Coming out of IsraHELL, this band is playing death metal
The band formed recently
Not many infos about them, but this is one of those bands that deserve a mention here
1985-87-like death metal is what you get
"Bloody Eon":
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sâmbătă, 12 octombrie 2013
Interview Bony(Spinecrusher, ex-Snapjaw)
1.Hailz, Bony! Because this is the first interview for Sadistik Witchfukk, please tell us some infos about you!
Hail, Sorin! I'm former Snapjaw vocalist, the current Spinecrusher vocalist.
2.Which was your first band?(In case it is not Snapjaw, give some details about the band/bands where you sang.)
The first bands with which I sang was MG42 before having this name, at the 2nd and the last edition of a jam session.
The idea back then was that only the vocalist to be changed by the genre of the songs.
I sang with them 4 songs: "Witching Hour", "Ace of Spades", "Symphony of Destruction" and "Motorbreath".
3.How did you started to collaborate with Snapjaw, and what can you tell about the band(I guess that lots of people who read S.W. do not know about Snapjaw)
The collaboration with Snapjaw began some weeks after the jam-sessions I told you earlier. Cata(rhythm guitar) was in the crowd in that evening, searching for a
vocalist for the band he wanted to form. We didn't spoke back then, because I left immediately after the jam, but we met by mistake at a video show Pantera - "Watch it go",
where he asked me to be the vocalist. The band had no name back then, so I came up with the name Snapjaw.
4.In 2010, Snapjaw splited-up. Why?
There were lots of reasons, I do not even know where to begin. The age difference I can say was one of the reasons, the rest of the members had a different point of view than mine,
towards the band and its style; they wanted a more modern(and updated sound?) that can sell; big demands regarding concerts and rehearsal places; line-up changing, that went to
the replacement of the older songs, but the biggest reason, at least for me, was the last of money. The others being much older, had jobs and they could afford paying monthly for the
rehearsal place. I couldn't afford so I proposed them that we should get on hold until I will find a job to pay for the rehearsal place. Of course that break was for forever,
because the band wanted to change the style, something pop-rock with another vocalist.
5.Between 2010 and 2012, as far as I know you didn't sang in any band. Did you left the metal scene in this time, or you were still in it but doing something else(besides Necrogore Productions)?
I left the metal scene for forever, because back then a group of people "owned" the scene, to say like this, had a plan to help bands who paid money or praised them,
something typically romanian unfortunately, and I did not wanted to take part. Actually, without money and without them, you have no chance to raise as a band or to
survive in the scene. Many venues where metal concerts were held closed the door, and chances to find new people for this style to form a new band, were very small,
almost impossible.
6.Since 2012 you are the vocalist of Spinecrusher. What can you say about this band? Did you influenced the band in any way?
I can say that Spinecrusher are reaching the level I wanted to reach with Snapjaw, they are much closer to the style I wanted to play. My influence on the band, was the
same I had also on the scene, that is about the image on stage. When I started to sing, many of the bands looked the same, they wore the same street-clothes on the stage,
and everything seemed unoriginal and dull. I left those concerts disappointed, and I felt that they did not deserved the money, so I wanted to do something that I wanted to see
at the other bands; the crowd to see a show as well, not just to listen the music(that you can do as well at home, being relaxed in your lounge).
7. Also, you released a demo with Spinecrusher. What can you tell us about it(recodings, who produced it, who wrote the music, the lyrics)?
The demo was recorded at my place, self-produced in the most DIY style to reduce the costs. The songs and the lyrics were written before I joined the band. It's a
3-songs demo, that tells a story.
8.What about Spinecrusher's future plans(signing with a label, perhaps an album)?
We plan to release a 10-songs album, hopefully to be released next year. I don't know if we'll sign with a label too soon, because our style it's not a sell-out on, like the core bands or
pagan/folk/avant-garde/experimental/bla-bla-manelo-subacvatic black metal that are the fashion bands.
9.Also, Spinecrusher opened for many bands such as Blasphemophagher, Sodomizer, Hellkommander, better said, Romanian Thrash Metal Club's events. What do you think about RTMC.
And how did they influenced Spinecrusher's activity?
They had a big role in the band's development, besides the mentioned concerts, "Hellthrash" would not even exist without their help. RTMC is one of the reasons that made me
to return in the metal scene and showed me that there is a chance for the genre I play. If they would form before, or if Snapjaw would resist a little bit, maybe that band would still be alive.
10.Besides the activity in these bands, I know that you collaborated with Necrogore Production as well. Do you still collaborate with them? What can you tell me about Necrogore
and some of its events.
The collaboration with Necrogore Production does not exist for some time. I only did some flyers for events, and when they organized a concert, I helped them staying at the entrance.
