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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

SPIKE CASSIDY - DIRTY ROTTEN INSPIRATION

Spike at Broadway Joe's in Buffalo NY, May 9 2012  (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  DRI has now been a band for 30 years making it older than a good number of people in  the crowd at a DRI show. When you started the band all those years ago did you even  
remotely imagine it would last this long?

Spike: No not at all.  When we first started I didn't think we would last a month. I didn't think we would ever play a show, much less record albums and tour the world. 30 years sounds crazy when I think about it. It all went by so fast, it doesn't seem that long. 

GT:  What were some of your early influences that went into the music of DRI?

Spike: When we first started, we were all into hardcore punk. We listened to Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedy's. Stuff like that. That was what we liked and wanted to sound like. I had other influences also like rock, blues, metal and punk rock that you could hear on occasion in my song writing. But I just gave those styles a DRI hardcore twist, and made them our own. 

Harald and Spike, Broadway Joe's, Buffalo NY, May 12 2011 (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  How does it feel to know that songs you wrote as teens have held the test of time and are still appreciated by fans who discovered you back then as much as they are by fans still  discovering DRI for the first time now?

Spike: It's really amazing. Especially with the lack of production we had on the first records. The recordings just sound so bad compared to production values that are out there today. I laugh and cringe and get embarrassed when someone plays our first records. The sound quality is so bad. Some of those songs are just so simple, and have good hooks and lyrics. They are similar to nursery rhymes that live on through generations. I remember writing those songs and thinking they sounded like nursery rhymes. 

GT: Really early on DRI managed to gain good followings in both the punk and metal  
crowds. As the DRI sound edged more into crossover did you ever worry that you'd lose some of that punk crowd?

Spike: Yes. But we didn't really dwell on it. We were doing what we liked, just like we did  
when we were hardcore punk. We didn't like that punks and metal heads didn't get along. We didn't like that punk started to have rules and laws of how you had to be. What you could like and what you couldn't like. How you couldn't dress or style your hair. We got into punk because it was anarchy, anything goes, no rules. It all changed. We didn't like these new rules. I think we rebelled against that and created our own way of thinking and living. We liked metal, we like punk, we put them together and made punk metal. Our fans called it crossover. 

Kurt, Rob and Spike, Broadway Joe's, Buffalo NY, May 12 2011 (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  In 1987 right after "Crossover", you did a small number of Australian dates. This was a  
total first as far as really extreme music went -  since no other band had been in the country  
before and it was at least 5 more years before anyone else got to the country in a remotely fast style (ie: Morbid Angel). The gig I (Alan) went to was your last date which was in Melbourne Australia (it took a long train ride over night to get into the next state) and was the most well attended of any show I had ever seen in the country until leaving it in 1990 - with a huge cross section of fans from varying styles. Understandably it was a long time ago, but is there anything  particular from the visit that you still recall? 

Australian Tour 1987 shirt front (photo - Alan Moses)


 Kurt sold the merch and even signed the back, thanks again! (photo - Alan Moses)

Spike:  We played Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. I remember the long drive to Canberra in a little tiny minivan. I remember the Prince of Wales, in Melbourne. I think it was the first show. A hotel / venue where we played and stayed. I think we did two shows there. I remember eating pizza before one of the shows and feeling sick to my stomach while playing. I remember hanging out with the crowd before and after the shows, partying in the parking lot. We even went to a house party one night. 

Spike during DRI's final Australian date in 1987, Melbourne, Victoria - (photo - Stuart Maitland, BUTTFACE 'zine co-editor)

 I remember there was a handful of Nazi Skin Heads at the Canberra show. They were in the  middle of the pit right in front of the stage. They were punching, kicking and beating innocent kids trying to slam and have fun. There was like no security, and it was getting out of hand. In between songs, while we were tuning up, kids would grab the mic and plead with the skins to stop. This happened a few times, to no avail. The crowd finally turned on them. Now instead of pleading for them to stop while we were taking a break, a chant started. Stop the Nazi's,  Fuck the Nazi's, Kill the Nazi's, Fight Fight Fight!  Stop the Nazi's, Fuck the Nazi's, Kill the  Nazi's, Fight Fight Fight! Over and over and over. Then one guy that got punched in the face, returned the favor, and sucker punched the skinhead that punched him earlier.

