ZEPHYR: What’s your story as a band? How did everything take shape? Dewindson Wolfheart: The band was formed in 1997 by me, André Cardoso (guitar), Clécio Christian (bass and backing vocals) and Alexandre Brito (drums), after some years one by one took different ways, but they are great friends of mine, like brothers until nowadays. Other great challenge is the support from media, our country never supported the metal music, even so we got many things like magazine´s cover, video-clip on MTV, our music is abroad at common radios… Really we don´t have what to claim, because here in Brazil we have the respect from the Gothic Metal music fans and they see us as one of the few groups which represents our country in this kind of music. Since the beginning we always faced many challenges, firstly because Brazil is a tropical country, culturally is a kind of music almost outside of our reality, but at same time, we have disillusions and other dark moments in our lives as every person has in any place from the world. ZEPHYR: Are you originally from Brazil? How challenging is to form a gothic band in Brazil? Dewindson Wolfheart: Yes, we are from Brazil, we live in São Paulo, but Timo (one of the guitar players) is from Finland however he lives here in São Paulo as well. Dewindson Wolfheart: Firstly, thank you so much for your support and this opportunity to introduce a little bit more from our music to other fans. For me is a great joy share with you this interview. ZEPHYR: Hails Dewindson & welcome to Zephyr’s Interviews. This great band have been around since 1997 and shared stages with famous gothic bands like Moonspell, Tiamat and Theater of Tragedy…between many others.
Our guest today is Dewindson Wolfheart, vocals of one of the best representation of the Brazilian Gothic Metal music: RAVENLAND. He then went back underwater to get his stuff, and I went inside the lighthouse for the last time.For the 1st time we have the opportunity to make an interview direct from Brazil. He agreed to meet the next day as soon as the boat arrived. He smiled, dived underwater, and jumped out of it, breaking its glassy surface in glee. I told him I could do that for him, show him to the port city of Velen if he was willing to follow the supply ship the next morning. He was not really adventurous but would be happy if someone could show him a port city somewhere and see how people lived on the surface world. Moor- that's how he called itself in the Common - was still but a teen in merfolk age and wished to see the world just a bit before settling for a life of sardine herding and algae crops at his grandfather's farm. The merfolk tribes around the Nelanther Isles are known for their good nature. He waved at me to meet him outside, and I did so without a second thought.
But not as weird as the merfolk who I saw rising out of the water like someone leaving a mirror.Īt first, I thought it was a man coming from god knows where in this storm, but then I noticed the fin-like legs below the waist and realized what he was. Like a pristine lake filled with moving valleys and mountains. Despite the waves, the water looked abnormally glassy tonight whenever lightning lit up the night.