Iranian symphonic black metal band Hallucinous Fate has just released a seven-track debut album. We caught up with the band and found out a bit more about them.
Tell me about Hallucinous Fate when did you start and who are the band members?
In an autumn night of 2010 when I (Amir.h-the guitarist) and Omid.a (vocalist, lyricist) were sitting and improvising, we came up with a riff and decided to use it in a demo kind black song. We took the riff and extended it and it became a really good song (we guess so: D). The song is now called Vain and right and you call listen to it in our album.
After that we came up with so many ideas, so we decided to establish a black metal band. After composing three songs we realised that we really liked having keyboards in our pieces so Parham.p was added to the line-up as the keyboardist (all of the art works are also done by him).
After we finished seven songs we decided to record them and present them under the name of Hallucinous Fate.
Farid.h then joined us as the studio manager and later became our bassist too. This is how the story of our first album Dark Mind’s Hallucinations went.
Your music is symphonic Death/Black Metal, who are your musical influences?
We have different influences individually but totally we love Immortal, Dimmu Borgir, Agathodaimon, Tvangeste, Scars of Chaos and some other bands of black metal.
Describe your music to me
Well, our music is basically a reflection of our taste, it’s not a raw or true kind of black metal, when you listen you hear lots of harmonic riffs and scales and has obvious elements of our traditional music. You can also hear symphonic and choral parts throughout the songs, which shows how classical music has affected us. Also we have melancholic parts and intros as well and surprisingly you can hear some progressive elements in our music such as 5/4 or 7/8 bars and of course in our arrangements. And we have an instrumental song too.
It must be hard being a band in Iran, how do you deal with the restrictions placed on music by your government?
We should say there are lots of obstacles in our way to be a successful and well-known band in our country. You know there are no opportunities to have legal gigs, selling CDs in public markets and you can never find sponsors for your albums so these are for sure reasons to lower the quality of what we do. And all of these problems which we just mentioned, some of them are caused because metal music is considered a banned thing by officials.
If you could have a music festival in Iran, which fellow Iranian bands would you like to see in the line-up?
We have great friends participating in most of the bands and we like what they do, so if there would be any festivals here it’s our pleasure to meet every single one of them there.
Do you have any gigs coming up outside/inside Iran?
No unfortunately there are none
Tell me a bit about the new album, what is it about and where can people listen to it?
The new album entitled Dark Mind’s Hallucinations is a 7-song album (one intro, five songs, one outro).
The atmosphere and description of the album is well defined in the answer three, but I should add this point that this is a different album from the typical styles in this genre so I hope people won’t pass it by. They should listen and maybe they can find what they like there.
They can listen to our album in our official Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/HallucinousFate (band profile section)
Or check the songs out at the bottom of this page.
What are your hopes for the band?
Firstly we hope Hallucinous Fate can get a proper label for this album and can find gigs in our country and our close neighbors like UAE, Armenia ,Turkey … And make the next albums better than this one in different aspects, in another country hopefully. And finally get a major label and become a Well-known band all over the world.
How has growing up/living in Iran affected and influenced your music?
We are from a generation in our country that was exposed to metal music in younger ages like 14-15 and soon we were interested in it and attracted to it like a pin to a magnet, living with it for about 10 or 12 years made us different from others and we are now metal heads trying to improve this wave by feeding it with our own music.
Tell me one thing about each of the band members that your mum does not know!
)) this is a pretty odd question. Let’s not talk about it because then our moms will know about it after this interview is published.
Thanks for your time and support for our band and surely the Iranian metal music.
Hallucinous Fate
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