{"id":177,"date":"2020-09-26T06:25:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T04:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaosguards.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2020-09-26T06:43:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T04:43:54","slug":"axenstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaosguards.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"AXENSTAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>La Su\u00e8de n&rsquo;a plus grand chose \u00e0 prouver en mati\u00e8re de heavy m\u00e9tal classieux. AXENSTAR en est un de ses repr\u00e9sentants les plus pugnaces, mais pas cependant les plus connus en notre terre de France. Il \u00e9tait temps de les sortir de l&rsquo;ombre, ce \u00e0 quoi KAOSGUARDS s&#8217;emploie aujourd&rsquo;hui!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interview r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par mail avec Magnus (chant)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1- <strong>Merci d&rsquo;avoir organis\u00e9 cet entrevue pour nous!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merci d&rsquo;avoir la chance de parler aux fans fran\u00e7ais d&rsquo;Axenstar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2- <strong>Vous avez sorti sept albums et le groupe n&rsquo;a jamais tourn\u00e9 en France. Pensez-vous que le groupe ne nous est pas connu?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ouais bonne question, je ne sais pas pourquoi nous n&rsquo;avons pas tourn\u00e9 en France, ce serait s\u00fbrement super de faire cela un jour.<br>Mais j&rsquo;esp\u00e8re et je crois que le groupe est connu des fans de power metal fran\u00e7ais, et si vous n&rsquo;avez pas entendu parler de nous avant, c&rsquo;est le meilleur moment pour d&rsquo;y jeter un \u0153il!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3- <strong>Les Fran\u00e7ais ne le savent probablement pas, mais votre premier nom \u00e9tait POWERAGE. Pourquoi en avoir chang\u00e9?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eh bien, quand nous avons commenc\u00e9 le groupe, nous n&rsquo;avions pas la moindre id\u00e9e du nom de groupe que nous devrions choisir, donc notre premi\u00e8re id\u00e9e a \u00e9t\u00e9 d&rsquo;appeler le groupe Powerage, mais nous avons ensuite r\u00e9alis\u00e9 qu&rsquo;il y avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 plusieurs autres groupes appel\u00e9s ainsi. Nous devions donc trouver un nom plus original. Et apr\u00e8s beaucoup de discussions et de r\u00e9flexion, nous avons fini avec Axenstar qui \u00e9tait un nom compl\u00e8tement invent\u00e9 et dont nous pouvions \u00eatre \u00e0 peu pr\u00e8s s\u00fbrs qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;y avait pas d&rsquo;autre groupes avec nom similaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4-<strong> Ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, il faut en moyenne trois \u00e0 quatre ans pour sortir un album. Avez-vous de nombreuses activit\u00e9s qui interf\u00e8rent avec vos enregistrements?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Je suppose que plus vous vieillissez, plus il est difficile de trouver le temps de faire tout ce que vous voulez faire. Et avec la famille et le travail, vous devez prioriser votre temps, mais ceci dit, je pense que nous aurions pu<br>sortir nos albums avec deux ou trois ans d&rsquo;intervalle si nous avions \u00e9t\u00e9 plus efficaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5- <strong>Comment composez-vous? Vous rencontrez-vous souvent ou jouez-vous chacun dans votre coin seul et composez-vous ensuite?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nous essayons de nous rencontrer en r\u00e9p\u00e9tition \/ studio une fois par semaine pour r\u00e9p\u00e9ter ou composer, et c&rsquo;est souvent moi ou Jens qui inventons les riffs ou les m\u00e9lodies et parfois nous essayons de les placer en studio ou parfois<br>nous nous envoyons des mp3 pour pouvoir nous entra\u00eener \u00e0 la maison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6- <strong>Ce que j&rsquo;ai aime en \u00e9coutant votre album, c&rsquo;est cet esprit joyeux, un peu \u00e0 la Freedom Call. Vous sentez-vous proche de groupes comme cela?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour moi, je dirais que j&rsquo;aime beaucoup les groupes comme Freedom Call, la musique positive me r\u00e9conforte toujours. Et je pense que nous en avons captur\u00e9 une partie sur cet album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7- <strong>Avec le recul souhaiteriez-vous changer quelque chose maintenant que l&rsquo;album est finalis\u00e9? Si vous aviez encore le luxe de faire des changements.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">C&rsquo;est une question tr\u00e8s difficile, car nous avons fait la plupart des enregistrements nous-m\u00eames sur l&rsquo;album, nous avons eu beaucoup de temps pour essayer diff\u00e9rents sons et id\u00e9es pour les chansons, donc je suis assez confiant de ce que nous avons fait. On a tout donn\u00e9 pour que les chansons sonnent exactement comme nous le voulions. Bien s\u00fbr, il y aura toujours de petits d\u00e9tails auxquels on pensera par la suite et qu&rsquo;on aurait pu faire diff\u00e9remment, mais rien qui aurait chang\u00e9 le son fondamentalement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8- <strong>Parlez-nous du nom de l&rsquo;album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eh bien, une fois de plus, nous avons travaill\u00e9 avec Felipe Machado Franco pour le graphisme et lorsque la pochette a commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 prendre forme, nous avons pens\u00e9 que le titre \u00ab\u00a0End of all Hope\u00a0\u00bb conviendrait vraiment \u00e0 la pochette de l&rsquo;album.