Nocturnal Euphony

We are speaking today with the lead female vocalist Gogo Melone from the amazing band Luna Obscura. Gogo, thanks very much for your time. Please introduce your fellow...

band mates and tell us where you are from

 

Hello to you and your readers :)
We came from a provincial city called Serres which is in Greece and my band mates are:
Dimitris Papachristos - guitars/orchestrals/programming
Aris Potonos - Vocals/Lyrics

 

We tried to find a way to express our feelings and?say the things that we want to share?so we started to work together. It was not so hard to make it happen because we are friends for many years and our musical influences?are almost the same. We always want to create a mixture of heavy - atmospheric - death?- gothic metal style but it was not so clear from the beginning if we would follow this direction. I mean we didn't have a plan at all, we didn't say "OK, let's go ... let's play gothic". We started to work and?most of our musical ideas were so close in this style so it was a trigger for us to make this choice for the band.

 

It was weird and some of our best periods as a band! We had tried many months to complete "Darcanda", we had a lot of different ideas that we wanted to work on with but at the end we decided to choose only 3 songs. When?the?EP?came out, the only thing we wanted was our music to be listened by a lot of people so we started to make some shows and promote? "Darcanda" in every way we could. All the?comments were more than?great and this was very?positive for us and gave us the energy to continue.

 

Hmmm...Not exactly, because if you listen the?songs the production is almost the same with "Darcanda"?so I guess that we learned more things from these EPs that helped us make our new album. The "Evilyn" has 2 songs, the homonym?song is very?different from all the others that people used to?listen from us. However it still remains a good song for us but we wanted to do the recordings and?separate it from the other songs. To be honest I never had imagined that it will be ever? released in some of our albums with the form and the construction that has at this time. I would better say that we recorded it more for us.

 

We are very happy about it, we couldn't ask for anything more.

I believe that every song in this album is unique and they all absolutely represent the band and the things that we want to create with our music. Our sound surely has been enriched with more stuff but those who have heard older things from us, propably they'll find also enough elements that they remind the past. As for my favourite song, "The Ancient One" and "Codex Daemonicus 1516"?might be distinguished not only for me but for the listeners too.

 

Thank you, I'm glad that you liked it! Our priority was to make a good production without missing the atmosphere. For those who like the atmospheric/gothic/death genre,they have to listen this album not because we have a good production but also for the way that we have worked with?the songs, with the lyrics, the vocals. "Feltia" is a mixture of the words feel and fall and the lyrics talk about anger, fear, suffer, nightmares, pain,generaly about every human feeling. Our producer is Stamos Koliousis from 210 Studios (Berlin). It's the first time we work with him and we are very satisfied with the job that he made for us. We recorded the vocals at STV Studios (Greece) with Steve Dickins who was our Bass Player and the producer in "Darcanda" and "Evilyn". Finally we did the mastering at Finnvox Studios (Finland) with Mika Jussila who has been worked with many popular artists like Children Of Bodom, Sonata Arctica, To Die For, Moonspell, Nightwish and many others. The album artwork was made by Zilas and also I work for the band as graphic designer.

 

Even if we have many months to play somewhere, we prefer to give some shows?when it comes the right time.?We don't close a month from the release date yet so we?need to make a good promotion? for the album and get in contact with some labels first.

 

Not yet but if we have the chance we would love to do it in the future.

 

Thank you very much for the support! You can find our stuff on our official Website www.lunaobscura.net. Also available in a limited number of stores in Greece for our Greek fans and you can make an order via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it