Because I had no band and I no longer wanted to have anything to do with metal, I thought it was a waste of time, and I had nothing to gain or to learn from it, I thought
I had not enough artistic freedom. After the organizer learnt how to use Photoshop(or Corel?) it was no need of my help. I can only wish them good luck for the future.
11.What do you think about the Romanian metal scene?
I have a very bad opinion, at least before joining Spinecrusher. The scene itself was one of the reasons I left the metal scene.
As I said before, a big part of it is seems to be a big "circlejerk", many people from "the previous generation" only help between themselves, praising themselves even
for the smallest achievements/releases, most of them being inexistent. Some people who only exploit the scene for personal profit, who openly lament for how hard is what they do
and that is the crowd's fault for their failures, because they cannot appreciate what is good. I know a lot of people who agree with me, but do not express openly because they're
afraid of those whom they depend on more or less. I see the metal scene as a music of revolt where you can express your ideas openly, and also your personally vision towards the
world. Although many things are in my detriment, I can not stop to openly express my honest opinion towards some persons and things that happened in our scene. In this way I know
exactly that every next event will be deserved, not for those who pay or give praisings to. I don't like that many things released in the metal press regarding some cancellations or
line-up changings are hidden. But nothing is lost though, luckily there appears in a new wave of bands, a new generation with big potential that I hope will bury the outdated mentalities.
12.Are you satisfied with Snapjaw and Spinecrusher's releases? Would you change something at them?
I can't say that I am satisfied regarding Snapjaw, actually, they are not that excellent. Regarding the EP, I am not proud at all; it would be better if it wouldn't exist,
if I'd knew that will end this way. I gained some experience since, and this is only a good thing, but mostly, I think that I wasted some good dieas. I would liked a LP instead of that EP,
that was only released because "that's how it is done&it is demanded".
I would like those releases to be recorded in another place, at someone with ideas and much more knowledge about metal and I would like to draw that artwork myself, which was in my opinion,
a waste of money just to look "actual". Mostly, I think that were taken lots of decisions that I didn't agreed with and maybe we will not be that known in this way.
I think we all have a favourite band, that changed the style into something not that good and you'd wish that band to split before this to happen, or at least to change the name.
Spinecrusher is at another level, it is just how I wished Snapjaw to be and I am more happy with its musical direction.
13.Speaking of Snapjaw, some of the songs were never released. Would you like to reform the band? Or, those songs to be part of Spinecrusher's setlist?
I would like to reform the band, but it's not mine and I think it will never happen. I lost lots of good songs that I liked a lot, but nobody remembers them and there are only
some bad-quality live recordings. A big part of Snapjaw's songs cannot be part of Spinecrusher's setlist, songs like "Waking up the vampire" that is too
melodic for Spinecrusher's style. Maybe "Back from the Grave" I would like to sing, but unfortunately, there is not any recorded version. It is the only song I liked a lot and I am sorry for it.
I would like to sing with Spinecrusher, but I didn't wrote it; so this is the situation. It would be cool to release an album with all the songs we have and to do a farewell tour, but these wishes will never achieve.
14.What romanian bands do you recommend(or from abroad)?
From Romania I don't know what to recommend, I rarely listen to romanian bands, this because of the lyrics, many times these lyrics are written in romanian language,
thing that I don't like, but actually it is good. Romanian bands that I mostly listen to are Cap de Craniu, The 13th Sun, The Nuggers, First Division, Raizing Hell,
Psycho Symphony, Crossbone and Code Red. From abroad I recommend Usurpress, Bombs of Hades, Tribulation, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blood Freak, Ghoul, Tormented, Repugnant,
Splatterhouse, After the Bombs, Skeletal Remains, Acid Witch, The Cramps, Kap Bambino, Pistamashina, Daikaiju, Guantanamo Baywatch, Dr. Living Dead, Gallhammer, Hellkommander
and Sodomizer. There are bands that influenced me, but many of them are already known
15.Your top 10 all-favourite albums...?
Tankard - Beast of Bourbon
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mercyful Fate - Don't break the Oath
Motörhead - Bomber
Misfits - Earth A.D.
D.R.I. - Thrash Zone
Possessed - Beyond the Gates
Hellhammer - Triumph of Death
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
16.The last words are yours!
Support the bands with their own songs, not the tribute bands who does only exploit the scene.
Hail, Sorin! I'm former Snapjaw vocalist, the current Spinecrusher vocalist.
2.Which was your first band?(In case it is not Snapjaw, give some details about the band/bands where you sang.)
The first bands with which I sang was MG42 before having this name, at the 2nd and the last edition of a jam session.
