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Wormlight. Interview with Tiamat Invictuz
Interview by Jay Parker
Hi, this is Jay reporting from the chilly and grey mountains of Bogota, Colombia. Today i’ve been lucky enough to talk to Tiamat Invictuz of Wormlight from Sweden, masters of melodic BM... They recently released their new album, Nightmother, a fantastic slab of Scandinavian sorcery...
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1 - Tell us about Wormlight? When and where was the band formed? Who’s in the band?
The band hails from Umeå and was formed under the name Unhallowed in 2014 and released the Ep under that moniker until the name change in 2015 along with the release of the second Ep Bloodfields. Current ly Wormlight is made up of Tiamat Invictuz on guitar and vocals, King on drums and Arktos on bass.
2 - What inspired you to form the band?
The band was form out of a shared interest in music and as a platform for creative expressions.
3 - What are the bands musical influences?
I try not to listen to other bands too much while I’m working on new albums to minimize the influence. But naturally the music I create will be in the same vain as my overall music preference. While mastering the growl/screaming kind of vocals in my youth I would say Jon Nödtveidt and Nergal’s styles of vocals that inspired me. Musically its probably a fusion of Norwegian black metal, Swedish melodic black metal and the polish blackened death metal.
4 - Run us through your records, from start to finish. Where was the last album recorded? Who wrote the tracks? Tell us about the new album...
Wormlight has released two Ep’s, An Ancient Enemy [2014], Bloodfields [2015/2016] and two full length albums, Wrath Of The Wilds [2018] and the latest album Nightmother [2021]. I joined the band in late 2014 and has since been the primary writer of both music and lyrics, and nightmother is no different. The drums and guitar album was recorded in a local studio, while the vocals, solos, bass and additional recordings was recorded at Wormlight HQ. Finally mixed and mastered by Ronnie Björström of Enhanced audio production (E.A.P).
5 - What are your palns for the future? Are you playing live/recording at the moment?
Due to the pandemic we have, after the release of Nightmother and in absence of live shows, begun the work on a new album. But when the venus opens we’ll look for some live gigs and a break from the writing.
6 - Tell us about your best and worst experience as a band...
I would say its mostly ordinary things that tends to happen for bands on the road. Things go missing, people don’t show up and stuff break in the last moment.
7 - You obviously come from a scene with a rich and defining history... do you listen to bands outside sweden? What are your favourite bands at the moment?
I listen to bands from all over the world. I tend to listen to a few bands at a time and go all in on them and deep dive into their discography.
8 - Your music has got some lovely guitar melodies and very complex rhythm structures... tell us about your experience as musicians... when and why did you start playing your instruments? Have you / do you play in any other projects?
I started out as a vocalist in a local metalband probably 13 years ago. I founded Sons Ov Omega in 2012 togheter with Arktos where i played bass but the switched to guitar. 2014 i joind then Unhallowed and has been active in both projects since.
9 - What is your all time favourite album (not necessarily BM) and why?
I would have to say Dissection’s Storms Of The Light’s Bane. It was one of the albums that got me into black metal.
10 - What was the first album you bought as a kid?
I dont know to be honest. Obviously nothing worth remembering.
11 - How do you think BM will evolve in the next 10 years?
Time will tell. Art is ever shiftung and impossible to predict.
