Soul eater" talking about a monster that
attacks earth, to social themes, like "Idol of the century"
talking about how media (tv, radio, the www) is trying to alienate people
telling what you can say,
how you have to dress, how to be, how to talk...
You're from the Basque region of Spain. How is life over there, and how is the local music scene?
Life here is really boring!
Nothing to do at all... birth, school, work, marry, have a child and die...
that is the philosphy of almost all people we know around here.
We are now on our first 30's, you know... The kind of music that almost
every person hears here is mainstreem bullshit... we live in a town were
the naffest pop is the coolest thing in the world.
Got some final words for the readers of this interview?
Hope you like our
new EP... "Media is a God to rec-over" brought to you by "Death
To Music", and stay tuned to our myspace, www.myspace.com/krellianweb
for more stuff and news. See you!