

Music Trespass: You’re absolutely right! I stand corrected. Seidemann: First I must correct you, Mayhem’s first album was 'Deathcrush'.

It has a very classic Black Metal feel going back to Mayhem’s classic debut 'De Mysteriis, Dom Sathanas' It’s also much shorter then your previous album’s it’s very much an attack. Music Trespass: I have found that the last couple of albums emphasized more on the slow and atmospheric while this album revisited the sound of the classic trilogy 'Liberation, Beyond the Apocalypse' and 'Hellfire'. We have been going for seventeen years, so what are the things that constitute 1349? What is 1349? And well the answer was all the things that made 'Cauldron of Chaos' and we just went through all the things we have done and thought how can we move this forward? How can we make an album better then anything we have done before? After having done five albums you can allow yourself to look back and see what you have done, what’s been going on in the band all these years. I would say it is heavier but by no means slow but it’s heavier and it has groove which has always been in our sound but this time we have pushed it up to the forefront. Seidemann: Well the album is the sixth album we have done as a band and it is by far the most groovy and how do I say? a lot of people throw around words like "organic" and I'm not going to do that but I will say it's very groove based and heavy in the old fashioned sense of heavy more then just insane parts like we have done in the past. Music Trespass: Lets talk about 'Massive cauldron of Chaos'. Seidemann: Well I am fine I have been preparing for the release show tomorrow we are having in Oslo for the new album 'Massive cauldron of Chaos' which is out on Monday but we are doing a release show tomorrow. Joe Denby talks with Seidemann, bass player of 1349 about the band's history, their new album and all things Black Metal! The fire still burns inside 1349's cauldron!
