![]() "The third part is complete insanity," Attila says in joy. ![]() And the third one is Monyok, a figure from the most ancient Hungarian tale, the son of the white horse which is about the sun god. It was very legendary because this figure was a freak and at the end of his life he became a freedom soldier. The second figure is this Hany Istok which is based on a legend of a man who lived in Hungary in the 18th Century in a lake. It's about three Hungarian figures: Paprika Janesi is a grotesque figure in Hungary, like a jolly joker. The second part is in Hungarian, for the Hungarians. The second and third parts, we wanted to make it strange in an insane way. "The first part is for the Western people," explains Attila, "for the old fans. From then on the album tends to slide on a different angle, sounding like some sick joke, taking the boundaries of insanity and offensiveness to their extremes. Recipe Ferrum is split into three parts, the first part being comprised of cool soothing and uneasy dark offerings, surreal in character but something that none would expect. We wanted to make a bizarre and extreme thing and see this black way of music from a different point of view." We didn't want to make a commercial album. It was just a vision but we almost didn't know what we wanted for sure. That's why we have this blues guitarist playing in a black way. ![]() So we had to find out what we wanted and we decided we didn't want a normal black metal line-up, not find black metal guitarists and do something very bizarre and strange. But we also didn't know what we wanted because it was not possible to keep the old line-up because it has been ten years now. "I wanted to make different music to try and expand this black way of music into another form, like black n' roll or something like that. "I love black metal, but I didn't want to do the same thing with Tormentor" says a very polite Attila. Let the mysterious Attila justify his action. Recipe Ferrum is a slap in the face to commercialism and the degradation of a scene Tormentor helped form, a vile brew that mixes elements of hard rock, blues and avant-garde. Attila and original drummer Zsolt Machat deciding to resurrect its corpse in 1998 with a new line-up and now have released what is said to be the most controversial and bizarre extreme album of the year. But ten years after the recording of Anno Domini, Tormentor has reformed. ![]() Ultimately his reputation was as the singer who sang on De Mysteriis. Tormentor was broken up anyway, Attila at a certain time in his life going through a rough and disturbing period, dabbling with illegal substances through depressing periods. To say that they had grave impact on the Norwegians would be a severe understatement.īut it wasn't until after the release of Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas that more people would take note of the obscure and chilling voice that belonged to none other than the legendary Attila Csihar. In 1987 they recorded their 7th Day of Doom demo and in 1988, their legendary Anno Domini release. Long before black metal was given a standard, one could say that Tormentor had already embraced that essence which would become the law. ![]() They might not be the most prolific black metal band, possessing an even more elusive aura than Mayhem, but Hungary's Tormentor are one of the pioneers. ![]()
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