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Metal Bulletin

issue# 20

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Buried Future (madison Wisconsin U.s.)If the listener is willing to pay attention, and not get discouraged after hearing the dizzying blasting, the music m a k e s a l o t o f s e n s ea n d t h a t ' s w h e n t h i n g s g e t f u n : w h e n t h e chaos and different elements come together and things become clearer. There is here basically none of the main elements that some expect (singing, melody, rhythms and riffs that are easy to remember). Instead, it's riff after sharp riff at ridiculously high speed, jet-propulsion drumming and guttural growling. As the band explains, there is a lot creativity going on, but the l i s t e n e ri s c h a l l e n g e d o b e a l e f t , o t h e r w i s e t h i s w i l l s o u n d o n l y t l i k e o v e r w h e l m i n gf o r c e , a n d s / h e w i l l m i s s t h e m - u s i c . Their album "Symphony of UnnecessarySurgery," is available at their shows ($8), through Relapse ($9), The ExclusiveCompany and Earwax in Madison. Or just get in touch with them and check it out for yourself. Bobby de la O - Lead Guitar; Jesse Hendrix - Rhythm Guitar; A n d y K n u t s o n - B a s s ; P h i l " P h i l b l a s t "H a r r e l s o n - D r u m s ; Dave Labedz - Vocals www. myspace.com/buriedfuture It has to be exciting to finally have your hard work in the form albu.! of an A N D Y : P r o b a b l yt h e m o s t e x c i t i n g p a r t w a s n e a r t h e b e g i n n i n g of the whole process when we were first experiencing the reality that soon we would have an album. However, after dealingwith it for so long, we more just got used to the idea. In a sense, I think that worked in our advantage. Had we been waiting to get excited about it, there's a good chance that the financial commitment or something might have

changes,adding in tom rolls or triplet accentsthat help give the "extra flare" or "zazz" or "spunk" or my favorite"moxy" that makes Buried is. Future it what The lyrics to "Tertiary Thrust" sav: "Attending classeshalfW asl eep,/ i th no i ntenti on l earn./Onl y brai ns dism ant le. / to to And liversto burn./ They see no short-term benefit./And so maintain. for lack of it./ Their long-held superstitions/ R eoardi no ohereducati on. hi " What would you say are these superstitions? DAVE: Dictionary.com defines "superstition"as "a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the parti cul a r t hing. " omi nous si gni fi cance of a R unni ngw i th that, I feel l i ke the opi ni ona l ot of people have about academiais "not based on reasonor knowledge," but instead on whatever ill-informed stereotypesthey've developed tweedy, liberal, out-of-touchprofessors. of Due to this lack of understanding,they view the university as a somethi ng w i th " omi nous si gni fl cance,"a t hing t hat disseminates ideasthey don't understand, and thereforedon't trust. So I wouldn't say there are "superstitions" regarding in academia any folkloricsense,but insteadthat there'sa fearderived from misunderstanding. Think about it this way: hundreds of years ago, people had very little idea of how stuff worked. So they made shit up myths and folktales - in order to explainthe things they didn't understand. I feel like a similar thing is happening to academia: people don't understand what's valuable about having universities, so they make shit up to explain why they're not valuable that they slave away studying disciplines with no practical value, that they "brainwash" " l i bera" etc. l students with ideology,

are rooted Just like ancient mythology, these explanations that vaguelyin real observation: there certainlyare professors study things with little practicalvalue, and there ceftainlyare professors that attempt to mold students in the likenessof i but by and l argetheseaccusat ions thei r ow n pol i ti caldeol ogy, are lies,spreadfor no purposeother than to allowuneducated peopleto justify their own laziness and lack of interest.That and mi ght sound l i ke a pretty harsh accusati on, w hile I could go on to expl ai nw hat I mean by that, I thi nk most peoplewill anyway. reading by now have stopped s Wh a t tyoes of s ounds /i ma g ed o e s d ru mme r P h i l H arrel son hear/seein his mind to come up with those monster beats? Y our song" Identi ty C ri si s"states:" I have beento ld. / SinceI a PHIL: When we are constructing song a lot of factors run was able to speak,/ That I am free in this place,/ Through through my head while in the processof putting it together' That I may l i ve as I w i l l ./ A nd I ma y act as I h o w a part nati onal i ty./ o As th e d r um m erI hav e th e u n i q u ei n fl u e n c e v e r ol ease./A nd that the w orl d envi es me,/ For my exem pt ion in a so n gc an be hear da n d u l ti ma te l yc h a n g eth e mood of a from their constantstate of / Poveftv--/And that they cannot s i n g l ep a r t . Now when Bo b b y i s s h o w i n g m e n e w riffs and That these poor soul shave been/ Denieda thi nk/ P rooerl y--/ p a rts a n d ideasf or s on g s b o th h i m a n d I g e t o n th e same sal p a rt to s o u n da n d h ow w e g-od--/W i thout vati on they w i l l / B urn i n H e ll- - / Wit hout wa ve l e ngt has t o how w e w a n t a w democracv i l l / R ot on earth..." want it to flow into a song. If I have a drum beat that takes In your view, what is the relation between American i t, I try a nd keep a w a y from t he r if f it ' s be h i n dth a n I c h a n g e i mperi al i sm's war s? A meri can nati onal i sm and a as e ve ryth ing t ec hnic al s I c a n b u t s o me ti m e si t c a n be too D A V E : Imperi al i sm i s nothi ng more than the pr act ical song. t mu cha nd c anac t uallya k e a w a y fro m th e If mani festati on nati onal i sm. you thi nk your count r yis t he of a As fo r what I s ee or t hi n k a b o u t w h e n c o n s tru c ti n g drum greatest country on earth, then you see it as your duty to and very straight beat reallyI start off makingthe beat simple to spreadyour i deol ogy the rest of the w orl d.Thi s, nat ur ally, forwardso that I can get a feel for the part at hand. I almost i s bul l shi t,but i t doesn' t keep one from bei n! t he logical puzzleespecially the parts that have for break it down like a perfectl y ogi cal can st ill be l of concl usi on the other.S omethi ng . mu l ti p l et im e c hanges Fo r e x a m p l e ,i f a ri ff i s i n 1 7 18ti me perfectly bullshit. l I 'm n o t goingt o c ountt o s e v e n te e n i,t' s i mp ra c ti c aa n d w ay A t the end of the song,there are a coupl el i nesthat , whileI t mo re d i ff ic ult han it nee d sto b e I w i l l b re a k i t u p i n to 3 sets don' t l i ke them poeti cal l ybecauseI thi nk they'r e kind of of 5 and then a set of 2, it's way easier to count to 5 three cl unky,they sti l l sum up the song w el l : " W ar for ever kills / So times and2 oncethan it is to count to seventeen. from the Thosewithout the will To retract their creed / Of identity." / simplest form from which I start I then start making little

tracks. our ln us stopped However,insteadof coming down hard from our recording lev hi g h ,w e had alr eady e l e d u r h e a d sb y th e n a n d w ere abl e o to concentrateon actually dealing with the obstaclesthat came up, and doing whateverwas needed to make sure that things kept movingforward. I think in the end we were less excitedthan we were relievedthat we were finally done with it. Certainlynow, however,there is a great sense of pride in lo o ki n gat our albums id e b y s i d e o n a ra c k w i th s o me of the heavyweights the genre and knowing that we measureup. of

What I mean by this is that you can't have countries without having war, becausecompetition always follows division. You can observe this at every level: Capitalism vs. Communism, U.S. vs. Iraq, Yankee vs. Dixie, Green Bay Packers vs. Minnesota Vikings. All of these conflicts exist because both groups considertheir ideology to be superior, and they want to impose their "superior" ideology on the "inferior" group, causing that group to submit and recognize them to be superior. That's never going to happen. So the way I see it, we can keep beating our heads against the wall to try and make everyone think like we do, or we can try to understand why o t h e r p e o p l et h i n k d i f f e r e n t l y .A t t h i s p o i n t , I d o n ' t h a v e t o t e l l you option. what I is bqtter th ink the I also want to clarify one last thing about that song, which is that while it is about the U.S. insofar as I'm an American, it's really a more general criticism of every country's n a t i o n a l i s m .T h e l i n e s y o u q u o t e i n y o u r q u e s t i o n a r e t h i n g s that are true for almost every person in almost every country. Everyone is told that their country is the greatest country on earth, and that everyone else is an infidel/demon/heathen whose fellow countrymen are unethical bastardsthat would let him starve. That's what makes the whole situation so ridiculous. Every country can't possibly be the greatest country on earth, just like every religion can't possibly be the one true path to salvation.To think so is delusional at best, worst. m ur d e ro u s at and Do you think that people who say that vour vocals are "monotonous" are reallv listening to the sonos? Is this legitimate? or for intelliqibility credible demand ANDY: Certainlythe vocal issue is one of the more common c r i t i c i s m s .F r i e n d sw h o h e a r u s t e l l u s o f t e n t h a t t h e y l i k e t h e music a lot, but can't stand the vocals. Personally,I find it very strange that they even make that distinction, because to us, the vocals and the music aren't separable elements. The vocals are a part of the music as much as any of the instruments. The death growl is less of a set paradigm so much as a break from the set paradigm of what constitutesa song. Most people are conditioned to think of a song as something that they can sing along with, and they generally expect the vocal track to be presented as the most important part of a tune. Death metal rejects that idea, in favor of bringing the vocals into the mix as a rhythmic element. The vocalist doesn't sing so much as he plays. Though I will say this: It seems like a cruel joke that we have a writer of Dave's caliber who puts together extremely well constructed lyrics about very thought provoking subjects, that nobody can really understand without a set of liner notes in front of them. Moreover, when people tell us that the music is great but the vocals are crap, they're likely iust trying to be nice. It's hard to imagine the people who have said that sitting around l i s t e n i n gt o i n s t r u m e n t a ld e a t h m e t a l a n d t h i n k i n g t h a t i t ' s j u s t the bee's knees. The vocal track is just a default complaint from people who are used to listening for the vocals in particular.If we didn't have Dave, it's not like they wouldn't find anything else to complain about. "Oh, it's just too fast", or "it sounds so angry", or "what the hell is going on? How many beats was that?" In the end it doesn't really matter' We're not doing this to please everyone, and the people who get that. who ones the are like us really BOBBY: What people don't understand about technical death metal is that, unlike most pop-metal bands and other forms of mainstream music in general, the music is focused around the whole band as opposed as the band being there to serve the vocals. The vocals in death metal are there to add to

