Interview:

Music, as understood by Nefarium, as a means of communicating a way of thinking, takes on a double significance through the composer’s desire to express himself, and the interpretation of the message which the following on of the notes seeks to develop when listening to the melody. Each member of Nefarium composes, or simply facilitates, composition in a conscious fashion, inspired by reflection, experience, or happenings in their life, with the aim of drawing the listener into a system based on the receptive and humanly sensitive capacity to evolve and modify in a personal fashion, and to arrive at deeply profound moments of introspection.

Imagine a high tower the keystones of which represent the technical and compositional ability, built up in order to create a parameter able to define the musical style, and thus the virtual space in which the message can develop without losing its coherence. The area inside the construction, given over entirely to the musician and the listener, if constructed correctly, will represent an ample cradle in which the wish to express oneself, and the desire to understand can come together in a solid bond, thus stimulating sensitivity. This facilitates all musical concepts, by bringing together, spiritually, the creator and the listener. The presumed, but difficult to verify, sharing of common feelings could nevertheless be the objective achieved by any good composition, and could generate an introspective pressure capable of indicating paths towards new cognitive stimuli through heightening both the virtual tower and that of the spirit. Backed up by a sound system which is particularly deliberate, for more than ten years, we as a Black Metal band offer a type of fast and conceptually aggressive music, and the enthusiasm and the desire to transmit our personal feelings. We are constantly in search of those basic and socially incompatible human aspects which offer answers to immortal and inextinguishable instincts.

This virtual voyage towards a particular type of search helps us, as we acquire awareness and enrich our personality, to heighten our spirit in intangible ways, and there where we find the most universal responses, forms, redirects, and develops our sensibilities, giving birth to musical composition. In an apathetic and driven world, powered by hypocrisy, the members of Nefarium seek their personal illumination, and to give the most adequate voice to their own ideals, there where the darkness is greatest, to avoid limits and pre-conceptions, and to grow spiritually towards a single and univocal truth, going beyond all questions and all answers.

“Each member of Nefarium composes, or simply facilitates, composition in a conscious fashion, inspired by reflection, experience, or happenings in their life.”
– Carnifex, guitarist and vocalist in Nefarium