Daniel: PUISSANCE now exists since 1993 and has published several albums on different labels (among others Cold Meat Industry). Can you shortly describe the key points of the development of the band?
Puissance: I don’t really know what that would be, we simply wrote music for 14 years and here we are.

Daniel: It is well known that PUISSANCE is a 2-man-project. How is the role allocation inside the band? Do you see yourself as equal partners? Who is what bringing into the creative process?
Puissance: We actually don’t speak very often; we live far from each other and mainly communicate via net or phone. When we write music it is often over a distance.

Daniel: The image of PUISSANCE in the public could be described as controversial by all means. It is almost your trademark to have a negative, apocalyptic view of the world affairs and of the future of mankind. Did you adopt a more even-tempered approach with the higher age and advanced music-wise experience?
Puissance: I wouldn’t say we are even tempered; we simply debate and discuss topics that are relevant to our time. When people call us controversial and that we say terrible things they are actually saying it about the rulers of the world, the people who plan to exterminate 90% of the world’s population in order to build what they perceive as a sustainable development on earth. These people are super nationals and have no loyalty to anything or anyone except the global government they wish to create. The global government is to be formed from what is now WTO and will simply circumvent all current democracies via trade agreements that supersede national laws. This process has already been going on for a long time and many wars have already been fought to bring about the implementations of this new world agenda. At this point in time we are all slaves under WTO, IMF, World Bank and United Nations. We are however not yet completely bound under the world government; in order to bring it fully in the globalists must first set up a European Union, African Union, American Union and Asian Union. The first two are already complete as I think most people already know, the second two are underway. As the setup of the Asian Union is almost certain to fail we are likely to see a nuclear war between the Asian states and the western states in the coming years. Basically our lyrics deal with the things that stem from this world being organized. Now if anyone wants to call this negative, apocalyptic or anything else they are free to do so. All is easily confirmed for anyone willing to do 20 minutes of research, if you feel that being murdered in order to manifest the dream of psychotic bankers and genocidal warlords you may wanna consider listening to what we say and start doing something about it. If you on the other hand prefer to stick your head in the sand and ignore these facts by dismissing them as conspiracy theories you are welcome to do that as well.

Daniel: Your just released album Grace Of God can be accessed easier by more melody and song orientation than former releases. Are you content with the reactions from fans and critics so far? With view to current output in how far do you see any improvements to former releases?
Puissance: It seems people like the album; they liked the other albums too. Not sure what to say about it.

Daniel: Regarding the content on Grace Of God you are dealing with current development of global politics, especially the neo-conservative geopolitics. Now is the music of PUISSANCE not really appropriate for the masses and public oriented. Which role can PUISSANCE play in the discussion about the foreign policy of western states? To what extent PUISSANCE is able to make people critically questioning popular opinions?
Puissance: The album deals with politics or rather the emotional and social aspects of the globalist’s imperial policy. If someone chose to listen that is fine. If they don’t we can’t really do anything about it. I believe we reach more people with PUISSANCE than we would by other music.

Daniel: Recently your homepage got extensively re-launched and contains a lot of texts and articles about the Bush government, names of influential neo-conservatives like Samuel P. Huntington as well as conspiracy theories about 9/11. What are you aiming at with this offer of information and how is this weighted against your music?
Puissance: We don’t really write about the Bush government, we write about global policy. As you probably know there is a “national Id card” being marketed in your country, they call it national both in your country and in mine. But it’s a global ID card; they simply don’t wanna call it that because that would be a bit frightening for people at this stage. The card may or may not hold a so-called RFID chip depending on model, but eventually they will. The RFID is a small radio ID tag that holds a unique ID number, these RFID tags will be more and more common in the coming years; they are going to be used to track people, goods and money. Eventually we will be more or less forced to have a small RFID chip implanted in our body, some people actually already have, and you can read about that on an external link from our web page. Anyway, this chip will basically hold your ID number and will be linked to your bank account, social security, medical record and so forth. Very Orwellian and very, very dangerous. Basically it all takes to make someone a non citizen is to erase their ID number and they cannot buy anything, they can no longer travel, basically they no longer exist.

Daniel: What is the „Artists Against New World Order“? Which artists are participating and what are you pursuing with the campaign „Vote For Puissance 2008“?
Puissance: Artists Against New World Order is an organization open for any artists that publish material oriented towards this topic. Basically it is artists concerned with the development of world government.

Daniel: Your image is not that of the merry boys from next door. The Bush Rap Song as background music on our homepage is quite amusing. How did it come to this?
Puissance: We needed background music for the site.

Daniel: With publishing of Grace Of God your album from 1998 Back In Control has been re-released and the debut Let Us Lead already in 2005. What has been changed at those two albums and which status do those early creations have for you nowadays? Are more re-releases planned?
Puissance: Not that I know of.

Daniel: The idea to put an encrypted bonus track on the current album is inventive, but why does the media player necessary for the decryption only work with systems like the quasi-monopolist Microsoft and not on Linux or Mac OS?
Puissance: Mac OS is garbage, probably the worst operating system ever written in my opinion. When it’s not crashing it’s likely to be booting up (barely) or shutting down (usually without being asked to do so). I know most Mac owners say that their machines always work and so on. I suspect they say this because they feel bad about paying so much more for so much less performance or because they never really do anything on their machines. If all I used was notepad I think my PC would be pretty damn stable as well. Actually my PC never crashes. I think the secret to that is using reference drivers rather than crappy drivers supplied by overbloated installers full of useless software that never serves any purpose. As for Linux support, any programmer that wishes to support our album for Linux is welcome to write a CD player, once the GUI is implemented please email us a copy of it and we will supply the decryption key for the encrypted track.

Daniel: Anything more you would like to tell the Nocturnal Hall readers?
Puissance: I would like to urge people to investigate reality, find out more about the world. Most people have no idea what is actually going on. A good place to start is this:
Operation Gladio
IMF Riots
Operation Northwoods
Iran-Contras
Operation Mockingbird
The Georgia Guidestones
Transcripts from the UNCED meeting in 92
Operation Paperclip

Those topics provide a decent entry point into world politics and globalist policies.

Daniel: Thanks for the interview!
Puissance: Thank you. It was a pleasure