the intensity of the overall sound, just as the guitars and drums are. You don't really have the option to "sing" over music that is atonal, asymmetrical, and that rapidly changing. The lower guttural vocals go great as a boosting rhythmic instrument with the rest of the music, not to mention how evil they sound help heighten the mood. So you can call them about as "monotonous" as any other instrument in the band What do you look for in a guitar solo? Also, how much i m p r o v i s a t i o ni s t h e r e l i v e ? C a n y o u s a y w h a t y o u r g u i t a r s a r e tuned to and equipment both of your guitarists use? B O B B Y :A s l e a d g u i t a r I h a v e a v e r y s i m p l e s e t u p , I j u s t u s e a Peavey XXX, the most evil distortion on the planet, and a RandallJaguar cab. We simply tune in standard, because if you have heavy enough distortion low tunings are i n s i g n i f i c a n t ,i n m y o p i n i o n . M y m a i n a x e i s a M e t a l l i c a s i g n a t u r e K H - 6 0 2 , w h i c h w a s b u i l t f o r m e t a l a n d s o l o i n g .J e s s e uses an Ibanez Xyphos with a PeaveyISX head (Heavy as all hell). I t i s i m p o s s i b l et o c o m p l e t e l y r e p l i c a t e a n y s o l o t w i c e . W h e n you are playing sixteenth or thirty second notes at tempos of around 220 quarter notes per minute, the impoftant thing is to recapture the feel of the solo, not necessarily hit every single note in sequencewith the CD. If I were to play a super fast solo for you twice in a row, it would probably sound the same to you; however, when you are playing lightning fast scale sequences, some things are bound to change. What other events, news, merchandise,etc. do you have for for 2010? second h al f 2009 and the of P H I L : W e a r e w o r k i n g o n s o m e n e w T - s h i r t D e s i g n sw i t h D a v e Fisher(if you haven't seen his aftwork, it really is incredible). I'm personally excited to see what comes of it. Also, a few new songs are in the works for hopefully another album, but THE END. r e c o r d i n gi s n ' t e v e n a t o p i c o f d i s c u s s i o n .

Nefandus (sweoentNefandus'music carries a vision that, it seems, maybe could be summed up as: keep metal black/death in atmosphereand feel, as there is a strong, twisted, raw, somber feel, resulting i n i m a g i n a t i v ey e t v e r y c a u s t i c m u s i c . However, in addition to the fact that this is raw and twisted, what gives Nefandus its identity, besidesthat black metal foundation, is the way the music builds and uses variety in different vocals: there is lots of throat-burning black metal vocals and done well, includingthe more sickening/disgusting moments. That's one major thing. Another one: there is additional atmosphere created through what I will here call chanting/singing,but it's loud and projected, not whispered' The result is an atmosphericvocal feel. "Death Holy Death" is the name of the album and it is serious quality, creative black metal with a good, solid, unpolished production. It's improbable that your path and Nefandus'path will be crossing often in the future, so might want to investigate this music for yourself' In addition, Nefandus is related to other bands (mentioned in this interview)that also have particularmusical perspectives' Kristoffer "Ushatar" Andersson - Lead Guitars, Bass Belfagor V o c a l s ,G u i t a r , B a s s , D r u m s questions here. these Belfagor answered i . w w w . n e f a n d u s o r g o r m . b e l f a g o r @ h o t m al .c o m Who olavs the drums, guitars and bass? Belfagor is credited with "all vocals" and "all instruments" on tracks 1-5. Does that mean that Ushatar does not play anything, except for songs 7 and 8? Do vou use a drum machine?

I play all instruments on mentioned songs, yes, as well as I peform all vocals on the entire album. yes, this means that Ushatar plays no single instrument on songs 1-5, and on tracks 7 and 8, I play only the drums, while Ushatar handles the rest of the instruments. I would never use a drum machine on any of my musical projects. You cannot capture that same magical vibe that can be captured with human hands. I see recording with your instruments as a kind of ritualisticprocedure, as is the creation of a song, which also occurs while holding and playing an instrument, until you reach the state of trance required for the qliphothic forces to begin to flow out into manifestation through you and the instrument you are using. This is of course true only for the musicianwho works with the anti-worlds of qlifhoth magically as well as musically. Do you have plansto tour? Is that a goal? No. We are both busy with our main bands, myself with Ofermod and Ushatar with SargatanasReign and The Legion, that we have no time to plan too much when it comes to N e f a n d u s .W e g o i n t o t h e s t u d i o a n d c r e a t e s o m e D e a t h M e t a l magic, and what comes after that simply comes. Maybe we will do a single gig or two, but that is no priority, and touring is out of the question at this very moment at least. We are slowly but surely working on material for the next album i n s t e a d , w h i c h m o s t p r o b a b l y w i l l b e r e l e a s e do n m y o w n l a b e l L e f t L i g h t E m a n a t i o n s ,w h i c h b y t h e w a y h a s b e e n j o i n e d b y Andreas of Satanic Propaganda Records, so that we can continue to together release monumental albums like Death Holy Death, which was released as a co-operation between Left Light Emanation and the late Satanic propaganda Records. Us going together under the banner of L.L.E is a good way for us to collaborate and yet forget the crap my partner releasedon his own in the past and focus merely on the best of the best within the underground cult of true Black and Death Metal in the future. Would Nefandus start playing live we would have to find a complete line up with the correct ideologicaland musical foundation, which was hard enough w h e n i c o l l e c t e ds o u l s t o O f e r m o d , s o m o s t l i k e l y N e f a n d u sw i l l wait for a while with any live plans, and focus on being a studio band. What do you mean bv "Qliphothic"? The Qliphoth are the opposing counterparts to the Sephiroth, which in the Qabalah, a Hebrew system of mysticism and magic, are the emanations of all life, from the loftiest of heavenly heights to the grossest of matter. The eliphoth are the anti-words where all demonic forces have their i n h a b i t a n c ea n d a r e u s e f u l s y m b o l s i n t h e d a r k m a g i c o f t h e Left Hand path. As Nefandus deals with the forces of the Qlihoth the epiteth QliphothicDeath Magic befits our music, it a l s o h a v i n g m a g i c a l p r o c e d u r e si n t h e m a k i n g . What would vou say your lyrics do? Are they directed at s o m e o n e . w h a t a r e t h e i d e a s . a r e t h e v a n t i r e l i q i o u s .p e r s o n a l . etc. ? R a t h e r t h a n a n t i r e l i g i o u s ,m y l y r i c s a r e h i g h l y s p i r i t u a r ,t h o u g h on an esoteric and magical plane. They are not directed at anything outer, but are invocations to the mighty forces of Sitra Ahra and sometimes poetical storys about them, often with profound mystic meaning. My words are between the demonic forces and myself, and if the listener finds them stimulating, then maybe he is worthy of the entire Nefandus experience.

" S a m a e l i c M a d n e s s C o d e " h a s a n i n t e r e s t i n g v o c a l i z i n qa t t h e beginninq. t soundslike chantinq. I It's myself chanting some hebrew words of power. Once a g a i n ; i t ' s b e t w e e n m y s e l f a n d t h e f o r c e s . . . S o m et h i n g s a r e best left unexplained. Who is Eliiah Beau Pre, whose artwork you use? Where can Leople see more of this artwork? Elijah Beau Pre is a pseudonym for a gentleman from a magical order I happened to run across one day, and when I saw his artwork I knew that it would be perfect for the N e f a n d u sa l b u m . L u c k i l y E l i j a h w a s k i n d e n o u g h t o l e t u s u s e some of his art. What I liked about some of the symbols are that they are similar as those used within the order to which I b e l o n g , a n d t h e g e n e r a l f e e l i n g i s . . . w e l l ,s p e c i a l ,i n l a c k o f a better word. I don't think this gentleman's art can be found anywhere. Not that easily anyway. There is a myspace page but it does not seem to be vours. I have nothing against this sort of pages as long as it comes clear that it is a tribute page. Actually I was not aware that t h e r e e x i s t s t h i s k i n d o f s p a c e c o n c e r n i n g N e f a n d u s .M a y b e w e w i l l h a v e a n o f f i c i a l m y s p a c e .p a g e d o n e f o r u s , a s I d i d w i t h Ofermod, but it feels quite useless as I very seldom even check it out. I try to stay as far as possible away from the internet when I absolutely don't need to use it to be in contactwith people or look up some information. On the cover of the cd, is it the shadow of a dead person? Is there a significance in the way you write your logo, with H e b r e w - l i k ec h a r a c t e r s ?W h a t d o e s N e f a n d u sm e a n ? The cover is symbolism for initiation into a higher state of q l i p h o t h i c c o n s c i o u s n e s s . n e h a s t o m e t a p h o r i c a l l yd i e t o b e O b o r n a n e w w i t h t h e p o w e r s t h e n e w i n i t i a t i o nb r i n g s . Our new logo is drawn in the fashion that the letters resemble hebrew letters, and hebrew letters are very i m p o r t a n t i n t h e Q a b b a l a ha n d i n m a g i c i n g e n e r a l ,t h i s i s w h y I wanted the logo to have the shape it has, so as to at first sight show that Nefandus is no ordinary band, but follow the s p i r i t u a lc o d e o f t h e o r t h o d o x c u l t o f D e a t h a n d B l a c k M e t a l . N e f a n d u si s t h e l a t i n w o r d f o r a b o m i n a t i o n . What are your plans?Can people hear vou on vour website? We have no specifictimelines for our plan, which is to write and record our next album. No, people cannot hear us on any websitehopefully, but only on CD or LP.Hail DeathlTHEEND.

