In your opinion, what is the essence of black metal and which song best typifies Naer Mataron?
MORPHEAS: The essence of black metal in my eyes is a revolt against the modern society and its ways. It is a state of opposition to the church, the politically correct and normal points-of-view. Black metal is an expression of… it is words of darkness that produce light inside a rotten society. The quintessential song of ours is Iketis from the Skotos Aenaon album (featuring the line, “black holes guide me to the Olympian Fathers”). METALLIAN: If you could predict the future what will black metal sound like in five years? Let this be a time capsule. MORPHEAS: I believe that nothing will change. More bands may be…I mean we have seen Satyricon changing in the last five years, we have seen Ulver creating weird things that are not in touch with the metal genre and I really don’t know. I think there will be bands, which will produce music the way black metal should sound like; there will be bands doing weird stuff like Ulver and Mysticum. I don’t think that black metal will change that
