Coldnight/Interview with Angela

Interview by Jay Parker

Hi, this is Jay reporting from Bogota, Colombia... Today I’m fortunate to be talking to Angela from DSBM one girl project, Coldnight... A beautifully disturbing trip into the darkness...

Hi Angela... Thanks for talking to our readers...

1 - Tell us about Coldnight? When did you form the band? Where was the band formed?

Coldnight is my own project of ambient dark metal, inspired by ghostly and desolate passages of sadness, all made by myself, I’ve formed Coldnight in 2008 in Colombia, Bogota.

2 - What was the inspiration behind the band?

When I had the idea of start this project I was focus in the art, I loved to draw and made some melodies to complete the art, being an artist completely, also I was fan of Drowning the Light, Elend and Aghast, when I started to do this dream called Ambient DSBM I was a very friend of bands as Exile from Light, Thy Light and Moloch, so I felt identi- ficated with the genre and the way to do music.

3 - Your music is bone - chillingly beautiful, creepy, haunting vocals against some chiming piano melodies... your piano work really stands out. When did you start playing piano? When did you decide to base black metal around your piano?

Piano is the very first instrument when I start to write the melodies, even Guitars and some other instruments are modeled with Piano.

4 - How do you write your songs?

To write music is for me a personal ritual, first I think in the art, a cover to describe the intention of the album, the story will be between the album, after I made the art, I’m going thinking in the lyrics, or what songs will be only instrumental but all under parts, then the magic starts, the music, every chapter of an story made in pictures, music, lyrics, voices and effects, the very first instrument is the keyboard, there I think in tempos, rhythms, fx and everything is flowing. Two albums were the result of a long study about the Tequendama waterfall and its story about suicides, this process takes some years.

5 - Tell us about your album...when and where was it recorded? Run us through the tracks... my favourites are Mourning Train and The White Crow...

My albums were made by myself, all recorded and produced by me in the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018 and 2019, and many other participations, except on Celestial Sepulchral where I had the participation of other musicians around the world. Paths of Sadness is a split album with Annorkoth, I made my part inspirated in suicide, so, as I told you, the first part was the paint of the art, and this album were based in tell some ways to suicide, in the case of Mourning Train was a departure telling in a poetic way to commit suicide in the train rail for me is one of my favorites songs, makes me so sad every time I play this song, I’ve recorded this in United States in a home studio. Celestial Sepulchral was a poem, White Crow is the 3Th song, the chapter when the soul sees the dawn of the sunset about to jump to the abyss of the waterfall and see his soul goes away.

6 - What are your plans for the future? Are you recording new material?

I have many plans, for the moment I’m learning about some programs to make better recordings, still not recording but the inspiration is here, at the moment I‘m doing participations in vocals with Lifeless and Zenith Maudlin.

7 - Which bands did you listen to growing up? Which do you listen to now?

I listen to everything, but I’ll always be a very big fan of Drowning the Light, Harvest, Nihasa, Strigoii, Elend, Lustre, Heteroir, and other more…

8 - What is your opinion of the Black Metal scene in Colombia? Recommend some bands...

I’m not familiar with the scene, and I don’t have anything to say about, only recommended Melancholiam.

9 - Do you have a message for our readers?

Sure, to all our readers I invite you to listen to Coldnight, a one woman band from Colombia, to all the people who like my art thanks for all the support. Thanks!!! Angela P. Coldnight