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Sehmetia: First of all I’d like to thank you for this interview and for the time you shared with me.
Please tell us about your connection to the world of sounds, from the past to the present. How did it all start?
Scareifina: It really began as a child, my favorite thing in the world was my rocking chair where I would sit for hours and sing. To this day I create alot of songs while rocking. Formaly, I began writting lyrics for Ancient under the name "Thorne" for the Mad Grandiouse Bloodfiends album and others. Aphazel liked a story I was writting for school called "BlackEyes" and asked me if I could turn it into a song, he liked the lyrics so much he asked me to write more, so I wrote "The Emerald Tablet" "Her Northern Majesty" and "Willowthewisp." I went on to direct and act in the video for "Willowthewisp" I was the dead girl. The last work I did for Ancient was a short piece called "Audrina, My Sweet" that is the only piece with my voice on it and under my name Scareifina.
Sehmetia: Have your past involvements in other bands influenced you towards WLD or this came naturally, a personal need and expression?
Scareifina: I would have never thought that I could create a band if I hadn't been writing for Ancient. When I saw my words in print and someone from another country writes to say how much they love the song it changed me deeply. I began to believe I could do anything and made me realize I want to use my voice in the world.
Sehmetia: Has your work for ASPR inspired your music? Can you tell us a little about this period of your life?
Scareifina: Working at the American Society for Physical Research was by far the strangest job I have ever had. I was hired because of my background and training I had from volunteering at Samaritans a suicide hotline. ASPR needed me to talk to people who believed they were being haunted. People would call or come to the occult library to research about hauntings and automatic writings. ASPR inspired me to think of myself more as a medium or someone who not only channels my pain through WLD music but the pain of others I may not have met, even the pain of the dead.
Sehmetia: You once said you live in a church built in 1852 and you always have a ghost story to tell. Enchant us with the details and truth in this. WLD is always srounded by this atmosphere and mistery, like a different world… beyond the mirror.
Scareifina: I did move into a church built in 1852, it was bought by a kind old couple, she was a Witch, and he was a Wizard. They turned it into a playhouse and apartments, they never said they were a Witch and Wizard but she did practice WitchCraft and showed me her hidden room filled with dolls and puppets and wands. Strange things always happened there. Like once on stage in the main part of the church you could hear a bell ringing right next to your ear but nothing was ever there. Another time LuCi and I went away for the weekend and when we returned our neighbor said "your Grandmother looked sad, all she did when you were gone was look out your window." This was impossible, no one was in our apartment at all. Another time I went into a bedroom in the middle of the night and saw an old woman writting with a feather and in a blink she was gone along with the table, paper, and oil lamp.
Sehmetia: Personally, the name of the band always makes me think of you as a wicked poppet, beautiful and dangerous. How did this name came up?
Scareifina: LuCi played a song by David Byrne for me in the car, he said the lyrics reminded him of me. That song is called "Wicked Little Doll." After I heard it I knew that’s what I wanted to do with my life, be a Wicked Little doll, so I started the band.
Sehmetia: You said that on
Scareifina: I do want WLD to be associated with things that people have deemed to be evil.
You can't really live and be a wild creature unlike anyother and not be considered wicked or evil. Releasing the album on that date is just another way of embracing our dark side.
Sehmetia: Listening to the album I have mixed feelings. The sound makes you wanna party, but the lyrics tell a story that makes you wonder … What is behind these words, the meaning and soul of each song?
Scarefina: The best way to describe them all is like a collage. A mix of my feelings and life at the time that I wrote them along with the past and rage that I channel for myself and other people.
I'm not even sure of the exact meaning of each song but I can tell you a bit of the things I know for sure.
"Scareifina's Box" is about feeling unheard and misunderstood, people put themselves in boxes and other people judge wrongly based on outside apperence. I look strange and hang out in clubs so people thing I do drugs and don't give a shit about people, that song is just my way of letting people know who I really am.
"Bloody Kisses" I don't know, just about fake people who kiss you one minute and fuck you over the next. It's also a kind of tribute to the bond I have with all the WLD's in the world. I have a mob like mentality about my own.
