(interview done in march 2001 E.V.)

Vanish. Hail Arkhon… who’s answering this interview, so?

666 Torturer. It’s the sadistik Torturer speaking now. The Arkhon Infaustus bass tormentor and fucking BM vocals…

V. Let’s start this intie with an annoying question…when did you form your band? …Any biographic notes, please? Who is from Osculum Infame in the band?

T. Arkhon Infaustus is born with the need of Deviant and myself of doing the music that would really fit to us at 666%… Pervert, bestial, evil. We used to play in Black metal bands when we first met back in 92.  But since we had bands already, we didn’t start playing together. When the first  reh’ took place, we knew that at last we would unleash the beast that was lying within us. It was the beginning of our hell. Nihil from Mordgrimm grabbed a reh’ we had made, and unleashed it into a MCD, that had the shape of a vynil (no box) and was sold at a demo price ; IN SPERMA INFERNUM. Then SPIKEKULT raised the second recording, the Ep7’ DEAD CUNT MANIAC. Both are sold out. Now hell is waiting for the first LP/CD, in April on OSMOSE, HELL INJECTION. Deviant also plays in OSCULUM INFAME, but both bands have nothing else in common.

V. Why did Arkhon Infaustus has been formed? For a real necessity or just for the usual silly joke to seem the evilest band in the Earth?

T. Well I have never tried to keep the same kind of lyrics, I just stay myself. JUST NO FUCKING LIES. For me all Arkhon Infaustus lyrics deal with SATAN. Some sexual maniac killing for SATAN, and a blasphemic sabbath on the 7’Ep seem to me very close to me from the MCD. But u should check the HELL INJECTION lyrics. It’s all about orgiastic evil. SATAN SEX SIN HELL. What may sounds more straight ahead, is the brutality of the lyrics of the 7’, but it’s only a way to get along with the fast attacks of the songs. Well some of the lyrics that would really sum it up would be « JESUS SUCKS SATAN IN HELL AND RECEIVES THE SEEDS OF EVIL ». WE ARE MILLEMNIUM 666! ! ! !

V. From France there are a bunch of great bands, but as for Black Metal, I think France is famous mostly for the Black Legions band (Mǘtiilation, Vlad Tepes, Belketre…)… what you can say about this black plague presencing in your country? And what about the Elite Black Metal bands…?

T. Well, I have most of the Black legions’ demos, and some of them are really great evil spawns. But I feel closer to today’s french brutal bands such as ANTAEUS. I think that France is getting more and more BM bands that are at least as good or better than what we are used to from the north. They keep on spitting on each others. This is its pathetic part. One other problem lies here that many young bands that started quite not so long ago try to crusade against what they call

 the traitors… What a joke. SATAN will fist them all in hell. Just try to ignore almost every french so-called true black metal bands… Just annoying copies of norvegian stuff. We got some people, all french by the way…, that called us traitors for signing on OSMOSE…Young fools. These people were still spanked by their moms when Herve from OSMOSE was selling raw BM LPs, or when he signed PROFANATICA BLASPHEMY, IMPALED NAZARENE…  I would just let faggots be drowned in their own bullshits. But they do no harm to any one. More like bees around honey, a honey they will never reach themselves for the greatest part. LET US NOT PLAY TRUE BLACK METAL BUT TORMENTED CORRUPTED WICKED SATANIC METAL ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

V. When I heard about France I remember of the most beautiful city I’ve been in, Paris, and when I heard about Paris I remember about one of the greatest cult of mine: Christian Death… do you know (do you care?) how much important, fundamental and of course legendary this band is? Do you know their story? But better… what do you think about the whole gothic rock movement worldwide?

T. Well I’m not at all into gothic stuff. Legendary bands to me would be more BEHERIT, SODOM, BLASPHEMY…

V. From what bands did you take inspiration for the composition of the songs in the Mcd? And for the so different-sounding Ep? What about your favourite listenings?

T. I think that the MCD sounds different mostly because of the sound, it’s the same evil behind. It was just a reh’ in a very cheap studio. And we didn’t at that time find the sound we were looking for. I believe the sound that would fit us would be a mix of ANGEL CORPSE, INCANTATION, BOLT THROWER… Very loud death metal bands. But this is not what we try to do. The sound we want is the one we have now. Listen to the 7’ or the new LP. This is how we perceive HELL. I listen mostly at bands like SODOM, INCANTATION, old BATHORY, NIFLHEIM, BLASPHEMY, PROFANATICA, VENOM, DESTRUCTION, SADISTIK EXECUTION… and for today scene, the IMPIETY COMMANDO, ANTAEUS, HOUWITSER, DESTROYER 666…

V. I’m intrigued by the song-title “Machiavellian Knights”… Why to use a similar adjective if the lyrics for that song have no literary references to the Italian writer? What do you know about Niccolò Machiavelli? What do you think about him, eventually?

