Vídeo: ORDEN OGAN

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[Music] [Music] Mr trow what went down in your [Music] head the stars are in the sh [Music] listen to them to them Children of the Night Children of the Night what music of fear Phoenix [Music] [Music] hello s how are you I’m good thanks how are you I’m good can you hear me okay I can hear you perfectly well that’s good how is everything with you busy yeah yeah pretty bu busy these days I actually really have to say that yeah uh somebody just recently told me you don’t have like the regular 9 to5 job and I answered no it’s more like 9 to5 in the night the moment but I love it man I I wouldn’t change it for anything yeah you work better at night normally no no I 9 in the morning until 5: in the night very very long days at the moment yeah no sleep at all little sleep at the moment yes unfortunately yeah yeah well you know when you do something that you like it’s you know I don’t think it’s that bad so every time when somebody writes on Facebook you know like these typical Sunday uh posts where somebody writes tomorrow is Monday I have to get back to work I hate it blah blah blah I never have that you know I always I’m always looking forward to do the next thing yeah very good and uh you know let’s talk about ORD noan obviously and Order of fear um when you you guys start working on the songs for the album I know there was a bit of a writer block so to say yeah not necessarily writer’s block in ugan case um I mean ugan has quite a lot of Commercial Success these days it really works really well um but we still it’s really important for me to say that it’s uh we still do that for ourselves it’s because we love to do that it’s the music we want to make and uh we have to be happy with with the result you know I’d rather not releas a record than to put out something where I’m not like 100% confident in and uh when we were starting to work on the songs um I knew where I wanted to go but everything sounded wrong in the beginning you know like was super super weird and everything was like ah man this is not it and uh yeah then uh I I I think you’re aiming at this there is this super fan from Uruguay his name is called he’s Santi s a n Ty Y and uh he caught our attention because he was basically putting out like uh an Oran cover every two weeks um on YouTube and whatever and Facebook and stuff and um at that point I was just uh why not I just gave him a call and it was very very funny because I mean we are all like super down to earth very relaxed easygoing people and the concept of being Star Struck is also Super Alien to us I have never been Star Struck in my life you know in fact all regular people you know whatever they have accomplished but they are all normal people and um for him it must have been like as if James headfield gave him a call wow and I was just like uh yeah we we we listen to your cover versions and honestly like in in times like when he got more creative and changed some some things he sometimes changed things for the better you know like some of his his ideas were actually better than the original versions and I was just like you know could you picture yourself like writing a song for the next or one record and then it was like 10 seconds of Silence where he had to Pro progress it and then it was oh man this is so awesome and um yeah like two days later we uh we got the first uh idea from him after we talked about where what we were actually aiming at and um that was amazing uh that landed like directly in one of the tracks and um I mean he’s like I said he’s Oran hardcore Super Fan he’s onan’s number one most favorite band in the universe so uh he exactly knew what to do and in the end it was not even that much from him that landed up on the record maybe like six seven ideas or something but what it did for us was to show us an outside perspective of how what we what we wanted to do is supposed to sound like you know and from that point on uh the the writing went super quick and um like like writing the songs was we did that in in foran uh foran it was very quick took like I don’t know like three weeks or or something to to get everything done like the writing of the songs normally we can work on stuff for like a year or longer well that’s you know that’s super quick and did you ever thought that you would need like outside inspiration so to say to to be able to to do a record I mean you work with you know a lot of different musicians but Ordon ogan is your main band did you ever thought that you know I need someone just to kind of help me see where we need to go in a way I no I I’ve never thought that this was was going to happen um but I I do think it it also takes uh what can I say it also takes balls to admit that at that point you know to be like okay I’m kind of lost here I’m I’m like in a dead end uh and uh we need to find a way out of this um and so I mean like I said I’d rather not release a record and to put something out where I’m not 100% happy with and there are a lot of bands out there that put out like bad records you know if uh um so I don’t want to be one of them and uh you know I’m I’m actually like like I would describe myself as not an overly emotional person I’m I’m more of the The Logical side of things um so I was like okay we got a problem where’s the solution and I was just like man this guy he he has listened to every Oran record for 1 million times maybe he has got an idea of of how this could sound and um that was exactly right and the funny thing is actually he’s right now thinking of moving to Germany and uh like uh working here in my studio as co-producer for for the other stuff that I do and stuff and uh so it’s great it’s kind of a Hollywood Story