An interview
Kalt of Kalt Herzen Stirbe: an interview
by: Erika Falls
What type of band do you have?
KHS is an industrail noise death band, in so many words. But it's basically whatever we feel like writing, that's just what it usually comes out as.
What instrument do you play?
Keys, Synth, software or otherwise, Post Processing and Vocals.
What type of music do you listen too?
A lot of EBM, Industrial, Darkwave and ambient shit, but I also like the Mars Volta (which I couldn't even try to catagorize, for fear of the genre elitists attacking me)
What "label" does your band fit into? (goth,emo ect.)
Rivit/Goth
What type of people tend to be interested in your music?
[Laughs] What people? eople that hate shitty lyrics? I don't really know. Ask them, not me. I wouldn't listen to me.
Then why are you still part of the band if you don't support its stuff?
I love our stuff, but it's weird. It's not really easy to listen to unless you're in our state of mind, and if you really understand the lyrics and our meaning. Then it starts to make sense, and you start enjoying it.
Isn't that how all music works?
No, anyone can pick up a paul okenfold album and dance to it.
Wouldn't you rather be a cult group or a really popular band?
I probably would like to be the cult classic group, if only so I can be just a little more of an elitist asshole than I already am.
I know I would rather be the cult classic group. Much more devoted fans. Much better message.
Very true, ask me some personal questions.
What is your "political" standing?
I'm a liberal fascist, through and through. I do not trust today's society with governing itself, because it's perpetually a popularity contest. The person who can do the job should do the job, that's how it is to be. I'm liberal the way of being pro-abortion and pro-gay rights and what not. I could go into it more, but I don't think this is the time nor the place.
[brief chatter]
Back to the interview
Ja schön
You over estimate my german
[giggle]
If you were a Star Wars character, yes I am serious, who would you be?
Boba Fett
Hell yes, if you had to describe yourself in one word, what wuold the word be?
Misanthropic
You hate people too?
More than you could ever imagine.
You are my new favorite person
[smiles]
What band/musician do you despise the most?
Hrm. 50 cent
Why?
Because he got shot but didn't die.
If you could fuck anyone in the world, who would it be?
My girlfriend, Arianna
Awww
I'm a romantic bastard, wanna say something? [laughs]
If you could live in anyother country besides the United States, where would you live, And why?
Germany, because everything is cooler if it's german.
Just like it's not gay if it's emo; I mean *cough*
What? Emo music kicks ass as long as it's bright eyes.
It's like if you have sex with an emo guy (or a girl for me. Even though I'm quite openly bi so it doesn't matter) it's not gay. Because it's emo.
That makes no sense to me. But that's okay, it's emo. It doesn't have to.
YES!!! That's the point,
I know, I'm pretty smart.
I'm a Bright Eyes whore, Conor Oberst is my hero
e's a huge asshole though, my friend met him once.
Anyway
Right-o.
If you could only keep one song in you collection (of your band) what would it be?
Eine or Playing in a Field of Broken Glass
Pick one, hence the point of the question.
Oh, right. Yeah, Playing in a Field of Broken Glass.
Why?
Because it's the first song I ever did, it was a solo piece, but it kicks ass and has special meaning to me.
You are such a sentimentalist
I am.
Not saying that's a bad thing though.
Even if you were. [smiles]
That's the point of being a sentimentalist it doesn't matter
Exactly.[giggles]
If you could play any instrument what would it be?
Synth?
If you could only keep one song out of your collection (songs by artists that are not your banc) what would it be, and why?
Sadder Still by Velvet Acid Christ, because I can connect with it and it's an amazing song aurally and technically.
If you could assasinate one person who would it be and why?
Adam. For starting this whole mess and fucking Eve.
If you could assinate one politcal figure who would it be and why?
God, for allowing his people to run so astray.
Very insightful of you, most people would have said Bush. I know I would have.
But they would have said because he's stupid, and I would have assassinated them.
I would because he's a bigot bastard
That too, but they would have left it at stupid.
Well, I'm not that stupid
I know [smiles]
I say it because he's taking my rights to be with whom I want to be with and what I can and cannot do with my body, BIGOT SEXIST BASTARD!
[gapes]
Sorry. Sometimes i just get carried away on this one
Like me on cutting poetry. *laughs*
What's with you and cutting poetry?
I don't know, it just bothers me. People write poetry about cutting (90% of the time, they don't even cut) and post it on poetry forums I frequent to get critiqued, when we rip into them for being shitty poets with shitty topics they freak out. So over time I started to callous myself against whatever pain they're feeling, and not give a damn anymore. Fuck them and their problems, they're ignorant and stupid, go ahead and kill yourself. I hope they choke on their crimson blood.
Hey now, I was a cutter, bBut I didn't bitch to anyone about it. I kept to myself
No qualms with you then.
