The enfant terrible GHØSTKID is back!
Two years after his last escapade, Sebastian “GHØSTKID” Biesler (vocals, formerly of Electric Callboy) and now joined by Michael Pasta (guitar), Chicken Finger Max (drums), and Bonny the Bee (bass) unveils his third album, FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT, with the help of Century Media.
Ironically, the album kicks off with THE END, a rather unsettling introductory sample that sounds like an interview with a killer, setting the album’s eerie atmosphere even before IVORY kicks in, delivering its dark, modern Industrial touches complemented by heavy, pounding riffs. There’s a certain melancholy in the clean vocals, contrasted by the aggressive instrumentation, creating a thoroughly haunting sound, just as on the far more virulent MOTHER DEATH, which instantly delivers abrasive sounds alongside the screams. The alt-metal roots are very much present but allow the vocalist to let loose with his clean vocals and showcase his progress, just as on I DESTROYED YOU, which sounds like a ballad at first but ultimately delivers a progressive and unexpected intensity. Back to violence with FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT, the title track that blends Trap influences with fairly minimalist riffs yet still allows the singer to give it his all to make the song furious in contrast to PURPLE SNAKES, which offers very accessible and groovy tones even when the guitars are in full swing. The mosh part is incredibly effective, just like on GIVE YOUR KIDS A GUN TO PLAY, which features energetic, catchy riffs and a lively beat that’s accessible to new listeners before transitioning to the gentler NEON, a fairly calm track where the vocalist clearly leans toward rap/trap. We still find the distorted guitars and the gloomy atmosphere, but the ending catches us off guard, only to pick up again with UNCONDITIONALLY, another energetic track that’s very accessible, even for those unaccustomed to distortion. The album draws to a close with LOVELY, another melancholic track that doesn’t hesitate to draw on samplers and keyboards to tug at the heartstrings, before WHITE RAINBOW, the final punch to the face where the vocalist shows us just how sensitive, accessible, and above all, human he can be, dropping the right words at the right moment for those who know how to listen while savoring a heavy beat.
I was afraid to say that GHØSTKID was becoming just another run-of-the-mill band, churning out hits with a very modern sound, but FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT proves me wrong. This album captures the passion of their early days, but it also has a visceral energy that compels us to listen to what the singer wants us to feel. It just works.
85/100
A few questions to Sebastian “Sushi” Biesler, thinking head of the GHOSTKID project, about the release of the third album, FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT.
Interview was done on September 10th, so a few informations might be uncorrect now.
Hello Sebastian, and first of all, thank you very much for taking the time to talk with me. How are you?
Sebastian “Sushi” Biesler (chant): I’m good, a bit stressed out right now at the moment because there is a lot of stuff going on. I mean, on the private side as well, and of course like the new album is coming and so on. So a lot of stuff to prepare, a lot of stuff I have to take care of, but yeah, overall, I feel good so far.
It’s always good to feel stressed because of many stuff, many cool stuff going on.
Sebastian: That’s true, but it’s really a lot. I mean there is so much stuff that has happened this year, and I’d probably say like that this is the hardest year of my entire life because it’s fucking insane. So if the universe has a plan for me, I’m still asking myself “why are you torturing me like that?”.
I really understand this. So the first real question is a good one, maybe a cool one: how would you describe GHOSTKID’s music without using any metal words, like it’s not Industrial, it’s not Metalcore, it’s not Alternative stuff… Please use your own words.
Sebastian: That’s a good question. Usually I would say it’s just my own story that I’d like to tell, free music, because this is what it has always been and um. But if I would describe the music by itself, I would just say it’s probably dark and sad and aggressive, probably.
That’s good for me! So as I said the first time we talked, I asked you where does the name Ghostkid came from and you said “it’s just me, Ghostkid”, so now the question will be different: how do you still link the name Ghostkid, which is you, to the music you create?
