{"id":71678,"date":"2017-11-10T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=71678"},"modified":"2018-08-15T18:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:54:37","slug":"feature-sinsaenum-11-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/feature-sinsaenum-11-17\/","title":{"rendered":"SINSAENUM &#8211; Monarchs Of Death And Black (November 2017) | Features \/ Interviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title\"><strong>SINSAENUM &#8211; Monarchs Of Death And Black<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"smalltitle\">Anthony Morgan<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\">November 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sinsaenum2017promophoto1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Sinsaenum (l-r): Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq, St\u00e9phane Buriez, Joey Jordison (front), Heimoth (back), Sean Zatorsky and Attila Csihar<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nExtreme death \/ black metal project Sinsaenum revealed its existence during May 2016, the brainchild of DragonForce bassist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq, who handles multiple instruments within the fold. Rounding out the line-up were former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, D\u00e5\u00e5th frontman Sean Zatorsky, Mayhem vocalist Attila Csihar, Loudblast guitarist St\u00e9phane Buriez, and Seth bassist Heimoth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to do death metal,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric shares. \u201cIt\u2019s just that I ended up playing with a power metal band instead, but I always wrote death metal songs and spent time with people that play that sort of music or like that sort of music. That\u2019s how I met Joey Jordison. When we were on tour with DragonForce and Slipknot together, we discovered that we had a common interest in death metal. One of my first professional shows was opening for Loudblast, and Loudblast in France is like the oldest death metal band, and one of my favourites as well. That\u2019s when I met St\u00e9phane for the first time, and we\u2019ve kept in touch through the years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2010, I mentioned the idea of having a band together, a project. I had the starts of two, three, or four songs. He said \u2018Yeah, why not? But nothing too serious,\u2019 and then I worked more and more on it. For some reason, we wanted to work with some other people, so I had more songs. I received a text in 2013 I believe \u2013 I received a text randomly from Joey. We got back from tour, and he was like \u2018Hey, man. How are you doing?\u2019 We called each Morbid Angel, like \u2018Hey, Morbid Angel.\u2019 \u2018Hey, Morbid Angel. What\u2019s up?\u2019 I was like \u2018Oh, speaking of which. I\u2019ve been working on some death metal songs with St\u00e9phane.\u2019 He was like \u2018Fuck yeah. Send them my way. I\u2019m interested,\u2019 but I never thought that he would be interested in playing. I was just like \u2018Maybe he wants to produce it.\u2019 He got back to me like a day after; he was like \u2018Fuck, that\u2019s insane. Who\u2019s playing drums?,\u2019 and I was like \u2018No-one&#8230; You?\u2019 Then he was like \u2018Yeah. Fuck yeah. I\u2019m doing it.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, due to the fact that he got in, then all of a sudden it became way more serious than just St\u00e9phane and I fooling around. Then I contacted Sean from D\u00e5\u00e5th, because we toured together with DragonForce. I also met Attila through DragonForce and Joey knew Attila as well, so we thought it would be nice to have him onboard. St\u00e9phane recommended Heimoth from Seth, which I know as well. The idea was to do a death metal album. I wanted to do the ultimate death metal album, the way I like it when I discovered the genre, which was around \u201992. I wanted to have an album that sounded like that, that paid tribute and took things where they stopped. That was my plan, and to do it with people I actually like. Friends. Not musicians just because they\u2019re good, but to do it with friends. And yeah, that\u2019s how Sinsaenum was born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinsaenum\u2019s moniker was devised by Joey Jordison. \u201cWe were trying to find names,\u201d the guitarist remembers. \u201cThat\u2019s where my input sort of stopped, because all of the names I could think of were already taken three or four times. If you go on that website, <em>Encyclopaedia Metallum<\/em>, all of the metal bands are on this. For all of the names that I already had, there were already like two in Chile, and one in Poland, and so on. I was like \u2018Ah, fuck,\u2019 and Joey was like \u2018We should actually invent it, rather than use words that already exist.\u2019 So, he was trying combinations. He sent me like a huge list of combinations \u2013 some of them were actually pretty bad. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne night, he sent me a text and went \u2018Fuck, that\u2019s it. I\u2019ve got it. It\u2019s Sinsaenum.\u2019 I was like \u2018Yeah, sounds good&#8230; But what is it?