hello Gaeruki, how are you? Tell us about this project that you are involved, acropolis
Gaeruki: Hi, man...AT LAST¡¡ My fans have been waiting for this interview so long... ---
Well, where to begin...? Acropolis is a massive multimedia epic project involving music albums, viral websites, books, action figures (and maybe a movie) that will conclude in 2020 with a world tour...not bad, uh?
That's pretty awesome if you keep in mind that I'm part lyricist, part writer, part singer and main designer...and pretty bad if you keep in mind I'm not seeing a single cent...
Well, you have a point but... if the project succed, fans will love you! (and buy your action figure in that case) Tell us about your solo-song "The Jailer"... right? sell some smoke.
Gaeruki: "The Jailer" is one of the most multilayered and complex songs of the album cause it must remain faithfull to the music and, at the same time, must give us a quick glimpse of Sartorius mind. It's a mid tempo tune with some sorta 80's feeling disguised in a hard power rock song, with great riffs and a masterfully crafted crescendo delivering the most critically acclaimed verse of the album: "Take me awaaaaaaaaaaaay", in which I broke at least 3 vocal strings (and Kotipelto began legal actions to demand me)
When the project began, 2 years before, Fadeto knew exactly what he wanted about this song and told me about my character: A lonely soul, locked in a temple, away from everyone, fearing everything but, most of all, fearing himself, his thoughts and his dreams. But n the other side, the song has an open and pretty kindhearted ending releasing Sartorius from the chains that bind him to his pain and joining the rest of the gods in their journey to the mainland.
The two versions I recorded of this song retain some similarities but are quite different in their heart (chorus). I hope all fans had the chance to listen both in a near future. Maybe in a single...
coff coff!!...Favourite song?
Gaeruki: I think that "World in Ashes" and "Heaven Underground" are the hits, but if you ask me...ME....I'll say "Who has seen"....in the beggining I didn't like that song at all...but someway it grew on me... It's different...fresh, like a summertime breeze.
how do you feel working with other talented singers such as fade to black himself, mau angriff and michael kiske??
Gaeruki: The truth is we're a bunch of outlaws gathered around a mic... You have a deathmetalish growling minion bastard in Angriff, a glamorous lousy heavymetal legend in Kiske, an emo norwegian goth-melodic female voice in Ivy, a Latin Pop Smoke-seller Balladist turned power metal singer in Fadeto and a bisexual kicking ass industrial jrocker in me, so...it's a weird mix, you know, and we had hard times working together...
You know, we come from differents places, and have different ways of working...I kinda tend to
be a perfectionist asshole, and press the kids a bit too far...but I just want the best of them, I don't
want to hurt them or anything... My intentions are always good, I swear...but I admit I have a bad temper I'm trying to correct.
Thank you Gaeruki, hope to hear the damn record soon!
----- ... (he never answered our last email)
