Tangorodrim

I cant find any biography of the band so I post this Interwiew that is very interesting.


Greetings mates....first of all please tell us the most important steps in your band history! What is Tangorodrim all about, what did you release yet and what does the name Tangorodrim mean?

First of all I have to say: everything that relates to TANGORODRIM means alcohol, so TANGORODRIM are pure alcoholics. And instantly our rehearsals come from memories (it happens once in three month). Sometimes it simply turns into fucking hard drinking instead. So we ain't musicians at all in this project. And as you see TANGORODRIM was formed five years ago … in one of our hard drinking nights.

As far as I know you moved from Russia to Israel. Can you please tell me why you moved in such a country as Israel? I could imagine it's not so easy to play this music you do in that country because of their fanatic religion, do you have big problems concerning this point? How is the situation in Israel, we only hear bad things about war in our daily news….do you face this problem each day? How is the Metal scene in Israel?

Everything we do and everything that happens in this country could be never connected, because nobody knows about TANGORODRIM and because we don't give a shit about this "fanatic religion", and about metal scene - there is no real metal scene, including us. We don't belong to any scene/race at all.

I think your music is quite untypical if you compare it with other bands from this country like Bishop of Hexen or the mighty Grimoire. My first thought was that you are influenced by Darkthrone during their "Total death" era! What do you think about this comparison and are there more influences? By the way can you tell me if the mentioned bands (Bishop of Hexen and Grimoire) are still alive, because they didn't release any new release in the last time.…

Unfortunately we don't have any information about such bands as Bishop of Hexen or the Grimoire. You are right about our influences - it's definitely DARKTHRONE influence and maybe HELLHAMMER and we quite often raise our bottles to these bands !!! And even more often !!!

Your CD "Unholy metal way" is a fucking killer full of metal hymns! How do you create this piece of art and who is responsible for which part? Do you prefer the faster parts on the album or the "softer" ones? Are there any things you worry about afterwards? Would you like to change something now? What do you want to express with your title "Unholy Metal way"? I could imagine it means more to you than just an album title…

After drinking unlimited amount of beer and getting into DARKTHRONE through the bones , the fucking desecration happens … that's how our music is created. Yes you are absolutely right. "Unholy Metal Way" isn't just an album title!!! First of all it's the way of TANGORODRIM! It's the eternal way, very hard, in nowadays transformed into Black Metal ! And about our riffs … it doesn't matter fast ones or slow ones … it's HORNED!!!

Your listeners can't get much informations about you, why didn't you place some photo's in the booklet or something like that? Is it your aim to stay out of light and just play the music you want to or are there other reasons? How can your listeners contact you directly?

All information about us is available on our site at www.aggressorprod.com (this site is no longer good). We thought that photos in the booklet aren't necessary at all.

How do you see the role of your label Aggressor Productions? How did you get the deal and are you satisfied with them yet? What can you tell us about this label, are there more bands like Tangorodrim on this label? Is it hard to stay in underground for you? How was the response about your CD yet worldwide?

The only reason of AGGRESSOR PRODUCTIONS existence is release of TANGORODRIM. Pagan Records liked our album and they are interested in distribution. We received a lot of good feedbacks from several labels and magazines, and some fans of Black Metal.

How do you see the Metal scene nowadays? Are there bands you like a lot and who deserve support and are there bands you don't like at all? Do you get much informations about Metal underground in Israel easily?

Metal scene, as always is great. There are thousands of brilliant bands over the world. There are few we don't like but I see no sense to speak about them. The bands we like are - AC/DC , Motörhead , Entombed , Autopsy ,Rabies Caste , Breach , Carpathian Forest , Thy Repentance etc. As every other country, Israel has tv, internet, magazines - as you see we can get all information we need.

Did you ever play live yet? If yes what can we expect from a Tangorodrim gig and is it possible to see you live in Europe, too, in the future?

We never played a gig with TANGORODRIM. Most probably that we'll never play live.

"Unholy Metal way" was recorded 1999…a long time ago. Do you have some plans concerning a new album or something like that? If yes what can you tell us about it and are there more future plans?

Next year we are planning to release our second album which we already completed. At these days we are recording our third album.

Last words?

We raise our bottles to ETERNAL ATMOSPHERE OF UNHOLY BLACK METAL!

Unholy metal way (2000)

Those who Unleashed (2002)

Unholy & Unlimited (2004)

Justus Ex Fide Vivit (2007)