疯狂的幻境 - 罗马尼亚Progressive Thrash Metal乐队Psycho Symphony专访

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今天采访到的是来自罗马尼亚的一支非常资历，非常优秀的老牌乐队Psycho Symphony，组建于1992年的Psycho Symphony是罗马尼亚第一波金属浪潮中非常具有代表性的乐队，最初Gindele兄弟两个人组建了这支乐队，随后Mogyorós Attila等成员加入乐队，1993年Emil Gherasim以歌手的身份加入了乐队，就此乐队完成了他们的阵容，这个阵容一直合作至今，随后1994 - 1996年乐队发行了3三张Demo作品，1997年乐队的第一张正式专辑“Silent Fall”由乐队自己以磁带的形式发行，发行之后这张专辑便收获了高度的认可，2002年乐队的EP专辑“Schizoid”发行同样得到了高度的认可，随后乐队在无任何新作品发行，虽然目前乐队没有任何新作品发行，但是乐队的优秀作品却没有被人遗忘，2025来自意大利的优秀厂牌Rude Awakening Records重新再发行了他们的“Silent Fall”专辑，也让更多其他国家的歌迷可以再次认识这支优秀的乐队，在发行之际杂志通过Rude Awakening Records厂牌的协助与乐队的吉他手Mogyorós Attila取得联系进行了一次专访！

（V: 代表笔者 M: 代表Mogyorós Attila）

Today we're interviewing Psycho Symphony, a highly experienced and accomplished veteran band from Romania. Formed in 1992, Psycho Symphony is a representative band of the first wave of Romanian metal. Initially, the Gindele brothers formed the band, later joined by members like Mogyorós Attila. In 1993, Emil Gherasim joined as a vocalist, completing the lineup, which they have maintained ever since. From 1994 to 1996, the band released three demo albums. In 1997, their first full-length album, "Silent Fall," was released by the band themselves on cassette, receiving high acclaim. Their 2002 EP, "Schizoid," also garnered significant recognition. Since then, the band has not released any new material. Although they haven't released any new work recently, their excellent tracks haven't been forgotten. This year, the excellent Italian label Rude Awakening Records re-released their "Silent Fall" album. The album "Fall" allowed fans in many other countries to rediscover this excellent band. To coincide with its release, the magazine, with the assistance of Rude Awakening Records, contacted the band's guitarist, Mogyorós Attila, for an exclusive interview!

(V: Represents the author; M: Represents Mogyorós Attila)

采访对象：Mogyorós Attila（Psycho Symphony乐队吉他手）

采访时间：2026.08.17

V: 你好兄弟，很高兴见到你，非常感谢你能接受这次采访。我想这应该是你们乐队第一次接受中国杂志的采访吧。首先向所有中国乐迷问好。Psycho Symphony成立于1992年，是一支老牌乐队了。你们当初是怎么组建这支乐队的呢？

Hello brother, it's nice to meet you and I'm very grateful that you could participate in this interview. I think this is the first time your band has been interviewed by a Chinese magazine. First of all, I would like to say hello to all the Chinese fans. Psycho Symphony was formed in 1992 and is a long-established band. How did you form this band in the first place?

M: 我是Mogyorós Attila（吉他手），非常感谢你们给我这次采访的机会！是的，这是我第一次登上中国的乐迷杂志！能得到远方读者的关注，我们感到非常荣幸，也倍感荣幸和欣慰。组建乐队的想法源于Gindele兄弟（Gindele Robert 担任贝斯手，Gindele Gábor 担任鼓手），我于 1992 年加入了他们。我们相识后很快就成了朋友，并开始一起消磨时光。我偶尔也会去参加他们的排练，但只是以旁观者的身份。我非常喜欢他们的演奏，即使当时只有贝斯和鼓，但即使在歌曲的早期阶段，你也能感受到这是一种特别的音乐。理论上，他们乐队有个来自其他城市的吉他手，但他一次排练都没来过，至少我一次都没见过他，而且他看起来对音乐之外的事情更感兴趣。过了一段时间，在去排练的路上，那兄弟问我愿不愿意加入他们担任吉他手。当时我刚开始学吉他，大概也就学了半年左右，但我非常高兴能加入他们，毫不犹豫地答应了。起初，我们只是以三人组合的形式活动，而且因为没有主唱，所以只演奏乐器。我们努力尽可能多地进行现场演出，并且主要精力都放在创作新歌上，乐队就是这样开始的。

