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Have had the chance to express my insides through art and I grabbed it. I did it and I did it with my heart and soul for more than a decade. Have met people, walked places, had great conversations with interesting individuals of different background, have had a hell of a time and honestly I don’t know if I will ever have the chance to live something at least similar to Nightfall in the future.
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It was something personal I have to admit. It started from a single moment, a flash within that gave birth to that unbelievable chain of unique moments. It had nothing to do with bands emerging from musically superior so to speak countries that follow a certain plan right from the start and have a specific and continuous image and attitude towards the press and the fans in order to support and promote their brand name in the market. No. We only were fans, die hard fans of a music/life style that supposed to be totally different from the numerous music fashions applying to youth of the western civilization in the 90’s era. Of course as time went by started to understand that even the "extreme" scene is a short of industry that obeys to rules and has its limits as dictated by marketing principals, you know like those taught in any university. No fan, no romance, no ideas, theories, or tendency to turn over in your mind and look deep inside yourself and the human nature, a source of inspiration and confusion that it is, but only money and super stylish rock star alike living. Fair enough, but not for me. Nightfall was a fan's dream came true! And that is the essential difference from the «super» pro groups with the fancy agencies and the gorgeous productions going around in search of bigger sales.______________________________________________________
__________The stop button pressed about a year ago when some fellow people who run an international agency asked me to make a European tour for the last album, lasting no less than two months. Touring abroad was -and I think still is- the ultimate credit for a band coming from a relatively poor in respect to «modern» music diversity country like Greece. It’s like coming out of a submarine that runs out of oxygen. We did some and had the time of our lives. However, I can’t say I am looking forward to hit the road again. Most might not understand the spirit of such phrase but considering my past in terms of music activity and my age (34) one can understand that I am quite full of such icons, aromas, and tastes and frankly speaking interested no more. Especially when there's a plethora of other things out there waiting to explore. Recall I said to my self once that I'll stop this monster from getting more and more of my time and effort when I lose that weird feeling, or stress, or excitement, or ecstasy if you like prior going out on stage. So, that was it. That was the time and that was its end.________________________________________________________
________Mary Magdalene is the new vehicle in our artistic ways. I know that people who previously dived into the cerebral seas of Nightfall and grew up amid strange melodies and poetic words will find the same dish filled with spanking new food for thought and inspiration. Yet, with a plethora of instruments and sounds in the air that previously couldn’t find their role between the heavy guit riffs. There is no aim to repeat what did with Nightfall. No. That's our great old castle down there. You see? We now are here and we have a distance to go as well. And I say «we» because I am too one of the few(?) individuals fed up with the egoistic route people follow these callous days. That urban approach of life, that must be the first in history promoting ethics based on self-centred behaviour strictly; the mixture of plastic feelings, simulated idols and a childish sense of autonomy as the elements of a happy life.
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____Sincerely yours,
Efthimis Karadimas