Mastercastle rrtatvtphoenix" Mastercastle's album "The is traditional heavy/power/prog metal, done well and with talent. They have those heavier, rocking, sing-along songs that have a very melodic, traditional heavy metal feeling. Then, they do those midtempo tracks, which let the traditional singing soar a n d b a s i c a l l y ,t a k e o v e r t h e s o n g . T h e n r o c k o u t s o m e m o r e . Then it's an instrumental, rock, rock, major guitar-driven melody, where, of course, it's the guitars that take over and it's guitars, solos, licks, hooks, riffs, and more guitars. So on a n d s o f o r t h . T h a t i s t h e b u s i n e s so f M a s t e r c a s U e . G i o r g i aG u e g l i o- V o c a l s ; P i e rG o n e l l a- G u i t a r ; S t e v e V a w a m a s - B a s s ; A l e s s a n d r oB i s s a - D r u m s myspace.com/mastercastle I**. Hello! You live in Genova, correct? what is the situation for your band in Genova? P I E R G O N E L L A :H i M a u r i c i o , t h a n k s a l o t f o r y o u r i n t e r v i e w ! H e r e i s P i e r G o n e l l a , M a s t e r c a s t l eg u i t a r p l a y e r . y e s , I l i v e i n

G e n o v a . G i o r g i a G u e g l i o ,t h e s i n g e r , a n d S t e v e V a w a m a s , t h e bass player, live in Genova also. Only Alessandro Bissa, the drummer, lives near Brescia, in the Northeast part of Italy. Here all things are going in the best way. On 19 June we make a gigs in Genova, the official album presentation. We played in an enormous Crazu bull and there were also a lot of journalist of Italian magazines and webzines. Than we are making some acoustic shows in the Italian FNAC, Genova, Milano, Torino, Bari, Roma. We are very happy for the feedback of the people and we are planning more gigs in the winter. next for of Ita ly th e rest How are things now with your new cd "The Phoenix"? P I E R G O N E L L A :F i n a l l y I c a n s a y t h a t " T h e P h o e n i x " a l b u m i s going very well. It's not easy for a new band t6 get attention and positive response from the first time. The album is out from L7 April 2009 and I understood that people like it reading first reviews on Italian magazines (metal hammer, metal maniac, Rock hard). All magazines made a really great reviews. Than all webzines (as metalun.it, eutk.net, flash m a g a z i n e s . i t ) .T h i s i s g r e a t b e c a u s e a l w a y s j o u r n a l i s t a r e v e r y strict with new band. We get more visibility in other countries, also. I'm still making many interviewsfor webzine around the world. In particular we had really good review from UK and great us' for result is a this USA, And is there a common theme or topic for all the lyrical ideas of the album? Are the lyrics connected in some way? PIER GONELLA: All lyrics are written by Giorgia Gueglio' GIORGIA GUEGLIO:There is not a common theme in this Mastercastle album. I take inspirations by my life, my s e n s a t i o n s , m y e x p e r i e n c e s .I n t h e o p e n i n g t r a c k " W o r d s a r e swords" I tell about the courage to always say what we really think, and to find the forces even if we are alone behind some

important Italian metal band. It's a great person and musician.We respected all contract limitations,organizing his engagements and our also, we had no problems to work together. He played the drums in first gigs we made, and we pl ay next. will tn the What are some of the most important metal bands from Italy in the 1980s?Also, do vou know or work with the people from Pathosray, Rhapsody, Labyrinth or other bands in Italv? P I E R G O N E L L A :I p l a y e d w i t h L a b y r i n t h b a n d f o r 5 y e a r s . I made 2 studio albums with them, and 2 Japan tour. It was a really great experience. Actually I play guitar in Necrodeath also, that is a historical Italian thrash band that plays since 1985. I had also some collaborations with Fabio Lione, Rhapsody singer. All of them are great and famous band. popular Italy? in Is McDonald's PIER GONELLA: Of course, McDonald, Burger king etc are popular in Italy. There are one of them in all big cities of Italy. But not many people are obese because of them. We often don't go to McDonald to have launch or dinner, but just to heat something and have goodtime. We have also many traditional food and wine. Italy is often known as "Pizza or g reat food s. ma ny other Pasta" but a re there GIORGIA GUEGLIO: yes, we know the problem of people obese and overweight, especially teenagers. Fortunately, in Italy we have a great regional tradition of natural food, and w e u s e o l i v e o i l , e s p e c i a l l yi n t h e s o u t h o f I t a l y , s o t h e r e ' r e n o t food. our into many fat i n gr e d i e n t s so

How long has Pier Gonella been playing guitar? What are the bands or guitar players that made him want to play guitar? Vawamas? Steve What about P I E RG O N E L L A :I ' v e b e e n p l a y i n g g u i t a r f o r 1 5 y e a r s . I s t a r t e d situations. then I was fifteen years old. At this time I listenedto many p ro b l em s music, from Scorpionsand Deep Purple to Joe Satriani and. I In the song "Greedy Blade" I tell about a disaster that studied a lot with different teacher to find a great technique happened in Italy. In the 1963 in the Vajont valley (in the and a personal style, but I studied a lot by myself' I made 9 North of Italy), an enormous mountain slid in a damn, s t u d i o a l b u m s t i l l n o w , w i t h L a b y r i n t h , a n d M a s t e r c a s t l ea n d creating a giant wave that "cancelled" some towns in the other guest band. Everyone can see them and listen to some valley and killed almost 2000 people. After the disaster it was s o n g s i n m y s i t e w w w . p i e r g o n e l l a . c o m .I ' v e b e e n l i s t e n i n g t o discovered that the constructors known the risk of the making a l l k i n d o f m u s i c , f r o m W h i t e s n a k e o S l a y e r o r c l a s s i c a lm u s i c . interest and they this damn, but there was big economical I'm very proud of Mastercastle album because it represents c h o s e t h e r i s k . I n t h e s o n g " P r i n c e s so f l o v e " i t e l l a b o u t a n music. of composing my way style and my princess that represent some emotions I have imaginary Steve Vawamas has also been playing for a lot of years. I v i s i t i n g p a r t i c u l a rp l a c e s l i k e c a s t l e s , f o r e s t e t c . I l i k e t h i s s o n g played guitars in his album Athlantis, that he records some and we have just finished making a videoclip that everyone can see at our web site: www.myspace.com/mastercastle albums with the Italian power metal band Shadows of Steel Prometeo. or Dogma like The band other and song? Mastercastle a elements of What are the In the news there have been reports of racist soccer fans who I P I E R G O N E L I - A : t h i n k t h a t M a s t e r c a s t l em u s i c a l s t y l e b o r n s guitar style with the particular scream insultsto players who are Black in Italy' by the mix of my virtuoso Y P I E R G O N E L I , A : e s , t h e h i s t o r y i n s p o r t e s p e c i a l l yt e l l a b o u t female voice of Giorgia.So We are the principalcomposers.I many racist fact. Of course, the racism is a very stupid thing. project in the past with her, but We never had many musical F o r t u n a t e l y ,I d o n ' t k n o w I t a l i a n m e t a l b a n d o a n o t h e r a r t i s t i c tried to unit our forces in a main project. from the first song raclsm promoting the union of my sort of neoclassical movements we wrote I noticed that guitar style with her voice become an original melodic hard singino? been Giorqia has lono How rock and metal stuff. Steve and Giorgia can play or write some GIORGIA GUEGLIO: I've been singing from 1994 into many simple guitar lines too, but our composition always start by different bands. The style of music I prefer lt's hard rock as some my riffs. I give them to Giorgia and she wrote some Rammstein. as Metal and Whitesnake those vocal melodies. Than we work together to optimize PIER GONELLA: The vocal style of Giorgia gives to melodies.At this point steve and Bix work for the bass and a rra n gernents. M a s t e r c a s t l eh i s u n i q u e a n d o r i g i n a l s o u n d . S i n c e f i r s t c o n t a c t d ru ms with the label Lion Music her voice was considered "melodic and powetful". She has a backgound from American and played by Bix as a quest. Do vou On the album. the drums are great thing. is a this and rock English hard have a permanent drummer now? Is Bix in other bands? Bix plays also in Vision Divine, an G I O R G I A G U E G L I O :Y e s ,

What events, news. recordings. etc. do you have for the second half of 2009 for 2010? and PIER GONELLAT ctually we are playing and programming A some gigs, not only in Italy. But we have started composing new songs. We have many ideas and we are planning to releasea new album on 2010. If the time will be enough we like also to make another videoclip, so stay tuned on our m y s p a c e p a g e : w w w . m y s p a c e . c o m / m a s t e r c a s t l e .T H E E N D .

want another show then it should be done. Also it is a good idea to bring up bands from out of your area. It gives the audience something new to see and keeps your local scene fresh and interesting. Is there a "competition" or a rock star mentality? Yes. If you want to act confident on stage and put on a good show that's fine, but when you step off the stage you are same as the guy that watched you play. What it is that people would be "competing" for? I t h i n k t h a t s o m e b a n d s a n d p e o p l e a r e c o m p e t i n gf o r b e i n g i n the best band or being the #1 person in their metal scene. What are some problems with mentalities? I think that people don't realizethat being a part of the metal scene is a way of life for us. If people think that they are in the best band or the #1 person in the scene that they will be r e c o g n i z e df o r i t . H e l l , w e a l l l i k e a p a t o n t h e b a c k o n c e i n a while, but you can't do it by making enemies. D o e s n ' t " r o c k r a d i o " ( l i k e i n M a d i s o n ) r e p r o d u c e i g n o r a n c eo f metal? Why not go to a local show and hear bands like Upon E x t i n c t i o n .B u r i e d F u t u r e o r w h a t e v e r . y o u k n o w ? ! I got into metal by listening to Motley Crue, Guns N' Roses, P o i s o n ,R a t t a n d a l l t h e o t h e r h a i r b a n d s . T h e n i t m o v e d o n t o h e a v i e r s t u f f l i k e P a n t e r aa n d S l a y e r . I t h e n f o u n d f r i e n d s t h a t listened to Death Metal and Black Metal and it took off from there. Everyone gets into metal somehow, but then it's a matter of if they want to go more extreme or not. Some people just don't know that extreme metal exists, because they don't have friends into it. They should check out local metal It shows. helps out . everyone What are your drummer's favorite metal albums? "Leviathan", Mastodon Parasytic "Hymn", Tragedy "Vengeance" Witch "Self-Titled", and Wartorn "Tainting Tomorrow With The Blood Yesterday." Of What are the lyrical concepts of your songs "What Winter Brings" or "Go Eat Worms"? Does having humorous lyrics s u g g e s tt h a t y o u d o n ' t t a k e y o u r m u s i c s e r i o u s l v ? What Winter Brings is just about winter. Go Eat Worms was our old singers (Erich) lyrics. He wrote a song about a song his mom sang to him. We are going for a more serious a p p r o a c h l y r i c a l l y n o w . W e s c r a p p e dt h e " w o r m " i d e a a n d n o w it is called"Into The Abyss," which is about being in a rut and not knowing how to get out, but to just try. Life knocks you down and you just have to get up and grab its balls. We do like to joke around a lot, but with the departure of our singers (not including Dusty) [most recent vocalist; now not with the band.-editorl we have rewritten the lyrics and titles of some songs to make them not so juvenile. The c u r r e n t t i t l e s o f o u r s o n g s a r e : B u l l e t W o u n d A g g r e s s i o n ,F e a s t WithinThe Flesh, Surreal Nightmare, With PeaceBrings War, To Evolve In Darkness, Ones We Lost, Out Of The Abyss, What Winter Brings, Man's Search For Meaning, Disillusioned Farewell, and Predator. Other events, news. recordings, etc.? We'll page keep our myspace updated (www.myspace.com/uponextinctionand if you are lookingfor ) local shows you can check out the WisconsinExtreme Metal p a g e ( w w w . m y s p a c e . c o m / w i s c o n s i n e x t r e m e m e t a lf) r i n f o o n o Fox Valley shows. We're looking to put out a full length, but it p r o b a b l yw o n ' t h a p p e n t i l l 2 0 1 0 . T H E E N D .

