
Interview with END OF NUMBERS

MUEN: HELLO SILKKY21, GLAD WE COULD FINALLY GET THIS INTERVIEW UNDERWAY, YOU DEFINITELY HAVE SOME FANS OUT THERE, SOME OF WHICH ARE OUR FRIENDS, SO WE WANTED TO GET YOU OUT SOME QUESTIONS SOON AS POSSIBLE, FIRST OF ALL, WHEN DID YOU FIRST START RECORDING AS A SOLO PROJECT, AND WHAT WERE THE OTHER BANDS YOU WERE IN BEFORE?
END OF NUMBERS: I started recording my solo project in 2005, and I had bought a small 4 track and did about 30 demos on it then I had stopped due to depression issues. In 2006 I got back on it and I recorded 10 demo songs, but I had stopped again due to the same reasons as before. In the summer of 2006 I got back on it and I had run into a friend that gave me a recording program, so that's when I truly started the production of the Off White album and it ended a few months after the summer do to again depression. In 2007 I finished the album in late May
Before all this, I was in 2 bands.. one was "Atrocity," but we found out that a band in Europe already had that name - and then the band broke up because of lack of interest between the members. The second band was named "Unholy Wisdom," but it didn't last very long because the guitarist became a heroin addict, so in 2005 I started my own project.
MUEN: IS THERE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN THE TYPE OF MUSIC YOU CREATE NOW, COMPARED TO PAST BANDS?
END OF NUMBERS: The difference would be - In the other 2 bands we were going for more speed metal type rather than industrial rock.
MUEN: WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO GO SOLO THIS TIME AROUND, INSTEAD OF FINDING OTHER MEMBERS?
END OF NUMBERS: The reasons why I went solo is because I felt that music was a personal thing to me. As in telling people my story, and who can relate to what I have gone thru... in a full band, the songs would be about nonsense, I personally think an album should have a story line to it. In my eyes most great artists do it this way... instead of "selling out" just to be in the "loop."
MUEN: WHY DID YOU CHOOSE "END OF NUMBERS" FOR A NAME?
END OF NUMBERS: EndOfNumbers is a basic meaning about the number zero, it stands for "perfect being not perfect." See without zero, you can't have the rest of the numbers... if you don't have zero, you can't count the numeral 1, because zero (in the empty space) lets you see 1. Zero is the shadow that makes everything grow - which also leads too God, God is zero. Also, zero is outerspace... within the zero, you can count it all, and beyond all you can count (reaching the end of the universe) it will always be zero. And lastly, zero is the answer to everything as it becomes nothing.
MUEN: WHOA.. OK, WHAT INSTRUMENTS DO YOU PLAY? AND WHEN DO YOU FEEL THE MOST INSPIRED TO WRITE?
END OF NUMBERS: I work with guitars, bass, keyboards, pianos, drums, synth, drum machines; and also drum programing effects - as in adjusting sound to create new sounds ect...... but what I like the most is guitar and synth. What inspires me to write are things that happened in my life, and things I have gone thru... being in the street, watching the news; seeing a beautiful woman..
animals... ghosts... a lot of things inspire me - I think thru my eyes, everything is worth writing about. And to structure it in a way where people can feel what you're writing, is a beautiful thing. |