Blazemth. Interview with Ferran Moya

Interview by Andrew Stanton

Blazemth are a Black Metal band from Spain. Andrew Stanton talked to front man Ferran about their new album.

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

“Blazemth raised from the ashes of the Death Metal group formed in Barcelona in 1989 called Rotten Flesh. When this band broke up, me and one more member of Rotten Flesh we created the Blazemth in 1994. It lasted only for a short time, until 1997 before I reactivated the band in 2017.”

- What bands did you like growing up?

“When I was a kid I was discovering music with my father’s vinyl collection so I was listening to Status Quo, Kiss, The Bangles, Scorpions, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Nina Simone…”

- What does Blazemth mean?

“The word Blazemth consists of BLAZE - the bonfire and MTH - the symbols that Sumerians were putting on the graves. I made it so it doesn’t match any band name at that time because all of my old bands names already existed like Decomposed, Rotten Flesh, Undivine and Daemonium.”

- You formed in 1994, why has it taken so long for this debut?

“Well, in 1997, when the band aimed to be one of the important Black Metal groups in the scene, everything fell apart due to internal problems and I decided to get away from all extreme music. In 2017 Abstract Emotions decided to reissue the two EPs and that’s when I thought Blazemth might do something more so I started the band again. But until 2020 I wasn’t able to gather the right musicians to record the LP. That is why it took it so long for the first LP. Even two weeks after recording the drummer and the bassist decided to leave the band... Fortunately, shortly I managed to rebuild the band with the great drummer Ricky Mena (ex Avulsed, Warmed...) and the great bassist Franklin (ex Lacrimal...).”

- Sometimes your lyrics seem Satanic and other times you seem like a Viking Metal band? Do you just like to write about different things?

“If you are referring to the lyrics of the 2 EPs, almost all the lyrics were written by Lord Erlick with the Viking thematic. The lyrics of the new album, there are 4 songs from 1997 and another 4 from 2020, and are written mostly by me. I like to write more Luciferian lyrics. But yes, it’s true I like to write about many topics, especially Never ending story”

- Do you think your early fans will be surprised by The Return Of Lucifer?

“I think the fans are going to be happy to hear a LP of Blazemth that never came out in the ‘90s and that they were expecting so much. The long wait I think will be appreciated by them.”

- Why do we rarely hear of Spanish Black Metal bands? Why does Norway take all the credit?

“Well, somehow it’s normal because Black Metal originated in Norway and Sweden. But in spite of that I can tell you that in 1992 I was communicating via letters with Demonic 7 that then the group was doing Death Metal and was called Amputation. I even traded their demo with the Rotten Flesh’s demo “Morge of Souls”. I was also talking to John Nordveidt from Dissection and Varg Vikernes from Burzum and everybody was telling me that they were going to change to black metal. So basically, when we decided to change to black metal and created Blazemth from Rotten Flesh in 1993 at the same time the Immortal did it as well.”

- What Spanish bands do you recommend to our readers?

“I can recommend you some bands although I’m discovering interesting and good Spanish bands every day: Cauldron, Balmog, Foscor, Avulsed, Obscure, Necrofiliac, Unbounded terror, Golgotha etc.

- Do you have a message for our readers?

“Thank you very much and to everyone who reads this interview and who dedicates some time to listen to our music and above all, who likes our music, for us it is an honor!”