Sebastian: That actually never really has changed. It’s more like… Ghostkid is more for me a vessel where I can express everything that’s in my mind and bothering me, so I think it’s kind of like self therapy a little bit, and just Ghostkid is kind of like the alter ego where I can just realize everything, just turn in some negative thoughts or whatever into music to create something meaningful from weird or sad or depressing situations, I would say that’s how I would describe it, the best way that goes it’s just kind of like an alter ego or another side of me that can express stuff through music that I probably couldn’t verbalize or something, you know. It’s therapy, it’s like an expression on another level, because I really think even if you don’t understand the lyrics or whatever, you can definitely feel the vibe of the track and so on, and this contains my story basically, and it’s always changing and there’s always a lot of stuff uh where you could talk about and… So I think that describes it the best way.
Maybe you could say Ghostkid is the dark side of you?
Sebastian: Probably yes, but not in a negative way. I would say it’s more that I have a chance to express myself, or express the dark side through Ghostkid. I think that describes it probably the best way, but it’s kind of like I said, it’s more like therapy or like a healing process just to process things for myself and if it just contains a lot of dark and sad and whatever stuff, it’s still a positive thing just to have something, like the chance, something like a possibility to let things out.
Yeah, it’s like therapy, you can express things.
Sebastian: Exactly, so sometimes I wouldn’t know where I would be in life without music, without this possibility or the option like that.
I definitely like your answer. The next question is about the new album called Follow the White Rabbit. How do you feel about the release of this album? The link is obviously named before Alice in Wonderland, but how do you choose this name?
Sebastian: Basically the album is about a pretty tough time that I had and all the things I was confronted with, and I was always thinking about, “okay, so make it a whole story or whatever” because the difference from this album to all the others is it’s so much more personal and it’s not about Ghostkid. I would say it’s more close to Sebastian like me as a regular person and the thing is I thought about if you just think about depression in general, what was actually the working title for that record is… I was thinking about “every time you’re depressed or if you have a depressive episode or whatever, it’s like you just, you’re just confronted with so many different kind of things”. Of course you feel shitty, but it’s always a different situation, a different emotion, a different feeling and one day it came into my mind like this thing. “Once you follow the white rabbit and you just really enter probably my world, on this record, it’s like a weird Wonderland with a lot of fucked up things”, and so then it came into my mind, there was this game back in the days, American McGee’s Alice, and the story is super interesting. She’s back from Wonderland and she’s sleeping while there is a fire in the house and she can hear her parents scream while burning in the fire, so she can rescue herself or something, but she needs to go to a mental facility because she has a psychosis from that. So she goes back to Wonderland, everything is broken basically, it’s super dark, the game by itself, and so you have to just make it through this to that she’s waking up like out of this psychosis, and so she’s fighting probably the trauma in this whole game, and I thought that absolutely makes sense because I think you can compare it to everybody else who is having a tough time, or just having trauma or problems like mentally or whatever, I think it’s basically the same thing because the world you’re living in or the perspective you see the world is not real, it’s just crazy like in a bad way, so that’s the reason why I called the album Follow the White Rabbit. You are living in your world, but the world is another world, I think people always have filters, it’s like you, and I think that’s the reason why this album title fits perfectly, but everybody can resonate with it as well. It’s more like a case, so if you do a deep dive, you know probably every world’s different, and yeah, I really like the title. Because it’s more like if you just look behind the facade, things are completely different as well like being an artist and being a person, if you’re kind of like a VIP or whatever person, how do you call that sentence?
A public figure?
Sebastian: Yes, you always see the outside, there is no chance to have… You never know, you just see everything is working, you see just the people just doing their thing on stage or if you’re acting or whatever, and it seems like everything is fine, but I mean everybody has its own problems, and you will never see that, so once you “follow the White Rabbit”, you probably see some stuff that you never expected you would see.
I really understand because I’m not an artist, I’m a reviewer, photographer, and I just live by my own.
Sebastian: So you’re an artist.
No no I’m not. But yeah I just don’t follow the news and I’m like, “oh okay, this happens in the world”.
