SPHERIC UNIVERSE EXPERIENCE INTERVIEW!!!

You know, we’re five different musicians, with influences from jazz to electronic music, from death metal to latin jazz rock, etc. So that’s why several worlds are included in our compositions. And we feel that progressive metal is about playing. It’s a sort of game. We have fun when composing this music. So basically when we composed Sidereal Revolution, we were young, we wanted to have fun, and we just let our imagination travel around the world and around the Sun, because this cyclic piece is about our planet revolving around its star with an outro that’s acutally the intro, over and over again. It’s just a matter of artistic madness and freedom!
10. I love Mental Torments, another top song, what are you thinking when you created this powerful song?

Once again, we simply let our creative instinct play. When we had something good, powerful, rich, that matched with the previous and following part well, we added it, and thus we built this dark castle. It’s all about creating, until everything is said. On this song we had a lot to say. Other songs are much shorter. It’s depends on many artistic elements.

11. Vince, I like so much the constant, repetitive and distorted harmonies, one of your trademarks, were you have been learning music?

I had guitar lessons with an individual teacher when I was 13. He’s been teaching me a lot of rock/metal/blues techniques for 3 years. I was influenced by Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Van Halen. Then at the age of 15 I discovered Dream Theater and I started to work on techniques John Petrucci was using and still uses now. And that’s about it!

12. John, in Heal my Pain the way that you play the bass in the last two minutes of the song is fantastic, which is your musical history?

Oh thank you very much for the compliment – at last somebody noticed me in this album!! I’ve always been listening to the richest possible music in my life and my passion for the bass guitar is constantly growing since I’ve discovered progmetal and also jazz. It is a very important instrument to me. No please do not neglect bass players!!

13. Another master piece, The Key, very intense, the piano is awesome, but like a team, all you are great, how you develop this song?

The whole concept comes from Franck Garcia’s mind. And there again, we played it, arranged it, and let it grow, until it’s epic enough to match the original concept Franck had imagined.

14. Ranko, in Mental Torments you play incredibly, were you have been studying music?

Alone in my cave or playing with guys since the age of 10. Even if my great pleasure is to play drums and not to study it, I just try to keep my level high enough to play the music I'm supposed to play, I can do more but I think that too much technique kills technique.
15. Franck, your voice is unique; strong and also you sing with a fantastic feeling, How you have been preparing your voice?

Oh thanks a lot for these compliments! I think a voice may have different feelings depending on the musical style, the musician playing with the vocalist and the emotions of the song being sung. Giving some feeling to a voice can be done only if there’s an osmosis between the music and said voice. As far as I am concerned, I just try to give a part of myself using my friends’ musical support, which they pleasantly do. I just have to let my voice fly on a musical path that’s pleasant to my ears. Then regarding power or softness of the voice, heavy singing or clean voice, anger, fear or hope, it’s all about mixing my own vocal colour and technique with a part of “acting”. Each singer must be able to give emotions just like when you are watching a movie.