<br>C&rsquo;est toujours difficile, je pense, de trouver un titre d&rsquo;album, si vous choisissez le m\u00eame nom qu&rsquo;une piste de l&rsquo;album, vous \u00eates plus ou moins oblig\u00e9 de le jouer sur sc\u00e8ne et peut-\u00eatre que cette chanson n&rsquo;est pas si \u00ab\u00a0fun\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 jouer en live haha: -)<br>Donc j&rsquo;aime avoir un titre d&rsquo;album qui n&rsquo;est pas li\u00e9 \u00e0 une chanson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9- <strong>Je ne vous ai jamais vu en concert en France. Alors expliquez ce qu&rsquo;AXENSTAR d\u00e9gage en concert?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Je dirais en concert qu&rsquo;AXENSTAR propose un spectacle de tueur avec beaucoup d&rsquo;hymnes m\u00e9talliques d&rsquo;une grande \u00e9nergie!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10- <strong>Si vous deviez choisir un morceau qui symbolise votre musique?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Je pense que pour les fans qui sont avec nous depuis le d\u00e9but, \u00ab\u00a0Blind Leading the Blind\u00a0\u00bb serait la chanson qui, selon eux, repr\u00e9sente le meilleur groupe, mais si je peux choisir une piste du dernier album, je choisirais<br>\u00ab\u00a0Honor and Victory\u00a0\u00bb, un \u00e9norme refrain puissant avec de merveilleuses harmonies, c&rsquo;est un v\u00e9ritable hymne power metal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11-<strong> Vous avez commenc\u00e9 en 2001. Qu&rsquo;est-ce qui a fondamentalement chang\u00e9 dans le monde de la musique en 2020?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beaucoup de choses ont chang\u00e9 et pas beaucoup de choses en m\u00eame temps, l&rsquo;industrie de la musique est un endroit a compl\u00e8tement chang\u00e9 en ce qui concerne les maisons de disques et l&rsquo;\u00e9conomie, il y a moins d&rsquo;argent pour les budgets d&rsquo;enregistrement, etc. En raison du t\u00e9l\u00e9chargement et du streaming, c&rsquo;est donc un risque beaucoup plus grand pour un label de d\u00e9penser de l&rsquo;argent pour un groupe en raison du manque de revenus provenant des ventes de disques.<br>D&rsquo;un autre c\u00f4t\u00e9, en ce qui concerne les fans, c&rsquo;est plus ou moins la m\u00eame chose, que les fans de m\u00e9tal sont les fans les plus d\u00e9vou\u00e9s au monde et cela ne changera jamais je pense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12- <strong>Quels sont les projets 2021 d&rsquo;AXENSTAR?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Et bien comme il est difficile de se faire booker par les grands festivals et que les tourn\u00e9es sont vraiment ch\u00e8res pour un groupe comme nous, nous allons nous concentrer sur l&rsquo;\u00e9criture de nouveaux hymnes metal en attendant l&rsquo;offre parfaite des promoteurs (peut-\u00eatre de France). \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13- <strong>Et maintenant vos derniers mots aux metalheads de France.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si vous aimez le power metal m\u00e9lodique, vous devriez absolument jeter un \u0153il \u00e0 la derni\u00e8re version d&rsquo;AXENSTAR \u00ab\u00a0End of all Hope\u00a0\u00bb, et nous esp\u00e9rons vous voir bient\u00f4t dans un endroit pr\u00e8s de chez vous! Stay m\u00e9tal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>English version<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1- <strong>Thank you for having this event organized for us!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for the chance to talk to our French Axenstar fans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2- <strong>You have released seven albums and the band has never toured in France. Do you think the band is not known to us?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yeah good question, I don&rsquo;t know why we haven&rsquo;t toured France, I would sure be great to do that some day.<br>But I do hope and believe that the band is known to the power metal fans of France, and if you haven&rsquo;t heard of us before now is the best time to check us out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3- <strong>The French people probably don&rsquo;t know it, but your first name was POWERAGE. Why did you change your name?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well when we first started the band we didn&rsquo;t have a clue what bandname we should choose, so one inital thought was to call the band Powerage but then we realized that there were several other bands already called that<br>so we needed to come up with a more unique name. And after a lot of discussion and thought we ended up with Axenstar that was a completely made up name and we could be pretty sure that there wasn&rsquo;t any other band with the<br>same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4- <strong>In recent years you take an average of three to four years to release an album. Do you have many activities that interfere with your recordings?