This is a review of a split between The Body from North Carolina That had their previous album reviewed in th zine and Braveyoung from Rhode Land , ths split is called "Nothing Passes" which was released by At A Loss Recordings in 2011 and we will start of the review with The Body that mixes doom/sludge metal with noise.
Noise Effects bring a very dark and avant grde feel to the music with alot of reverb and distortion with some synths and choirs being thrown in.
Drums are all slow beats, while the guitars are mostly very slow and primitive sludege/doom riffs, as for the vocals they are very distorted sounding screams.
In my opinion the 2 songs The Body put on this recording are very good, experimental and different but still should appeal to fans of their music.
Next up is Braveyoung that plays a very psychedelic and noisy form of drone/sludge.
Distortion effects give the music a dark and primitive sound while the synths give the music a very dark, avant garde and demented sound.
Accoustic guitars use full chords to give the music a very dark and psychedelic feel mixed in with distorted parts, while the female vocals are all clean singing that talk alot about religion.
In my opinion this is a good split and very original sounding. RECEMMONDED BUY.
This is a zine dedicated to gothic and doom metal for more info contact hatredmeanswar@yahoo.com
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Ever-Frost Interview
1. Can you give us a brief history of the band for those that have never heard of you before?
1) Hi everyone,I'm Francesco,the singer of Ever-Frost,a progressive death metal band from Italy.
The project, as you know it now, started in 2008, even if we played together for many years doing some covers. We've been a Sentenced cover band for a couple
of years. Some of us played in other local bands,always doing some cover stuff..you know,all the bands start this way.
2. How would you describe your musical sound?
2) Our sound is a mix of all the different influences brought in by the members of the band. It's hard for me to give a specific definition of "our sound". It could be described as "progressive death metal" with melody as a principal aim. However we do not define ourselves as a melodic death metal band as the
original meaning of the term.
3. What is the meaning behind the band's name?
3) As it is easy deducible our band name comes from a Sentenced song, due to our past as a cover band. We decided not to change the name because we felt that it very well expresses what we perceive of the world around us.
4. What are some of the best shows that you have played so far, and how would you describe your life performance?
4) We participated to a good number of gigs here, with great and celebrated italian bands like "The Modern Age Slavery" and "Murder Therapy". Unfortunately we haven't been able to get out of Italy yet. Here the "live scene" for underground bands is understimated.
Whoever came to one of our gigs always got impressed by our energy, the passion and aggressiveness of our songs, without forgetting the executive technique that we put in our music.
5. Do you have any touring plans?
5) Right now we are dealing with some people in order to bring Ever-Frost outside Italy and maybe outside Europe. However there's nothing sure yet, so I can't get through it specifically
6. How would you describe your musical progress over the years and what direction do you see the band heading into on future releases?
6) Well, I can say that we've done a good work since we were only a simple cover band among all the others. Our first original songs are the ones you can hear on our EP, which everyone can listen to on our myspace page. I can easily tell you that we've got new songs that are going to be recorded on our first full-lenght and that on these songs we put more progressive parts as a natural evolution of our sound. Obviously we never lost the typical aggressiveness of death metal. You'll judge yourselves when you'll hear the new record.
7. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
7) My lyrics mainly are about what's happening to the modern-society man of today. I am one among many that thinks that there cannot be an happy ending for human kind if we keep on thinking and acting the way we've done til now. In my words you can find my wish to a change in human mentality, which is currently not happening and that surely will lead us to a nasty future. Anyway I did not lose my hope yet and I'm hoping in some kind of evolution that could bring us to the turning-point that we're waiting for since ever.
8. What are some bands or music styles that have influenced your sound and what are you listening to nowadays?
8)Our musical influences are very heterogeneous as,like said before, all the members of the band constantly bring in their way of perceving music and metal. However I can tell that the most important are surely Dream Theater, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates,etc... In this last period some of us are listening to extremely valid bands like Textures, Lamb Of God, Meshuggah, Alter Bridge, Amorphis, and many others coming from many different kind of metal and rock. As you can imagine, you'll find a lot of different things in our sound.
9. How has the reception been towards your music so far from the metal community?
9)For the moment we are satisfied of the many positive reactions that we got from various Magazines and Webzines, which gave us good impressions, from good to excellent! Moreover the good attendance to our gigs is a sign of love and respect for what we do, and we want to thank all of our fans from the bottom of our hearts for their strong support.
10.When can we expect new material?