UPorl Extinction

(Rppleton. wisconsin. u.S.\

Upon Extinction is a three-piece (Andy-bass/vocals; Mattguitars/vocals; Brandon-drums) who describe themselves as " p r o g r e s s i v e / m e t a l / t h r a s h "a n d w h o , t o m e , s o u n d l i k e b l a c k metal riffing lashing out with death metal growling and pounding, heavy, groovy drumming and at other times it does s o u n d l i k e v e r y h e a v y g r o w l , m i d p a c e d p r o g r e s s i v et h r a s h , Categories are so silly. Let's try this again: Upon Extinction is motivated by the love of metal and their songs reflect that. It's heavy, as in doom-heavy, but it's uptempo (not slow) and blackmetal/thrash/proggy-memorable. C a t e g o r i e sa r e s i l l y . R e a d t h e i n t e r v i e w a n d c h e c k t h e m o u t for yourself. www.myspace.com/uponextinction Hello!Give us an update about vour recordings! We are recording a three song demo, one song that hasn't been recorded yet and two updated versions from the old demo. Just want to have something to give away while we focus on a full length. How can people obtain vour new music? They can get it at one of our shows or just email us and we'll send one out. What does Matt hear in his mind that turns into guitar work? Before I work on my music I go to a place called "Planet Matt." Not many people know where this is, except the guys i n U p o n E x t i n c t i o n .T h o u g h t h e y ' v e n e v e r b e e n t h e r e . I u s u a l l y have an idea for a song and what I want the feel to be, then I write l a c c o r d i n gy . On your myspace you mention beer drinking a lot. Can your d r u m m e r , B r a n d o n ,p e d o r m i f d r u n k ? LOL, we love beer, but we keep it under control for shows. Our first priority is to play the best we can for the crowd, so we keep it to a couple beers before we play. We are heavily experienced in the art of beer to face combat. One of your mvspace blogs talks about problems of the metal s c e n e i n W i s c o n s i n .W h a t c a n p e o p l e d o t o k e e p m e t a l g o i n g ? I think the biggest problem in the scene is egoism. Too many bands and people have egos. We are all on the same playing field. Our band lovesto go out and support the other bands in t h e F o x V a l l e y . H e l l w e e v e n g o t o M a d i s o n , M i l w a u k e e ,a n d L a Crosse for shows. We've made a lot of friends by supporting them. If you set up shows you have to treat the bands you bring in with respect. If you treat them bad then they will have a negative image of you. It just comes down to what do you love and do you want to be a part of it. We love metal and punk and go to the shows, whether it's at a bar or in a basement, and hang out with the people that love doing that too. It's been a great experience for all of us in Upon Extinction. I think a way to help the scene for bands is that when they ask another band for a show to return the favor. It shows that you have respect for the metal scene and are willing to help out bands. I get too many requests for shows, but bands don't return the favor. It's not required, but if you 6

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D e d i c a t i o ni s a k e y c h a r a c t e r i s t i co f B l a s p h e r i a n :d e d i c a t i o n t o a sound of the heaviest possible of death metals, with jackhammer, drill-style drumming and serious doom, accentuated with a guitar sound centered on the massive, swirling crunch. The vocals focus on a general atmosphere of t h e d e e p e s t ,t h i c k g r o w l i n g . The sound captures the experience and knowledge of a band whose statement centers on playing music in a c o n f i d e n t , c o n s i s t e n tw a y , d i s r e g a r d i n g c h i l d i s h i l l u s i o n sa b o u t " s u c c e s s " .T h e s u c c e s so f B l a s p h e r i a ni s t o k e e p m a k i n g d e a t h metal in the manner they see fit; and what fits them is the subject of this interview. Wes Infernal - Guitar; Apollyon - Vocals ; _ Matt Mayhem - Drums " I n f e r n al " answered. Wes Weaver m y s p a c e . c o m / b l a s p h e r in a l**. Hi! Can you give an update on your recordinqactivities?H A I L S M A U R I C I O R I G H TN O W W E A R E F I N I S H I N GU P T H E W R I T I N GF O R I ''INFERNAL O U R D E B U T F U L L L E N G T HC . D . , W H I C H W I L L B E T I T L E D WARRIORS F DEATH". O WE HAVE OUR C.D."ALLEGIANCTO THE WILL OF DAMNATION" E F , A V A I L A B L E O R 1 0 $ U S , 1 5 $ W O R L D W I D EA N D W E H A V ET H E S P L I T 7 " I F W / A D U M U SA V A I L A B L E O R 6 $ U S , 1 2 $ W O R L D W I D E , K N O W I T S E E M S WE ALSO HAVE SHIRTS, THEY LIKE ALOT, BUT POSTAGE EXPENSIVE. IS A R E1 3 $ U S 2 0 $ W O R L D W I D E . You live in Houston. Texas. correct? What of interest Houston in metallers death/thrash/black to is there besides

I N T E R E S T E I N M A K I N GM O N E Y ,S O T H E Y M A K ET H E I R B A N D SS E L L O U T D M U S I C A L LT O S E L LM O R E .F U C K I N G A Y . Y G And given Blaspherian's un-marketability. how do you view what vou do in relation to metal's constant trends? WE DO IT BECAUSE WE LOVETO CREATE SATANICDEATHMETAL,WE ARE N O T I N T E R E S T E I N T H E M U S I CI N D U S T R YO R M A K I N GM O N E YW E D O I T D , . B E C A U S E E L O V E I T , A N D I T S F U C K I N K I L L E RT O W R I T E M U S I C A N D W T H E NH A V EI T C O M EO U T O N V I N Y L , H O L D I N G H A TY O U S P E N TM O N T H S W O N T O C R E A T EI,N Y O U RH A N D . . . . I T ' S W E S O M E . A Is your 2006 "Summoningof I T ' S S O L DO U T ,S O R R Y ! Infernal Hordes" available?

What do you mean with the sonq "Sworn to Death and Evil"? T O M E , I T M E A N SS W O R NT O M E T A L ,S W O R NT O S A T A N I S MT H A TT H E S E , T H I N G SA R EA W A Y O F L I F E N O T A P A S S I N G R E N D .T O N E V E R E L LO U T , T S TO ALWAYS STAND UP FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVEIN, TO SUPPORT TILL Y O U RL A S TB R E A T H N E V E R I V E U P , M E T A L T I L L E A T H . . D G What are the motivations for lyrics? S O F A R ,O U R O L D S I N G E RD E A K R A T O R R O T ET H E O L D E R O N G S ,N O W W S H T I C O U R N E W V O K I L L I S TA P O L L Y O N A N D L E S H E L Y R I C S , U S U A L L Y O M E T A U P W I T H T H E S O N GC O N C E P T S , N D S O N GT I T L E S ,T H E NI E X P L A I N H E M T O A P O L L Y O N , E T H E NW O R K SO N T H E MT I L L H E ' S F I N I S H E D . H EARTH, WHAT DRIVES US LYRICALLY OUR HATE FOR THIS WRETCHED IS AND THE PEOPLE ON IT. THE BLIND CHRISTIAN IAND ISLAMIC] F O L L O W I N G F A G O D T H A T D O E S ' N TE X I S T [ A N D D O E S ' N TC A R E , A T O T T B B E S T ]A N D D E V O T I O N O S U C HP R I M I T I V E L I N D F A I T H ,H A V I N G O D E A L W I T HT H E S E H E E P A K E S E W R I T ET H I S M U S I C . M M S

What thinos do you seek in a set of riffs to work in a song? And do you record your guitar work sessions? R W W E R E C O R D O N G S ,A N D S O M E T I M E E R E C O R D I F F S .W E T H E N P I E C E S vourselves? S . U . W E D O L I V E I N H O U S T O NT H E S C E N EH E R EI S G E T T I N GB E T T E R S O M E T H E S O N G ST O G E T H E R N T I L W E A R E S A T I S F I E D ,S O M E T I M E S O N G S O G O O D B A N D S H E R E A R E : G A T E S O F E N O C H , B A H I M I R O N ,G O L G O T H A , C O M E Q U I C K L Y ; S O M E T I M E S T H E R ST A K E A W H I L E , S O F A R I H A V E N Y W R I T T E N 9 % O F T H E M U S I C ,T H A T ' SP R O B A B L W H Y W E T A K ES O L O N G 9 IN I M P R E C A T I O NU N C L E A N S E D , S I D E O U S D E C R E P A N C Y , O D E N S , A N D , T O F I N I S HS O N G S , OTHERS.THE SCENE HERE IS FINALLY GETTING BETTER,THANKS TO OF ARTUROAND REALMS METAL, NIGHTMARE PRODUCTION, CARLOS-LAST T TH A N D A L S O L U I S - T H EA D V E R S A R Y . O R G , E Y ' V EA L L C O N T R I B U T E D O the are metal. What and death About technology HELP. production/sound quality qoals that you have for Blaspherian? WORKS BEST WITH DEATH METAL.A SLICK, I THINK RAW PRODUCTION And what about local metal venues in Houston? L P O L I S H E D O U N DI S B E S TS U I T E DF O RC O M M E R C I AM U S I C .I N F A C TI ' D S T H E R EA R E S O M E V E N U E SH E R E . M A I N L Y W A L T E R SO N W A S H I N G T O N , EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO SAY THAT POLISHEDDEATH METAL IS FAKE A N D T H E W H I T ES W A N . DEATH METAL. SO YOU COULD SAY I HATE OVERLYPOLISHEDMETAL S N R E C O R D SA N D . . . . T H A T S O T T O S A Y I T H I N K T H E YA L L S H O U L D O U N D , F N S I Is th e r e any m et al on th e ra d i o i n H o u s to n ? a s k because L I K E S H I T . . . . I E N ] O Y M U S I C , N O T L IO IK .E , B U T P R O D U C T I O N O R R E A L S B S N METAL HOULD EVER EOVERLY C w We s h a s ex per ienc e i th d o i n g me ta l s h o w s o n the radi o. R W E W I L L P R O B A B L Y E C O R DA T A N E W S T U D I O F O R O U R F U L L Y Y E S , I ' V E D O N E R A D I O H E R EI N H O U S T O NS I N C E 1 9 8 7 , C U R R E N T L I ' M S B L E N G T H , U T T H A T I S N O T T O G E T A C L E A N E R O U N D ,I T ' S ] U S T T H A T O N K T R U9 1 . 7 , I T S T H E R A D I OS T A I O NF O RR I C E U N I V E R S I r y 'I ' M O N T H E I W E F E E LI T S T I M E T O S T E PI T U P A S F A RA S H E A V I N E S SS C O N C E R N E D , I Y N A I R O N S U N D A Y I G H T S , l OP M C E N T R A L O U C A N C H E C K T O U T O N T H E CRUSH,BUT STILL RETAIN WE WANT OUR FULL LENGTHTO COMPLETELY 'FROM HE DEPTHS' T M A T W W W . K T R U . O R G Y S H O WI S C A L L E D WEB THAT HEAVYRAW SOUND. On Morbid Angel's "Altars of Madness" thank list there is a

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That'syou, correct? WesWeaver.

