{"id":13314,"date":"2020-02-28T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mannersofhate.com\/?p=13314"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:33:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:33:30","slug":"hansi-kursch-interview-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliedforces.eu\/en\/hansi-kursch-interview-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Hansi K\u00fcrsch: \u00abI find that some bands try to get into the Blind Guardian direction but our diversity is so big it is really hard to capture that\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I had the chance to interview some of my favourite vocalists in metal, the mighty Hansi K\u00fcrsch<\/strong> from Blind Guardian<\/strong> and the Demons & Wizards<\/strong> frontman. We talked about his two new albums, the recent third Demons & Wizards<\/strong> album and the first Blind Guardian Twilight Orchestra<\/strong> records, that was released a couple of months ago. Here we go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello Mario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi Hansi, how are you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m good, how are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fine, waiting for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry for the delay, it’s one of this things\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t worry, we all have so many things to do.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is very true, we all have things to do. Busy weeks, I have to say I haven’t stop for the last 24 months. It was continuously working on Blind Guardian<\/strong> stuff and Demons & Wizards<\/strong>. It’s either being creative or being on the road, or doing interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, I suppose!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, as always, but it was more than usual! Whenever I’m working with Blind Guardian<\/strong>, there are spots where I still have a sort of privacy where I can really have more pleasant adventures and now\u2026 nothing! It’s just about music and business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the time working!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, all the time working! Which is not completely true, the little time I have I spent it on vacation with my wife. It’s fun to be on vacation or on the road again, but for me it’s more business than usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, you’ve worked so much on the last months, so many records on the last months.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many records, with Demons & Wizards<\/strong>, with Blind Guardian<\/strong>. It’s too much but who stops for a good cause? I am not complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, well, let’s talk about the new Demons & Wizards album which it’s supposed to be released tomorrow if I’m not wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, you’re absolutely right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very solid album. I’ve already listened to it four or five times and it’s growing stronger on me. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s quite my impression as well! And I expected that to be the case because it is not as overloaded as a Blind Guardian<\/strong> album, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absolutely. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You enjoyed it since the first time but there’s still a lot to discover!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that \u00abIII\u00bb is an evolution from the very first two Demons & Wizards albums. It’s like, totally not coming to an end, but it’s the right evolution of this project.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would agree again. The first albums are really strong. The first album has been done twenty years ago and Touched By The Crimson King<\/em><\/strong> fifteen years ago and of course, we have developed ourselves as persons. But that develop cannot define the progression we have made musically because I think it’s the perfect plan now, we have the right mixture of what is my character and what is Jon’s character and we bring some new elements. Some of the has been available on the first two Demons & Wizards<\/strong> albums already but not on Blind Guardian<\/strong> and Iced Earth<\/strong> albums, but we intensified them. Somehow, we managed to bring them more to the point I would say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I totally aggree. It’s something that probably you’ve heard before on Blind Guardian or Iced Earth albums but it’s more intense. I would say it’s the perfect evolution of both projects and also de Demons & Wizards albums that you’ve released before.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I consider it a very strong album, so does Jon. I am very confident that the many people who is going to listen to it would feel the same. There are a lot of different songs. I mean, you have to discover a lot but on the other hand they explain themselves very easily. It’s not like you have to be a studied musician or you have the feeling that we are pretending to be something, it’s very natural exposure of Jon <\/strong>and I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it’s not a very difficult album to enter to. If you listen to Diabolic<\/em>, the first song, it’s the perfect mixture of music and lyrics, the atmosphere as well. I love it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you very much. I just pick up on the atmosphere, it’s a very important point for this album. It’s very atmoshperic. Maybe Diabolic<\/em><\/strong> is the perfect example because it has three different sections. Well, the first and the third sections are similar. I am involved in the third section with the vocals which makes a big difference, but in every section we have climaxes and it’s all built up into one direction so the song never loses the intensity and I think the listener would be very attentive from whatever it’s the initial part of the listening until the very end. And I would go so far that is my impression at the moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you’re listening to the whole album, even though is a long album – about sixty minutes – you will make that experience with every song. To me personally, Children Of Cain<\/em><\/strong> is the big point of the album so that has been set up naturally but in a very smart way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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