01. TELL US THE HISTORY OF ELYSIUM?

Elysium was born as a one man project in 2010. I decided to gather together a lot of old songs and ideas that I had written throughout 2 or 3 years before, when I started to play guitar.

02. HOW DO YOU DEFINE ELYSIUM MUSIC?

I like to call it “Mythological” Black Metal because of the lyrical themes involved in many of the songs, which are inspired by the tales of ALL the ancient cultures around the world.
Musically Elysium is influenced by the sound of bands such as: Peste noire, Satanic Warmaster, Horna, In Aeternum, Naglfar, Dissection, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Angantyr, Burzum, old Satyricon, etc.

03. WHAT´S BLACK METAL FOR YOU?

For me it’s a metaphor of the dark, ancient and true essence of all human beings, which lies in the depths of ourselves waiting to be released from the shackles of Christianity and all those kind of weak and perverted religions.

04. COMMENT ABOUT YOUR LYRICS?

As I said before, most of the lyrics deal with mythological tales but there’s also a few of them based on much more abstract and philosophical matters such as Death and existential angst, which is an important topic on the first album, and Anti – Christianism, as well as some occultist subjects scattered in a few songs.

05. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVE BANDS?

Well I listen very often to bands like Watain, Inquisition, Peste noire, Satanic Warmaster, Venom, Gorgoroth, Funeral mist, Marduk, Katharsis, Darkthrone, Mercyful fate, Tormentor, Horna, Mayhem, Burzum, Judas Iscariot, Candlemass, Sarcófago, Emperor, old Sepultura, old Satyricon, Deiphago, Seelenmord, Knife of Melqart, Angantyr, Dissection, and so many more… 

06. WHAT MERCHANDISE DO YOU STILL HAVE AVAILABLE?

There are still available a lot of copies from the first album “Under the fading rays of the dying sun” which was released independently.

07. WHAT IS YOUR IDEOLOGY?

I don´t really understand what you mean by that but I’ll answer that question by saying that the main goal I try to achieve with my music is to liberate the true essential being hidden within us whether it is by Satanism or the connection which exists between us and our ancestors and their legacy.

08. HOW ARE YOUR NEW SONGS?

Right now I’m composing a lot of new songs and re – arranging a lot of old songs which didn’t make it to the first album and I can say that they have different rhythmic changes, acoustic passages and different tempos, although there are still some similarities with the ones on “Under the fading rays of the dying sun”.


09. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE ELYSIUM?

I’m planning to record a second album very soon, right now I’m working on the new songs and lyrics and its going perfect so I suppose you’ll be able to listen to it next year or maybe sooner.

10. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT. ANY LAST COMMENTS?

HAIL THE ANCIENT WISDOM!!!