8/2/2023 0 Comments Eleni nota![]() ![]() It was a lot of fun because it was not 100% professional, so we were like children running around and it was crazy fun. We were sleeping either in hostels or inside the Van. The types of tours I have done in my life are pretty small with five to ten shows per tour. I actually cannot compare it to touring with Nervosa, because I have not toured with them yet. But yes, I have done plenty of tours in Europe. Actually, I have never been outside of Europe. With other bands as session member, we toured around Germany, Italy, Poland, Cyprus, mostly in Europe. We played Alternative Metal and we toured around Eastern Europe, and all around Great Britain. For example, I toured with Ghost Season, which is one of my favorite bands. Most of my touring have been with other bands, either as a session member or as a permanent member. Actually, we did not do that many tours together. Did you do a lot of touring and what were your highlights during that time?Įleni: My most notable band before Nervosa was Mask Of Prospero. During that time you released one EP and one full-length album. Yes, it is pretty hard when you play drums and there are neighbors around.ĭuring the early stage of your career you played in a couple of Progressive Metal/Progressive Metalcore bands, most notably Greek outfit Mask Of Prospero. Two years ago, I found a place where I can rent a kit nearby my house, so I can go practicing on real drums and do all my lessons there. Before, I spent my life playing on the Roland kit. So I spent most of my life playing on electronic kits, I actually got my first serious real drum kit two years ago. So after a few months, I stopped playing on this drum kit because there were a lot of complaints and my mother bought me an electronic Roland drum kit. It was really nice but our neighbors wanted to kill us. Did you have a drum kit at home?Įleni: Yes, it was a problem because we lived in an apartment with my mother and at first she bought a drum kit for me. How did it work when you were a child? Drums are a big instrument and very noisy. I have worked as a session drummer with other types of music, but my love is always metal. With 16, I decided that I want to be a professional musician in metal because I loved metal since I was a child. I started working really hard, practicing like crazy, and worked crazy amount of hours. I really had to do this as a job, otherwise my life would be miserable. I could not think of myself as a lawyer, as a secretary or a doctor or something. It came naturally to me when I was 16 years old, one day I just woke up and I said to myself okay, I don't like anything else, I am bored of pretty much anything else than music. That is the reason I began in the first place. ![]() I wanted to become a superhero myself and feel powerful. When I saw a drummer perform, I viewed him as a superhero. The main reasons I wanted to start in the first place were Slipknot and Joey, and also because of the feeling of power and strength. So it took a couple of years and with 12 I finally started taking lessons. But yeah, it was pretty hard to convince my mother to learn such a loud and big instrument. ![]() I actually discovered drums as an instrument when I was 10 when a friend introduced me to Slipknot and I saw Joey Jordison play for the first time. When did you start playing drums and when did you decide to make a career out of it in a Metal band?Įleni: I started playing the drums when I was 12 years old. We are trying to remain connected with our fans, because they are what keeps us alive, emotionally and in every other possible way. Thankfully, we have found ways to connect with the fans such as doing interviews, Instagram live streams, video chats and so on. ![]() You have to be really inventive to find stuff to add some money. So we have to find alternative ways to survive, like lessons, merchandising, or our live stream concerts. This also is a burden financially of course, because the musicians need to survive. It is the feeling that you really miss the stage, you really miss the crowd, and the empowerment of the fans. Most musicians have not played live in more than a year. For fans, it is a very difficult situation to handle the current Covid-19 situation without live shows, how is it from a musician’s perspective? How much do you miss your fans and how do you keep connecting with them?Įleni: For us musicians, it is pretty hard because we miss live shows. We have to stay at home most of time because of the lockdown. Everything is fine with me, my family, and my close circles. First of all I hope you had a great start in 2021, and you and your family are safe.Įleni: I am very well and really excited to be here. Hello Eleni, it is a real pleasure to have you here and I am really grateful to perform an interview with you today for the Metal Temple online magazine. ![]()
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