Are there any current projects outside of Umbra Animae?
We all did quite some different things in the past, that’s right. But at the moment only Teun is doing something else beside Umbra Anim. He’s working on some songs together with a vocalist called Bert-Jan. The music is more in the stoner-/hard-rock direction, but they still don’t have a complete line-up. I played in it for a few weeks as well, but thought it was better for me to put all my time into just one band. What inspired you to combine Metal with hardcore gabber and piano parts? Band such as The Bezerker? Well, it wasn’t really something we planned. We were experimenting with programming drums, and we just tried out different things. I always thought gabber/techno sounds very energetic and aggressive, and when we tried to fit some parts into our music it just worked out so great, that we continued to use those influences. The piano-parts obviously come from Jurgen, who’se style has always been closer to the piano, than to just adding some choir-type synth-parts to the music. So
