 voice. Good news. Nervosa just released a new single today. And with us, one of the newest members and then a cortina. She's joining us. Very exciting news, I guess a new lineup, new music, new single. I guess let's start things off with. How did you get involved? There's a long story, I'm sure, but yeah. First of all, thank you for having me here. It's a huge pleasure for me. So yeah, everything began like, it's almost two years now that we go back. I had the first call from Prika. She told me that look, I had in my mind always to put like a second guitarist in the band. But I never found what exactly was matching, you know, with me with the taste with the way that I want things to work. And she said, like, I'm feeling that we will gonna have, you know, a good connection with each other. And of course, explain me that they just had released the album Perpetual Chaos, that we had to, you know, wait a bit since I become an official member. But in this period in between, we were starts exchanging ideas, we started working together, you know, building the songs, composing the songs and everything. So yeah. Is it all complete now? Is the whole album complete? And is just waiting for it? Yeah, now it's the whole album complete. Now just we just had the first single released as a video clip. Endless Ambition. Yeah. Yes. And okay, so it's on Napalm Records, I would assume, right? Yeah, right. It's on April because we got the press release from Napalm Records. And when is the like, what's the timeline on the album? Like, when, when is that going to be released? The album is gonna be released like, later after summer by September or October, we asked. Yeah, this single was released so you guys could start the tour and get some excitement. Is that it? Yeah, like a new lineup, new song, we are beginning touring by next week, actually. So yeah, we like to, you know, drop something as a sample of, you know, what is coming. This is your first real band, right? Like the big, big band correct? Yeah, correct. You've been, you've been building up to this, right? You've been sort of building up slowly to this, like everybody, like everybody does. Yeah, I was, had a band here in the town that I'm living called Daffodil. We had released, you know, some content, some EPs, then I had my solo project that I released my EP like last year. And this the next level. Yeah, no, that's the way it goes, right? So, so what's it like, you're on stage with them now? It's like, wow, this is what I always wanted to do, you know? It will be like in the tour that is coming now, it will be my first time on stage with Nervosa as a guitarist. Because you're a bassist last time, right? Yeah, in the previous tour I was a bassist, of course, the, you know, the experience of touring, the experience of, you know, playing every day in front of a big audience in Latin America, the audience was like super warm and crazy. Yeah, yeah. I enjoyed, you know, everything I said, okay, but now it's time to, you know, do the same, but with guitar. So who are your influences? Like you're growing up in Greece, right? So who are your influences? As a guitarist, you could say influences, and then you could say maybe women influences, like, you know, there's influences in men and women, then maybe there's like more specific women ones. Okay, like, not going to say Nana Musco here, right? Yeah. Main influences, I could say, I'm like pretty classic with this stuff. I'll go with the Scorpions with some. Oh, yeah. Huge fan. Only John Roth or after really John Roth? Please don't make me to, that's all Michael Schenker or Michael Schenker? Matias, Matias, Michael Schenker or only John Roth? You have to choose. I cannot choose just one. It's like Scorpions in general. Now it's impossible for me to choose. Yeah, then I would go for a guitarist like Ritzy Blackmore, Gary Moore, Tony Yombe, Brandy Rhodes, that's why, you know, it's like big classic names. Are you slowly getting to meet your heroes? Well, the ones that you can, like, I guess as the more popular you get with the band too, right? The more you're going to start meeting all these people. I hope so. What about females? What about females? Okay, so you talked about men more or less, because they were sort of the beginnings, right? But what about the women? There's more and more today, right? Oh, yeah. Even as a guitarist or as musicians, you know, in, in general. And I think like the first, like female guitarist that I was, you know, watching and kind of analyzing was Oryanthin. Yeah, okay. Yeah, she's from Australia, but Greek, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And of course, after that, it's Nita Strauss, that it's amazing. Amazing. Yes. Yeah, she's amazing. Is there anybody else? And what about like just women in general, like Doro, or, you know, just just who you looked up to, who you look up to, right? Doro could be like, of course, in the very top of them. What does your mother say? My mother has no idea. You're going, you know, mom, I want to become a guitarist. I'm going to go on stage with, you know, all these bands. Does she say apeliti? They used to say my day apeliti. Why are you dealing with these people? No, you know, my mom was like, okay, do it, you know, she was like, totally open. My father was like a little bit more like freaking out and be anxious about everything. But no, they're both like always like