"Trash doll" Thats about when life gets really shitty and you turn to a party lifestyle to escape even if it means you might end up dead.
"Wanna Sucide" That song is about many things two being people that befriend me just to try to get down my pants, and how casual sex (which I have never had by the way), can kill you. So if you go out an party and fuck some
"The Rocking Chair" is about my life long love affair with my best friend, my rocking chair. I am an only child who grew up being rasied by my Granny in a home with my Mother who is Skitsophrinic, my childhood was very difficult because of this, and I was always teased as school because I was so very much smaller then the other kids. Everyday when I got home from school I would rock and listen to music and imagion a day when I would be powerful and beautiful and people would hear me and care. This gave me the strenth to live.
"Poppet" That is a song that just burst out of me in one long rant. It's about when someone treats you like an object, like nothing, and tears you apart from the inside.
"dolls Gone Mad" is a fantasy that some children who are being abused might have about being saved and protected by their dolls and toys.
"Darling Mother" is the deepest song about rage I have ever wirtten. I was not raped as a child but my Father is a pedofile, he tried every chance he could to try to molest me. I told his Mother once when I was 16 and she was angry at me not him. I have so much rage about having a Father that I loved but could not trust and it makes me sick. That song just came to my mind and I channeled my rage. I have so much anger and I was never raped, I wrote that song to help expose all the dirty feelings I and others who have been raped feel. I hope it lets people who have been through it connect and know it's healthy to be angry and talk about it.
"Terrible Toys" is about people who society throws away, the homeless, the mentally ill, the dar, the depressed, they lock them up cause their old, or worn, it makes me mad, and makes me cry and so that song is for them.
"Rotten Candy" is me getting into the mind of a killer, an abuser, someone who takes out their rage on other people.
Sehmetia: You released a new video this summer – Rotten Candy. Tell us more about the making of it, behind the scene stories, how ideas came out and who produced it.
Scareifina: The Wanna Sucide video was done by MiZari our bassist, it was all live footage of many shows over one year and some studio footage as well. Our new video for Rotten Candy was the concept of director Kurt RIdda, he found us on myspace and offered to shot and produce a video for us for free! It was a very kind offer and he did a fantastic job. I t was all shot at the house where LuCi and I live, another strange huge victorian mansion built in 1850. It was when inspired Kurts vision for the song.
Sehmetia: Will the video be played on music channels?
Scareifina: Yes, he is planning to get it played on fuse and maybe mtv.
Sehmetia: This is not your first attempt in expressing yourselves through images. There is also a short movie you made a while ago, that I’m curious about – what happens after he/she grabs the knife? And that little dancing girl is you …?
Scareifina: I had forgotten all about that, yes the girl dancing is me in my room. LuCi played the killer, that was fun, we need to do more little videos like that.
Sehmetia: Why is there so much violence in both of the videos? What made you choose that particular song to put it into images?
Scareifina: People live with hidden violence in their lives everyday, it's my way of bringing it out into the open. Monsters hide in the dark. I choose those songs I'm not sure why, I would like to make videos for all of them at some point.
Sehmetia: WLD videos are not your first encounter with the camera. You also appear in Ancient videos. Looking at them all, which do you prefer and what you think of them?
Scareifina: Well, I did direct Willowthewisp but I have to admit I really like it. lol The others are cool too.
Sehmetia: The album is enchanting us with 12 songs, but on the booklet we discover only 10. What is the reason for this?
Scareifina: I always will leave something hidden to discover on WLD albums, it's my way of creating something extra special for the WLD's that have our record.
Like I said about Bloody Kisses, I have a mob like affection for all the Wicked Little dolls, we are family, WLD4LIFE. I take it serious, I give out my home phone number and will show up and help you out if you ever need it. WLD is not just music it is a society of the most unique and beautiful creatures in the universe, and it's getting bigger every moment.
Sehmetia: The sound on the album is quite unique. How was to record it and have it in LuCI’s Carnygoat?
