ENEMY OF REALITY! THE INTERVIEW!!!

ENEMY OF REALITY

THE INTERVIEW

By Darkzen

Greetings! Friends!! Here in this week our friend Iliana Tsakiraki of Enemy of Reality gave us a bit of your time and answer me these questions! Truly a talented woman! go with this interview! 

Darkzen

Hello ! my friend ! thank you very much ! for this opportunity!

I ‘m the one who should be thanking you for all your support both to me personally,as in our band!

Tell us a little more about the very talented and beautiful Iliana Tsakiraki ! How is on and off
 stage ?

I ‘m a professor of Voice Placement,so most hours in my typical day are also involved with musical stuff.

Your musical influences that you have, what vocalists are your inspiration ?

I ‘m usually inspired and influenced by all voices when they ‘re technically well shaped,wether it ’s brutal vocals or rock,jazz and soprano vocals.

That beautiful voice you have! a question, What is  you vocal  range ?

Thank you very much for your kind words! I ‘m a lyrico soprano with a range from La#3 to Re#6

What do you mean for you, the symphonic metal, is a passion or just a genre? , because for me, the trasmit power what you sing is very important.

Of course it ’s a passion,since it ’s music! If one ’s into this,singing or playing music, one better really love it and have tons of passion about this form of art.

Which is the essence of Enemy of Reality ? what's behind the name?

Behind the name? To me there’s a truth that we meet in our everyday life: We all have “real” enemies trying to fight us or keep us down,in many ways,both literally or metaphorically speaking. But psychologically our true enemy,and maybe the greatest one of all is actually our own self.

As was the idea, the source or inspiration for his album '' Rejected '' Gods ? you wrote the songs?

The main songwriters of the record,you know,the ones that bring the first ideas to the rest of the band, are Steelianos and me. Steelianos has done most of the work, he was excited from the beginning and every idea he brought to the table became one of our tracks. After that Marianthie works on the idea giving a symphonic approach to the piece,orchestrating it. Philip and Thanos at the same time,being the rhythm section,are trying out approaches to enhance the power of the songs. And Thanos has written most of the lyrics on the record as well! It ’s generally an album created by five different personalities and each of us has left his signature on it.

Can you tell some about your guests Participate in this great álbum? amazing team!

Thank you!  First of I ‘ll speak about our wonderful girls: Androniki and Maxi are both my dear friends. They ‘re both very talented,each one with a different style,but both sharing amazing achievements through their musical careers! Ailyn is the sweetest creature,totally down to earth and it ’s very rare to meet such a character when the person is so well known and has accomplished so much in her career! Mike LePond is an extremely amazing musician,I believe nobody can doubt that,always very friendly and a pleasant person! Chris Antoniou is a wonderful artist and human being,a great mind, his music and what he ’s created through the years speak in his place. Renos  is a musician with tons of musical knowledge,very cheerful and a hard worker. Personally I still can’t get over my excitement,having the honour to work with such great artists,and so well known!

The fact that they trusted our music,to me means a lot.

You take a long time to make this new album?

The duration was exactly six months. We ‘re a band for a longer period than that,but last October our guitarist and drummer, Steelianos and Philip were members of the Eve’s Apple band at the Metal Female Voices Fest,and had to study and practice hard,and focus at the Eve’s Apple show,so we really started composing after we came back from the MFVF.

I liked the cover of the disk, which means ? who performed ? you gave the idea?

The artwork is inspired from ancient Hellenic mythology (since we ‘re all Hellenes it makes sense) You can see a -not so typical- figure of Medusa,rising out of the sea,ready to create some chaos and petrifies the men on the shore. According to the legend,whoever stared into Medusa ’s eyes was immediately petrified. Medusa sometimes represents notions of scientific determinism and nihilism. So the attempts to avoid looking into her eyes represent avoiding the ostensibly depressing reality that the universe is meaningless. You can see how it ’s related to the band’s name as well.

The French artist Pierre had the idea on this amazing cover,our music felt both aggressive and majestic to him,so the artwork fitted well! Another reason that a female figure was chosen as the main figure on our cover is the fact that we have female vocals, obviously.

My congratulation for Participate in MFVF!!! Is a amazing fest! you'll have to surprise us at the festival? Do you Represent some about the new album there?

Of course you ‘ll get to listen to “Rejected Gods” live and we surely have many plans,which will be presented on stage.

Will make any video clip from his new album?

Yes,we already have set the dates for the filming,but the videoclip will be available to the public on the first days of September.

Will make a tour in Europe ? when we could visit here in America and Latin America ?

There are many miles to cross yet to be able to visit the U.S.A. and Latin America. But we know we already have many fans in Latin America so we really want to perform live and meet them all in person!

Thank you very much ! for your time my friend ! , the last words are all yours ! for our readers in femalemetal!

Thank you very much,please continue to support Enemy of Reality in this way and we promise you,we won’t ever let you down

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