-->> Interviews A-E

Axis of Advance Interview --->> “We got tired of bleeding hearts whining that we were some White Power conspiracy. We are now known as a black metal power conspiracy. Or maybe a black metal – doom – grim – hate – power conspiracy...?”

--->> Wör

Blastmasters Interview --->> “After I see a nuclear bomb go off, I think about how lucky we are to be alive. After naming and being in the world’s most evil bands (Diabolic/Unholy Ghost), I wanted this band name to be different. Blastmasters is my way of giving back to this world.”

--->> Lee ‘Aantar’ Coates

Cannibal Corpse Interview pt 1 --->> “I know that Cannibal Corpse will not change; and if anything we will only keep getting heavier. But if the songs keep on getting better, catcher or more memorable, perhaps, that doesn’t mean we will be trying to hit a different, more commercial audience. It just happens that our songwriting gets better.”

--->> Pat O'brien

Cannibal Corpse Interview pt 2 --->> “Most of the new bands that are coming out are faster and heavier than the stuff that was coming out when we started. It seems like all the young kids who are playing now are really great musicians. They’re not just good; they’re really great. I look at guys who are like 20 years old playing amazing death metal, and I think: ‘God, it wasn’t like that when we started!’. And now it is.”

--->> Alex Webster

Cannibal Corpse --->> “Yes, there’s humour in it but we’re not looking at it as being humorous. We can understand we’re people are getting the humour from, but we’re really trying to be serious about it. Man, it would be a pretty brutal thing. A rotted body landslide wouldn’t be a funny thing. It wouldn’t be fun if that happened and someone was involved in that. But again, I can surely understand where people can find the humour in the stuff that we do. We’re never intentionally trying to be funny, because we’re not that kind of a band.”

--->> Paul Mazurkiewicz

Cult Of Luna Interview --->> “That is just the case. People do associate us with bands like Isis, Neurosis and even Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. We don’t really have problems with that. I mean, those are great bands so to be put together with them in describing what we do is just fine with us. When people say that we kind of sound like them we say: ‘Thanks’.”

--->> Johannes Persson

Defiled Interview --->> “Basically, we didn’t change our direction but rather just progressed further with our established style. We put other and new elements to the music, and that is what has brought us to where we are now musically. Following trends is plainly boring and our primary objective is to create something original.”

--->> Yukute Sumita

Deicide (Latest!) --->> “Back in the day, when we were all young, pissed-off and angry young men, doing what we did, sure, I guess we were definitely hard to deal with sometimes. I don’t fault anyone on whatever feelings they have on that, but nowadays we are sort of trying to put that misconception behind us”

--->> Steve Asheim

Deicide Interview --->> “Yeah, as I touched upon before people quickly realise that Jesus is a complete wacko as he comes back into the world today. So they capture him and put him in a straitjacket, and he is sitting there, all depressed and crying, and they get their hands on him again and beat him up. No one gives a fuck about religion.”

--->> Eric Hoffman

Detonation interview -->> "As long as there are fans of extreme music we will have a chance to exist. One thing is certain, though: the four of us will continue to make music, in whatever form possible."

-->> Koen

Diabolic Interview --->> “I think more people would be much more successful in their lives if they were just more focused and allowed themselves not to be so intimidated by obstacles. I mean, life is obviously full of obstacles. Life sucks, everybody knows that. The only way to make life suck less is to do whatever you want to do. It’s never going to stop sucking!”

--->> Eric Hersemann

The Dillinger Escape Plan Interview --->> “We didn’t write this album for fans; we wrote it for ourselves. We really expected a lot of people to not quite get it, and the fact that a lot of people do seem to be getting it is really amazing for us. Even two days after the album came out, there were tons of kids in the crowd that knew every single word to every single song. We were just like: ‘Man, this is really crazy. Really insane.’ We had no idea what to expect, you know.”

--->> Greg Puciato

Downlord interview -->> “I use it in exactly the same way as my other bands; it was both a very easy and also a rather difficult way of expressing some deep emotions and inner thoughts, and trying to do it in a way that would maybe make people think about themselves and how they look at life. Hopefully making things better.”


-->> Dave Ingram