-->> Interviews all

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

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

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

Falkenbach Interview --->> “This means that everyone who tries to act in a loyal way cannot listen to it; those who support the stealing of art, on the other hand, can get this privilege easily. Then again, here and then you can find dick-heads selling cheap copies of that tape on Ebay for totally silly prices as original.”

--->> Vratyas Vakyas

Gorerotted Interview --->> “We don’t try and sound like anybody or have a particular influence that we draw from. I think death metal needs some vocal tomfoolery, and Goreskin and Mr. Gore are a prime example of how it works well. When I joined the band, we just wanted to add another edge or backing to the vocals, and I feel we’ve come out trumps.”

--->> Phil Wilson

Grave interview -->> "Absolutely. Tape-trading was so big in those days that everybody, whether we’re talking magazines, fans or other bands, helped spread our name, and we appeared on compilation tapes and so on. People heard each other’s stuff as soon as it was available."

-->> Ola

Grimfist interview -->> "But I think that is what makes Grimfist what it is. It would probably sound generic and sterile or boring if everyone in the band had the same taste."

-->> Frediablo

Hate Eternal interview -->> "A lot of the material that I wrote for Ripping Corpse as well as for Hate Eternal could not have been written for Morbid Angel because Trey is very specific with what he wants. So I was always working very hard, in particular with Domination, to write stuff that would fit into Morbid Angel, but it would always sound different."

-->>Eric Rutan

Horror Records & Pentagram Warfare Records interview -->> "I do not intend to spread any particular message with the label, I just release what I think should be released. But of course, I do see my releases as merciless fists in the faces of all the pathetic labels and bands around. Death to posers!"

-->> Azter - Horror Records

Immolation interview --->> “We decided to try something new with this album visually and conceptually, and since the lyrics were straying slightly from the religious themes we had done so much in the past, we felt this was the perfect time to try something new for the cover.”

-->> Ross Dolan

Impaled interview --->> "We all do have a very odd sense of humour that’s simply going to come out in the music – and especially in the lyrics. It’s mainly in the lyrics that we’re a little bit funny, and that’s definitely something that takes some thought. But yeah, it does help that we all have this sort of tongue-in-cheek approach. I mean, come see us live and you’ll know what I mean. It’s pretty over the top."

-->> Jason Kocol

Incantation interview --->> “The definition is the most extreme, heavy, brutal music ever written. It doesn’t have to be fast riffs all the time or slow doom riffs all the time; just heavy as fuck all the time”

-->> Joe Lombard

Internecine interview --->> “That is what Internecine is all about: the destruction of both. You can’t have good without evil and you can’t have evil without good. Most people overlook that. They’re Satanists but they don’t believe in God. It just doesn’t make sense.”

-->> Jared Anderson

Into Eternity interview -->> “Nobody ever sat me down and told me we can’t combine different styles of metal, so I had always done that since like 1992 or so. Metal music shouldn’t have rules.”

-->> Tim Roth

Marduk interview -->> “There are no longer any people who are telling us what are supposed to play to satisfy them and give them a product that can sell a lot of copies. Just look at the Celtic Frost album "Cold Lake". That is a perfect example of what can happen when you succumb to label pressure.”

-->> Legion

Monstrosity interview -->> “There are a bunch of people who try to incorporate other ideas that are not necessarily non-metal. It can either work or not work. But it can well end up becoming too arty or whatever. I’m not into it; it’s not what I’m listening to, but everybody should do their own thing. If everybody were playing music like Monstrosity, it would be boring and you wouldn’t want to listen to it!”

-->> Lee Harrison

Nasty Savage interview -->> “If I were in a new young band today without a history of being Nasty Ronnie from Nasty Savage, but just ‘Average Joe’ coming in with a new band, then there would be a long road to travel for making it anywhere. It’s a different market today where bands come and go, and few make it past the first album before they are gone and forgotten. So it’s a hard market to break into again, but we have the roots from the eighties to support us. We were around when the metal scene started with Exodus, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica. Nasty Savage was cut in that same category back in the day, but we lost focus and were gone. But the true metal kids still remember us”

-->> Nasty Ronnie

Nebelhexe interview -->> “I like playing live and sing the songs; that means a lot to me. I enjoy it more than being in the studio. I want to bring a certain feeling into the music, and you can maybe do it in the first take, but after that you lose it. You often have to record the same thing over and over again, and in the end what you sing about becomes nothing. When you are on stage, it’s all about the feeling you express in that very moment, and it’s an honest expression. It’s very hard to find that feeling over and over again in the studio. But to get back to your question, I think it’s nice to get it out live and get into the frame of mind again.”