Im Mogyorós Attila (guitar) and I want to thank you very much for the opportunity to make this interview! Yes, it is for the first time to be in a fanzine from China! It's a great honor and it’s a very special and good feeling that somebody from so far away is interested in our band and music. The idea to make a band was coming from the Gindele brothers (Gindele Robert on bass and Gindele Gábor on drums) to whom I joined in 1992. When I met them, we became friends early on, and started to spent time together. I even joined them from time to time to some rehearsals but only as a spectator. I liked very much what they were playing, even that it was only bass and drums, but even in that early stages of the songs you could already tell that this was a special music. Theoretically they had a guitarist from a different town, but he never got to come to a single rehearsal, at least I didn’t saw him even once, and it looked like he was interested in doing something else than making music. After a little time, the brothers in our way to a rehearsal asked me if I wanted to join them as the guitarist. I was at the beginning of my guitar learning period, I think I was playing the instrument only since a half a year or so, but I was super happy and excited to join them and to say “YES”. In the beginning we were active only as a trio and we played only instrumental since we didn't have a singer. We were concentrating to have as many live shows as possible and we were mostly focusing in writing new songs, that's how it started.

V: 除了1993年新成员Emil Gherasim的加入，你们乐队一直保持着最初的阵容。为什么第一位主唱离开了乐队？Emil Gherasim是如何加入乐队的？他的加入又带来了哪些新的变化？

Your band maintained the original lineup, except for a new member, Emil Gherasim, in 1993. Why did the first singer leave the band? How did Emil Gherasim join the band, and what new changes did his addition bring?

M: 乐队成立之初，我们就意识到想要打造更丰富、更饱满的音乐风格，因此我们知道需要再招一名吉他手和一名主唱，以拓展音乐的边界。起初，我们曾尝试招募其他乐手，但他们都不符合我们的音乐理念。我们在这方面运气不佳，因为他们都不是我们理想的人选。有些人人品不错，但音乐水平一般；有些人音乐水平不错，但人品一般。不过，在1993年秋天，我们找到了合适的吉他手Gherasim Emil。我们的主唱Szakacs Zoltán 离开了乐队，因为他住在另一个城市，很难抽出时间参加排练。此外，他也想放弃音乐，想尝试其他的人生道路，而不是像我们一样走音乐这条路。之后，Emil决定也尝试演唱，我们很喜欢他的声音，所以就决定让他来唱。是的，从那时起，我们的阵容就一直没变。他的加入，让我们的歌曲和音乐风格焕然一新，增添了新的色彩，因为新的和声出现了，我们非常享受探索双吉他创作的各种可能性。

When we started the band, we realized that we wanted to make the sound richer-fuller and for this we knew that we needed one more guitarist and a singer too, to expand the musical boundaries. In the beginning for a short period of time we tried other musicians to recruit in the band, but they didn't fit in our concept of making music. We didn't have too much luck in this, cause none of them were the optimal guys we needed. Unfortunately some of them were good guys but not so good musicians, the others were good musicians but not so good guys. But, in the fall of 1993, we found the right guy in the person of Gherasim Emil on guitar. Our vocalist Szakacs Zoltán left the band because he lived in another town and it was hard for him to be there for the rehearsals, and beside this, he also was thinking to stop making music; he wanted to follow other ways in life, and not a musical way, like us. After this, Emil decided to try to fill in the vocals too, and we liked how it sounded so we went this way. And yes, since then we were in the same lineup. With his addition to the band, the songs and our sound got a new dimension, a new color let's say because new harmonies arrived and we enjoyed very much to explore all the possibilities we had with the composition of two guitars.

V: 你们是一群拥有丰富创作经验的音乐家，创作过"Silent Fall"和"Schizoid"等经典作品。能否请你们介绍一下创作过程？我相信你们的创作经验会激励更多年轻的音乐家！

You are a group of musicians with rich creative experience. You have created classic works such as "Silent Fall" and "Schizoid". Could you please introduce your creative process? I believe your creative experience will inspire many more young musicians!

M: 我认为最重要的是，我们每个人都对音乐创作过程做出了同等的贡献。我们把彼此的想法融合在一起，最终创造出了非常有趣且独具特色的音乐。对我们来说，让每个人都参与到歌曲创作中来，并且确保歌曲中只包含我们每个人都满意的部分，这一点也至关重要。如果吉他、贝斯、人声或鼓的某个部分不符合这个标准，我们会毫不犹豫地删掉。另一个非常重要的因素是，我们百分之百地尊重彼此在音乐上的选择和品味。值得一提的是，在这个音乐创作过程中，我们每个人都拥有“否决权”。这意味着，我们绝不会留下任何我们自己不百分百满意的部分。保持创造力并尊重彼此：我认为这是让乐队保持快乐并长期合作的最佳方式。Emil加入乐队后，我们感觉终于可以做我们一直想做的事了，因为我们终于找到了一个合适的模式：我们四个人在音乐创作上的想法完全一致，而且我们都渴望创作原创且独一无二的音乐。所以一切都很完美，在这个模式下工作也充满乐趣，轻松愉快。我们投入了大量的时间和精力来创作这些我们如此喜爱的音乐。在这个阵容下，一切都变得如此轻松，因为我们拥有相同的理念和方向，我们可以把脑海中所有疯狂的想法都变成现实。这正是我们一直在寻找的，而在这个模式下，一切都实现了。

