LUCIFUGUM interview for Pure Holocaust magazine (Germany)
(Actual date - Feb. 2006 l.t., publication date - 23.04.06 l.t.)

 

  • Hails LUCIFUGUM! At first speak about your new album "The supreme art of genocide". The titles of the last two albums "Vector 33" and "…and the wheel keeps crunching" were not so easy to understand in its meaning, the new one seems to have a simpler message. What's behind that new album?

    Pathology and fanaticism - that was always inherent in LUCIFUGUM: the pathological impossibility to breathe something that is not Black and fanatical devotion to this condition of Spirit. "The Supreme Art of Genocide" is an ideal refraction of rays which will cripple the strong or healthy, and kill weak (here we mean simply humans), for possessed it should be the fresh blood: for themselves and against others. The might of harsh lynching and aesthetics of the refined, slow sadism in united cocoon of our sick mind.
    "…and the Wheel keeps crunching…" is not a new album, this Wolf fang was pierced in 2001 l.t. and in 2005 l.t. was re-edited by Russian label Oskorei Music as digi cd + new song.

  • How would you describe the musically development of LUCIFUGUM during the last years? Earlier the songs had more symphonic parts and melodies through the using of many keyboards, today it's more raw and brutal, in the vein of early Black Metal bands like DARKTHRONE. Why have you changed that, do you want your music becoming more hateful? Is your hate growing up through the last years?

This is a stereotype and erroneous opinion, that so-called keyboard black metal can't be hateful. Earlier and now there are many groups which think they play "true and evil black metal", though actually it is a simply some kind of rollicking punk. It is necessary to remember that majority of the listeners are normal people with standard perception and understanding of music as some kind of force which is capable to fill and devastate. "Cool guitar riffs and thundering drums, high/low/mid vocal" - that is their primitive understanding. Is it right in this case to rely that they should know what really evil music should be? Besides, the lyrics of many so-called black metal groups will show the all set of shit which humans have dragged with themselves into Black Metal for own comfort: admiration of the nature, patriotism and tons of ketchup instead of blood. We are not under any influences, being concentrated only on ourselves we don't feel the necessity to surprise the listener. Each our Poison is a stinking exhalation that reminds that we are still alive and capable to envenom. With keyboards or without - let it be the problem for those who try to make an impression on others. We are not at the olympic games, and we prefer to follow the own Path, but not to feverishly seek after the challenge cup "the most evil".

  • You always add that "LUCIFUGUM is the black force of two unhumans". Why do you think that you are not humans? I think you a part of the so called "humanity", too.

What do you wish to hear now? The things that almost all will say? That they are actually normal people and their corpse - painted faces are only artistic attributes? That fact that we cross the street on the traffic lights or visit the post office doesn't mean that we are the members of society. Yes, we are also the owners of fragile human skeletons, and we understand that just the human factor is capable to keep balance and relative calmness on this planet. Probably, even the main thing that characterizes those who occupy this planet is an ability to survive. But we are not going to survive at the any cost, caring only about a daily bread and the future pension. We don't prepare for war only because we are always in aggressive condition, we don't search for calmness only because it is impossible. We are natural in our scornful attitude to worms which consider that "human - it sounds proudly". The quantity of envious worms with usual human brains itself characterizes us as hermits which defiantly isolate themselves from human stench.

  • You now have released 11 albums… are there still some things that you haven't said until now? Do you still have something new that you need to create with LUCIFUGUM?

We do not drag behind ourselves a tribune for mass speeches; we have no plans of destruction of the universe. We are the adults and we firmly know who we are. Since we don't aspire to surprise ourselves or the listener, we will not begin to avoid the recurrences if the condition inside or outside us remains constant. Absolutely definitely: what we do, we do sincerely and with the responsibility before ourselves, be it a deliberate step or sudden impulse.

  • The lyrics are all written in your native-language, don't you think that your art would get a better propaganda-effect if you put an English-translation into the booklet? Which ritualistic backgrounds can we find inside the lyrics of LUCIFUGUM?

You mean we should be closer to people to be clearer for them? Everyone who will be objective, having familiarized with my lyrics will agree that it is really original and practically untranslatable into other language: absolute discomfort for many defective and the psychological weapon for cynical souls which will dare to accept it.

  • On the home-page of Propaganda you have added many different propaganda-speeches, let's talk about them… "If I die now - who will kill the others than". Strong hate against the humanity would mean self-hate, too. And this would lead to suicide; shall this statement be an apology for why you don't commit suicide? Do you want to take others with you if you are going to leave this world?

Irrelevant question concerning to us. There is nothing similar to suffering, depression or suicide impulses in LUCIFUGUM's concept. Though these subjects are popular in Black Metal now, many from these "poisoned by life" will safely live their long boring lives. We are here not for demonstration of "heart wounds", we will continue to lynch while forces will suffice or till we will not choke with own marasmus. Even if hatred would be an expensive thing, we would prefer to buy it to clear own territory, but in our certain case such condition of spirit is natural, consequently - constant.

  • "We give to nobody so called "support" and don't wait nothing reciprocal"… I think you support many people by selling them cheap stuff, releasing other bands or sending promos to different persons (for example me)…

All what we do, we do only for ourselves, though sometimes it can become useful for someone else. The prices in our catalogue are low only because we are not the speculators, nothing more. At least now we represent own interests and sending of promos is caused by this circumstance. The word "support", so popular in Underground, often is an empty sound, because in many cases it is simply the part of etiquette. Many times we got gratitude "for support" though we didn't do something especial for someone another to consider this gratitude relevant. Moreover, a collecting of "thanx lists" is a part of exclusively human factor which can influence negatively, since it obliges.

