- Well, let's start with the complete story of the Band: I read it was born from two separated projects, I'd like to know more details on the way they merged together as well as the choice of the name 'Mandylion'.
We formed the band in the autumn of 1997, after we quit our death metal acts SOLILOQUY (Leif & Andreas) & ENCINED (Me & Andreas). Leif & Andreas used to play together in a no named doom metal project for a couple of years, but nothing happened. And in 1997 Andreas & me started doing songs that didn´t work out in ENCINED, and later that year ENCINED split up. Andreas & me continued playing together, but Andreas had no time to play in both projects and they almost sounded the same. So in the autumn of 97 we decided to put the two projects together and MANDYLION was born. We all knew each other since many years so there was no problem to work together. The name MANDYLION we found out when I saw a documentary on TV. It has different meanings; one is the supposed shroud of Christ. We're not religious in any way; we just liked the name a lot.
- In the review I called your music 'Doom-Heavy metal', do you agree withme? And would you be so kind to tell me something more about the realisation of your self-financed MCD 'Haunted heart'?
It´s very hard to explain what kind of music we are playing. I don´t think it´s important what to call our music. Someone call it gothic but I don´t agree with that, for me gothic is Fields Of The Nephilim and I don´t think we sound like them. It´s doomy and heavy, but when I hear doom-heavy metal I think of bands as Candlemass, Trouble etc., but what do I know.
- And now to the lyrics. Nature related with melancholy and human misery.
Well, the lyrics deal with melancholy and feelings related with that. It´s just the way they come out. Everything in life has a certain effect on you and subconsciously grow inside of you. Writing might be a kind of therapy to deal with that stuff.
- What should a Label have got to satisfy Mandylion?
Good promotion, and I don´t want them to put their noses in our work and tell us how to DO our music.
- Here comes the end, last words...
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