Necrotroopers is unique and twisted funeral / drone project from Karaganda (Kazakhstan, Russia). It was started as solo-project of Algeroth but know his sister contributes vocals and piano in this tortured and abnormal soundscapes. Necrotroopers released three full-length albums in 2012 and their last album “The Cult of the Darned” was shared as a digital download in February of 2013. Why only digital download? - someone could ask. Okay, it’s pretty qualitative work but it’s full length is more than three (3:32) hours… Damned long – you see. If you’re interesting how did it all happened then this interview with Necrotroopers is for you.
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Let’s start with the following question: what our readers and the target audience of Necrotroopers should know about this project, except for it being “filled with depressing atmosphere of decay, malice and despair” as you say?
Greetings. Regarding the passage “filled with depressing atmosphere of decay, malice and despair”, it is simply a brief description of the emotions that describe this project. Generally, Necrotroopers is not planned to be something profitable or aimed to become demanded by the masses. This project was created mainly for myself, it was a mean to express my own visions and “hallucinations” that were incomprehensible to me. I also had no plans to share this on the net.
This answer raises the question of how all recorded materials happen to get on the net?
One of the participants of the project took the initiative to post the project materials, so that people who seek something new or interesting to hear could try it out. We, ourselves , are constantly seeking out outlandish music.
In addition to that definition, in the internets there is a mention of the “harrowing vocals, akin to rat squeals, bone grinding and the smell of putridity”. Why you want to focus the attention to that, while the main feature of this band are, perhaps, lengthy funeral/drone compositions that may be up to forty minutes long?
Again, it is a brief description of the project’s components. No one was trying to draw the attention to that, we just had to describe the project somehow. The duration of the tracks is only a technical feature, I don’t think it is all that important; music should not have any bounds, neither emotional nor temporal. Especially because this genre implies cyclic and slowpaced sound.
As far as I can tell, project remains in a studio-only format, and I suppose that someone would hardly publish a release of such length as Necrotroopers do. How the project came to that format? What was the initial concept for it and how it is corresponds to it today?
What a record label can give you? What is the point of all that? Let the critics treat this project as if it does not exist if it is not published by a record label. Some people pursue recording quality, some people pursue a chance of being published by recording labels, well it doesn’t matter for us, what matter is atmosphere and energy of the music. There is a bunch of projects, that are not worthy any attention at all, but you can only get to know them by purchasing their published release. There are no rigidly set elements in Necrotroopers, everything is done lightly and without any strong limitations.
Necrotroopers “Laboratories of the Black Sun”
By that logic, you can consider any garage band as true leaders in their genre, because they’re “true and evil” while mediocre recording quality being considered a plus for recorded materials. How you valuate the quality of your work yourself? For example, your latest release, “The Cult of the Darned”?
I disagree with you here. Making interesting and quality music is a big job, this is not for everyone (so you can easily call Necrotroopers a dross, yet even this dross is interesting to some people). But there are some exceptions, when albums are being recorded at home, without any suitable conditions for recording, amidst the trash heaps, maybe even in a bathroom, with all the participants being hunched and crumpled, just like the legendary “Bathory”, which made a great contribution into the development and establishment of several musical genres. As for “true and evil”, this word combination really amuses me, great joke. Recording quality of the album “The Cult of the Darned”, and the other albums before it, is definitely leaves much to be desired, but you can’t say that tracks are completely unsuitable for listening.
In that Necrotroopers album, I noticed an interesting element of ambient. What style are you planning to steer your project into in the future, do you see the scope for the development of this project?
Ambient is one of the core ways to express the atmosphere, it will stay a part of Necrotrooper’s compositions. We are planning to keep the same genre but now with some elements of Death and Black Metal.
According to “metal-archives”, Necrotroopers made three albums in 2012. Considering their length, it’s hard to imagine how such amount of materials could be recorded in such a short time. Can you tell me about that?
This is simply a huge piece of inspiration and energy, which felt on our heads out of nowhere. =) At that time, we earned to record day and night. First album was recorded in a week. The following ones included some tracks that were recorded a couple of years ago, those ones were additionally post-processed.
Where do you do recording? Is everything recorded at home?
Unfortunately, we have no means to do in-studio recordings and frankly, we have no desire to do so. Everything is recorded at home.
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The length of Necrotroopers’ albums had increased from an hour and a half (for a Necrotroopers’ debut album) to three hours and a half (for the last album, “Cult Of The Darned”). I will be blunt with you – I haven’t listened to all of them. But here’s the question: do you listen to your albums yourself? What’s the point of all this?
