MG: Like a clockwork where one gearwheel grips into the other. We are very different, but we also come together and find something in the middle where everyone is happy. Put everything in a big pot and stir it around. And that also helps to diversify the music.Įlizabeth: All our own tastes and influences, what we listened to before and our upbringing and all is also different. But we also come from very different musical backgrounds. Mac: Yes, but actually I was brought up in Sweden. Do you think this also helped to bring the variety to your music on the album or doesn’t this play a role? I mean, Mac, you are from South America… MG: You are 4 different nationalities in the band now. Mio: I changed it a little bit but there is some influence. Mio: Actually, I remember a children song and then the melody of Joshitai is influenced by that Japanese children song. MG: …but only because of my own martial arts background. MG:One of the first words of the lyrics from Joshitai I understood was “Naginata”… MG: So you determine “Joshitai” is Japanese…Įlizabeth: Yeah, from the beginning it sounded more Japanese so… Sometimes we were also like “Ok, we want to write about this person.” and then tried to influence the music a bit to go that way and the other way around. This was also one of the challenges when I wrote the lyrics and then we tried to match it together. Also having enough story to base the whole song on, cause when I was reading about each warrioress, it is very different how much is transcribed and written down, how much there actually is. I remember when we were talking about one of the Russian snipers, Liudmila Pavlichenko. And we were discussing “Oh, what about her?”Įlizabeth: Yeah! And how can we make this song sound more… Russian…. And also before we added those, I was researching who we should write about. We wanted to capture the ethnics…Įlizabeth: So the essence of where they were from, you know, the samples you can hear like in Joshitai for example, the Japanese….Įlizabeth: Yes, exactly. Mac: We built a lot of the songs around the theme. MG: What was the process of choosing the ladies you sing about like? What came first? The music or lyrical concepts? MG:As far as I know, Joshitai is Japanese, but Mulan is Chinese. Now Lagertha is very famous because of the Vikings series.Įlizabeth: Yes, there’s so much more. Mio: Jeanne d’Arc being the most famous, I think.Įlizabeth: Yes, there are a few that have been mentioned. I didn’t know there was a female Samurai! And then we took that and said, let’s find some Muslim girl, yes there were also….Įlizabeth: Yes, every representation throughout history, there have been women fighting… Nobody knows. And they never talk about it in history books. Let’s write about her, maybe there are some more. Mio: And then this Viking, Lagertha… She was a shield maiden and she was strong, you know, tough, cool female warrior. So what shall we do? And, yes… we kind of settled with that. And we knew we wanted some kind of concept. We were talking a lot back and forth what do we want to do for that album. So, lots of material.Įlizabeth: Yes, and we already knew we wanted to do a concept album. And we realized there were so many warrioresses from different periods of time. And that’s how we got into that… historic theme. Mac: It started with Grainne Mhaol, we did a song about the Irish pirate queen. Where did this idea of such a theme/concept come from? MG:Your new album “Bellatrix” is dedicated to empowering women and warriors from different historic periods. Not just with their vocalist Elizabeth, but with the whole band. First, they delivered an awesome show (read live review here) and afterwards, we did the following interview. And that is what happened on February 8th, when I drove to Bitterfeld, Germany to see Frantic Amber live for the first time.
But it can happen when you have an appointment with a band, e.g.
Heyijustmetyedoesn’t happen every time that when you go to a concert, you are invited to the backstage area.
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