Hello everyone, I am Megaira´s guitarrist Paulo Melo.
I am Megaira´s guttural vocalist Paulo Schmidt.
Today we'll talk about our first album "Power, Lies And Death"
that we are debuting in our career
and we´ll talk a little bit about the concept of our lyrics that was inspired on Greek Mythology.
Greek mythology has always been a topic that I liked because involves
battles, gods, romance, and little bit of everything. So we started in this way.
Our influences are a bit of everything, we like traditional heavy, death and thrash metal...
Initially the idea of the band was to form a thrash metal band, influenced by German bands,
American bands, even Brazilian bands, like Sepultura
and gradually when Paulo presented the idea to insert Greek Mythology as a theme
I start to insert more melodic elements to our music like
traditional bands of English heavy metal, for exemple Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath.
Our first compositions appears inicialy only
instrumental with guitar riffs that was form and join these ideas to our songs
and after that Paulo start to compose our lyrics with Greek Mythology theme
When Paulo had the idea of this theme he suggested Erinyes as the band´s name
but I didn´t like the phonetics of the name
He explained to me that there were which is 3 entities and one of them is called Megaira
who screams the person's sins when she arrives in the underworld
I thought that is interesting things like she scream the sins
the name Megaira itself has interesting and strong phonetics
An interesting detail for listeners to take into consideration is that Greek Mythology
is not just the theme of this album, but it is the theme of all our songs
including the name of our band.
As Paulo told Megaira, one of the characters in Greek Mythology,
she acts in the underworld and even the gods fear the acts of the 3 Erinyes
They have the power to punish even the gods
Exactly! So I guess thinking about this idea of Megaira's punisher voice
we introduced her as the band's name
and Greek Mythology is not only influential in our band but influential throughout Western culture.
então é o que valeu mais ainda para utilizarmos em nossas composições.
the album "Power, Lies and Death" is conceptual and tells the of Minos, King of Crete
He was son of Zeus and Europe and killed his 2 brothers to take the power.
He hired Daedalus, the architect of Athens, to build the labyrinth to keep the Minotaur and preserve the island
Theseus, that was Athens´s hero, promised to kill the Minotaur
but he would only succeed with the force of love, so Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, helped him
He promised to marry her but Theseus left her on a island
Aphrodite promises to her that she would find an immortal love, which would be the Baccmetal minor scalehus
and after her death he create the constellation of Corona Borealis
a diamond crown he had given her.
Minos was furious with Daedalus and promises to arrest him and his son Icarus in the labyrinth
but they use wax and bird feathers to make wings and escape the island
Minos goes after him on Sicily island, where Minos ends up dying at the hands of the daughter of the king of Sicily
and goes to Tartarus to judge the dead together with his 2 brothers.
This is basically the conceptual hi of the album.
About the instrumental part of the songs it did´nt appears in the same order of they are presented in the album.
One of the first songs that was approached with Greek mythology theme
was the last song of the album, Erinyes.
It's a song that I based on a metal minor mode,
thrash metal, and gradually I was including elements of death metal, blast beats, etc.
that was the first composition of the album.
After that we composed Power and Cruelty, I think it was the second song.
Then it was Ariadne's Thread, which already has traditional heavy style.
after that the song Fall of Minotaur,that tells when Theseus kills the Minotaur,
Paulo gave me a tip, because i always made too long musics with many Riffs
He instructed me to do a shorter song and that was how this song born
I basically did 2 or 3 riffs for this song and it came out a few minutes before a rehearsal
It is a song, that I explained to him, that Theseus is entering a place
and he is smelling of death, terrified, he has to go in there
and hit the minotaur and kill him, so it must be a heavy song and quick,
then i told him
Let's shorten things, ideas were very progressive.
Yeah, we need a heavy and quick song like a slap in the ear and that's how the Fall Of Minotaur was born.
Dedalus and Icaru's Escape was a song that I relied
on the concept of the classic thrash metal of Slayer, Sepultura, those heavy riffs
slow pace, like 80's/ 90's style
after that came Corona Borealis, which i think is one of my favorite songs on this album
because I was able to mix all my influences within a single song
it has thrash metal, death metal, power metal, melodic elements in music,
I could work with greek modes on it, that is common in our songs
since the theme is Greek mythology also leads to the structural music parts
with elements of Greek culture.
