The Band: Dark
Quarterer
Country: Italy
Answers by: Gianni
Nepi (Bass, Vocals)
Today we talk to one
of those bands that has, with every right, won the title of “cult” band. If you
are in the underground thing you need no introduction for Italian act Dark
Quarterer, if you are not this is a good start to know a little more about this
legendary band that keeps the flame of Metal alive.
Hello Dark Quarterer!
the band’s current activity goes through the reedition of your great work
“Symbol”. What does this album represent for the band?
R. A changement just to identify e new path of compisition
style...we are always searching for new ideas, new experiments with our music
and we think that Symbols rapresents the roots of Ithaca...
“Symbol” was
originally released in 2008, with 6 songs
and over 70 minutes of great music, that talks enough about your style
and composition
R. The Idea to create songs dadicated to great people who
changed the destiny of the world, was generated by the mind of Paolo Ninci...we
immediately appreciate this subject and we put all our energies to realize
it...the more important thing was to create the right atmosphere of eack track because, in our opinion, music must
describe with lyrics, is a combination of words and sounds the must be fused in
one only expression to obtain the max strenght possible...we need often to
rewrite many parts before finding the
solution that can satisfy all of us. it is a great job and I hope that we
obtained a good result !!
Moreover, Symbols” is
available for the first time on a deluxe Double LP edition, limited to 350
copies, a great oportunity for the good fans of the band, right?
R. Great job of Cruz del Sur and the sound is better than
CD...Vinyl equalization, if well done, is absolutely wormer than any CD !!!
this is a true !!
We also find the
addition of a bonus track, “Devil Stroke“, that brings the album to a length of
over 80 minutes. How does Devil Stroke fit with the original songs in the
album?
R. The reason for which we decided to insert "Devil Stroke"
in this ediction has been generated to the continuous requests of fans to play
this song during our shows..so we abtain a double result..we prepare it for the
shows and, meantime, we recorded...this is the only, simple reason !!!
The idea of releasing
Symbols again was more yours or your current label Cruz del Sur Music?
R. Cruz del Sur propose us this possibility and we accepted
!!!!
Cruz del Sur is a
label that always takes care of quality and this excellent reedtion is a proof
of that, right?
R. Surely !!! a great Label and Enrico is a great person !!!
The songs in this new
“Symbols” are re-recorded or have you introduced any improvement in terms of
production regarding the orginal release of 2008?
R. A new mix and a new equalization and compression of
sounds but nothing has been rerecorded..
By the way, this is
not the first time you work on a past release. In 2012 you re-recorded the
band’s debut album under the title of “XXV anniversary”, although with another
label, right?
R. Yes but in that occasion the necessity to rerecord the
entire album was due to the bad quality of the first realization...we need to
listen our songs renewed and I can sure you that it's a great satisfaction to
listen every particular of our instruments...definitively a necessity for our
spirit of musicians !!!!
Apart of “Symbols” we would like to talk a little
about the band’s history and activity. Because, Dark Quarterer can be
considered at the same status as mythical bands, in differents styles, in Italy
such as Death SS, Bulldozer, Stranna Officina, etc...
R. Dark Quarterer was born on 1972..in that year me,
Fulberto Serena and Paolo Ninci decided to play together..in the beginning but
for a long time (8 years) we play only covers trying to learn all secrets of
great bands like Gentle Giant, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin or Genesis...The
name of the band was Omega Erre. Each one of us started to study music theory
and learn to play better his own instrument..we were so finicky and every time we
were convinced that we could do better. I think this philosophy create inside
of us the mentality to eliminate every particular not exactly in tune with the
rest of the song..only on 1980 we decided to start with original compositions
and considering the stile of music generated (a mixture of
epic/doom/progressive) we decided to change the name in Dark Quarterer. After
two Demos and Two albums (Dark Quarterer on 1987 and The Etruscan Prophecy on
1989) Fulberto leave the band for personal problems...after 1 year we find a
new guitaris, Sandro Tersetti and the story of DQ start again..with Sandro we
produced "War Tears" recorded in Hamburg on october 1993 ..the label
was "Inline Music"...this album made in Germany gave us the force to
continue to believe in us..but on 1998 Sandro leave the band..so me and Paolo
returned to search a guitarist as we were sure our future was already written
!!
Francesco Sozzi was 18 years old when we contact him...he is
the son of Gino Sozzi..we known his father as he was a musician. when we listen
Francesco immediatly we understood he is what we were searching for..technique,
taste and a friendship..on 2000 Francesco Longhi a young keyboarder reaches the
band and the colours of our music definitively change...we are together for 16
years...this is all...
Dark Quarterer has
never worried about trends, this has maybe limited your recognition as a mass
band but has guaranteed you a legion of die-for-the-band fans
R. We have a saying: few but good !!!
Another important
point in your sound is your musical evolution. Dark Quarterer started more as
an epic heavy metal act and you have derived into a progressive monster, how
did it happen?
R. as I explained before Keyboard changes our possibility to
compose and to go over the limit of our immagination...now everything is
possible !!
Your lyrics have always been another strong point, very
detailed and based on historical matters or the kind. Where did you get the
inspiration from?
R. I always been the lyrics composer...everytime I start to
write a song I analise the subject and I study his life or History details..I
try to figurate inside my mind the situations, the historical era, the ambient
just to describe every particular in the best way possible and to give the
opportunity to the people to live again the past closing their eyes and
listening our song..I hope to obtain this result...
Many years already on
the scene, what has been the best moment for Dark Quarterer?
R. Always tomorrow !!!!!
That’s the spirit! What
were your influences at the beginning of your career, before you developed your
own sound?
R. I can give you a list of bands starting from Beatles,
Rolling Stone, Vanilla Fudge, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black
Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, Cream, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Grand Funk Railroad, but
also Bach, Beethoven, Rossini, Wagner, Paganini...I can sure you that in every
style of music we can capture something to insert in our songs...
This August you will
play in the Issola Rock, have you prepared any especial set list, maybe all the
songs in Symbols?
R. No. We prepared from "Ithaca" Path of life,
Nostalgia and Escape...from Symbols The Blind Church...From Dark Quarterer
Colossus of argil, Dark quarterer and from The Etruscan Prophecy..Devil Stroke.
Your last studio
album is from 2015, Ithaca, are you working on new songs for a future release?
R. Yeah !!! we are preparing new songs for a new
project..the subject is "how the people could change in case of panic or
big disaster" and the idea is to create some characters situations during
the eruption of Vesuvio when Pompei was destroied abt 2000 years ago..
The Metal scene is in
need of bands with your quality, do you we have Dark Quarterer for many years
to come?
R. forever...until the death.
Awesome. It was a
pleasure to talk to such a great band, wish you the best!
R. thank you for giving us the opportunity to descrbe our
love for Music. Stay hard forever !!!
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