Dxvxdxd/Interview with NecroN

Interview by Andrew Stanton

Hello and welcome to Inside the Darkness.

- Can you tell our readers a bit about your history, please?

The band was formed in 2017 by our bass player and composer Adam DSX. We started as a mix between goth metal and rock (Of Wolves & Men - 2018) and our sound evolved quickly in a more extreme way (Scorpio Rising - 2020). Now the band seems to have its own entity which is Symphonic Black Metal with strong gothic influences (Before The Dawn - 2021). We are currently recording our new album with our new singer Necron.

- How do you describe your music?

Dxvxdxd Sxlf is strongly influenced by metal productions from the 90’. So it is mainly black metal, dark music with a large spectrum of influences and freedom in experimentations. Our symphonic arrangements are important and bring a kind of sensitive and gothic touch but we have that black metal fuel in us.

- What are your lyrics and themes about?

Lyrics mainly come out from personal experiences, associated to a passion with esoteric literature, complentative movies, spirituality and sxlf destruction.

- What does Dxvxdxd Sxlf mean?

It means Divided Self. It comes from the book “The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness” by Ronald Laing. The four X’s can stand to hide something, can be the graphical visual for the four members of the band, can be something mysterious or occult... can be whatever you want it to be... can be something greater than us.

- Your sound seems very different to everyone else. Is it intentional?

If you mean different in terms of composition and arrangements, yes of course. We know which are our influences and we make our path from them, not to them, not to look like them.

- What French bands should our readers check out?

Igorrr, Horshk, Deathcode Society, Varsovie, Black Chamber Orchestra...

- What can fans expect from Before the Dawn?

An album without compromises, aggressive and epic. It was composed and recorded at home by the 3 members of the band at the time, with a lot of love, sincerity and alcohol.

- There doesn’t appear to have been much time between your first two albums. Did you work right through the pandemic?

We lockdowned together, the 3 of us. So we enjoyed our own company and composed, recorded and mixed Before the Dawn, without external bad influences.

- Where did you get the title ‘Before the Dawn?

It is inspired from a song of the band The Wounded Kings.

- Your album covers have very unique designs. Who paints them?

A friend of our bass player Flore Shokushu AKA enfant. de.pluton. An artist, painter and fashion designer we respect a lot. She painted a series of work about planets and astrological relations. We intend to collaborate with her on that matter and devellop our own musical interpretation.

- Do you have a message for our readers?

Be curious, be interested in the world around, remaining honest with yourself. And support the underground music! (Будьте любопытными, интересуйтесь миром вокруг, оставаясь честным самим с собой. И поддерживайте андеграундную музыку!)

Thank you for your time.

And thank you! (Вам спасибо)