…m. There’s something so challenging yet rewarding about stripping away the layers and effects and finding out how your songs fare around a fire or in a more intimate setting. I think it would be fun to do an acoustic record of new songs, perhaps something a bit more tribal and raw, and then play a run of simple shows where we don’t have to lug heavy amplifiers and huge drum kits around. Just show up to a coffee house, an indie store, or a gatherin…
…a little bit closer, if you listen to “Welcome to the Night”, “Life on the Run” and the title track, that’s the trilogy of songs that’s a story that runs through – but it’s track one, five and ten. We missed the mark on that again. With this one, we had to do this. When we started writing some of the musical pieces, the riffs, we knew this is a good direction to go in. We could take a lot of twists and turns here, we could be heavy, we can have so…
…n up your DAW (digital audio workstation) it gives you the automatic BPM at 120. I told the guys that you don’t always use the default value – change the tempos so it can be a little slower or a little faster. That makes it a happier album than if we think about Doombound, it was in your face and really dark. If we think about the discography of Battlelore, against the things that I’ve been told as I wasn’t in the band for the first two albums, th…
…is and humans not willing to change until it’s minutes to midnight. Humans rule the world and spread like a virus – this Virocracy will hold sway until we actually want to make the world a better place refraining from selfish benefits that mostly stem from our wealth. Dead Rhetoric: What’s on the agenda for Virocracy over the next twelve months? Do any of the members have any other bands, projects, or guest appearances in the works that we should…
…end up getting used. We had a spare song sitting around. We asked our ex-drummer Paul if he would mind if we used his drumming, and reconfigure it. We knew we were going to make a record, and test the waters that it would work okay and stop us from all going mad. Dixon: That was a huge aspect of it, the timing factor. We were going to record something where nobody was in the same room together. It was so difficult, we didn’t know if we could pull…
…itional for black metal, but I was trying to do things that had a verse/chorus type structure. That was different. We hadn’t been trying to do that since Restoration. At the same time, we were still trying to write things that we deemed sounded like Amiensus. That’s a very broad stroke. We’ll listen to something and think that it sounds like something we can do, but then 5 minutes later we’ll hear something in a completely opposite direction and t…
…er as possible. He just wanted heavy, heavy, heavy, fast, fast, fast, and brutal, brutal, brutal. Nothing in between. The intro for “End of the Line” was something that didn’t really vibe with him right off the bat. It took him a little while, but now he loves it and is happy it’s on the record. But if we didn’t stand our ground, there’s a good chance that wouldn’t have been the intro for that song. So there’s things like that. I totally understan…
…e. Previously, I was updating the drum sounds adding a layer of Addictive Drums 2. With the next album I’m planning to use Superior Drummer 3. But it’s always been like this. One step at time. My focus has been always the composition though, and the fact I am working in a limited framework made of the same ensemble. I think it’s pushing creativity and really forces me to focus entirely on composition rather than fancy sounds. See, the thing is now…
…are you always hoping to learn and improve upon to get better at your instrument? Frischknecht: Drumming is about continuous learning. I need to learn a lot. I’m still in the middle of drumming – I can’t say that I’m really, really good. It takes a lot of time – you have to play again and again, learn some new stuff. You are making albums, and you can’t play the same thing every time. Dave Lombardo, John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, Ken Owen of Carcas…
…for RVs. It’s a really cool area, and well-kept campground down there. It’s 120 acres too, so you can really get remote if you wanted to right now. If you want to just hang out by yourself, you can right now. Hopefully that will change one day and it will be completely packed though. Dead Rhetoric: Have your own personal experiences with events like this helped you develop the festival? Bottens: Yeah, I’ve been lucky enough to go to festivals both…
…rous revisions. When I did the first draft of Rabid Heart, I might have had 120,000 words. Then I re-read it, and when I do that I start revising and cutting stuff down and making sure things are accurate. You’d be amazed how you can forget stuff as a writer when you start a novel and make it to the end. Say Rhonda Driscoll was a brunette, but I may have started the book with her as a blonde [laughs]. So how did her hair change color? This shit is…
