Q - Hello, you’re new band to us, so tell at first, how long do you play metal music and why did you decide to form a band?
A - It’s been like 7 years since I started playing. I decided to form the band after meeting some of my friends who had the same idea as me.

Q - What does the band’s name Nothnegal means?
A - "Nothnegal" is initially spelled as "Nothnagel" which is actually from "Nothnagel's Syndrome" which is the name of some kind of disease. "Nothnagel" is actually the name of the guy who discovered this specific disease. We decided to change the name from "Nothnagel" to "Nothnegal" since we wanted the name to be unique to the band and not some name of a guy, hehe…

Q - Are you satisfied with the ANTIDOTE OF REALISM EP? Is it your very first recording?
A - Yes. I and the rest of the band are really satisfied with it. And this is the very first recording of us that we released to the public. We have attempted like 5 times to record something over the years but never released anything until now since we were not satisfied with what we were doing back then.

Q - Was it difficult to arrange all those guest appearances on EP?
A – Well, I wouldn’t say that it was difficult. Risto and Marco are good friends of mine and so are Chippe and Chuck. They did it as more of a favor for a friend than doing it as professionals.

Q - What are musicians of the band do usually in life, except playing music? Work, study? Do you have any other hobbies?
A - We are all working in different kinds of social jobs, I am currently unemployed due to this album work, but I work as a freelance web developer. The drummer and keyboardist left for studies after we completed the recordings for the EP. The drummer has already left and the keyboardist will be leaving next month. We have recently got replacements for them, Marco from Kalmah (who also featured a solo in the EP) and Kevin who currently play for the band Daath.

Q - Is it difficult to start the new band? Are there people around you who help you?
A – Well, actually it’s really difficult to start one here. The biggest difficulty we faced was not having a place to practice (we don’t have one even now) for what we have to do our part at home and meet up somewhere and jam. We haven’t got help or support from anybody here; we help ourselves and financed this recording from our pockets alone. But some of the bands here help each other.

Q - What are you going to tell to the world in your lyrics?
A - All of the lyrics are written by our vocalist Avo, the lyrics are mostly based on politics and stuff related to our community like Antidote of Realism itself.

Q - Are you going to make any special show on your concerts?
A - Not really, our performance is much like other bands of our genre and there is no special kind of shows involved... yet.

Q - Do you have any plans to make a video?
A - Yes, in fact it’s already being planned and worked on. We are planning to do the shooting sometime during the end of March.

Q - Is there on Maldives good metal scene?
A - Yes definitely, there are very good bands here with potential and its not just metal. We just don’t get good exposure being based here.

Q - Imagine: you found a bottle and out of that bottle appeared a jinn. He told: “I will give you everything, you will live perfectly until the end of life, but you must quit the music forever”. What would you do?
A -Get back in the bottle you bitch!

Q - Do you know any Russian bands?
A - I know of 2 metal bands, Catharsis and Aria. I have listened to some of their music.

Hilarl answered the questions
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