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# Bloody Tyrant Interview

### Part I: Main Interview Questions
**Introduction**
- What have you been doing during the pandemic?
- What are your plans for this year? Touring in Taiwan?
- Let's talk about your Europe tour! Any interesting stories to share?
- Are there any differences between your recording and the live shows? Do you do something different in terms of riffing/performance?

**Album Talk**
- You've just released a new album - ***Myth of the Islands***. Can you tell us a little about this album?
- Let's also talk about the album cover of ***Myth of the Islands***. What do you want to convey with the artwork? How does it tie in to your key vision as a band?
- Your albums are very much story-driven. You've quoted the band ***Insomnium*** as one of your biggest influences in writing the ***Hakagure*** album. Did they inspire you to write a story-based album in ***Myth of the Islands***? 
- Which story in the new album are you most deeply connected with? If the audiences could only listen to one song, which would you recommend? (Maybe you had trouble writing it, maybe you love the story or a riff)

**About the band/Other topics**
- So far every album in your discography has been with different topics: From the legends of sun moon lake to environmental issues, japanese samurai spirit & now aboriginal myths. How do you go from concept to songs?
- How do you approach writing songs? What's the difference between writing in English vs Chinese?
- What's the story behind your bandname - Bloody Tyrant? & Band origins
- What do you feel about metal genre labels?
- About the incorporation of traditional Chinese instruments. What inspired that addition? How do you feel like the instruments play with/entwine with the heavier parts of black/death metal?
- *Question for guitarists - You've got a new band Dharma. Would you like to elaborate on that?*

**About Doing it Yourself**
- You have a small recording space here and you do a lot of the recording/mixing yourself. Does that have any benefit? How does it affect your workflow?
- What do you feel about MIDI instruments and how do you use them? Any thoughts on analog purists?


### Part II: Quickfire
- What's the band that got you into metal music?
- What did you last listen to?
- What's your current favorite band?
- Favorite live show you've been to?
- Your guilty pleasure?
- Favorite pastime?
- Favorite food?

### References
[玩閱誌: Willy](http://mixfunlml.blogspot.com/2017/08/blog-post.html)
[PlayMusic: China Tour](https://playmusic.tw/column_info.php?id=5356&type=spotlight)
[吹音樂: 金屬宅宅94壞](https://blow.streetvoice.com/33551/)
[吹音樂: 談轉變](https://today.line.me/tw/v2/article/YQDgkL)
[指傳媒: Pulp Summer Slam](http://www.touchmedia.tw/?tag=%E6%9A%B4%E5%90%9B%E6%A8%82%E5%9C%98)
[重型音樂專訪](https://site.douban.com/painkillermag/widget/notes/18153750/note/526370961/)