Yoyoyo!!! hope you are doing well!!! Whoo is this?
Hey! Thanks for the interest! I am Daniel Lara, founder of Exhaurity.
Can you tell us the history of Exhaurity?
Sure. Exhaurity started as a One Man Band by myself. It was born from a creative necessity. I also play in Decarabion but I think I do something different in that band. Exhaurity was born with the purpose of doing something more raw, less technical, more impulsive and even flirting with improvisation. I did some releases as a one man band and then I decided to add a drummer to the band. We then started playing some shows and we recorded what will be our next EP.
3 releases in 2024, 3 releases in 2025, what are the plans for 2026?
Well, in this 2026 we will be releasing our first EP recorded with real drums. It will be released by New Standard Elite. I think we will also record a full album. It may be ready by the end of the year or starting the next one.
Did everything before Sarkothenta feel like it was just building up to that full length? Or is everything a very separate work of art?
Yeah. The demos and the EP I made before releasing Sarkothenta were parts of an experimentation that somehow culminated in the full album. All those releases (first demos, first EP, split and full album) were made the same way: as an experimentation from a one man band format.
I am always interested in the artwork chosen for albums or demos or whatever, can you talk a little about how you go about choosing artwork and artists?
Sure! I have worked with Ropiggore, Ardha Lepa and Jon Zig. I like to give freedom to the artist to express their own vision. I just try to communicate what I would like the artwork to manifest. In all those cases I was searching for a representation of carnality, embodiment and the idea of reality as pure carnal unfolding.
How would you describe Exhaurity to someone who has never heard it?
It's an experimentation. It's the attempt to empty extreme music from the saturation of extreme technicality, of sophisticated production techniques and other additions that end up erasing what extreme music is about: intensity, impulses, carnality and more. Improvisation comes to have a roll in this process as a mark of carnality, of spontaneous material existence in the now and here.
How do you come up with the wonderful song titles?
The name Exhaurity comes from the latin "exhaurire" which means to empty, to drain, to consume, to draw out the resources, elements or energies of something. In the end it relates to the method of "exhaurition", of draining, emptying out the extreme brutal genre and leaving only the most primitive, pristine or basic elements: the mere instruments and their friction. To make it a true corpse, a carcass, and reveal the abjection in musicality.
9 - What does Sarkothenta mean?
Sarkothenta means "made flesh" or "incarnate". It comes from that biblical idea of Jesus being made flesh, or the idea of angels gaining physical and material existence. It's written as an extremely painful process and it's also related to the beginning of suffering, the beginning of evil in the existence. And it is, in the end, the only existence we truly have: this material, fleshy, painful and horrid existence. You can relate this to some satanic or even esoteric traditions which merge in some way the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the material. I try to play with the contradiction and hierarchy that we have constructed between the spiritual and the material.
What would you like to say to your fans?
I would like to thank to everyone interested in this project. I hope you can enjoy what will be our first release with NSE. There will be more to come!
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