Aeon Sable

Aeon Sable defies the conventions of genre by blending gothic rock, psychadelic, dark, doom, and a slew of other adjectives to make something that's designed to be esoteric and thought provoking. I chat with Nino Sable and we discuss the upcoming Glom Fest tour, the band, and his passion for authenticity.


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Aeon Sable - Burning in Black

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Transcript

Hello again and welcome to Void Signal, I'm Brian Prime and this episode is a chat with Nino Sable of Aeon Sable. Aeon Sable out of Germany is a gothic rock, doom rock, psychadelic metaly sort of a band that explores the esoteric and high concepts. It's crafted to be art by someone who loves it, and Nino's passion for it is pretty evident. But before we get to the chat with Nino, I wanted to talk for a moment, if i could, about community. Our scene, however you want to define that, is but a very small portion of a much grander stage. Beyond our backdrops and screens is the rest of the world, and it's getting grim out there. As those backdrops are increasingly torn open, we're all going to be faced with the stark realities in front of us. The growing demands, stresses, and strains on each one of us could harden us against each other if we allow it to. I think it's important for each of us, now more than ever, to remember the human underneath the brands, personas, and presentations. Someone under there is pursuing the thing they love in life, and so long as they're not hurting anyone else in that process, then it should be encouraged. 
Seek out community where you find it, go to festivals, join weird social media groups. Speaking of weird groups and community, the Void Signal Discord server is a place you are welcome to join. As long as you obey the rules and are respectful, you're welcome to come hang out with a friendly group of weirdos. You don't have to be super into Void Signal, you can just come hang out with us. The link will be included on this episode description, and there's also a hidden invite at the bottom of VoidSignal.net. Come say hello, interact with other humans. It could be awesome.
Speaking of Void Signal, this episode is sponsored by the wonderful humans at Glom Fest. Thank you to David, Vara, and Amy for all their continued support and effort in making Glom Fest happen this fall. It's a chance to see bands like Aeon Sable, performing in the US for the first time, along with The Royal Ritual, The Awakening, and The Cemetary Girlz. Visit Glomfest.com to find a date near you, that's glom, g l o m fest.com. 
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Thank you as always for tuning in, I appreciate your time in a busy world. Until next time, stay safe, stay loud, and stick together. Goodbye forever.


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Brian Prime: All right. I'm ready if you are. 

Nino Sable: I'm fine. I'm okay. I'm here. 

Brian Prime: Let me silence my phone here.

Nino Sable: By the way, I've been checking your website and it's super sexy. 

Brian Prime: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I just wanted, I have no background in web design. I just wanted something that was simple and like, yeah. this [00:04:00] company card, CARR d.co, it's like 18 bucks a year. For, like a really easy to assemble splash page.

Nino Sable: Thank you. But there are some 

Brian Prime: broken links. 

Nino Sable: Oh, there are. 

Brian Prime: Alright. Thank you so much for letting me know. I'm gonna make a note so that I don't 

Nino Sable: forget to, and I like the effects of the rain and all that.



Brian Prime: Thank you. I thought that was so cool. like I was such a sucker for like, animated websites back in the day that had like, you know, moving backgrounds and stuff, so I was like, oh, I want that. Bye. Yeah. Cool. Thank you. all right, we can go ahead and begin. I'll just do a quick little intro and then we can kind of get started.

pronunciation of your first name is Nino. Is that right? Yes, 

Nino Sable: Yeah. 

Brian Prime: Gotcha. 

Nino Sable: right? 

Brian Prime: Yes. Perfect. all right. We'll go ahead and get started. welcome to Void Signal. I am your host, Brian Prime. I am joined this week by Nino from Aon Sable.

you will be performing on the upcoming Glom Fest. thank you so much for meeting with me, first off, and, I'm looking forward to catching you live, here in a couple of months. thanks so much for joining [00:05:00] me.

I guess the first question I'll just put to you is just how are things with you lately? 