\u2019 It\u2019s like a mix of sin, insane and the \u2018um\u2019 at the end to make it mysterious. It didn\u2019t exist, so we could put the \u2018ae\u2019 in the middle just to fuck with people a bit more. It\u2019s very rare that someone can pronounce it correctly. That\u2019s that; it\u2019s a mix of sin, insane, and all other words combined, but it\u2019s really just Joey listening to the music and writing that name down. It does have a nice tone to it; it sounds nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While death and black metal influence Sinsaenum, other genres inform the outfit\u2019s material. \u201cSinsaenum in general?,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric wonders. \u201cIt\u2019s a tricky question, because I could tell you I\u2019m influenced&#8230; I believe that everything I listen to has an influence on my music. Now, is it voluntary? You can definitely say that Sinsaenum is death and black metal-influenced, is influenced by thrash as well, and also heavy metal, and so on and so on. I think it just turned out to be violent music with distortion and blastbeats, so these are the elements that you usually find in death and black metal. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sinsaenumjoeyjordisonfredericleclercq2016promophoto1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Joey Jordison and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYeah though, I do listen to other genres of music, so maybe that chord progression comes from&#8230; Fuck knows&#8230; 80s music, and that chord progression is going to come from jazz fusion. For example, on the new EP, there\u2019s the song \u2018Monarch Of Death\u2019; the two solos that I play on this are very much influenced by Allan Holdsworth. Allan Holdsworth isn\u2019t really death or black metal, but that\u2019s jazz fusion. I\u2019m trying to bring those elements as well though, in the songs. I think you can hear a lot of Ministry in the chorus, but that\u2019s what I had in mind. There are external influences, a lot of them. Everything combined is leading towards death and black metal, if that makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The death metal bands that the Sinsaenum mainman enjoys largely derive from the inaugural wave. \u201cI like the stuff that I discovered when I was young,\u201d he explains. \u201cI don\u2019t really pay attention to what\u2019s new now. Right now, I\u2019m actually sporting a beautiful Morbid Angel T-shirt. That\u2019s my favourite band. I love Morbid Angel, Pestilence, Carcass, Entombed, Dismember, Death, Cannibal Corpse, Atheist, Loudblast as a matter of fact, Grave&#8230; I\u2019m trying to think&#8230; Napalm Death, Benediction. All of the bands from that era, when death metal came out \u2013 from \u201989 to \u201993, \u201994. A lot of the bands that came out around that time were very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Debut full-length studio album <em>Echoes Of The Tortured<\/em> arrived in July 2016 via earMUSIC. \u201cWe had very good reviews,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric enthuses. \u201cAll of them were pretty positive. The only complaint that we had was that Attila wasn\u2019t too present on the album. He was always there, but maybe not as loud as Sean. Just because of the style, we recorded more of Sean\u2019s abilities \u2013 it was more death than black. On the EP, it\u2019s really 50\/50, but on the album, it was more death metal. I guess Sean\u2019s voice was more required, so people were complaining about this, and they were complaining about the fact that we had interludes. For them, it was killing the pace of the album. To me, it was completely the opposite. You can\u2019t please everyone, but I really wanted to have a modern <em>Testimony Of The Ancients<\/em> (September 1991), from Pestilence. I think it\u2019s nice to have those little breaks leading to another song, to create that sort of tension rather than go like \u2018Song, song, song\u2019 \u2013 which we will do on the next album, because it\u2019s fine too. For this though, this is why I wanted to tell a story that didn\u2019t exist. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to take people on sort of a musical journey. To do that, it was nice to have those one-minute interludes in-between each song, so that it never stops. You sort of float, like on the cover. There are spirits floating. Each echo was like a song; everything is floating. You have a song, and then you float onto the next one. That\u2019s what I was trying to do, but I\u2019m super-happy with the results. I\u2019m very proud of this album \u2013 we all are \u2013 and again, I\u2019m happy that most people really got it. That\u2019s great. It would have been awesome to go on tour for it, but it was difficult with everybody\u2019s busy schedules. Obviously right now, I\u2019m on tour with DragonForce, Attila is with Mayhem, Joey is doing Vimic. There\u2019s Loudblast as well, who are busy. It\u2019s a bit difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Interim follow-up <em>Ashes<\/em>, a six-track EP affair, emerged in November 2017. Inaugurating proceedings happens to be the title track. \u201cThis is more straightforward than most of the songs we\u2019ve got on the first album,\u201d