EMQ’s With Furi Helium
EMQ’s With Furi Helium
Hi everyone! Welcome to another EMQs interview, this time with Spanish Heavy Metal/ Thash band, Furi Helium. Huge thanks to them for taking part.
What is your name, what do you play and can you tell us a little bit about the history of the band?
We are Furi Helium, a Thrash / Heavy Metal band from Barcelona. We have been playing since 2012, when 5 Metal guys gathered to play some covers. Then we started to create our own songs and defining our own style, which has been build up from the many different influences of all five members.
How did you come up with your band name?
Pretty uncommon name… We are often misspelled as Fury Hellium, but our actual name is Furi Helium (means Black Sun in Latin).
What Country / Region are you from and what is the Metal / Rock scene like there?
We are from Barcelona (Catalonia). Here the most influential band are Crisix and Angelus Apatrida, but apart from them, the Metal scene is getting absorbed sometimes by Punk and Hardcore scenes.
What is your latest release?
Our latest release is the first single (The Inherent Fate) of our upcoming album “Far From Sanity”. This song talks about the Fermi Paradox and how humans are destroying our planet because of our insatiable behaviours.
Who have been your greatest influences?
At the very beginning we were influenced by Iron Maiden, Hammerfall… but as long as we evolved, and our music did too, we were more influenced by Thrash Metal bands such as Slayer, Testament, Exodus, Lamb of God…
What first got you into music?
We did get into metal music because of both: our families and our close friends. Each member of the band had different experiences to explain that.
If you could collaborate with a current band or musician who would it be?
We’d like to collaborate with our national bands like Crisix, which are bringing their music abroad, lately. This will be very interesting for us!
If you could play any festival in the world, which would you choose and why?
Talking about Festivals, we could not avoid talking about Wacken Open Air in Germany or even Hellfest in France. Attending and playing in both would be pretty amazing. In addition, we would like to play in Resurrection Fest in Galiza.
What’s the weirdest gift you have ever received from a fan?
Something that cannot be told….
If you had one message for your fans, what would it be?
We are prepared to make a step forward to bring our music to levels we had never thought of about before.
If you could bring one rock star back from the dead, who would it be?
We do really think that he would be Jeff Hanneman or Dimebag Darrell. Two of the most influential character for us.
What do you enjoy the most about being a musician? And what do you hate?
We do love, more than creating, designing and experiencing new music instead. We also love playing in front of our fans. We hate getting upset and frustrated if thinks don’t go as planned.
If you could change one thing about the music industry, what would it be?
We think one of the worst things in the current music industry is the eagerness of other music styles / artist to influence our own style and scene.
Name one of your all-time favourite albums?
“Reign in Blood” by Slayer, probably.
What’s best? Vinyl, Cassettes, CDs or Downloads?
They are pretty different in their own way. It’s difficult to answer because each person in the world prefers something different from our perspective.
What’s the best gig that you have played to date?
We have played in a festival in front of +2000 people, more or less.
If you weren’t a musician, what else would you be doing?
Each one of us have our own jobs aside from the music, so, we are professionals of our jobs.
Which five people would you invite to a dinner party?
Dave Lombardo, Brice Dickinson, André Olbrich, Chuck Billy and Josh Wilbur.
What’s next for the band?
Touring to show our new upcoming album to our fans.
What Social Media / Website links do you use to get your music out to people?
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/furihelium/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/FuriHelium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FuriHelium/
Bandcamp: https://www.furihelium.bandcamp.com
Time for a very British question now. As an alternative to the humble sandwich, is the correct name for a round piece of bread common in the UK either a Bap, a Barm (or Barm Cake), a Batch, a Bun a Cob, a Muffin, a Roll or a Tea Cake?
Maybe Bread Roll? In Spanish is called Pan de Leche.
Thank you for your time. Is there anything else that you would like to add?
Thank you so much to give voice to unlabelled and underground bands.
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