I think the most important part in this was the fact that all of us contributed equally to the music making process. We put and combined all of our ideas, and in this way we reached to create something very interesting and unique sounding. It was also very important to us, that everybody to be involved in the creation of the songs, and to have in our songs only parts that each of us is happy with. If a guitar, bass, vocal or drum part didn't meet that criteria, we took it off. The other very important fact was that we respected each other choices and tastes regarding music 100%. It's worth mentioning that in this music creation process everyone of us had the "VETO" right. It means, that we never left anything in the songs we weren't 100% happy with. To be creative and to respect the others: I think this is the best way to keep a band happy and to be able to work together in a long term. After Emil joined the band we felt that we could do finally what we always wanted, cause finally we had a formula where all the four of us were thinking in the same way about the music making and we were eager to make original and unique music too. So everything was perfect and very joyful and easy to work in this formula. We spent a lot of time and energy to create this music we enjoyed so much. In this lineup it was so easy ‘cause we all had the same idea and direction, we could make in this way all the crazy stuff we had in mind. That was what we were searching for all the time, and on this formula all came true.

V: 你们的作品在当时被认为是顶尖之作。你们是在哪个录音室录制的专辑？是哪位制作人制作的？你们还记得录制过程吗？我相信那是一段美好而难忘的经历！

Your work was considered top-notch for its time. Which studio did you record the album in? Which producer produced it for you? Do you remember the recording process? I believe it was a beautiful and unforgettable experience!

M: 从一开始，我们就觉得我们做的东西是独一无二的，至少我们希望如此。我们知道这不是商业音乐，也不会有太多听众。但我们太喜欢我们演奏的音乐了，所以从未想过改变风格。因此，考虑到这一点，我们取得如此成功让我们感到非常意外。我们完全没有预料到。例如，我们参加了五场才艺比赛，全部获胜。我们的鼓手两次获得最佳鼓手奖，我一次获得最佳吉他手奖。这简直难以置信。在我们参加的最后一个比赛上，我们除了获得第一名之外，还获得了一份额外的奖励：一张合作专辑的唱片合约。最终，在与唱片公司进行了多次讨论后，我们决定不与他们签约，而我们当时的乐队经纪人找到了一家新成立的唱片公司，我们与他们签约了。录音室的经历对我们来说非常有趣。当时我们录制了专辑"Silent Fall"，在录音室待了两周。是的，我们很享受录音的过程，也为了让所有声音都尽可能完美而付出了很多努力。但是设备，尤其是录音师的专业知识，并没有达到我们的预期。我现在知道最终效果本可以更好，但当时我们已经尽力了。

We felt from the beginning that what we did, is somehow unique, or at least we hoped it. We knew that is not a commercial music and that it would have very little audience interested in it. But we liked so much what we played that we never wanted to change the style. So, with this in mind, it was very surprising to us that we had such a success. We didn't expect it at all. For example we won all the five talent contest festivals we participated in. Our drummer won two times the best drummer award and I won the best guitarist award once. It was unbelievable. At the last festival we participated, we won with the 1st prize an extra award: a record label deal for a split album. In the end after a lot of discussions with the label, we decided to not sign with them, and our then band manager found a newly formed record label, and we signed with them. The experience in the studio was very interesting for us. At that time we recorded the album Silent Fall, we spent two weeks in the studio. And yes, we enjoyed the recording process, and we also struggled a lot to make everything sound as good as possible. But the equipment and specially the knowledge of the sound engineer was not what we expected. I know now that the result could have been better, but at that time it was the maximum we could do about it.

V: 你们乐队自2002年以来就没有发行过任何新歌。这是为什么呢？你们有计划在2026年发行新专辑吗？你们目前正在创作新歌吗？

Your band hasn't released any new music since 2002. What's the reason for this? Do you have any plans to release a new album in 2026? Are you currently working on any new songs?

