Interview Nidingr

Peu de monde connait son pseudo et encore moins sa tronche. Et pourtant le guitariste Teloch traine ses guêtres dans la scène black norvégienne depuis tellement longtemps qu'il l'a même connue quand elle exhalait encore des gaz putrides de son cadavre tuméfié. Et en parlant de putride, Wolf-Father fait pile poil partie de ces albums qu'on aime détester ou qu'on déteste adorer. Nidingr nous a encore balancé un bidule inclassable et bourré de testostérones qui méritait bien que VS aille déranger Teloch dans son repaire, pour tenter de le faire causer un peu. Mais alors juste un peu... C'est en ligne sur .

Nidingr interview (january 2011)
English version below

Prince de Lu: There was a long period of time between "Sorrow Infinite..." and this new release. Were you too busy with all your musical projects? Or simply, did you need time to create songs?
Teloch (guitar/mastermind): Guilty on all of the above. Things just turned out the way they did, we lost our drummer at one point, I was out touring with Gorgoroth, then quit Gorgoroth, went out with 1349, was sacked from 1349 began in Gorgoroth again, then a littlebit with God Seed. We could have produced things sooner if we had a drummer I guess. Since we didnt do shows or anything anymore, there was no hurry for us releasing a new album or make new songs.

How Hellhammer has joined the band? Does Umoral still active?
Hellhammer is now the live drummer, but he also said he wanted to do the next studio album. But if he has joined the band I am not so sure about, we havent talked about it really. Our doors are open to him any day, he knows that.
Umoral is not very active at the moment, I have a album ready to record and Sweizz have the lyrics ready. But we havent really found the time for it yet. Hellhammer got his things going on and so do Sweizz and me. We will try to do something about it in 2011 :)

You told that one of your goals is to play live shows. How will you handle the busy schedule of Hellhammer? What are the plans for 2011?
We have played shows in the past with Nidingr, what I meant was get a new live line-up ready and play some shows. I am sure we can work around Hellhammers busy schedule, because we are not gonna do shitloads of gigs with Nidingr, just some chosen few. No gigs booked in France so far!

Your first release contains few "outer interventions"; I think about the piano melody of "Child of Silence" and that kind of things. This new release seems more "straight in the face", only the band playing rough with energy, like a dog attacking straight to the balls. Is that the feeling you want to spread?
Actually you are cock on, that was the whole intention behind the songs, make it more simple, but still agressive, and also make it more organic in a way.

To me, the voice of Cpt. Estrella is agressive like a punk dying of a throat cancer. I adore it. But many don't like that way of singing the blues. Why did that voice seduce you when you have recruited Estrella?
Back in the days, Estrella and me used to rehearse at the same rehearsal house. I was in this death/thrash metal band and his hardcore band (Kort Prosess) were rearshing in the room next to us.I have always liked his voice, but hated his personallity, but you cant have one without the other from that guy, so I had to make peace with myself and just get him in the band.

Your relationship with Blargh seems highly unstable. The members of Nidingr are real pals or only partners for a musical project?
Damn right, Blargh & Estrella are my brothers, we are all unstable souls. Fucked up retarded imbacills.

Norwegian guys like to walk in mountain, go to fish or to live a week-end in a "hytte" with no water, no electricity and snow everywhere outside. Don't you?
Yeah man, its nothing like it. But then again I also enjoy a fucking hotelroom with a bathtub just as much.

The sound of "Wolf-Father" is more powerful. For the second time, you chose a "clean" production, with sharpened guitars. Is that the way you want to hear metal? Sometimes in studio, bands ask for "the sound of guitar from that album, the sound of drumkit of this drummer". Are there releases which have influenced your choices of production?
There are never any ideas behind the sound of Nidingr, things turns out the way it does. Its not like we have any talent for getting the sound we want out of anything. I remember we wanted to have that nice sound that Autopsy had on their albums for our sorrow infinite and darkness album, that didnt turn out very successfull now did it? So there is no point for us trying to be professional and choose what kind of sound we want before or under the recordings of a album.

You told that the mixing of this release has created many chaotic situations. Finally, all this tension is the way Nidingr can do things, don't you think?
Maybe, but at the same time we are not alone in the metal indrustry to have it like that. There is not so much tension when the shit is getting made/recorded, maybe a little bit when its getting mixed.

Nidingr is very hard to define musically. You talk about "metal" and I do agree. Are there things you don't want to play? Can we expect any heavy metal part talking about dragons in your next release?
Actually there might already be some heavy metal riffing going on in the sorrow infinte and darkness album. There will be shitloads of dragons and dudes in shining armour on the next album. I think we will call it Dungeons and dragons, or how to fuck your ugly milf in a basement.

How have you learned to play guitar? Have you played riffs of metal bands alone in your bedroom or have you quickly searched for a band after knowing how to tune your instrument?
I was doing the Metallica school of guitars at home, staying home from school. But we started up somekind of «band» pretty early in my «guitar carrear» I guess, started straight of with speed metal and thrash. Good times.

You told that you did "the whole school of metal". Please, pick an option and add few words:
American thrash metal or German thrash metal? German for sure!
Swedish death metal or American death metal? Swedish!
English doom metal or Swedish melodic metal? England!
Scandinavian black metal or South american black metal? None!
Slavonic black metal or french black metal? I have no idea, have not heard much of either countries....

By the way, do you know french metal bands?
Not really! I never check out new bands, its fucking rare. Edith Piaff?

For "Wolf-Father", you told that you have created four songs and Blargh two. I guess you're working the songs separately and so one guy is proposing a whole song to the other guy? Have you something like a "veto" about the riffs of the songs? Are there thrown-away riffs?
Yeah, we havent been very good at working togheter in the past. We are hoping to change that soon. Of course riffs get thrown away, all the time. Sometimes my ears turns mongoloid and Blargh has to tell me that «that note doesnt fit anywhere» or whatever.

Have you really written the songs for the next two albums? Can we expect for your next release within five years?
No, what i said, was that we probably have songs made for 2 more albums. But I dont think we are going to use any of them. The plan now is to make songs together with Blargh, clean sheets etc etc. The next release should come faster this time, as soon as we get the band up and running live, we will start making songs for the new album :)

What about your other projects? Gorgoroth, Ov Hell, aso...
The things I got going on now is NunFuckRitual with Dan Lilker from Nuclear Assault, the album is recorded but we have to find a record label to release it. And I have done most of the guitars on the debut album from The Konsortium (Norway).

You're involved in many bands, at different levels. What has seduced you in these projects? Are you searching for something when you play guitar (energy, drugs, shemales, a ticket to paradise, or whatever)? What do you feel playing the guitar that you can't feel collecting stamps?
Not sure, normally its just a feeling I get about a band, that makes me want to be a part of it. Collector of bands, maybe thats me :)

How do you consider internet? A useful tool or a stupid place? Are you familiar with social networks?
I use Internet alot, maybe too damn much actually. I am on fucking myspace and facebook, last.fm, youtube, reverbnation. But I use it mostly as a promotion tool. I dont sit there for hours upon hours chatting to people about useless shit.