Nino Sable: I'm fine I'm very thankful to be here and it's, a great honor A little bit nervous. With the new infrastructure, with discord and all that.

it feels like a young kid today. 

Brian Prime: that can be a good or a bad thing. I mean, like, sometimes I like feeling like a young kid, but I, I. I chalk that up to my immaturity and sort of my nature of just like, I have kind of curious boy energy that I, that I kinda send out. So, people, it's very disarming.

People tend to trust me pretty easily of like, ah, he doesn't know anything, which is mostly true. I'll admit, so how did Aon Sable get started? What kind of drew you personally to music and, what made you want to make this?

I like the addition of the sort of psychedelic rock kind of touches and really skirting the edges of what, of genre and like doing something different that really helps set [00:06:00] you, set you apart.

so yeah, thank you. My compliments there. But how did you get started doing this? 

Nino Sable: Yeah, it was a long journey to be true. I was working on my own music, which was like, I was singing in a lot of garage bands I was always a singer and a guitar player, but I'm not a pro on guitars.

I know one chord, you know, and I can do a lot of things with that one chord. So I started doing some grunge music, which was my first musical project. It was called Melan. around 2000, 2005, I started with that. And then after a few years, I met Ion, which is the other guy who does, everything on Aion Sable with me.

And I met him and I told him, Hey, do you wanna make music? I did someone that put some more instruments in it, and someone who is creative and who has the time to do the mastering and the mixing and all [00:07:00] that. he told me that he was, able and that he would like to work with me on my projects.

And then I met him and he agreed. And that was around 2010. Mm-hmm. And so we started to cover some of my own tracks and give them a new. Like, like new clothes.

Mm-hmm. and so it's how this whole thing began to roll. And after, I guess after one year we had the first album. Mm-hmm. And, Yeah. I went to a record label, which I was working on at that time. I was helping that record label, and I showed that to my boss and he said, wow, yeah, it's cool. You have to release it on vinyl, on CD and all that, and you have to play live and, do interviews and all that.

And I was like, oh, no, we never wanted all that. But yeah, that's how the whole thing began. 

Brian Prime: Gotcha. And now here you are, some years later, getting ready to travel overseas and perform for foreign [00:08:00] audiences. have you guys played it in the States before? 

Nino Sable: No, we have played in Europe most, most of, yeah, all of the, our live performances were in Europe.

We had around 50 performances right now. a little bit more, to, but to play overseas, it's, it's really something. And yeah, I am a music lover and all my. All, not all, but a lot of the bands that I, that I love, and a lot of the artists that I love are from the us So mm-hmm. I'm, I feel very honored for the fact that, someone is inviting us to play at the Globe Festival.

Yeah. the USA and mm-hmm. Canada. 

Brian Prime: I'm excited for you. let me ask you this question. playing to American audiences, for the first time, have you made any changes to your presentation or the live show to sort of prepare for that?

Has that been a factor or are you just going to kind of come in and [00:09:00] deliver what you've, been doing before? Or has anything changed? 

Nino Sable: No, there are no changes. we always worked out the shows with a lot of love and a lot of, engagement. and I think it's no difference to play here or to play there because what we do should be true 

I think it wouldn't be. True If we would, be someone completely different on stages. this is The thing that we've been doing all the years, and I think that this is the thing that should hit the stages in the US also. 

Brian Prime: Okay. And, that is the thing I, I admire about what you're making and what you're doing is that there is a lot of thought and craft that goes into it. I checked out, and watched music videos. I am. I have such a soft spot for music videos of like, because it, it's such a great sort of mixed media format for enjoying music of, you know, here's a visual component that adds another dimension for, you know, interpretation or enjoyment.

thank you so much [00:10:00] for that. it's not a thing that everybody. Does or takes the time to do and I just think it's so cool and can be so valuable. do you have plans to do more music videos in the future? I know they're expensive and take time and so on, but, given that you've made some really excellent ones so far, is that a thing that you will do again?

