{"id":97076,"date":"2022-11-21T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=97076"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T16:39:28","slug":"rocket-interviews-christos-agathokleous-of-ninemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=97076","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Interviews Christos Agathokleous of Nin\u00e9miA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The slamming new metal project titled Nin\u00e9miA is the brainchild of Greek bassist Christos Agathokl\u00e9ous, and he is on a mission to deliver the band’s music to the masses. The lineup for the group’s first album includes drummer Dirk Verbeuren<\/strong> of MEGADETH<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randy “Rocket” Cody<\/a> <\/strong>of TheMetalDen.com<\/strong> recently conducted an email interview with Chris of Nin\u00e9miA for TMD’s worldwide army of metal fanatics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ROCKET: Where were you born and raised?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRIS: I was born in 1985 in Nicosia, Cyprus where is still my hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROCKET: Do you recall your first heavy metal concert?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRIS: I think it was a local teenage band called \u201cSpirit\u201d in 98\u2019 but by a famous band, was Rotting Christ in early 1999. We did not have many concerts happening back then, only by local bands. \u201cRC\u201d being Greeks they always had Cyprus in their tour schedule. So yeah, that was my first official metal concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROCKET: When did you first start training to play the bass?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRIS: I started three months after I turned 13; I had some piano and music theory background, which helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ROCKET: How did you first put together Nin\u00e9miA band?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRIS: I\u2018ve always wanted to start my own thing, basically since I started playing\u2019 bass. After I moved back to Cyprus from my studies in 2012, I started PR with local musicians. That ended up me playing in a various projects for cover and original material bands. That took me a while up until 2018 that I decided to stop playing with and for others and form my own project. I had the song ideas ages ago, they just needed the perfect fit. I tried playin with many musicians but even though they were great I just could not feel it happening, the chemistry wasn\u2019t there. So I just recorded the songs on bass in late 2019 and went on finding the players. The pandemic did not work well for that (as for many other issues) and tried finding musicians from home on the internet. My first contact was Jason Pantino from Australia, the guitarist for Aveira Skies and currently living in Sweden who helped and programmed digital drums on the songs. Today, Jason is the one mixing and mastering the tracks and a great support regarding the project all together. Could not do it without him. After programming drums, went on finding the guitarist. Artur Hearhadze from Belarus living in Poland filled in the spot magically. We video-called and collaborated perfectly, like meeting up close. As I said during the pandemic that was the only way in general, did not matter where you were on the globe. That\u2019s how things worked. Artur is the guitarist for the 40 Thieves and vocalist for NDNP (No drink No pass). He is now the official guitarist for Nin\u00e9miA and cannot thank him enough. He was understanding and supportive from the very start. Gave his musical touch because he picked up the coherence on the very first bass\/drums demos. A true bless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for a vocalist was quite a task. Many great vocalists tried a few of the songs, all in their way, many of em were amazing but Mr. Miko\u0142aj Krzaczek from Poland was cherry on top. Make sure you check out \u201cThamnos Project\u201d. His last name in polish means \u201cbush\u201d so he made this illusive character called \u201cThamnos\u201d which is greek for bush. Thamnos project is his musical brainchild, quite the musical journey. Miko\u0142aj keeps an open eye for good collaborations, and we made it through perfectly. Always there supportive and helpful with the project all-together. With all these people, we matched on a personal level and that made the project stand out better. The beast Dirk Verbeuren came to fill in for the drums after I contacted him online. He was really open to playing the parts because he liked what he heard. That made me pinch myself a million times. After coming to a deal with him he gracefully and masterfully played and elevated the songs. Still, something I don\u2019t believe. It\u2019s like a miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROCKET: What has your experience been like so far working with Dirk Verbeuren of MEGADETH?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRIS: Like a far, reach dream. When we first spoke on a video call, I was so chill with him because he transcends this gratitude to life, which made the whole process paved easily, I felt like I knew him for years. He is an inspiring personality, knows a ton about music, his taste is so diverse like mine for all genres, not snobby at all, and you can tell he really loves what he does and never stopped being a fan. He recorded in Adair\u2019s Daufebach Studio in LA. It only took him 10 days for 72 minutes of material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He didn\u2019t record parts and mixed them all together, he actually played and recorded each song by hitting the recording button from beginning to the end, which gave the material a live human touch instead of relying on edits afterwards. I could tell he was listening to the song\u2019s demos for a while and went to record them all prepared like the professional he is. I keep him posted for the project\u2019s state etc. Even though he is super, busy we keep in touch regularly and he is super supportive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROCKET: You are working on releasing a full-length album in 2023, correct. What date will it be made available exactly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRIS: Possibly late February or mid-March. The album will be called \u201cWeapons of Math Destruction\u201d which will also be the titled for an 11-minute instrumental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ROCKET: You released several singles so far off this album, right? One included is the brilliant song “Dr. Oppenheimer” which its accompanying music video out on YouTube already got 2,000 plus views. What inspired this song to be made?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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