M: 是的，很遗憾，我们上一张专辑发行于2002年。没能录制一张新专辑，真是太可惜了。我们当时已经创作了足够多的新歌，也决定要制作一张新专辑，但最终还是没能实现这个目标。就连最后那张EP也是在条件非常简陋的排练室里录制的。因为在此之前，我们一直努力制作高质量的Demo，但每次录音结束后，我们对最终的成果都感到非常失望，以至于我们对录音棚彻底失去了兴趣。我们觉得我们可以自己做音乐，所以就决定这么做。但也正因为如此，我们总是拖延录音的进度。就像我说的，我们确实有很多新歌可以做一张新专辑，但随着时间的推移，我们日常生活中的重心发生了变化，导致我们离录音这件事越来越远。这也可以理解。我们当中有些人因为家庭和工作没时间顾及乐队，有些人搬到别的城市发展自己的事业，等等。除此之外，我们的音乐品味也随着时间推移而改变，我们意识到彼此的合作不如从前了。所以我们不得不接受这个事实，并决定放手。2012-2013年，我们在罗马尼亚举办了20周年巡演，作为最后的演出活动。之后，我们也停止了乐队的排练和演出，因为并非所有人都对这种演出形式感到满意。遗憾的是，从那时起，我们就停止了所有活动。就像我之前说的，没能录制那些新歌真的令人难过，但事情就是这样，虽然心里很不是滋味，但我们不得不接受。

Yes, unfortunately our last record was released in 2002. It's so sad that we couldn't manage to record a new album. We had all the new songs for a new album and decided to make that album, but in the end we never reached that goal. Even that last EP was recorded in very poor conditions in our rehearsal room, because prior to this EP, we always strived to make new demos and record them in good quality, but we had so many disappointments after the studio sessions, regarding the results we got after it, that we had enough with the recording studios. And because we felt that we could do it on our own way, we decided to do it so. But because of this, we always delayed the recording procedure. Like I said we had enough new songs for a new album, but somehow over time our priorities changed in our everyday life, thus we got further and further away to record them. It's understandable. Some of us didn't had the time for the band because of the family and job, other have moved to a different town to make his own project, and so on. Beside that, the music taste also changed in time, and we realized that we couldn't work together as well as before. So we had to accept that, and let it go. We had a 20th Years Anniversary tour in 2012-2013 here in Romania as last activities, and after that we kinda stopped the band rehearsals and live shows too, because not all of us were happy with these appearances anymore. Sadly, since then we are not active anymore. But like I said it's really sad that we couldn't record those new songs, but it is what it is, with a bitter taste in mouth but we had to accept it.

V: 梦境、幻觉、疯狂，这些都是你们乐队音乐的主题。你们为什么选择这些主题？你们想通过它们表达什么？你们也创作了歌词。这些歌词是谁写的？灵感来自哪里？

Dreams, Illusion, Insanity, these are the themes of your band's music. Why did you choose these themes? What do you want to express through them? You also wrote the lyrics. Who wrote these lyrics, and what inspired them?

M: 这很有意思，因为从一开始，这种音乐风格对我们所有人来说都显得那么自然。自然到我们根本不需要为了迎合其他人的口味而做出任何改变。我们都喜欢它！我们一直想创作一种独一无二的音乐，一种前所未有的音乐。我们努力避免其他乐队音乐中随处可见的陈词滥调。我们希望我们的音乐富有表现力、引人入胜、复杂精妙、饱含情感，既狂野又温柔。我们要展现我们内心所有的感受。我们不在乎商业价值或名气。我认为，正是因为我们每个人都对歌曲的音色做出了同等的贡献，才造就了我们如今的音乐风格。歌曲的雏形通常出自我们其中一人之手，之后我们每个人都会加入自己的创意，最终呈现出的，正是所有人智慧的融合。我们完美地结合了所有我们喜欢的东西。歌词创作也是如此。我们用文字描绘了我们内心深处的情感和感受，赋予它们超现实主义的诠释。我们也乐于看到其他人如何解读和想象同样的文字和歌词的不同含义。歌词的雏形一部分来自Emil，一部分来自我，但最终的成果也是我们共同创作的结晶。我认为，非传统的音乐与非传统的歌词相得益彰，这一点非常棒。

It's very interesting because from the very first start, this music style came completely natural to all of us. So naturally that we didn't had to change it not even a bit to match the others tastes too. We all liked it! We always wanted to create a unique music, something that others didn't do before. We tried to avoid all the cliché parts we heard everywhere in other bands’ music. We wanted our music to be expressive, to be interesting, to be complex, to be emotional, brutal and also gentle. To show all the feelings we had in ourselves. We didn't care about the commercial aspect or the fame. I think the fact that all of us contributed equally to the sound of the songs, made this music how it is. The base of the songs usually came from one of us, and after it we all put our creative parts into the songs, and the mixture of all the brains is what we hear on the recordings. We had a perfect combination of everything we liked. Also the same is true for the lyrics. We painted thru texts a surrealistic interpretation of the emotions and feelings we had in ourselves. We liked to see also how others can interpret and imagine different meanings of the same texts, lyrics. The base of the lyrics were brought either by Emil or by me, but the result is also a result of common creation. And i think it’s very good that the non-traditional music fetches really well with non-traditional lyrics too.