10)If everything goes as it is expected to go, we should enter the studio in order to record the full-lenght towards the end of March. Then we'll do our best in order to find a label that helps us distrubuting and promoting the new material all over the world. Unfortunately nowadays is really hard to find a label that offers a decent deal for emerging bands.
11. What are some of your interests outside of music?
11)I'm a good reader, I love history, I really like to have a beer with friends and also going to the cinema. Just simple and normal things.
12. Any final words or thoughts?
12)I would like to thank you and Extreme Underground Music Zine for giving us a chance. Getting some visibility as a band is hard and there are few people
interested in the underground scene. I want to remind to the readers that our EP "The Awakening" can be listened to on our space at www.myspace.com/everfrostband. Come check it out and leave a comment, we always answer to everyone. Thanks everybody!Stay metal!
1) Hi everyone,I'm Francesco,the singer of Ever-Frost,a progressive death metal band from Italy.
The project, as you know it now, started in 2008, even if we played together for many years doing some covers. We've been a Sentenced cover band for a couple
of years. Some of us played in other local bands,always doing some cover stuff..you know,all the bands start this way.
2. How would you describe your musical sound?
2) Our sound is a mix of all the different influences brought in by the members of the band. It's hard for me to give a specific definition of "our sound". It could be described as "progressive death metal" with melody as a principal aim. However we do not define ourselves as a melodic death metal band as the
original meaning of the term.
3. What is the meaning behind the band's name?
3) As it is easy deducible our band name comes from a Sentenced song, due to our past as a cover band. We decided not to change the name because we felt that it very well expresses what we perceive of the world around us.
4. What are some of the best shows that you have played so far, and how would you describe your life performance?
4) We participated to a good number of gigs here, with great and celebrated italian bands like "The Modern Age Slavery" and "Murder Therapy". Unfortunately we haven't been able to get out of Italy yet. Here the "live scene" for underground bands is understimated.
Whoever came to one of our gigs always got impressed by our energy, the passion and aggressiveness of our songs, without forgetting the executive technique that we put in our music.
5. Do you have any touring plans?
5) Right now we are dealing with some people in order to bring Ever-Frost outside Italy and maybe outside Europe. However there's nothing sure yet, so I can't get through it specifically
6. How would you describe your musical progress over the years and what direction do you see the band heading into on future releases?
6) Well, I can say that we've done a good work since we were only a simple cover band among all the others. Our first original songs are the ones you can hear on our EP, which everyone can listen to on our myspace page. I can easily tell you that we've got new songs that are going to be recorded on our first full-lenght and that on these songs we put more progressive parts as a natural evolution of our sound. Obviously we never lost the typical aggressiveness of death metal. You'll judge yourselves when you'll hear the new record.
7. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
7) My lyrics mainly are about what's happening to the modern-society man of today. I am one among many that thinks that there cannot be an happy ending for human kind if we keep on thinking and acting the way we've done til now. In my words you can find my wish to a change in human mentality, which is currently not happening and that surely will lead us to a nasty future. Anyway I did not lose my hope yet and I'm hoping in some kind of evolution that could bring us to the turning-point that we're waiting for since ever.
8. What are some bands or music styles that have influenced your sound and what are you listening to nowadays?
8)Our musical influences are very heterogeneous as,like said before, all the members of the band constantly bring in their way of perceving music and metal. However I can tell that the most important are surely Dream Theater, Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, At The Gates,etc... In this last period some of us are listening to extremely valid bands like Textures, Lamb Of God, Meshuggah, Alter Bridge, Amorphis, and many others coming from many different kind of metal and rock. As you can imagine, you'll find a lot of different things in our sound.
9. How has the reception been towards your music so far from the metal community?
9)For the moment we are satisfied of the many positive reactions that we got from various Magazines and Webzines, which gave us good impressions, from good to excellent! Moreover the good attendance to our gigs is a sign of love and respect for what we do, and we want to thank all of our fans from the bottom of our hearts for their strong support.
10.When can we expect new material?
10)If everything goes as it is expected to go, we should enter the studio in order to record the full-lenght towards the end of March. Then we'll do our best in order to find a label that helps us distrubuting and promoting the new material all over the world. Unfortunately nowadays is really hard to find a label that offers a decent deal for emerging bands.
11. What are some of your interests outside of music?
11)I'm a good reader, I love history, I really like to have a beer with friends and also going to the cinema. Just simple and normal things.
