#Ravenland second life movie
Then, when the last guitar player left the band, the first name which I thought it was Timo Kaarkosky we played together in other festivals in the past, but in different bands, but when I saw his performance and talent as lead and base guitar player I became his fan and when I invited him, he accepted on the spot and said that he was a big fan of us too and, now we have a great team who admire each other as musicians and persons!ĭewindson Wolfheart – Ravenland Vocals ZEPHYR: Why did you choose the name RAVENLAND? Dewindson Wolfheart: I am a big fan of Edgar Alan Poe, since when I was a boy, the Raven´s poem (Nevermore) was one of my favorite, but, after the movie “The Crow”, I realized that our name needs to have something connected with these mysterious and mythic black birds.
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Timo (guitar) is a kind of Viking playing a guitar instead of caring an axe, he is a destroyer! His performance are killer, he was a great find. Playing around the world and giving the best for this, he referred Renato (guitar) who is a really nice composer and has a nice feeling in his leads, he has the feeling that a Doom guitar player must have. Victor (drummer) is a special friend, like a brother, he is a great drummer and he has the same goal in common with us. Everything took shape since that we started the composing process in 1997 in the Andre Cardoso´s house, we always knew about the direction of our music, dark, intense, melodic, doom, heavy, doom… Together we composed the first songs, “Mournfulness”, “The crow”, “Visionary of the Night”, “in the night eternally”, “The spring loss the smell of flowers”… In October of 1998 we released the first Demo-Tape “October of 1998” for me this dream called Raven´s Land started to take shape on this amazing moment… then, on the following year we signed with the MOONSSHADOW Productions to release our first album “After the sun Hides” in 2001 and the rest of history we can have some beers talking a lot about it… I think that we loss a little of our direction after the releasing of our last EP “Nevermore”, but now with the new line up I feel the same feeling from the beginning of the band! ZEPHYR: Tell me about the actual members of RAVENLAND, where and how did you came together? Dewindson Wolfheart: After the last EP, we had a great change in the lineup, as I said, I thought that we loss a little of our essence from the beginning, the focus which we had in the past, the real essence from RAVENLAND, but, with this new lineup we take back that feeling from the first Demo-tape “October of 1998”. ZEPHYR: What’s your story as a band? How did everything take shape? Dewindson Wolfheart: The band was formed in 1997 by me, André Cardoso (guitar), Clécio Christian (bass and backing vocals) and Alexandre Brito (drums), after some years one by one took different ways, but they are great friends of mine, like brothers until nowadays. Other great challenge is the support from media, our country never supported the metal music, even so we got many things like magazine´s cover, video-clip on MTV, our music is abroad at common radios… Really we don´t have what to claim, because here in Brazil we have the respect from the Gothic Metal music fans and they see us as one of the few groups which represents our country in this kind of music. Since the beginning we always faced many challenges, firstly because Brazil is a tropical country, culturally is a kind of music almost outside of our reality, but at same time, we have disillusions and other dark moments in our lives as every person has in any place from the world. ZEPHYR: Are you originally from Brazil? How challenging is to form a gothic band in Brazil? Dewindson Wolfheart: Yes, we are from Brazil, we live in São Paulo, but Timo (one of the guitar players) is from Finland however he lives here in São Paulo as well. Dewindson Wolfheart: Firstly, thank you so much for your support and this opportunity to introduce a little bit more from our music to other fans. For me is a great joy share with you this interview.
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ZEPHYR: Hails Dewindson & welcome to Zephyr’s Interviews. This great band have been around since 1997 and shared stages with famous gothic bands like Moonspell, Tiamat and Theater of Tragedy…between many others.
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Our guest today is Dewindson Wolfheart, vocals of one of the best representation of the Brazilian Gothic Metal music: RAVENLAND. For the 1st time we have the opportunity to make an interview direct from Brazil.