Sebastian: But it’s really hard to tell if somebody’s an artist or not. Oh, hold on for a second. Yeah, sure. I just need to replace my phone because I need to charge it. So there was this biography from Rick Rubin and it’s a pretty interesting book, with his view on art and so on. And he said something pretty smart, he said, “you know, the guy who’s just bringing out the trash or whatever, working at the restaurant, he could be an artist by himself”. The only thing that we do as artists, I don’t know, like music wise, or if you’re doing videos or whatever or just painting, it’s just like everything that we… how can I say that? So, everything we are surrounded by, we translate it or just turn it into music or a painting or whatever. So that’s the only difference, but we see the same kind of things, how we process it is just different, so I think everybody can be an artist, it’s nothing like super specific, and I think you especially, it’s art as well, so I mean, doing pictures and stuff. I think everything could be art like where you put your passion in.
I definitely agree. So next question is about the new album, how would you sum up Follow the White Rabbit in only 3 words?
Sebastian: Only 3 words…
You can add another one, but I just want you to sum it in 3 words.
Sebastian: I would say “worst episode ever”.
I really love it! As you said, you are dealing with depression, is it something you want to talk about?
Sebastian: Yeah, sure, absolutely, we can do it. I think this whole album is probably gonna be more personal in general anyway, so it’s nothing like I try to avoid or something. I can’t even tell if I’m depressed or not. Probably people are gonna say it, but I have to deal with a bunch of things for a while now, and I mean there are some episodes where I’m feeling better, but yeah, we definitely can talk about that.
Okay, this will be coming into the next questions. I personally think and feel the new songs are slower, heavier, more… I can say more intense than on the previous albums, so maybe you feel the same contrast between the heavy parts and… I can say slow on the clean parts?
Sebastian: I think it was not really like that, we said “okay, we wanna do the album a bit more soft or whatever”, it just came together naturally and… how can I describe it the best way. When I’m writing music, everything just comes together pretty naturally. So when I’m inspired, I just sit down. Sometimes I don’t even know what I want to express with it, and with this album especially it’s fucking weird because there is an intro. Did you listen to the album?
Yeah, I just finished my review uh like uh 15 minutes ago.
Sebastian: Okay, good. So, here’s the thing: with this album, there was probably a lot of foreshadowing and I don’t even got it back in the days when I was writing it. For example, like the intro, where it’s like this weird conversation with the therapist or whoever, I said a lot, a bunch of things, and of course it’s kind of a concept, just to…
Are you the person talking on the intro?
Sebastian: Yeah. So it’s just like me having a conversation or just talking, it’s like this: “why are you scared Sebastian?”
I was just feeling that it was a sample, so it was you!
Sebastian: No, no, no, it’s me! And it’s basically kind of crazy, of course it seems like it fits the concept, but actually 80% of what I’m saying is true. It was exactly like the feeling that I had at this time and so on. What is crazy, I had the situation with my old band and so on and there was like my whole infrastructure that basically fell apart, so my management left, even my tax accountant left, fucking everybody, my girlfriend and so on, so it was like really tough year where everything crashed down, but this intro when I said something like “okay, everybody left”, art became my cell and so on and it’s fucking lonely, I recorded all of this before actually everything has happened. And even a bunch of other things on this record just makes sense now in the perspective or just how everything changed, so that was definitely different compared to the last album. The last album was… of course, I always write personal, but it wasn’t more like “okay I wanna make it like this Hollywood Suicide concept”, and I was thinking about some stuff and so on. Just for example, take this track Murder. Oh no, Murder is like a bad example, I would say for example Dahlia and some tracks like that it’s more some stuff I can really heavily resonate with it, because it was more like about this artist’s lifestyle and things you are confronted with, and of course I can identify myself with all that stuff 100%, but it was more like former distance perspective, it was more metaphoric and more like “okay, I’m explaining a situation that feels personal to me, but it was not like that I really was confronted with it at this time”. With Follow the White Rabbit record, it’s the complete opposite, everything, every single track was something I had to face, and that’s fucking weird. That’s the reason why I’m saying, for example, Mother Death, this track, which is a bit more like Nu Metal sounding, that is actually about the times when I tried to sleep and just had bad anxiety about all the things that are coming, and I really felt at this point it felt like I was losing my mind. And this is what the track is about, you know, and yes, you listen to the record, there was a lot of stuff. I can say the only track I have a little bit of distance off is GIVE YOUR KIDS A GUN TO PLAY, that was more something like for me “okay, good, the world is changing and it’s, it’s becoming more fucked up place, people are just getting insane, have problems with their identities in general”, I mean like with their identities in general, like you have so much opinion out there and you have so much influence and I think it’s so fucking hard if you’re trying to find yourself just to really… You’re just oversaturated, so it’s pretty hard to answer the question, who am I nowadays, and this is what the track is about that everything is just, I think the world became a weird place but that’s another topic, it’s just this is, this is what I mean, it’s something like I would say GIVE YOUR KIDS A GUN TO PLAY is a track which could have been like on other records as well because the writing process was just something that was bothering me in my mind and I had to get it out, but the rest is just completely personal.
