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WARNOT into the theatrical songs, and ROCKNATION ISSUE 21

gives the album diversity.
Rocknation:Who designed your
CD cover?
Bjorn: The fantastic artwork was
penned by the well-known Mattias
Interview by Tom Mathers Norén Sweden. Love it all! The
booklet, the CD print.yeah, it all!
Rocknation: Hello Bjorn and welcome to Rocknation. You released Rocknation: Did any of the press
WARNOT “His Blood is Yours” on Nightmare Records. How was your reviews compare some of the
writing and recording process for this release compared to working in songs to Cloudscape style or
Cloudscape? sound?
Bjorn: Thanks for your interest in the WARNOT debut album “His Blood Bjorn: Yes, some of the the re-
Is Yours” First...I had the luxury to work without stress and deadlines, views compared WARNOT and
and a really strong vision to create something special. I started with the CLOUDSCAPE. And what most
writing around 2009-2010 and continued the writing until I was satisfied of them pointed out was that
with 17-18 demo songs. Then I took a break for a month and after that WARNOT is a lot darker sound-
with fresh ears I picked the 12 songs that ended up on the album. With- ing. Here is one review example:
out any contract signed, I Recorded
the 12 songs in my own studio in (If you are looking for something
Helsingborg. When I was writing different to add to your metal collection, then look no further. WARNOT
for CLOUDSCAPE I sometimes is definitely worth taking some time to check out. Their blend of pro-
changed the style and the gressive, theatrical, gothic metal and other metal styles makes them
instrumentation to fit the band. unique.) Source: http://chaoticriffsmagazine.com/music_reviews/august/
Rocknation: Please name of music music_reviews_august2013.html
influences of other bands that help Rocknation: What plans do you have for 2014?
create your music for WARNOT. Bjorn: I will continue my recordings, that’s for sure. This time there will
Bjorn: In no particular order I would be some new awesome vocalists and musicians aboard. Ex.. Anette
say: Van Halen-Van Halen, Johansson-SHIVA, Nina Åkerlund- DAN HYLANDER BAND, Hans Pers-
Dream Theater-Images and Words, son- Ex.CLOUDSCAPE and Carl Malmqvist-SCANDAL CIRCUS.
Sting-Fields of Gold, Symphony X-
Divine Wings Of Tragedy, Rocknation: Thank you for taking time for this interview and last words
Queen-Greatest Hits I II III. to the fans.
Rocknation: Why did you decide to Bjorn: Thanks to you all! I would like to wish everybody a great, creative
use seven vocalists instead of one and healthy 2014. If you would like to get updates regarding Warnot, you
for this release? could visit at: www.facebook.com/warnot.band?ref=hl.
Bjorn: Because I think it fits right Hope to hear from you again! Best Regards, Bjorn Eliasson-WARNOT

SCELERATA being on tour as Paul DiAnno’s backing band in Brazil?

Scelerata: Being Paul’s backing band means a lot to us, it is just very flattering. Paul is a
living legend, and to have the honor to play all these great metal anthems with the one
every time we are there with Paul. He is a great guy, knows exactly how he wants the band
Interview by Tom Mathers person that recorded the originals is a blast. We put our hearts on stage and do our best
to play and is great to be around. Actually, in three days from now we will be boarding a
Rocknation: Your band name is very original what does SCELERATA stand for? rock cruise here in Brazil with Paul. We will be playing the Motorcycle Rock Cruise, with a
Scelerata: Thank you very much! We chose this name because phonetically it sounds very Scelerata full concert as well.
similar to ‘accelerated’ in the Portuguese language, which is our native tongue here in Rocknation: You live in Brazil. What is the music scene like there?
Brazil. Later on we found out that it actually has a meaning in Italian and in Latin, mean- Scelerata: Well, to be honest, you wouldn’t want to listen to what music is popular here in
ing something like ‘criminal’ or ‘bad guy’. Also, according to an ancient Roman legend, Brazil right now, believe me. It just sucks big time, makes us want to cut our wrists. But in the
Scelerata was a name of a portal, and whoever crossed it would have its fate written and metal field Brazil is living right now a great moment. There are plenty of amazing bands in all
doomed. kinds of metal. I could easily spell out at least 10 great bands at the top of my head. I even
Rocknation: You have some music heavy weights Andi Deris (Helloween) and Paul DiAnno heard and read people talking about a NWOBHM (New Wave of BRAZILIAN Heavy Metal), and
(ex-Iron Maiden) on your new CD tell us about how that happened. I must say it kind of does make sense. In the other hand, there is no support whatsoever.
Scelerata: Scelerata is Paul DiAnno’s backing band here is Brazil, so we already were great There is no serious management, no booking agencies, no metal in the media, it’s just not
friends with him for a few years. In one of our past tours we invited him to record some popular at all, even though the ‘underground’ scene is pretty strong. The bands all work as
vocals and he, very kindly, agreed right away. We wanted him to write as well, because, as independent bands, having to work very hard to make things happen, and that applies to all
you all know, he is an extremely talented, creative and gifted musician. He wrote a part of bands, not just the ‘underground’ ones. Even the metalheads rather spend their money on
the lyrics for In My Blood and the melody he sings. And there is a smaller part in Rising Sun foreign bands instead of supporting the local scene. However, amazingly the scene keeps
that he also sings. Andi Deris’ appearance is thanks to Charlie Bauerfeind, the producer of growing, there are some young lads making very fine music over here.
the album. We sent Charlie our demos and he showed our music to Andi Deris. Andi really Rocknation: What plans do you have for 2014?
liked our singer and made himself available to write a song for the band. Of course we Scelerata: Our plan is to work on new stuff. We had a very tough past couple of years and
agreed with that, and so he sent us this amazing song called Must Be Dreaming. It is one of now things seem to be finally calming down. So this seems to be the year to write new songs,
the highlights of the album, so we are very thankful to Andi. start doing the demos and see if we can record this year and put out something new in early
Rocknation: This is your 3rd album how did the writing and recording differ from your last 2015.
albums? Rocknation: Thank you for taking time for this interview and last words to the fans.
Scelerata: The main difference is that we worked with an outside producer this time. Charlie Scelerata: Scelerata is very thankful to Rocknation Magazine! It’s great to have the chance to
Bauerfeind is one of the major European metal producers, working with bands such as talk about the band to
Helloween, Blind Guardian, our North American
Motörhead, Saxon, friends! You can
Hammerfall, Halford, Axel check out our stuff
Rudi Pell and many others. on our internet chan-
We sent him the demos, nels, like YouTube,
he sent us many ideas for
arrangements, and he mixed Facebook, Sound-
Cloud and buy our
and mastered the album.
The drums were recorded in stuff! Nightmare
Germany in Blind Guardian’s Records is doing a
Twilight Hall Studios under hell of a great job
Charlie’s production. I can with us in North
say this all made a great America, so it’s very
difference on how great and easy to find our
big the album sounds. albums! A big HELL
What moments stand out YEAAAH! to every-
one out there!