The idea back then was that only the vocalist to be changed by the genre of the songs.
I sang with them 4 songs: "Witching Hour", "Ace of Spades", "Symphony of Destruction" and "Motorbreath".
3.How did you started to collaborate with Snapjaw, and what can you tell about the band(I guess that lots of people who read S.W. do not know about Snapjaw)
The collaboration with Snapjaw began some weeks after the jam-sessions I told you earlier. Cata(rhythm guitar) was in the crowd in that evening, searching for a
vocalist for the band he wanted to form. We didn't spoke back then, because I left immediately after the jam, but we met by mistake at a video show Pantera - "Watch it go",
where he asked me to be the vocalist. The band had no name back then, so I came up with the name Snapjaw.
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Snapjaw playing live. From left to right: Cata Psycho, Bony, Mishu and Cristi |
There were lots of reasons, I do not even know where to begin. The age difference I can say was one of the reasons, the rest of the members had a different point of view than mine,
towards the band and its style; they wanted a more modern(and updated sound?) that can sell; big demands regarding concerts and rehearsal places; line-up changing, that went to
the replacement of the older songs, but the biggest reason, at least for me, was the last of money. The others being much older, had jobs and they could afford paying monthly for the
rehearsal place. I couldn't afford so I proposed them that we should get on hold until I will find a job to pay for the rehearsal place. Of course that break was for forever,
because the band wanted to change the style, something pop-rock with another vocalist.
5.Between 2010 and 2012, as far as I know you didn't sang in any band. Did you left the metal scene in this time, or you were still in it but doing something else(besides Necrogore Productions)?
I left the metal scene for forever, because back then a group of people "owned" the scene, to say like this, had a plan to help bands who paid money or praised them,
something typically romanian unfortunately, and I did not wanted to take part. Actually, without money and without them, you have no chance to raise as a band or to
survive in the scene. Many venues where metal concerts were held closed the door, and chances to find new people for this style to form a new band, were very small,
almost impossible.
6.Since 2012 you are the vocalist of Spinecrusher. What can you say about this band? Did you influenced the band in any way?
I can say that Spinecrusher are reaching the level I wanted to reach with Snapjaw, they are much closer to the style I wanted to play. My influence on the band, was the
same I had also on the scene, that is about the image on stage. When I started to sing, many of the bands looked the same, they wore the same street-clothes on the stage,
and everything seemed unoriginal and dull. I left those concerts disappointed, and I felt that they did not deserved the money, so I wanted to do something that I wanted to see
at the other bands; the crowd to see a show as well, not just to listen the music(that you can do as well at home, being relaxed in your lounge).
7. Also, you released a demo with Spinecrusher. What can you tell us about it(recodings, who produced it, who wrote the music, the lyrics)?
The demo was recorded at my place, self-produced in the most DIY style to reduce the costs. The songs and the lyrics were written before I joined the band. It's a
3-songs demo, that tells a story.
8.What about Spinecrusher's future plans(signing with a label, perhaps an album)?
We plan to release a 10-songs album, hopefully to be released next year. I don't know if we'll sign with a label too soon, because our style it's not a sell-out on, like the core bands or
pagan/folk/avant-garde/experimental/bla-bla-manelo-subacvatic black metal that are the fashion bands.
9.Also, Spinecrusher opened for many bands such as Blasphemophagher, Sodomizer, Hellkommander, better said, Romanian Thrash Metal Club's events. What do you think about RTMC.
And how did they influenced Spinecrusher's activity?
They had a big role in the band's development, besides the mentioned concerts, "Hellthrash" would not even exist without their help. RTMC is one of the reasons that made me
to return in the metal scene and showed me that there is a chance for the genre I play. If they would form before, or if Snapjaw would resist a little bit, maybe that band would still be alive.
![]() |
Spinecrusher |
and some of its events.
The collaboration with Necrogore Production does not exist for some time. I only did some flyers for events, and when they organized a concert, I helped them staying at the entrance.
Because I had no band and I no longer wanted to have anything to do with metal, I thought it was a waste of time, and I had nothing to gain or to learn from it, I thought
I had not enough artistic freedom. After the organizer learnt how to use Photoshop(or Corel?) it was no need of my help. I can only wish them good luck for the future.
11.What do you think about the Romanian metal scene?
I have a very bad opinion, at least before joining Spinecrusher. The scene itself was one of the reasons I left the metal scene.