the bassist describes. \u201cAlso, there\u2019s the production of Francis Caste, because he took care of the mix and the master. It\u2019s really in-your-face, and a little dirtier than Jens Bogren. I mean, I\u2019m really happy with the work we did with Jens \u2013 Jens is an amazing producer \u2013 but I wanted something a little dirtier perhaps, and even more organic. Jens was already doing a lot of organic sounding productions, so with Francis, we\u2019ve reached that step. I think it just starts straight in your face; there\u2019s less intricate riffs, just a few. I think that song is really defines very well where Sinsaenum is in 2017; it\u2019s straight in your face and more straightforward, but still with melodies and soloing. I think that\u2019s a good example of what we\u2019re doing, and what the next album is going to sound like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ashes\u2019\u2019 lyrical content was penned by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric, Attila, and Sean. \u201cIt\u2019s not a particular story \u2013 it doesn\u2019t really tell a story,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric views. \u201cWe like to think in terms of images, and the world burning and turning into ashes. That\u2019s what inspired the music. I had the title \u2018Ashes\u2019 already. I liked the idea of that, of when it burns and nothing\u2019s left but ashes. I guess that\u2019s how I envisioned the song; I just talked about it with them, and that\u2019s what it ended up being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A music video was filmed to highlight the cut. \u201cWe contacted the artist through St\u00e9phane,\u201d the keyboardist divulges. \u201cWe gave him cart blanche; we just told him \u2018Okay, here\u2019s the song. Tell us how you feel, and just give us an idea of a scenario,\u2019 and he just came back with this. He\u2019s very talented. I really liked the black and white, because it goes well with&#8230; I mean, I love black and white stuff in general, so that was the only thing I said. I said \u2018Can we have it in black and white, please?\u2019 He was like \u2018That\u2019s the story of someone who goes progressively into the depths of madness.\u2019 He\u2019s followed by someone, something, but it\u2019s his own mind. I like the fact that it\u2019s his own interpretation of the lyrics. That\u2019s better than me telling him \u2018Okay, this song is about this,\u2019 or \u2018I want this to be blah blah.\u2019 It was more like an artistic approach of letting him, with the music and the lyrics, do what he felt. We\u2019re very pleased with the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sinsaenum2017promophoto2.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Sinsaenum (l-r): Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq, Heimoth, Joey Jordison (front), <br \/>Attila Csihar (back), St\u00e9phane Buriez and Sean Zatorsky<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\">\u2018Monarch Of Death\u2019 positions itself at track two. \u201cThat\u2019s another song I took from the vault of my old songs \u2013 it\u2019s from back when I wanted to do a black metal side project,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric recalls. \u201cI just liked the vibe of that one, and I thought that it would be interesting to turn it into a Sinsaenum song. Attila is more prominent on that one, because it has more of a black metal vibe, and yet Sean appears in the middle. Like I said, it\u2019s a combination of the strong black metal elements, but also a lot of death metal here and there, and solos that are just fusion-influenced. Maybe on paper it sounds weird, but I think when you listen to the song, it just makes sense. It flows nicely from one place to another without being too much \u2018What the fuck is going on?\u2019 I think its style blends into another without too many problems, and the lyrics are pretty Satanic, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Satanic lyrical flavour relates to the chorus. \u201cThe chorus just felt like an invocation, which actually&#8230; I did a little research, and I was trying to find a Satanic ritual,\u201d the axeman discloses. \u201cLike when you repeat a sentence, when you\u2019re in a sort of trance \u2013 like an invocation of the Fallen Angel coming forth. I like that. It is clich\u00e9d, but all these songs are clich\u00e9d. Everything has been done before. I just find the imagery of Satan interesting. I don\u2019t believe; no-one is Satanic and believes in Satan per se, but the concept is interesting. I think it worked with the song, and the chords, and the progression, and the way it felt. It just felt right to talk about that, and not talk about&#8230; I don\u2019t know&#8230; Making a sandwich, or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u20182099 (Heretics)\u2019 is more grandiose, perhaps. \u201cMusically, that\u2019s maybe a bit more complex, a bit more epic,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric observes. \u201cIt has touches of Cradle Of Filth towards the end, or at least I think so. It has like a strong, also kind of Gorgoroth vibe to it, but still with death metal elements and the sound that makes it Sinsaenum \u2013 with the voice of Sean and those solos and what not. Again though, that one has a very strong black metal vibe to it. As for the lyrics, I don\u2019t want to explain too much because I just did an interview before, and they were asking me what \u20182099\u2019 means. I\u2019m just saying that it\u2019s based on something that happened in 1099. This is also pretty Satanic, but just with a twist. I prefer to remain vague, which is also why we didn\u2019t put the lyrics on the EP. