Interview with black death metal band from Argentina - ATAUDES.
Answered Jon Deathammer (drummer), thank you!
Recenze/review - ATAUDES - Tempus Edax Rerum (2025):
Ave ATAUDES! Hello to the underground. I hope all is well with you. It should be, you have the second long-playing great album of your career this year. I have to admit, it literally put me up against the wall. It's dark, it's energetic, it cuts with a knife edge. It's very telling that you've done a great job and a great deal of talent too. How do you feel about the new record in relation to your debut? Where did you want to go and how do you think the recordings are different?
Hello Jakub Asphyx, how are you? Greetings to the DEADLY STORM ZINE audience. Here to answer Jon Deathammer drummer of ATAUDES. We are very happy with the release of the album, first of all we want to thank the labels MEMENTO MORI and OBSCURE DISHARMONY RECORDS for the releases. Thank you very much for your positive comments about the album. We are very happy with the point we were able to reach on the new album.
We were aiming to expand the sound of the band to new limits, this was partly thanks to the addition of Ivo Bisceglia on guitars. If I compare the first album with this one, we could say that we kept and even increased the aggressiveness. We added keyboards, guitar solos, more complex rhythms, longer songs, more extreme vocals, a lot of blast beat.
"Tempus Edax Rerum" contains all the attributes of good death and black metal. For me personally, it is a record that I love to come back to. How was it made? How did ATAUDES compose the new material?
I'm glad you like going back to the album. It is our intention from the beginning to achieve a coexistence between Death Metal and Black Metal in our music.The composition of the album starts with demos made by me with drums, bass and guitars, then I send them to Ivo the guitarist and he transforms them (improves guitar parts and even composes new riffs). We go back and forth, we play the songs a lot in the rehearsal room, once we are sure we make demos where our vocalist Cristian puts the meter and writes the lyrics. Finally we record.
I found out that Loïc F. is responsible for the recording and mixing. I have to confirm that the sound literally kills. It still makes me turn up the volume on the hi-fi tower. Loïc F. has created a sound that is cruel, raw and dark and animalistic at the same time. How did you work with him and why him? What studio did you record in and how did everything go?
A small correction, Loïc F. only made the DDP file of the album to send it to the factory. The mixing, mastering and the recording of drums and guitars were done with Sebastian Barrionuevo from FDM Studios here in Argentina. Bass, keyboards and vocals were recorded in our personal studio by me. I work with Sebastian since we worked with him on the first album. He is a person with a lot of experience in Extreme Metal production, he has played in legendary bands in Argentina like AVERNAL and JESUS MARTYR, he currently plays in his band MEDIUM. He has recorded, mixed and mastered many albums. The recording started with the drums, then Ivo recorded his guitars. Finally in our personal studio we recorded vocals, bass and keyboards. Mixing and mastering then by Sebastian Barrionuevo.
An integral part and a kind of extra bonus for fans today is the CD. You guys released it on the Memento Mori label and it comes with an eerie apocalyptic cover. Who is the author? How did you choose the theme and how does it relate to the music on the release?
The author is GUSTAVO ROBERTO MATEO, an Argentinian artist from the city of Rosario, Santa Fe.We wanted to make an abstract painting related to the lyrics of the album, the painter designed some models and we chose one to work on. That was all.
I've been roaming the underworld for over thirty years and I only know a few bands from Argentina. But I think we have similar moods and tastes when it comes to metal. I like your bands a lot and I follow your scene very closely. Maybe I'm a bit jealous, we only have a few death metal bands in our country that are worth it. Is death and black metal doing well here? How do you perceive your scene, fans, labels?
Well there are few bands here too, we have a small scene. Some of us in the band listen to Cult of Fire mainly their second album, on the other hand a few weeks ago they played in Buenos Aires ‘Gutalax’ some of the members went to see them and it was a very fun show. As for labels Lavadome Productions has released our guitarist's previous band Tumba de Carne.
You play black death metal influenced by the old school. Nowadays a band can't really avoid the comparison, but I'm curious how the idea to start ATAUDES came about, who was and is your role model and where do you want to take your band? Are you tempted by big festivals abroad, for example, are you willing to tour with a more famous pack?
ATAUDES was created with the idea to bring together in one place Death metal from Sweden, Finland, England and USA with Norwegian Black Metal, maybe also Doom metal and Grindcore. In the beginning maybe we had more classic references like Mayhem, Emperor, Incantation or Morbid Angel, nowadays for this album the influences have mutated to more current numbers, maybe Deathspell Omega, Portal, Blood Incantation or more distant bands like Mastodon or Meshuggah. Maybe we don't have a certain model to follow but we try to make the best of our career as a band by learning from the more established bands. It would be awesome to tour with bigger bands or play festivals.
When I started my site seven years ago, I had a vision of trying to support bands that I thought weren't as visible. Let the world know about them. I think I've been pretty successful, at least by the response. How do you approach promotion? Do you leave it up to the label or do you send out CDs yourself for various reviews? I buy albums that I really enjoy, for example. How are yWou? Are you also a fan who likes to support your colleagues often? Do you go to concerts? Do you party?
As far as promotion is concerned, it's a joint work between the publicity that the labels we are on do and the promotion that we do ourselves by sending our own material for diffusion. As for the other members of the band and myself, we are quite a concert goers and we also buy as much record material as we can on CD, TAPE, VINYL OR TAPES.
On the one hand, a band starting out today has a lot of opportunities to make their presence known, but on the other hand, there are a huge number of bands and fans get lost in them. A lot of people are just downloading mp3s from the internet and spitting venomous spittle on Facebook instead of going to a gig. How does modern technology affect you as ATAUDES? What do you think about downloading music, google metal, streaming music etc.?
While the technology helped a lot to spread the bands, it is also true that there are many bands and maybe one day it can be hidden from the listener, but on the other hand it is something very positive that there are so many bands and of a lot of quality playing extreme metal. At the moment the technology helps us so much to spread our music, to be able to sell our physical and digital material, to get to keep labels that edit us, to be able organize our concerts.
I like to ask musicians what death/black metal means to them. How would they define it, is it more of a philosophy and lifestyle for them or "just" relaxation. What does it mean to you? How do you perceive and experience it?
I guess there are bands that take it in a more strict way and others just enjoy the music, for us extreme music is a meeting place between friends who enjoy the same thing. We go to concerts together, we compose music, we play live, we buy records, we send each other new music all the time, I think that's our sense of belonging with extreme music.
Finally, a classic but important question. What are ATAUDES planning in the coming months? Where can we see you in concert and when will you visit Europe? If you have any message for fans, labels, promoters, here is the space…
In the next few months we plan to present the album here in Argentina do some concerts, and maybe in the future in the next year we can travel to Europe or the rest of South America. We thank the labels, fans and friends for the support from always with Ataudes and especially in this new album.
Thank you so much for the interview. I wish not only the new record a lot of success and may the ranks of your fans grow as much as possible. I'll look forward to seeing you live somewhere and may you do well both musically and on a personal level. I'm off to get "Tempus Edax Rerum" stuck in my head again!
Thank you so much for your words, for your kindness and for your interview, thank you for supporting the band. I wish you the best of luck with the band, and I hope we cross paths at some point.
Recenze/review - ATAUDES - Tempus Edax Rerum (2025):
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