you know that’s Pro you know that probably happens once in a lifetime for a person you know having like an opportunity to work with our heroes and you know and continue like a story like that it’s pretty amazing you know you don’t I mean there probably hundreds of people dreaming of trying to achieve you know even put an album just one album and you know they never get to achieve that and so that’s that’s pretty nice and you know you said like the after you got those ideas it was super quick to to write a record to record how long did it take because this album it’s it’s more direct record than the previous ones it’s more like so yeah all yeah all in all I would say maybe half a year or something though you cannot really measure that in in aogan terms because like the way we do songwriting is we will start uh programming drums and and play like just scratch guitars on that to have an idea how it sounds you know because it can be different in your head from what you are hearing later on so we’re experimenting a lot in the beginning with uh with tempos uh with key like if the vocals don’t work like with key changes maybe the vocals have to be higher or lower and stuff so we can transpose the guitars and stuff and uh so the good thing is that I’m in my studio I have the opportunity to record everything directly like Studio great quality so um if I do demo vocals for example it can happen that some of these parts just stay on the record because it’s like recorded with the same microphone everything then I would do it for the whole record anyway and uh so you cannot really say what I would say was like 6 months or something like around that yeah which is still a long time and you you know as a singer as well you said like sometimes those demo takes that you do because you know you have the proper studio so they have like good quality but do you work a lot on the on the vocals did you like experiment much because you’re were talking about key changes and stuff like that so that means you like you tend to experiment with the vocals a lot um actually like in in my case I most of the time I know what I want to hear and I have it in my head already it’s just to to transfer it to a recording you know like sometimes it doesn’t work for some reason you know it can can be that you just sing it like like too clean not raspy enough too raspy you know like something can wrong maybe you pronounce something differently or you got too much lyrics or whatever this is stuff that you have to work and rework all the time um when it comes to the way of working um like when I am a producer and work with a band like brainstorm for example and record andyb Frank um that’s a that’s super easy actually because at the moment in the moment when he SS I can already yeah cut the vocals and take the pieces out that are really nice so that that in the end you got a little puzzle of vocals and it it sounds better and better um in my case I didn’t find that person yet that I could fully trust that I could work with and and record vocals so I will do everything myself so uh back in the day I used to record like 50 60 takes per verse and or per bridge and per chorus to like get the right expression and maybe two or three of these parts would be would have been great and the rest is fresh um uh but it can be the absolute uh the the ex absolute opposite for example like uh for Moonfire for example um when we did the video shoot the vocals have not been recorded yet uh so I just jumped into the vocal booth and recorded uh like two takes or something of Moonfire of the of the song and uh with the intention to redo it later on and after we were shooting uh after we were done shooting the video was like yeah I will re-record the vocals and everyone was like what we thought it was the final vocals it’s great why do you want to re-record it you know so this is the good thing about uh yeah the way we work because you will just have to have the focus if if it works or not yeah yeah do you think sometimes bands can overwork too much on on ideas yes you can overwork it and I did it in the past totally um and it’s uh from time to time it it really depends you really have to to gain the experience as a producer to understand what is really important and what is not because I also I’m completely guilty uh of um uh focusing too much on too little details that don’t matter in the end at all you know um that happened for me in the past as well and these days I try a little bit more of a top- down approach to say like okay let’s let’s throw it all together and see what doesn’t work and then change that in instead of like doing everything like 110% from the beginning um and it also works you know but I think this is experience you really have to have that you know like other people uh there are a lot of people like especially if you have like unexperienced bands I mean I’ve worked with quite a lot of them in in the past in my studio if you have unexperienced Bands then they can’t even tell the difference of a take that was good or was not good you know then they they just have the impression okay somehow my record doesn’t sound good why is that you know and you’re like yeah because the the guitar performance and that part is [ __ ] you know you should have redone it so you really have to have to learn that and have to have the experience to be able to say this works and this doesn’t and uh I I I think it just comes by experience you just have to do it like with everything else in life yeah did you ever come across you know during your years of producing bands artists like a singer let’s say that thought he was doing an amazing job and you realize now it’s not good know it’s and it’s in his head it was sounding amazing but when