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, Y I W A S S P E C I F I C A L LT A L K I N G A B O U T T O O M A N Y H A R M O N I E S F E M A L E ACOUSTIC GUITARS,I HATEALL THAT SHIT IN VOCALS,VIOLINS, FLUTES, METAL. What other events, news, recordings, etc. do you have? WELL, RIGHT, NOW WE HAVE A FEW THINGS IN THE WORKS, 'INFERNAL WARRIORSOF DEATH" O SPECIFICALLY UR DEBUT C.D. I H O P E F U L LW E W I L L B E R E C O R D I N GT T H I S Y E A RF O RA 2 O 1 OR E L E A S E . Y R A T H A N K S F O R Y O U R I N T E R E S TA N D S U P P O R T ! L W A Y SS U P P O R T E A L O W M E T A L IH A I L T H E I N F E R N A L A R R I O R S F D E A T H ! ! I ! H O R N SF O R E V E R THEEND. UP.

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variety, and traditionalblack metal fast picking in combination Do a lot of Brazilians buy illegal copies of cds? Cds are so with some galloping riffs. I think the tremolo picking works e x p e n s i v ee v e r v w h e r e , t h a t m a k e s s e n s e . h e r e a s a w a y t o d o m e m o r a b l e s o n g s w i t h o u t u s i n g m e l o d i e s , Today it's very easy to download cds on the internet. Is a s i n c e t h i s b a n d i s u n m e l o d i c ,o f c o u r s e . reality in this world, and here is no different. Cds are Raw and decidedly unfancy is the idea the band works expensive here in the Brazil. But some people like to collect from. Some bands may play fast and some may be loud, but original CDs. I am one of those people. rsrsrsrs this band works a lot on their technique of being noisy and a b r a s i v e .A s B o r a t w o u l d s a y , " G r e a t s u c c e s s l " What is your favorite food and what is a good drink? Emperor Diavolos-guitar/bass; Lord Blasphemation-vocals; I love to barbecue, pizza, hamburger... Attached to a good Malevolo-drums drink is beer and coca-cola. E m p e r o r D i a v o l o sa n s w e r s . w w w . m y s p a c e . c o m / i m p e r i u s p r o fn u s . a Do metallers in Brazil read metal zines? Do vou read the w e b s i t e " B l ab b e r m o u t h" ? Hellol How are things with vour album "Barbaria"?! Y e s ! W e h a v e m a n y u n d e r g r o u n d z i n e s i n B r a z i l .I D o n ' t k n o w " Blabbermouth". Hello! First I want to thank you for this opportunity! We are website he? the Where is c u r r e n t l y d o i n g s h o w s t o d i s s e m i n a t et h e d e m o " B a r b a r i a " . W e got the support of Ventto Florestal Productions to distribute A n y o t h e r e v e n t s , n e w s , r e c o r d i n q s ,e t c . ? the CD throughout the country, 1.000 copies limited. For the second Semester of 2009 are scheduling shows to d i s s e m i n a t et h e d e m o . W e h a v e 5 n e w s o n g s i n c l u d e d i n t h e You recorded"Barbaria" live in the studio. but vou have only r e p e r t o i r e .W e w a n t t o r e c o r d i n 2 0 1 0 . THE END. three members. How did you plav bass live? Oh yes, rsrsrss... In this case I recordedthe bass separately. Orisha Shakpana (:amatcat We still cannot find the right person to play bass in Imperius Black metal entity Orisha Sha,kpana is the work of Lord Ifrit. Profanus. O r i s h a S h a k p a n a g o e s f o r t h e o l d - s c h o o lw a y o f b l a c k m e t a l o f rawnessin which the most important thing is the creationof a W h a t i s t h e i n s p i r a t i o nf o r " B a r b a r i a " t h e s o n g ? ! s p e c i f i cs o u n d o f u n m e l o d i c a n g e r , w h e r e s p e e d , g r o w l i n g , a n d O u r b i g g e s t i n f l u e n c e sa r e h o r d e s : M a r d u k , E n t h r o n e d , A b s u , such elements are present, but they do not dominate: what is N a r g a r o t h , E l i t e , S a t a n i c W a r m a s t e r , T r i m o n i u m , D i s s e c t i o n. . . predominant is Ifrit himself, whose music sounds internally W h e n I c o m p o s e dt h e s o n g " B a r b a r i a " i n s p i r e d m e m u c h t h e s e driven (un-commercial; un-trend) and his reaction to the hordes. outsideworld. At the same that lfrit's preferences lean heavily in the According to Metal Archives, some Brazilian bands promote black metal direction, there is a love of death and thrash that racism and white supremacv in Brazil.What do vou think?! i s i n t h e r e , s o m e t i m e s m o r e p r e s e n t i n p a r t i c u l a rm o m e n t s , a s I d o n o t k n o w t h e s e b a n d s . N o r a m i n t e r e s t e dt o m e e t t h e m ! I t h e r e a l s o s e e m s t o b e a s p e c i f i cd o o m - a n d - g l o o m / d e s t r u c t i o n am totally against racism. In a country like Brazil that is t e n d e n c y . B a s i c a l l y ,t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t c h a r a c t e r i s t i ci s t h e ridiculous! The Brazilian people have offspring of several feel, the old-school mentality that shines through the und i f f e r e n t r a c e s . M o s t l y i n d i a n s a n d b l a c k s . T h e B r a z i l i a np u b l i c polished, DIY recordings. This is just b e g i n n i n g! mostly does not ractsm. accept myspace.com/orishaoft heeaft h :**. What is going on Adviser.your other band? going How are things for vou?ll T h e A d v i s e r i s p a r a l y z e da t t h e m o m e n t . . . w e a r e l o o k i n g f o r I'm currently in the U.S, not for good, not planning on a drummer and a bassist. The album "The Tragedy of j ust relocating. work. here for Tomorrow", the lyrics talk about social issues as a result of w a r s a n d t h e c a u s e s o f r e l i g i o u sf a n a t i c i s m . T h e m u s i c i s q u i t e What are some things you've been doing in 2009? diverse, with influencesof various aspects of metal: thrash, I'm currently working on a death metal album called power death, black, doom, and nwobhm. "Decapitation Lust." Why does Imperius Profanus have lyrics in Portuguese and A d v i s e ri n E n g l i s h . In my opinion the English language is better to sing and disseminate. But for this cd, we chose the Portuguese language. There are many brazilian bands that sing in p o r t u g u e s e .I c h o s e t h e a d v i s e r t o t h e E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e . What work do you do and how do you financeyour band? Work in commerce, in a clothing store. We have great d i f f i c u l t yt o g e t t h e r e c o r d a n d f i n a n c e t h e b a n d . I n B r a z i l i t i s difficult to find financial support. The cost of recording is very high. How did Lord Blasphemation prepare to record in the studio with that vocal intensity? Is it more difficult than concert? M u c h t e s t i n g a n d c o n c e n t r a t i o n .T h e p e r i o d o f r e c o r d i n g i n t h e studio is very tiring. Playing for people is great! Much excitement. Sometimes there is much nervousness and anxious before climbing to the stage. 8 You have recently done two recordings,an E.P. and a demo. people get How can music? copies of this I haven't done any distribution as yet, but as soon I get it you'll done, know, You me can at contact joker46 _7 0 5_9@ hotma il. com. your What is current status as band/project? At first, I wanted a 3 or a 4 piece band. In Jamaica,metal is not that known or liked for that matter, so it is very hard to find people to take part in a black metal band or a rock band much less.Those were old blogs I had up back when i wasn't so serious about having a band in the first place. A solo project is not so bad actually, I really like to be alone, I get more create energy alone, but I prefer to find people with the same music taste as me and from Jamaica, if not then i'll just go solo.lol. Jamaican Black Metal only by Jamaicans, don't want any outside help for this will go against all Orishastands for, not xenophobia or anything. Just Jamaican pride, that's all. I was born here in America, and I wouldn't mind half

