Melek-Tha has risen to the world during the summer of 1994 by the hand of Ludo Lejeune of Evil Omen Records who already had his work shown in some intros and outros to some Black Metal bands. The first album, Astrum Argentinum, was released in 1996 via Adipocere Records. In this album we experience a fusion between Darkwave, Industrial and a deep Ambience creating an extreme ritualistic kind of transcendental landscapes and strange environments.

Now, the spirt of Melek-Tha is back in a new opus entitled De Magia Naturali Daemoniaca. This new album is more like a continuation of the previous work, in a more epical view. In this album, synthesisers are more present and some voice samples performing strange speeches and demoniac invocations now appear.

We interviewed Ludo, the main man behind Melek-Tha in order to enlighten our curiosity and try to obtain a better concept directly from the man behind the sound.

Hail Ludo, let us in the first place congratulate you for excellent Melek-Tha Opus II - De Magia Naturali Daemoniaca. For the beginning, why don’t you tell us a little about the relation between yourself and Melek-Tha, explain us how and why did Melek-Tha started and what is the Melek-Tha funding ideologies?

Well, Melek-Tha was created during the 1995 year... Melek-Tha reflects my personal impure and extreme musical conception. I think that Melek-Tha’s music isn’t similar to other typical blackest/ritualistic music that are available in other labels. Melek-Tha’s music is a mixture of different kinds of music. To be honest I created Melek-Tha because during many years I made different introductions and outro’s for compilation tapes and cd’s etc..., then one day I decided to create long intro’s and long songs with my own feeling and create my band. About ideologies, Melek-Tha is anti-Christian tribe and devoted to the God of the Dark Side.

What is your particular opinion about this connection between some sorts of Demoniac Rituals and the slight Industrial Ambience that sometimes you invoke in your songs?

In my opinion why shouldn’t I use different kinds of music to create an apocaliptical atmosphere? Why not?

What’s the connection between Melek-Tha and Evil Omen Records, since you run a Black Metal oriented label haven’t you ever considered playing that sort of music? Do you put Melek-Tha is the same field that you put the Black Metal bands that you release in your label, or do you like to keep the distance between the two, like for example considering Black Metal like a more accessible kind and Melek-Tha as one deeper and personal kind of act?

There in no connection between Melek-Tha and Evil Omen Records. That is why I don’t release Melek-Tha’s album in Evil Omen Records. Evil Omen Records is a label for Black, Death Metal music, not for ritual music. But maybe one day I will sign a band who plays extreme Industrial music like Sielwolf, :Wumpscut:, etc... I’m open minded. Yes, Black Metal music is really more accessible than ritualistic music, Ha Ha Ha... Except for bands like Mortiis, Burzum, etc, who mixed Black Metal Mediaeval style with some ritual music parts. People prefer the music that isn’t extreme, this is more a cool stuff.

I was told that Melek-Tha is the name of a ancient demon or something like that. Do you have any interests in occult/esoteric matters and do they have a place within Melek-Tha’s music?

Melek-Tha is a mix of two different demons names. Of course I like occults books, but I’m not a preacher, more an adept.