Artist Interview: Deeper Vileness

Hello readers! For this week's interview, we're joined by Deeper Vileness, so let's get into it.

MW: Hello Deeper Vileness, thanks for taking the time to talk.

KV: I am very glad to be doing an interview after a very long hiatus of anything Deeper Vileness.

MW: I’ve only got you for a sec or two, so let’s dive right in. I grew up on Metal, what do you think is the state of the genre these days?

KV: Well specifically black metal I do not know. I am not in touch with the black metal scene at all, I do not go to metal shows, and I really do not listen to much black metal these days. I very much enjoy listening to 80s metal mostly these days. It seems that metal is not as big as it used to be at all. It is very rare that I meet someone else who also likes metal music as much as I do. Besides Europe, here in the United States the only metal band that would sell out stadiums are the same metal bands from back in the day that have songs on the radio, I guess.

MW: How did you meet/form the band?

KV: The idea for the band was something I came up with a long time ago. Sodom, Venom, Bathory are really the main influences for the band or were supposed to be anyway. I originally had the idea to do something that was very fantasy oriented, dungeons and medieval themes, the occult, stuff like that. Something like horror comics meets Robert E. Howard stories. 

MW: We all know the fans can get a little crazy, has anything wild ever happed at one of your live shows?

KV: I sadly do not have live shows.

MW: Who does the songwriting?

KV: I would say I do mostly the melodies for past releases, but I really contribute the sound of the different releases to whoever worked on the mixing and mastering for whichever releases. I have been open to people writing for some last releases. At this point I may do some guitars and bass but mostly will be sticking to keyboards and vocals.

MW: A lot of the readers are producers/gearheads. So, I’ll ask this on their behalf, what is your recording process like?

KV: Cheap equipment on my side of instruments. I get what I can and usually kind of just record and it somehow comes out ok. I am not at all a good musician on guitars, only on keys. 

MW: Is anything new in the works?

KV: There will be some new releases this year, I am not sure if they will be rehearsals, demos, but an album has been in the works for quite some time. Deeper Vileness is going back to what my original ideas for the band were instead of more traditional black metal. Very swords and sorcery type themes.

MW: What have you all been listening to these days?

KV: I like sitting around listening to music like Phil Collins and Fleetwood Mac. The Rolling Stones are one of my favorite bands to listen to these days.

MW: Any shows, or events coming up that we should look out for?

KV: Well, there was supposed to be some shows this year. That was my entire goal for the year, to start playing live shows. But I have come to realize that there are only extremely serious people that want to have like bands that tour and all that stuff, or people who want to play for fun. I seek the latter but the issue with people who want to play for fun is they never show up to actually play. I put up flyers everywhere with like no replies. Deeper Vileness is going to remain a studio project like Bathory. 

MW: Thanks so much for your time, keep us updated on your successes!