Maxime Taccardi is one of my favorite artists of all the time. His projects and arts are uniquely terrific as if it's once in a lifetime. I discovered KFR through Bandcamp, but album covers caught my eyes. It helped me to understand my paradoxical hatred for my passion which used to be drawings and painting. I think I was forced to reinforce my passion in more restricted way. Something I didn't want to do. Maxime has inspired me to refine my passion and motivated me to return to drawing after many years. He's truly a free-spirit guy, and it shows in his musical projects which may be creepy and dark but extremely artistic with a remarkable sense of individuality.
KFR is abbreviated for "Kafir", an Arabic and Islamic term (which you can see in stylized text of the word/ band name on various artwork and album covers) which, in the Islamic tradition, refers to a person who disbelieves in God as per Islam, or denies his authority, or rejects the tenets of Islam. The term is often translated as "infidel", "pagan", "rejector", "denier", "disbeliever", "unbeliever", "nonbeliever", and "non-Muslim". He uses bones (likely pilfered from the French Catacombs) for drumsticks, creates quite the tone on the drums in tandem with the production/ recording and mastering style. Maxime is one hell of an awesome artist with a very interesting style, if one can find his art books they're quite dark and esoteric.
Im not convinced the bones aren't just "lore," I don't doubt he's recorded some hits with bone, but I just don't see him doing blasts with bones. Lol. Could be wrong, idk?
@@terridactyl5152 No, he actually uses bones (Humerus/ upper arm bones from what I recall last time it was talked about), He also has several real Skulls and other human bones that are frequently seen in his Music Videos. They're rather easy to get from the Catacombs in France.
@Maxime Taccardi Thanks for the information and clarification brother, Femurs (and Humerus for that matter) are definitely an apt instrument. Hails!!!!
He's so god damn unique, not just in black metal but in his art, yes, other artists paint with blood, but it's what he paints, you can just tell when it is him.
I fucking love Maxime so much, his books are incredible. I'm constantly looking to see if he's working on a new one, always try to be in the first wave of his releases. The blood paintings are gorgeous, he's always very polite and nice, too. Killer music, absolutely amazing aesthetic, I just love this guy. Do yourselves a favor and buy his books if you haven't already and check out his channel.
My introduction to Maxime Taccardi was you Waytt, and thank you. When you showed his artwork and how he does it I thought "I got to check this guy out"
Love that you made a video on him, he's such a talented artist and kind human being. After being a fan of his for many years it's been really awesome developing a friendship with him, he's always been supportive of my art as well and I actually only discovered KFR because he sent me some links for it. Definitely dark and experimental as fuck. Hope we get to meet in person someday.
Maxime's music is so intense and violent that i couldn't put it in my morning work playlist. his music pis so deep and personal that it encourages you to be in your own headspace to truly experience its dark majesty.
Only last week I was watching a video on Maxime's most valuable black metal vinyl. I've already bought one of his hardback books. Some of his art reminded me of Justin Bartlett who does Dragged Into Sunlight"s artwork. Awesome dark s**t!!!!!!!
Great video! It was nice to learn something new about one of my favourite creators. Maxime Taccardi is truly a unique artist, and from my experience, a really kind person. It's so nice to see that people appreciate his art.
thank you for getting me into Maxime. his artwork is really cool. and his music is very intriguing as well. i looked at some of his blood paintings of albums like Transylvanian Hunger and melissa and holy shit they are more than well detailed.
I discovered his work on Heavy Music Artwork and at the time I didn't know he made music until of course I looked more into his profile and stuff, The album that had me hooked was Nihilist, definitely a favorite of mine as L'enfer a Sa Source, Shaitan 2.0 and Pure Evil, I can't wait for Pain/Ter to come out and the track "the serpent's kiss will come at the end of January so I look forward to all of that!
Another "DIY" project that comes to mind here is Dehn Sora and my beloved "Throane", esp. Derrière-nous, la lumière. And by the way: love the Thorns record you so prominently display here.
I've discovered him via the Metal Monster's Metalhead Box video where he and Morgan saw two paintings, one wit Ghost and I forget who else and dug them
Would love to see a video like this talking about Shining. I don't think there's another band that sounds as schizophrenic and just eerie like their stuff from Halmstad and later on.
Recently he did a song called the serpents kiss featuring niklas kvarforth from shining (one of my fav artist) it really is one of the most unsettling videos i ever seen ahhaha i love it
One time I stumbled across K.F.R., and hated it within seconds of hearing it. I briefly shit-talked it online, but funnily enough Mr. Taccardi saw it and contacted me. He seems like a really cool guy and although I personally don't like any of his music, I love his paintings and have a deep respect for him as an artist.
As I noticed in his paintings, painting with blood is close to painting with watercolours but with more density. A question i have : how did maxi bring all this amount of blood to draw a big number of paintings
Absurd came out with a new album. I don’t understand the drama between Hendrik and Ronald, Ronald says Hendrik has not been involved with Absurd since the 90’s, but it was Hendrik that released the new album(Schwarze Bande). Can you explain this better to us, and give your opinion on the new album?
The dude is pretty talented, even without the blood gimmick, his drawings are pretty awesome. It makes me wonder the state of art today, that you have to resort to self mutilation to be relevant even when you are so good at it
@@Blady99 lmao no it’s okay I jokingly say this to everyone cause I’m aware I say things wrong and it’s a quality/quirk I’ve had my whole life I noticed
