DARK DEMO(N)S 2025 Rina Pavar, Beta Evers have an amazing voices. Also I would like to be involved one day with someone who plays heavy distorted guitar to record some industrial metal tracks. Maybe under my other moniker Cape Sidereal. How did you experience the Dark Demo(n)s event? I found this event to be very intimate with a focus on like-minded musicians rather than competing bands. I had a ball and enjoyed the whole event+afterparty. Why did you start making music? Koen: The constant urge to be busy and creative has been keeping a hold on me since my birth. Starting expermimenting with music was an obvious thing to do. Bart: Even as a kind, music had a huge attraction to me, raised in a family where members were playing guitar, organ and flute, it was pretty obvious to start musical classes. And it simply feels great to be on the stage in front of an audience that just are enjoying our music and sharing our enthousiasm. Who are your inspirators / musical heroes? Koen: Early Frontline Assembly – Paradise Lost – Orange Sector – Dive – Ministry – Samael (and much more, but I mentioned the most important). Bart: I think my main influences can be found in the dark electro scene from the early till mid nineties, but i think some kind of punk and/or psychobilly should not be forgotten either. Wherefrom do you take get your inspiration to write music? Koen: Life! - Listening other music – being busy Name: EUFORIC EXISTENCE Genre: EBM Residence: Antwerp, B Whydid you choose this name for this musical project? EE started as a solo project by Koen Van Dappernest in 2000. He was 21 years old and didn’t understand the world and humanity at all (yet). After a very long period of mourning this disknowledge, he decided to start writing it down and make some music to yell out to the world. The objective was to turn the sadness into a better life or an “Euforic Existence” It worked! Members & their role: Koen Van Dappernest (music, lyrics and vocals/2000 - present) – Bart Peeters (Live support, backing vocals, additional synths, /2015 – present) - Frank Van Den Brande (Live support/2014 – 2015) What’s the most important instrument you use in your music and why? All software synths. After 2 years of guitar lessons I faced my impatience and short thick fingers, so I skipped acoustic instruments and went 100% electronic. www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 32 - Which (musical) achievement are you most proud of? Koen: We made it to the stage of FamilienTreffen in 2018, I can die now! Bart: Of course playing on Familientreffen in Sanderleben is one my highlights, but playing in Leipzig was also i thing i would never forget. What is your most recent release and/or what are you working on right now? Koen: The latest release was the single “Fire” in 2023. On this moment I’m busy with a lot of other things, but I would like to release a new EE single in 2025, beside the wish to do the same for side projects “Bleak Cold Irrelevance”,“Et Mantis” and “Ear of Trump” Who would you like to collaborate with? Koen: That’s private Bart: I’m afraid the ones that were high on my list are passed away in the meantime….. What can we expect from you on the Dark Demo(n)s 2025 event? We had a great time! The change in the voting system made everything a bit more fair and exciting right up to the end. I'm glad we just made it into the top three!
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