Interview
with Milosz of Morne
2010
By
Bradley Smith
Your debut album Untold Wait has seen
the bleak light of day
and it contains 6
of the 7 songs from your demo. Can you describe the progress/refinement
of
music from the demo to the album? How do they differ and how did Morne
grow and
mature as a band in between the two recordings?
Milosz:
we recorded the demo just to have something to work with on
developing our songs, we just wanted to see how everything sounds
together. we didn't
want to go to some expensive studio
to record these songs and find out that we wanna change something. We didn't even have a plan
to release it but
Will from No Options records kinda talked us into it.
We decided that some songs need some
adjustments and tweaking, we dropped the tuning down after the demo.
The demo
was released in super limited quantity because from the very beginning
we knew
that we would re-record everything. I think the demo showed us few
things that
we have to change and taught us how to be better with playing together.
Prior to Untold Wait you had a
Split with
Warprayer. What material did you release on that and why did you decide
to
release something with Warprayer? Do you feel that along with musical
similarities you also share philosophical parallels?
Milosz: Right after recording our
demo, we decided that we wanted to do a 7" ep just to put out something
small, introduce the band to people.
I
had one song ready and we took one from the demo but we needed
something more
for a main song. I
started to write TO
RUST. The song was
getting longer and
longer specially when Jeff and Max added their parts to it. It was too long for the EP. We weren’t sure if anyone
would release a
12" ep with three songs from an unknown band so our drummer at that
time, Kevin,
brought up this idea to do a split.
I
asked around and Jim from Warprayer contacted me.
I really like bands he was in(Napalm Death, Ripcord)
and I liked raw sound of Warprayer, so we decided that we would do it. Both bands come from the
same scene so that
made it easier...
What sort of touring have you
done with
Morne? How does the
music translate to a
live environment as compared to the studio recordings? What sort of
energy and
mood do you try to convey when playing live?
Milosz: After we released the demo
we went on a short mid west tour.
It was
cool but nobody really knew who we were but we booked it through our
friends so
it wasn't as bad as it could be. After
that we played some random shows here and there and in the summer of
2009 we
went to Europe for 5 weeks and it went very well.
Much better than we were expecting.
When
we play live we try to sound as loud and as good as possible, we care
about what gear we use and try to make everything work so we sound
close to our
recordings. Recently
we added a
permanent keyboard player so the live sound is much closer to the
albums than
it used to be when we played as four piece band.
One thing about your style is the
music
is so desolate, like the aural embodiment of a Nuclear Winter. What do
you
think makes this style have such an apocalyptic feel to it? Are we as
humans
doomed to destroy ourselves?
Milosz: We are trying to express
our feelings and emotions about the world surrounding us but i think
the music
that we listen to has something to do with how we play too. I listen to a lot of moody
stuff like Joy
Division or Pink Floyd that i guess makes my feelings about world
around me
even stronger. I
don't think we are a
bunch of moody people I think that humanity is slowly flushing itself
down the
toilet and that makes us who we are...
The next series of questions will
deal
with topics inspired by your lyrics. I was wondering what a person
would be
when they had no feeling at all? What sort of events within your life
would it
take to rob you of your emotions, your compassion?
Milosz:
Sometimes I feel like many people are lacking in their basic human
emotions...People turn in to mindless blind forms that just close their
doors
behind them. Maybe
the times we live in
make us be like that.
I
have to say that the death of a few of my friends and my mother's
stripped me down to nothing, made me completely numb to everything. It slowly came back to me
but sometimes it
comes out and I guess I express it in some of my lyrics.
You mention a storm coming that
will
change everything? What storm are you referring to and what will be
changed?
How will it be changed?
Milosz: This song is about my
experiences of life and all the little things that make it interesting
or not. By storm I
meant a change, something that
changes my view of life something that I think won't affect me but it
does. death,
sickness, happiness, love or lack of
it. All those
things effect us in one
way or another and everyone sees it differently...
How does one avoid becoming part
of the
machine, living life as a cliché, a stereotype? Is there a way to fight
the
machine? And if we succeed in defeating it, what will remain?
Milosz: hmm, I guess we can avoid
being part of this rat race by being open minded and use our own minds
and not
just blindly follow others, no matter how good or how bad they are. Being good to one another. I think many people
surrendered their
independence for comfort which makes them not be interested in
discovering
alternatives, different options to their lives.
Who
or what is the Invincible Force? Why
must it be destroyed and how can they be defeated? In a world such as
this,
where do you find faith? Is it in any institutions or do you only find
it in
that rare individual?
Milosz:
Invincible Force is outside our doors, ignorance, selfishness. It's all within us, everyone is little bit
ignorant, selfish, we all wanna be comfortable and agree to all new
technologies that we think make our existence better but in the end of
the day
are not as good for us as they say.
I
try to not be sucked in by these aspects of our life.
The faith comes from everyday of my life, mistakes
I make, people I meet...
There
is so much suffering in
this world. From wars like Afghanistan to the earthquakes in Haiti. Is
this the
human condition? To suffer perpetually? Or can we break this cycle? If
so how?
If not, why are we condemned to this fate? Is there a god looking out
for us
with a plan or is he laughing at our demise?
Milosz: War is with humanity since
its beginning it's just part of our history, I don't know what would
have to
happen to stop it. I
wish I did... Earthquakes
..I don't know ..Maybe our planet is just super pissed off about the
exploitation human race does to it.
I
wish I had better answers to this question
Many
people point to the obvious musical
similarities between Morne and Amebix and Discharge. But what do you
feel are
overlooked bands within this subgenre that deserve attention? Of course
my
favorite is Axegrinder. What musical and ideological qualities form the
boundaries of the crust subgenre? What makes this style possess such an
immediate
impact?
Milosz: ah, Axegrinder, many
people
compare us to them and I said that many times ,none of us in MORNE
listen to
them, I think they are not as good and not as ground breaking as people
say. My all time
favorites are AMEBIX and MISERY, awesome
bands. Sacrilege
from the UK is great
too. I think this
style kinda connected
fans of metal and punk. It
was kinda
bridge between one and another. It
has
punk ideals and metal sound. You
can't
really go wrong with that...
Now
that the dust has settled
surrounding Untold Wait what are the future plans for Morne? Any new
Recordings
or tours? Any musical projects the members have active outside of
Morne?
Milosz: We are gonna tour the west
coast in end of May and beginning of June.
We are starting at the Chaos in Tejas fest and then go
west. We'll see how
it goes. Other than
that we will write new material. Erik,
our drummer plays in few other bands so
he will be super busy, other members don't have any other projects
right now. We try
to focus on Morne as much as we can.
I
will leave any words to be
scrawled in the dusty ashes of the nuclear winter to you.
Milosz: Cheers for the questions and supporting us. It means a lot.
For More info check out http://www.morneband.com
