Biography Velial Squad
The outskirts of the forest. Naked trees, which are still a little, and it seems, will prickly crunching dead processes. In the field of view - two young people. There are no people in the balaclavas. Three sixes are embroidered on each. This is not a scene from a thriller or, God forbid, not seen in real life, but simply any video of the Velial Squad group. Over the 5 years of their existence, these two have never removed the masks, and the listener does not know their real names.
This interview is the first opportunity to compose at least some idea of their background. They ask to call themselves black and white - in the color of masks, in which they appear and appear on video and photo. Velial Squad made a name on the occult horror-rape, where they read about mysterious rites, purification and hatred. For a long time, Velial Squad existed in the status of Internet splices, and now he is going on the first tour, in which more than 30 cities.
Why did two teenagers from Tula decide to make just such music? Are they afraid that their songs will be banned? What do they think about the church, do they believe in hell and why not they will send other people on tour, putting masks on them? I wanted to talk about a lot, but we started by acquaintance. I'm Andrey. White: Hello! The Flow, next to me - The Flow. B: Some video blogger conducted an investigation.
He calculated VKontakte of our friends and began to dig on the frade lists. As a result, he recognized one page correctly, but the second did not guess. I thought on our common roots. How was it? We told the guys, let's meet and discuss everything. We and I have been from Tula, but at that time I moved to Moscow. So I decided to come to them at a meeting, in some kind of coffee shop.
I come - and there two men are sitting in tattoos. Former heroins, or something. They did not know that for us this is just an image. And what do you think? They gave it to us! As a result, they made a horror festival in Mona Club. They brought various little -known artists. A man came and a couple of months after the concert, one of these types of organizers drove away. Here is such a rest in peace.
B: They appeared at the very beginning, we took pictures in them for the cover of the second, it seems, track. At first, these were simple balaclavs, without embroidery. Then I found out that my mother’s classmate has a sewing machine that a programmed embroidery was heating. Later we updated the masks: we chose the shape and the layout, made it on a specialist.
Black: I laugh, by the way, baptized, yes. B: Me too. We are baptized guys. B: On excursions in St. Petersburg. My girlfriend is a designer, fond of architecture, taught the history of art, and since the cathedrals and churches are often interesting from an architectural point of view, they came in. In Isakievsky were or Kazan. Ch: If I say that I don’t even remember when I was there, they won’t press me for it?
It’s scary to touch this topic. B: Such a normal attraction for people. Some love to go to the cafe, others to church. It also happened historically that the church’s institute is supported by the state. P: This is the institution with which the state controls people. Why don't you send other people in masks instead? H: Well, what are you! The voices are burning. B: I recently got sick with a sore throat and could not perform in St.
Petersburg at the Rhymes Show festival. We thought to put on our manager to put on a mask so that he would change me. As a result, black worked for two. If I had come and my complications began, it would have been constructed by the first half of the round. How did your strange collab happen? B: Why strange? And you have songs about Satan, rituals, meat. B: Satan’s references in our tracks have not been found for a long time.
We did this when we started, in the year in metro, this brand supports this different underwear. I think that the artists with whom he worked in the past can also find occult stories. For example, Felix Bondarev, a participant in a heap of projects. In some of them there were definitely suicidal topics. Apparently, JagerMeister is a progressive brand and thinks outside the framework.
Follow the mode. Go in for sports. Somehow it is not combined. P: I laugh, I just climbed on Twitter and noticed that many rappers are thinking about high. They distribute some pompous tips. I decided to fasten. H: This is a fairly dark track, but it does not bring the goal of creating the effect of maximum realism. B: A way to transfer everyday state.
B: If you are a mentality of a kVNIK or the elder of the group, then yes. And if from adolescence there is a craving for the aesthetics of melancholy, to some black theme and a philosophical fundamental issues, and you drive away all your tracks through this prism, then you can reason so. This is an internal state. B: At the concert Buchenwald Flava, which in the end did not take place.
Ch: A common acquaintance brought us. And they continued to communicate due to coincided musical interests. Tula is not such a large and progressive city where it is easy to find a person with whom this can be divided. At first we talked, then they tried to make tracks. Then we wanted to record our own. Let's go to the dude, he just had micro in his apartment. The sound, of course, is very garbage.
I also read Pitch.B: I was brought up on such music, I was attracted by aesthetics. When we began to offer each other the options, how it might sound, we quickly came to the idea of writing rap under Hichhaus. B: When I was 17 years old, I was hanging out in a punk screaming party. The company and I went to concerts, and then one day with those who owned tools, muddied Bend minus alone.
I was on vocals, wrote texts. We had 2 performances in Tula. We tried to break through for a long time, but this was unsuccessful. As soon as I left, six months later they recorded a successful release and drove around the cities.