悲伤的歌 - 阿尔巴尼亚Progressive Death/Doom Metal乐队Morgu专访

今天采访到的乐队是来自阿尔巴尼亚的Morgu乐队。这是一个新乐队，成立于2020年。乐队在2022年的时候发了许多的单曲，而到了2025年的时候，乐队发行了首张全长专辑"Oceangrave"。这张专辑给人最大的印象就是专辑渲染的压倒性的悲伤的情绪，将Doom Metal最大的魅力释放出来了。在乐队发行专辑之际，我们联系到了乐队吉他手Ben做一次专访。

（V: 代表笔者 B: 代表Ben）

The band we interviewed today is Morgu from Albania. This is a new band that was formed in 2020. In 2022, the band released many singles, and by 2025, they released their first full-length album titled "Oceangrave". The most striking aspect of this album is the overwhelming sense of sadness it conveys, which fully showcases the greatest charm of doom metal. When the band released their album, we reached out to the band's guitarist, Ben, for an interview.

(V: represents author B: represents Ben)

采访对象：Ben（Morgu乐队吉他手）

采访时间：2025.06.13

V: 嗨，Ben感谢你接受这次采访。Morgu是一支新成立的乐队，所以能否先向中国粉丝介绍一下它呢？你们是如何开始的？为什么想要组建Morgu？

Hello Ben, thank you for accepting this interview. Morgu is a new born band, so could you

introduce Morgu to Chinese fans first? How did you start and why did you want to form Morgu?

B: 感谢你们邀请 Morgu，也感谢你们为我们和我们的音乐付出的时间。我们真的非常感激。

没错，Morgu是一支新成立的乐队，但成员都来自阿尔巴尼亚极端金属乐坛的知名乐队。我们在2020年7月开始组建，花了将近两年的时间只做一件事，就是演奏和创作音乐，创作了大量的音乐，只为在我们之间建立起一种音乐上的纽带，因为我们之前就是好朋友。Morgu的想法始于2019年秋季。我们想要组建一支乐队，探索并创作有关人类处境的作品：痛苦、孤独、孤立、忧郁等等。

Thank you for having Morgu and thank you for the time spent on us and our music. We are trully grateful. Well yes, Morgu is a new born band but formed from musicians coming from well known bands of the Albanian extreme metal scene. We started everything in July 2020 spending almost 2 years just playing and writing music, a lot of music, just to create a sort of musical umbilical cord between us, cause we were already good friends from before. The idea of Morgu came in fall 2019. We wanted to create a band that explores and writes about the human conditions: suffering, loneliness, isolation, melancholia etc.

V: 你的音乐风格一直被描述为具有progressive death/doom metal元素。但不可否认的是，我还发现了一些Black Metal的元素。那么，对于你的音乐风格，你有什么看法呢？它是传统的还是创新的？

Your genre is always described progressive death/doom metal.But undeniably I discovered some elements of black metal. So what do you think of your genre? Is it traditional or creative?

B: 嗯，是人们给我们起了这个标签，所以我们也就这么定了。但我们并没有明确的音乐类型来界定我们的音乐风格。没错，我们的音乐中有很多death, doom, prog和black元素。同时还包含古典音乐元素。那里有很多经典的细节，比如在弦乐部分、钢琴部分等等，例如在《Flowers Of Woe》的结尾部分，你就能感受到一些肖邦的风格。

Well, it's the people that gave us that tag, so we let that be. But we don't have a specific genre in which we define our music. Yes, it has a lot of death, doom, prog and black. It has classical too. There are many classical details, in the string sections, in the piano elements for example in the ending of "Flowers Of Woe" you can feel some Chopin in it.

V: 你能谈谈你是如何创作音乐的吗？

Could you talk about how you create music?