About writing and recording stuff, when did you begin to focus on Follow the White Rabbit, and do you think your creative process evolved with time?
Sebastian: From the previous record, Hollywood Suicide. I think I evolved a lot. I mean it’s like with every record I had just learned new stuff, and I would say I’ve learned this time is more sometimes you just have to do things without really thinking way too much, or I would say the biggest conclusion that I had for myself was like it’s not about what kind of a track you would like to write or whatever, it’s more like if you feel inspired by something, even if it’s just a thought, for example, this FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT track, which is about like my past basically, I just went to the studio and just laid down the whole lyrics in, I don’t know, 1 or 2 hours, because I had that weird feeling in my stomach that there is something that has to, I need to just transfer to music and this is what I did. So what I’ve learned is like the best way to write music is probably just listen to what is going on in yourself, because we already have so many awesome bands out there, and of course sometimes you feel inspired by a track with a specific vibe, but I think everything just gets a soul at the point where you really have a connection to what you’re doing, and I think. This is how it should work, basically, what this is, what music is for, I think.
Maybe you have a personal favorite track or maybe the hardest one to achieve for Follow the White Rabbit?
Sebastian: You mean the hardest track to write or just to finish?
To write and to achieve, like it’s really hard for you to do this because as you said, it’s a really personal album. So maybe the hardest one to finish?
Sebastian: You mean emotionally, so writing that track?
Yeah, emotionally!
Sebastian: It got pretty intense. A bunch of the tracks, I wrote them like a couple of years ago actually, so not all the tracks have been written like in this album cycle. Let me think of it, that’s a good question, because it’s hard for me to tell, or just to recap how I felt. Some tracks, when I was writing them, I was just sad or just felt a little bit lost in some or something, but it was not… For example, WHITE RAINBOW. I was thinking about if nothing, if you really can’t make it out of this, this whole state you were in… and I mean I’m almost 40 years right now, so it’s of course, you think about where is the fucking goal, and I thought about if I won’t make it for whatever reason, and I mean I’m not suicidal or whatever, it’s not like that, but I was thinking about if everything is done, I probably was considering that will be a track you could play on my funeral, this is like what I had in mind when I was writing it. But in that situation I would have said like it’s just something. I would say I think with this track, it was more like a positive process, just to let those thoughts happen, but when it comes down to really feeling pain or something, or that was really right to heart, really hard to write. It was definitely LOVELY and IVORY.
Actually it’s not a negative way to think because I personally really listen to Black Metal, Death Metal and stuff, certain things… But I really like Ghostkid because of your singing. I don’t know how to express it, but your singing has something, and this something, a melancholic something and as you said on the last track, it’s… It’s painful, but in a good way.
Sebastian: True.
So I don’t know how to express it, but your singing have something.