 
  Josh, Kurt and Spike in Sydney, New South Wales 1987 - (photo - Randy Reimann, Massappeal vocalist, the band which supported DRI for the full tour)

The rest of the crowd joined in and pounced on the skins in the pit. They were beaten, dragged out the front door of the venue, and thrown into the street or parking lot. They got up and left, and the rest  of the show went off without incident. I remember Kurt congratulating the crowd for banding together and policing their own show. And I think some kids in the crowd got up on stage and commended the crowd for taking care of business. I actually have this show on cassette somewhere, and you can hear the whole thing take place.  From the pleading to the interruptions for fights, to the chanting and the removal of the problem. It's awesome. 

 
Spike in Sydney 1987 - (photo - Randy Reimann)


GT:  The band has had a few lineup changes throughout the years with the two constants  
being you and Kurt. Is there any secret to the two of you being able to remain friends and  
band mates for all these years?

Spike: Well we are the main songwriters; we are the sound, the style and the driving force  behind the band. Plus neither of us want to go back to working a real job. We do not live near each other and do not hang out together when we are not touring. Maybe  that helps us from getting on each other’s nerves and hating each other.  

DRI set list for the Broadway Joe's May 12 2011 gig - (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  Many bands lose their live intensity after just a few years,  but 30 years in DRI is still an incredible act to witness live. Four guys that look like they're still having a blast playing those songs, no one just going through the emotions. As you have gotten older has it been tough to maintain the live standard of excellence DRI has become known for?

Spike:  I guess we really do enjoy what we are doing, cause I know I don't even think of it.  Most of the time it's fun. Sometimes we tease and poke fun at each other onstage. 

GT: What do you consider some of the primary factors to DRI still being popular with so  
many fans of varying interests after the sheer number of years you've been at this? You've  
literally grown up with DRI, any major moments in the timeline that has had a lasting effect on you?

Spike: Another thing I don't think about. I guess we do appreciate our fans and treat them with more respect than most bands. I have people come up at every show and tell me how I got them into a show for free, gave them a guitar pick, or just talked to them for a few minutes years ago, and how that has made an impression on them. Some say how other bands are jerks to them.  Some of those same people have introduced their kids to DRI. They are bringing them to our shows. And telling them the stories they have from the shows. It's become a hand me down tradition to thrash at a DRI show!

Spike May 9 2012 - (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  Unlike many acts of today, DRI does not keep a static set list, many of the songs are  
played every night, but some are swapped in and out for variation. Do you guys find it tough  to choose which songs will be played and which will not given the sheer number of great songs in the DRI catalog?

Spike: I think we have about 140 songs to choose from. Of which we play about 35 at a show  in about 90 minutes. It's pretty easy to pick the main songs that were the hits and video songs etc. What's hard is picking the songs that were not so popular. We get a lot of feedback from fans yelling out songs. We try to play songs from every album. And we have to keep 50 or so songs in practice so we can play them at any given moment. 

GT:  While many bands of today seem to be unfriendly to fans by staying in their tour bus/van until the moment they hit the stage, DRI has remained very fan friendly and fans are even treated by being able to buy merch at shows directly from Kurt.  Is it important for you to remain close to your fans?

Spike: Of course. :)

Kurt, Harald and Spike May 9 2012 - (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  About 6 years ago you were diagnosed with colon cancer. Was it caught during regular  
checkups or did you have some ailment that made you go in for a special test?