B: 很多灵感都源于先创作歌词。我们喜欢从歌词中获得的那种感受，对生活中某种特定情境的想象，发现自我、成长、转变、回到我们曾经受伤的地方，然后不断重复这个过程。这就是人类的本质所在。然后我们再根据歌词的概念来创作音乐。但还有很多灵感甚至来自于单纯地构思旋律或和弦进行，然后在此基础上进行改进。不管哪种方式，创作我们音乐的最重要部分在于我们写出的是我们内心的感受，而这种感受是个人化的，是我们唯一真正关心的东西。它与时尚的规划、行业的规则或者人们对一首歌、一个和弦进行或一个副歌的看法毫无关系。只有这样，创作出来的音乐才是真诚的，如果它是真诚的，就能打动某个人，哪怕只打动一个人，对我们来说也是非常满足的。

A lot of it comes from writing the lyrics first. We like the feeling you get from the words, the imagination of a certain situation in life, discovering your self, becoming, transforming, returning back to where we were broken and repeating it over and over. That, is the true nature of humans. And than we build the music over the concept of the lyrics. But there is plenty even from just sitting and working on a melody or riff and than progress from that. Either way the most important part of writing our music is that we write what we feel, and that feeling is only personal, is the only thing that mathers to us. Is detached from the schematics of fashion, industry, or what people would think about a song, a riff or a chorus. Only this way it is sincere and if it is sincere it can move someone, even if it is only one person, for us is very fulfilling.

V: 我注意到你没有发布你的歌词，也没有关于你歌曲的主题。你想谈谈你的歌词吗？在音乐中，你对歌词的态度是什么？

I noticed that you didn’t release your lyric and no theme about your songs. So would you like to talk about your lyrics? In the music, what is your attitude to the lyric?

B: 歌词可以在我们的网站上找到，也可以在音乐视频中看到。正如我之前所说，歌词，即那些词句，是我们音乐不可或缺的一部分，是其核心所在，也是自我存在的基础，而音符、失真、尖叫则是这种基础的音效呈现。这就是Morgu这个名字的主要原因。从阿尔巴尼亚语的字面意思来看，它意味着“墓地”，但我们的使用方式与 Kotodama的古老信仰有关。这些词句和语言具有神秘的力量，能够影响现实。它表明说出的话语蕴含着精神能量，能够影响人、自然和事件，强调了有意识且谨慎地说话的重要性。因此，Morgu就变成了一种咒语、一种振动、一种频率，它在我们的歌词中的孤独、寂寞和忧郁中穿梭，与旋律和失真交织在一起。这是一则让人产生共鸣的故事。

The lyrics are in our website, or in the music videos. As I said above, the lyrics, the words, are an integral part of our music, a foundation of it, a foundation of the self and than the notes, the distortion, the screams are the sonic rapresentation of that foundation. This is the main reason of the name Morgu too. Literally in Albanian it mean mortuary but our usage is connected to the old belief of the Kotodama. The words and language hold mystical power and can influence reality. It suggests that spoken words carry spiritual energy capable of affecting people, nature, and events, emphasizing the importance of speaking with intention and care. So Morgu becomes a sort of Mantra, a vibration, a frequency that travels through the isolation, loneliness and melancolia in our lyrics, intertwined with the melody and distortion. A tale made to feel.

V: 你创作了几首很长的歌曲，比如“Flowers of Woe”甚至长达 17 分钟。那么你为什么要创作这么长的一首歌呢？你又想通过这首歌表达些什么呢？

You created several long songs, and Flowers of Woe even lasts up to 17 minutes. So why did you want to created such a long song? And what did you want to express?

B: 这又与歌词有关。如果事先写好的歌词很长，音乐就会与之相配合。但我们也不会刻意去考虑一首歌的时长，我们会即兴创作，让它自然而然地发展下去。如果感觉这样很长也很自然，我们就保留下来。只要能服务于这首歌就行。

It is again connected to the lyrics. If the lyrics written in advance are long, the music flows with them. But also we tend not to think about the length of a track, we jam over it, and let it make it's natural course. If it feels natural that long we keep it. Whatever serves the song.

V: 对于你而言，你希望听众在何种情况下聆听你的音乐呢？或者你期望他们在何种状态下聆听你的音乐？

For you, when do you prefer your audience to listen to your music, or in what state do you

expect them to listen to your music?