Scareifina: LuCI found this amazing guy name Chris GoBo Peirce, he only records bands he likes, has an unlisted number and does everything analog, which I really prefer. We just banged out the whole record over one weekend and went strait from the studio to the stage for a show. This way is really what we do best, just raw emotions allowed to come out all at once. I never did more then one take for every song, I'm not a perfectionist, I just get on the mike and rage out.
Sehmetia: Getting back to the sound, for those passionate about instruments, what kind of equipment did you use? And any other tricks ..
Scareifina: Not really any tricks, we're pretty simple, MarrCello loves his DW Drums, MiZari is into Messabogie, and LuCi has too many guitars to keep up with and loves Hiwatt. I love my first porcilin doll named Emily, I brought her to the studio and she is a musical doll, it's her music box you hear playing at the end.
Sehmetia: I am not so much of a team worker, problematic issue nowadays, and I always wonder how are roles distributed in a group/band, how you plan your future
and agree on the plans, messages and all.
Scareifina: It's not always easy. MarrCello and MiZari are pretty easy going LuCi and I take are both very demanding so there is some fricton there. It brings out some vitorl feelings in the music. We have gotten better about not killing each other on this album.
Sehmetia: How did you choose your names? They seem to hide something or be two things in one.
Scareifina: MarrCello was born with that name and has no plans on changing it.
I got my name I beleive from my dead Grandmother. I was talking to her spirit as I often do in my car and I told her that I needed her help to find a name as a WLD. Just after I said that a black limo pulled in front of me and the liscene plate said Seraphina. That word means little angel. I had never heard that name before, I knew this was a sign from her. So I took that name but changed it to Scareifina because it's more wicked.
LuCi's name came to me in a dream, sometimes he would be in my dreams and his name was LuCi and he had lightning bolts tattooed on his arms. I told him about it and he liked the name, it's strange and dark because it's short for Lucifer. He now also has lightning bolts on his arms. He's very used to me seeing into the future, time is a circle and I can see many things years before they happen.
Sehmetia: As I am from
Scareifina: They love the beauty and mystery, they are both from
Sehmetia: Has any of you other projects, other business except WLD? Like Luci’s Carnygoat Records. We’d like to know everything about the 4 of you and what made Luci start this business.
Scareifina: MarrCello and MiZari are completly dedicated only to WLD, LuCi has his own band too called Horroble. CaryGoat records is his label and both records were released under it. He had been wanting to start a label for a long time, and it's a good way to keep the integrity of our bands.
Sehmetia: You already started playing live, having concerts. Have you any touring plans?
Scareifina: We absolutely want to go everywhere on the face of the earth, we are planning to tour Argentina next fall and Europe sometime in the Spring of 2008, I know we would love to come to Romania if possible too.
Sehmetia: How would you describe your concerts and how do you feel on stage? Most artists get addicted to that.
Scareifina: The first time we played live I was so nervous I was laying on the bathroom floor unable to barely move. I dragged myself on stage and when the music started I felt alive, I just sort of black out, I rarely remember anting thing I do, I feel possessed. I leave the stage with bloody hands and black and blue knees. I have seen videos of us and I am always shocked to see what I do. I must really have issues. lol
Sehmetia: The future is approaching us fast. Any plans, new album?
Scareifina: We moved into an old haunted mansion, it's the same one as in the Rotten Candy video. We have been living there for a year, and that is where we have written
our new album, we are almost finished we have nine songs but want to have 13. The house has had a very interesting effect on the album. I hope people like it, we have been enjoying the process of writing it.
Sehmetia: If you would like to say something to your fans and future fans, please do so. And I must also say it was a pleasure getting to know you.
Scareifina: I would only like to say that I have no fans, only Wicked Little dolls, I want to meet and know each and everyone of you, all ages, all sexes, all shapes, all sizes, all races, all religions. One important thing to me is unity, WLD's music trancends all barriers, and illusions of difference. I am VERY unreligious, however I don't give a fuck what other people believe, if you like WLD music you are family, period. I don't care if WLD is the only fucking thing we have in common, it's more than enough to gain my lifelong loylety.
Thankyou for taking the time to want to get to know us.
BLoody Kisses,
Scareifina WLD4LIFE
===This interview also appears on MetalAct[dot]com