Spike: I knew I was sick. I knew something was wrong. I told my family doctor, who dismissed it was nothing without even taking my temperature or blood pressure. I got another doctor, who did the same. And a third who I told I seen other doctors who dismissed it as nothing. He told me to go see a shrink. And I began to wonder if it was in my head. That's when I realized it was probably because I did not have insurance. These doctors didn't even want to touch me. And basically I gave up. I was living in California at the time. A year later I moved to Washington state. And got a new family, still without insurance. I told this new doctor the story of how I felt, what my symptoms where, and how all these doctors in California did nothing. He looked puzzled and said well let's order done test. 

A week later I was diagnosed with colon cancer. It probably could of been caught before  
developing into cancer if one of those other doctors ordered a test too. The cancer was so  
advanced by this time my family was told I was terminal. The cancer has spread to my liver. It was not until after surgery when they discovered they were wrong. It was only scar tissue on my liver. But if this went undiscovered a few more months, I would of definitely been  
terminal. 

Moral of the story. Get insurance, get checkups. Get a colonoscopy if you're 35 years or older.

GT:  How aggressive was the early treatments for the cancer and how did it affect your time in DRI during that span?

Spike: It was very aggressive. I had a year of chemo and 9 months of radiation. I went for treatments a few times a week. The chemo mad me very sick at first till they switched me to the chemo pill. It ended my time in DRI / touring and just about any social life I had. 

GT:  Anyone who knows or has known someone with cancer knows that even if the chemo  
and early treatments work that isn't the end of possible health issues. There is also the fear that the cancer will return and you need to go to regular checkups and may even have continued treatments designed to prevent cancers return. Did you have to make major adjustments to your lifestyle after the chemo sessions ended?

Spike: Not really. Besides having scans every 6 months, and lots of doctor appointments all  year long. Once it was over, it was over.  Until it came back 5 years later. 

Kurt, May 12 2011 - (photo - Brian Pattison)

GT:  What happened to you at the end of 2011 is whatever cancer survivor fears, the cancer  
returned. This time around instead of chemo the doctors did a full colonoscopy. The surgery (and complications including infection) hasn't seemed to slow you down much. You've missed a show here and there but for the most part you're still going strong with live DRI  
performances. Have your pre and/or post show rituals changed at all since the surgery?

Spike: I am a different person now, and my pre and post show routines have changed a lot. I  had my entire colon removed in Jan of 2012. I am straight edge now. I don't drink, and basically can't without a colon. No drugs, I don't even smoke cigarettes. (BTW the cancer was not caused from smoking, it is hereditary.)

I have to watch what I eat, and schedule when I eat so that I can be able to have a window of a few hours to play a show without going to the bathroom every 20 minutes. Because of this I do not go to shows and hang out. I show up an hour before DRI plays and head back to our motel ASAP after the show. 

Spike and Jana Perry supporting Glorious Times!! - (photo courtesy Jana Perry)

GT: Cancer related expenses can add up to millions in no time so it is common to have  
benefits or fundraiser for cancer survivors. Being a legend may make some people think you  don't need fundraisers/benefits, but of course anyone making extreme music isn't rolling in cash like rock stars. Have you encountered any slack from people who think you don't need the donations?

Spike: Yes of course. But it has been minimal. I read comments like "he chose to live this life of playing music, so it's his own fault". But no one says anything to my face. 
The truth is I never expected to ask for donations. I expected for it to take years to pay off the  med bills. You're right, we do not make a lot of money. We basically have teacher or police man's salaries. And the med bills in 2012 equaled about half my salary. 

But friends and fans came to me and wanted to help. They asked where can I donate to you. I had to set up ways for people to donate. People where giving money to other people to give to me, and once I found out I was not getting it, I figured I should do something about it. So we started the Spike Cassidy Cancer Relief Fund (SCCRF). And it has helped. We raised thousands of dollars and made a dent in the bills.

GT:  Any final comments?

