…at the vibe of the album was too. He made the colors according to what we had told him. Dead Rhetoric: You’ve released three videos to date for the record – including “Born to Ride” which showcases a bit more of your engaging personalities in a fun, racing atmosphere. What are your thoughts on your work to date with this medium – any special stories to tell, and do you believe this helps build the brand of the band globally as much as the recordin…
…over to, based on the comments through YouTube and other social media channels there are a lot of people that are asking us to come over. Since we signed up with a new booking agency for the states, either in 2024 or 2025 we will be coming over. Either festivals, touring, or both. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85pPL_68NYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ofxYJgSXAk Suicidal Angels on Facebook…
…pic where we were all in white, which is not very metal [laughs]. We have had many contradictions like that, because I feel like we are far away from the times when there were such strict rules about only listening to certain types of music. If anyone found out you liked pop music, you’d be a traitor. I totally remember those times. I was a big fan of the band Nirvana, and I also liked No Doubt and Garbage. People would be like, “Wait! That’s comp…
…t. Dead Rhetoric: You mention in another recent High Spirits interview I read online how you felt immense pressure to follow up the debut album, which resulted in your eyes with the less than satisfying You Are Here. What circumstances took place that you felt that extra level of pressure, and looking back what would have done differently to ensure a better outcome? Black: What I would have done differently is not rush it. I would keep writing, ge…
…raveling for days in new places you’ve never been. Mortician: Actually, I hadn’t had many chances to perform live with my past bands, so I would like to talk about that. On the other hand, writing riffs on guitar is something which I think I’m good at, so I like to spend some time finding new ideas. Simonelli: There is no playing live unless there is a recording. Recording is a huge work that sometimes needs time and patience, especially if we are…
…usic but also began to shape the mission statement of the album to come. Dead Rhetoric: I read a bit of this on the promo sheet for the new album but it caught my attention. Discuss *I* versus *We* on the difference between the albums and your progression as a group? Shanbrom: I think both records are both universal in their own ways, but the first record is something that almost everyone can relate to in some level. You are at this earlier phase…
…my full time and dedication into the band. We have a lineup now that is steady and ready to take over the world. We are all like-minded people, and this album should push us to make our dreams come true. We are glad to be together with Napalm Records, so far, we are getting amazing reviews from the people who have heard this so far. I couldn’t be happier. Dead Rhetoric: How did you assemble the new lineup – was it a hard process to decide who you…
…f years before that. I could think about joining another band – I found an ad online that talked about Satan’s Fall looking for a singer, gigs were lining up. I thought it was a cool band name, what have they released? I heard the Metal of Satan EP and knew that I could sing this. And that was in 2017. Dead Rhetoric: Destination Destruction is the second album from Satan’s Fall – and first with Steamhammer/SPV after your previous record Final Day…
…Saturday we went to record stores on the weekends. I remember one time we had already been into the classics, and I remember we picked up a Metallica album – the black album. “Enter Sandman” came on, those palm muted guitars, I knew that this is the kind of music I wanted to be a part of moving forward. That spurred all the heavy music right there. Shortly after that we got some tickets for Ozzfest 2006, I knew I wanted to play music after that. T…
…t make people want to listen to them again and again. The records that we made in the past had slightly longer songs, longer albums in general, the more progressive side of things would be a bit more prominent. There’s always something we are going to have and may revisit again in the future. I guess this is a bit more refined, getting to the point as far as songwriting-wise. It’s hard to write songs like this on the new record. If you want to get…
…s well. But it took a couple of years and pretty much started right away in 2017. Dead Rhetoric: Well, I have to ask, what is your favorite Star Trek? I’m a huge Trekkie, so I have to ask. Shifflet: Full disclosure, I haven’t gone through the whole lore, but it’s like, I just, I can’t… I can’t. It’s between the original and the next. You can give props to the original for trying to get that whole premise across of theme driven sci-fi and things li…
…he smiles. “Fuck no!” Castillo takes things one step further in jokingly goading the online community, “I would honestly love it if someone would like, come up with a cooler insult.” Realizing her mistake, she shrugs, “Now someone is going to be like, ‘challenge accepted bitch!’ But come and say it to our face.” She ends with some laughter after admitting, “Then I will cry,” Duarte agrees, but instead lays on some extra thick sarcasm, “I’ll cry –…
…make things hassle free. Dead Rhetoric: You’ve been a part of the Metal Blade roster since 2005’s The Gathering Wilderness. What are your thoughts on the label, their global staff, and how they have promoted the efforts of Primordial over the decades? Nemtheanga: Yeah, it’s a great relationship. It’s an unusual label for us, I don’t think there’s anything else quite like Primordial on the label, which I think is good. It makes us stand out. We ha…
…so the brother of our drummer. We invited him to the band later, after we had met Valentin. We had a drummer but he moved to a different country and stopped playing music. So there is a different drummer on the first album, but right after Valentin produced the first album and we were looking for a drummer we found out his brother was a drummer. I didn’t know him personally, but the other guys did, since Moldova is very small and everyone knows ea…
…ic Records roster for three albums, Exmortus issued the Legions of the Undead EP in 2019 through M-Theory Audio before signing to Nuclear Blast for this latest full-length Necrophony. How does it feel to be on such a legendary label at this point in the career of Exmortus – and do you believe their professionalism, staff, and promotional knowledge will keep the band going on the best trajectory forward? Jadran ‘Conan’ Gonzalez: Yeah, I would like…