There’s nothing unusual in you not being able to listen through all the albums, it would’ve been a violation of your own brains, yet still I think there are some characters that will be able to endlessly listen to something super-lengthy. As for listening to our albums ourselves, of course we do. After all, we need to criticize ourselves somehow, listen to our tracks over and over again until we become convinced that it wasn’t what we wanted to hear or maybe it was only 20% worthy. Regarding points, everything has one, but some points are more pointy for some people, than the others.
So after listening to your latest album, what did you saw in it?
The album The Cult Of The Damned is a mix of something original with things that “were already shown in the Simpsons”. Overly, it is too cyclic.
Vocals means lyrics, but I couldn’t find those anywhere. What are Necrotroopers’ lyrics all about? Satan? Cthulhu? Death?
Vocals are simply an additional instrument, which complements the composition with it’s expressiveness. In general, we have here a devil-may-care attitude towards human thoughts and narration. Our project is not adorned with medals of satan, death and other similar entities. It’s something different, something evil, putrescent, vomiting and incomprehensible to itself.
You work without associating yourself with a recording label, but your music is definitely reaching the audience somehow. How do you promote your project, and what reviews it gets?
Our albums are only distributed by our audience, all we do is upload our materials on to web site. There aren’t many reviews, but at times people express their opinions. Usually, it’s admiration and astonishment. Astonishment mostly regarding the place of origin of our project. “Kazakhstan? Are you kidding me… how is that possible?”, “Great job, Kazakh dudes! Go, Kazakhstan!”. It’s quite funny actually, there are a people of various nationalities in Kazakhstan, including Russians. Once I found a German review of Necrotroopers on the internet, I was quite surprised. That person made a decent and detailed article about his impression of our project. Actually, you can see the review HERE!
It’s hard to nail that down, but do you yourself feel any changes in Necrotroopers with each new album? Can we speak about some sort of advancement?
Currently, I can only emphasize an increased length of tracks in our last album and experimenting with female vocals (usually in a Funeral style). Advancement is a loose concept, you can’t award a final mark for your own musical activity. Each album is a completely different story, with a delicately connected to each other.
What goals do you set for Necrotroopers’ future?
There are no specific goals, everything is up to our inspiration and a search for something new for ourselves. A change of style is possible, perhaps it would even be a mix of Funeral Drone Doom and Black Death Metal.
Ok, roger that. There are no more questions for today. Do you want to say something our your readers?
Thank you for being interested in Necrotroopers, see you everyone.
Interview By Aleks
Official Website
Greetings. Regarding the passage “filled with depressing atmosphere of decay, malice and despair”, it is simply a brief description of the emotions that describe this project. Generally, Necrotroopers is not planned to be something profitable or aimed to become demanded by the masses. This project was created mainly for myself, it was a mean to express my own visions and “hallucinations” that were incomprehensible to me. I also had no plans to share this on the net.
This answer raises the question of how all recorded materials happen to get on the net?
One of the participants of the project took the initiative to post the project materials, so that people who seek something new or interesting to hear could try it out. We, ourselves , are constantly seeking out outlandish music.
In addition to that definition, in the internets there is a mention of the “harrowing vocals, akin to rat squeals, bone grinding and the smell of putridity”. Why you want to focus the attention to that, while the main feature of this band are, perhaps, lengthy funeral/drone compositions that may be up to forty minutes long?
Again, it is a brief description of the project’s components. No one was trying to draw the attention to that, we just had to describe the project somehow. The duration of the tracks is only a technical feature, I don’t think it is all that important; music should not have any bounds, neither emotional nor temporal. Especially because this genre implies cyclic and slowpaced sound.
As far as I can tell, project remains in a studio-only format, and I suppose that someone would hardly publish a release of such length as Necrotroopers do. How the project came to that format? What was the initial concept for it and how it is corresponds to it today?
What a record label can give you? What is the point of all that? Let the critics treat this project as if it does not exist if it is not published by a record label. Some people pursue recording quality, some people pursue a chance of being published by recording labels, well it doesn’t matter for us, what matter is atmosphere and energy of the music. There is a bunch of projects, that are not worthy any attention at all, but you can only get to know them by purchasing their published release. There are no rigidly set elements in Necrotroopers, everything is done lightly and without any strong limitations.