Spike: I would like to thank all the DRI fans out there that have supported us over the last three decades. Whether you went to a show, bought a shirt, or a cd, you have helped us live our dream. And we know that without the fans, and the fans support a band cannot exist.

I would also like to thank everyone who has supported me through my cancer. Everyone who has reached out and donated, you have touched my heart and made me feel loved. You have given me the strength to fight, and continue to do what I love the most.



Donations to Spike to help with his cancer related bills can be made via PayPal to sccrf@yahoo.com






















































GLORIOUS TIMES PRESENTS: ANOTHER GATHERING OF THE TRIBES - A NIGHT OF METAL AND HARDCORE



JUST LIKE WE USED TO DO IN THE GT ERA - HARDCORE PUNK AND METAL - TOGETHER - A FACT NOT A FACTION!

SEE YOU THERE!


THIS GIG HAS BEEN CANCELLED  - APOLOGIES TO ALL

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

GLORIOUS TIMES & BROADWAY JOE'S PRESENT: CATTLE DECAPITATION & GUESTS NOVEMBER 8 2012


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Monday, November 5, 2012

GLORIOUS TIMES & THE FUNERAL HOME PRESENT: MOTORPSYCHOS / LEWD DEWDZ & GUESTS DEC 1 2012


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Saturday, September 29, 2012

GLORIOUS TIMES & CLUB INFINITY PRESENTS: SIX FEET UNDER & GUESTS - NOVEMBER 7 2012


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SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED - APOLOGIES

Friday, September 14, 2012

GLORIOUS TIMES & THE FUNERAL HOME PRESENT: PHOBIA & GUESTS OCTOBER 15 2012

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

BODE PRETO: BONDED BY INVERTED BLOOD

 Oracles of inverted blood: Bode Preto (photo - Erick Miranda)

It's no secret we love a lot of the extreme music from Brazil. Bode Preto (Black Goat) are a newer outfit who stand head and shoulders apart from the mediocrity infesting a once proud band of pioneering spirits - and these guys are preparing their forthcoming debut album entitled 'Inverted Blood' which is due to be released quite soon, with pressings in Brazil, Germany and the UK (so it will be available to most people on the underground level).

GT has been able to get a bit of a dialogue going with Bode Preto's Josh S and Adelson Souza while they've been working on the material, which came to us out of the darkness and quite frankly took us by total surprise. This is going to be one of the most special releases in a VERY long time in extreme metal, not just from Brazil either, period.


 GT - So Josh, was it you that actually started Bode Preto? Was it you alone or with other people (we ask this due to the 2010 EP 'Dark Night' having other members than this new line-up). What sort of style did you originally intend on making?


  Josh S - Yes, we started as trio, but I invited the other guys and had already the idea of how the band would sound and look like. It was, and is, intended to be obscure, morbid and violent metal band. For me the best bands and records are not so clear which style it is, is more about the energy and the act of search for something. It's very intense when there's the birth of something new, when it's not so clearly categorized. If you listen to Sarcófago's I.N.R.I. it's not Grindcore, Black Metal, Death or Thrash Metal, but it's everything together brought to a next level. I always think about the D.R.I. Crossover album that was released the same year of I.N.R.I., and what they were talking about on their album Sarcófago was already doing 10 times more intense. I love D.R.I and a big amount of Punk and Core bands, but nowadays with the Deathcore tag new people think is silly to say that hahahaha. In music and creation we can build our own world and talk about what matter for us, with this band in a very concentrated way of short songs, images, lyrics, videos and live performances, it's like a movie and it attracts me very much.

GT - Can you tell us about the former members and current members of Bode Preto? Their work on the 'Dark Night' ep was really killer...


Josh S - (photo - Bianca Lessa) 


Josh S - It was Junior Oliveira on the drums and Pablo Erickson on the bass, they are the kind of guys who grew up in the same street and have played together for 8 years now, they have a band called Mortal Thrash where Pablo plays the guitar. At this moment I see that each of them is taking care of their own life. I have been playing in bands since 1993, and have some stuff released with Monasterium (Death Doom Metal band from the 90's), I remember when we were talking about creating Monasterium that we already had the LP of The Endoparasites released by Cogumelo with Adelson on the drums. I'm saying that because it was a great achievement for a band at that time to have a LP released by them.

