Painted Black talk about their last release "Raging Light"

The Portuguese of Painted Black released their new album "Raging Light" in October 2017 at WormHoleDeath. Today, they come to talk about it for distrolution.

Hello. Many thanks for taking time to answer few questions for Distrolution. Typical first question, but could you introduce yourself and your band?

Hello and thank you for the interview! My name is Luis Fazendeiro and I play guitar in Painted Black. We are from Portugal, and we're currently based in Lisbon. We just released our new album « Raging Light » and regarding our style we always find it difficult to brand our music. Some people like to include us in the Doom Metal genre because of our melancholic side but we feel our music is much more than that and lately we had a couple of reviews describing our music as Progressive Death Metal and other ones preferring to call us an Atmospheric Gothic/Doom Metal band. We feel that you can find influences of all those genres in our music.

Can you tell us more about your new album « Raging Light » ?

« Raging Light » was recorded in UltraSound Studios in Braga, Portugal, and engineered / co-produced by Pedro Mendes. It’s a more atmospheric and layered album than our first album “Cold Comfort” but it still has some of our characteristic bursts of aggression and heavy moments. We feel that this album marks an evolution and natural progression of the band and like some people had already pointed out, in this record we’ve include some influences of post-rock and prog-rock into our Doom/Death metal foundations.

It's probably not the first time you've been told, but your music is, of course, reminiscent of Moonspell. Is it a fact that you reject or, on the contrary, appreciate?

Honestly, we don't feel that our music has that kind of similarity with Moonspell, but it is a band that we love and come from the same country as us so comparisons are always inevitable. We understand that we come from the same dark metal spectrum, but at the end of the day we have distinct musical voices. Anyway being referenced in any way to a band we like will always be something we appreciate, as long people don’t feel we’re a copy!

In September, you sign on Wormholedeath Records. Was that a request from you or did they come to you? And what are your feedback on this subject today? 

« Raging Light » has been nominated several times as best album of the year. I therefore conclude that the feedback from webzine / magazine / radio is very good. Were you expecting such positive feedback?

I particularly appreciated the artwork created by Anomaly Design. Where did you get the inspiration for this artwork?

We feel a very big work on your compositions. Can you tell us more about the writing process?

You chose the song Dead Time to make a video clip. Why this song and not another one?

This is a question I like to ask :Distrolution is mainly based in France. Have you ever visited our country?

Any last word for your fans?