What Gothic are:
A multimedia “border project” expressing music, poetry and figurative arts
through modern technology. Please read our lyrics and see our
pictures/videos, because they are not only all at one with Gothic’s
music, but they are also as essential as the music itself.
A highly experimental dark ensemble seeking to express the different faces of the
“darkness inside the contemporary human being” by means of different musical
genres, vaguely defined as “darkwave-avantgarde heavy music”.
Strictly a studio-based project, because we believe that the purest expression of art
stays in the moment of composition and not in that of performance. We have
deliberately chosen isolation and loneliness, because it is only in solitude
that one can explore the darkness within.
An independent project comprised of 100% art, and without any commercial
compromise. We don’t care about the form (perfect and clean recording) of our
art, but only about its own substance (ideas and concepts), and we don’t care
about the media’s expectations of us. Our next release could be labelled as
“death rock,” “death metal” or “chamber music” and we, ourselves, cannot know
what we’ll be and then what we’ll do next month. To be unforeseeable is a
natural part of our way to be, no thrills!
An innovating project in perpetual motion: we consider continuity, musical rules
and trends, as concepts, very limiting to human creativity. We make our own
trends and musical rules. Although we are completely opposite to those bands
that endlessly and tediously repeat their style, and to any idea of “blind
coherence” (which is the real executioner of originality), that doesn’t mean we
want to repudiate our death-gloom metal past because we’ll be forever very
proud of it! Preserving the past and preparing for the future are one and the
same.
Vocals Keyboards Synthesizers and Poetries
Years inside Gothic:
September 1989 (founding member) - ...
Old and New Favourite Gothic’s song:
From Oblivion to Illusion (Fleeing the Rainland, 2000), Victim of Distress (Grim, 2004)
Gothic’s Album I feel most fond of:
Into the Gothic Gloom (1989-90)
My own favourite lyrics:
Victim of Distress, Forlorn, ... poiché la Morte é sulle colline..., Noir (all from Grim, 2004)
Most influencing songwriters and poets:
Tom G. Fischer (Apollyon Sun, Celtic Frost), Anna Varney (Sopor Aeternus &
The Ensemble of Shadows), Rozz Williams (Christian Death), Devin Townsend (The
Devin Townsend Band), Ogre-Key (Skinny Puppy) – Charles Baudelaire, Arthur
Rimbaud, Gianfranco Palmery, Wallace Stevens, Sergio Corazzini
Musical roots:
Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, Bathory, Bulldozer, Discharge, Possessed, Napalm Death,
Morbid Angel, Sore Throat, Indigesti
Favourite poetry:
Le Gout du Néant (Charles Baudelaire)
Favourite work of art:
Imminente Luna (Giovanni Delleani), almost every work by Burri-Vedova-Fontana
Favourite film or plays:
The dead class (Kantor), Blind destiny (Kieslowsky), Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Creativity or Technicality – Instinct or Reason:
Creativity (I’m not a performer, I’m a songwriter...) - Reason
My own colour:
Dark Red
Programming and Sound Engineering
Years inside Gothic:
beginning 2003 - ...
Old and New Favourite Gothic’s song:
Decadent (Fleeing the Rainland, 2000), Forlorn (Grim, 2004)
Gothic’s Album I feel most fond of:
Grim (2004)
My own favourite sound editing:
Forlorn’s 2nd bridge
Most influencing sounds:
Opeth, Hocico, Nordvargr, Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, In the Woods, M412
Musical roots:
Metallica, Iron Maiden, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost
Favourite poetry:
Ulisse (Umberto Saba)
Favourite work of art:
Der Schrei (E. Munch)
Favourite film or plays:
2001 – A Space Odissey
Creativity or Technicality – Instinct or Reason:
Creativity – Reason
My own colour:
Black
Years inside Gothic:
beginning 1997 - ...
Old and New Favourite Gothic’s song:
Sad Jester (Fleeing the Rainland), ...poiché la Morte é sulle colline... (Grim, 2004)
Gothic’s Album I feel most fond of:
Fleeing the Rainland (2000)
My own favourite pictures:
6th and 4th Scene of Forlorn Video, Fleeing the Rainland cover
Most influencing artists:
Pieter Brugel The Elder, Théodore Gericault, Giorgio De Chirico, Salvador Dalì, George De la Tour
Artistical roots:
De Chirico, Morandi, Carrà, Sironi, Marinetti
Favourite poetry:
Meriggiare pallido e assorto (Montale)
Favourite work of art:
Le Muse Inquietanti (De Chirico)
Favourite film or plays:
Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
Creativity or Technicality – Instinct or Reason:
Creativity - Instinct
My own colour:
Violet
Years inside Gothic:
end 1990 - half 1993; beginning 1995 - half 1995; end 2001 - ...
Old and New Favourite Gothic’s song:
Sacrilege Rites of Immolation (Whispers from the Grave, 1992), I give up (Grim, 2004)
Gothic’s Album I feel most fond of:
Whispers from the grave (1992)
My own favourite riff/solo:
Barren Moors’ solo (Grim, 2004)
Most influencing guitar players:
Yngwie Malmsteen, Kirk Hammet (Metallica), Steve Howe (Yes), Adrian Belew (King Crimson),
Dominic Miller
Musical roots:
Metallica, Megadeth, Exodus, Suicidal Tendencies, Ugly Kid Joe
Favourite poetry:
Hymnen an die Nacht (Novalis)
Favourite work of art:
La befana dei poveri (Lorenzo Viani)
Favourite film or plays:
Amadeus
Creativity or Technicality – Instinct or Reason:
Creativity – Both
My own colour:
Blue
