-We are in the studios recording the 8th PESTE NOIRE ALBUM. Could you tell us what is the album about?
-"The concept of the album came to me after i realized that there is a kind of contradiction in Pèste Noire.
The contradiction that anarchist aspects are mixed with fascist aspects. There are things in fascism i love others i hate.
And viceversa with anarchism. I took everything i like in facism and everything i like in anarchism. and as long as it didnt contradict itself i mixed it all up to create the new album. To be more specific: I hate for example the fact that the state controls every aspect of society such as art and thats what fascist states do. But on the other hand we need a strong state in order to make fat people run. And beyond this, the idea of the album came by watching farmers and realizing that they also have this contradiction between a strong anarchistic mentality, and a mentality i wouldn't say fascist but i'd say conservative and, to say it vaguely, Traditionalist.
Farmers, i mean small farmers, not big industrial farmers. Are the people that got as close as possible to true anarchism for many reasons. First because they are as close as possible to being self-sufficient in terms of food because they grow food. Most farmers are hunters so they are armed and ready to defend a village. They developed local economy and mutual aid. Everything that city-based left wing guys dream of doing, racist peasants did.
They hate that the authorityes come and check on their bussinness like true anarchists. But at the same time, i invite you to sharte a few drinks with them and after three or four glasses, you'll soon hear some politically incorrect things. Farmers are strongly nationalists. They have a very strong bonde with their lands and they greatly value the idea of private property. Thats why Stalin had such a hard time with the farmers in Russia, because farmers were strongly oppossed to farming lands collectivism. That's why Stalin had them deported to gulags, Thats what we call "dekulakization"(nde. Soviet campaign of political repression against the peasants or kulaks and their families, which, between their arrests, deportations and executions, ended up very seriously affecting millions of people in the period 1929-1932).
Just for the record, at the same time, the naughty nazis passed laws to protect farmers, making sure that it was impossible to evict a farmer even if he had debts of was facing bankruptcy, it was forbidden to seize their farm".
Famine
Official interview with Famine for the launch of his excellent album “Le retour des Pastoureaux” in 2021.
We thought it was important to include this interview, which is available to the entire public through video format directly form the band. Since it is really educational.
Very interesting answers that we wanted to share for Spanish speakers in ULTRABLACKMETAL FANZINE. From an individual truly formed through action and independent research.