V: 你们的标志设计非常简洁，却在看似简单的外表下蕴藏着复杂的设计元素。这个标志是谁设计的？你们的专辑封面也非常独特。这些专辑封面是谁设计的？

Your logo design is very simple, yet it reveals a complex design form within its simplicity. Who designed this logo for you? Your album artwork is also very unique. Who designed these album artworks for you?

M: 你人真好，非常感谢你的赞美！乐队的标志是我设计的。早在组建乐队之前，我就对绘画充满热情，也经常尝试设计标志。所以，当我们组建乐队并决定需要一个标志时，我非常兴奋。我记得我开始画这个标志的草图，没想到竟然一次就成功了。幸运的是，当我把草图给乐队其他成员看时，他们也很喜欢，所以我们就决定用这个标志了。我还想分享一下关于乐队名字的另一个有趣的故事。顺便说一句，乐队名字的由来是迫不得已的，因为我们的第一场演出马上就要开始了，而我们还没有乐队名字，所以至少在这次演出之前，我们必须给乐队起个名字。于是，我们把两个名字结合起来：一个是我想到的“黑色交响曲”（Black Symphony），另一个是罗伯特想到的“精神抑郁”（Psychical Depression）……这就是“精神交响曲”（Psycho Symphony）这个名字的由来！最初，这只是为那场演出临时起意，但我们渐渐喜欢上了这个名字，于是决定保留它。"Silent Fall"专辑的封面也很有意思：我在一本匈牙利杂志上发现了一张非常喜欢的图片。制作"Silent Fall"磁带时，我们用了这张图片做封面。但分辨率很低，画质也不太好……磁带上的封面和原图相差甚远。后来，在2025年重新制作专辑之前，我在网上苦苦寻找原图。经过一番搜索，我终于找到了！画家多年前就去世了。但这一次，我征得了画家女儿的同意，才得以将这幅画作用于专辑封面。"Schizoid"EP的封面是我画的，专门为这张专辑创作的。我一直梦想着有一天能创作出一幅可以作为专辑封面的画作。

You are very nice, and thank you very much for saying that! It was me who designed the logo. It was a passion of mine long before the band to try to draw and came up with logo ideas. So I was super happy when we made the band and we decided that we needed a logo for it. I remember I started to sketch up this logo, and somehow I got it right from the first try. Luckily when I showed it to the others from the band, they also liked it very much, so we stuck to it. I want to tell another interesting thing about the band name, which by the way came as a must because our first show was around the corner and we didn't have a band name yet, and we had to name our band finally fort his show at least, somehow. So we mixed two name ideas: Black Symphony which came from me and Psychical Depression which came from Robert... that's how the name Psycho Symphony was made up! And initially was a short term solution for that show only, but we started to like the name so much that we decided to keep it. The Silent Fall album artwork is also very interesting: I found a picture in a Hungarian magazine I liked so much. We used that picture for the album cover, when we made the Silent Fall cassette. But it was in a really low resolution and in a not so good quality...on the cassette it looks very very far away from the original artwork. Later, before we made the re-edit of the album in 2025 I searched a lot on the internet to find the original picture. After a lot of searching I found it! The painter passed away many years before. But this time I asked for permission from the painter’s daughter to use the painting design for the album. The Schizoid EP album cover was painted by me, I made it specially for that album. It was a dream of mine to make a painting which one day would appear as an album cover.

V: 你们从未与任何唱片公司合作发行专辑，所有专辑都是你们自己发行的。为什么不选择一家唱片公司来发行呢？我知道你们1997年的专辑"Silent Fall"即将由意大利的Rude Awakening Records发行。这是一家非常优秀的唱片公司。你们是如何与这家公司取得联系并开始合作的？

You haven't collaborated with any label to release your albums; you've released them all yourself. Why don't you choose a label to release your albums? I know that your 1997 album "Silent Fall" is about to be released by Rude Awakening Records in Italy. This is a very good label. How did you get in touch with this label and collaborate with them?