By that logic, you can consider any garage band as true leaders in their genre, because they’re “true and evil” while mediocre recording quality being considered a plus for recorded materials. How you valuate the quality of your work yourself? For example, your latest release, “The Cult of the Darned”?
I disagree with you here. Making interesting and quality music is a big job, this is not for everyone (so you can easily call Necrotroopers a dross, yet even this dross is interesting to some people). But there are some exceptions, when albums are being recorded at home, without any suitable conditions for recording, amidst the trash heaps, maybe even in a bathroom, with all the participants being hunched and crumpled, just like the legendary “Bathory”, which made a great contribution into the development and establishment of several musical genres. As for “true and evil”, this word combination really amuses me, great joke. Recording quality of the album “The Cult of the Darned”, and the other albums before it, is definitely leaves much to be desired, but you can’t say that tracks are completely unsuitable for listening.
In that Necrotroopers album, I noticed an interesting element of ambient. What style are you planning to steer your project into in the future, do you see the scope for the development of this project?
Ambient is one of the core ways to express the atmosphere, it will stay a part of Necrotrooper’s compositions. We are planning to keep the same genre but now with some elements of Death and Black Metal.
According to “metal-archives”, Necrotroopers made three albums in 2012. Considering their length, it’s hard to imagine how such amount of materials could be recorded in such a short time. Can you tell me about that?
This is simply a huge piece of inspiration and energy, which felt on our heads out of nowhere. =) At that time, we earned to record day and night. First album was recorded in a week. The following ones included some tracks that were recorded a couple of years ago, those ones were additionally post-processed.
Where do you do recording? Is everything recorded at home?
Unfortunately, we have no means to do in-studio recordings and frankly, we have no desire to do so. Everything is recorded at home.
The length of Necrotroopers’ albums had increased from an hour and a half (for a Necrotroopers’ debut album) to three hours and a half (for the last album, “Cult Of The Darned”). I will be blunt with you – I haven’t listened to all of them. But here’s the question: do you listen to your albums yourself? What’s the point of all this?
There’s nothing unusual in you not being able to listen through all the albums, it would’ve been a violation of your own brains, yet still I think there are some characters that will be able to endlessly listen to something super-lengthy. As for listening to our albums ourselves, of course we do. After all, we need to criticize ourselves somehow, listen to our tracks over and over again until we become convinced that it wasn’t what we wanted to hear or maybe it was only 20% worthy. Regarding points, everything has one, but some points are more pointy for some people, than the others.
So after listening to your latest album, what did you saw in it?
The album The Cult Of The Damned is a mix of something original with things that “were already shown in the Simpsons”. Overly, it is too cyclic.
Vocals means lyrics, but I couldn’t find those anywhere. What are Necrotroopers’ lyrics all about? Satan? Cthulhu? Death?
Vocals are simply an additional instrument, which complements the composition with it’s expressiveness. In general, we have here a devil-may-care attitude towards human thoughts and narration. Our project is not adorned with medals of satan, death and other similar entities. It’s something different, something evil, putrescent, vomiting and incomprehensible to itself.
You work without associating yourself with a recording label, but your music is definitely reaching the audience somehow. How do you promote your project, and what reviews it gets?
Our albums are only distributed by our audience, all we do is upload our materials on to web site. There aren’t many reviews, but at times people express their opinions. Usually, it’s admiration and astonishment. Astonishment mostly regarding the place of origin of our project. “Kazakhstan? Are you kidding me… how is that possible?”, “Great job, Kazakh dudes! Go, Kazakhstan!”. It’s quite funny actually, there are a people of various nationalities in Kazakhstan, including Russians. Once I found a German review of Necrotroopers on the internet, I was quite surprised. That person made a decent and detailed article about his impression of our project. Actually, you can see the review HERE!
It’s hard to nail that down, but do you yourself feel any changes in Necrotroopers with each new album? Can we speak about some sort of advancement?
Currently, I can only emphasize an increased length of tracks in our last album and experimenting with female vocals (usually in a Funeral style). Advancement is a loose concept, you can’t award a final mark for your own musical activity. Each album is a completely different story, with a delicately connected to each other.
What goals do you set for Necrotroopers’ future?
There are no specific goals, everything is up to our inspiration and a search for something new for ourselves. A change of style is possible, perhaps it would even be a mix of Funeral Drone Doom and Black Death Metal.
Ok, roger that. There are no more questions for today. Do you want to say something our your readers?
Thank you for being interested in Necrotroopers, see you everyone.
Interview By Aleks
Official Website