[thinking, digs deep into soul]
Is it black?
Soul? What soul? I sold it years ago
To the media?
Fuck no
I did, and I'm suing them for it, fuckers.
To my 6th grade English teacher
weird.
What "religon" are you?
I've got my own sect of Christianity, but the more I look into others I notice the similarities between my beliefs and Satanism. I just refuse to identify with something so Occult. I generally put down "Christian - other" on personals sites, if that better answer's your question.
Yes it does, but not really. You're personal beliefs are much more interesting
I could elaborate?
Please do.
I believe there is a higher power, or a driving force behind our perpetuated existance. But I believe it is not truely omni-benevolent, because a wholely omni-benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent power is impossible withing the stretches of human imagination. I believe that the bible holds many truths, but must not be taken so literally, it is generally a good guide book to go by, but is hardly a road map. I do not attend church on sundaym even if it were for my own service, because it knows I have more important things to do on my sunday. A god that expects it's followers to live in fear of it and worship it's own magnificence and still want to be considered omni-benevolent is full of shit. My god didn't create me to jerk his ego off all day.
That is also very insightful
I think a lot.
I can tell, it shows in your views.
Yeah.
When you think about what you are going to be in 10 years, what do you see?
Myself, married, with a house at the head of a well established software development firm. A hybrid (or pure electric) car and a son. In San Jose, CA
You've got this planned out haven't you? What if you have a daughter?
It doesn't really matter. Girls just cry a lot, and have periods. But if I had a daughter I would design her awesome clothes. Ha, not that I don't cry a lot.
Well, you're a teenager, that's what we do, we get all melodramatic.
Yeah, we've gotten pretty good at the whole melodrama thing.
My Boyfriend calls me his Melodramatic Princess
I call my girlfriend my gothic princess, or Ari-liebe.
Awww, I've also been doubed the Kudos Fairy and The Sexy Emo Nibble Queen
I've been dubbed The Grammar Nazi and Iron Lyricist on Gaia. Be right back *sets the phone down and takes a wicked deuce*
Okay
I'm back
"WB" I hate acryoms, so I use them.: What acronym do you hate when people say it in person?
I use them all the time in person, I'd be hypocritical to say I hate any one in particular, though I don't say lol, irl, I do say omg and, of course, irl. Irl.
That about wraps it up I suppose, any last thoughts?
Yeah, people need to stop blowing me off. Eric should go kill himself, and Salvia divinorum is awesome.
by: Erika Falls
What type of band do you have?
KHS is an industrail noise death band, in so many words. But it's basically whatever we feel like writing, that's just what it usually comes out as.
What instrument do you play?
Keys, Synth, software or otherwise, Post Processing and Vocals.
What type of music do you listen too?
A lot of EBM, Industrial, Darkwave and ambient shit, but I also like the Mars Volta (which I couldn't even try to catagorize, for fear of the genre elitists attacking me)
What "label" does your band fit into? (goth,emo ect.)
Rivit/Goth
What type of people tend to be interested in your music?
[Laughs] What people? eople that hate shitty lyrics? I don't really know. Ask them, not me. I wouldn't listen to me.
Then why are you still part of the band if you don't support its stuff?
I love our stuff, but it's weird. It's not really easy to listen to unless you're in our state of mind, and if you really understand the lyrics and our meaning. Then it starts to make sense, and you start enjoying it.
Isn't that how all music works?
No, anyone can pick up a paul okenfold album and dance to it.
Wouldn't you rather be a cult group or a really popular band?
I probably would like to be the cult classic group, if only so I can be just a little more of an elitist asshole than I already am.
I know I would rather be the cult classic group. Much more devoted fans. Much better message.
Very true, ask me some personal questions.
What is your "political" standing?
I'm a liberal fascist, through and through. I do not trust today's society with governing itself, because it's perpetually a popularity contest. The person who can do the job should do the job, that's how it is to be. I'm liberal the way of being pro-abortion and pro-gay rights and what not. I could go into it more, but I don't think this is the time nor the place.
[brief chatter]
Back to the interview
Ja schön
You over estimate my german
[giggle]
If you were a Star Wars character, yes I am serious, who would you be?
Boba Fett
Hell yes, if you had to describe yourself in one word, what wuold the word be?
Misanthropic
You hate people too?
More than you could ever imagine.
You are my new favorite person
[smiles]
What band/musician do you despise the most?
Hrm. 50 cent
Why?
Because he got shot but didn't die.
If you could fuck anyone in the world, who would it be?
My girlfriend, Arianna
Awww
I'm a romantic bastard, wanna say something? [laughs]
If you could live in anyother country besides the United States, where would you live, And why?
Germany, because everything is cooler if it's german.
Just like it's not gay if it's emo; I mean *cough*
What? Emo music kicks ass as long as it's bright eyes.
