Outstanding Greek Melodic Death Metal band, Aetherian talks about its career, latest album, and the Greek Metal Scene

Aetherian, a name of the well-known Greek Metal bands currently, formed in 2013, the band managed to introduce its fresh, and unique sound through its "Tales of our Times", and "The Untamed Wilderness". 

Also, its "Rain" official video has reached 2 Million views on Youtube, so, I took the chance and contacted the band for an interview chance, and I was amazed that they accepted the invitation for an interview. 

Interviewed by: Rana Atef 
Originally published on 15/7/2018 at 8:58 am

Firstly, thank you guys for giving me a chance to interview such a near future legends, So, let's start from the beginning, 2013, Forming a Melodic Death group, in such a great, fruitful scene, Why did you choose Melodic Death Metal group?

It is simply the best way for us to express ourselves and feelings. We really enjoy this style, and there are some bands who make you feel a lot of emotions while listening to their music. Also it’s a very versatile sub-genre in which you can experiment with many ways like adding dynamics, clean passages or different music instruments, creating a big variety of sounds. Thus, its limits are beyond anyone’s imagination.

Do you have a certain theme or concept in your compositions? Not a specific but usually lyrics describe the emotions and the views of Panos about things happening in the external world and our internal world.

So, "Tales of our Times" is a really successful step, and the album a respected positive feedback, What are the themes of this album?

The album talks about the dark emotions we feel when facing hard situations in life, and whilst observing the world, there isalso a warning sign for humanity which isthat it will eventually reach annihilation when walking towards that path. 

 "Rain" with 2 million views on Youtube, How did you receive the news of breaking the 2 Million views record, did you expect this?

No, we did not expect and it came as a huge surprise to us as well. It was great watching our effort taking much and great feedback and gaining fans from every corner of the world.

Last month, you have shared the stage with 2 of the successful Greek Metal bands such as Karma Violens , and Mortal Torment, How do you see the Greek Metal scene nowadays?

Greek metal scene is growing stronger and there are many bands that work hard following their dreams despite the financial difficulties, so dig into the underground and you shall find quality music and talented musicians!

Your "The Untamed Wilderness" was selected as top 10 best Melodeath/Extreme power/Gothenburg metal albums by Metal Storm website, how was the process of writing this album, and what were your main influences?

The music of the album came from some raw recorded ideas of Angelos. We then worked all together to find the final structure of each song and adding details to every instrument. Our main influences are Swedish and Finnish melodeathadding some elements from Black metal and Greek traditional music.

After the beautiful success you achieved, what are your hopes, what are your dreams?

Our hopes are to continue to write music and enjoy all the process, play gigs and constantly gain new fans. Our dream is to tour the world and play at as many different places as we can. 

As I am an Egyptian, African, Middle Eastern reviewer, Are you in contact with African/Middle Eastern bands?

No, there hasn’t been any type of contact at all yet! However, we would definitely like to meet them, as we also would from any country and region of the world!

If you are invited to perform in the Middle East, will you accept? And If any Middle Eastern band invit you as a guest, will you accept?

Why not? But at first we plan to begin from Europe!

Are there a certain bands you want to share the stage with?

The answer could be every big band we like, but to be more specific, we would enjoy for sure sharing the stage with Insomnium, Be lakor or Wintersun.

Thank you guys for this interview again, so, Would you like to send a message to your supporters in the Middle East?

Keep the metal alive to your region and follow your dreams! 

 You are welcome, and we thank you also very much for this interview.