you were listening to it you were like no this is not good can you change and did you ever come across someone that was really hellbent in saying no that’s good you’re wrong no no fortunately I didn’t have that you know like at that point when I said it’s not good uh they most of the time they knew that it was not good I’m lucky be because if you’ve got that situation you don’t want to have that situation I have had though I have to say I’ve had amazing singers in my studio um and like people that I new uh yeah let’s take the same example Andy B Frank from brainstorm he’s amazing singer he really really good technically very very good um and with him for example we also had a day when he when he came to the studio started singing and I just turned off the computer and and took my jacket and he was like what are you doing I was like we don’t record today you know and and he was like what what’s and I was like it doesn’t work man you you’re not you’re just not there you know you’re like at 70% it doesn’t make any sense you know and then most of the time even he he also he was like okay man if you say it then you will be right and that’s fine that’s cool and you know on the order of fear record you know the character Veil [ __ ] up again basically he thinks he’s doing something good for him but he ends up you know [ __ ] up again can you just tell us tell me a bit more about the the the concept for the lyrics on this order of fear you explained on the press release but you know for those who haven’t read it because they’re lazy of going on the Internet to read about these things I will just explain explain the whole story because then it makes more sense I try to sum it up very quickly so Alis veale our main protagonist of the story uh it is basically an ongoing concept story since 2008 the veil record that we released he’s an aristocrat and he’s ruling an Empire with a circle of other Aristocrats but there’s a lot of bad stuff going on like uh corruption and everything and he thinks like for the greater good it will be the best thing to destroy this circle um and give something like democracy a chance so he destroys the circle unfortunately everything goes completely wrong and uh the the continent ends up in total enery and the the thing that is even worse is that he gets cursed uh by one of the guys and uh the curse basically says that he has to yeah walk the earth forever more and he he cannot stay and cannot rest at one place for a very long time and always has to keep moving but unfortunately everything that he leaves behind somehow dies Decay is behind him so he’s basically leaving a trail of Destruction behind him so people don’t necessarily have to die but something bad is going to happen in every case so he’s over all these years he’s looking for a solution for his problem obviously and um he hears about an ancient nameless order that might help him um it’s commonly referred to as orinan that is uh Orin is the German word for a religious orderan is old Celtic for fear so it’s the order of fear and the first time he meets this guys is on the album Raven head in 2015 Raven head is a monastery where these uh monks of the Oden Oran recite and yeah after some bad stuff that is going on there he just gets the information yeah you have to find the eldest of our order uh they can help you we cannot help you here and so he continues his his way through gunman and uh final days in 2017 and 2021 and now finally he arrives uh at the home of these monks of the order of fear and the eldest tells him that the only way to break the curse is to shed the blood of one true friend in the Moonlight and there’s just one guy that comes close to a friend his name is Abel he follows him since uh easn hope in 2010 because he knew he knows that when he stays behind he’s got a problem and um yeah then you got the philosophical question about the greater good of many versus the good of one and Veil things like I brought so much death and destruction to the world I really have to end this yeah so he’s tricked into killing his friend in the Moonlight and shortly after surprise surprise he finds out he’s got betrayed um because he yeah the monks of the order of Fe they laugh at him and uh yeah he actually took part in a ritual that actually amplifies his curse so the curse is even worse than before because they want to use it against mankind to destroy all mankind and also um they awake an ancient demon so by the end of the record he’s in a very bad spot this uh the curse is uh a lot stronger than it was before and this this demon is running around um so uh yeah there’s some stuff to deal with on the next record I think it’s almost like a Stephen King kind of plot twist I love it I think this is the great thing about Oran you know like a lot of power metal bands are like very cheesy and unicorns and stuff blah blah blah and I mean with Oran it’s also fantasy but it’s very dark fantasy is uh it’s very very serious compared it’s almost like in a in a horror movie and at this point we’re actually thinking about like making Comics or a book or something out of it because we um we always thought the the hardcore fans will yeah pull out the stories out of the lyrics but maybe that was a little bit too high of an expectation yeah so um I think we should really like write it down completely and maybe release it through a patreon or something like that let’s see yeah and uh on this record you know the last couple of tracks minus the the small intro one like that’s less than a minute um these are older songs one of them from the gunman sessions the other from your high school days and they are the longest on the record um tell me a bit about why did you decided to re-record or we do these songs now