- We offered our album to more labels and negotiated with seven companies, which showed a real interest. The offer from Russian Satanath Records was the best for us, although I must say that the other businessmen were also fair with their plans. But there are more things connected with the whole realization of the album, for example the communication between the band and the label – this is another important thing that works well with Satanath Records. We ask something by e-mail and get the answer during a few hours. Can't say the same about some other labels. Italian Murdher Records are one of the enterprises cooperating with Satanath Records, so they work as one team on releases sometimes. As for Shindy Productions, it is the label from our home town and they are not into the releasing albums so much already. But we still cooperate on merchandise products.

- Everybody is asking for these twelve years long period, I admit it's probably quite unusual. We've played a few shows to support the debut album "Hysteria in Coma", so the band was quite active for three years after this release. There were made two video clips as well. Then we started to write new songs and even recorded several demos back in 2008, but this work was never finished – our drummer Coroner left SOLFERNUS, because of his health problems with legs. We wanted to continue and record the second album, but were not able to finish that. About three years ago new songs appeared and we recorded these ten tracks in 2016 at Ch-Records studio along with ROOT's drummer Paul Dread. The result is the second album "Neoantichrist", which you're listening right now...

- Not sure if very productive, but yes I like composing new songs, because it's my style of the guitar playing – not searching for riffs and melodies from other artists, but creating my own – that's a point. And if you think the music is obscure and dark then I can be glad, 'cause it seems that it's my style too. The motivation for writing such antireligious and blasphemous lyrics, as you call our verses, is simple: the religion's existence and mainly the behavior of some christian representatives who think they are world's monarchs and must define what we can, especially cannot do or even which music we can play. Songs like "Pray for Chaos!" or "Neoantichrist" are our statements then. But there are more various lyrics themes on this new album. "Mistresserpent" is such a horror story and we plan to make the video for this one. I love "Once Upon a Time in the East", which is the story about a young German soldier fighting in the World War II at the Russian freezing winter battlefield. There should be mentioned the last composition of the album called "Stone in a River" – really dark and slow song about the solitude and endless night's minutes. Not so usual track from SOLFERNUS, but maybe that's why the people like it as we read in reviews.

- First of all, we use a signification of Dark Metal for ROOT as some journalists wrote about the band's newer era. Since the third album "The Temple in the Underworld" the band broke the Black Metal borders forever. Yes, we still play shows worldwide, the band hit many countries in the past and this year it was USA, where ROOT played at the famous Maryland Deathfest. Big Boss was a special guest on the debut album of SOLFERNUS in our cover version "The Antichrist" from SLAYER as well as on the new album on which he sings those right words in "Pray for Chaos!". There's a simple story behind this appearance. We took a taxi to our friend's studio and cleaned out four bottles of white wine during the short recording session...

- We released two albums with this project and even played a few special live performances. It's much more complicated and really progressive music and I must say it was a great experience for me personally to play such an indefinable style in front of the crowd. EQUIRHODONT played at Brutal Assault too. There's a plan for another album, but it takes some time, 'cause as I've told you, that's a very special stuff and nobody can promise new compositions in the near future.

- I was playing with HYPNOS about two years as a live session member before the band stopped all activities back in 2006. We did a few single shows altogether and one shorter European tour with Death Metal warriors PURGATORY and CENTINEX – especially this journey was simply awesome! HYPNOS returned on stage eight years ago with phenomenal show at Brutal Assault and since then the band started to play more and more gigs worldwide. That was the main reason to quit, 'cause I needed to be fully concentrated on ROOT. I recorded all guitars for HYPNOS' "Heretic Commando – Rise of the New Antikrist" album and created also some acoustic preludes for the actual album "The Whitecrow" as a special guest. We're still friends and organize drinking meetings now and then.

- No rehearsal room over here. Interesting question especially for me, because I am used to play with amplifiers and boxes, which are available at events. Concerning the bass guitar, I am the owner of Vintage and Ibanez Korn model – both five-string instruments. There's a Gallien-Krueger 700RB-II in my apartment waiting for some shows. I play and own two guitars: Gibson Flying V and one cheap Cort, connecting them to Engl amplifier or small old Crate combo. When we have a recording session at any studio we try to get some other amplifiers with boxes and instruments to check out some possible combinations.

- Still have duties with another band, so no plans for touring with SOLFERNUS, but to be honest, we've got a couple of offers already. Let's see and wait some time yet and when the interest will be real and growing, we definitely will think about it, of course. If Wacken calls, we should go ahead!

- I should recommend ROOT and HYPNOS to have a quiet sleep without nightmares. Our country situation: still a lot of active old and nowadays legendary artists as well as talented newcomers, constantly new interesting projects founded just for one album, special comeback of Death Metal veterans KRABATHOR... And actually the biggest affair striking all countries and Black Metal hearts is MASTER'S HAMMER with ROOT's founder Blackosh in the line-up. Check out our bands on YouTube, this web site is full of deluxe videos from Czech bands. I hope you're gonna discover new good music.

- Thanx for this fine interview and supporting SOLFERNUS' art. Greetings to all the readers of Encomium from the sick Moravian Hellgang!