Sebastian: Thank you so much. It’s hard for me to deal with compliments. But for real, I would say the hardest track to ride was probably… No, I think it was definitely LOVELY and IVORY. These are the tracks. I was confronted with a situation where I felt really just devastated, and I mean I don’t wanna go too much in detail about IVORY, it’s basically about a person with a trauma like who became a significant other or just is a really important person and you try to reach that person you wanna get close but you can’t because that person just build up a distance to protect itself, and it’s crazy because even if you just… How can I say it, even if you are close to that person, there’s still this distance, and you can’t do anything about that, and this is what IVORY is about and it was really… I just wrote this track, because I had to deal with that kind of feeling back in the days, and this is what I mean. With LOVELY, it was something that the track is always sitting, I guess I have it for 2 years now or something, but it’s a bit funny because it just got, I would say the emotional component in this track just got freshed up pretty recently. I wrote this track in a situation I was, it was the same thing like IVORY. I had to deal with something. Now it just became more real again, so for example… Unfortunately life gave us lemons, so we just do what we can. Our life is not giving me lemons, dude. That is what I can tell. But NEON is a really good example as well. It’s a track I was writing about, when I was talking about my now ex-girlfriend, it’s more like I’m, I’m telling her, “yo, I’m gonna do this for the last time”. I really wanna just recapping everything that has happened and just walking through this desert and just passing by all this weird stuff. I had to make it through, and just for the last time I tried to make things right. This is what the track is about and I have the feeling that this track basically just became more real than fucking everything else because it’s uh this is actually right now my situation. So, we could have this interview for like 3 hours if I would explain everything that has happened. It’s just insane and I think, probably it was kind of like a little bit of foreshadowing but this track really resonates with me in a different way, especially at this moment because there is nothing left. Everything is fucked up right now and I need to build myself up again and everything else. Yeah, it’s like a testament, the final point to the story.
Yeah, I absolutely understand this. So the next question is about live music. So do you think you evolved, you improved yourself as a singer with the new album? Because the new album has a lot more clean singing. The previous one had more screaming and it’s really okay, I love screaming, but do you think you evolved?
Sebastian: I would say it’s unavoidable, but to be honest, I would never consider myself a good singer. Actually I was always a guitar player and I’m a fucking lazy singer. I would be so much better if I would put some work in it, so shout out to my producer Sky (Sky van Hoff, ed.). He taught me for many years and he’s always trying his best to push me to the limit, but it’s always the same thing, I’m coming to the studio and he’s like “you haven’t practiced at all, so what the fuck is wrong with you?”. I’m good in the studio, but what I need is definitely some kind of routine. So basically if I really want to become better, I need to sing every day. And recently I’m doing that and I definitely can tell it, I’m making some progress with it. Plus the new tracks are just weird to sing a little bit because it’s not, it’s a different kind of a range. It’s not really hard to sing, but I need to figure out what kind of technique I’m using and so on. But I would say that I didn’t evolve like that much, to be honest, I would say in the studio I’m always performing good. Life is a different kind of situation. I’m always the guy who is fucking sick and the first one on the crew and whatever, but maybe I would say I improved more with songwriting than with singing.
Okay, let’s talk about live shows now. I saw on Google and stuff, you recently had a huge change on the live lineup, so how do you feel about this? How did you hire the new members?