-->> Andrea Haugen

Necrophagia interview -->> “We will continue to bring new sick, disturbing, dark, appalling and shocking horror elements to the Necrophagia sound in the future, and we surprise ourselves with each new album. We will always hang on to the Necrophagia template but also experiment with implementing as many sick things as possible to make the music even more unpleasant.”

-->> Killjoy

Nocturnus interview -->> “Only if I enjoyed doing it. I won’t play just to make money with this person or that; I have a great job and I still play the musick that I want whenever I want to. There is no pressure and I don’t have to play with people I don’t like if I don’t want to.”

-->> Mike Browning

Pig Destroyer interview -->> “We came up with the name as a joke, and ended up really using it. It doesn’t have any deep, philosophical meaning to us. Personally, I don’t give a fuck about cops one way or the other; I just think it’s a good band name.”

-->> J.R. Hayes

Prostitute Disfigurement interview -->> "They can eat my ass for all I care – and they will like it, I’m sure. Narrow-minded people always spoil the fun. Just have to live with that, bad as it is."

-->> Roel

Ribspreader interview -->> "For old-school death metal and all other brutal music I think it’ll be the same as always, though. In a year – or hopefully several years – it’ll sink back into the underground again and then even further ahead it might resurface."

-->> Rogga

Saturnus Studioreport -->> “That is why I think that the new album is more or less a development of  Paradise Belongs To You since that is the atmosphere we would like to recreate with the more pure doom elements in the music.”

-->> Thomas AG Jensen

She Said Destroy Interview --->> “The emotional/aggressive part is by far the most important factor. You can disappear up your own ass with technicality and end up with the most boring-sounding music ever. There needs to be a lot of emotion behind making a song if you want it to be any good. I’d rather play two-finger punk with a fiery heart than do death metal jazz fusion while staring blankly ahead thinking of nothing.”

--->> Anders Bakke

Soulreaper interview -->> “We want to play death metal the way it should sound. Not like people relate to death metal these days in the sense of In Flames, Dark Tranquillity and similar bands. The Gothenburg sound, so to speak. That is far from death metal so we want to say: ‘This is death metal, goddammit!”

-->> Stefan Karlsson

The Crown interview -->> “We have toured with many bands and seen how things work and realised that it is very unique that we still get along better than ever in the band. I would of course try to play in other bands if they would want me. But I am pretty much afraid of that because I would never find this kind of chemistry, and then it becomes pure work.”

-->> Janne Saarenpää

The Kovenant interview -->> “When we toured with "Animatronic" there was a good deal of places where they told us we would never be allowed to play there again because I tore up the Bible and burned it on stage.”

-->> Lex Icon

Toxic Holocaust -->> “The metal music of the 80’s seems more honest, raw and in-your-face. I think the way many of the bands approached it then was different than now. Nowadays it seems that too many people are caught up in technical perfection and pristine recordings.”

-->> Joel Grind

Unholy Ghost interview -->> “Well, I’m sure everybody knows that we’re Satanists, and we get the question a lot; what kind of Satanists are you and all that. Unholy Ghost is a great name and it sounds like it should already have been taken before. There are so many bands out there, and I was surprised that it hadn’t been taken up already.”

-->> Jerry Mortellaro

Unholy Ghost II interview -->> "We have lots of killer new riffs, killer lyrics and more song titles. The new album will be a lot more brutal and a bit more technical than our debut CD."

-->> Kelly McLauchlin

W.A.S.P. interview -->> “I visited Ground Zero and it felt like I attended some gigantic funeral. It did not at all seem like I was in New York. The city is usually very noisy and full of energy, but that place was completely silent. If I closed my eyes I couldn’t feel the presence of anybody else around me; it was that silent. The first thing I noticed was the smell. It smelled very acidic because of all the burned power installations – and it was everywhere.”

-->> Blackie Lawless

Wynjara interview -->> “We like a bit of diversity on an album. The only album I ever heard that was flawless start to finish, being all in the same vein, was obviously Reign in Blood. I have very little patience for a death metal record that’s the exact same from start to finish, no matter how hard the stuff is to play. It all just becomes boring after about the third song, so I was trying to avoid that by including them and to give a little diversity to the album at the same time.”

-->> Jason Morgan