"RADICAL DESIGNER ROCK'N'ROLL" is the term you describe your music with now, right? Since it sounds rather weird, I'd like to hear what does it mean. Moreover, I wonder if SOLEFALD is still a black metal act or not in your view…

- SOLEFALD walks her own ways, and being labelled black metal is unfair both to her and to black metal. Black metal is grim music. We play melodic music with occasional grim elements. But of course, our music is derived from B.M. Radical Designer Rock'n'Roll is our own attempt at classifying our music. Neonism is an album that goes far deeper than our first one, "The Linear Scaffold". Our heavy metal roots expose themselves more clearly, and they also shine more clearly through that genre-name.

Are you pleased with the way "Neonism" sounds? You know, honestly speaking I've heard only few CD's recorded at Sunlight that sound fine in terms of engineering and producership… Also, could you please enlighten us regarding those 'mixing desk problems' that took place at Tomas' studio?

- Having just received the first "Neonism" copies, I must say I am very happy with the production. You know, while writing this, I am listening to the first BURZUM album, and compared to that one, I am totally content with our production! Slightly different preferences, of course. The problem consisted in the fact that the mixing desk actually started burning during the recording of a guitar track. At first I felt a little anxious about the recording, when I found out it was okay, I was flattered. Heavy metal and fire!

Unfortunately, I've never had a chance to get myself acquainted with the lyrics of yours, therefore I hope you wouldn't mind sharing their concept and contents with us…? It might be really exciting experience, especially taking into account the fact that most of tunes featured on "Neonism" possess rather strange titles…

- "CKII Chanel No. 6"

Come to me through the channels of the soul
Pantheon of designer rock'n'roll
The war broke out in the back of my head
No victims but several dead
Clear the lounge furnished with skulls
Put out my heart and replace it with pulse
Love is the glue of our fragmentary nature
Highly compatible with winner culture
Marx in the red corner Machiavelli in the blue
Equality asked for K.O. and got it too
The police shield and the arse-licking swan
System run by N.Selection & Son
Charles Darwin- I don't want to be rude
But the panic-stricken herd trades its neck for food
Ladykillers Maneaters fight about the roadmaps
Predators chase prey from mobile death-traps
Coco Chanel- welcome to hell
Let me out of my prison cell
I bring you hot towels and flamboyant oils
I'm a cat stuck beetween transparent doors
Prometheus chained I wait for the eagle
To peck out my liver through the bullet-proof glass
Survival of the fittest suits me fine
The truth as it was told to me by Calvin Klein

"Backpacker Baba"

Crime's the other side of what's right
Baba lives on the wrong side of the earth
On a plain flat planet he would've been white
Nobleman by name aristocrat by birth
Selling shades on the beach my daily routine
Matches the irony of your Western magazine
Papayabananacakecoconutjuice!
Baby with the basket pushes fruits and news
White man came across the sea
To change my under-developed diaper
White man came across the sea
To wipe my ass with tabloid paper
I'm a passionate man help me first
Ease my hunger quench my thirst
Can you see yourself devoured
I'll do anything to stay empowered
Part of him feels like some new kind of Noah
But all he can carry is a m3 of Goa
Big Mother Ocean shut the stereo down
He travelled to listen not to see
On Arambol Beach his guitar will still sound
When the last black man's crossed the sea
His earth turned flat his passport photo black
Backpacker Baba's never coming back

"Proprietors Of Red"

The world is my will and I will a cigar
A coronas corona creation of sound
Cedar matchsticks light the best Cuban brand
Hiroshima hides in this fat Havana
A motion picture to rewind and remaster
The director died in a Nietzschean crash
Franco-American power premiere
CKII Chanel no. 6
Compact disc cinema constructed for passion propaganda
Across the widescreen
Proprietors of Red prepare the cigar
The black car slid through the dust on its aluminium belly
The snake granted them the power from an  unexpected angle
C&K clad the continents in haute couture
The clothes are worn out it's time to undress
A scene in fast motion
The New Timelessness
Some Tom Cruise crosses the landing ground
His last cigarette before changing history
The pilot climbs into the Priapus cockpit
Uncle Unkind's got something to deliver
A readymade rainfall of stillgoing drops
Compact disc cinema constructed for passion propaganda
Across the widescreen
Proprietors of Red Prepare the Big Boy
Let's inhale the Big Bang
Some billion years in one single breath
If you want to be to Omnipolis what God was to Sodoma
Open this

"Speed Increased To Scaffold"

