Sorg Uten Tarer
Sorg Uten Tarer (Sorrow Without Tears) is a one man band, on hearing this, my already high respect for this man after listening to some of his tracks went up tenfold. Visit his official website to download his albums, definitely worth a listen!
Hi! Thanks for finding time to do this interview.
First off, can we get a quick bio of yourself please?
I came up with the idea of Sorg Uten Tårer in 2006. A bio of the band is available on the official website. Let’s not repeat that and bore your readers. As for me, I’m a 27 years old man who studied music as a child, but Industrial Engineering, and Computer Engineering with Software Engineering as major much later. I’ve always been an art, fantasy and sci-fi lover. At first, I was only interested in classical (Baroque and late Romantic , If I need to be specific) as a result of early piano and choir training, but when I was around 11-12, I got into Metal music, starting from Death Metal and old school Black Metal bands such as Venom, Bathory. However technology was not as advanced as it is today. So, even if I tried to record my own songs, it was done with a few tape recorders (and at a quite low quality). I have always been a gladly unsociable person, and I didn’t quite fancy the musicians and metalhead community in my city. It seemed to me they were interested in everything the metal community offers, but the music. So, my band experience is minimum at best. Having acquired the equipment I need to start a band, I began writing songs.
Your name I must say, is a fitting choice when listening to your music, what inspired this choice?
Sorrow, has always been a major inspiration source in art. However, some commercial genres of late 20th century turned the meaning of sorrow into something despicable as “crying music”, or “emotional music”. I wanted to have Sorrow in the band name, as it best describes the inspiration used to create it. And I didn’t want it to sound like another “Everybody hates me, I’m going to kill myself with razorblades of romance” band.
When you decided to go down the solo route, what influenced the decision?
I didn’t know any musicians who met the artistic and creative qualifications I’ve set in my mind. Also, I didn’t want anyone to divert this journey from its original path later on. After all, I only have a perfectionist, personal but non-commercial cause for this band. Any conflict in this matter would only end up in immediate split up.
For those readers that don’t know, could you please describe briefly the way in which you create your music?
For any Sorg Uten Tårer song, the source of inspiration it is to be based on is translated into some mental images and an implicit story. That is then translated into melodies in respective scales which can reflect the emotions. Lead guitars are recorded this way. Rhythm guitars are added on top on key notes that can create beautiful sounding harmonies (If a lead melody, or a harmonious couple of lead melodies are going up to higher tones, the rhythm should go down, or create polyphonic harmonies with the bass melody, in response to the rhythm.) Finally, drums are added to prepare the listener for what is to come, or fade away. Vocal melodies are those that popped in my mind whilst composing the lead melodies as “this could go well with it, but not on guitars” or “this can make that a whole”. It’s is all quite trivial once you get a rhythm of work going.
With this in mind, could you also highlight some of the major experiences you have come across?
I can’t come up with anything else than some 31000 experience points from a 3-man quest, actually. And I’m not even joking about it. 31000 bloody experience points.
Aside from the route you took, do you feel any real influences towards your music in general?
Where I grow up has a strong influence on it, as oriental scales, as some might have noticed. Classical music, early Death and Black metal bands. Influences of some great heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden or Dio are hard to miss in most songs. But I try to be as different and as unique as possible. It would upset me to sound like some other band or musician. Sounding like myself, on the other hand, is okay. I grew up in the 80′s where great pop bands and Mtv was the real thing. So, I tried to adopt every good composing technique from them as well, without knowing it.
With a host of albums, is there one in particular which you feel expressed exactly what you wanted it to?
I believe, Grave Songs and Shadow Symphony deliver my usual inner atmosphere crystal clear. But you can’t make every album sound the same. So they remain as they are, albums that quite much sound exactly like them, won’t follow.
How do you view your music in comparison to other bands?
I believe I come up with quite unique stuff. Maybe not “awesome”, but unique. And anything that slips through my uniqueness filter must be some idea that I liked too much and wanted to adopt with respect to the original owner of the idea, musically speaking. Such as Children of Bodom playing a Bach piece in the middle of a song. They don’t want to resell it. They loved it so much, they want to share it with you. Also, I’m not signed to any labels, so there are no commercial constraints whatsoever on Sorg Uten Tårer’s work. I do what I like to do, and don’t have any obligation to turn my music completely into [nu/hiphop/thor's thunder will strike you down, let's milk the viking theme as much as we can, that's where the money is/ or female vocal wedding music with keyboards and "I want to cry, the vampire will bite my soul" lyrics] stuff by my manager’s wishes.
Retribution
Busted- Crashed The Wedding (Lyrics) [FULL-HQ]
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