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess that the older you get the harder it is to find the time to do all the things you want to do. And with family and work you have to prioritize what to do with your time, but with that said I think we could have<br>managed to release the albums with two to three years apart instead if we had been more efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5-<strong> How do you compose? Do you meet often or do you play the parts each on your own and put it together afterwards?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We try to meet in the rehearsal\/studio once a week to either rehearse or compose, and it&rsquo;s often me or Jens that comes up with the riffs or melodies and sometimes we try to put it togehter in the studio or sometimes<br>we send mp3:s to eachother so we can practice at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6- <strong>What I liked after hearing the album once, was this joyful spirit, unlike the Feedom Call cds. Do you feel close to bands like that?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me I would say that I really like bands like Freedom Call, positive music always cheers me up. And I think that we have captured some of that on this album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7- <strong>Would you change anything now that the album is finalized? If you still had time on your hands to make any changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&rsquo;s a really hard question, as we did most of the recordings ourselves on the album we had a lot of time to try different sounds and ideas for the songs so I feel pretty confident that we have done everthing we could<br>to make the songs sound just like we wanted them to do. Of course there will always be small details that you think of afterwards that you could have done differently but nothing that would have changed the overall sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8- <strong>What about the name of the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well once again we worked together with Felipe Machado Franco for the artwork and as the cover started to take form we thought that the title \u00ab\u00a0End of all Hope\u00a0\u00bb would really fit the album cover.<br>It&rsquo;s always hard I think to come up with an album title, if you choose the same name as a track on the album you&rsquo;re more or less forced to play it live and maybe that song isn&rsquo;t that fun to play live haha \ud83d\ude42<br>So I like to have a album title that&rsquo;s not connected to a song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9-<strong> I have never seen you in concert in France. So explain what AXENSTAR gives off in concert?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would say that if you see us live you will get a killer show with lots of metal anthems and great energy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10- <strong>If you had to choose a track that symbolizes your music?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would think that for the fans that has been with us from the start \u00ab\u00a0Blind leading the blind\u00a0\u00bb would be the song that they would say represents the band the best, but if I can choose a track from the latest album I would choose<br>\u00ab\u00a0Honor and Victory\u00a0\u00bb, great powerful chorus with wonderful harmonies and it&rsquo;s a true power metal anthem in my book!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11- <strong>You started in 2001. What has fundamentally changed in the world of music in 2020?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of things have changed and a lot of things haven&rsquo;t I would say, the music industry is a completely changed place when it&rsquo;s comes to record labels and economy, there are less money when it comes to recording budgets and so on<br>due to the downloading and streaming, so it&rsquo;s a much bigger risk for a label to spend money on a band because of the lack of income from record sales.<br>On the other hand when it comes to fans it&rsquo;s the same more or less, that metal fans are the most devoted fans in the world and that will never change I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">12- <strong>What are the plans for 2020 for AXENSTAR?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well since it&rsquo;s hard to get booked by the big festivals and touring is really expensive for a band like us we will concentrate on writing new killer metal anthems while we wait on the perfect offer from promoters (maybe from France). \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">13- <strong>And now your final words to the metalheads in France.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you like melodic power metal you should definitely check out the latest AXENSTAR release \u00ab\u00a0End of all Hope\u00a0\u00bb, and we hope to see you soon in a venue near you! Stay Metal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Su\u00e8de n&rsquo;a plus grand chose \u00e0 prouver en mati\u00e8re de heavy m\u00e9tal classieux. AXENSTAR en est un de ses repr\u00e9sentants les plus pugnaces, mais pas cependant les plus connus en notre terre de France. Il \u00e9tait temps de les sortir de l&rsquo;ombre, ce \u00e0 quoi KAOSGUARDS s&#8217;emploie aujourd&rsquo;hui! 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