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Taking time out from his campaign against civilization and humanity, Sol’s Emil Brahe answered a few of our questions regarding his debut album, Let There Be A Massacre.

MouthForWar.net: Hey Emil. Just got done listening to Let There Be A Massacre yet again, and I’m still finding new things about it to love. Did you have any specific plans for the direction of this album when you began writing it?

Emil Brahe: I only had the title and some lines from The Inanity Of Man: “If only I had a bullet for each human being – I’d promise this world a miracle”. Besides that I just wrote. Let There Be A Massacre was written over a couple of months, where I also did a lot of other music, but listening to the album it doesn’t sound like it took so long to write so that’s cool.

MFW: As a one man doom machine, you played just about every note on the album. I’m impressed with the number of instruments that you can play. Did you have any training with them at some point or are you self taught?

EB: I’m self taught. Well, I got a bit of guitar lessons from my dad when I was really young, but besides that I learned everything else my self.

MFW: As you were writing and recording the album what influenced you musically or otherwise with regard to the lyrics?

EB: My own disbelief in mankind and what we call “civilization”. It sickens me. When it all comes we’re nothing but refined maggots or perhaps urbanized vermin. Humanity is the black death of nature!

MFW: Speaking on the lyrics again, I love the contrast of the ferocity of your message with some of the brighter sounding elements found in the album. For example, the latter half of “Boginki” has some guitar work that reminds me of a commencement tune from the US that’s used for school graduations, yet you mix it with crushing riffs and a guttural delivery. Was that something you planned from the beginning or was it something that developed as you wrote the album?

EB: Hehe. I don’t know that tune… I guess it was something that just came to me while writing it.

MFW: The promo that I received didn’t have any liner notes with it, but from what I could discern from your vocal delivery, you don’t seem to be a big fan of mankind as we know it. What events in the world right now help reinforce the view you take on Let There Be A Massacre?

EB: uh… Now I don’t want to go into politics, but just take religion: It’s a sick sick deranged idea. Especially monotheism. The belief that mankind has to serve one god only… Why? Why do we have to suffer his bastard breed? Why do we have to live according to some big fat book of lies. I’m sick and tired of living amongst Christian people trying to tell me that I live a sinful live just because I don’t live the shitty life they do. Sick and tired of being called a blasphemer because I believe the old ideas of polytheism are much more useful to the so-called society we have today.

JESUS DIED FOR HIS OWN SINS – NOT FOR MINE! And I could go on and on about how religion sickens me to death. But I would probably bore you all to death.

MFW: The final track is an interesting way to wrap up a devastating album. How did you come about choosing the accordion as the focal point for “Apocalypse”?

EB: Hmm… I just love the sound of the accordion, it can be used in a very happy-go-lucky way, but it can also be used in a very gloomy and depraved way. So that’s what I did.

MFW: Now that you’ve got “Let There Be A Massacre” out the door, are there any plans to grab some other musicians and take Sol out on the road for some touring?

EB: Yeah actually there is… I wrote my new album I Am Infinity together with some other musicians that are ready to tour. So it’s just a question of time, hehe.

MFW: For your next album, do you see yourself exploring the same themes and musical elements that you touched on with Let There Be A Massacre?

EB: I Am Infinity is about megalomania. So it has nothing to do with the rest of the world, it evolves around the inner life and the exploration of the psyche.

MFW: I’m always interested to find out what the bands I interview are listening to these days. Are there any bands out right now that you’re really into?

EB: Hehe… well I listen to a lot of different music. My favorites must be: Mayhem, Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Burzum, Darkthrone, Satyricon and a Danish doom band called Saturnus.

MFW: Thanks for your time, Emil. Do you have any last words for our readers?

EB: “BREED AND MULTIPLY – THE CURSE OF MANKIND!” Alright that’s all for now. Have a nice day.