{"id":47261,"date":"2016-04-26T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=47261"},"modified":"2016-04-26T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:08:37","slug":"i-quite-enjoy-testing-the-limits-an-interview-with-schammasch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/i-quite-enjoy-testing-the-limits-an-interview-with-schammasch\/","title":{"rendered":"“I Quite Enjoy Testing the Limits”: An Interview with Schammasch<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last Saturday, I was afforded the wonderful opportunity to have a Skype call with C.S.R., the front man and heart and soul of preeminent avant-garde dark metal band\u00a0Schammasch<\/strong>. In the course of our conversation, we discussed spirituality, touring, and artistic expression. Below is a transcription of our discussion, edited slightly to cut down some of my winding questions.<\/p>\n

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Hello?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hello there!<\/p>\n

How are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m okay. Just opened a beer.<\/p>\n

Sounds good! So, my name is W, a writer for the metal blog Toilet ov Hell, and I really appreciate you taking the time to answer this call for me. Can you hear me okay?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s all fine. I actually told Kelly about – I was surprised about the website name.<\/p>\n

*laughs* Yeah. You know, that started as an inside joke. Sometimes when you\u2019re doing something for fun, you\u2019re like \u201clet\u2019s go with a silly name\u201d and you send it out and then things start to grow and expand, and you\u2019re like \u201cwell, that probably wasn\u2019t the best foresight.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably like the same thing when you start a band with a silly name and then you can\u2019t change it, or like a pseudonym or something like that.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right- we actually recently interviewed a band called Camel of Doom, and the main guy behind it was like \u201cI was fifteen and I came up with Camel of Doom because I really liked Black Sabbath and Kyuss, and, you know, now I\u2019m stuck twenty years later with this band called Camel of Doom, so \u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, well, what can you do. No regrets.<\/p>\n

Well very good! Let\u2019s go ahead and get started.<\/strong>\u00a0So I’ve really enjoyed Triangle <\/em>so far. You know, releasing a triple album, in comparison to Contradiction<\/em>, which was a double album, it\u2019s really kind of a test of what seems to be our diminishing attention spans in metal. At least I see a lot of people praising EP\u2019s and we\u2019re moving to a period of releasing more digestible songs. Is that kind of an intentional going against the grain on your part?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, I would like to say no, but it was a bit, yeah. It was of course not the main reason to create a triple album, not at all, but it\u2019s just a nice gimmick I would say, because I quite enjoy testing the limits of people when it comes like that to band stuff. And I\u2019m not at all worried to piss people off in terms of length of whatever- I mean, we already had people complaining about Contradiction <\/em>being way too long and stuff like that. It was just a nice thought to have, like, \u201cYeah, okay, you thought Contradiction <\/em>was too long, so fuck you! Gonna release a triple album now!\u201d But yeah, of course that wasn\u2019t the main intention, it was the logical step in the end, going from the number one theme album and following the number one in a kind of Christian Kabbalistic meaning, which was of course continued with Contradiction <\/em>being the number two. And then it was just a logical step to make it kind of a trilogy going on with all three albums building one trilogy and ending with the number three, meaning unity and the holy triangle, which of course is the symbol of the triangle. So that\u2019s where it came from.<\/p>\n