Nino Sable: Yes, it is very important for us to have wonderful music videos There is, yeah, it's another, layer and a very important layer. So it was a lot of money to let produce these videos and I always trust the artists behind it. It's not like we hire someone, we always hire the ones that we know.

They will work well with us. That they are in the same mindset as we are, and often we give them a lot of, creativity and space to do what they want. And afterwards we tell them there is some more stuff that we can deliver, like images or [00:11:00] vector graphics so that it really looks very professional.

So we are. I think, I personally think it's very, very important, to deliver a completely good piece of art, not, spare some money here and there because video is important and always was. Mm-hmm. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. Agree. And I feel like that has, Definitely become even more pronounced now in an age of everybody is looking at their phones.

I do feel that having a visual component to things is starting to become, maybe not mandatory, but far more important than it ever has been. So, yeah, I definitely agree with you there. it is very important. so aside from Aon Sable, which is your main baby from the sound of it, what else do you get up to?

What do you fill your time with and what other kind of, hobbies or projects do you have? 

Nino Sable: I mainly work on music. I have no hobbies and I have no work. I only have the music [00:12:00] and I love music overall. I'm also a graphics designer In my real life, I like to combine both multimedia design and all that. my life is really into music. I'm working on a lot of solo stuff. I'm working with a lot of, artists from other countries. That's one of the good things about the internet. I really love the internet because of that, 

I'm working with people from Greece or with people from Italy, with people from America and so on. And it's possible. And that's one thing that I really love for me, music is like a big, big journey. And it will never be over. There's always something new to discover. Some new mindset to discover some new artists to discover and to feature, and that's what I really love to do.

So I think music is the path. 

Brian Prime: Yeah. well said. I am, I'm such a fan of music myself though, in incapable of making it myself, but yeah, music just, [00:13:00] it feels like such a transformative. piece of art, that can cause your emotions to swell in you. And yeah. I'm such a fan of music and I agree like there's so much fun in.

Doing new things with it or discovering people who, like in your case, have taken other things and applied their own personal filter to it so that we get to appreciate that same sort of, creative vision, I guess. Yes, it's very nice 

Nino Sable: and you never know what you get. That's the funny thing.

Sometimes I have a track and people ask me to write some lyrics and to sing it, and I do it. But then I ask them, how would it sound? and when they send me the files back, they sound completely different And it's so funny, but there are some things.

That's one very important thing about music is that for me it's an international language, even if you don't really get the words or, but you get the feeling. And that's something really, special. But on arts in general, [00:14:00] even in paintings it's also like that. a main idea behind it, but, people have the chance to, transcribe it in words and in colors in a different way. But the main idea stays and that's what I really like in music. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, agree. And it's, similarly, I do so love the internet for that because it's given me a chance to experience so many things from so many different places and to sort of see how all of these different translations, of, the ethereal, the immaterial, like people are transcribing their emotions into art.

It's interesting to me also to see how that sort of. Is represented differently, via different cultures of, like a band from Sweden might sound like this, or a band from Germany, or a band from Italy, or a band from wherever. I mean, it's allowed me to hear music that I absolutely normally would not have.

it does feel like the [00:15:00] modern landscape 2025 is busy. the barriers to entry are at an all time low. I feel like there's so much coming out and that, it can be difficult to stand out. for you personally, what do you think has helped Aon Sable kind of stand out amongst everything else that is kind of coming out?



Nino Sable: think one very important fact is that you are true, true to the art. True to what you think and what you wanna say. Mm-hmm. If you are just delivering a product as an artist, you are not an artist. You are a producer or a worker, and I think this is most important thing that we keep on. transcribing human emotions, even with all the AI out there trying to, to do its best in covering it.

But, I think human expressions will always talk to human. And so what I [00:16:00] would say to a, to a new artist, to an upcoming artist is, is stay true to yourself. And, Yeah, play some around with ai, but don't let it do the job. So if you have something to say, say it. 