yeah I mean uh the the songwriting in ugan was always a little bit of a progression I think like from the harmonies and Melodies it always sounded like ugan but still um if you take a record like EAS hope in 2010 that is not power metal I think it’s borders more to Progressive Metal I mean the the title track EAS hope is like six minutes something with over 40 different parts in it and different key changes and different metrics and and so it’s uh meter changes is the right word and um so back then uh we love to do that today we know that we can do that and we don’t have to do it anymore and uh I think like today I think the beauty lies in trying to write a song that that gets directly to the point and uh delivers the message straight away without any necessary any unnecessary weight um but still there a lot of fans that also laugh like these Progressive days and and we always try to have at least like one of these tracks on the record um that is like longer and more complicated um I have to say we we don’t we mostly don’t play this stuff live as well because we always had the impression that it um it doesn’t works so great with the audience you know like like these super complicated super long tracks um it’s really nice to listen to them on the album though and with the long darkness that is from like you said from the gunman sessions and um yeah I we didn’t put it on gunman because gunman was already very very long record and there’s a very long song In the End already so we just kept it and the other one Anthem to the dark side you’re right I wrote that when I was 17 years old and I always thought that it’s a great great song and it really deserves like yeah a makeover and uh like redo everything and redo the lyrics and give it a proper production I’m really happy with the result how it turned out I wouldn’t write a song like this today but um the fact that it still works with the other songss on the record just shows that it was always the same musical DNA if that makes any sense yeah it does and uh obviously with an album comes a tour uh you guys are going to play some shows with fans and uh apart from that what are the plans you guys played Portugal actually last year in the festival um before we talk about upcoming tour how was that Festival by the way how did it go for you guys oh it was amazing I think the the audience uh response was crazy uh also uh merch sales were super good which showed that uh that there were a lot of people like showing up for us um I would love to come to come back to that festival or if there’s another Festival I’m not sure if there’s so much stuff going on in Portugal oh there is like there is too much stuff going on yeah yeah okay yeah we can we can uh we can talk about that later on because this is like one of the very few festivals that I actually know in Portugal so uh yeah we would love to come back this was just amazing for us was very very nice um and uh yeah what what you just mentioned we have been on tour with Foy Schwans in uh in April already that was great uh because fors have grown a lot so we played a lot of like very very big venues like in Cologne there 4,000 people um so that was a complete success and very very nice people uh foan are really great great the crew was great so that was must have been like the best tour I ever did so far um when it comes to that everything went without stress and everyone was nice to each other so we have like a a decent Festival run coming up with a lot of really nice festivals we play Sweden Rock then metalfest Czech Republic um Hellfest in France uh rockart uh Rock Hearts Festival in Germany uh Summer Breeze like a lot of really really nice festivals um but then there of course there are the release shows for the new record as well um and by the end of the year we’ll have another very short European run with for fs and there’s a lot of stuff going on in 2025 but it’s not announced yet so I cannot tell about that unfortunately well we’ll wait for those news for 2025 and uh you know before we go Angus M6 you know Angus was a dad um in real life like on record it’s a different story but is there any plans for a followup record you guys working on it is there anything you can say about it the only thing that I can say is there will for sure be another record um I cannot tell you when it exactly will be released but uh they will we will for sure continue that somehow okay that’s you know I love the record and you know again when when they played you were there but you didn’t play on on the show here in Portugal but you were there anyway it was great fun it was a great great show I think that Festival that you know last year was really good everybody was in really you know Great Frame of Mind to to see the the bands that were playing you know it was a great atmosphere it was my first it was my first time there it was really really good and I’m going back again this year so um you know I think it’s going to be my go-to Festival in Portugal from now on because you know nice people the place even though it’s a bit away from everything but I think it’s nice just to get away from the city for for a while you know it’s I totally agree like I said it was a very very nice Festival we we would be back anytime I’ll let them know awesome all right steep thank you very much for your time all the best for ordan hopefully we can see you guys again live in Portugal maybe next year uh so uh you know fingers crust and you know a bigger show bigger production bigger everything because that’s what we like you know so thank you very much have a great day and I hope to see you soon all right thank you awesome thank you thank you bye [Music] of fear for 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