M: 是的，没错，我们从未与大型唱片公司签约。不过，90年代末期，我们确实收到过几家罗马尼亚唱片公司的合约邀请，但我们都拒绝了，因为我们不喜欢他们的条款。发行了"Schizoid"EP之后，我们把它寄给了更多欧洲唱片公司，InsideOut Music（如果我没记错的话）回复了我们，他们说我们的音乐确实很棒，但可惜的是，它太复杂了，他们无法从中获利。至于Rude Awakening，我们非常高兴能与他们合作！几年前，Gabriele Cruz给我发了条信息，表示有意重新发行专辑"Silent Fall"。起初我们很感兴趣，也都积极参与，但过了一段时间后，我们（乐队成员）在如何最终敲定协议上产生了一些分歧。遗憾的是，由于其中一位成员对合约条款以及重新发行这张专辑本身都不满意，我们最终决定拒绝他们的提议。几乎与此同时，另一家来自罗马尼亚的唱片公司Loud Rage Music也对重新发行这张专辑表现出了兴趣。经过乐队成员之间的一番讨论和争论，我们最终同意与这家主要专注于实体专辑（CD）销售的唱片公司签约。但由于我们也需要进行数字和网络发行，不久之后，我们决定联系 Rude Awakening来帮助我们进行全球发行，就这样我们与他们签约了。

Yes it's true, we never signed with a big record label. But it's also true that we got few contract offers in the late '90 from a few record labels from Romania, but we turned them down because we didn't like their conditions. After we released Schizoid EP, we sent it to more European record labels, and we got an answer from InsideOut Music (if I remember well) and they told us that the music was really good, but unfortunately it was a too complex music to be able for them to sell it and make money from it. Regarding Rude Awakening, we are very happy that we can collaborate with them! Gabriele Cruz wrote me a message few years ago, with the intention of re-releasing the album Silent Fall. Initially we were interested and we were all in for it, but after a period of time we got to have some disagreements between us (the band members) on how we could finalize this agreement. Unfortunately because one of us was not satisfied with the conditions from the contract and generally with the re-releasing, we decided to turn down the offer. At almost the same time, another record label from Romania named Loud Rage Music was also interested in the re-releasing of the album. After a lot of debates and arguing between our band members, we agreed to sign with that record label, who was mainly specialized in selling the physical copies of the album (the CDs). But because we needed to have digital and online distribution too, a bit later we decided to contact Rude Awakening to help us in distribution of the album worldwide, that's how we signed with them.

V: 你成功地创造了激流金属史上最令人费解、最难以捉摸的声音之一。你的创作手法超越了Thrash Metal的界限，难以归类，最贴切的描述莫过于“一个扭曲的音乐疯子的混乱幻觉”。这个定义或许不足以概括这张专辑，因为反复聆听之后，Progressive/Technical Metal乐迷会发现许多令人赞叹之处。这张专辑以最简洁的方式演绎了Speed/tThrash。开场曲"The King"以令人眼花缭乱的无调性即兴重复乐段为特色，并配以优美的Folk风格引子和清澈的人声。你所有的编曲都经过精心打磨，展现了你卓越的技术。每一个riff都经过反复推敲，体现了你对每首歌的投入和认真，力求为每一位乐迷带来最高品质的作品。你对自己的作品有何感想？

You have successfully created one of the most perplexing and confusing sounds in the history of Thrash Metal. Your creative methods transcend the boundaries of Thrash Metal, defying categorization and best described as "the chaotic hallucinations of a twisted musical madman." This definition may not fully capture the album, because after repeated listens, progressive/technical metal fans will discover many admirable aspects. The album plays speed/thrash in the simplest way possible. The opening track, "The King," features dazzling atonal improvisational repetitions, accompanied by a beautiful folk-style intro and clean vocals. All your arrangements are meticulously crafted, showcasing your exceptional technical skill. Every riff is carefully refined, demonstrating your dedication and seriousness towards each song, aiming to deliver the highest quality work to every fan. What are your thoughts on your work?

M: 哦，你真是太好了！听到这些话我感觉真好，非常感谢你的赞美！我很高兴大家能从我们的音乐中感受到我们倾注在音乐中的巨大心血和热情。比如，我们花了整整12个月的时间创作歌曲"Reality Falls Asleep"。这首歌里有些片段，大概只有13到15秒，我们却花了整整三个星期才完成，一点也不夸张。我们反复打磨每一个部分，直到它尽可能接近我们想象中的样子。我们尝试和实验所有脑海中浮现的想法，我们非常享受这个过程，也如此热爱创作，以至于我们在创作每一首歌时都如此投入。有时候我们简直疯了，我记得那时候我们连续三天周末都泡在排练室里，吃住都在那里，就是为了不中断创作。就像我说的，我们非常享受一起创作音乐的过程。

Oh, you are very, very nice, It feels really good to hear that, thank you very much for your kind words! I'm happy that through our riffs one can hear the enormous work and passion we put in our music. For example we worked 12 months on the song "Reality Falls Asleep". We have in this song some parts, I don't know kinda only 13-15 seconds long, on what we worked for three weeks, no joke. We refined every part, every time until it sounded as close as possible to what we imagined. We were trying and experimenting everything which came in our minds, and we were enjoying it and liked so much this process, that we acted in this way at every song creation. We were crazy sometimes, I remember at that time that we spent whole weekends, three days in row in the rehearsal room, we slept and ate there, just to not break the creative process. Like I said, we enjoyed very much doing music together.