T. Back in time it was only some sign about one of the first ARKHON INFAUSTUS stuff. I don’t care about his way of governing. I follow no rules. I hate laws. Royalty sucks as much as any other politic system. I just know CHAOS and HELL.

V. About my Italy again: in your web-site I’ve read an interview on which your interviewer said that in Italy there are some bands singing in Norwegian: do you really know about this thing? By my side, as Italian myself I can say that’s only one the band that done a shitty demo in that way a few years ago (when the Norwegian trend was in). Do you know the name of that fucking band, maybe? What’s your opinion about this thing?

T. The point is not that much this band. I don’t even know that band (Their name was Ugluck, lyrics in ancient norwegian and style in the same way of Burzum, though! -Ed). But my opinion goes to that of a scene that wishes only to be like their northern masters. By copying they just follow. I think that the norvegian have done all the best possible in their style, and now most of them are dead, bodies or bands (You’re totally right -Ed). We never intended to follow these bands. I would rather go back to the old german scene, or actual canadian and australian ones. I feel closer to them than the old northen spirit. Look : MAYHEM or BEHERIT have nothing to do with their old spirit, but DESTRUCTION or SODOM still raise some fucking hell…The real chaotic and bestial metal has never come from the north. I am no son of ice nor cold winter. Just fucking chaos and HELLFIRE. What norvegian band is as crazy as SADISTIK EXECUTION ? ? ? Can u imagine BLACK WITCHERY ending up like KOVENANT ? ? ?

V. In the Mcd there’s an inscription that said “the aim of this is to pervert your soul in darkness and to the true pleasure (sin)”: so if a 15/16 years old guy buy you Mcd and start to joining black masses and fucking girls while dressing that kind of black headgear looking like your bassist, what would your reaction be?

T. What’s about my mask (Just to ironize a bit… -Ed)? This was not bought for the pix. Just used as to show some real part of myself. And yes, the younger they find the way to become tomorrow’s freaks, the better it is. And this is why some few famous BM bands will help. I don’t believe they will ever do any harm to the real scene, but maybe they will pervert some minds. Some metal heads will, wherever into these famous bands or into the real underground, leave the scene cause they never had the required spirit, some will commit suicide or murders, and some very few will go further and find the really wicked and perverse bands, feeling and acts. I believe the crowd listening to ARKHON INFAUSTUS’ hokus demons can be divided in big parts. Some that don’t understand a thing and just wanna see some sex on stage, those who dislike us being often disturbed by the bestial reality behind it, changing them too much from the soft and clean BM world they’re used to, the souls that will be damned by ARKHON INFAUSTUS and become part of the 4^th crowd… being the real maniacs, the ones that really feel what we do, understand all that lies behind and dwells within, they know we all are but one, LEGION. HELL. SATAN.

V. A fundamental question: Euronymous said that the Death/Black Metal was (is?) music for people able to kill, you in your specific case are/should be able to kill someone? What kind of person? Why? In what circumstances?

T. To kill is just a way to bring satisfaction. A way to get what u need, and often that is the feeling, the FUCKING ADRENALINE  RUSH. Still that is not the way my nerves need most, but still I respect it a lot. My way is more about sexual torture, and violent and bestial sex. I am not that much in necrophily, cuz I need my victims to scream and cry to cum. To fuck just after death has been performed would be greater, not the pointless coldness of the body, but rather it’s leaving back to this so called fucked creator… And having so far never raped the dead, I would not speak about that. Who in the BM scene could say he had ? Too busy seeking the non-tru BM ones than searching for the GREAT EVIL. That is my only goal.

V. It seems that ritual sex, sodomy, pics of naked girls etc. is one of the main topics in the band concept… how much sex is important to you? Why a title like “Dead Cunt Maniac”? Have you ever practiced necrophily? Do you liked/Would you like to do?

T. This is most of ARKHON INFAUSTUS diatribe. Orgiastic sex, tormenting cunts, he-slaves and mistresses, satanic sluts… We all are SATAN. And the goal of black death metal is to unite us, the spirits of the black unity (and diversity). Be it through lyrics of our realities, or sometimes things we feel or dream. The Dead Cunt Maniac is

some part of us. That drug rushing inside, adrenaline of  violence, sexual domination or humiliation... The lyrics of DCM is not about necrophily. It’s more about some individual getting the bodies of young girls for his own sabbath. Innocence is a bitch, and she loves to be raped.