B: 这是一个至关重要的问题。因为它体现了艺术的本质。艺术存在的根本原因在于表达自我、展现内心、呈现真实的自我、触及更深层次的自我。而你无法为他人赋予其理由或意义。艺术并非时尚，它与观众毫无关系。观众的存在是为了在自己心中找到某种个人的东西，而不是去理解你。没有人能成为你。因此，你必须培养自己的内在自我，并将其转化为创作。这样做，对你而言，你便创造了一个领域、一个宇宙、一种频率，也许在片刻之间，有人恰好调谐到了这个频率，并倾听你的声音。在那充满情感和音符的整个世界里，他们找到了属于自己的音符，一个相似的音符。要知道，每个人都有一个音符，它是独一无二的。如果有时你恰好找到了它，在某个地方，你抓住它、感受它，将其变成属于自己的，并且永远都不会放手。所以，也许如果我们能够选择让某人倾听我们时的时刻，我们希望是当他们敞开心扉，让他们因我们所创造的东西而为他们开辟一条通往熟悉面孔的道路，通往曾经爱过某人的气息，通往几乎过去的一个夜晚的时候。

This is an important question. Because it represents the essence of Art. The foundamental reason why Art exists. Which is to express you self, the inside of you, the true you, the deeper you. And you can't give it a reason or a meaning for the others. It is not fashion, it has absolutely nothing to do with the spectator. The spectator is there to find something personal for him/her not to understand you. No one can be you. Therefore you have to cultivate you inner self and transform it into creation. Doing so, for yourself, you create a realm, a cosmos, a frequency, and maybe in a moment or two, someone happens to tune into that frequency and She/He listens to you. And in all that universe of feelings and notes, they find something theirs, a similar note. Your know, every one has a note, which is only personal, and if sometimes you happen to find it, somewhere, you take it, feel it, you make it yours and you never let it go. So maybe if we can choose when someone listens to us, we wish it to be in a moment when they are open, and they let what we do create for them a path to a familiar face, to the scent of someone once loved, to an evening almost past.

V: 对于2025年还有其他计划吗，比如参加音乐节或者发行实体专辑之类的？

Do you have any other plans for 2025, such as participating in music festivals or releasing

physical album ?

B: 春季我们在地拉那举办了两场演出，其中一场会现场呈现我们新专辑"OCEANGRAVE"。7月19日，我们将参加在葡萄牙举行的Laurus Nobilis festival。这是我们当晚的演出，就在头牌乐队SOEN之前。随后在秋季，我们将在意大利举办几场演出。还有一些其他演出日期尚未确定。目前我们正专注于创作即将发行的EP，该专辑将于年底推出

We did a couple of shows in Tirana in Spring, one was to present live our new album OCEANGRAVE. In July 19th we play at Laurus Nobilis festival in Portugal. We are the second night of it right before the headliners SOEN. Than in fall we will do a couple of shows in Italy. And some other dates to be confirmed yet. We are curently focused in writing an upcoming EP that will be released by the end of the year.

V: 你有没有特别喜欢的乐队，或者有没有哪支乐队对你的创作有着很大的影响？

Do you have any bands that you like very much or have a great influence on your creation?

B: 对我们来说，这种影响主要来自于那些我们非常喜欢、在工作室里一起喝酒聊天时才会聆听的乐队，而非那些我们只是为了演奏而组建的乐队。其中一些乐队包括Cult Of Luna, The Moth Gatherer, Amenra, Neurosis, Katatonia, Opeth等等。

Not much an influence more than bands that we love very much to listen to when we get together in the studio for having some drinks and spending time rather then playing. Some of them are Cult Of Luna, The Moth Gatherer, Amenra, Neurosis, Katatonia, Opeth etc.

V: 你们是一支非常出色的乐队，我会一直支持莫古乐队。并且我希望会有更多的中国粉丝喜欢你们的音乐。在本次采访的最后，你们想对中国的粉丝们说些什么呢？

You are a very good band and I will always support Morgu. And I hope there are more Chinese fans will like your music. In the end of this interview, what do you want to say to the Chinese fans?

B: 我们非常感激你愿意与我们进行交流。我们出生在地拉那，那里有很多中国人。尽管我们相隔甚远，但仍有联系。我们感受到了你的存在。非常感谢你。

We are very grateful that you wished to interview us. We grew up in Tirana where there are many Chinese people, they have a comunity here from the times when Albania and China were close due to the dictatorial leaders of those past years. So there is a contact even though we are miles appart. We feel you. Thank you deeply.

Morgu乐队主要作品：

Morgu - Oceangrave（2025）

Morgu乐队官方Facebook网站：https://www.facebook.com/morguofficial

Morgu乐队官方Instagram网站：https://www.instagram.com/morgu_official/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Morgu乐队官方Spotify网站：https://open.spotify.com/artist/0cno4OorLNE89dfy39M9aY?si=l5uDtwQwSA-70OTIQyy0ag

Morgu乐队官方YouTube网站：https://www.youtube.com/@morgu_official