*Editors Note - This interview was originally done in November of 2003 and was kept short at the request of the band.
Q: How are you doing Malefic?
A: I'm okay, I suppose.
Q: Can you give us a quick history of your band?
A: The band dates back to '96, became a one person band around 2000 after many line up troubles from 96-99.
Q: Which artists/bands have inspired the music of Xasthur?
A: I'd say Deinonychus, Burzum, Sinoath, Mutiilation, Graveland, Manes and Thergothon are the main bands that inspired me to play black metal.
Q: Are you satisfied with your latest release "The Funeral of Being"? Is there anything you would have done differently?
A: I'm somewhat satisfied, I think a few improvements were made at least, considering that this album was made with minimal recording gear, if I knew then what I know now, I would have taken what I know now (as of '04)
Q: The track listing on "The Funeral of Being" is very disarranged. What was the reason for doing this?
A: So that it can chase itself into a downward spiral, no beginning, no end. Besides, I feel as if I owe it to the black metal audience to confuse them and disturb them, it's the least I can do.
Q: Would you ever consider playing live with session members? If not, why?
A: No, I've lost any interest in that, it's more trouble than it's worth, it's worth it for me spending hundreds of dollars for something that wouldn't have the same effect live. I don't like working with other people, as in musically. I don't like dealing with people, as in, at all.
Q: What is your opinion on the following:
a) The Occult:
A: Answers to the unknown and that which is hidden, a different look at existence, esoteric philosophy, magic, wisdom, power.
B) Fascism
c) Astrology
A: It makes some sense.
Q: What are you currently listening to these days?
A: These days, as far as current black metal is concerned I find myself listening to Draugar, Krohm, Ondskapt, Silencer, Tenebrae in Perpetuum, Nuclear Winter (Russia), Wigrid, Drudkh, Leviathan, Warloghe, Crimson Moon, Striborg, and Celestia.
Q: If you could say one thing to god what would it be?
A: If I were to tell him anything, I would tell him that his son is a weak shame and that what he 'died for' is also a joke, he should have aborted his son from the beginning, we would all be better off today. Talking about him gives him energy, he needs our memory to exist.
Q: That covers all my questions, anything else you would like to add?
A: Thanks for the interview and interest.