supporting in there. And now they're proud they go to the shows ago. That's my daughter. That's my daughter. That's my daughter. I always supported her. That's my daughter right there. My dad knows about everything about thrash metal and death metal and it's kind of funny. But okay. All right. So, okay, so how does a how does a female fit in the death metal world today? It's like in every other genre of music, it's how it's in blues, how it started in rock, how it started in heavy metal. Now it's going on to death metal scene. You know, in the big ones where few some things can be more difficult or no, it depends. But it's, you know, it's always in the beginning. It's always in the Is the genre more accepting today? Is death metal more accepting of women today? And thrash? Yeah. Yeah, I believe that in general, women today belong to every genre of music. And I believe like, like things have changed. I want to believe that like, since the past things are like, a bit easier, a bit more smooth, and not having all this kind of, you know, a bit racist stuff. I believe that everyone, no matter the music kind and the music, they started to be more opened. Okay. And what about what about? What? Sorry, sorry, finish what you wanted to say. Oh, yeah, I believe that they start to be more focused on the music, what the bands are, you know, creating and what they're providing, rather than if it's like male or female. Okay. Yeah, I agree. I agree. Things have definitely changed for the better. What about being an artist in Greece, trying to break out of Greece? Because you go back 30 years, it was really difficult to make it as an artist. Maybe Gus G, there's exceptions, a few, right? God in Christ, just G. What about trying to make it, you know, from there? Is it difficult, easier or? Yeah, I cannot say that it's easy. You know, of course, there are difficulties like in everywhere, of course. But yeah, you know, living in Greece, it's, I know that there are a lot of artists, like, as you mentioned, Gus G, or Rotting Christ, or big bands, like Septifeles, they are coming out and they came out like 25 years ago, which is like a miracle. But yeah, things are always a little bit more, more difficult, you know, you're not in the center of the music industry, you're a little bit more apart. That's always a way, even if that's right. That's right. Alright, so so recently we were with Paul Deano with Gus on stage. What will tell me about that experience? Yeah, this, this was like a one dream coming true for me, actually. And yeah, it's it took me some time to realize what happened. But you know, we had like three shows, but I definitely enjoyed them. And I definitely came in as a, as an artist, you know, in one level. And after that, I came out in another level. You know, I felt all the process, the rehearsals, everything, the stage experience, everything was like, they took me, they drag me, you know, a bit higher and they helped me to improve myself. Now you've made it professional. That's it. Now you're at the professional level. Like you go a year and now you're in professional. I'm feeling like I did a step, you know, in my, for my personal experience and personal evolution. Okay, good. That's good way to say how do you speak English so well? How'd you learn? I speak good. I'm not talking like speaking good English. I still have this English pronunciation. Okay, what are you going to do? But how'd you learn? Just like that? I just picked it up? No, I can say that I was pretty bad student in English. But by the time I started to, you know, listen more to bands like, as I told you, like Scorpions and everything. And I was trying to find videos and interviews through YouTube. I realized that I wasn't able to understand what these people are saying in the interviews. And then I was pissed off with myself. And I said, no, I have to, you know, learn to be a better student, you know, to be able to learn what these people are talking about. So again, no, no TV shows like TV shows too, right? When you watch TV shows, you learn from there, you learn from music, you know, there's this all. No, I cannot say because I wasn't so much into TV shows. I mean, we have one TV show that is from. It's called TV World from the Greek metal hammer here. But I wasn't so much into this stuff. Okay, when I had access into, you know, internet and YouTube and started to search about interviews and everything, then it's how it started. Do you know what my first language was? My first language was Greek. That was that was my first language. That was I didn't speak any other languages for Greek. What happened is, but what I went, yeah, yeah, but when I went to school, then it switched all to English and French. So and then I kind of, the Greek started disappearing, right? And and so that I'm like the opposite of you. Yeah, you had a tough beginning because Greek are like a little bit tough and difficult to learn. But when your parents speak it, it's easier to understand it, right? But to learn it after is even harder, you know, if you've never spoken it before. Yeah, exactly. So you enjoyed the diano thing there. It brought you more professional. What did you like about Paul? About what I liked that. You know, on the one side, I was, I had in my mind, like, you know, Paul diano is like the first singer of Iron Maiden, you know, one of the most legendary bands. And on the other