Thank you for the interview! How are you today?

Hey! Here’s Pablo Egido, NahemaH’s vocalist. I’m really good and ready for this interview.

You latest album is a brilliant mix of melodic death metal and ambient prog, are you happy with it?

Yes, we are very happy with the result of the new album. Day by day and disc by disc we are seeing how our band is progressing to an own and more characteristic style and this is very difficult nowadays, to sound singular.

Is there a saxophone on there? Because I’m really liking it if there is! Who played it?

Is not the first time we add a saxophone in our songs, we added saxophone parts in “The Second Philosophy” indeed, we like so much the saxo details because it makes the songs a little bit more classy and more experimental in NahemaH’s compositions.

Many of the songs have an ethereal, spiritual atmosphere to them, was there a concept behind the album?

There is not a thematic concept in the album because every song is a different story, but all those different stories have a global concept in their essence, that concept is the spiritual, mental and philosophical elevation.

Are the ancient myths and stories still influencing your lyrics?

Yes, when I write the lyrics I like to add old myths and mix them with a vanguardist way of writing poetry. Is like in our music, we mix the extremes and we bring them to our own field.

Why was ‘The Last Human’ EP never released? Will the songs be available?

Because it was the point between the death of the old NahemaH and the rise of the new NahemaH, we had really big personal and line up problems during that time, exactly in 2003, and we decided to left that EP out and renew everything. It will not be available but not totally, because there are some recycled riffs in some song that we have written before that EP.

You have moved to a very progressive death metal style of music these days, who do you count as influences now?

I won’t say that we have totally moved to the progressive death metal scene because our music is extremely varied. I think that we are moving now in a more experimental and vanguardist style than progressive style.

How is the scene in Spain?

Well, Spanish scene has two sides. It has a very well organised scene in pop and mainstream music only focused to latin and Spanish language music.
But we have not underground and metal  tradition because metal and rock music is not into the spanish culture, we have a lot of good metal and rock bands, but they have not an international mentality. That’s why we had to go out of our country to be listened, because we don’t fit with the “typical” spanish metal band mentality.

What would you like to achieve with Nahemah?

We want what all musicians and artists want, to reach all our artistic targets. To grow as persons and as artists and share our feelings with the world.

What does the future hold for Nahemah?

Is very optimistic the future of NahemaH. We are going to play a few concerts in Spain and Portugal in late 2009. But 2010 will be really really interesting because we are going to work a lot on the road around Europe and composing new material.

Thank you for the interview! Is there anything you would like to say to our readers?

Thanks to you as well. And check out our sites to get info, tour dates, etc.

 

www.nahemahband.com
www.myspace.com/nahemahband

 

Carl Sucharyna Thomas.