As I said before, a big part of it is seems to be a big "circlejerk", many people from "the previous generation" only help between themselves, praising themselves even
for the smallest achievements/releases, most of them being inexistent. Some people who only exploit the scene for personal profit, who openly lament for how hard is what they do
and that is the crowd's fault for their failures, because they cannot appreciate what is good. I know a lot of people who agree with me, but do not express openly because they're
afraid of those whom they depend on more or less. I see the metal scene as a music of revolt where you can express your ideas openly, and also your personally vision towards the
world. Although many things are in my detriment, I can not stop to openly express my honest opinion towards some persons and things that happened in our scene. In this way I know
exactly that every next event will be deserved, not for those who pay or give praisings to. I don't like that many things released in the metal press regarding some cancellations or
line-up changings are hidden. But nothing is lost though, luckily there appears in a new wave of bands, a new generation with big potential that I hope will bury the outdated mentalities.
12.Are you satisfied with Snapjaw and Spinecrusher's releases? Would you change something at them?
I can't say that I am satisfied regarding Snapjaw, actually, they are not that excellent. Regarding the EP, I am not proud at all; it would be better if it wouldn't exist,
if I'd knew that will end this way. I gained some experience since, and this is only a good thing, but mostly, I think that I wasted some good dieas. I would liked a LP instead of that EP,
that was only released because "that's how it is done&it is demanded".
I would like those releases to be recorded in another place, at someone with ideas and much more knowledge about metal and I would like to draw that artwork myself, which was in my opinion,
a waste of money just to look "actual". Mostly, I think that were taken lots of decisions that I didn't agreed with and maybe we will not be that known in this way.
I think we all have a favourite band, that changed the style into something not that good and you'd wish that band to split before this to happen, or at least to change the name.
Spinecrusher is at another level, it is just how I wished Snapjaw to be and I am more happy with its musical direction.
13.Speaking of Snapjaw, some of the songs were never released. Would you like to reform the band? Or, those songs to be part of Spinecrusher's setlist?
I would like to reform the band, but it's not mine and I think it will never happen. I lost lots of good songs that I liked a lot, but nobody remembers them and there are only
some bad-quality live recordings. A big part of Snapjaw's songs cannot be part of Spinecrusher's setlist, songs like "Waking up the vampire" that is too
melodic for Spinecrusher's style. Maybe "Back from the Grave" I would like to sing, but unfortunately, there is not any recorded version. It is the only song I liked a lot and I am sorry for it.
I would like to sing with Spinecrusher, but I didn't wrote it; so this is the situation. It would be cool to release an album with all the songs we have and to do a farewell tour, but these wishes will never achieve.
14.What romanian bands do you recommend(or from abroad)?
From Romania I don't know what to recommend, I rarely listen to romanian bands, this because of the lyrics, many times these lyrics are written in romanian language,
thing that I don't like, but actually it is good. Romanian bands that I mostly listen to are Cap de Craniu, The 13th Sun, The Nuggers, First Division, Raizing Hell,
Psycho Symphony, Crossbone and Code Red. From abroad I recommend Usurpress, Bombs of Hades, Tribulation, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blood Freak, Ghoul, Tormented, Repugnant,
Splatterhouse, After the Bombs, Skeletal Remains, Acid Witch, The Cramps, Kap Bambino, Pistamashina, Daikaiju, Guantanamo Baywatch, Dr. Living Dead, Gallhammer, Hellkommander
and Sodomizer. There are bands that influenced me, but many of them are already known
15.Your top 10 all-favourite albums...?
Tankard - Beast of Bourbon
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mercyful Fate - Don't break the Oath
Motörhead - Bomber
Misfits - Earth A.D.
D.R.I. - Thrash Zone
Possessed - Beyond the Gates
Hellhammer - Triumph of Death
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
16.The last words are yours!
Support the bands with their own songs, not the tribute bands who does only exploit the scene.
duminică, 12 mai 2013
Interview with Erik Sprooten(Ancient Rites, ex-Inquisitor)
1.Hailz Erik, and hellcome to our webzine.
Because this is the first intie with you, please give us some infos about you!
Most people who read this
interview probably know me best as Dutch guitarist of Black Metal band Ancient
Rites, and some also might remember that I was guitarist of the Extreme Thrash
Metal band Inquisitor. What is less known, is that I'm also guitarist for a
Hardrockcoverband called Plusminus. I'm also involved in a foundation called
“Noord Geldersch Metaal” which organises metal gigs in my hometown Harderwijk.
During the daytime I have an office job at the planning department of a local
company in my hometown.
2.Tell us, first, how were you introduced
into metal?
