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IMR: Shalom Aleichem, Ida! Firstly, for a bit of background, can you tell us about DIBBUKIM, the music you guys play and how did the band come together? Also, does any of the member play in any other side-projects other than DIBBUKIM?
Ida Olniansky(DIBBUKIM): Hi there Pravin! DIBBUKIM is a Yiddish Metal band which mixes "Klezmer Music" with Metal and thereby shaping somewhat of a new musical style. The lyrics are exclusively in Yiddish, and we are currently the only band around writing Metal material in that language.
It was actually my idea to start the band. Me and my husband, Niklas, had discussed starting a new Metal band for some time, and when I suggested that it should be done in Yiddish he immediately liked the idea and DIBBUKIM was born. We called our old friend Magnus Wohlfart who is a great guitarist and started to arrange and write songs.
Both Magnus and Jacob are also members in our label mates, YGGDRASIL, and I believe Jacob is a part of numerous other projects, PANDEMONIUM for example.

IMR: Greetings Hal Sinden! Before we start off the interview I was wondering if you could give a short introduction about the band’s inception for our readers and also the significance behind the band’s name TALANAS, how does it fit the band’s style ofmusic?
HAL: Greetings, and thank you for reading! TALANAS started in September 2008 immediately after the demise of INTERLOCK - the industrial metal band that Joe & I were in(signed to ANTICULTURE RECORDS). We struggled for ages to come up with a decent name as so many have been taken now by tiny, one-person bedroom bands on MySpace. Eventually, we found talanas completely by mistake whilst looking for names of beasts & mythical animals, it turns out it's a type of insect and have recently discovered that's it's also a solar phenomenon. The name itself has been quite useful since it’s unusual and hard to forget. We could’ve gone with one of the more ‘fashionable’ long emo names like ‘November My Cold Heart Betrothed’ or some othernonsense but TALANAS seems to grab some attention in a good way.

IMR: Hello Julia Flansburg and thank you for this interview with IndianMusicRevolution. Would you please start off by telling us a bit about ANGELICAL TEARS inception and how you became a member of the band for our readers?
Julia(ANGELICAL TEARS): Glenn and I decided to start a band, with a sound different than most other bands around.  He wanted the name to be something with angels and I wanted the name to be something with tears. So we just combined two names – ANGELICAL TEARS. That’s how it all started.

IMR: Hello Parash! Firstly, I would like to thank you on behalf of Team IMR for the interview with IndianMusicRevolution. As you guys would be new to our readers, can you describe the origins, inception & history of ANTIM GRAHAN from the beginning till today?
Antim Grahan(Parash): Hey Pravin, thanks for the opportunity and it is our honor to be presented in IMR.
We started out as a usual bunch of guys during the school days with no prior concern of becoming a serious metal band. We just started playing because it was fun. But after fooling around for a couple of months with all the noise making, and getting the right member in with similar choices in the music, we started ANTIM GRAHAN. We started out as a relatively thrash influenced melodic metal with the heavy essence of Black Metal band and we took out an album soon after FOREVER WINTER. And that album pretty much set up the tone for our path in future. We knew that we had found something, which we had always wanted.  Although now the genre that we played before has shifted a bit now and we play more of Brutal Death Metal/Grind Core/Black Metal for our new stuffs. We have released 4 albums till date and going to the studios in mid June. The new stuff will be the heaviest metal release ever in Nepal.

IMR: Hails FUNERAL IN HEAVEN! Let us begin with a discussion of how the band was originally incepted and is there any key evolutions in the band since the early days? Also, you guys seem to be more influenced by Sri Lankan traditional and historical background then why is the band named in English instead of your mother-tongue?
FIH: Ayubo Pravin! FUNERAL IN HEAVEN was initiated back in 2003 by me and a few other colleagues who at that time shared an interest towards morbid and esoteric material. This included an interest towards the music genre Black Metal, at its purest form. Yes, there have been some key evolutions in the band’s history since the day it was conceived as in the early days, finding members who had musical and technological knowledge as we do now, was almost impossible. The evolution factor also reflects on the fact that we encourage experimentation within the unit by not sticking to one formula. The band name reflects the survival situation here in Sri Lanka compared to what it was or might have been as written in our historical chronicles. If we would’ve found a better way to express that we are in fact, witnessing a funeral, in heaven, in our own mother tongue, we would definitely have. So we just resorted to naming the project as mentioned above.