12. Any final words or thoughts?
12)I would like to thank you and Extreme Underground Music Zine for giving us a chance. Getting some visibility as a band is hard and there are few people
interested in the underground scene. I want to remind to the readers that our EP "The Awakening" can be listened to on our space at www.myspace.com/everfrostband. Come check it out and leave a comment, we always answer to everyone. Thanks everybody!Stay metal!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Ever-Frost Myspace Music Preview
Ever-Frost are a band from Italy that plays a very progressive form of melodic death/gothic metal and this is a review of the music from their Mysapace page.
Drums are in the progressive vein with alot of slow parts mixed with some blast beats that are not overdone while the bass playing is all rythym and sounds very technical with a low pitched sound.
Rythym guitars cover alot of different ground with some palm muted riffing mixed with alot of progressive metal influences while some of their slower parts reminded me of some of the mid 80's or early 90's thrash ballads that were all over Headbanger's Ball back in those days, as for the guitar leads they contain alot of melodic guitar solos that take alot of skill and talent.
Vocals are mostly high pitched melodic death metal screams in the classic Swedish/Gothenburg vein while the clean singing has a very classic metal feel. The lyrics seem to cover everyday topics, as for the production on the songs they sound professional and you can hear all of the instruments very well.
In my opinion this is a good band for this style of music and instead of going for the more comercial route that some bands in this genre are known to do Ever-Frost bring back alot of classic metal/thrash influences and they add their own twist without sounding or retro,neo, or pseudo and this would be a good band to add to you melodic death metal collection. If you want to hear the music you can go to their myspace page. A recommended band.
Drums are in the progressive vein with alot of slow parts mixed with some blast beats that are not overdone while the bass playing is all rythym and sounds very technical with a low pitched sound.
Rythym guitars cover alot of different ground with some palm muted riffing mixed with alot of progressive metal influences while some of their slower parts reminded me of some of the mid 80's or early 90's thrash ballads that were all over Headbanger's Ball back in those days, as for the guitar leads they contain alot of melodic guitar solos that take alot of skill and talent.
Vocals are mostly high pitched melodic death metal screams in the classic Swedish/Gothenburg vein while the clean singing has a very classic metal feel. The lyrics seem to cover everyday topics, as for the production on the songs they sound professional and you can hear all of the instruments very well.
In my opinion this is a good band for this style of music and instead of going for the more comercial route that some bands in this genre are known to do Ever-Frost bring back alot of classic metal/thrash influences and they add their own twist without sounding or retro,neo, or pseudo and this would be a good band to add to you melodic death metal collection. If you want to hear the music you can go to their myspace page. A recommended band.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Lacrmas Profundere Interview
1.Can you tell us a bit of the band, when you formed and what your goals were at the beginning? The band was formed as I met our former Bassplayer and current Merchandiser "Steff" at a Metalpub near my hometown! He had a friend who played guitar and I had a brother who looks like a vocalist. My best friend was a drummer, so two weeks later we had our first band rehearsal in this bog called rehearsalroom without heating a toilett and water, I never forget that we pissed out of the windows from the second floor! Hahaha! We never expected a record deal or a Tour through countries like Spain, Russia, Mexico, France, Italy, Swiss, Hungary, Great Britain, Turkey or Greece, only to name a view, we only wanted to have fun without pressure! I never forget
2. Were did you come up with the band name?
ok here we go: My brother came to our rehearsal room and we discuss together the future bandname! Our former name was Dark Eternity, but we don´t like the name, the design and the sound of it, so we talk and talk and talk and suddenly he took a latin dictionary out of his pocket-don´t ask why he had a latin dictionary in his pocket, I don´t know because he and no one in the band ever had a lesson in latin! but he found these words like lacrimas profundere in it and this means something like: "to shed tears"! you know, we were young and we were drunk, so we liked it!!! that's the story!
3. How would you describe your musical style?
Rock´n´sad - We all like rock Music, but we don´t like the colour in it and the high voices, so we tried to withdraw the rock music its colour, paint it black and mix it with melancholy and a deeeeep voice and traraa: rock´n´sad was born! You know, nobody creates a new wheel in the music scene, its like the question: what could you do better in a Tabledance Bar? Every riff has been played, every breast has been shown and so many words are said, so, as a band, you only can change the mixing proportion! To come to the point, its important that you feel what you do and for us it feels good: to be the whiskey in the coca cola of HIM and the Gin in the tonic water of The Cult - that’s all! Name it james dean metal, mickey rourke rock or rock´n´sad-its all the same: words can´t describe art!