Sebastian: Oh about changing the lineup and stuff? So let’s talk first about the old lineup, what was a bit of miscommunication in like on all the socials was like that was a process actually. It was not that everybody left at the same time. It was more like, for example, my drummer last year, he had the opportunity just to play for a bigger band, and so we had to make a decision there. So I was pretty naturally no problem, and I really wanted to give him the chance, but I said “okay, I need to plan with you or not”. That was the reason why. My other guitar player, he has a lot of stuff he needs to take care of, and he basically couldn’t do it anymore. With my bass player and my guitar player, that was actually the two guys where it happened this year, I don’t want to go too much in detail, so not everybody left, some got kicked out and so on, and they were like busy from anything else. The statement came at a time and I didn’t know about that, so it was like “okay cool, so now it seems like I’m, I’m the villain, that’s fine”. But it was actually not how everything has happened, so it was more like a process over many months and even if I felt a lot of relief because we’re just played together like for 6 years and some things got a bit complicated in the end, to be honest, with some of them, even if I felt a lot of relief, I was super sad on the other hand, because of course we spend a lot of time together and they’re great guys. I would always say that, so we’ve been friends for many years and of course just to have a split like with the whole band from. In a short amount of time, it just felt super weird for me, and of course I was sad, but it was probably the best decision for all of us. And this is what I’m saying, so it was a big change for me and even if there was a lot of pressure to be honest, to really make things right and so on, and to be honest, I made a bunch of mistakes because Ghostkid is a solo project and to really do a great job, being a boss and so on. This is something I had to learn like for the past 6 years, and I definitely made a bunch of mistakes, but sometimes there is no turning back, so it’s super sad, but of course it was good that the pressure was gone. So I don’t know, maybe one day we’re gonna figure things out because I would still say even if it’s complicated right now, so I love those guys, we are still friends somewhere, and maybe one day we can fix things, or just sort them out because everybody needs some time sometimes to process as well. So with the new band lineup, the drummer, he committed to the band last year, so that was the first one, and after that, when I had the situation, there is no band, I know a bunch of people and I definitely can tell “okay, good”. So the guys who got the phone call, I know them for years right now, they’ve already been in bigger bands and so on, it’s like a different kind, it’s a different vibe. There was definitely more experience when it comes down to playing bands.
Okay, so let’s talk about live shows again, I saw you 2 years ago if I remember well. It was at La Machine du Moulin Rouge, you were opening for Blind Channel. Did you remember the show?
Sebastian: I do, I guess! With Blind Channel, and we’ve been with our headlining tour there as well.
Maybe you like to play in France?
Sebastian: I love to, yeah! France was always surprisingly good for us. I mean sometimes you have those countries, and I mean I make this stuff for almost 20 years now, and like back in the days with my old band with Eskimo Callboy (now Electric Callboy, ed.) it was like “okay France was sometimes a bit complicated”, for Ghostkid, it always has been good. Sometimes you have those countries where it works and sometimes not, but surprisingly France is on the list.
France is good modern stuff like Metalcore and stuff, when the Metal bands come they’re okay but sometimes not really welcome, but yeah, Metalcore and Industrial stuff like Ghostkid is definitely agreed! So you have another show planned uh in October if I remember well. How do you build the setlist for the whole show and for the whole tour?
Sebastian: Right now it’s, it’s everything in the making and we try to figure out what kind of setlist we’re gonna play anyway, and there is gonna be some updates about the tour anyway, so I can’t talk about that right now, but yeah, let’s keep it secret!
So, as I said, you have a tour coming, we still don’t know uh which band would be the opening one. Can you unveil it or not? (the tour is officially pushed to next April, ed)
Sebastian: They’re already there. It’s Stain the Canvas, Seven Blood, and Dropout Kings. They’re on the flyer, and I think it’s a cool package. It’s already official.
I just checked Facebook like one hour ago, my bad! So are there any other bands you would like to play with?
Sebastian: Like your dream tour? There are always two sides when it comes down to the business side and what bands could like, you can have a really dream tour. I have to just decide if it’s for personal, so what kind of artists I’d like to share the stage with, like from an emotional aspect or like the tour that was fucking great to play, you know, it’s always like that. So because if I would say um that would be my dream tour as a fan, let’s say, let’s keep it like this, you know, I’d probably say. I’d probably say Bring Me the Horizon, from the other perspective, I think it would be good as well. But I fucking love Bring Me the Horizon, it’s always been my most favorite band because you never know what they drop, you know, and I fucking love everything and but actually I’m not listening to that much Metal music anymore, it’s more like I don’t know, so I would probably say my dream lineup would be to be on tour with Nirvana, but of course that is not possible.