hand, I, we were chatting with Paul diano like, we've been friends, you know, for years. He was totally like humble and down to earth and very easygoing person. He's funny. He's funny. Like I know Paul a long time and he's a very funny guy. You know, has nothing like the rock star attitude or something. He's totally like us chatting now. It's totally simple. Down to earth, we say down to earth. He's down to earth down to earth. All right. So going back to the record now. All right. So it's going to be released. You said sometimes September, October, right? Yeah, on there around there. Right. Did you write, did you co-write all the songs or just a few songs on the album? Most of the songs we have composed together with Prika. A lot of them were like, prepared in the in between period, like, after the release of Perpetual Chaos, the previous album, till the studio time. Like we had a lot of content almost ready. And yeah, most of the songs, it's like co-written. And did you know right there, like, okay, now we should, everybody knows that she's going to be the singer, right, of the band. She's going to play guitar and be the singer. Singer, right? Did you know a year ago, two years ago, she was going to be the singer or because was that slowly you learned about that, if you understand my question? It was like nobody knew, even, you know, Prika didn't know that she was going to take on the vocals because everything started with the previous lineup. But, you know, after all these changes happened, Prika said that, okay, I am going to do it. You know, I want to have it. Yeah, why not? Because I don't want to, you know, bring another vocalist that may fit or may not or whatever. She said like, okay, I will do it. I don't know if it, you know, she's like a guitarist and she wants to be a guitarist and have all the freedom on stage, you know. But she said, okay, I'll take that decision and I will do it. Okay. And how would you describe the music on the new album? If somebody asked you, if somebody asked you, okay, what does a new album sound like? What would you say? Don't say Deathrash, that's too easy. I think your album has a lot of melodies, I have to say. It has a lot of classic heavy metal riffs. It's considered about the guitar stuff. Also it's brutal. You know, it has a combo like a bit more heavy metal, but still thrush and death and melodic. You know, I cannot say more. No, that's good. That's a good start. Is it all death metal vocals or is it just a more aggressive death metal and maybe clean? I don't know. Are you experimenting with clean vocals because that's how you get bigger, right? Oh, it's more like brutal vocals and pre-chorus experimenting and putting some stuff here and there, like a little bit distorted vocals. She has a great combination in there. All right, okay. I'll let you go off the hook there. I won't tell you ask you anymore about the album. All right, so also tell me about Hell. Hell Pryor is going to be on. Is she a full-time member or is she just on and off? She's like on and off. Mia is still in the band, but in some situations that she has, she cannot go out on tour and she cannot be in the band constantly and for whatever the band needs. So for the times that Mia cannot be there, Hell Pryor will be in her position. Is she going to record? Did she record on the album? Did Hell Pryor record on the album? That's another question, actually. Yeah. Part, of course, is in the video clip and she's going to be at the shows, of course. And yeah, Mia and Hell Pryor are going to change in live shows. But I mean, you know what I mean? Like, who's on the album? How about that? Who played bass on the album? Is it you that played the bass on the album? This we will give it a little bit more. To me, secrets. Yeah, there are a lot of stuff, but we have one by one revealing. So today was a big reveal. All right, all right, all right. So I would guess either it's you, it's her, or it's Mia. Okay, so there's three possibilities. Is there anything else you want to tell me about the shows or what you're doing and is there anything about Nervosa? Do you want to tell me anything else? Promote anything else? In the process of getting ready as the tour, the Scandinavian, the Northern tour starts almost in a week, actually. Okay, yeah. The show in April 5. After that, we have also the festivals that are beginning. And after that, we have a small UK tour that was just like a couple of days ago. And I really cannot wait about the summer. The festivals are gonna be like, yeah, crazy. This is your dream come true, right? This is the beginning of your dream. Yeah, yeah. And that's it. I think that's about it. So everybody, watch out for the new album. The new single is Drop, Pick It Up, Napalm Records, I guess Endless Ambition. I keep forgetting the title Endless Ambition is the new single. You could pick it up while you could stream it. You could download it, I guess. You can listen to it on YouTube, but you could watch the video. You can, is there gonna be a vinyl release for the album? Yeah, of course. There's also CDs. Or is that a secret? Is that a secret or is it about? Not. That's it. Unless you have something else you want to say? No, this for now. Yes. All right, we'll talk again. We'll talk again. All right. Thank you for being guests. Elena Cortina. Thank you. Nervosa. Pick them up. Go watch your shows. And that's it. Thank you.