…terms of all the people in all the bands that are known for a certain instrument, or multi-instruments. What was it exactly that made them go to that instrument- especially for drummers. I’d like to choose an instrument where I get to cart around 500 different pieces of equipment (laughs). For me, it’s all been a natural thing. I’ve sang and hummed to myself all along- I have always been a person who likes to be in the forefront of things. I do f…
…he second leg of a headlining tour which will take place in October and November. And then probably we will do a third leg in the beginning of February through April of next year. Axel Rudi Pell official website…
…started off with completed versions of all the songs- playing all the instruments, a drum machine with the drum parts being pretty bad, generic bass parts, record them and deliver them to the band. Harry would get involved then, he threw a lot of ideas into the music, arrangements and changing parts. That meant Harry and I came up with our own set of demos, and these were much better than the first set. Then Joey, John, and Rikard started getting…
…last two albums – he did a great job making us sound fresh while staying true and making it sound like old school heavy metal. Dead Rhetoric: In terms of heavy metal itself, being a part of a band that plays a more traditional sound, what does it mean to you? Larsson: That’s the style I grew up with. It’s what I loved – when I was a kid, I never believed that I would listen to anything else [laughs]. Of course, you grow up and I listen to a lot o…
…ix well with one another, as long as you sequence them or maybe you have abrupt changes. It’s all how you use tempo and the keys. And attaching music theory to say “okay, these modes can be transferred or developed into other ones, or these feelings or thoughts/emotions can be developed into other ones,” if you just sequence them properly. The actual mechanics of doing it are on a song to song basis because each song presents its own type of chall…
…ut I wasn’t allowed to write my final dissertation, which is a book of like 120-140 pages in which you have do research – I wasn’t allowed to write about any kind of theme connected to Old English. So I wrote my final dissertation, it’s called The Impact and Importance of Music and Singing in First and Second Language Acquisition. I did a lot of research with little kids and babies. That was amazing. I finished my Masters in 2003, two days before…
…uments, there is a down side because I would not be able to master one instrument as well as our drummer does. So I was able to write a little bit more complex arrangements with faster songs because I didn’t have to worry about my limits as a musician. As a favorite part of the session, I did all of the pre-production sessions in Athens, Greece in a studio called Grindhouse which is run by the guitar player of Rotting Christ, if you know the band….
…n and a release. It’s a very standard songwriting device. There’s a pre-chorus and a chorus. It’s a hook. We try to bring them up at the right time and keep them very high energy. The days of the slam, super-slow half-time breakdown from the Myspace deathcore era has gone the way of the Dodo. We try to make it so that it is something that we like as well. It’s like ‘ah yes, breakdown – it’s heavy, it works. Let’s move on and keep writing.’ Whereas…
…se that a lot of people in the crowd would have rather seen a singer be a true ‘front person’ and less tied to the screen for a majority of the set. There’s no doubt his screaming ability and power is still there as it was during his Fistful of Metal days with Anthrax. Bassist Jeff Williams did his best to get the crowd involved every chance possible, his infectious energy translating to plenty of mutual fist bumps. Guitarists Allen Leigh Chambers…
…wice). Over 15,000 fans joined the Elements show celebrations and more than 120,000 fans witnessed the Hydra beast on stage in Europe, but WITHIN TEMPTATION is far from done. The ‘Hydra’ world tour is currently in full swing in North America. With South America and Japan still to come, more than half a million fans will have seen WITHIN TEMPTATION n by the end of this year. The band returns to the UK in Summer 2015, to headline the Bloodstock Fest…
…e distinct honor of being featured in their official book hitting stores September 10th. In addition to performing live in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa, the year was capped off with a visit to Antarctica on December 8, 2013 to play for 120 scientists, contest winners and their penguin friends at the Argentine Carlini Station. We were literally at the bottom of the earth for one of the most unique, special and u…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
…s and has a total running time of 85 minutes. The second disc consists of a 120-minute tour documentary, “Please Learn The Setlist In 48 Hours”, also directed by Ville Lipiäinen, with no shortage of drama or overall madness. Also, there is a 16-minute NIGHTWISH Table Hockey Tournament, filmed on tour. In addition, there are two music clips: “I Want My Tears Back” (live at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland) and “Ghost Love Score” (live in Buenos…