4. What are some of the best live shows that you have played so far?
This year the show at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig in front of 6000 enthusiastic fans and in the past our Tour in Mexico and the Mera Luna 2007 in front of 25.000 people-Ah don´t forget the Sziget Festival last year, that was great too!
5. Are there any plans for a U.S tour?
We had, in October, but some shitty things happens that makes it impossible for us to come! We´re very frustrated about that situation! But, we found a very good partner in Mama Trash and we hope in Bam Margera-we´re huge fans of him and his shows and he plays our songs many times, for example in his MTV Shows Bam´s unholy union or his new movie Minghags! So, we hope this could help in the future a little bit!
6. How would you describe the musical progress over the years?
At the moment it feels like a Sisters of Mercy Monster with The Cult eyes, Pete Steele legs and a Guns´n´roses cock! so now, we have to domesticate it! Hahaha! You know, we don´t wanted to record the same album ever and ever, because this is as boring as your girlfriend always wears the same underwear, so it was time to search for new adventures! But in my opinion the Building Lacrimas Profundere is still the same but we adorned it new, we throw the garbage out and paint it new! In 1993 we did something like doom death gothic and now its something like gothic-rock-metal!
7. What direction do you see the band heading into during the future?
You know, we always try to compose this one perfect album, an album that inject you our tourfeelings direct in your veins! And I think that you smell the dust of the streets, the smoking air in the Nightliner and the redwine of last night if you listen to our last records. We learned a lot at our tours together with Apocalyptica, Lacuna Coil or The 69 eyes! We went to so many Countries and all these things influenced the music and made LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE to a better band – so we simply wanted to stay in this direction!
8. How good has the distribution been from Nuclear Blast so far -
we have a contract with napalm records! And-sorry boys from Napalm, but we think, you could do it better!
9. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
The current record talks about the "last view"! You always read that your whole live comes back like a short trailer in the last seconds of your death! So our record tells the story of this small Nikki Sixx, included alcohol, whores, relationships and drugs! At the last note of the record he´s back in life with the song "while"! So, "life is beautiful", Nikki would say!
10. What are your main influences music wise or non music wise?
Big Mac, Heineken, some good old records and my ESP guitars!!!
11. What are you listening to nowadays and what would you recommend new or old?
Old! I listen to Sister of Mercy Stuff, old Type o Negative, or The Cult! New: I still love the Nikki Sixx Band: Sixx A.M.
12. Does Occultism or Paganism play any role in the music?
No, not in ours!
13. What are some good films or literature that you would recommend?
The Heroin Diaries of Nikki Sixx! I like the book because this guy LIVES!!! And one of the best movies I saw the last time was "Hangover". What a funny and weird movie!
12. How is the scene in Germany for Gothic Metal?
Nowadays not as good as three or four years ago! OK, we entered the Charts here in Germany and the gothic scene is still strong, but there are no new guys who were interested in-the boom is over, but I heard in US it just begins, so, we can´t wait!
13. Any final words?
Thanx a lot for your fantastic support! We wanted to say cheers and hello to everybody who went to our concerts and mainly bought our CD´s! I´m sure we see you all soon! Check out our myspace website at www.myspace.com/lacrimasprofundere, the new videoclip and buy the fuckin new record to fund our next drinks! That’s all for now, bye, your Oliver Nikolas Schmid
14. Thanks for the interview?
Thanx
2. Were did you come up with the band name?
ok here we go: My brother came to our rehearsal room and we discuss together the future bandname! Our former name was Dark Eternity, but we don´t like the name, the design and the sound of it, so we talk and talk and talk and suddenly he took a latin dictionary out of his pocket-don´t ask why he had a latin dictionary in his pocket, I don´t know because he and no one in the band ever had a lesson in latin! but he found these words like lacrimas profundere in it and this means something like: "to shed tears"! you know, we were young and we were drunk, so we liked it!!! that's the story!
3. How would you describe your musical style?
Rock´n´sad - We all like rock Music, but we don´t like the colour in it and the high voices, so we tried to withdraw the rock music its colour, paint it black and mix it with melancholy and a deeeeep voice and traraa: rock´n´sad was born! You know, nobody creates a new wheel in the music scene, its like the question: what could you do better in a Tabledance Bar? Every riff has been played, every breast has been shown and so many words are said, so, as a band, you only can change the mixing proportion! To come to the point, its important that you feel what you do and for us it feels good: to be the whiskey in the coca cola of HIM and the Gin in the tonic water of The Cult - that’s all! Name it james dean metal, mickey rourke rock or rock´n´sad-its all the same: words can´t describe art!