Yeah, because of deaths.
Sebastian: Yeah, it’s true, but, what would be my dream lineup? I would say it would be great just to share the stage one more time with Motionless in White. I was fucking sick and the guys were super nice. Ice Nine Kills was great as well, you know, but there are so many bands, I’d like to tour with Papa Roach, we toured back in the days like with Eskima Callboy as well. That would be great. Jacoby is amazing. I would say probably Bring Me the Horizon, one of the bigger bands, and so on, you know, that would be amazing! So yeah, there are a bunch of bands I love to tour with.
Okay, but please count me as a photographer! (laughs)
Sebastian: Okay, just shoot me a message. I’m gonna bring you in for sure, man!
So what will come next for Ghostkid, because you have the album of course releasing, a European tour, but can you tell me about next, or if it’s secret, it’s secret.
Sebastian: No, all good. So I think the next thing, the next big thing that’s gonna be is like we’re gonna reveal who’s in the band. So that’s coming on Monday. We’re just going to do it on Friday, but everything took a little while longer. So I think it’s gonna be a big surprise.
Hey, Sebastian, I’m really sorry because the software just decided to shut. So what’s next, music video, for artists like you.
Sebastian: The album is coming, the tour or whatever, and yeah, so what I’m gonna do because everything was a bit rushed because like there was so much stuff going on right now, I definitely gonna, when the album is out, I’m probably gonna do more art like in the whole Follow the White Rabbit concert I would say, because I think you can tell a lot or there is a big story to tell, and I think… It’s hard to tell what’s coming next, probably a lot of art, and I think what’s, what’s kind of between is like for me just having a little quick. This is like what I’m excited for because like I said, this year was fucking hell, and, but yeah, there was a lot of interest about to come. I think I’m super excited, like I said for the reveal, and it’s gonna be a surprise, what should I say?
This would be the last question for me: last time we talked, I asked you to compare Ghostkid music with a dish and your answer was “Happy Meal from McDonald’s”. Now, the question is: is there a movie or a book you would consider Ghostkid to Ghostkid‘s music, to something you like.
Sebastian: So what kind of movie I like that I would, I would say that is connected to Ghostkid. A movie or a book, I like… I got two movies, but I know which one would fit better. I think it would be Silent Hill or Edward Scissorhands. That is probably those two movies probably fit the best, I would say.
Very interesting for me. Why Silent Hill? Because I’m a huge Silent Hill fan. So just why?
Sebastian: That’s a good question for me as well. I would say it’s more like the vibe and the feeling that Silent Hill represents. Of course it’s dark, but somehow it’s sad. How can I say, I mean the whole aesthetic kind of like gives me a feeling that probably works with Ghostkid as well because it’s a different kind of vibe. I think Silent Hill is just super intense when it comes down to the feeling that you get as well with this rain, like the ash that is coming down and so on. I can’t really tell why, but it’s just the feeling, same with Edward Scissorhands, I would say.
I’m okay with this somehow, because the latest album is really thick, really intense, I’d say melancholic and Silent Hill has this vibe. It’s really thick, it’s heavy, and we just walk into Silent Hill with Follow the White Rabbit, we just walk on. It’s the vibe, it’s heavy. And that’s the heavy vibe we want.
Sebastian: Thank you, man.
So this will be the last question for me. Thank you very much for your time and your music, the last word are yours!
Sebastian: Oh, the last words are mine. Oh my God, what should I say? Probably even if it’s standard, but this time it’s really like that, so please make sure to check out the album, it’s super personal, like I said, if you really wanna see what’s going on in my mind, you probably should check out the album and not only the music, probably the lyrics as well. And yeah, what else? Make sure to support music and just try to find a good place in this fucked up world, whatever. I don’t really know what to say. I would just say just take care, it’s hard enough nowadays. Just try to take care, just try to be happy.
Acta Infernalis addresses its sincere words of recovery to Sebastian, take care, you’ll come back stronger.