Go play darts or watch TV or something like that, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think the personal, the personal message should be always in front, and in our case, we want to make people dream. We want to get people out of their regular lives, to give them a scenery 

Where they can just jump in and swim around and have their own ideas and visions in that landscapes. 

Brian Prime: Absolutely agree. very well said. so let me ask you, this question. people who, are the longtime fans of yours, you just put out a record in, two most recent records, 2018 and then 2023.

Presumably this is a thing that will continue for the foreseeable [00:17:00] future. is there another record brewing down the road? I know these things take tremendous amounts of time and effort and concentration, but is that a thing that's being worked on in the background? 

Nino Sable: sadly not right now. We are taking like a creative, a creative pause.

it doesn't mean that there is nothing coming anymore. But, we've felt that, a lot of what we wanted to say has already been said. maybe sometimes it's better to do other stuff until the right moment. Comes for you to have new, visions and feelings to express.

right now it's a little bit of that time because we had the pandemic, which really destroyed the band so to say, because a lot of concerts were, anul. I don't know. Does it say Anul? 

Brian Prime: Yeah. 

Nino Sable: Yeah. That's it. And, yeah, and it took a lot of energy out of us because we were so hard to play.

We had a tour in Brazil to do and [00:18:00] all that, and nothing of that happened, and it somehow, it, now it's a little bit difficult to get into it again, but in any case. There is a lot of music to discover still. I think we released around seven, seven albums until now, plus one passed off. So there is a lot to discover and, I guess that we will come out with something, but it's not, today or tomorrow.

Brian Prime: I feel like, it was a thing I kind of ran into a lot in creative writing as well. Is that like someone who has. People can write about experiences, but if they have not lived them or had sufficient experiences, your well to draw from can be a little bereft.

Like there can be. Mm-hmm. It can be a little empty. So I do agree with you in that I think that creative pauses are a good thing. I mean, hats off to those artists out there who can crank out a song a month or a song every few weeks or whatever, like, but I, I wonder over the. Quality of it, of how [00:19:00] much more special could this have been or how much more effort could have gone into this if you'd spent more time on it kind of a thing.

And I think going and having experiences is important to like development. Like you need to have something to say. I feel like not just as, even if you aren't an artist, like you should go experience things. So you have things to talk about and experiences to share. I feel. 

Nino Sable: I see that like a field, you know, you can't grow the same stuff every year.

Mm-hmm. Or every, every month. So sometimes you, you have to, to do a little pulse so that the field can, can, yeah. Can re you can get back to zero or something like that. And I think it's very important not just to, to shout out because we are capable of shouting. But, to think well about what to shout.

Mm. You know? 

Brian Prime: I like that sentiment quite a lot and I do think it is important to shout, in [00:20:00] general, but it should be a thing worth saying, like you said, I heard this on another, podcast I listened to recently that we have entered into, and this kind of ties into what you were saying before about.

Being true. the thing I heard is that we have entered into an age of authenticity where who you are as a person is part of the music you make and it's all very connected. there's less of a disconnect from the artist and the person. do you find that to be true as well?

I don't wanna put words in your mouth. 

Nino Sable: Well, I think that everything that we experience as persons is gonna flow into the art that we do. So the way we live and the troubles we have and transcript and music and art in general is very good for that.

Brian Prime: so another thing I want to talk about before, I ask you the last question of the show. So tour lined up, for [00:21:00] later this year. how are you feeling about that? I mean, you must be pretty excited to come play the states for the first time, but, what else is kind of running through your mind as far as this next chapter in the band?