 Junior (original Bode Preto drummer) 2010 (photo - Bianca Lessa)

 Pablo - (photo - Bianca Lessa)

GT - How did you and Adelson end up hooking up to constitute the new Bode Preto? You guys live something like 3000km apart?



  Josh S - We knew the previous bands of each other, both of us were used to have pen pals and trade tapes on the pre-internet era. Now it is quicker as we can have real time conversation. I recorded a demo by myself, struggling to try to play the drums as well, and sent to Adelson who instantly felt that he could develop and record the drums. It was perfect time as I exchange my drum kit and a guitar amp for some credits on a traveling agency. But the deal was with a friend so I could keep the drums for one month to have the time to record it. With that we could buy the tickets for Adelson to come. He stayed for 7 days in my house and we recorded it in one of the rooms, the same where he slept.

Adelson - I knew the band through a mutual friend. We started talking at Facebook and saw that I could record in Teresina. Josh sent me the songs by email. It really was hard to conceive because it is not common in Brazil. Never crossed someone here in Brazil almost 3000 kilometers to record and I did it! 


 Adelson & Josh fine tuning the enigma - (photo - Erick Miranda)

GT - That's definitely dedicated to the extreme,  how the hell do you manage to get everything accomplished with that sort of distance?



  Josh S - I had already the songs and a demo, as a matter of fact I have recorded these songs a dozen of times trying to find how it would work better. Adelson is as obsessive with music as I am, so he was listening to the demos 30 times per day before coming, when he arrived after the first 20 minutes playing together for the first time we felt that the most important we had already, which was the chemistry of playing together and the clear intention to make something strong doing the best we can. 

Then we made 2 days of rehearsals, recording with 1 mic on the room and 4 days of drums only recording. I felt that he had the potency on his drumming to go far beyond the demos, that's exactly what we did, took the songs to a next level of energy and always looking for the perfect cadence. We were working like a chess game, each one having the time to bring his point, not trying to win but challenging each other. The songs had already a structure, but Adelson brought a considerable amount of chaos, that I accepted and adapted my own way of playing and the songs themselves.

We tried to make the least amount of editing as possible, recording almost every layer of instruments with an unique take. We also have a special guest with 3 guitar solos on the record, it is Fábio Jhasko (former Sarcófago), that for me is an immense honor and for the music it brings a real time warp from beyond. He recorded his parts in São Paulo.


The 2010 EP

GT - The 2010 short 4 song ep 'Dark Night' is very unique with the almost rock'n'roll (or  some might call it 'heavy metal' parts) which is something strange even for proto-death metal of the early to mid 80's from Brazil. We know the line up was different, and the song writing was a little different in that other people no longer in the band contributed, yet the songs really still stand out. Have people caught on to this mixture and has the reception been good?



  Josh S - Interesting that you make the comparison with the bands from the 80's in Brazil, that of course were and are very important. But for me in Bode Preto bands like Mystifier and early Genocídio have more influence than Chakal for instance. I believe that this rock'n'roll aspect comes from Black Sabbath, Beatles, Little Richard, Gene Vincent... that is something that called my attention to music, it was not rational decision.

GT - From the advance unmixed incomplete songs we've been lucky to hear so far (advances from 2012) - there is definitely less of the rock'n'roll/hm identity in any of the passages. This was intentional or simply evolution?



  Josh S - It was result of going deeper to find out and create an essence to this band, we have ripped a veil now we have space to dive and develop it further. Maybe it will come back in the future but it seems that this band is creating it's own legs, now is moment to let it go a bit by itself to then catch it again and ride with it. The solo of Inverted Blood is kind of Heavy Metal.