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can try to interpret it and figure out what we\u2019re screaming about, but if they don\u2019t, then it doesn\u2019t really matter. I\u2019d rather leave it like that than people going \u2018Actually, \u20182099\u2019 is about this,\u2019 because then you lose a bit of the mystery of it and because the song sounds a little bit mysterious by itself. That\u2019s why St\u00e9phane and I chose the title \u20182099 (Heretics)\u2019. Yeah though, in terms of music, this one is dark and epic and with different tempo changes, but again I think it flows very nicely. To me, the ending reminds me of a little bit of Cradle Of Filth around the <em>Cruelty And The Beast<\/em> kind of vibe (May 1998), like subtle synths in the background and melodic guitars. Other than that, it\u2019s a very aggressive song, and I\u2019m very happy with the way it turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1099 was the period of the Crusades. \u2018Degeneration\u2019 was previously a Japan-only bonus track, meanwhile. \u201cThe Crusades was correct,\u201d the four-stringer confirms. \u201c\u2018Degeneration\u2019 was from sessions for the first album. We had to make a choice, because we couldn\u2019t put all of the songs on the album and all of them were good. That one had more of a thrash element to it, like a kind of Sodom vibe to it; more straight to the point, and more thrashy perhaps than the others. So, I decided to leave it as a bonus for Japan because it just sounded like a bonus. I liked all of the songs that we did for <em>Echoes Of The Tortured<\/em>, so it was a real torture. No pun intended, but to actually have to go \u2018Oh, that song\u2019s not gonna be on the main album,\u2019 it was. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why when we did this EP, I was thinking about that. I was thinking in threes \u2013 three new songs and three old songs \u2013 which is why you have the two Japanese bonus tracks and \u2018Dead Souls\u2019 with a new mix, and Japan has three bonuses so they don\u2019t feel left out, like \u2018They took all the fucking bonuses.\u2019 No, no. Now, you have three extra bonuses. Yeah, \u2018Degeneration\u2019 has more of a thrash vibe to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean authored the lyrical fare on \u2018Degeneration\u2019. \u201cRight now, they\u2019re not in my head&#8230;,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric confesses. \u201cGive me a second, so I can remember&#8230; I guess it\u2019s anger towards society. We actually talked about it not so long ago, because we want to start working on lyrics for the new album. I sent him some words here and there, and just told him \u2018I\u2019m sorry, man. You\u2019re gonna think I\u2019m sounding like some paranoid, terroristic, demented old man, but I hate everyone. It fucking sucks. I hate society.\u2019 He goes \u2018Yeah, man (laughs). That\u2019s the same way I feel. I\u2019m so fucking angry.\u2019 So, I guess it\u2019s not hard for us to just release our anger in music. \u2018Degeneration\u2019 is about that; just a hatred of the world nowadays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018King Of The Desperate Lands\u2019 rounds out the pair of tracks previously exclusive to Japan. \u201c\u2018King Of The Desperate Lands\u2019 was the oldest song that I wrote for Sinsaenum, but back then it was not called Sinsaenum,\u201d the guitarist informs. \u201cIt was around the time when I wanted to be in a death \/ black metal band. I did a demo tape that I wanted to give to two bands, but I never had the balls to give it to them (laughs). I just had that tape of songs that I made. I remember going to a festival and Immortal were playing, and Deicide as well. I had this big plan of \u2018Oh, I\u2019m going to give it to blah blah\u2019 but just ended up giving it to a guy in the crowd, like \u2018I\u2019m doing this. You take it.\u2019 My plan was to give it to them, and try to apply for a job. I think that song, I wrote in \u201998. The Japanese, I gave them the original version from \u201998. It sounds pretty horrible because it was done on my eight-track, and I\u2019m singing in this horrible, strong French accent. It\u2019s funny, though. <\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sinsaenum_asheseplarge.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cNow, obviously we re-worked the song for the album. I like it. In a way, it sounds a bit like \u2018Ashes\u2019; it has the same sort of vibe, with touches of synth. Again, it was very difficult to not put it on the album, but I guess the reason why we put it as a Japanese bonus was probably because the ending fades out just like \u2018Echoes Of The Tortured\u2019. I think that\u2019s the reason why we agreed, and said \u2018Fuck it. Let\u2019s put it as a bonus instead.