Yet it is true that raping some bitch that drugged herself to accept without conscience all that u want is a kind a simulated necrophily that brings me the feelings I want and need.

V. In all the Arkhon Infaustus interviews I’ve read “Satan” is of course the most frequent word you said; are you a real Satanist (even if you maybe know, the term is relative), so? I don’t understand why people like Deicide, Acheron or whoever call their god as “Satan” and not “God”, and the christian god as “God” instead of “Jehovah” or whatever fucking name you would use… What do you think of other religions such as Buddhism, etc.? Are you against all others religion but yours or what?

T. SATAN. SATAN. SATAN. SATAN is not the most said word we say, it’s our most lived concept. We are Hell. SATAN IS INSIDE AND BURSTS OUTSIDE. Hell is close. The word satanist is not that appropriate for us. We use the word SATAN to define the concept that lies inside of us because the judeo-christian suckers have made it that powerfull. We do not have any law. We do not respect any religious book. We are no followers. SATAN canno’t be reached. SATAN can only be unleashed. HAIL SATAN. I use any words to catalyse the destructive energies. It can be as well god, jesus christ, or budha, mahomet, thor… all these bullshit positiv religions.

ONE SINGLE BULLSHIT. ONE SINGLE SOLUTION : SATAN ! ! ! U know it’s not that much about being against one religion, it’s more about using the power of turning institutions down. Christiannity is almost dead here in France. No one goes to theyr fucking mass anymore. And still HELL AWAITS…

V. Simplicistic and direct: what do you think about trendies? What kind of person do you define trendy in the death/black metal underground?

T. Trendies certainly get the last of my thoughts, and I just can’t understand why so much people care about them. As long as they don’t get on my way, I don’t fucking care. There so many more people out there that deserve much more of my hate. I just believe that among them all trendies, are maybe some very few people that will become some really crazy maniacs some day, maybe even worth than us all and for she-trends some will become some real satanic sluts. Who damn knows ? I laugh as much at people keeping talking about that. A trend can be a good pawn and because he wants to be what we are he can get influenced easily. Beat those who doesn’t serve. Get the others into drugs, alkohol and whoreship. HAIL SATAN.

V. Usual question: which is the most recurrent definition you give to your own person?

T. I AM THE FUCKING 666 TORTURER. I DON’T NEED ANY OTHER NAME GIVEN BY SOME FUCKING BITCH’S WOMB. I am the last one able to define myself more than that. Maybe the words that apply to ARKHON INFAUSTUS apply to us 3 individually ; SATANIC, BESTIAL, PERVERSE, BRUTAL. In one word, SATAN.

V. What point do you want to reach with Arkhon Infaustus and/or your music? Where do you want to arrive?

T. The only goal of ARKHON INFAUSTUS is to transform this hell inside into music. And if by the way it may pervert people, and join the SATANIC LEGION, so be it.

V. …About reaching of points… let’s speak about deal contracts: a French mate told me you have probably signed for Osmose Productions. Is it true? If you won’t talk about this, just tell me yes or not.

T. The « HELL INJECTION » LP/CD will be out on OSMOSE in April. Well it’s the most fit ‘big’ label for ARKHON INFAUSTUS. They just make possible what we need for ARKHON INFAUSTUS without asking us to change any fucking damned little thing. We can tour, make vynils… And more than that, we have for very long ago listened to many OSMOSE LPs, such as PROFANATICA, MASSACRE (I think you mean the colombian band, but is with an “S” only… -Ed), early IMPALED NAZARENE, SADISTIK EXECUTION, BLASPHEMY… and the new OSMOSE breed are but my SATANIC WAR BRETHREN ! ! ! IMPIETY, HOUWITSER, DEMENTOR… And the great new mexican band DOMAIN… but all this I told u about before.

V. …Future plans in that way?

T. Well maybe a tour in september in europe, and Asia in january. We are waiting for confirmation.

V. End of the interview, tell me if you liked my questions and say what you want to incite some interest in Arkhon Infaustus to the readers of this cult ‘zine…

T. If U R into the dark cult, then the ARKHON INFAUSTUS is already in U.

ARKHON INFAUSTUS is just like coke

Take it, it’s fast, it’s HELL

Xtasy, Pain, U’ll abuse

And then U fucking die.

SEE U ALL VERY SOON IN HELL ! ! ! ! ! ! !