J a m a i c a n sl i k e m y s e l f t o h e l p o u t . O r e v e n f u l l a m e r i c a n s b u t for sessions only. Not racist because there are white J a m a i c a n st o o , a n d I r e a l l y d o n ' t l o o k a t t h a t . Y o u h a v e t o b e Jamaicanso you can help me write about the country or you can get the feel of the music the you grew up around, like me for example I grew up around reggae, metal, rock, jazz and blues music. Look at the Swedish death metal scene, see any P o l i s hg u y s i n t h a t s c e n e ? I w o u l d n ' t m i n d a f e l l o w C a r i b b e a n band member. Look at Mayhem with Dead, Dead was a Swede and the other guys where Norse and that worked well. They kept it Scandinavian and I want to keep it Caribbean. W h a t ' s b e e n t h e r e s p o n s et o y o u r m e t a l w h e r e v o u l i v e ? ! ! Jamaica is extremely christian and miniscule amount of rockers are the social outcasts. I purposely mbde my music not in the taste of the typical Jamaican.The Typical Jamaican loves dancehall, hip hop, r&b or any form of pop music. What is the topic of your song "Ancient Ghana 1265"? It's history about the dahomey wars, the enslavement from muslim africans and the grand kingdom that was the oyo kingdom. Ok, mostly fact. The factual part is that in medieval times and before, West Africa had the largest kingdom on the continent, mainly becausethe prime resource was gold. This attracted muslim arabs, 300 years later, which in turn enslavedthe blacks for their gold and then started the trans atlantic slave with the europeans. In the 1200's the kingdom of Oyo was locatedin Ghana was the biggest of the kingdoms of the Yoruba. Also the other kingdoms of that time were the rivals. were Dahomey all and tribes, Ashanti "sleepino Giant"? about What l o l , t h i s i s a n o n - h i s t o r i c a ls o n g , s o m e w h a t o f a p e r s o n a l o n e , about 3 immature girls I encountered in my life. Sleeping Giant means someone with so much potential but doesn't do what their potentialshows. Almost like they're asleep. Also, a giant is so big they're not aware of who they hurt. Just c r u s hi n g . your songs? in history have role does What Some songs are historical, some songs are political, some s o n g s a r e a b o u t c u r r e n t d a y J a m a i c a a n d p r e - h i s t o r i cl a m a i c a . For each genre I do I try to get the topic for that genre. For example, current black metal is about Misanthropy, War Death, Evil and Satanism, I try to cover each topic for each genre. What instruments do you play on the recordings? I ' m t h e v o c a l i s t ,t h e g u i t a r i s t t h e b a s s p l a y e r a n d I u s e a d r u m machine. More of a computer program called "fruity loops" which mostly used for hip hop or dancehall (again none of t h e s e a r e i n f l u e n c e si n m y m u s i c ) O n F r u i t y l o o p s , y o u h a v e a drum program, which i like because it sound like the real thing. But, it does bore me and I'm not amped to play.lol home? at you music record Do Your Yes, I recordat home, again, I hate this, I wish to find people jam least. at with, can I You say you are a misanthrope and give the impression vou you about think what do so. war. OK. like c o l o n i a l i s t / i m p e r i a l i s tw a r s a n d t h e s l a v e t r a d e t h a t k i l l e d Africans? millions of millions upon millions upon I ' m a m i s a n t h r o p em a i n l y o u t o f a n g e r , l o l . I ' v e b e e n b e t r a y e d b y p e o p l e t o o m u c h . E s p e c i a l l yb y p e o p l e w h o i t h a t c a r e d , a p a r a s i t et h a t h a s b e e n a r o u n d f o r y e a r s , a n d t h e n a t t h e t e n t h

y e a r h e d e c i d e st o b e t r a y y o u . T h a t ' s h o w p e o p l e a r e , y o u j u s t can't trust them. A girl you marry for over 2 decades stay committed to you, but at the 20th year she chooses to cheat. That's how people are. I prefer the company of my cat and my dog and my music. They've never betrayed me so far. I could care less about people dying or whatever. The slave trade, my ancestors sold their fellow blacks into slavery, all for money and personal gains. There is no race,(in my opinion) just about self. War is a good thing to me, people die from it. So if p e o p l e d i e f r o m i t , l e s s p o p u l a t i o n so n t h e e a f t h . I t ' s w h a t w e want truly anyways, the death of ourselves. And do you support U.S. imperialist war in Iraq and Afghanistan. since vou are misanthrope? And is it not a problem that a "misanthropic" oerspective happens to be c o n v e n i e n t a n d s u p p o r t i v e o f r a c i s t . i m p e r i a l i s t .c a p i t a l i s t w a r against countries and peoples for centuries oppressed by colonialism and imperialism? Misanthropy is true hatred, everything else is shit. Racism is just stupidity funded by a capitalistregime to make money in means of music or other ways to spend their money making propaganda. The only reason I support my race is because of self pride, but fighting and killing for it is shear stupidity. You have confidence and over-confidence. You have racial pride, this is ok, but racial war is stupidity. And I'm only against stupidity and organizedstupidity. I'm all for hatred, but single sighted hate is not real hate. You love your race but you hate the rest is not real hate. If you truly are hateful, hate all. Black, white, whatever, hate, true hate is not discriminative. like other disease. cancer or any Just What was the metal scene like in Jamaica in the 1980s and 1990s? You say vou are the first black metal band. I t w a s n o n e x i s t e n t .T h e r e i s a r o c k s c e n e t h o u g h , b u t n o m e t a l scene, and yes Orisha Shakpana is the first Black metal band in the english speaking Caribbean. There is a black metal scene in Cuba and Puerto Rico, and they are our spanish neighbours. but nothing in Jamaica, and to the looks of it n o t h i n g w i l l e v e r b e a s u c c e s s o ro f O r i s h a S h a k p a n a , m a y b e i n Trinidad or Guyana but not here. In Trini, they have a death metal scene. Really don't get it, we are so similar, similar c u l t u r e s ,s i m i l a r h i s t o r y , a n d w e u n d e r s t a n de a c h o t h e r ' s A f r o C a r i b b e a nd i a l e c t ( P a t o i s ) . I g u e s s i t ' s a r a c i a l w i t h t h e m t o o , becauseI most see East Indian guys with metal bands there, but no black guys(not that i've seen) I've never been there before just what I know of the internet. The rock scene in Jamaica started around the mid-90's, with reggae/rock bands like Downstairs and etc. I don't really pay attention to it, because it sound way more reggae than it does rock. What international metal bands come to Jamaica?What are you attended? have best shows the of some None no one is really interest in metal if you have people interested it a very small number of people, no exaggeration but I think i know all the metalheadsin jamaica right now that a r e t h e o n l y m e t a l f a n s f o r t h a t i s l a n d .A f o r m e r f r i e n d o f m i n e did a survey and he got just 200 people that like rock and metal. It's Jamaica so the majority of that 200 is mostly the rock fans and no, I've never been to a metal show. Unless youtube.com counts, kidding. But like I said, metal is non band other have this in Jamaica, you existet Anthirium(Christia/Prog metal band), who like me is trying to n have something, but there is literally no scene in Jamaica. mention? you to like would else What I would like to say that I am getting ever so close to my

revenge, my revenge upon mankind. The people of my past, mainly. What do vou have planned for 2010 and bevond? Hopefullyby then I can get on a label that accepts my views and art direction and in turn start my own label. THE END. ( w i s c o n s i n .u . S . ) Efbus Erebus, a groove/thrash/politicalband, has a vocalist that during a performance gets in your face while he's growling and screaming. But wait, that's not your only problem. The real problem is that he_ is holding a sledgehammer and pointing it at your face, and seeing that you are probably a little inebriated at that moment, and just t h i n k t h a t t h e v o c a l i s t i s g r o w l s c r e a m i n gh i s l u n g s o u t , w h a t i s about to happenwill be a good time. All the while, the band is playing this sort of violent, mosh-friendly songs that get people banging their heads, moshing, doing karate high-kicks, and just generally people gyrating their skeletons in a manner most pleasing to said, s l e d g e h a m e r - w i e l di n g v o c aIi s t . m You'renot going home now. D a v e F r a z e r( V o c a l s ) ;G a g e T r a d e r ( G u i t a r ) ; D e r e k S i l l o w a y s (Bass); Drummer: currently seeking new drummer myspace.com/erebusw i :y* It seems like you have been busv recording new music! Dave: Things have been really busy and exciting for us in the last few months. We signed a promotion contract with HM management, a company based out of Cleveland,Ohio. We hope they can work their magic and get us a deal like the one they got Madison's Luna Mortis earlier this year. G a g e : W e t r a v e l e d t o C l e v e l a n da n d d i d a 3 s o n g d e m o . W e are very pleased with how our recordings sound, and are excited to have them mixed and mastered. A new recording isn't likely in the immediate future, but you can listen to all our new tracks on myspace (you can't actually download them, though). Also. where did you record? How was that experience? D a v e : T h e e x p e r i e n c ew a s . . . i n t e r e s t i n g . W e s p e n t a w e e k i n Cleveland, sleeping on the floor of a batting cage in the studio, eating micro-waved macaroni and cheese, showering in the local YMCA... that's real metal for you, folks. Our producer implemented interesting methods of recording that I was not used to. I had to record all my vocal tracks twice for depth, which was rough on me, since I really s t r i v e t o d e l i v e r a p a s s i o n a t ea n d i n t e n s e p e r f o r m a n c e . M a n , was my neck tired after ten hours of that! That's what she said. Gage: The experience for me was really great. I loved every second of recording, and I was especially interested in learning more about the actual recording process.It was a lot easier than I expected it to be, even if some interesting (i.e. not-so-great) things happened along the way. Being together with the guys for a week was a blast and I think it really helped strengthen the core Erebus. of Derek: As far as was it what I expected?I think it'd be fair to say we were all a little surprisedat our first outing into the p r o f e s s i o n a lm u s i c b u s i n e s s .I t w a s s t r e s s f u l , h a r d w o r k a n d a t t h e t i m e s i t w a s k i n d a d i s c o n c e r t i n g ,b u t n o w l o o k i n g b a c k I loved it. What can say about your songs "Life and Death in the Land of Hope" "The and Great Satan"? l0