 GT - New fans ride this silly 'retro-wave' - they want clones. It's been stated, we think accurately too, that Bode Preto honestly relay a genre whilst still remaining extremely individual. This is no small feat, especially when so many bands just want to mimick others. How in the hell have you pulled it all off? It seems a little bit like Grave Desecrator's 'Insult' LP in that they, like you, have recaptured a feeling that's still fresh sounding rather than simply cloned mid 80's Brazilian style.


  Josh S - The retro approach is pointless and trendy, is the same as pop music trying to sound 80's or some other shit. For me would be very difficult to limit a band to a decade or so. I always liked things to be doing as they weren't before, and cutting edge approach to the music and the sound. We didn't use triggers or tricks because we like it that way, not trying to achieve a specific sound from another band. We are just playing and recording it the way we love and presenting a band that sounds good to our ears. If bands like Slayer or Kreator would be retro they would be clones of Motorhead or Venom.

Adelson - When I traveled to record it all with the Bode Preto, I was conscious that I was in a band that represented something genuine and honest. Not that many others are not .... but ... References to "Insult" are different from "Inverted Blood" although we have many things in common. “Inverted Blood” is more introspective although the approach is very explosive.


 Adelson & Josh - (photo - Erick Miranda)

GT - Obviously there's a ton of differences between Grave Desecrator and Bode Preto. Now Adelson, you actually played drums on the Grave Desecrator 'Insult' LP. Were you a full time member or were you like a session musician helping them out?


Adelson - I was a full time member.


GT - You toured with those guys as well, right?  Not just around Brazil, but over in Europe as well....? What are your thoughts as a musician and also a fan of the experience?


Adelson - Yes, the tour was in 2010. There were 10 shows: three in Germany, three in England, two in Italy, one in Germany and one in Austria. It was supposed to have another in Germany but police canceled the show because the place had no emergency exit. The most prominent gig was at Live Evil Fest in London with the legends from Angel Witch. I saw Angel Witch on the stage! Kevin Heyboune and Bill Steer kills!!!!!!


GT - Will you be on the forthcoming Grave Desecrator releases Adelson, or is your collaboration with them over?


Adelson - No...I had problems with them and don't have any contact with the guys. I don’t have the "Insult" album at home ... I never even saw the LP, for example....


 GT - Would fans ever see a shared gig between yourselves and Grave Desecrator? We can't really imagine anyone would survive that if it happened...


  Josh S - That would be great, for sure some people can die of drinking too much alcohol hahahahaha

Adelson - One day it might happen... but I don’t think about it ... what I think is that both bands will do their best so they come up on stage...


 The original Bode Preto laying foundation to what is to come.

GT - Josh, you've been vocalist/guitarist with BP from the start, how do you feel about the current direction of the band, in comparison to your previous work with it?



  Josh S - I feel that we are going further on the points we had before, bringing it forwardl. For the first time, since I started to record music, the process only made the original idea stronger. As it was recorded in my own home studio, we lost on the technical material, but we gain much more in time to try things out and the right moment and concentration to perform and to record. 

With the lyrics we arrived to a point that is not talking about ourselves as individuals, even going through individual experience and points of view. Themes like Mother of Ferocity appeared already in 'Verminoso', which is about how the mothers are the first agents to the conditioning of the little humans, not even with the intention but deceptive by a system of values based on the profit of money and ego. That system only awaits for more fuel and work power to keep on functioning. They provide it very well with repressed and fearful children. They become adults that see no escape to that apparently eternal chain of shallow comprehension and experience of life. Just become the new Mothers and Fathers of that suicidal insanity. We are victims and executioners at the same time. 


Inverted Blood is about the opposite of life, it's not death, but the repression of life, the negation of life. The repression of the ancient form of perpetuate life, our sexual potency. This time I brought some subjects from dreams, symbolic images that come from an ancient wisdom of our nature.


