Blacksmith

Story

When i started to experiment making music with 6 or 7 years, i instantly knew i got in a rabbit hole i will never escape again. I stood my first live gig with a Grindcore band when i was 13, first gig abroad in Moscow with 18 and continued ticking off positions on my musical bucket list until i toured in Europe with both Death metal bands. Then i got into sound engineering and music production, discovered electronic music and added some challenges to my bucket list again. Making music never gets old! I always have the feeling, i have just started out doing it.... Even after 20+ years...

Profile

• Guitarist
• Producer

Instruments

• Guitar
• Bass
• Vocals

Genres

• Dubstep
• Blues
• Hip_hop
• Brostep
• Classical
• Progressive Trance
• Electronic
• Soundtrack
• Instrumental
• Pop
• Rock

Influences

• 1788-l
• Rezz
• Slipknot
• Dying Fetus
• Mick Gordon

Equipment

• Schecter Hellraiser
• Steinberg Cubase
• Cubase
• Shure Mics
• Alesis Interface

Languages

• English
• German

What is music to you? What does it give you?

Everything

What is your music dream?

Increase my activity as musician/producer to level, where i can make a living of it. On the baseline i will continue anyway.

If you could change the world - what would you start with?

Attitude

Which is the most memorable song from your childhood?

System of a down - Toxicity

Who are your favorite musical artists or bands?

Death Metal: Gorgasm, Nile, Disentomb Electronic: 1788-L, REZZ, Mefjus, Noisia, Black Sun Empire Classical: Antonio Vivaldi Hard/Heavy: Iron Maiden Rock: Pink Floyd Rap/HipHop: Cypress Hill Post Rock: God is an astronaut

What inspires you to make music?

What wouldn't? Every experience can be translated into a sonic experience!

What is the message you want to send with your music?

Music is the language of the soul, not of the mind. I rather draw images of feelings, landscapes of inspirations for the soul than trying to convince someones mind. My music is meant to be a tool for those, that need inspiration towards an answer, i don't know the question to.

How do you feel when you perform in front of an audience?

Pure determination

How do you see the musicians’ reality nowadays? What could be improved?

Don't get me started!

What do you think of Drooble?

Let me find that out.

What frustrates you most as a musician?

Further differentiate! As musician you can't be frustrated. You can't help but make music or you wouldn't do it. It's in your DNA. As artist though, the industry and the Zeitgeist towards crafted art, quality and consumer-moral is pretty %&/"ç%)

Do you support your local scene as a fan? How?

Go to underground gigs, help upcoming artists with tipps, help promoters with contacts, support with every possible share, like, post word of mouth. I even buy CDs :)

What qualities should a musician nowadays have in order to get their music heard by a larger audience?

Entrepreneurial

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