Lucifuge Rofocale, is a Black Metal band, founded in the year of 2004 in the city of Leon [Nicaragua] by the guitarist and vocals, Sarth Norgaath Santeliz and the drummer Eligor Siniestrous. This Band arose from the ashes of a Black Metal Band called Demogorgon in the year of 2002. The Thematic of their songs, are mostly focused on War and its attitude against life and religion [Being Anti-Gods]. Its name comes from the devil "Lucifago Rofacale" [also known as Lucífago of Rafaquele]. They have participated in several music compilations, as well as guest band to open concerts of recognized bands like Averse Sefira, Nargaroth, Marduk and others. Sarth Norgaath discusses his band and latest release.
1.What type of band are you?
Sarth Norgaath: Supreme Blackened Metal!!!!
2. 2. How did your band form?
Sarth Norgaath: Because of the musical trend in this country are more into death metal and melodic Black Metal, in the past there wasn't a representative band of this destructive line of sound like it is the Extreme Black Metal. The one that now LR is executing since 2004, time when I set my musical objectives, after I left the black metal band that I was member in the year of 2002 in my natal city Leon.
3. 3. Where does a name like Lucifuge Rofocale come from and does it have a meaning?
Sarth Norgaath: Lucifuge Rofocale is the name of the mayor demon Lucifago Rofacale. King of all the demons, how is on charge of rule the inferno by command of Lucifer. Also is known as Lucífago de Rafaquele.
4. What are your songs about? What specific themes do they cover?
Sarth Norgaath: LR play a complex concept of been Anti-life, satanism, misantropy, antichristian, war and hate and even nihilism and metaphisics. All the highest expression of human, leaded to a point where you stops of be. I use the term “Satan” y “LR” as a derision and contradiction toward things imposed by the intellect of the Homo. Everything is about been free.
5. Do you write your own songs? Discuss the songwriting process in detail?
Sarth Norgaath: Yes I do, I write and compose it. I take the necessary time to do every detail of the songs;
it doesn't matter if at the beginning comes at first a small part of the lyric, or the entire lyric or a line of musical composition. All fits and concludes when you have complex moments of musical inspirations and experience of any kind.
6. What was the inspiration for the album name Demonic Transfixion?
Sarth Norgaath: This was since the creation of the song, because I had been working on it a lot time ago. In general it’s about a vision of epics battles, on which the transfixions where the symbolic element of great power and intimidation. The scene is so disturbing that it’s only the outcome of minds possessed by superior been or demonic. It’s important to say that In contradiction with the art of the disc, doesn't show the battle directly, it only shows the domination, idolatry, the subservience of weak minds of the bastard humans and The result of this fight.
7. Do you feel the pressure of being a 3-piece band?
Sarth Norgaath: No. We found the energy, strength, and power necessary to transmit the disturbing precision that characterized the Blackened metal. If there were more than 3 or 4 pieces it will profane and overload this type of musical expression by become it in another bastard subgenre.
8. Describe your relationship with your fans in one word?
Sarth Norgaath: Brutal!!!!
9. Do you listen to any music that your fans would be surprised about? Or that you consider a guilty pleasure?
Sarth Norgaath: No. I have a taste for instrumental classical music and some industrial Metal but i don’t think that it reach to be a guilty pleasure. I listen and support what I like, The rest, I ignore.
10. What accomplishments are you most proud of as a band?
Sarth Norgaath: I never worried about this subject; we are the first in blackened metal and in represent and share the stage abroad with local’s bands and internationals, and also in release copies in different labels in
Europe and America in several formats. But whatever, that is not that important to me, what really matters
is that here we are, we are destructors, there is still a lot to do and that is the only thing that I need to know.
11. Do you have any major goals for your band?
Sarth Norgaath: Look, I believed that things will happen as the way as we open borders. Of course, full CDs, loaded with what I like the most ‘’Supreme Blackened Metal’’, that is one of the main goal,
also some live rituals and share the stage with bands that we like. In the long term it could be
that I spread the power of the Blackened Metal in faraway lands.
12. Who are your musical influences?
Sarth Norgaath: I always follow the line that left Euronymous, Death and other bands from South America like Parabellum who initiate the Black Metal in the extreme side, as it should be. Also some bands
that are now recognized but I will not seek to mention. But, times have change, for better;
now to this it embodies experiences beyond the flatters mortal aspects.
13. How do you describe your music to people?
Sarth Norgaath: With elaborate and disturbing cords, rapid riffs in the guitars, rhythm arranges highly fast
with an atmosphere that summons supreme energy of power and destruction with an annihilating shriek voice,
combined with nice arrangements of crushing blast beast with some quick breaks, mediums and momentaneus. Whoever doesn't like my music fuck off, I don’t have anything to prove.
14. What image do you think your music conveys?
Sarth Norgaath: The one necessary for you to realize that it is highly destructive, dark, supporting the extermination of everything that is on its path, not belonging to any place of the universal thinking. Only for Blackened Horde.
15. How do you promote your band and shows?
Sarth Norgaath: By national mail, electronic, official pages, that are in the most searched on internet.
Live shows where It can continue to crushing the idolatry empire. We summit the information,the rest comes by itself. Whoever likes this movement, knows where can find us.
16. Describe your show, visual and musically for us?
Sarth Norgaath: Each show is a ritual, it es prepared with anticipation, that is why we don’t play too often. We always have something different, something that identifies to LR, as soon as you are there you know that we are playing. Several times we bring banner, standard, which I care of doing it myself. You know the rest, fire, spikes, chains, good guitars, that’s how we create the atmosphere that we need for give the strength, the pressure that identifies LR. Actually we have much more stuff in mind, the ones that haven’t been set yet because of lack of sponsors, but I always worry in give the meaning that it deserves to the Blackened metal.
17. What are your upcoming plans for 2013?
Sarth Norgaath: In this moment I’m currently working in the remastering of old songs, that I hope to realized it in EP format on the third quarter of 2013, as well as some splits with friends band from Iran, EEUU among other places. All this will be distributed for small labels across several regions of the world.
18. Anything you want to say to your fans?
Sarth Norgaath: Listen the “Demonic Transfixion” and you will know what all is about. Thanks and I hope to see you in your lands. Satan is war...Hail'z!Blasphemy!!!
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