4. What are some of the best live shows that you have played so far?
This year the show at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig in front of 6000 enthusiastic fans and in the past our Tour in Mexico and the Mera Luna 2007 in front of 25.000 people-Ah don´t forget the Sziget Festival last year, that was great too!
5. Are there any plans for a U.S tour?
We had, in October, but some shitty things happens that makes it impossible for us to come! We´re very frustrated about that situation! But, we found a very good partner in Mama Trash and we hope in Bam Margera-we´re huge fans of him and his shows and he plays our songs many times, for example in his MTV Shows Bam´s unholy union or his new movie Minghags! So, we hope this could help in the future a little bit!
6. How would you describe the musical progress over the years?
At the moment it feels like a Sisters of Mercy Monster with The Cult eyes, Pete Steele legs and a Guns´n´roses cock! so now, we have to domesticate it! Hahaha! You know, we don´t wanted to record the same album ever and ever, because this is as boring as your girlfriend always wears the same underwear, so it was time to search for new adventures! But in my opinion the Building Lacrimas Profundere is still the same but we adorned it new, we throw the garbage out and paint it new! In 1993 we did something like doom death gothic and now its something like gothic-rock-metal!
7. What direction do you see the band heading into during the future?
You know, we always try to compose this one perfect album, an album that inject you our tourfeelings direct in your veins! And I think that you smell the dust of the streets, the smoking air in the Nightliner and the redwine of last night if you listen to our last records. We learned a lot at our tours together with Apocalyptica, Lacuna Coil or The 69 eyes! We went to so many Countries and all these things influenced the music and made LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE to a better band – so we simply wanted to stay in this direction!
8. How good has the distribution been from Nuclear Blast so far -
we have a contract with napalm records! And-sorry boys from Napalm, but we think, you could do it better!
9. How would you describe the lyrical content of the music?
The current record talks about the "last view"! You always read that your whole live comes back like a short trailer in the last seconds of your death! So our record tells the story of this small Nikki Sixx, included alcohol, whores, relationships and drugs! At the last note of the record he´s back in life with the song "while"! So, "life is beautiful", Nikki would say!
10. What are your main influences music wise or non music wise?
Big Mac, Heineken, some good old records and my ESP guitars!!!
11. What are you listening to nowadays and what would you recommend new or old?
Old! I listen to Sister of Mercy Stuff, old Type o Negative, or The Cult! New: I still love the Nikki Sixx Band: Sixx A.M.
12. Does Occultism or Paganism play any role in the music?
No, not in ours!
13. What are some good films or literature that you would recommend?
The Heroin Diaries of Nikki Sixx! I like the book because this guy LIVES!!! And one of the best movies I saw the last time was "Hangover". What a funny and weird movie!
12. How is the scene in Germany for Gothic Metal?
Nowadays not as good as three or four years ago! OK, we entered the Charts here in Germany and the gothic scene is still strong, but there are no new guys who were interested in-the boom is over, but I heard in US it just begins, so, we can´t wait!
13. Any final words?
Thanx a lot for your fantastic support! We wanted to say cheers and hello to everybody who went to our concerts and mainly bought our CD´s! I´m sure we see you all soon! Check out our myspace website at www.myspace.com/lacrimasprofundere, the new videoclip and buy the fuckin new record to fund our next drinks! That’s all for now, bye, your Oliver Nikolas Schmid
14. Thanks for the interview?
Thanx
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Inner Thought/Wordly Seperation/Dwell Records/Witchunt Records/1994 CD Review
Inner Thought where a band from Canada that had a member of Slaughter(Death thrash) that played a style that I would describe as industrial doom/death with a black metal edge and this is a review of their 1994 album "Worldly Seperation" which was released on both Dwell and Withchunt Records.
Drum programming uses a mixture of slow and fast beats while the keyboards enhance the atmosphere of the music and have alot of industrial influences, as for the bass playing it follows the riffs that are coming out of the guitars.
Rhythm guitars are a mixture of slow doom metal riffs and fast death metal riffing, while the lead guitars are melodic and technical sounding solos that use a wah wah pedal and alot of dark sounding scales that sounds very professional.
