Equilibrium Interview

From the heart of Bavaria comes Equilibrium. Their sound encompasses folk, Viking, black and a few other types of metal. The band’s vocalist Helge Stang fills us in on Equilibrium’s background, their latest CD Sagas, tour stories, and if the band plans on doing future songs in English.

Chad Bowar: Give us a short history of Equilibrium and how you got together.
We started in 2001, initially only for one show. We wanted to play Black Metal in a church. Our leader René gathered us for this event. We knew each other for quite a while then. After the second show we knew that we'd like to go on with Equilibrium. So we first did a demo record (2003) and made a first album in 2005, called Turis Fratyr. 3 1/2 years later the second album came out: Sagas.

There are a lot of different elements to Equilibrium’s music. How do you describe the band’s sound or genre?
There are influences from all over the world: Bolivia, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Ireland, Scandinavia and so on. But we do not dare put Equilibrium in one drawer. When somebody wonders what we play, we usually say epic metal. This is not perfect, but it fits more or less.

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(photo courtesy Nuclear Blast Records)