A Dirty Dozen with SEAN HORROR from DARKFLOW – May 2025

According to a recent press release: “Swiss Goth / Horror / Shock Metal band DARKFLOW have released their latest single “Press The Button”, a harrowing and theatrical descent into apocalyptic madness. The track marks the second release from the band’s highly anticipated new album Imminent End, out May 2025. Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Andy LaRocque (legendary guitarist of King Diamond) at Sonic Train Studio in Sweden, Imminent End is a concept album that takes listeners through a dark and chaotic vision of the world’s collapse. LaRocque not only helmed the production but also contributes a blistering guest solo on the epic track “The Last Symphony.” Brian Bendahan did the orchestration of all the songs. With Imminent End, DARKFLOW cement their place as masters of sonic horror, blending goth, shock metal, and theatrical narrative into a terrifying and unforgettable experience.” We get singer Sean Horror to discuss new music, influences, and more…

1. Tell us a little about your latest release.  What might a fan or listener not grab the first or second time they listen through?  Are there any hidden nuggets the band put in the material or that only diehard fans might find?

It’s a good question, since this next release is called Imminent End is a concept album about the end of the world. Each song is a way the world is full of huge problems going on, like a Tsunami that destroys an entire continent, millions of people dying of sudden death around the world, with no reason why, God trying to destroy the earth since it’s the divine reckoning and he is angry with humanity. There are many songs and the concept is the end of the world. What’s more theatrical is that I have a part that in it as a character, “the general from hell” coming to destroy earth before god does, showing that hell will always win. is important to understand is when I come back from hell out of the blue to torture psychologically a world leader and make him release all the nuclear / hydrogen bombs, giving death and the extinction of all humanity. Each song is completely different from one another. But the whole album stays as a concept album. People might not understand that from the beginning but if you read the lyrics and feel the music you can understand the apocalyptic vision of our album “Imminent End”. So yeah, maybe it is not an album you can understand at the beginning but little by little the concept can grow on you, and go precisely where I’m nodding you to go. Understand how delicate things are in this moment and the world is standing by a really bare chance into not abruptly exploding into a WW3 and have the whole planet destroyed by our leaders that are hell-bent to destroy each other because of nothing important and why human beings have a feeling the end of something’s coming on. We have 9 songs and an intro of the album. I hope it is as dynamic as I think, passing through horror metal, heavy, thrash and progressive metal.

2. What got you into music, and can you tell us about the moment you realized you wanted to be a musician?

Music has always been a way of expressing myself, but it hit me when I was 15 years old and I really wanted to do a career in music. I don’t dream of being a rockstar or whatever else to feel big, I want to do something that touches me and hope it touches other people. There’s no way I’m doing this because of a narcissistic idea of becoming a world known musician, if it happens, cool if not, I did what I wanted. By the way, I want to play in different places, have good venues and do shows for people to also enjoy our theatrical shows.

3. Building on that, is there a specific song, album, performer, or live show that guided your musical taste?

Personally, my favorite artist is King Diamond, but I’ve been into Shock Rock all my life, Alice Cooper, Ghost, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Mercyful Fate, Dimmu Borgir (in a way) then there are other acts that have touched me a lot too, like Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult. So to choose between an album I would go with Them from King Diamond, and if I have to choose a song from said album I would go with “The Invisible Guests.” And the show of King Diamond is a great show experience that really touched me a lot.

4. Who would be your main five musical influences?

King Diamond, Alice Cooper, Dimmu Borgir, Blue Oyster Cult and Megadeth.

5. If you could call in any one collaborator to do a song with, who would it be, and why?

Well, actually I did, always wanted to work with King Diamond’s guitar player, Andy LaRocque, and for him to feature in our albums and he did in two occasions, one in a song called “The Last Symphony” one of our latest releases and also in a song called “Suicidal Hadaches.” He did an excellent work in production of the last album and also he did a crazy work on mixing and mastering our last album at his studio called Sonic Train Studio.

6. How would you describe your music to someone who’d never listened to you before? What is the one comparison a reviewer or fan has made that made you cringe or you disagreed with?

It’s a style with the concept, but as the music, every song is very different musically and we try to keep things dynamic, though the lyrics are a very powerful thing for people to understand what I am singing about, the two last albums, Insane Circus and Imminent End are fun albums to hear reading along the lyrics. Even if people do not do too much. is important if you want to understand why and what a song is talking about. For the second question I haven’t had people talking saying things that are cringe or that I strongly disagree with. Some people have had the perception completely different as I would describe my music, but he owns his way of thinking about our music and I think I’m okay, nobody has said to me “Your music is shit” like the things that I can disagree with is if people say something about my accent, I’m a singer who comes from Chile and lives in Switzerland, my mother tongue is not English, though I talk really well in English, of course I have a foreign answer. But that could be the only thing that I would disagree with.

7. What’s the best thing about being a musician?

Being creative and collaborating with many other musicians, creating songs that allow you to express yourself sincerely, it’s not an easy ride, but it’s beautiful to create music with friends and do something about it. I am really happy with our music and I wouldn’t change anything about it.

8. When the band are all hanging out together, who cooks; who gets the drinks in; and who is first to crack out the acoustic guitars for a singalong?

We rarely hang together and it depends where. I am the classic useless in everything guy while the others do food or whatever, I’m good at drinking with my friends and everyone likes to chat and spend time when we’re together.

9. When was the last time you were star struck and who was it?

Oh wow, that’s a completely difficult question to answer, but I’ve never been star struck, even if I’m a huge fan of a musician, if I met him or talk to him I wouldn’t be like the weird fanboy, I would be normal and have a nice time and it is. I am more impressed by hearing new bands live and being happy with their music. A year ago we played with a band called Shrooms Circle and they opened the night for us. It was a huge deal for me, being impressed by their music that I’ve never heard. So I was proud to share the stage with a band I never had the chance to listen to and discover it.

10. If you weren’t a musician, what would be your dream job?

I would love to be a detective or a writer, but I’m really doing music because it is my dream job. I am a marketing professional but never liked that gig and when music became more than just drinking in a rehearsal room doing nothing interesting. Then I got my dream job, doing music for big shows.

11. Looking back over your career, is there a single moment or situation you feel was a misstep or you would like to have a “do over”, even if it didn’t change your current situation?

I must specify that being a musician is not easy, but I would change nothing from the past to now. We as all bands have evolved from doing our music by passion and then connecting our music with people all around the world. That’s so cool. Okay, we’re not famous or not even very known but we like what we do and we deliver with passion.

12. If you could magically go back in time and be a part of the recording sessions for any one record in history, which would you choose – and what does that record mean to you?

I would have loved to see the working process of 9 the last Mercyful Fate album done in 1999, I met the producer and the guitar player of that record and it is the album that made me the musician I am now. I would’ve loved to see the musical process of how you work your music with others, watching that precise album.

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