Vocals are a mixture of deep death metal growls and some high pitched screams that bring a black metal edge to the music with a little bit of clean singing vocals and some samples, while the lyrics cover some anti catholism topics, as well as war and the corruption of mankind, as for the production on this recording which was recorded at THE METAL WORKS in Mississaqa, Ontario, Canada sounds very professional and you can hear all of the musical instruments on this album.
In my opinion Inner Thought where a very underated band for there time and if you are a fan of death metal that mixes doom, black metal and industrial you should check this band out. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Worldly Seperation" "In Ourselves We Trust" and "War". RECOMMENDED BUY.
Drum programming uses a mixture of slow and fast beats while the keyboards enhance the atmosphere of the music and have alot of industrial influences, as for the bass playing it follows the riffs that are coming out of the guitars.
Rhythm guitars are a mixture of slow doom metal riffs and fast death metal riffing, while the lead guitars are melodic and technical sounding solos that use a wah wah pedal and alot of dark sounding scales that sounds very professional.
Vocals are a mixture of deep death metal growls and some high pitched screams that bring a black metal edge to the music with a little bit of clean singing vocals and some samples, while the lyrics cover some anti catholism topics, as well as war and the corruption of mankind, as for the production on this recording which was recorded at THE METAL WORKS in Mississaqa, Ontario, Canada sounds very professional and you can hear all of the musical instruments on this album.
In my opinion Inner Thought where a very underated band for there time and if you are a fan of death metal that mixes doom, black metal and industrial you should check this band out. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Worldly Seperation" "In Ourselves We Trust" and "War". RECOMMENDED BUY.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Morbus Chron Interview
1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?
Robba: After the Sleepers in the rift-session we sort of took a small break.
We haven't rehearsed with a full line-up since then. So the passion has had its months to rebuild,
and now the time is upon us to spread more disease to the listeners.
As far as the album goes it's basically out, and the response has been nothing but delicious.
People are too kind.
Edde: Wating for the album to be released, probably start rehearsing soon. We've got some new tunes as well.
2. How would you describe the musical sound of the new album and how it differs from previous releases?
Robba: People have been saying it sounds like a mix of Severed Survival and Scream Bloody Gore.
Other people say that we sound like Nihilist and Afflicted. And that is a pretty big leap there hehe.
Not to say that we don't appreciate all the kind words, but somtimes it feels like they're throwing names
out there just for the sake of it. The only band that always seems to come up is Autopsy, and that is a given.
They're the main influence. Other than that we just write whatever we feel sounds fucking danceable
and of course the music is infected by whatever we take in. Doom, Punk or crab-core.
Compared to our earlier stuff you could say that this time there have been actual
thoughts of wanting to try something out of the ordinary, which you can hear in some bits of the record.
The future will probably just see more of that side, while the old stuff only wanted to sound old.
Edde: A bit weirder, a bit uglier, a bit better.
3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the new release explores?
Robba: The titles speak for themselves. There's some necrophilia, some lovecraft, some torture, some black holes,
some other space-shit and a lot of people dying in horrible, horrible ways. My mother would be proud had
she heard what I was singing.
Edde: Anything from zombies and necrophilia to black holes and the beyond.
4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the album ti title/
Robba: Secret.
Edde: No meaning, really. We just thought it sounded really cool and H.P Lovecraft-ish.
5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?
Edde: I would say the resurrected in festering slime-gig in Stockholm two years ago. Our stage performance makes Kiss look like little wimps.
Robba: To quote someone, "Flannel, ugly basses, and 20 teenagers going apeshit. In Sweden its always 1991."
6. Do you have any touring palns for the new release?
Edde: No, not yet, but you never know.
Robba: That is a sensitive subject for a guy that hates doing live-shows. Right now we're set out to do a killer show
at Live-Evil and we'll see what comes after that.
7. On a worldwide level how has your new album been recieved by death metal fans?
Robba: Like I said earlier the response has been so damn good! We knew we had made an album that like-minded could enjoy,
but when you get comments like, "Best album yet of 2011", it's just insanity. An insanity that motivates you
to write more and more. I'm not going to lie, it feels fucking wonderful.
Edde: The few reviews I've read have been very positive. I've seen a few "it's been done before"-comments, but I take that as "DAMN THAT'S GOOD!" Haha.
