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pondělí 27. listopadu 2023

A few questions - interview with death metal band from Poland - BONESNAP.


A few questions - interview with death metal band from Poland - BONESNAP.

Ave, can you introduce your band to our readers? – When was it founded and what style of music do you play etc.?

Hey. Jakub, guitarist of Bonesnap here. We are a death metal band from Poland, we were founded in the south-eastern small industrial town Stalowa Wola where we all lived at the time. I joined a band around 2018 as a second guitarist. We were called Impostor at that time, guys had some songs composed and did a couple of local shows. Its music was mostly groove/death metal, but with our drummer Areks fascination of black metal it all concluded with us releasing one black metal track, you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW2UR8ltL-c .The plan was to finish material for demo, record and release it and continue to do concerts. But when I joined we started to experiment with riffs, doing new songs with different, more deathish style. Most of the old songs were reworked or completely scratched. One and only song from this era is on our EP “Under the blind eye”. As the time passed we all moved to Kraków for college/work. At that time Olga joined the band as our new bassist and we changed our band name to Bonesnap due to Impostor being taken by another polish band. All the recordings were done there; we are operating in Kraków to this day.


Where and under what conditions were you recording the new album? Who was in charge of sound, production and mastering?

All tracks are home recorded, we did that successively in January/February this year. Mixing is done by Julian Konowalski and for mastering we chose Paweł “Janos” Grabowski.

How many copies were released and which medium was used for this new edition (CD, digital,
vinyl, cassette)?

We did 200 copies of CDs which are available on our bandcamp, you can find our EP on almost every single streaming platform as well.

Who is the author of the lyrics and how were they created and about what do the lyrics deal with?

All of the lyrics were written by our vocalist Patryk. And what are all these about? I can just wonder( he completely refused to explain any of its meaning besides just saying it’s about satan every time we asked haha), he took some inspiration from Behemoth’s Nergal lyrics writing. For me they are so metaphorical and not straight forward but yet all of them has its own story. I easily came with some references. “Beyond the walls” is about events in 1992 thriller “candyman”(You can hear a well known line from this film in our first track” Prologue”). “Eclipse” is about the final arc of the anime “Berserk”. And “parasocial” for me is clearly about the horror of abortion. But they are just my personal interpretations of his lyrics. Maybe one day he will decide to reveal some of their mystery which i will gladly share with you haha.


Who created the logo of the band, and who took care of the graphics and the website? What
about you and social networks? Do you consider these things important?

Logo was created by a great artist from India “casusartem”. I highly suggest you check his work out, it’s sick! Album cover and all graphics designs were created by artist Maciej Kamuda, check him out as well. As the social media goes we are just trying to inform everyone interested about concerts, new music and cd availability. As a fun fact i can tell that our band name was taken after a unique item from my beloved game “Diablo 2”

Which label did you choose for releasing your album and why this label? Are you satisfied by how your label represents you and takés care about you?

We decided to release the EP completely independent. We never considered going with a label, because we weren’t known and had none of the material released even as demo tracks. In fact we planned this EP as a demo, but as we were working on it and adding tracks, it became an EP.

Which bands do you idolise and where do you get your inspiration?

For me as a main songwriter it’s definitely Death. It was my first band to get me into death metal. I adore Chuck Schuldiners songwriting, albums “Symbolic” and “Human” are my tops in death metal to this day. I am really into every band which was following his steps like Obscura or Necrophagist. As modern death metal goes we are taking inspiration from such bands as Decapitated or Aborted. As I said earlier our drummer Arek who is also taking a huge part in songwriting is really into some black metal bands such as Mgła, Dark Funeral, Batushka. We are trying to incorporate black metal elements in our songs to give them an extra edge and also as an excuse to just play some blast beats haha.

Did you send your record to some Labels - which are the labels? How was the response?

Not really, we are concentrating now on doing gigs, and working on new material.


How many gigs have you played? Which type of gigs do you prefer, whether it is (clubs or festivals) and which of your performances would you consider as the best?

And about gigs haha. We did only one on October 20 this year. We had only 4 members for most part of the year, when we were recording material. We kicked out our guitarist, and were searching for a new one, then the new one left 3 months after joining. We decided on doing a gig after we met our current guitarist Filip Konopka, which was a month before the event. I personally think our material is much better with all the double guitar work.I like clubs more than festivals as they are much more atmospheric and style of the bands is better matched. Our first show was a blast and we can say it was the best and the worst concert we ever had haha.

What about your plans for the future? What do you want to achieve with the band?

Playing concerts, making sick music, that’s about it.

How and where can your fans contact you? Can you provide some contact information?

You can reach us via Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/bonesnap.band. We all have access to it so you can ask specific questions to each one of us.

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