A sotto voce song for the soprano singer
Whose tyrannical arias won't cease to linger
Bob's out there- none of us play cool
Classmates in a haunted school
Agent Dale Cooper won't take you any higher
C'mon li'l boy 'n play with the fire
Surrounded by the presence of the absent teacher
Both knowing silence as the music of the future
Surrendered at the serpent's burning gates of fear
If you think that this is hell- the truth's in there
The world situation calls for evacuation
We wait in the dark for the next ejaculation
Your black finger nails clasp the candelabra
Turn the light on I see the abracadabra
Naomi does the catwalk even when it snows
Male photographers so envious it shows
The stage their temple their trampoline to trance
Trampled and turned by the transvestite's dance
It's not Naomi- it's the Marlboro Man
If you want to run I understand
The night dies on a daily basis
The solar orbit doesn't disturb my ekstasis
Searching for knowledge in the spirit of Tintin
Alone on a plain with Plato and Plotin
My forehead bronzed by the Lamborghini moon
I'm out of my night tomorrow at noon
Lead the suntan astray kick the cancer away
I'll kill my ego on a hidden highway
Invoke the big silence on this small disc
Trespasser listener on your own risk
Outside of our chords and choirs of the sublime
Reality is nothing but a heartbeat in time
Outside of the bass and the blitzing blastbeat
A massive vacuum whose ambition's complete
All-sound without sound booming all around
All-sound without sound booming all around
Enjoy the years of work in these minutes of movement
You evolve in our improvement
With a linear scaffold still to fulfill
I exercise a style of radical will
Accelerate the ratioplane past the sound barrier
To accomplish the bang the whole of my career
Masculine motorcar Technowork sublime
Be beaten or compete this is the last heat
The Tiger Sky's jaws break the neck of Time
Speed increased to scaffold
Silence be complete

"The New Timelessness"

Proprietors of Red and Priests against Prozac
Propose one hour of messianic mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus a.k.a. Muzak
Got himself a VISA and went wild in the popmart
The 23rd player thrashing the rest of his team
Flashed his ability to discard the mainstream
Largo to presto he grieves the accelerando's finite
Headphones on tight more beats pr minute!
Stepping on his watch enters the state of Freedia
Fucking the hostility inherent in the media
From chronological to kairological measure of the linear time Unjustly installed as the distinguo between work and pleasure
Serial time personal sublime
Immortalizing the point on the line that's meandered in a circle
The revolution of all the small parts that constitute the cosmos in
Which you speed for a paradise moving just ahead but slightly faster
Middle-aged monster get out of here!
Cyclical patterns don't fit your square ear
Sensing so slowly you mistake the Sunset of Sole
For the longed-for legendary sunrise of old
Your sexist ratio pervades the hearts
Your racist sexio misinterprets the arts
Decay's seized your sensorial protection
The only thing evil's your own perception
We rest on day seven
On day eight we blast heaven

Let me take a cite from "CK II Chanel N.6" track ("Survival of the fittest suits me fine…") and ask you to tell us if there's any kind of either special meaning or personal philosophy behind it… Furthermore, what does it have to do with Calvin Klein?

- Coco Chanel and Calvin Klein are used as symbols or icons in this song. They represent wealth and beauty, and to a certain extent, power. And just too many people are concerned with what some famous person might have to say. You know, the "most intelligent" human being (IQ 220), Marilyn Vos Savant, even has her own newspaper column, where she answers questions like if she were some kind of sage. "CkII Chanel No. 6" is my personal protest against laying so much importance in the hands of the "sky-gods". They are not near you, even though you may be anywere.

That angel-girl standing near the carriageway in some kind of megapolis portrayed on the front cover… and the band with knife and gun standing / sitting behind her on the back… Erh… What is that? Does it have anything to do with SOLEFALD's poetry?

- "Where have all the women gone?" She is also a symbol, spirituality in the Country of Klein. The backcover photo is to be read in a ritual context, two sinners and their lost innocence!

Previous question inevitably begets one more coming forth your way,
this time concerning your image…

- This time around, we wanted to make some effort as goes for the visuals. (BUZRUM: WAR!!!!!) We used a photographer that normally shoots fashion pix. He got to do what he wanted. We look kinda alien, don't you think? Alien photos suit alien music. (Roooaaaaahhhr!!!! BURZUM again.)

"Ten solar commandments. One death threat. And a burning mixing desk" - this is an epigraph to "Neonism's" promo sheet, while "Red music with black edges; an abnormal chase for those who still believe in a normal world" is the one coming with "Linear Scaffold" promo CD… Would you like to comment any of these (more than ambiguous) phrases?