The new foundation - (photo - Erick Miranda)

GT - It's good to hear that the 'modern'  black metal influence hasn't resoundingly dominated Bode Preto. It's just enough to compliment but not ruin anything and degenerate the band into something silly like most of the bm bands are. It's obvious the glorious times era bands are an influence, care to name any particular bands/releases that really guided you guys to make the decision to go the way you have with music?



  Josh S - From Black Metal we got the morbid and bestial aspect. Bands like the mighty BATHORY, BEHERIT, BLASPHEMY, VON, SAMAEL (Worship Him era), SARCÓFAGO, MYSTIFIER, IMPALED NAZARENE, early ULVER, MAYHEM (old), but for sure the Florida Death Metal scene had big impact here, for me MORBID ANGEL and DEICIDE the most. I'll name now some bands with no particular connection AUTOPSY, MUTILATOR, HELLHOUSE, CARCASS, DOOM, AMEBIX, SEPULTURA, POSSESSED, MANIAC BUTCHER, PARADISE LOST, DISGORGE (USA), SEX TRASH, BLACK WITCHERY, SINISTER, SLAUGHTER (CAN), METALLICA, TERVEET KADET, RATTUS, WEHRMACHT, Rövsvett, Poison Idea...

Adelson - We have the feeling that guided some releases from Necro Death / Black bands the late '80s and early '90s. It was a time when albums were not plastic and the bands really sounded threatening and ugly. Brazil has always been particularly good at it. Another important feeling is the old hardcore bands from Sweden, Finland and Brazil. Chaos on earth!


 
GT - We have a deep affection for the Brazilian bands, since we were part of things as fans in the beginning, watching for that new release on Cogumelo (which was then the most prominent of the Brazilian labels at the time).  We see Bode Preto as being a band that could have easily been on one of those early releases, say in 1986 on Cogumelo's Warefare Noise Vol 1 comp 12''. What do you think about that?


  Josh S - That compilation has a magical aura, If you feel the same with BODE PRETO for me is an honor.

Adelson - Maybe my participation has much of that feeling because I recorded a band (The Endoparasites) by Cogumelo Records. But in 1993. The classic bands from 80s (Sepultura,Sarcófago, Chakal, Mutilator) from Cogumelo, I saw many of their gigs during the years of their releases. All this is in my blood.


GT - By the way, what was each of yours favourite part of that comp?



Josh S - SARCÓFAGO.
Adelson - Mutilator.

The classic Warfare Noise compilation - (photo - Alan Moses)

GT - Are fans in Brazil actually comprehending what you're doing? The old Brazilian sound and attitude is well known to us and others from the old record/tape trading times - but is it being acknowledged on a larger level that you are carrying the sword from one era to other? Is the international response any better or worse than at home?



Josh S - We are having very good response from the old school true bangers from different parts of Brazil and overseas. You are the first one to send an interview, and it's before the record is out. What makes me very glad is that you got the deep core intention of this band.

Adelson - I can not say for other bands but the impression is that we are well received.


GT - We're not sure about how old you guys are...? and how long have you been playing music?



  Josh S - I'm 34 and started to play guitar by myself when I was 13, in Monasterium with 15. Since 2001 I have worked with music and live performances for physical theater and dance, with different directors and choreographers, developing it and presenting on stage in countries like Netherlands (where I lived for almost 2 years in different periods), Germany, Czech Rep., Belgium, France and several cities in Brazil. The experience with this kind of work taught me a lot about the discipline in the process of creating and realizing a piece of artistic manifestation. I'm very used to the fact of traveling long distances to meet a group, or a person, to create something together. Because of that for me was quite spontaneous the process of working with Adelson to develop the band and record it. Music has always been my way to avoid the pre-determined life I would have without it.

Adelson - I am 41 years old and I've played since 1987. My first real band was The Endoparasites in final from '89.


GT - We got to ask you: do you have any favourite record stores in your towns/or in the past that you enjoyed visiting or hanging out at? If so, can you tell us any stories about that?