Nino Sable: yeah, to be true. I stopped watching the news. Yeah. I think that, wa was a good decision. Yeah. Because everything was, there were a lot of, of voices telling me that it will maybe be different now than it would have been maybe. Five years or maybe 10 years ago, better say 10 years ago. I have some thoughts about it, but I have also the vision of having a wonderful and great time with people that know us and that wants to see us and that wants to, to join us. [00:22:00] On a, on a great festival and that really wants to forget the regular lives for at least three or four hours. So that's, that's what I'm really, really looking for and that's what, what keeps me rolling.

yeah, I really wanna do it and I really wanna do it the best way and have a very good time with the people. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, I agree and I am looking forward to it very much. It's, a thing that is sort of difficult to balance of like, I'm making, the other day I find myself putting in my time off request at work so that I can go to a festival and then having the thought of like, well, what is the world gonna look like by the time those months arrive?

Yeah. because everything feels so fast it is a hard thing to balance of like, the uncertainty of the future versus trying to make the most of the present, I think. 

Nino Sable: Yeah. But I think if we are not pessimistic, I think it's a good time to be [00:23:00] optimistic. Mm-hmm. that's the point.

Brian Prime: Yeah. Agree. I'm a fan of optimism myself, so, yeah. I can appreciate that. Well, I will go ahead and put the last question of the show to you, which is just, what is something that you have been enjoying recently and your answer can be anything, A book, a movie, TV show your dog.

Just what's something that you wake up and you are jazzed about doing. 

Nino Sable: Oh, I love reading. Lately, I started reading a lot of seventies sci-fi stuff. 

Mm. 

Nino Sable: I am into Stanis Lamb and Isaac Asimov. Mm-hmm. And I'm having a lot of fun with it. Also, I installed a game. It's called GTA four.

I don't know why I did it, but it was, I think I know why I did it, because I used to play that when I was younger. So I don't know, I just love to be cruising with my car. I don't do the missions. I'm just cruising [00:24:00] around and. Dealing one car and then cruising with that car and stealing another car, and trying to do the stunts.

Mm-hmm. That's the most important thing is to do the stunts. Yeah, yeah. Driving, 

Brian Prime: driving stuff really fast off of other things is, is where it turns. Yeah. I agree. interesting choices. 

Nino Sable: Yeah, I have a driving license, but I would never drive like that, and I'm just, yeah. I know the difference between real life and computer.

Brian Prime: Yeah. I used to speed a lot in my car and then I got my. First and only speeding ticket, and I was like, Ooh, I don't want to pay money for this. So ever since then, I keep it, under the speed limit on the roads. But yeah, I used to love, playing Grand theft auto and just hijacking cars and going on stunts and, playing the online races.

Like, I remember when the ga when, GTA, like five or something came out, you know, playing with friends and being like, man, the races are so fun and so good. And, making random checkpoints on the map and seeing how fast we could get there Yeah. [00:25:00] Good stuff. There's, 

Nino Sable: there's another game I really love.

It's, Trek mania. I don't know if you know that game. It's really, really fast. It's a racing game. I'm also into that a little bit. But most funny thing has really been reading because the, we are in spring here right now, and, it's the beautiful weather outside. So I can go, I have all my, my books on my Tono a little paper.



No. It's 

Nino Sable: A reader ebook reader. Oh, okay. Gotcha. And I have around a thousand books on it and it's just wonderful. You can always turn it on and have a great read. 

I can't say that I have a lot of favorite books.

Lately, I have been reading a book by AA Crowley, which I really loved. It was a Diary of a, I guess. The title is The Word Thing on the whole book. Yeah, because the book is really beautiful and I found out that this guy isn't just a crazy magician, but he was also [00:26:00] a very good writer I think he was really very underestimated in terms of writing. 

Brian Prime: I would actually, I would agree with you. I read a lot of Alice Crowley in my youth and, I really took to his poetry actually, LA Gaana and the Pentagram. I, I still have them memorized. 'cause I love those poem so much. so yeah, I do agree.