- More than ambiguous phrases...heh heh  I think they are rather
straightforward. "The Linear" Scaffold offered a rather abnormal trip, which was probably the only thing the critics agreed upon. The ten solar commandments are simply the ten "Neonism" songs! We got a death threat during the way, by some Nazi anal-regressive craphead from the States. It serves as a glimpse into what we try to say. Threatening to kill somebody is rather serious, so we are at least taken seriously. The mixing desk means: THIS IS POWERFUL!

How did the tour with HAGGARD and TRISTANIA go? Any special events? Besides that, how did you contrive to perform any gigs being a duo?

- We are five people on stage. It was cool. A tour manager who made the bus  wait one night because he had to have his sadomasochistic fuck. Lots of beer. Countryside in DDR. (BURZUM: punkaahhhh). The Vienna gig was max, really. Some 4-500 people digging the material. Great. On tour again, sometime.

How do you share responsibilities within the band?

- 50/ 50.

Let's proceed with few typical q's… Are you pleased with the way Avantgarde Music treats you as a band and as an individual?

- Avantgarde is expanding, it has grown since we joined the label (Don't take this to be related facts!). I think they are doing a good job for us, we have much greater freedom than many other bands. We are, hopefully, not known as the CUNT HUNTERS OF THE NIGHT! Also, Roberto knows how to do his layout. I tell you before I tell him: The new wrapping for "Neonism" is decent work.

Let's get back in time for a while and talk about "Jernlov" demo…

- Ok. (Oops! Is 'ok' everything you could you say about that tape?! Actually, by saying 'let's get back in time for a while and talk about "Jernlov" demo, I wanted you to tell me (us?) few words regarding it, Cornelius!!! - ED)

Is there any band whose music you 'get high' on, considering their members to be truly loathsome persons in the same time?

- BURZUM, again.

Rumours say that you're good friends with IN THE WOODS…

- Rumours say that IN THE WOODS... are good friends with SOLEFALD! Yes, I like that gang, though I see them very seldom, we live in different places. I went on a boattrip with Jan K. last summer, we had a nice day out in the sunshine, at an old fortress island. Have yet to hear the "Strange In Stereo" album, looking forward to that one. By the way, if you get in touch with him, tell him I want my Zen book back!

CARPATHIAN FOREST's "Black Shining Leather" features drumming by Lazare, however there's a drummachine only on both efforts by SOLEFALD… Why so? If he's capable of playing drums, wouldn't it be better to use 'real' ones on both, "The Linear Scaffold" and "Neonism"?

- (You have asked a question that cannot be answered. Lazare has drummed his ass off on both our albums! Tell me: Are you really unable to hear it? The drum'n'bass parts aside, SOLEFALD only use acoustic drums, with Lazare behind the kit.) (THERE'RE NO FUCKING LIVE DRUMS THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - ED)

Are there any human feelings and / or emotions you despise? What about envy? Is there anyone who (as a person) or whose deeds excite envy in you?

- Smart question. To despite any emotion is very emotional itself. I do despise irritation, anger and hatred, but I do not want to despise them. I want to accept them.  Then, if I don't despise them anymore, they will not be there.I hope someday to be able to envy myself.

Have you ever thought about what a perfect man should represent? Even if not, please share with us your point of view concerning it…

- Yes, I have. The perfect human being would probably not care to communicate, as it has nothing to learn. If you say sympathetic, I think anybody who makes an effort to meet other people and show that s/he cares about them is sympathetic.

What is light and what is darkness to you (metaphorically speaking, of course)?

- Let Plotinus speak: Darkness is but absence of light.

You have set "When The Moon Is On The Wave" track to Byron's verse and that was a great decision indeed! Are you fond of reading him? Are you familiar with any Russian poets as well as Russian literarure in the whole?

- I loved reading Byron some years back. Of course, he hasn't changed, I might have. I have read some of Anna Akhmatova's poems, "The Year 1913" is overwhelming. Apart from that, I know far too little about Russian literature. I was really supposed to join the army intelligence, where they drill people in Russian! But I found out that the army is not a cool place to be, so I still have your language to learn.

Have you got any negative reviews on anything you have produced so far?

- Yes.

Ok. What awaits us further? Even more vanguard approach to music? Perhaps, something for the few chosen ones…?

- What awaits further... We have written a couple of new tunes, which promise well. In a year and a half, you might be reviewing them.  If you care about our previous releases, you should not be disappointed. We are, in fact, not a "weird" band, nor are we wimping out.

That's all, Cornelius… If you wish to say or wish anything else, do it here…

- Thanks you for your interest in the band. Good to know that there is a web community in the East. Westerners never hear about what happens in Russia or Baltikum, expect for decaying power plants. Spread the gospel, and leave that DIMMU BORGIR synth player be! (BURZUM: A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit).

SOLEFALD contact -
Email: jesuis_qui@hotmail.com