V: 作为罗马尼亚最优秀的资深乐队之一，你们参加过无数场现场演出。其中哪一场演出给你们留下了最深刻的印象？近年来你们还参加过现场演出吗？

As one of Romania's finest veteran bands, you have performed in many live shows. Which of these live shows have left a deep impression on you? Have you performed in any live shows in recent years?

M: 是的，从一开始，我们的主要目标之一就是尽可能多地参加现场演出。我们也为此竭尽全力。我们非常享受站在舞台上表演现场音乐，并与大家分享。我们有过很多很多场演出，有些非常精彩，有些则不然。但每一次和乐队成员一起站在舞台上，都让我们感到无比美好和满足。观众的反应如何并不重要，重要的是我们能一起站在这里。要从中选出一场最难忘的演出很难，但即便如此，至少对我而言，最难忘的演出之一是1994年我们在萨图马雷参加的一个才艺节上赢得我们第一个比赛的那场演出。那真是意想不到，难以置信，美得像童话故事一样。除此之外，我们还在布达佩斯的百事岛演出过一次，受邀在Metal Hammer的舞台上表演。那也是一次神奇的经历！正如我之前所说，我们最后一次演出是在很久以前的20周年巡演上。很遗憾，从那以后就再也没有发生过什么。去年，我们收到了布加勒斯特一个音乐节的邀请，这个音乐节是专门为那些解散或长期不活跃的乐队举办的。但很遗憾，我们不得不拒绝了邀请，因为最近乐队成员之间的关系恶化得厉害，我们看不到未来再次演出的希望。十年前，大概在周年巡演之后，我和鼓手Gábor组建了一支新乐队，名叫“Untold Faith”，因为我们有很多音乐创作的想法，不想就此放弃音乐，也不想离开舞台太久。后来，罗伯特也加入了乐队担任贝斯手，我们又重新组建了一支实力强劲的乐队。不过，我们的主唱换了。我们活跃了十年，但在疫情爆发后，我们停止了乐队活动。之后，我也就基本停止了音乐创作。Robert曾短暂加入过其他乐队，最近他主要专注于考古工作，不再从事音乐创作。Emil很久以前就搬到了另一个城市，他以“Fluidian”为名，创作氛围音乐。

Yes, one of our main goals from the beginning was to participate in as many live shows as we can. And we did everything to achieve this. We enjoyed so much to be on the stage to perform live music, to show it to others too. We had many, many live appearances, some of them very good others not so. But every time it was a very nice and fulfilling feeling to be on the stage with my band mates. It doesn't matter how the reaction of the crowd was, we enjoyed being here together. It would to be hard to choose one, but even so and for me at least, one of the most memorable one was the gig were we won our first contest at a talent festival in '94 in Satu Mare. That was so unexpected, so unbelievable, so beautiful like in a fairy tale. Beside that we played once in Budapest at Pepsi Island, where we were invited to play on the Metal Hammer stage. That was magical too! Like I said before, we had long time ago our last show, at our 20th Anniversary tour. Since then nothing happened unfortunately. Last year we had an invitation to a festival from Bucharest, specially organized for bands who are disbanded or not active since long time. But sadly we had to turn down the invitation, because the relation between some of the band members got so worse in the last period, that we don't see any chance that we will have a show in the future. Ten years ago, kinda after the Anniversary tour, me with our drummer Gábor made a new band called Untold Faith, because we had so many ideas to make music that we didn't want to not make music, and to stay away from the stage too long. Later to this band joined Robert on bass too, having a really strong formula again. We had a different singer though. We were active for 10 years, but after the Pandemic we stopped the band. After this I kinda stopped making music. Robert was part of other bands for short periods, and lately he is mostly concentrating on his work as archaeologist, and also not making music. Emil moved to other town since very long time, and he is making his own atmospheric music in his project called Fluidian.

V: 你对当前的音乐圈有什么看法？它和你们那一代相比发生了哪些变化？你对现在很多新乐队有什么看法？罗马尼亚的金属乐现状如何？你有什么乐队推荐吗？

What are your thoughts on the current music scene? How has it changed since your generation? What are your opinions on many of the new bands today? What is the current state of the metal scene in Romania? Are there any bands you would recommend?