  • Why were you earlier never a part of the line-up which was stated inside the booklets? I think it could not be that no one of the original line-up is still inside LUCIFUGUM… What happened to Ball-A-Myth and Faunus? I heard rumours that Baal-A-Myth was killed?!

Probably, your visiting of PROPAGANDA's site was very selective, and once again I will have to explain that namely I, Khlyst, am a founder of the band and its leader during all these years. The kind of my ambitions was different from the wishes of Bal-a-Myth and Faunus which simply wanted to see LUCIFUGUM the successful Black Metal band. Perhaps, the worthy wish for musicians which were devoted to their deed for some time, but and then, and now LUCIFUGUM is not the temporary hobby for me, but the single possibility to breathe among this stinking life.
Bal-a-Myth has died in the sleep during the rehabilitation's period. I was absent at his funeral and has appeared near his grave just once to put disc "…and the Wheel keeps crunching…" since he didn't live till its output. Perhaps, other hobbies have conquered Faunus, and he has betrayed LUCIFUGUM actually, when shortly before the recording of "Stigma Egoism " he cowardly and without motivation has refused in the further participation in band. As far as I know he lives the normal human life now with all its attributes: a child, job and nostalgia about the past.
When fanatic Satanist Stabaath became the part of the band I have considered it necessary to specify the current line-up to stop the ridiculous rumours spreading by teenagers, which consider that Black Metal is a chatter at forums. Also white ns cockroaches try to slander us, ridiculously believing, that their infirm attempts can demoralize us.

  • I often thought about the title "Vector 33"… What's behind that name?

The trajectory of lynching, extreme point, the age of the most known bastard, place of the accumulation of Black energy, a hole in a head… You can continue the list if you think rightly.

  • Can you tell me the story of the once existing connection between LUCIFUGUM and NOKTURNAL MORTUM? What do you think about that band nowadays? Earlier Varggoth has a guest-appearance on your creations ("Bringing by rain" and others) and you also have released split-stuff together, by the way, you have thanked them in the booklet of "On the sortilage of christianity" for their help. Later NOKTURNAL MORTUM started to combine their music with NS-ideas. What do you think why they have done that? In my opinion it is stupid and senseless to promote the white race.

Varggoth has dedicated to me one of Nokturnal mortum's albums. And what, it should become for me a subject of any special pride? I heard that in new album of Nokturnal mortum Bal-a-Myth have been ranked to "saints ", let it be on conscience of Varggoth, which possibly was guided by the widespread proverb "do not judge badly about deceased", since Bal-a-Myth was not imbued with the morals of Varggoth and did not share his belief at all. LUCIFUGUM continues to remain Black Metal band and we are against any identification with Nokturnal mortum.
What is white race? Bunching ridiculous humans, yelling till hoarseness that they are the persons? Or defective cattle trying to show own superiority, using cunning (read jewish) tricks?
The humanists who have settled in Black Metal, declare themselves as defenders of race only because they stay in full confidence that they will not have this possibility - to protect. Yes, and among those who consider themselves Satanists there are very few who is ready for the murder in a peace time. The common sense wins almost always. The problem of so-called Black Metal scene is that there is too much sensible here and too many personal interests.

  • You always make a difference between LUCIFUGUM and the NS-ideas of many other bands, but for the layout of "and the wheel keeps crunching" you have used many symbols which are very similar to swastikas!? What was the reason for using this symbols and what's their meaning?

The symbol which has been used in booklets of albums "…and the Wheel keeps crunching…" and "On hooks to pieces!" is a profanation of known for all swastika. A Wheel of Death whose destination is to rip up the mouldering and to cut off the alien. Several thousands flyers have been made with a special mention that Ulcer "…and the Wheel keeps crunching…" is a spittle into a paper snout of ns trend, but, in spite of this, so-called ideologists from ns herd continued to spread the weapon against themselves.

  • If you look back now through all the years of LUCIFUGUM's existence, do you see any time which maybe was the most important point in the history of your horde?!

Fresh blood is valuable when it is necessary. And any events had the force when they burned.
Now LUCIFUGUM is not simply Black Metal band, it is Satanic family whose purpose is a creation of Unholy Art. Surely, important is possibility to depend on ourselves only, but not from the situation at "black metal market", mood of labels and other shit.

  • The name LUCIFUGUM points on a satanic ideology and inside the video which is on your new album you use many different anti-christian and satanic symbols (like burning pentagram…). How would you explain your views and satanic ideology?

Cultivation of Evil as a way of cutting off all human since it's alien. Lynching of slave behaviour and mass thinking. We don't fight for the right to freely state own ideas, that fact that we continue to live testifies that we act in the consensus with laws of own Ego, which will not accept another's tenets.

  • Now after the new album, what are your future plans with Propaganda and LUCIFUGUM?

Perhaps, when this interview be published, we will already envenom the minds by spreading of tape version of new LUTOMYSL's opus "Catharsis", of single known to us band in Ukraina who rightly understands the essence of Black Metal as negative Art.
If we'll be able to breathe, sooner or later we will splash out a new Poison - "Involtation".

  • Your last words…

Always keep your own side.

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