1. Who, are Hexis? How did the band come to life ?
Filip: We are a danish Hardcore/Black-/Post-metal band that's played together for more or less a year. In the beginning it was Simon (our drummer) and I (vocals) that formed Hexis together. We created the group due to us both being in bands that was in the midst of splitting up at the time, which led to us launching Hexis as a project. As just the two of us obviously wasn't enough Simon got ahold of a guy he knew that played guitar - Stig - and I found another guitarist (now former guitarist) - Kasper - at a danish website for musicians; and so we were four. We then got together and played a couple of months without having a bass-player, but eventually I met a guy - Tobias - which joined in the group. Some time after this Kasper decided to leave though which led to us finding our current guitarist Christian.
2. Whats the main goal behind your music? What do you want to accomplish as a band and individuals?
Filip: We just want to make a lot of music, records and tour as much as possible.
3. Your music contains a lot of diferent elements of music. Do you find acceptance from a lot of different people in Copenhagen, hardcorepunks and metalheads etc?
Filip: Since we've only played shows since August not a lot people know about us yet, but yeah, it seems like the people that's into our music is a pretty diverse group, so that's nice I guess.
4. How is the scene in general in Copenhagen? You seem to have a lot of gigs happening on a regular basis.
Filip: To be honest, the scene for our kind of music isn't very large here in Denmark at all. You need to be a bigger name (or have a lot of friends) if you want to play for bigger crowds here. It's pretty normal that we sometimes only play for 10 - 20 people at a time - but it's okay, we love to play no matter what. The reason why we have a lot of gigs is partly because I book a lot of shows here in Copenhagen so I've been able to network a lot and also put ourselves on as one of the acts on various shows when it seems fitting.
5. You recently did a short Scandinavia-tour with Celeste, was it your first tour? What were your thoughts about playing at Sweden venues?
Filip: Yes, that was our first tour as a band. For me this was probably some of the best days in my life and it was also my first shows ever outside of Denmark. On top of that it was just a luxury to be able to do a tour together with my favorite band, visiting nice places and nice people. If all goes well we'll probably be back with another tour at the end of the year, where we're going to be teaming up with another amazing band. The only negative thing about Sweden was the rules about alcohol at most places, so we had to spend a couple of hours outside each show "getting ready", haha.
6. Tell us a bit about your cooperation with Suburban Mayhem Records, how did it came that you choose them to release your s/t cassette?
Filip: First off, Jamie that's running Suburban is also a member of the band Drainland of whom I've been a fan of for many years. Secondly, a couple of weeks after we put our music up at MySpace he contacted us and told us that he was really into our music and if there wasn't any other labels that was going to release it then he was up for it, and since there was no other label, and he was a cool guy, then this was a perfect fit!
7. Where do you find inspiration to write music?
Filip: We all have very different tastes is music, but some of our favorite artists and inspirations are Celeste, Deathspell Omega, Blut Aus Nord, The Arson Project, Converge and Cult Of Luna. Then coming up with riffs and such it's usually Christian or Stig that comes up with something to begin with and then I and Tobias give our input on what to change and what to keep and it goes on from there ending up with music usually sounding nothing like the initial idea.
8. I heard your going into the studio again in late march to record some new songs. What can we expect from that?
Filip: The sound we are trying to focus on with these couple of songs are doing the fast parts more intense and chaotic and the slow parts more heavy and slow and all in all a bit more the 'same' sound from each song. That's not to say that we want all the songs to sound exactly the same, but instead of taking evil, depressive and epic parts, we just focus on the evil parts this time around, so that all the songs connect better this time around.
9. Thank you for doing this interview, do you have any closing words or a question for us here on the blog perhaps?
Filip: Thanks a lot for this interview, it's the second time I've ever done one of these, it was fun.
Check out Hexis here and order the cassette here. I guarantee it's worth it.
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