M: 我一直很喜欢地下金属乐，因为我觉得它是最真诚的圈子之一，不受金钱腐蚀，而且你通常能听到真诚的音乐。不过最近我对地下音乐圈的关注度不如以前了，至少不像我以前活跃在乐坛的时候那么高了。我也在这里看过很多优秀的乐队。比如，因为我们以前也在国外演出过，所以我可以比较不同国家的地下音乐圈。在我那一代，罗马尼亚有很多乐队都以原创性为驱动。但最近我发现情况有点不一样了，年轻乐队似乎都在努力模仿西方商业乐队的风格。这主要是因为在我那个年代，我们没有合适的工具来做出好听的音乐。当时乐器很差，我们只能用一些很破的乐器，所以做音乐很不容易。而现在，每个人都能轻松获得从不错的到非常好的乐器。这样一来，做出好听的音乐也变得容易多了。看到这么多新乐队涌现，我感到非常高兴。我认为每个乐队都有自己的一席之地。Spotify的兴起让我们能够接触到海量的乐队和音乐。从听歌的角度来看，这非常棒。我通过Spotify发现了许多之前从未听过的乐队，在听过他们的音乐后，我开始非常喜欢他们。在罗马尼亚，我开始喜欢上像“Asemic”这样的前卫器乐乐队（我们以前在Untold Faith乐队的时候和他们一起巡演过）。还有我们多年的老朋友，Technical Death Metal乐队“Taine”。同类型的还有“Illuminati”。我也很喜欢“Transceatla”，我们曾经和他们一起演出过（可惜没有和他们合作录制唱片）。但就像我说的，遗憾的是，最近我对音乐圈的新动向了解得不太清楚。

I always was a fan of the underground metal scene, because I think it is one of the most sincere one, it's not corrupted by money, and mostly you can hear a music which is honest. Lately though I'm not too connected to what is happening in the underground scene, at least not as much as I was when I was an active musician. I've seen a lot of good bands here also. For example since we played shows back in time outside the country too, I could compare those underground scenes between each other. In my generation, among the Romanian bands were a lot of bands who were driven by originality. Lately I noticed that it’s a bit different, I see that the young bands are striving to sound more like the commercial western bands. This is mostly because in my era we didn't have the tools to make a good sound. We struggled a lot because of the musical instruments, we had mostly trash instruments available. And now everybody can have access easily from decent to very good instruments. This way a good sound is also easily achievable. About the many new bands, I'm happy to see that there so many. I think there is place for everybody and every band. From the rise of Spotify we have access to a ton of bands and music. From the listening perspective this is very good. I could find this way a lot of unknown bands to me till then, which I started to like a lot after hearing their music. Here in Romania I started to like bands like the progressive instrumental band called "Asemic" (we were touring with them when we were playing in Untold Faith). The long time friends of ours, the technical death metal band "Taine". Also in the same genre the band "Illuminati". I also like very much "Transceatla", we played with them once (unfortunately no records with them). But like I said, unfortunately lately I'm not too aware of the newest movement in the scene.

V: 你们是一支非常优秀的乐队，我会继续关注和支持你们。我也非常期待你们唯一一张专辑的再版，这将是一次里程碑式的发行，因为它将让更多乐迷了解和欣赏你们的乐队，也让更多年轻乐迷体验到你们的才华。同时，我也希望通过这次采访，能让更多中国乐迷了解和理解你们的乐队。采访即将结束。你们有什么想对中国乐迷说的吗？

You are an excellent band, and I will continue to follow and support you. I also look forward to the re-release of your only album, which will be a milestone release because it will allow more fans to get to know and appreciate your band, and allow more young fans to experience your talent. I also hope that through this interview, more Chinese fans will get to know and understand your band. The interview is coming to an end. Is there anything you would like to say to your Chinese fans?

M: 非常非常感谢，我们感到无比荣幸，也十分感激你对我们的评价！我们想对所有来自中国的金属乐迷说，请去寻找并聆听那些用独特方式通过音乐表达情感的新乐队。请关注这些乐队，因为你或许能从中发现隐藏的瑰宝，并通过他们的音乐获得一种全新的、或许是未知的感悟。对于我们Psycho Symphony乐队来说，能够通过这次采访与读者分享我们的想法和感受，我们深感荣幸。祝愿大家一切顺利！

Thank you very very much, we feel honored and it is much appreciated saying that about us!

We would like to say to any metal fan from China, to search and listen new bands, bands who are expressing their feelings through music in not so common way. Look after these bands, ‘cause you can find hidden gems in this way, and reach through their music to a new and maybe unknown sentimental experience. For us Psycho Symphony, it's an honor that through this interview we could share our thoughts and feelings to the readers. We wish all the best to all of you!