…end him a link if I run into him. Dead Rhetoric: The early years of Spirit Adrift were spent on 20 Buck Spin before moving up to Century Media in 2020 for Enlightened in Eternity. Do you feel you’ve been treated fairly and understood by both labels when it comes to all the goals and ambitions you have for the band? Garrett: Yeah, obviously. 20 Buck Spin, it’s essentially one guy and he has one employee. We remain really close friends, I talk to hi…
…are some of the bands and albums that you have been thoroughly enjoying? Radtleff: I had this band called Kommand, it’s like a death metal band. Bolt Thrower, Pantera, Slayer, old school stuff. That’s been what I have been listening to a lot lately. Dead Rhetoric: What’s next on the agenda for Demolizer over the next twelve months as far as promotion, live shows, etc.? Radtleff: We are going on tour with Artillery. We will start writing the next…
…rs. Whereas one band may have a million streams and play to 85 people, we had 20,000 streams and could play to 300 people. I’m not saying that to say Jag Panzer is big, I’m trying to illustrate how those numbers make no sense. You can’t depend on them, at least in heavy metal it’s not like you have a million streams, you are going to get 1,000 people at a show. It just doesn’t work that way. It seems like the craziest thing to me. There are local…
…boy… Back in the 90’s in Italy there was a huge movement. In the US metal had faded out and grunge was more popular. The really good bands were coming to Europe. I had been to Wacken, I got to see Motörhead with the Bomber set, and Saxon with the airplane. I remember a very good show of Metallica on the Gods of Metal Festival back in 1999, when King Diamond was dueting with James Hetfield on “Evil”. It was really impressive for me. I remember Sava…
…liver with my voice, I feel my voice is not as strong as it was live say in 2005 or 2007, it was very powerful. You can lose that voice over the years, so I get nervous going into the studio if I can deliver. When you can deliver, you feel better about it. It’s a muscle, so it can be stressful. I’m always happy when an album is done and going into the mixing stages. I prefer playing live. Dead Rhetoric: What worries or concerns do you have regardi…
…king to expand our shows a bit more in the Midwest and South this year. For 2024, we’re looking to add some West Coast dates and Eastern Canada. We’re committed to trying to grow our road presence the best we can before we work on our third album. Dead Rhetoric: Every songwriter draws inspiration from a vast many things. What inspires you when creating music, and how do you harness that inspiration into creating the complex compositions that make…
…hind things – I’m working on rhythms and orchestrating the drum parts. We had a lead guitar player who put all the guitar tracks down on the record, then decided to leave as he wanted to do his own thing – no animosity. He was ready to move on. Same thing with our original bass player Adam – he’s one of those guys who had a lot of stuff going on. He went off into his own sound design world. Things were really loose and ethereal for a little while…
…o a certain level, and then people aren’t just going to work with you. We had this in the 90’s, and lost it in the 2000’s, it became more of a competition locally. Now the quality has floated up to the top. Which brings me to the worldwide thing. The genre barriers, that has to go. I don’t give a fuck if you are black metal, death metal, whatever is out there nowadays – you are a heavy metal band. Don’t try to lock things into a genre. I’m not a b…
…t in the studio or the rehearsal room. Those were our new hobbies – living online. Dead Rhetoric: What’s on the schedule for activities, touring, festivals, or other items concerning Burning Witches (or other personal musical endeavors) for the next twelve months? Guldemond: For the next twelve months, we have some release shows planned. In May, in Switzerland, some small release shows in Germany, Belgium. Then the festival season will start, we h…
…arsal room to exchange ideas – but how we arrived at that is 90% this time online. Dead Rhetoric: Are there any songs that stand out to you, or maybe were difficult to reach in a final conclusion from the initial demos? Wechgelaer: Most of the songs went through a fine tuning process, you can definitely hear some of the sophisticated layering of the music. Especially the orchestrations taking a bigger part in the music, making things very bombasti…
…ht against the stage watching Opeth play – and Nevermore was touring for Dead Heart in a Dead World. I love that album; it was an amazing show. God Forbid opened, Angel Dust was second on the bill. At the time I was more of an Opeth fan – and at that show I made myself more of a Nevermore fan. That was my favorite concert memory – I went with my bandmates, we had just finished our Lament the Season EP for Abolisher, seeing such great bands in a cl…
…t would be all new. Dead Rhetoric: Do people ever seek you out at shows or online for advice regarding the music business – and if so, what words of wisdom or thoughts/ideas do you try to give them that maybe you wish others had given you in your early years? Heubaum: Sometimes it happens – but not all the time. There are occasions when people ask about things. Not that much at concerts, but they will write me and ask some questions. Sometimes the…
…rt making that kind of music myself, but it was always in the back of my head. That had a big impact on me, I would say – so thank you Luca Turilli. Dead Rhetoric: How do you see the next year or so shaping up for Twilight Force to support this record? What are some of the goals that you would like to achieve over the coming years? Blackwald: We have to survive the tour, first and foremost. We will go back to Japan, and then we have a bunch of sum…
…ied to Evy our singer. It was natural for me to do the drums in this, Evy had already started writing some songs, and we started working on these songs. From there Elusion, got into its first form. Dead Rhetoric: The second album The Fundamental Paradox comes four years after your debut album for Art Gates Records Singularity. Tell us about the songwriting and recording sessions for the latest effort – where do you see the major differences betwee…
…when I was seven or eight. I had a lot of music at home, and my friend’s dad he had a drum kit so that was the best thing ever. When I was thirteen or fourteen, I started playing the drums, and in that same year I went to see Hammerfall on the Renegade tour with Virgin Steele and Freedom Call. From there I was a full-blown metalhead. I started as a self-taught musician for a couple of years, and then I went to a musical-oriented high school. I ha…