In End of a Reign (Begin the Judgment) this song basically had a riff
in introduction that uses phygian mode
and locrian mode that we used element of tension, minor second, diminished fifth
Then they are elements that generate this tension until the main riff begins
and it is alread in a minor scale, very simple in E, nothing new
but it was a song somewhat difficult to work
It was the last song we composed on this album, that had an idea
we had made in rehearsals and when it came to the studio, the producer
that was working with us at the time, Luiz Portinari, directed us to make some
changes in the part of the refrain, in the part of the bridge
and that turned it to a song very interesting for us
an experience we had never worked with until then, with groove riffs
with a slow tempo drumming, and more cantabile refrain
not like an traditional thrash as it is made in most of our compositions
Erinyes it has nothing to do with the context of the hi of the album itself, it is a song apart
She tells the of the 3 Erinyes, also known as Furies
and one of them is Megaira, who names the band. They were deities who punished people
who committed crimes during their lifetime and they continued to punish until after death
Megaira is one that shouts at the individual's ear forever until he loses his sanity.
She has nothing to do with the next album, as it has nothing to do
with the context of Minos and Crete and the whole story
In fact she acts as if it were an anthem of the band.
Well folks this was a bit of our album Power, Lies and Death.
We Hope you like it. It is for sale on our official site MegairaOfficial.com
we deliver to the whole world and is also on sale in Galeria do Rock at São Paulo (Brazil).
Also like our Facebook page, follow our YouTube channel, you can find us with @MegairaOfficial
comment on our pages and channel, we ancious to share information with you
and know what you think of our work, and sure we wait for your at our concerts!
Until there!
For more infomation >> Mercedes-Benz S-Klasse 600 Lang S600 PANO WEBASTO FULL!!!!!! DEALER ONDERHOUDEN - Duration: 0:55. 
For more infomation >> Q2 5:30 p.m. Top Stories with Jay and Jeanelle, Tuesday 4-24-18 - Duration: 8:12. 
For more infomation >> Toyota Aygo 1.0-12V + Airco - Duration: 0:46. 
For more infomation >> 한발 쏠때마다 벤츠 S클래스가 사라진다는 국산미사일 - 군사 기밀. - Duration: 2:50. 
For more infomation >> Libra Amor Mayo 2018 (legendado em português) - Duration: 24:06. 
For more infomation >> Bretagne: Bombardée au napalm pendant la Seconde Guerre, Cézembre dévoile enfin - Duration: 4:11. 
For more infomation >> L'ancien sélectionneur des Bleus Henri Michel est décédé à l'âge de 70 ans - Duration: 2:06. 
For more infomation >> La famille d'Avicii brise le silence : "Nous aimerions vous remercier" - Duration: 3:00. 
For more infomation >> «Un seigneur», «un grand», «un homme juste», le monde du foot rend hommage à Henri Michel - Duration: 1:12. 
For more infomation >> Demain nous appartient (TF1) : le résumé de l'épisode 202 du mercredi 25 avril |Nouvelles générales - Duration: 4:33. 
For more infomation >> La Réunion: La tempête tropicale Fakir fait deux morts dans une coulée de boue - Duration: 1:46. 
For more infomation >> [Car Passion 2018] Chặng 1: Hà Nội - Sapa | XSX - Duration: 12:02. 
For more infomation >> ¿Cómo reducir los ojos hinchados de forma natural? - Duration: 8:21. 
For more infomation >> 10 indices révélateurs que votre femme vous trompe - Duration: 9:44. 
For more infomation >> President Trump: If I Were Embattled VA Nominee Ronny Jackson, I'd Withdraw | NBC Nightly News - Duration: 2:28. 
For more infomation >> Kia cee'd Sportswagon 1.6 GDI SUPER PACK | NAVI | CAMERA | LM VELGEN | TREKHAAK - Duration: 1:12. 
For more infomation >> Renforcez vos os avec du calcium d'origine végétale ! - Duration: 4:21. 
For more infomation >> Kia Sportage 1.6 T-GDI 177pk GT-Line First Edition - Duration: 1:14. 
For more infomation >> 11 signes que votre partenaire vous trompe avec quelqu'un - Duration: 9:45. 
No comments:
Post a Comment