I slowly grew into listening metal, ever since I was exposed to KISS in 1979 when they had huge hits. Only after listening a lot to their compilation album “Double Platinum”, I started developing a taste for hard rock music. An older brother of a friend of mine introduced me to other hardrock bands like Van Halen and Status Quo. Only a few years later I discovered metal by checking out albums of Iron Maiden and Saxon. Around the year 1985, I started to appreciate Metallica and not much later also thrash metal like Slayer and Sacred Reich. At the end of the 80's, I started to appreciate death metal. And in the 90's I became interested in Black metal. Nowadays I still listen to a lot of metal but I also listen to what is nowadays called Classic Rock. Generally speaking, you could say that my collection of music ranges roughly from Southern Rock to Black Metal.
I slowly grew into listening metal, ever since I was exposed to KISS in 1979 when they had huge hits. Only after listening a lot to their compilation album “Double Platinum”, I started developing a taste for hard rock music. An older brother of a friend of mine introduced me to other hardrock bands like Van Halen and Status Quo. Only a few years later I discovered metal by checking out albums of Iron Maiden and Saxon. Around the year 1985, I started to appreciate Metallica and not much later also thrash metal like Slayer and Sacred Reich. At the end of the 80's, I started to appreciate death metal. And in the 90's I became interested in Black metal. Nowadays I still listen to a lot of metal but I also listen to what is nowadays called Classic Rock. Generally speaking, you could say that my collection of music ranges roughly from Southern Rock to Black Metal.
3.Did you played in
other bands before Inquisitor?
It's hardly worth
mentioning but yes, I played in only one band before Inquisitor, which was
called Menticide. Menticide was short-lived and never played live or released
any demo. The very first line-up started in 1989 and was with Alex Bakker and
Wim v/d Valk. For me and Wim it was actually our first experience of being in a
band. Alex already had band experience before. Wim and Alex didn't stay long in
Menticide and joined an extreme thrash metal band called Desultory. When Wim
and Alex left Desultory in 1991, I joined forces with them again, and
Inquisitor was born early 1992. My first live gig was with Inquisitor in 1992.
4. What can you tell about the Inquisitor
days? Are you satisfied now with its works?
Inquisitor existed roughly
from early 1992 till the end of 1996 and was in a way a continuation of the
extreme thrash metal style Desultory did, which was a style we liked a lot, but
we felt that we could improve it to a higher level. Our main influences were
(extreme) thrash metal bands such as Sadus, Kreator, Dark Angel and Sabbat but
we were also influenced by death metal and other styles of metal. The first
line-up recorded the demo's “Blasphemous Accusations” (1992) and “Your Pain will be Exquisite”
(1993) and consisted of: Alex Wesdijk on vocals, Erik Sprooten on guitar, Alex
Bakker on bass and Wim VanderValk on Drums. With this line-up we did several
gigs in The Netherlands, and we even did three gigs in Belgium. At one of those
gigs in Holland we were even support-act for a certain band called Ancient
Rites. In 1993 some local churches searched contact with the organisation of an
outdoor festival in our hometown to get our gig cancelled because they were
very concerned with our “not so christian-friendly” lyrics. An article about
this matter appeared in a local paper a few days after our gig, and the result
of this was, that we gained even more attention in the metal scene. In 1995,
the second line-up with Hans Pos on bass as replacement for Alex Bakker,
recorded “Walpurgis – Sabbath of Lust”, which was released in 1996 by Shiver
Records. With this line-up we did several gigs in Holland of course, and also
three gigs in Germany. I'm still satisfied with the recordings and the music of
Inquisitor. And I'm still proud of what I did with Inquisitor. I do enjoy
reading reviews about Inquisitor on the internet. And without Inquisitor, I
probably wouldn't be in Ancient Rites.
5. I know that you re-released the LP "Walpurgis-Sabbath of Lust". Tell us more about this (the format cd/dvd/lp and if contains any additional stuff such as additional tracks or a booklet in it too)!
The original CD is hard to
find for quite some time now, and last year I saw someone selling it on Ebay
for a huge amount of money. Also last year, a friend of mine notified me about
a split-CD with Inquisitor on it, which
I didn't know existed. Apparently someone released this split-CD a few years
ago, which wasn't an official release. So I guess if someone else is releasing
Inquisitor un-officially, then it must be interesting enough to do a proper
re-release. And it seems this is going
to happen, 'cause at the moment I have a verbal agreement with a record company
for a re-release. This re-release will probably contain the demo's too and may
possibly also be released on vinyl. No release date is known yet.
6. Are you still in contact with Inquisitor members? Have you ever thought of a reunion-show?
I'm still in contact with
most Inquisitor members. Alex Bakker, the bass-player who can be heard on the
Inquisitor demos, is also a member of my hardrockcoverband Plusminus, so I see
him quite often. I sometimes meet our ex-singer Alex Wesdijk. And recently I
got into contact with Wim again. I met Hans, pure coincidentally, a few years
ago on a small open air festival. Nowadays he plays bass-guitar in a band
called “After The Silence”.