8. Are there any side projects besides this band or is this a full time line up?
Robba: Everyone in the band has other stuff going. Adam has his funky rock-trio "Red Strike", and Dag plays in "Plaguebearer"
which I've spent the day listening to and it's abnormally fuckin' disgusting. Edde is a punk! It's all really good stuff!
Myself I just enjoy writing different kinds of music. But it rarely embodies into something complete. I have many balls in the air
right now. Kinky.
Edde: All the members have side projects, everything from punk to 70's rock.
9. What direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?
Edde: Into the void.
Robba: I have a growing will to do something that other old school bands aren't doing. Basically trying to separate yourself from the rest.
Weird structures and "what the fuck?!"-moments, but still keeping the maggot infested worms in your ass.
Maybe it will shine through in the future, maybe not.
10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your new album and also what are you listening to nowadays?
Edde: Big fan of Autopsy and Deathstrike. Also, Zeke is killer!
Robba: All in all it's a mix of death, doom and punk and a whole lot of druggy psychedelic 70's shit. The latter isn't as hearable though haha.
After having been addicted to it in digital-form, I just recieved the Nekropsalms-album with Obliteration.
It's the best death metal record of the last ten years, easily!
11. Outside of music what are some of your interests/
Robba: I enjoy spending time with myself and not only as a synonym for masturbating.
Things like watching a movie, playing a game, drinking a bear or two, taking something illegal once in a while.
I'm looking forward to a stressless life on a bench, wrapped in newspapers and five layers of flannel-shirts.
Edde: Horse polo, golf cars and spa weekends.
12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?
Robba: Fuck off and fry.
Edde: See you at Gröne Jägarn!
Robba: After the Sleepers in the rift-session we sort of took a small break.
We haven't rehearsed with a full line-up since then. So the passion has had its months to rebuild,
and now the time is upon us to spread more disease to the listeners.
As far as the album goes it's basically out, and the response has been nothing but delicious.
People are too kind.
Edde: Wating for the album to be released, probably start rehearsing soon. We've got some new tunes as well.
2. How would you describe the musical sound of the new album and how it differs from previous releases?
Robba: People have been saying it sounds like a mix of Severed Survival and Scream Bloody Gore.
Other people say that we sound like Nihilist and Afflicted. And that is a pretty big leap there hehe.
Not to say that we don't appreciate all the kind words, but somtimes it feels like they're throwing names
out there just for the sake of it. The only band that always seems to come up is Autopsy, and that is a given.
They're the main influence. Other than that we just write whatever we feel sounds fucking danceable
and of course the music is infected by whatever we take in. Doom, Punk or crab-core.
Compared to our earlier stuff you could say that this time there have been actual
thoughts of wanting to try something out of the ordinary, which you can hear in some bits of the record.
The future will probably just see more of that side, while the old stuff only wanted to sound old.
Edde: A bit weirder, a bit uglier, a bit better.
3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the new release explores?
Robba: The titles speak for themselves. There's some necrophilia, some lovecraft, some torture, some black holes,
some other space-shit and a lot of people dying in horrible, horrible ways. My mother would be proud had
she heard what I was singing.
Edde: Anything from zombies and necrophilia to black holes and the beyond.
4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the album ti title/
Robba: Secret.
Edde: No meaning, really. We just thought it sounded really cool and H.P Lovecraft-ish.
5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?
Edde: I would say the resurrected in festering slime-gig in Stockholm two years ago. Our stage performance makes Kiss look like little wimps.
Robba: To quote someone, "Flannel, ugly basses, and 20 teenagers going apeshit. In Sweden its always 1991."
6. Do you have any touring palns for the new release?
Edde: No, not yet, but you never know.
Robba: That is a sensitive subject for a guy that hates doing live-shows. Right now we're set out to do a killer show
at Live-Evil and we'll see what comes after that.
7. On a worldwide level how has your new album been recieved by death metal fans?
Robba: Like I said earlier the response has been so damn good! We knew we had made an album that like-minded could enjoy,
but when you get comments like, "Best album yet of 2011", it's just insanity. An insanity that motivates you
to write more and more. I'm not going to lie, it feels fucking wonderful.
Edde: The few reviews I've read have been very positive. I've seen a few "it's been done before"-comments, but I take that as "DAMN THAT'S GOOD!" Haha.
8. Are there any side projects besides this band or is this a full time line up?
Robba: Everyone in the band has other stuff going. Adam has his funky rock-trio "Red Strike", and Dag plays in "Plaguebearer"
which I've spent the day listening to and it's abnormally fuckin' disgusting. Edde is a punk! It's all really good stuff!
