Later, it emerged that the whole concept had been a hoax. Cult of Luna hadn’t found a diary in their rehearsal space. They’d fabricated the entire thing. When I interviewed Johannes Persson in 2012, I asked him why. “With all respect, doing interviews is not the reason why I went into music,” he replied. “After being in this business for 10 years – doing interviews, reading interviews of myself, seeing people just repeating what I’ve said, reading magazines never putting out a critical question, never motivating the artist to think about why they say stupid things, glorifying stupid behaviours
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