I'm certainly not against
a reunion, but I have my doubts if that will ever happen. Only the future will
tell.
7. What do you think about Centurian? What do you think about their latest album?
Centurian is one of the
best and brutal death metal bands ever to emerge from The Netherlands, and was
founded by ex-Inquisitor drummer Wim. Their music is quite intense. Once in a
while I enjoy listening to their albums. And so far, I only have heard one song
of their new album, which definetely sounds like Centurian, although it is
without Wim on drums.
8. Now about Ancient Rites: when and how did you joined? Was it during the supporting tour of "Blasfemia Eternal" or afterwards?
During the “Blasfemia
Eternal” tour in 1996, when I was still in Inquisitor, I was a
session-guitarist, and I had a great time on that tour! It was definetely a
tour with a good vibe between all the bands. That tour also helped Inquisitor
getting some exposure in Germany. It was also during that tour, that Gunther
and Walter already had plans to have two guitarists again in Ancient Rites. So
when Inquisitor was struggling with internal problems later that year, the idea
of me joining Ancient Rites as second guitarist was born. So I contacted
Gunther and since someone else was also interested, an audition was organized.
I was chosen, and became second guitarist of Ancient Rites, the first gig was
in January 1997. The other guitarist back then was Raf Jansen. Later in 1997
Jan Yrlund replaced Raf.
9. On the albums you played with Ancient
Rites there was lot of melody. What were your influences on those albums? Are
you interested into history too, like Gunther?
Throughout the years I've
become a more melodic and versatile guitarplayer, which especially culminated
on the album “Rubicon”. Although a lot
of melody is present on the albums I take part in, some of my thrash metal influenced
riffs were also used in several songs. Fast melodic riffs like the ones which
can be heard in “Mother Europe” and “Invictus” are definetely influences I
brought into Ancient Rites. I also add my skills on guitar to the music of
Ancient Rites but without comprising the music. On the “Rubicon” album there's
for example one melodic/lead guitar which I play in the Harmonic minor scale
(instead of the regular minor scale), which sound a little bit (so-called)
Neo-classical, which I created just to make a little difference musically.
Furthermore, I think that my guitarsolo's are an influence too.
I am interested in history
but I don't absorb myself that much into that as Gunther does. He knows much
more about history than I do.
10. How was the Ancient Rites show in
Rotterdam? Did it everything went well? What can you tell about the crowd?
I think we delivered a
good show in Rotterdam.The reaction of the crowd was really good and quite a
lot of them were banging and singing along. The sound on stage was good
and really comfortable to play. Although
I was a little bit struggling with my floorboard, I'm in general very satisfied
with the gig.
11. As I know You wanted to play live and in
rehearsals a kvlt-track, Blasphemer from Sodom. Do You want to record then in
studio also?
As far as I know, Ancient
Rites has never performed songs from other bands live or in the studio, and
probably never will. “Blasphemer” is definetely a kvlt track, and certainly one
of my favourite songs from Sodom, but I don't have a real desire to perform or
record this song with Ancient Rites. Last year during the rehearsals I
sometimes just played the beginning of that kvlt song and Gunther simply
reacted to that! It's something that just developed after Gunther and I
listened to “In the Sign of Evil” from Sodom in my car after a rehearsal.
12. How it's goings the things with Your
guitar-parts for the upcoming Ancient Rites album?
At home I have recorded
some guitar-parts and ideas, of which most of them I intent to use for Ancient
Rites. Everyone is doing their share in writing new material and I'm working on
a few demo-songs for Ancient Rites too, which are almost ready but I'm still
not yet satisfied enough with them. It'll take me some time expirementing with
ideas but in the end I will get a satisfying result. Most important thing is,
that the music has to feel right. Some of my guitar parts will only take shape
during the actual recordings of the upcoming album.
Ancient Rites is
definetely in writing-modus again and we already have written a few songs.
13. Your top 10 all-time favourite metal albums are...?
- Judas Priest – Unleashed in the East
- Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
- Kreator – Pleasure To Kill
- Holy Terror – Mind Wars
- Sadus – Illusions (aka Chemical Exposure)
- Slayer – Hell Awaits
- Massacra – Final Holocaust
- Iron Maiden – Live after Death
- Sathanas – Black Earth
- Metal Church – Metal Church

14. What are your hobbies besides the music?
In my freetime, everything
I like doing is more or less music-related. But besides music, I like to take
time to enjoy the beautiful nature in my area. There are plenty of beautiful
forests and there is a lot of heath.
