The album is more diverse, incorporates many different elements, parts and melancholic moods, clean guitars etc… it is not just straightforward black metal and yet it is enough black metal. I personally feel that with “Karst Relict” you just went into the next level. If we are talking songs and bands, I have a playlist on the band’s Spotify page called “MALIST – inspiration”, where I attempted to gather all the music which definitely has had an impact. I can hear a soundtrack in a film, or a random melody in the supermarket, which later comes back in a darker form, waiting to be arranged into black metal.
Thing is, you rarely discover what inspired you to write a particular riff, melody, or song part. It’s been easy to be on the same page with those involved in arts, and it made the process of creating “Karst Relict” that much faster.Īre there any new influences – musical, or literature, or any other that impacted your creativity? You pointed out some of the best black metal bands before… I got to know some creative people, and one thing that really stuck with me is how creativity and inspiration unites different forms of art, craft, and consequently, the people. What did change for you personally since the beginning till now? And how do you see if this change crawled into MALIST music?
I wasn’t really trying to polish the recording takes for that album, and if I did, it would have sounded much better. I always leave the judgement for listeners, but one thing I would improve is the source recording itself. I never wanted to trace my own steps, rather to explore the genre and my limitations as a composer. Some liked it more than the first album, some hated it for thrash metal elements and other things not conventionally related to atmospheric black metal, but I think it was a logical way for me. Let me ask you first about your second album “To Mantle the Rising Sun”? How was accepted? And how do you see it now, a year later? What’s your judgment on it? “In the catacombs of Time” received a lot of attention in my opinion and the fans liked it. After that album I thought I was done for a while – but next thing the quarantine happened, and the isolation brought more musical inspiration, culminating into “Karst Relict”. It turned out to be quite an experimental record, where I was determining a way forward for MALIST. It always comes naturally, and it happened again with “To Mantle the Rising Sun”. I never forced myself into creating music, even though it may seem that way due to the relatively short time between the releases. It’s been quite a productive journey for me during these few years. Tell us how’s been for you during these two years since “In the catacombs of Time” through “Karst Relict”? Was it a long and hard road? It’s been two years since our first conversation and now your brand new third album “Karst Relict” is about to be launched. Hello, Ovfrost and welcome to Blessed Altar Zine again! It is great to have the opportunity to talk to you again. Now I’m very pleased to sit again with him and discuss everything that he’s been through over the past couple of years, but most of all – I am curious what he is going to tell us about “Karst Relict”, the brand new album that we reviewed here on Blessed Altar last week. Two years ago I had the chance to talk with Ovfrost about the debut album by MALIST – “In The Catacombs of Time”.
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