Dave: Life and Death in the Land of Hope is about the s e e m i n g l y o v e r w h e l m i n g s e t o f c h a l l e n g e sf a c i n g t h e O b a m a administrationand the hopes that so many have attached to his finding solutions. In the song, I explore a multitude of problems that face the average American throughout his or h e r l i f e t i m e i n o r d e r t o p o i n t o u t t h e s e c h a l l e n g e s .T h e G r e a t Satan is a criticism of the United States anti-terror policies, the name of course referring to the popular Iranian nickname for the United States. Practically everything the United States 'war' on terror has been has done to fight a c o u n t e r p r o d u c t i v e ,a n d e x a m p l e s c a n b e f o u n d t h r o u g h o u t t h e son9. Gage: Life and Death was my first forray into writing an entire Erebus song. I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out - it's much darker than other Erebus songs, and it has a sort of tech deathy feel to it. I find this one a lot of fun to play because it's challenging and catchy at the same time. The Great Satan is another more death-metal oriented song. It also dabbles into doom metal with the brooding opening and carries a harmonic dark minor feel throughout. So. how many new songs have you recorded then? Is there you'd other info like about that? share Dave: We have recordedthree new songs, Hegemon, Life and Death in the Land of Hope, and Good for Nothing. Since we were only able to record three songs, we chose these three because they really demonstrated the versatiliiy and genrehopping madness that Erebus brings to the table. Our hope is that record companies hear Life and Death, say to themselves "Oh, ok, another tech death band," and then BAM!They hear G o o d f o r N o t h i n g a n d c o m e t o t h e i m m e d i a t e r e a l i z a t i o nt h a t i t s o u n d s p r a c t i c a l l yn o t h i n g l i k e t h e f i r s t s o n g . T h e y g e t u s e d to the groove-tastic vibe of that song and then BOOMI They hear Hegemon and realize that it is completely different from the previoustwo songs! Few bands bring that diversity to the table, and we hope it will be our selling point. You tend to make people want to mosh. Maybe it's the "hammer of Erebus" vour vocalist Dave Frazer waves and swings about. At anv rate, how's your music received in Illinois or Minnesota or other places you have played? Dave: Haha, well that is certainly our intent. We stafted off playing basement shows for all ages crowds all around the s t a t e , w h i c h r e a l l y g a v e u s o u r s t y l e o f e n c o u r a g i n gt h e c r o w d and involvingthem in our shows. As we have played around, we have played for more older crowds, and have found that that style isn't always appreciated(such as the time I jumped on a table, spillingdrinks all over a patron, or when I dumped a n a s h t r a y o n a t a b l e f u l l o f n o n p a r t i c i p a t o r s ) ,b u t w e s t i l l stay true to our roots and never hold back when it comes to a performance. Either way, everywhere we play we get some people who don't like the in your face style, others that get totally into it, and that's great for us. That way all the scene kids and bar flies make room for all the real metal heads to enloy the show!! Gage: Yeah, I don't think I've seen us do a show without someone moshing. People seem to enjoy it the same pretty much everywhere (especially when there's beer involved). What do you think the metal public can do to support metal m u s i c i n W i s c o n s i ni n g e n e r a l ? Gage: Going to shows is an obvious one. Being part of the Wisconsin Metal Alliance really helps everyone. The more c o n n e c t i o n st h a t c a n b e m a d e t h e r e , t h e b e t t e r o f f b a n d s a r e . Dave: Well, the best way the public can support independent bands is to go out and see them. I think the

sceneoverallcold be improved if bands were able to unite and work together to build a scene. There is too much cutthroat competition and rivalry in the scene, at times it seems like bands have'turf'that they don't allow other bands to encroach upon. The Loft is a great example - Erebus has never been allowedto play there due to our 'bar band' image. Metal bands need to stop complaining about the scene in M a d i s o n o r M i l w a u k e ea n d s t a r t t o r e a l i z e t h a t t h e c i t i e s w i t h the best scenes are those that have bands that work together. You are a member of the Wisconsin Metal Alliance. Can vou explain what it is and how people can participate in it? Dave: The WMA is a forum that brings metal heads from all around the state together to support their favorite independentWisconsin bands. With both bant members (all members of Erebus frequently post on the forums) and fans combined, the Alliance is a great way to network, meet people, build bands and just hang out and talk about metal. Its about the only thing this state has going for it as far as goes. building a state wide scene As for participation, go to www.wimetal.org and start postingl We have all sorts of interesting discussions, for example, currently we are holding nominations for the first annual "WMA Awards", in which we will hand out awards to the pinnacle of Wisconsin metal, in 20 different categories. Log on today and nominate your favorite bandsl Gage: Dave said it pretty well, really. We're an online community that strives to help bands better themselves, showcase Wisconsin metal, and connect metalheads. Is it possible to combine the "hammer of Erebus" and the "turtles of Erebus" for new t-shirts? Mavbe the two turtles should hold one hammer each and say "Join the hammer b r i g a d e ! ! "o r " W e a r e t h e h a m m e r b r i g a d e . W h o a r e y o u ? " o r "Don't make me come get you!!" or "Mosh or elsel!"?! Derek: I want to make a t shirt where I am slapping someone w i t h a p i g f i s h . . . p e r h a p sa t u n a . O r s t u r g e o n . I t s h a r d c o m i n g up with a new shirt design that will be as good as, and dare I sdy, classic ds, the turtle fucking shirt. We'll see what happens. Gage: Yeah, that was actuallythe original intent with our shirts, but we like to keep costs down, so that idea ended up getting nixed. I like the slogans though...those are pretty badass! We've been kicking around ideas for a new shirt, but we want something as fun as the turtles...to this point we success. had any haven't Dave: Hahaha! I love your ideas! The turtles shirt is certainly a favorite. I sometimes see people mowing their lawns wearing it, or tagged on facebook. It might just be time for a new shirt, we will certainlyconsideryour ideas! Hopefully you will see us on the Tonight Show with Conan O'brien in the next few months. At that time, I will wear a large fireretardant suit, light myself on fire and chase Andy Richter studi o. the h throug

so that the sound is thought out well. The changes from chaotic speed to more somber moments take place in smooth transitions that are not very noticeable, making the songs flow. The Bearer-guitars/vocals; The Revenant-guitars/vocals; The Dreamer-percussion/ambience; The Wanderer-bass/spoken word; The Watcher-keyboars/vocals www. myspace.com/old corpseroad Has "Echoes" spread your name a bit around? We are extremely pleased with the reaction we have received from the "The Echoes of Tales Once Told" demo. Since it's release we have received many excellent reviews and so far nothing bad (touch wood!). We have been surprised by the interest and have sold copies of the demo throughout the world. The demo has been key in securing us a split release CD with fellow UK black metallers, Worms of Sabnock, through UK label Godreah Records. Can you explain the storiesor ideas behind the songs"The Old Corpse Road," "The Wild Hunt." and the Oakmen of Naddle Forest"? Each track is told from a different perspective, be it personal or third person etc. The Old Corpse Road was inspired by a corpse road in the UK Lake District, more specifically Haweswater. The song tells of lengthy trail people used to walk when carrying coffins to a cemetery. The legends tell that these roads led over harsh terrain and were haunted by f ai r i e s and spir it s. The Wild Hunt is told in the first person perspective. The story is about a man who is subjected to the terror of a fabled hunt known throughout Europe in many differentforms. In our take of the story a traveller is swept up and then becomes part of the hunt itself looking to claim more innocent souls. The Oakmen of Naddle Forest is told from a storyteller's point of view. The story is an amalgamation of two ideas. Oakmen are legendary creatures thought to haunt bluebell woods in nodhern England and be protective of oak trees. Naddle Forest is a woodland in the vicinity of Haweswater (home to the Old Corpse Road) famed for its oak trees and bluebells.The story is told as though speaking to a group round a camp fire and serves as warning to beware of the protectors forest. Oakmen, of the W h a t i s v o u r o p i n i o n o f t h e m e t a l s c e n e a t t h e q r a s s r o o t sl e v e l you live? where U n f o r t u n a t e l y ,i n o u r p a r t i c u l a r r e g i o n t h e m e t a l s c e n e i s s m a l l to non existent. We have to travel reasonable distances gigs. good metal to see around the country And do you play shows in your region or city? Sometimes, bands are formed as a response to current attitudes or trends. you case? is true in vour Do this think So far Old Corpse Road have dedicated all our time to writing and recording and are now starting to focus our effotts to rehearse for live shows. The band was formed between friends and likeminded musiciansas a vehicle to express our musical ideas irrelevantof the time of which it was formed. Do vou use theatrical elements when you pedorm live? We plan to have onstage visuals to enhance the live experience. We wanted to stay true to our normal casual scheme. natural colour earthy with an clothing You have three people that do vocals and one that does narrations. Is this the case on the recording, too?

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Old Corose Road ru.r.tMy impression of their recording "The Echoes of Tales Once Told" is that Old Corpse Road has a lot of musical ideas that they implement in their blasting and atmospheric black metal. They, of course, do lots of blasting, frenzied music, but they also include other elements to balance things out with a feel/mood of spoken word and narratives. In this manner the band creates an imaginative type of black metal based on myths, histories, stories and traditions akin to those. The music is already very developed, as are the lyrical concepts, ll

Yes, the vocals on the recording are reproduced by the same members in the practiceenvironment. The Revenantand The Bearer share equal amounts of the main vocals, whilst The Wanderer provides narrative. All of the aforementioned and additionally keyboardistThe Watcher all provide clean vocal harmonies both on recording and in practice. With regards to f u t u r e r e c o r d i n g s ,w e h a v e f o u n d a w o r k i n g f o r m u l a w h i c h w i l l remain the same. We will always be open to explore new ideas anses. if the opportunity What other events, news, recordings, etc. do you have for the 2010? for half 2009 and second of W e h a v e a s p l i t r e l e a s ew i t h t h e W o r m s o f S a b n o c k d u e o u t i n the later part of 2009 which will feature th?ee new and exciting tracks. We are preparing for the live circuit and our focus is on promoting the band and our current demo "The Told". Echoes Tales Once of Any future news will be featured on our website END. THE www.oldcorDseroad. uk. co.