\u2019 I really like that song \u2013 we all really like that song. It was one that Joey discovered at the beginning, when we had the demos of the song. So yeah, it was a bit hard to not put it on the album. Again though, I had to make a choice. As for the lyrics, it\u2019s about the war. St\u00e9phane took care of the lyrics on that after spending some days with his grandfather, who was in the First World War. It\u2019s based on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concluding the EP <em>Ashes<\/em> is a remix of the song \u2018Dead Souls\u2019, remixed by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Duquesne. \u201cAs I said, I wanted to have three songs, so we had those two bonuses,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq tells. \u201cOne song that we particularly liked on the first album but didn\u2019t do much with was \u2018Dead Souls\u2019. We know Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Duquesne, who plays in Mass Hysteria. He produces a lot of bands and has a really nice studio and a really nice sound, so we just wanted to try it out with him. At first in my head, I wanted to re-do \u2018Death Is The Beginning\u2019, but St\u00e9phane got it wrong and gave him \u2018Dead Souls\u2019 instead. I was like \u2018Fuck no&#8230; Oh wait&#8230; That\u2019s actually not a bad idea.\u2019 I know Max (Vaccaro), the boss from the label, really liked that song as well. It was to sort of give that song a second chance, in a way. We have a new mix, which I believe is a bit more powerful. We redid the solos as well, to make it a bit more interesting. Yeah though, that song, if you compare the two, both of them have their own qualities. I\u2019m pretty happy with that new version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cover artwork duties were handled by Maxime Taccardi. \u201cMaxime Taccardi is a French guy who is famous for painting with his own blood,\u201d the Sinsaenum mainman imparts. \u201cThe cover is obviously in black and white though, so it doesn\u2019t have blood. He does very dark, fucked up things. I actually discovered him with Drakhian, the ex-guitar player from Loudblast, because I was on tour with Loudblast \u2013 St\u00e9phane is obviously from Loudblast. We were just sitting down in the dressing room, and he said \u2018Hey guys. I\u2019ve actually found that guy, and I think he would be great for Sinsaenum. He paints with his own blood, blah blah.\u2019 We went through all of the stuff that he\u2019s done, and I was just like \u2018Fucking hell. That\u2019s so cool.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had one particular painting that I really liked; that\u2019s the one that I wanted to use for the EP, but it was already taken. He said \u2018I\u2019ve already used it for my personal side project, but if you want me to make something remotely in the same vein, I can.\u2019 I was like \u2018Yeah, please do.\u2019 He sent me two versions and I liked them both, so both of them are on the album. One is on the cover, and the other one is on the CD. I think it fits perfectly with the sound of the album, which is more raw, dark, and the fact that it\u2019s black and white, and the skull is sort of hiding its face. Everything works fine together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A second full-length jaunt is in the midst of being created. \u201cI\u2019ve already written most of the songs for the next album, and we plan on releasing it \u2013 in my head, making those big plans \u2013 in September 2018 it should be, and then we go on tour,\u201d Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric outlines. \u201cThat\u2019s the plan for now, and the style is pretty much like the song \u2018Ashes\u2019, like I said. I guess that\u2019s where we are at the moment, but then again, everything can change in-between the next few months before we go into the studio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Sinsaenum, the bassist remains active as a member of DragonForce. \u201cWith DragonForce, the plan is to survive the end of the tour,\u201d he quips. \u201cThere\u2019s like three or four shows left, and I\u2019m really fucking tired (laughs). The plan is to survive and come back home safely from Russia in a couple of days, and then we\u2019re going to take some well-deserved time off. I don\u2019t know. We didn\u2019t do any European festivals last year, so I\u2019d imagine that we will do that, and then work on the new album as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashes<\/em> was released on November 10th, 2017 via earMUSIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINSAENUM &#8211; Monarchs Of Death And Black Anthony Morgan November 2017 Sinsaenum (l-r): Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq, St\u00e9phane Buriez, Joey Jordison (front), Heimoth (back), Sean Zatorsky and Attila Csihar Extreme death \/ black metal project Sinsaenum revealed its existence during May 2016, the brainchild of DragonForce bassist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Leclercq, who handles multiple instruments within the fold. 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