  Josh S - I liked a lot to go to a shop called WAR PIGS it was a tattoo shop of a friend called Bernardo, he was a drummer for a violent band in the vein of early D.R.I. called AZINUS. We had an agreement that we would only pay for the ink and needle and he would tattoo us from the band for free. His name is on our demos and CD of Monasterium, he died in 2000 in an accident and I have 3 tattoos done by him. He had a fucking green soldier pig as a logo and he would tattoo it for free..hahaha I have some friends with that pig on their skin, not me hahahahahah.

Adelson - WOW, the record stores here hava many stories, São Paulo was common to have many fights between factions of Metal and Punk in the streets near from Gallery Of Rock!! I had some problems with that too!!!! I always frequented several record stores since the beginning of the '80's, and my fave here in Rio de Janeiro was Heavy Discos which was also a record label and released bands like Dorsal Atlântica, Extermínio and others. But my preferred record store was in São Paulo in a place called Galeria do Rock (Gallery Of Rock) and is one of the biggest record stores in Metal in the world! Really many,many record stores!!! Paradise!!!! Imagine it in 80s!!!!Only for maniacs!!! Outside from Gallery Of Rock had a most important record store in Brazil called Woodstock Discos but the store don’t exist anymore. I worked 5 years in a store between 1995 and 2000 called Marquee. Cogumelo Records was a shop well before turning into a record label and there were only funny types. By the early morning the store already had a bunch of drunk people at the shop door and everyone vomiting. Hahahahahaha


 The multi-storied Galeria do Rock in Sao Paulo

  GT - Josh, so far, what would be the most memorable show you have played in Bode Preto?

 
Josh S - With BODE PRETO for sure in EL KHURU INFERNAL FESTIVAL in Fortaleza, a city 600km from Teresina. It was a 2 weekend festival that resulted in an underground documentary called "BLACK METAL ALÉM DO SOL" (BLACK METAL BEYOND THE SUN). With bands like ETERNAL MARTYR and HORDE 666.

GT - We'll leave it to you fudido amigos to say what you want in closing, again we cannot wait for this record, it's gonna hand so many people their asses! Thanks lads!
  
Josh S - We are now on the mixing process of the debut, it will be called Inverted Blood, will be released in Brazil through Läjä Records. It will be on our site for download. There is possible to buy digitally our EP (from 2010 entitled 'Dark Night') and in October 2012 the debut will be available as well. 

We use Bandcamp, it's very interesting as the payment go direct to the band via PayPal, and you can have it with high quality. We are working on the line up, there's a guitarist learning the songs and we are looking for a bassist, both to play live together with me on the guitar and vocals and Adelson on the drums of course. Thank you for the fantastic interest in BODE PRETO, that's the first interview I answer to USA. Cheers.


Adelson - We are really anxious to this release and we believe it too. We greatly thank Fabio Jhasko (Sarcófago in “The Laws Of Scourge” ) for your participation in the solos in “Inverted Blood”! In Germany will be released by Ketzer Records (the same label that released the first 2 recordings from Grave Desecrator) and in England on cassette by Goatprayer Records. I believe that will be released in October/November. In Brazil will be released in October by Laja Records. And really thanks very much for you, and the great Glorious Fucking Times! We appreciate your work!!!!!! We wait see everyone around!!! Chaos on earth!!!



SHIT IS GONNA HIT THE FAN WITH THIS NEW ALBUM 'INVERTED BLOOD' - DON'T MISS OUT - GET IN TOUCH WITH THE LABELS IN YOUR REGION NOW TO MAKE SURE YOU GET A COPY:


LÄJÄ RECORDS - BRAZIL 

KETZER RECORDS - GERMANY 

GOATPRAYER RECORDS - ENGLAND 

HUGE THANKS TO BIANCA LESSA FOR HER GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION OF PHOTOS!!