He could at times write. Really beautiful, interesting poetry, as well. So, yeah, I do agree with you, with you there. I've, I always answer the question myself. So, just to chime in here, I've also been trying to rediscover my love for reading. It's been a little difficult 'cause I used to read a lot, but it has been just one of those habits that you fall out of, like, it's too easy to just grab your phone instead, But I've been reading, the Dublins by James Joyce this has been a nice change of pace, even though it's sort of considered, capital L literature or whatever. but it's been really cool sort of.[00:27:00] 

Joyce is very romantic with his language, and I'm such a sucker for that. And this is just a collection of short stories that are just like vertical slices of people's lives. So like it will a couple of pages of this person and their woes and their worries, and then it's over and then here's another person and here's their anxieties and their thoughts and then it's over.

And Wow. I like it a lot for just sort of, it's like meeting people and just sort of jumping in people's heads For a couple pages and seeing what their story is about. And then, ah, it's off to the next one. And, yeah. I love it so much for that. 

Nino Sable: that's the base of short stories. So that's why short stories were invented to read them in the metro, just between a few stations. And I really, I also really like it. You will have to write me that later. Yeah. I wanna read that book. 

Brian Prime: for sure. have you read my favorite book?

I'm gonna plug here. Have you read, slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vogan. [00:28:00] 

Nino Sable: No. Oh, no. 

Brian Prime: he was a journalist and, was drafted and in World War ii he survived the Firebombing of Dresden, and he writes This story about, that event taking place and happening to another person, this fictional character, Billy Pilgrim, who.

gets abducted by aliens and they cause him to be unstuck in time. So if you've seen a rival, it's like that same idea of like, he doesn't experience time in a linear fashion, but rather in, a circular one. So the story will jump around from like, oh, I'm back in Dresden and I've been captured.

I'm a POW, which is what happened to VNI again, and like mm-hmm. So when he's describing like, this is what Dresden looks like after the firebombing, like he saw it of like people charred and roasted and everything destroyed. 

Beautiful writing that's maybe a little scatterbrained at time, but it's such an interesting way to sort of view human existence of like, yes, this person died, they are dead [00:29:00] in the future. And when you see them in the future, that is a bad point in their life, but their life is a circle. So when they, they're younger and when you are with them, they're alive and well.

And you know, you can always have those memories and during that time it. Can't be taken away from you. they were always perfect in that moment. it's so romantic and sweet while being so poignant and deep. I love that book. 

Nino Sable: write that later. You have to write me that later.



Brian Prime: Yeah, for sure. It is so good. kind of what you were saying earlier of like when you find something that you love, you just, it feels so good to just love it as hard as you can kind of a thing.

Nino Sable: Yeah, absolutely. And tell me one thing. Where are we gonna meet? What show are you coming? 

Brian Prime: I'm in Reno Nirvana, so the closest show to me is San Francisco. So I will see you on the Night of this because the first night's LA Gotcha. So, yeah. Yeah, we'll see you in San Francisco.

I'm really looking forward to it and, we will go ahead and wrap this up. yeah, thank you again so much for your time, for meeting with me, this Sunday morning Thank you so much. I'm [00:30:00] looking forward to catching your performance and, I'm gonna drag as many people as I know to come take it in and enjoy it 

Nino Sable: you are really welcome. And please talk to us, you will see us at the venue and just talk to us. 

Brian Prime: Yes, absolutely. I will. And that goes double for anybody listening, like please go up, say hello. Yeah. it's always good to, we are real. 

Nino Sable: We are human. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, it's verifiable.

They'll be able to check. Thank you so much. 

Nino Sable: thank you so much and have a wonderful time and thank you very much for. Being, listening to us. Mm-hmm. yeah. I'm really looking forward to meet you and San Francisco at the GLO Festival. 

Brian Prime: Yeah, the Glom Fest.

Not the Glom Fest. It's no. Yeah. All right. Cool. Thank you so much. Have a great rest of your day. Bye bye. Thank you. Take care. Bye. 

Nino Sable: You too. Bye bye.