Band Interview: The Moor
Games, Brrraaains & Head-Banging Life are pleased to bring you an interview with dark progressive metal band, The Moor.
1. How did you get started as a band?
The band is quite unknown in the industry but the story isn’t that short, I’ll try to summarize it the best way. I (Enrico Longhin) was in a band called Bleed In Vain from 2000 to 2008, we had a decent record deal and recorded a couple of albums (one mixed and recorded at Studio Fredman with producer Fredrik Nordström, that is where we first met in 2005).
That was the CDs and MySpace era, we had previous bands before this coming from the tape trade era and this was our first “big” experience as musicians (there’s also an article in our Blog talking about this band and story).
After the split, in 2010 I decided to form The Moor with my great friend Davide Carraro,
2. How would you describe your sound?
I kinda like the Dark Progressive Metal label someone gave us, but The Moor sound explores a mix of progressive metal, electronica, and melodic death metal influences.
3. What bands/artists would you say have influenced your style of music?
Everything influence the way I write music, but musically speaking, from historical 70s progressive acts to non-metal artists, from 80’s pop to raw black metal.
On the heavy metal side we grew up during the bay area thrash metal years and the death metal one, with bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Testament of course and then Death, Atheist, Cynic on the US part and then all the 90s Swedish death and melodeath explosion.
4. Has the rise of YouTube & music streaming helped or hindered you as a band?
It’s difficult to say, since we had the time to see the tape trade era when you started to do promotion between the school desks with just a pen, paper and some addresses found on Heavy Metal Magazines. YT and Spotify surely helps but for an independent band as we are this involves thinking about marketing and promotion plans.
5. What do you enjoy doing when you’re not making music?
Enjoy the “normal” but sometimes stressful work, family life, travel, watching movies, cooking, reading books.
6. What are your future plans musically? Tours?
Releasing new music soon, maybe another single, and hopefully releasing a new album in 2022.
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