Could you present your band for someone who has never heard of you before?Seth.ECT was founded in a culture that’s a mixture of “east” and “west”. We decided to mirror this type of culture to our music with extreme emotions and technology. We are currently four people: Aybars/Vox, Mert/Bass, Murat/Guitars, Izmael/Guitars.
Your style of music is very specific. How would you describe it and which musicians or bands are your main influences?
Yeah, that was our main goal (creating a specific and unique type of music). We can describe our music as a mixture of industrial, metal and folk. We usually erase the riffs that resemble other bands’ work. While making songs, we try to make them as original as possible. We spend lots of time on experimenting… But as for the personal favourites, I can give names like Immortal (Norway), The Prodigy (UK), Gojira (France), Massive Attack (UK), Anal Nosorog (RU), Slayer…
And what about your name? Why did you choose it and does it have any deeper meaning?
Seth.ECT is composed of two parts, namely Seth (God of desert, storms and foreigners from Egyptian myth) and ECT (abbreviation for Experimental Chaos Theory). We have chosen “Seth.ECT” because it is a combination of eastern and western culture, philosophy, science and mysticism.
Your newest album will be released on 4th April 2011 online and for free. What were the reasons to make it this way?
We got like 5-6 offers from some mid-level-EU record companies (I can’t tell their name) to sign a contract, but we decided to deliver the album for free. Why free? Because we wanted to deliver a message to people that everything’s not about money. Actually we are sick of this buy-sell system. While making music, or working on any kind of art, artist wants to deliver some emotions/messages. Godspeak’s message is something like “We are giving two years work for free, just to weaken the loop we all have to live within. Just complaining about facts of life that we dislike won’t fix them. So we took some action against them...”
When it comes to creating the album, who works on what?
We four people share the work. Seth.ECT members are multidisciplinary musicians. For example Murat writes some guitar riff for “Hollow Earth”, he also writes some electronic stuff for “ECT”. But to be more precise, I can say that Aybars recorded the vocals and composed some industria
l and guitar parts, Mert recorded the bass and some guitar partitions and he composed some industrial stuff, Izmael recorded some guitar and recorded, mixed and mastered the album, Murat composed some industrial parts and guitar partitions. Now don’t be shy or too modest – make a short teaser for your newest album.
Godspeak will contain 11 songs. Last one is an outro. It will be approximately 45 minutes. You will experience a broad spectrum of emotions (if you feel the same way as we do). We tried to be as free as we could while making the album. So, at first glance people may find the album “confusing”, but when getting familiar with the songs, I guess they will start to experience the real emotions beneath the music. You will judge it better.
Don’t you plan a tour to promote Godspeak?
We will play on ITU Rock Fest (Istanbul) on April 28th as headliner. It will be the album premiere. Touring is not an easy thing in our current country. It costs too much and does not cover itself. We got an offer from Russia, we are thinking about the context. If we receive some tour or show offer after album’s release we definitely will do that.
What bands do you dream on playing on a festival or tour with?
Slayer, The Prodigy, Immortal
You played in MHM festival in Ukraine, quite a big venue in 2009. What I was wondering is how did you manage to get there with only one demo released?
Sergei, the festival manager, invited us. Bands at MHM at 2009 were not tremendously “famous”. But the festival and people were awesome.
Looking at your live videos from there, what is very eye catching is your image. What was it inspired by?
Our image is constantly changing. At every show we are working on some different style. For example, at Ukraine, we wanted to be like the promo pics, on the other hand, while touring with Quo Vadis, we were more “naturally” dressed. Our image was inspired by Egyptian mythology at first. We were wearing masks just because we are more comfortable with that. Wearing masks is something common with Slip Knot and Daft Punk. But I can’t say that we are directly inspired by this or that. Again, it’s a mixture of east and west.
How important for you as a band is the visual side of your creations?
Our visual side is created by Aybars (Vox). Aybars got a graphical design diploma. So we
just let him do the design. Visual side of Seth.ECT matters to us. At stage people “look” at you. So they are not just listening to you.For your promo shooting you chose Mehmet Turgut, who is a legend among the photographers. How was the cooperation with him?
He was Aybars’s friend. We just phoned him whether he was available for a shooting session or not. He accepted us and we spent a full day at his studio. At the end of the day we got the digital copies of the photos and Aybars worked on the colours. Mehmet Turgut is an easy going and relaxed guy. So, working with him was fun.
Turkey isn’t really taken as a metal country. How difficult is it for band to get noticed there and attract people to go see their concerts?
Yes. When it comes to metal music Turkey sucks. Getting noticed is not a hard thing but people never come to see the local bands. There are really qualified local bands like Cenotaph, Self Torture, Decimation… But people won’t pay 5 – 8 dollars for a show. Instead, Turkish audience always admire foreigner bands. When under-mediocre foreigner bands come to play at a show, people fill up the venues. But those people do not show up for the better local bands. And I am very objectively observing this situation.
What are the band’s plans for the following year?
We have already started to make the second album. 2 – 3 songs finished already. I guess we will try to finish the second album and try to fix some tour.
Our website’s name is Spirit of Metal, so the question I want to ask is what does spirit of metal mean to you?
Spirit of metal means “rebellion and justice” to me.
Any last words for our readers?
We are just some people trying to make music. We don’t want to be rich, we don’t want to be masters, and we don’t want to build shiny careers… But we don’t want to be slaves either. We observe that today’s world is rapidly decaying to its death. Ideas like justice, equality, sharing and compassion are long forgotten. Instead, people are dominated by fear, jealousy and hate. I don’t know, people living in richer countries may not feel the situation in their bones, but that’s what we observe. Being free of charge, Godspeak is a “little” action to start our intentions become real. We will make music, as long as we can, to keep ourselves and others feel being “alive”. Time will bring the consequences.
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Interview done by Nastasia
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