Parasite Inc. interview on Oct 2012

“...The movie dropped our whole concept and we had to find another one...”

Hi Kai, How have you been? I’ve heard that you guys finished an artwork for the upcoming album. Is that true? If you could reveal it on this blog, it would be awesome.

Kai: Hi Kumi, we’ve been fine but very busy. Well, the information about the artwork is right. We finished it and we think it perfectly mirrors the album.

Oh, that looks fabulous! As you said it looks perfect for mirroring the album concept as far as I know at this moment. You always deal with machines and societies as crimes/enemies and there’s some people (or every human being?) as victims, and all things could happens through the medium of “time”, I feel it from your past songs. Can you tell me your thoughts about the concept a bit?

Kai: Well, actually Benni came around with the idea: He seized the idea of the old cover and tried to rebuild it. But then we got a feeling like “Yes, that’s it!”. Like I told you before we rerecorded the old songs, so the cover is a kind of bridge to our first inofficial release. If you compare both cover you can see the development and I think it fits well to the colder and darker sound of the album.

It also mirrors the lyrical side of the songs. The lyrics contain thoughts and experiences with life, time and also society and the cover contains all that elements. I don’t want to describe too much about it because I think people should have their own thoughts with the things (if they even take the time to have one ;) ).

In my last interview, you guys told me the new album would be titled ‘Back For War’ but you’ve already replaced it to ‘Time Tears Down’, right? What happened with the previous name?

Kai: Oh yes, that’s unfortunately right. We felt we had to change it because of the release of the “The Expendables 2”. The subtitle of the movie was also called “Back For War” and the design of the movie poster felt a bit too similar to our concept of the album design. So, the movie dropped our whole concept and we had to find another one. Don’t ask me… it was a search for months until we found something new that fits.

I see… you also had to change an artwork for the album, it sounds kinda time tore down your first idea for the concept, haha. Actually, the new title makes me more firing the imagination somehow. All's well that ends well anyway, right?

Kai: hahaha ya absolutely. Time is a nasty bitch haha. But even because of that the new title fits so much more haha. “All's well that ends well…” Let’s hope so ;)

I also found something impressive in the art by the way. You placed a logical brand new band logo as initials in the dial of the clock. I think it’s reversible, you can see it in the right direction even you turn it upside-down, right? Who’s idea?

Kai: Yes, that’s right. It’s an “Ambigram” again and actually it was a silly idea of me: We still have been searching for a picture-mark beside the word-mark. So I made a lot of drafts and also overworked the old ambigram logo… without any satisfying success. You can see in the picture below a tiny history of our band-logos. It was a long search again but I think we finally have found our elements now and feel 100% happy with it. Looks cool hu?

Well, I am going to say something nasty to you, haha. I mean you also told me in the last interview that you could be sure you’ll release the new album before Wintersun do, and as you know it became your epic fail already, haha. How is the album production going?

Kai: hahahaha :P Well, epic shame on us but who could have known they really release it this year. Actually I am just wondering how fast time passes by: The last interview was in May and now it’s October… so, how can I say, the production is going a bit at moment. Even now that everything is recorded we are still struggling with the final mix and I have become careful with any prognosis about a release date. Nobody of us is a studied sound engineer and we also don’t have the advantages of a professional studio facility (nor we have the money to give it away for mixing). The bit we have, we need for the mastering process then. All we can do is work hard and kick our asses to the limit. Time will tell.

Yeah, time will tell for sure. I hope it won’t be “time tears down”, joking. Keep at it guys!

Thank you so much for the interview! Have a great Time ;)

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