But we found them and it was incredible to see how much these people got involved in the project. We had to find 20 people motivated enough to rehearse twice a week during 3 months. How different was it having to work with all these different people? (or did you not have anything to do with them in the recording process….) The album is rich in orchestration and also involves a 20-person choir. We like this idea of Anesidora evolving, maybe growing, album after album. He changed her into a doll that looks more like a little girl. We asked Eliran Kantor, who designed the artwork, to give her a makeover. But with “Start from Scratch”, we wanted her to change, to evolve. Who originally came up with the little doll characterisation? Will the doll grow up as Anesidora does?Īs I said earlier, we were looking for a symbol of innocence, of childhood…That’s how we adopted this little rag doll. The little doll figure appears on your album covers and also in your videos. If I acted in normal life like I do on stage, I guess people would think I’m really crazy… I think acting is about deepening something that’s already in you, a part of you that you don’t necessarily show in everyday life. On stage and even in studio, there’s a big part of acting that requires attention, that’s why I can look very serious. But of course, I’m not quite the same on stage and in everyday life. How do you reconcile these two “sides” of yourself? Do you adopt a different persona when you perform the tracks live or record? If so, who is the “real” Geraldine?…… I see from your performance video reports that you take your singing very seriously, yet in between takes you are also a happy person with a great sense of humour. So I use my own experience to describe what Anesidora must face. But yes, just like her, I hated growing up. So, she’s not really me and I’m not really her. I could say she’s like a part of myself that would have come out of me and made its own way. How much of Anesidora do you see in yourself? After all you act her role very convincingly! The new album brings Anesidora right up to date as she progresses through her life in this world. The fans definitely love her ! So we decided that she would be the main character of our first album.
She took the name of the character Anesidora and became sort of a mascot for the band. This little doll with red hair and wings on her back immediately won our hearts. The artists who were working on the artwork came to us with the idea of a little doll, symbolizing childhood and its disappointments, leaned against a chest that can be either a simple toy box or pandora’s box. The lyrics were about childhood, innocence, but there was also this song, “Anesidora”, about Pandora’s box. When recording the EP “Anesidora”, we were thinking about the artwork and which ideas it should convey. Our style will keep evolving with the next album.įor those who don’t know, would you like to tell our readers a little about Anesidora, and where she comes from? But this is not something absolutely still. With “Start from Scratch”, we manage to make a mix between rock, progressive and symphonic metal. Our style was not fully grown at this time.
This is the reason why we released an EP rather than an album. We see it as a first step towards finding our way through music. We released a first EP, “Anesidora”, in 2008. We felt Benighted Soul could bring something to the metal scene but we had a lot of work to do. The line-up changed in 2006 : our goals and aims changed too. We just wanted to make a few gigs and have fun ! We did covers of Nightwish or After Forever and our own compositions were naturally influenced by these bands. It’s been a long way ! In the early days of the band, we had no real intention of becoming professional musicians.
She’s a very calm and quiet baby.īeginning in around 2002, that is quite a long life for any band already! How did you guys come up with the theme and style of the band? Thank you very much, it’s my pleasure ! Little Eleonore is fine. Also congratulations to Jeyms and we hope that little Eleonore is doing well and is in good health. I spoke to vocalist Geraldine Gadaut to discover more about this mysterious character….įirst, may I welcome you to Femme Metal and thank you for talking to us. With their 2008 EP “Anesidora” we were introduced to a character who would now become the central focus of the band’s repertoire. From the Greek lettering on their 2005 bonus DVD demo “Catharsis” to their themes of mythology and history, Benighted Soul trod a unique path among the female fronted bands of the time. It was clear from their early days that Benighted Soul were no average French symphonic metal band.
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