It's like if you have sex with an emo guy (or a girl for me. Even though I'm quite openly bi so it doesn't matter) it's not gay. Because it's emo.
That makes no sense to me. But that's okay, it's emo. It doesn't have to.
YES!!! That's the point,
I know, I'm pretty smart.
I'm a Bright Eyes whore, Conor Oberst is my hero
e's a huge asshole though, my friend met him once.
Anyway
Right-o.
If you could only keep one song in you collection (of your band) what would it be?
Eine or Playing in a Field of Broken Glass
Pick one, hence the point of the question.
Oh, right. Yeah, Playing in a Field of Broken Glass.
Why?
Because it's the first song I ever did, it was a solo piece, but it kicks ass and has special meaning to me.
You are such a sentimentalist
I am.
Not saying that's a bad thing though.
Even if you were. [smiles]
That's the point of being a sentimentalist it doesn't matter
Exactly.[giggles]
If you could play any instrument what would it be?
Synth?
If you could only keep one song out of your collection (songs by artists that are not your banc) what would it be, and why?
Sadder Still by Velvet Acid Christ, because I can connect with it and it's an amazing song aurally and technically.
If you could assasinate one person who would it be and why?
Adam. For starting this whole mess and fucking Eve.
If you could assinate one politcal figure who would it be and why?
God, for allowing his people to run so astray.
Very insightful of you, most people would have said Bush. I know I would have.
But they would have said because he's stupid, and I would have assassinated them.
I would because he's a bigot bastard
That too, but they would have left it at stupid.
Well, I'm not that stupid
I know [smiles]
I say it because he's taking my rights to be with whom I want to be with and what I can and cannot do with my body, BIGOT SEXIST BASTARD!
[gapes]
Sorry. Sometimes i just get carried away on this one
Like me on cutting poetry. *laughs*
What's with you and cutting poetry?
I don't know, it just bothers me. People write poetry about cutting (90% of the time, they don't even cut) and post it on poetry forums I frequent to get critiqued, when we rip into them for being shitty poets with shitty topics they freak out. So over time I started to callous myself against whatever pain they're feeling, and not give a damn anymore. Fuck them and their problems, they're ignorant and stupid, go ahead and kill yourself. I hope they choke on their crimson blood.
Hey now, I was a cutter, bBut I didn't bitch to anyone about it. I kept to myself
No qualms with you then.
[thinking, digs deep into soul]
Is it black?
Soul? What soul? I sold it years ago
To the media?
Fuck no
I did, and I'm suing them for it, fuckers.
To my 6th grade English teacher
weird.
What "religon" are you?
I've got my own sect of Christianity, but the more I look into others I notice the similarities between my beliefs and Satanism. I just refuse to identify with something so Occult. I generally put down "Christian - other" on personals sites, if that better answer's your question.
Yes it does, but not really. You're personal beliefs are much more interesting
I could elaborate?
Please do.
I believe there is a higher power, or a driving force behind our perpetuated existance. But I believe it is not truely omni-benevolent, because a wholely omni-benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent power is impossible withing the stretches of human imagination. I believe that the bible holds many truths, but must not be taken so literally, it is generally a good guide book to go by, but is hardly a road map. I do not attend church on sundaym even if it were for my own service, because it knows I have more important things to do on my sunday. A god that expects it's followers to live in fear of it and worship it's own magnificence and still want to be considered omni-benevolent is full of shit. My god didn't create me to jerk his ego off all day.
That is also very insightful
I think a lot.
I can tell, it shows in your views.
Yeah.
When you think about what you are going to be in 10 years, what do you see?
Myself, married, with a house at the head of a well established software development firm. A hybrid (or pure electric) car and a son. In San Jose, CA
You've got this planned out haven't you? What if you have a daughter?
It doesn't really matter. Girls just cry a lot, and have periods. But if I had a daughter I would design her awesome clothes. Ha, not that I don't cry a lot.
Well, you're a teenager, that's what we do, we get all melodramatic.
Yeah, we've gotten pretty good at the whole melodrama thing.
My Boyfriend calls me his Melodramatic Princess
I call my girlfriend my gothic princess, or Ari-liebe.
Awww, I've also been doubed the Kudos Fairy and The Sexy Emo Nibble Queen
I've been dubbed The Grammar Nazi and Iron Lyricist on Gaia. Be right back *sets the phone down and takes a wicked deuce*
Okay
I'm back
"WB" I hate acryoms, so I use them.: What acronym do you hate when people say it in person?
I use them all the time in person, I'd be hypocritical to say I hate any one in particular, though I don't say lol, irl, I do say omg and, of course, irl. Irl.
That about wraps it up I suppose, any last thoughts?
Yeah, people need to stop blowing me off. Eric should go kill himself, and Salvia divinorum is awesome.