Myself I just enjoy writing different kinds of music. But it rarely embodies into something complete. I have many balls in the air
right now. Kinky.
Edde: All the members have side projects, everything from punk to 70's rock.
9. What direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?
Edde: Into the void.
Robba: I have a growing will to do something that other old school bands aren't doing. Basically trying to separate yourself from the rest.
Weird structures and "what the fuck?!"-moments, but still keeping the maggot infested worms in your ass.
Maybe it will shine through in the future, maybe not.
10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your new album and also what are you listening to nowadays?
Edde: Big fan of Autopsy and Deathstrike. Also, Zeke is killer!
Robba: All in all it's a mix of death, doom and punk and a whole lot of druggy psychedelic 70's shit. The latter isn't as hearable though haha.
After having been addicted to it in digital-form, I just recieved the Nekropsalms-album with Obliteration.
It's the best death metal record of the last ten years, easily!
11. Outside of music what are some of your interests/
Robba: I enjoy spending time with myself and not only as a synonym for masturbating.
Things like watching a movie, playing a game, drinking a bear or two, taking something illegal once in a while.
I'm looking forward to a stressless life on a bench, wrapped in newspapers and five layers of flannel-shirts.
Edde: Horse polo, golf cars and spa weekends.
12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?
Robba: Fuck off and fry.
Edde: See you at Gröne Jägarn!
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Ressurection Sorrow Interview
1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?
At this moment that band is just Alex Coelho and I, again. We have taken a small break from touring and playing live. Our last tours were great and we had a blast, but right now we are kinda re-tooling for our next phase. We definitely wanna have a new album out in the 12 months, we just have to get a few ducks in the row.
2. How would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the digital ep and how it differs from previous releases?
Hour of the Wolf (our debut record) was a very heavy, dense production. We weren't really a band when we wrote those songs, so sonically we were still trying to figure out who were. I'm happy with that record as it was a stepping stone, but the production of that record was us trying to figure a few things out. On this new release we approached things a little different. Our influence for it was early 80's post punk bands like The Cure, The Cult, Joy Division/New Order. All of the bands mentioned always had a great vibe. So rather then bludgeoning people to death with massive overdubs of guitar, we tried create more of an atmosphere around the songs. I think, for us, its definitely a step in the right direction...
3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the ep?
They are based a few short stories and poems that I wrote. I write all the time, most of it will ever get released or published. Most of it is pretty dark, introspective stuff. So when I translate it lyrically I try to interpret it so people can wrap their heads around it and make sure I don't come off like a pretentious ass.
4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?
It just came to us. I wrote it down on a piece of paper, and the band dug it. The rest is history....
5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?
Our best show was May 15th, 2010 at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, NY. 300 people showed up, it was pretty surreal! We are a four piece band, and have that classic model. Everyone holds down their own and brings as much energy as possible. There is soo much more I wanna do but we dont have the money yet to do it.
6. Do you have any tourng plans for the future?
We do. But right now I don't seeing it happen until after our next full length comes out and we are ot to sure when that is gonna be.
7. Are there any side projects besides this band or is this a full time line up?
Hmm..I'm not to sure about that at this point. The band is just Alex and I, and we are fully committed to making this work on a full-time level. When we find the right guys I think it will be a full-time situation again. We all jam with different guys people from time to time though, nothing serious though!
8. On a worldwide level how has the digital ep been received by underground metal fans?
Everything has fallen into the "so far,so good" category. Its has been well received by the underground press and we have sold a few copies to boot. Not bad considering we have no label and no distribution
9. What direction do you see the music heading into on future releases?
I'm not sure about that. We will always stay true to ourselves and no be swayed by hip trends. I think time will tell as the artistic process usually evolves naturally..
10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced the new material and also wha are you listening to nowadays?
God that would be a hell-of-a list! Our past influences would be everything you expect and probably a few surprises. Right now, I'm listening to YOB, Dark Castle, Earthride, Monster Magnet, and I'm really tripping on the new Alice in Chains
11. Outside of music what are some of your interests?
My other passion outside of music is film. I'm currently working on two screenplays, and I'm releasing my second comic book. Alex Coelho is a great write and is currently working on a series of short stories. Art is life.
12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?
"It's a Satanic Drug Thing, You Wouldn't Understand."
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