I am not a master at any topic-I never will be. I have a profound view on everything I write about. I am connected with the topics on a personal level, of course. Do you feel like your interest in this topic has developed in sync with Inquisition, or do the two only really come together when you’re writing lyrics? Your interest in cosmology is a major factor behind Inquisition’s lyrics. Thus, the reason for the verses being obscure and hidden from humanity leaving us to create religions to justify our existence because we must, on our own, seek the verses or laws that will ultimately explain what the purpose of all is. These verses are fully known by “the gods”-these gods can be anything that are responsible for the creation of all, including us, the human species, and can possibly be from other universes they have managed to transcend for reasons we will never possibly know. Obscure verses are basically the laws of anything scientific and proven to be responsible for the function and existence of our universe and other universes that a god or the gods have created that we can fully explain but at the same time continue to seek answers for through scientific method. The obscure verses are the laws of quantum mechanics, quantum physics or physics in general. What is the significance of the title of your new album, Obscure Verses For The Multiverse? It also represents my subconscious universe that holds music as the highest power and Inquisition as the vehicle to evoke those powers and move minds. Each album will have slight differences in production, but our style is here to stay. Today, it is a spiritual journey where time does not exist-meaning Inquisition will always sound the way it has since 1996. In the old-old days, it meant learning my instrument and learning to write songs. I wanted to become part of that aspect of the scene and contribute my talents to it by bringing in my thrash metal roots of guitar playing and forge it into the darkness black metal was meant to be merged with.ĭoes the band mean something different to you today than it did back then? In 1993, I got involved heavily in the underground and knew it was time to take things much, much further and turn Inquisition into a dark force of music after being so inspired by the masters of the day. Inquisition chapter one was violent thrash metal written by a teenager learning to play his guitar, inspired by old Kreator and zero occult topics, no Satanism involved. Inquisition chapter two is obscure, melancholic and mystical while very violent… a lot of everything. How would you compare the Inquisition of today with the Inquisition of the late 80s/early 90s?Įntirely different bands, but at the core the similarities are in the song arrangements, scales and some chords. I know someone reading this out there knows what I am talking about. It’s a long story, but those who know know, as they say. Metalheads and punks formed violent gangs who carried guns, knives and even grenades. Threats all the time, police coming up to us face to face asking us to leave the area or we would be shot when they came back. Medellín was a real hot zone, too-I remember going to there in 1989 to hang out with Victor from Reencarnacion and Alex from Masacre, and it was a very intense visit once I got there. I lived in Cali and this was quite a problem. Police were gunning some of us down thinking we were terrorists with links to paramilitary groups or cartels. Playing my guitar at that age was the perfect outlet, and songwriting became a need that was fueled by life in general and what I was seeing.Īs a metalhead in those times we had to watch our backs.
I had some interesting friends, did some interesting things and by the time I was 14 my character was shaped like that of an adult to a certain extent. Hearing Bathory’s The Return, Slayer’s Reign in Blood or Parabellum’s Sacrilegio in 1986 down there was much more inspiring than listening to those albums say, here or in Europe. Being a metalhead teenager during those times was really the perfect background for the lifestyle. I grew up there in the 1980s all the way into the 1990s and witnessed all the violence you can imagine on every scale. Well, I am American, Colombian from one parent’s side and growing up there for 13 years taught me more things than most people from here will ever see in their lifetime. How do you think Inquisition’s Colombian origins have ultimately affected the band’s trajectory?
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