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From the Green Room interviews Artic Dreams
1. What’s the name of the band?
[ALEX_Y]: “Arctic Dreams”
[SYDIUS]: “Do we need to vary answers?”
[GENA]: “Arctic something something.. ”
[NENAD]: “Ark, Ticks, Drina.”
[ROMAN]: “Arctic Dreams as far as I know”
2. Where are you from?
[ALEX_Y]: “The project was founded in St. Petersburg, Russia. But due to all
known events we left this country and this city and now the project is stretched between
Belgrade and Berlin.”
[SYDIUS]: “Saint-Petersburg”
[GENA]: “I'm from the post-apocalyptic future, where most of humanity has been
wiped out by a deadly nuclear war, which was sparked off by an artificial intelligence. The
survivors fight extinction against the computer system&#and genocidal war on humanity…”
[NENAD]: “Dubai”
[ROMAN]: “Zauralie”
3. What type of music do you play?
[ALEX_Y]: “We call this arctic-dreams-metal – a frantic mix of traditional metal,
classical music and electronic gothic.”
[SYDIUS]: “Rock and metal”
[GENA]: “The type with a guitar in it”
[NENAD]: “Mostly metal, rock and folk”
4. Introduce yourselves to the readers and tell us what you do in the band?
[ALEX_Y]: “I am the vocalist, founder and composer of Arctic Dreams”
[SYDIUS]: “Play guitar and spoil songs with endless soloing”
[GENA]: “I play bass”
[NENAD]: “I play guitar and I help make the songs work.”
[ROMAN]: “I’m a drummer”
5. This is probably a common question but one that most want to know, what musical
influences did you have growing up, and what are some now?
[ALEX_Y]: “They are very huge)) Classical, gothic and heavy metal mostly.”
[SYDIUS]: “From classic rock into progressive, jazz and classics and now back and
forth”
[GENA]: “Ever since I was a kid, I loved listening to music, any music I could
reach. Now nothing has changed, style and genre are not important to me”
[NENAD]: “Very varied. Started off with pop rock and classical when I was a kid,
my parents took me to some events to see. I got interested in music to at least try it, so I
started off with piano and music lessons. The rest is history.”
[ROMAN]: “I started to listen to heavy music when I was 9 years old from Korol i
Shut. Then I had a period of being fun of Rammstein, Aria, Nightwish, and Blind
Guardian. When people ask me about my favorite band, I usually answer Blind Guardian
because they were the last band I could call my favorite. After them, I just was a fan of
Power Metal, then all kinds of Metal, now I listen to a lot of different music of many genres
so right now, I don’t have a favorite band at all.”
6. Have you always been into music? Was it something that just came to you
naturally?
[ALEX_Y]: “Yeah, since I was about 12. Music came a few years after I heard my
first heavy music album.”
[SYDIUS]: ” Don’t know if it’s legitimate to define a huge path of studies, activities, mistakes and discoveries naturally come”
[GENA]: “And how does the non-natural process work? Do they throw an
instrument at you and throw you on stage? ”
[NENAD]: “It was a way to express my natural creative side, but I didn’t commit to
it until later in life when I studied it better. It was pretty much on and off until my teenage
years, that was when the sparks started flying. Now it is as natural to me as breathing.”
[ROMAN]: “I have played drums since school, and I would say that it was pretty
natural for me”
7. What can we expect from the band in the rest of 2024 and beyond into 2025?
[ALEX_Y]: “Finishing the second album is our main objective”
[SYDIUS]: “Hopefully acceleration of creative activity”
[GENA]: “New music, new live shows”
[NENAD]: “Finishing preproduction for the new album and possibly churn out a
show.”
[ROMAN]: “-”
8. For someone who wants to know more about the band, were can they find you at?
And where can they find your music?
[ALEX_Y]: “We have a number of resources on which we regularly update:
https://arcticdreamsofficial.com
https://www.instagram.com/arcticdreamsofficial
https://www.facebook.com/arcticdreamsband
https://arcticdreams.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@arcticdreams231
https://soundcloud.com/arctic-dreams
https://www.tiktok.com/@arcticdreamsofficial
https://twitter.com/ArCTiC_D_Metal
https://www.reverbnation.com/arcticdreams ”
[SYDIUS]: “ – ”
[GENA]: “You can find our band page in almost all social networks”
[NENAD]: “Facebook for the boomers and Gen X, Instagram for the Millennials…do
we have TikTok for the Gen Zers? Spotify and Bandcamp for all.”
[ROMAN]: “-”
9. Let’s answer some fun questions, what is your all time favorite band?
[ALEX_Y]: “Metallica, Megadeth, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth”
[SYDIUS]: “Chick Corea Elektric Band”
[GENA]: “Dream theater”
[NENAD]: “Pink Floyd”
[ROMAN]: “As I answered above it is Blind Guardian”
10. If you could tour with any band and open or have them open for you, who would
you choose?
[ALEX_Y]: “Metallica, Rammstein, Slipknot”
[SYDIUS]: “ Lady Gaga ”
[GENA]: “ Metallica or Rammstein ”
[NENAD]: “Hypocrisy, Pain, Paradise Lost, Orbit Culture to name a few.”
[ROMAN]: “Metallica. They have big gigs, and we would look pretty professional next to
Kirk Hammett”
Thanks for chatting with me From the Green Room and look forward to chatting
again, in the future.