15. Do you know any bands from Hungary, Ukraine, Romania and Moldova?
Not that much, but I know
Sear Bliss and Negura Bunget, and thanks to you I know your old bands Castrum
and Dohmring now. I also saw a few Romanian and Macedonian bands when Ancient
Rites was on tour in the Balcan.
16. What bands can you recommend us? (from Belgium and the Netherlands, and then from over the world)
In The Benelux we have
known metal bands such as Heidevolk, Legion of the Damned, Aborted, Hail of
Bullets, Asphyx, Epica etc..
From the lesser known
bands I'd like to recommend Lord Volture, which is a great dutch Heavy/Power
Metal band. For those who like Death Metal, I would recommend The Lucifer
Principle, KhaoZ and Victimizer from The Netherlands. If you like hardrock,
then I would recommend Vanderbuyst. From my own area I would like to recommend
Thrash Metal band Portall. And last year I saw a promising heavy metal band
from Sweden called Steelwing.
17. Now about your local cuisine: what
foods, drinks, cigars and tobaccoes can you recommend?
A typical dutch food is
Kale aka borecole, although I wouldn't consider this as Haute Cuisine, it does
taste good in my opnion. It is mostly served in combination with a smoked
sausage known as Gelderse Rookworst., which is a speciality from the province
Gelderland where I live. When it comes to dutch beer, I would recommend Hertog
Jan. A typical Dutch drink is a spirit called Jenever, which seems to be comparable
to Gin. I don't smoke at all, so I can't and won't recommend cigars and other
tobacco related stuff at all.
18. Dank je wel, Erik! The last (hateful) words are yours!
Thanks a lot for this
interview and space in Sadistik Witchfukk! Keep supporting the metal scene and
keep it alive! \m/
.
INTERVIEW TAKEN BY GEORGIUS AND NECROTROOPER
INTERVIEW TAKEN BY GEORGIUS AND NECROTROOPER
miercuri, 13 februarie 2013
interview with Lethal Outcome
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Lethal Outcome: Eugen Scobioală(left) and Dimitry Demchuck(right) |
1.Hailz to Lethal Outcome! Because this is your first interview, present yourself!
Hey, hello! Yes, we were never interviewed so far. We're the founders of the band: Dimitry Demchuck and Eugen Scobioală
2.Give us some details about your pre-Lethal Outcome activities!
You see, in a little town it's hard to be undiscovered if you're a metalhead, so I am sure that our roads intersected, yeah, that was to happen. Before Lethal Outcome, we and Eugen were just learning the musical instruments. We went to local shows, played in our friends' garage and drank a lot of beer.
3.So far, you have only one demo album released entitled "Reciprocal Hate". Can you give some details about it?
"Reciprocal Hate" was our first release, the first step in the thrash metal scene. This album has its roots back in 2006, when me and Eugen decided to play together. Step by step we gather the first album from 4-5 songs, but we thought that it is too little for an album. In the summer of 2009 we recorded the album in rehearsal room. Me(Dimitry)-rhythm guitar, vocals and Eugen(solo guitar, back vocals, programming drums). Because it was hard to seek musicians in our town, we decided to use our ideas about programming. "Reciprocal Hate" was the first song we wrote, and it became the title of the album. The lyrical themes are about war, social issues, different society vices and medicine.
4.I have to admit, that your albums have a clear quality like Sepultura's "Arise". Where and how did you recorded it?
I have to say about the problem of today's metal recordings: the studios are using "multitrack recording", that makes the sound louder, clearer, but it takes from its dynamics. Personally, I(Eugen) like recordings from the "tape" era, because that recording method didn't offer that sound that the digital ones show, it showed more dynamics, and an old-school sounding. Those albums "Beneath the Remains" and "Arise" had that kind of sound. So, by different methods I tried to obtain this old-school sound. Maybe, judging by some opinions, I did haha.
5.Did the album exist on phyiscal format such as vinyl/tape/cd? Did you promoted it by live-shows?
Sadly, the album exists just as .mp3 format. Our target was to share the album, the Internet successfuly did this. And no, we didn't performed any live concerts in its history, because we had not a bassist and a drummer.
6.In 2010 you changed the style to more technical thrash metal. Who had this idea?
It was Eugen's idea. He is the one who decide this. Eugen thought that it will be good to changed the style, because the same old-school style may became boring for listener's ears. Although we didn't wanted at first, we thought that this will work and now you can see the result.
7.Beside Lethal Outcome, I know that the 2 founder members also play in a project entitled "Prison of Disillusion". It also kicks-ass, it's a kind of doom/death in the vein of early Paradise Lost. What can you tell about it?