just say fuck them and move along with our music and hope will listen. influence who to those to on What is the story behind the song "Eye of Hate"? Josh: Basically, Mauricio, Eye Of Hate is about a ruthless king that stands strong with no remorse for anyone in his way. It explainshow much fury and rage and disgusthe holds it. in the beings world and toward the Is your song "Retribution" about getting revenoe? Josh: Retribution is simply about the end of the world like how some songs may be, but this one tells it from a side w h e r e f e a r i s s h o w n a n d e x p r e s s e st h e t h o u g h t s a b o u t i t . " E x i s t e n c ea t C r e a t i o n " i s a b o u t w h a t ? Josh: Existence At Creation is about a creator who dreamt of life and to bring it to his reality, instead his dreams created am abominaton which destroyed his dream and formed into a nightmare which spawned an abomination upon the world. W h e r e d o e s J o s h g e t i d e a s f o r l y r i c s ?" O f F i r e B o r n " r e a d s l i k e angrv ranting and raving. for example. Who are the violent thouqhts directedat?! l o s h : M a u r i c i o ,m y l y r i c s a r e ' a l l f r o m i n s i d e m y o w n h e a d . Actually a while back Adrian wrote the song and titled both Existence at Creation and Of Fire Born, I simply created images and stories of how I wanted the song to play in my h e a d , I l i s t e n e dt o w h a t e l e m e n t a n d t h e m e t h e s o n g s r e a c h e s out to me, and I tell a story in the lyricsI write. What tvpe of books or literature that Josh read? Josh: I actually do not read or study literature, books, or a u t h o r s , b u t i a m g r e a t l y i n f l u e n c e db y m a n y m a n y b a n d s o u t there. I will sit down and listen to their music, I read their words and it simply blows my mind of how they can just be so f u c k i n g m u s i c a l l yt a l e n t e d . I l i s t e n t o t h e m a n y t y p e s o f v o c a l s from bands out there from Daylight Dies to Vital remains, their lyrics are so insanely technical and amazing ipush them. like write myself in hopes to Where does Josh see his vocals going in the future? What is h i s o w n e v a l u a t i o n o f h i s o e r f o r m a n c eo n t h e r e c o r d i n o ? Josh: Hm...in the future I want my vocals to reach an i n c r e d i b l er a n g e t h a t I n e v e r t h o u g h t I c o u l d b e f o r e . R i g h t n o w at every practice Vacillation has, I practice from deep gutteral to thrash and black. I am mainly influencedby melodic and p r o g r e s s i v e d e a t h m e t a l , f o r e x a m p l e : t h e F a c e l e s s ,D a y l i g h t Dies, Satariel, and Old Scar Symmetry. I do have high hopes that one day i can jump from the most heart racingpure clean vocals to nasty eye gouging straight brutal vocals. At the moment I try hard to expand the range of my lows to highs so I can have more opportunies in the near future if some await me. W h a t i s A d r i a n ' s p e r s p e c t i v eo n g u i t a r s o l o s ? w Adrian:Well man, lately ihave been experimenting ith a lot o f v e r y o d d s w e e p - t a p p i n gp a t t e r n s , a s w e l l a s s t r u g g l i n ge a c h day to get better and cleaner at my solos. My initialapproach to soloing was to make the leads very smooth, fast, and very m e l o d i c . I a m i n f l u e n c e d v e r y m u c h b y n e o c l a s s i c a lg u i t a r players such as MichaelAngelo Batio, Muhammed Suicmez of Necrophagist, Per Nillson of Scar Symmetry, and James Hetfield of Metallicaas well as other Death and Black metal bands such as Dark Funeral, Immoftal or Deicide,

e V a c i l l a t i o n ( H o u s t otn .x a s .u . s . )S p e a k i n go f t h i s b a n d i n a p r e v i o u s i s s u e ,t h e r e v i e w s a i d : "Vacillation(Texas, U.S.) has the positive quality of s o u n d i n g l i k e t h e y m e a n b u s i n e s s .T h i s i s n o t a s m a l l m a t t e r becausetheir high-speed riffing, mean-thrash drumming and the energetic, twisted growling vocals make up for the fact t h e s e f i v e s o n g s h a v e a b a r e - b o n e ss o u n d q u a l i t y . All this goes to show what? That when you do things right-attitude-can carry you through, despite obstacleslike not having the sound quality you would like. The guitar work has some cool, promising soloing, kind of fast and melodic, but memorable. The drummer does a good job of attacking the instrument and getting a raw, pounding thrash/speed metal quality. It is true that this sounds like a garage recording. That's probably because it is or something like it. However, there is good potentialhere. This is demo songs, so you know what to expect, but I think the vocals, drumming and riffs/solos work well and will likely get a lot better in the future, if this is anything to go by. "Drift fast, is a Away" Song number 5, thrashing/death song. It has very brief moments of clean vocals. I think this does not work here because the clean vocals sound weak. However, it is only a very brief moment (like one vocal line, done twice). Maybe don't do clean vocals or maybe do clean vocals, but do them better. Right now, the a l l - g r o w l i n ga p p r o a c h s o u n d s j u s t f i n e . " Nick-bass; Josh-vocals; Adrian-guitar; currently seeking w w w . m y s p a c e . o m / v a c i ll a t i o n m e t aI dru mme r . c What has happened so far in 2009 with your band since your recording? losh: Well Mauricio. things have not been looking up for Vacillation. Vacillation is currently on break, due to our p r e v i o u s d r u m m e r M i c h e a l L u c i o . . . i fy o u c a n e v e n c a l l h i m a drummer. But we are currently looking for a new drummer so that we with Vacillation. can continue on What can vou tell us about the Houston metal scene? Josh: Unfortunately we are not very lucky with the music scene we are forced to cope with. If it's not rap then its your Screamo Rap influenced Deathcore with the constant 3-5second pause breakdown followed by some raunchy kid scream. We don't get much applause or attention at our shows to be honest because of that, if you're not with the media down here, you're not worth listening to, but we

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What are some bands from Houston that you think have s o m e t h i n g i n t e r e s t i n go r c r e a t i v e g o i n g ? Adrian: Its pretty hard to even find any decent true metal b a n d s h e r e i n H o u s t o n M a u r i c i o ,b u t t h e r e a r e p l e n t y n e a r a n d around such as Predominant Mortification, To Scale the Throne, Gates of Enoch, Engraved (a band that our bass player nick currently plays in), Averse Sefira, Sakrefix, those a r e a l l p r e t t y a m a z i n g b a n d s e s p e c i a l l yw i t h t h e c o r e i n f e s t e d here. scene down Does it seem to you that it will be easy to find good-paying jobs? Are you optimisticabout the future or do you have your doubts about the "American dream"? Josh: As far as we are concerned we know that even if we were to be signed to a contract it would not be-anything great t o m a k e u s o r g i v e u s a s u c c e s s f u lf u t u r e , e a c h a n d e v e r y o n e of us Me, Adrian, Nick are striving hard in school,for me and Adrian were trying hard to make it through college, im not sure exactly what the "American Dream" is. I suppose it could be whatever makes us happy? If that's the case then I am still looking. What other events. news, recordings, etc. do you have? Josh: Well, as far as news or planning we are currently just l o o k i n g f o r a w a y b e t t e r t r u e d r u m m e r f o r V a c i l l a t i o n ,w e w i l l kick it off with finishing our 2 newest songs(not yet revealed) and we'll be looking to book a couple shows around here. Adrian: We are very excited for the next few months, h o p e f u l l yw e c a n g e t a s t a b l e a n d d e d i c a t e d d r u m m e r t o f i l l i n so we can record our two newest songs. So far, no live shows will be set up until we can find a stable drummer but that will h-opefullynot be too long from now! THE END.

t h e f i r s t p r i n t i n g , a n d w e ' r e c u r r e n t l y o n o u r s e c o n d .T h e C D i s available online on iTunes, Amazon.com, Napster, Rhapsody, ju e M u s i c ,e t c . . . . b a s i c a l l y , s t p u t i t i n t o g o o g l e a n d y o u ' l l f i n d a way to buy it. We've also got a DVD of our live performance available for purchase at our shows. You can see clips on YouTube as well. Reaction to the album has been very good. The frozen people of Wisconsin and Minnesota have been using it to prepare themselves for battles against other snow tribes, I've been told. Also, one woman in Chicago said that she would "follow us to our grave" and stared at me like a crazed witch. I believe this was a pickup line. So overall, very good! In the new talkie "Terminator Salvation" robots run amuck destructioning manv a structure and human. And you have songs about "terminating." Will this new talkie inspire your guitar lords Asian Metal and Killius Maximus? How do two warriors manage to work tooether without killinoeach other in guitar duels? And, do their guitar solos have the abilitv to change the chemical composition of thinqs? Ah yes...I've heard of this new Terminator picture. Obviously influencedby our song....I've yet to hear from those strange warlocks called "Law-yers" about our cut of the deal. W e t a k e i n s p i r a t i o n f r o m m a n y t h i n g s . . . u s u a l l yt h e b a t t l e s we've had. But know this: The LORDS OF THE TRIDENTare constantly composing new material. The problem is, usually the songs are SO metal, the sound will kill anything that stands in front of it. That's why we go through many, many t e s t a u d i e n c e sb e f o r e w e r e a c h a g o o d t u n e . K i l l i u sa n d A s i a n Metal do a great job of striking the balance between deadly metal riffs and time bending solos so as to create an amazing song without accidentally killing any of our fans. Killius Maximus and Asian Metal have almost destroyed each other (and our practice spaces) more often than I can r e c a l l .A c t u a l l y , t h i s i s a c o m m o n t h e m e w i t h a l l o f t h e L O R D S , myself included. We've tried everything, from sound isolation liquid oxygen tanks, to diging through the earth's crust in order to practice in the Mohorovidii discontinuity (we later found out that our practices were the cause of many earthquakes). We've now taken to practicing in a secret underground army base that's used to test small nuclear e x p l o s i o n s .I ' m h a p p y t o s a y t h a t , a s o f n o w , i t ' s h o l d i n g u p well. fairly As far as their guitar solos, I've seen them do many a strange thing, from blasting the bark off of trees, to blasting the clothesoff of women. So yes, I'd say they have the ability things. alter to chemically In the art of pillaging, what skills does lead bassist Captain Bluddbeard bring? Song, composition, lyric skills, numchuck skills, cage fighting skills? And is the Captain related to fame? cereal he of the Crunch, Captain Capt. Bluddbeard doesn't like to talk about his half-cousin Crunch much. Obviously the entire Bluddbeard clan is EXTREMELY mbarrassed by Crunch, and between you and e ffie, they have sought to destroy him numerous times' I suppose if we weren't busy enough ourselves, Bluddbeard now. r i gh t looking out be would As for the Captain's role, he plays a bass as deep and powerful as the mighty oceans themselves. H, of course, writes all his own pafts from the helm of his ship (which he carries around with him for good luck). He's been known to help out on a few lyrics as well. Being a pirate, his numchuck skills don't hold a candle against Asian Metal (neither do mine), but he's learning. Give that man a cannon, rapier, or octopus launcher, though, and you're as good as dead.

n u L o r d s o f t h e T r i d e n t ( r q a c i s ow i s c o n s i n . s . tThe ever-battle-ready, battle-tested, battle-loving and battlelording Lords of the Trident live in castles protected by heavy metal dragons schooled in the arts of ultimate fighting c h a m p i o n s h i pa n d m a r s h m a l l o w - d e s t r o y i n gm e t a l f l a m e s t h a t melt steel and tupperware shields. If you know of anyone who does not like the Lords' music, they want you to send them a list of those people. The Lords will gladly provide you with a messengerfalcon that will come to your castle and pick up the list. The falcon will take it back to the Lords who will prepare for mighty and fearless cow tipping battles in the vast prairies of the kingdom of Wisconsin. T h e L o r d sh a v e a r r i v e d .Y o u r v i l l a g e i s d o o m e d ! ! ! F a n g V o n K i l l e n s t e i n- L e a d V o c a l s ;