DISSECTION Frontman Talks About New Lineup, Upcoming CD

DISSECTION mainman Jon Nödtveidt recently spoke to Metal-Rules.com about the reactivated Swedish death metallers' new lineup and their upcoming studio album, among other topics. Several excerpts from the interview follow:

Metal-Rules.com: You are the only one left from the line-up of "Storm of the Light's Bane". How did you find the rest of the guys for the new DISSECTION line-up?

Jon Nödtveidt: "Well, when we started to put the band back together, I had had a contact to Set (Teitan, guitar, ABORYM, BLOODLINE) for a while already. Then I got a tape from Brice (Leclercq, bass guitar, NIGHTRAGE) and Thomas (Asklund, INFERNAL, DAWN, DARK FUNERAL), our drummer, he got in touch with us when he heard that Faust left the band. And it basically was as simple as that. We figured that everything suited very well, y'know, it suited perfectly when it became evident that with this line-up everything was so perfect and smooth in our rehearsals, on the personal level and even on the philosophical level where we see DISSECTION ourselves as a Satanic band. So these three elements were the most important to us and they just clicked, y'know, they worked out right from the start with this line-up. And that was what I was looking for, y'know, people who had these ambitions there already, y'know. That was not a very easy thing to find in the beginning. We got lots of video tapes and we received lots of mails, but I gotta tell you that finding the right members for this band was actually very hard. But eventually when we came to the point to try these other members out in the new DISSECTION line-up, it really clicked right from the start. It was an immediate thing, you could actually feel it."

Metal-Rules.com: How much do you think you're able to stretch your sound in order to still be recognized as DISSECTION?

Jon Nödtveidt: "I think it's hard to say what are those particular elements that make us sound like DISSECTION, y'know. It's not one or two specific things because if you found that formula, what would it be, what would you say it was, y'know. It's about the feeling; it's really about the feeling and if you listened to our previous recordings, you could notice there's a lot of different variation and different moods in our music from very brutal and fast parts to very calm and clean parts, y'know. So I'm just wondering what is that single element or those single elements that make us sound like DISSECTION because we play a wide variety of different ways within our style. So it's something that has to do with this special feeling in the end, however. You just feel it if it's there or not. So far we have felt that the new stuff, y'know, very much DISSECTION and to us it feels like we are creating like the ultimate DISSECTION album right now. We'll not copy the old style that much we had on our previous albums because that's not too interesting to us any longer. Our music would be dead if we tried to make it just an exact copy of our past albums, y'know. So we always try to be as dynamic band as possible, step forward and create something new, but with the hands that create the music, the basic sound of DISSECTION, will always be there.