"Prison of Disillusion" was our idea to play something away from thrash. We also listen to doom metal. In this project we have only 2 songs, wrote spontaneous and we put our souls in it. Now, we have not any plans with it, and I think that the next songs will be wrotten sponatenously as well.
8.Beside Prison of Disillusion, in what bands do you play?
Dimitry played for long time in Mysterious Medley, that I joined later, playing on their 2012 album. And me, personally, I was the lead guitarist of the modern metal band Main Engine that I played live in 2012. Now I am writing some songs with them.
9.I see that you have 2 new members(Vadim-drums and Kurok-bass). What can you tell about them?(In what bands did they played before Lethal Outcome)?
In 2011 we found a drummer, Vadim Kartovenko, that joined us after his symphonic black metal band Synartha stopped its activity. Vadim is a cool guy as a person, and also a good musician. We worked a lot with him for the new material, but we still needed a bassist. The first bassist was Evgheny Gavriliuk(of the deathcore band Soundpark). A cool person, but always busy. The second and the last, Nikolai Kurok who rehearsed few times with us.
10.Who is writing the music and the lyrics?
All the lyrics are written by Dimitry. Personally, I consider him a talented poet, I will never can write like him. All the things regarding the music are my work.
11.We all know that Moldova has not made a name in the underground metal. Beside Accident, Țepeș(band formed by the 1991 Accident line-up) and Uthopia, most of us have not heard about your country. What bands can you recommend us?
We're unknown in both metal and politics haha. When a American film director decides to make a movie about a small and less-developed country, where you can meet only violence and corruption, he chose Moldova(and I don't understand why). Not judging by the fact that we were a little post-sovietic country, in the 90's we had some quality bands such as Axident, Uthopia, Sarcoma. Now Moldova can only be proud of Abnormyndeffect(death/grind), Neuromist(progressive death metal), Dakon(death metal), Infected Rain(femeale fronted nu-metal) etc. All these bands played in European Union and in CIS countries, so after all, it's not that bad haha.
Now speaking of Lethal Outcome, lots of people consider us a band, although we still try to find members to complete the line-up
12.What do you think about Ukrainian bands?
I do not know much about Ukraine's metal scene, but from what I've heard and seen live, I can recommend these: Conquest(power metal, where my friend Alex was a vocalist some time ago), Ambivalence(brutal death metal, they played in Chișinău, they "fed us with lot of meal") and also Awoken(brutal death/grind, I listen a lot to them, they kick-ass).
13.Tell me about your future plans!
Now our first plan is to release the 2nd album, in the technical thrash metal style. The writing process has begun, so we cannot wait to make a present to all the metal fans, maybe we'll release it at the end of the summer, we'll see..
14.Thank you for the interview. The last words are yours!
Lethal Outcome wants you to fight for your future, to kill your enemy from inside and outside of you and stay faithful to your principles and values! Stay brutal and thrash till death \m/
Interview taken by Necrotrooper
Lethal Outcome official: http://vk.com/lethaloutcomeband
miercuri, 9 ianuarie 2013
Lethal Outcome
Lethal Outcome is a thrash metal band formed in Moldova in 2008. The band was formed by Eugen Scobioală(guitar and composer) and Dmitry Demchuck(guitar and vocals). In their beginnings their style was more thrash/speed influenced, and in 2009 they recorded and released their demo Reciprocal Hate which consists of 11 songs: 9 original songs including the well-known(at least to me) "Killers in white" and also 2 covers: Arise(Sepultura) and To live is to die(Metallica). In 2010 they began searching for new members and their music added some technical influences and it went technical thrash metal. Their new songs are faster, more aggressive, and complex(speaking of its composition). In the beginning of 2011 Vadim Cartovenco joined as their drummer. In 2011 they were a trio. In this time, Dmitry left the guitar and concentrated more on vocals. Also in 2012, Evgheny Gavriliuk joined the band as the bassist. At this time they were a technical thrash metal band, and Gavriliuk left shortly because he wanted to concentrate with his own band: SoundPark. After some time they found the bassist Nikolay Kurok. There were recorded demos with the new songs, but since 2012 the band is no longer active. Both Eugen and Dmitry try to resurrect the band, and maybe they will play again.
This is Lethal Outcome's rehearsal(when they were a trio):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVRi_0p2as
P.S.: An interview with these guys will come soon.
The band can be contacted here:
http://www.myspace.com/lethaloutcomemd
http://vk.com/lethaloutcomeband
This is Lethal Outcome's rehearsal(when they were a trio):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVRi_0p2as
P.S.: An interview with these guys will come soon.
The band can be contacted here:
http://www.myspace.com/lethaloutcomemd
http://vk.com/lethaloutcomeband
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