Pour ce second album, DISARMONIA MUNDI a place la barre tres haut en invitant Bjorn Speed de Soilwork et en relaisant un disque excellent ! Quelques questions au groupe italien.

For those who still don't know Disarmonia Mundi, would you be nice enough to introduce your band with a short history ?
The Disarmonia Mundi project took its first steps in the first months of the year 2000 and after many line-up changes we recorded 'Nebularium', our first full lenght album completely self-produced into Ettore's home studio. The good responses allowed us to sign a contract with Self for the italian distribution and with Cd-Maximum for the russian market. After many line-up problems we recorded a promo with the new screamer Claudio on vocals that gave us the opportunity to sign with Scarlet Records. In the meantime we got in contact with Bjorn "Speed" Strid from Soilwork and asked him if he was interested in singing the vocal parts on our second album entitled "Fragments of D-Generation". Now that the album is finally released we're tryin' to to find the last members to complete the line-up and finally start a live activity.

Your brand new cd "Fragments Of D-Generation" will be release shortly. Can you tell us more about it, the recordings sessions, the songs etc ?
The recording sessions have been a real pain in the ass, as always we did all by ourselves into Ettore's homestudio and although it may seem a very comfortable thing to have a studio at your complete disposal sometimes is a very tiresome thing too... Anyway, we locked ourselves into the studio for three months losing lots of weight, health and mental sanity and the result of our efforts is this "Fragments of D-Generation" album. The skeletons of the tracks were all already defined before entering the sudio, but lots of keyboards, guitar parts and various effects have been changed during the recording sessions. Speed joined us during the mid-august holidays to record his vocal parts and when the 10 songs were all finally complete we sent the mixes to Goran Finnberg for the final mastering process.

What are the things you improve between your previous CD and the first LP for Scarlet ? What are the main differences between this new cd and the previous?
Well, first of all we were focused on making a less dreamy and progressive album,we were searching for a more direct and concise sound. It was important for us to create songs with a good live impact, with more groovy tunes and different influences mixed together. There are different kind of songs in the new album: fast ones, melodic ones, mid-tempos... we tried to keep our trademark clear and to develop it in different directions too. We are focused on never repeating ourselves, the new album is very different from Nebularium and the next one will be very different too, we want to grow from album to album to be always able to propose fresh and (we hope) inspired music.

What is the meaning of your band name 'Disarmonia Mundi' and what is the meaning of "Fragments Of D-Generation" ? Who i the "D-Generation" ?
We took inspiration by the concept of the Harmonia Mundi by the philosopher Plato and gave our personal distorted vision of it... You know it deals about the sickness within, the disharmony of the society mankind has built, the twisted aspects of human nature... The title of the album is somewhat bound to the name of the band and the main theme behind it, 'coz you can think of each song as a fragment of this disharmony, of this degeneration, and of the album itself as a simple collection of these fragments of insanity.

We can find a lot of different influences in your first releases, from Meshugah to Devin Townsend, am I wrong ? Who would you classify as your band 's main influences ?
Of course we all like a lot the new tide of european death-metal (In Flames, Soilwork, Children of Bodom, Arch Enemy etc...) but we have all grown listening to 80's metal gods like Iron Maiden, Wasp, Slayer, Pantera, Judas Priest... This kinda stuff... Everyone in the band listens to different kind of music and has his own particular influences and sources of inspiration: Ettore loves bands like Opeth, Katatonia, Kent as well as early At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity and Hypocrisy abums; Claudio is more into goth stuff like Type o Negative, Danzig, Sentenced as well as punky freaks like The Misfits and Murderdolls, while Mirco is mad about Maiden, Metallica, Death and 70's disco music. We also love a lot of not-metal stuff like movie soundracks and pop tunes too... As you can see a lot of influences, but you know, we think is a very good thing to be very open minded and to listen to everything's worth the listening.

Bjorn Speed from Soilwork is singing on your cd. How did he become interested singing on your release?
Basically he signed our guestbook after listening to some mp3's sayin' our music was cool, at that time we were without an official screamer and so we immediately asked him if he was interested in handling the vocal duties on our forthcoming second album.

Aren't you afraid that with Bjorn singing, a lot of people will thinck that Disarmonia Mundi is nothing else than a "Soilwork-like" band ? What are the main differences between Soilwork and Disarmonia Mundi ?
Well, apart from the presence of Speed at vocals I think that DM and Soilwork are two completely different bands. Of course, we both play the same genre (melodic death-metal) after all, but we try to develop our songwriting in different directions throughout the whole album embracing different styles from track to track (for example have you ever listened to a 70's disco music break in a Soilwork album?) and we don't think to have so many things in common with the band you mentioned. Soilwork is a huge band and their music is fuckin' brilliant, "A Predator's Portrait" and "Natural Born Chaos" are two incredible masterpieces and we all love their music but we're not tryin' to copy their style, we're just searching for our own style and only releasing a lot of albums and doing as much live shows as we can we're gonna find it and gain our own space into the metal scene.

Your cd is self-produced album, you're responsible for graphics too. It seems that it is really important for the band to "control" evrething around Disarmonia Mundi... an I wrong ? Is there an explanation to that ?
Yes of course it's very important for us to have complete control over our work and we're gonna do it for as long as we can. There's not a particular reasone behind this choice, we only like to work out things properly for our albums and as you probably know sometimes the only way you have to do things the way you want is to do them by yourself.

Your line-up has known a change recently. What were the reasons behind this change ? Are you able to play live now ?
Well the guys weren't interested in the band anymore so we simply kicked them out. We're a young band at our very beginning and have still a lot to do and to say, so we simply cannot afford to have lazy guys strolling around doin' nothing all time. We're searching for people with the right attitude and true interest in what we're doing to complete the line-up and to finally perform live, who knows if we'll ever succeed in our search...

Last words are yours ....
First of all thank for the interview and a big "stay heavy as fuckin' hell" to all our fans in France, see ya soon bros, you know who you are!!