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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We haven't posted a new article/interview on here since 2014 so we took this time to interview Bill Steer and Jeff Walker of Carcass on the eve of their USA tour in support of Slayer and Testament. For this interview we did things a little different and enlisted the help of Greg DiPasquale (Seplophile) so we'd have questions that the generation below us would wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Front of the 1990 Carcass "Nauseating North America" tour shirt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GT: let's go way back to begin with. jeff, how did you first get involved with Electro Hippies?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff -I was friends with Andy the guitarist from being involved with hunt sabotage (fox hunting with hounds & horses) and I later met Simon Guest the drummer - he lived pretty close to me. I kinda drifted into it - I guess cos Simon knew I’d sang in a band called BOMB CULTURE (which also consisted of Mark Griffiths who would later form CATHEDRAL with Lee Dorrian). Simon asked me to “audition” at a rehearsal. I was TERRIBLE!!</span><br /><br />GT: any fond memories from your time in that band?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - Not really - in rehearsal the band was TIGHT and at the time Simon was a much faster drummer than say Mick Harris of NAPALM DEATH - in fact I remember Mick was a bit jealous of the first 12” EP EH did cos of the speed of one of the songs. Live though - yuck, a SHAMBLES - probably cos of the drinking. At least I got to play The Mermaid (Birmingham) with them in ’87 Funnily enough I recall seeing Ken and Bill at a show we did in the audience - I can make a funny observation about their personalities summed up by their denim jackets and how they were “decorated” ha ha!</span><br /><br />GT: Bill, even before your time in napalm death you had started an early incarnation of carcass. how did the original lineup of carcass come to be?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - We were all at school together. At that time Ken was just doing vocals, I played guitar and a friend of ours named Chris Gardner handled bass. We were all fifteen. On drums there was an older lad, Dave Mottershead. That line-up didn't last too long. Just a few practices, then it fizzled out.</span><br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> GT: for your 1st north american tour carcass was able to come over as support for Death. you were barely out of your teens when you were offered the tour, did it feel unreal to be so young and know you'd soon be flying thousands of miles to tour on another continent?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - We weren’t REALLY that young - me and Bill were 21, Ken was 20 so couldn’t drink legally ha ha! It was an adventure, a trip of a lifetime (or so I at least thought). You’ve got to understand it was a big deal back then, trans atlantic travel wasn’t as cheap and popular as it is now - I never expected EVER to travel to the USA - sounds crazy to say that now, but you know I was a penniless bum at the time!<br /><br />Bill - Well, not to nit-pick, but Jeff's slightly off there... I was 20 at that time, didn't turn 21 until December that year (1990)! But yeah, it was a massive buzz for all of us. Like most British kids, we'd grown up exposed to a lot of North American culture from watching TV, films and so on. </span><br /><br />GT: any particular show/city stand out in your memory from that 1990 tour?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I can remember almost every show, day on that tour - every day was an adventure where something crazy would happen….West Palm Beach stands out to me, but I don’t want to go into it - I’d sound like a sleazy asshole ha ha!<br /><br />Bill - In all honesty, I don't remember as much from that tour as I should. We've done numerous American runs since then, but that first one was unique in every way. The things that stick in my memory tend to be some of the characters we encountered on our travels, and some of the nutty situations we found ourselves in. That's the stuff you will never, ever forget... As far as the gigs themselves, the one that stood out for me was the Country Club in Reseda. By our standards, that was a large audience and there was a real energy in the air. Before we played, Jeff rushed out front to sort out the projector. When the Carcass logo appeared on the screen at that back of the stage, a big roar went up from the crowd. That was nuts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GT: as early death metal tv stars... what do you remember about your experience as "smeg and the heads" on Red Dwarf?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - Well I remember the pay cheque ha ha! Was a lot of money to a “kid” at the time - we got picked up from home in limos and dropped off at the end of it - easy money! We still get royalties from the BBC to this day for it! It was a trip - I always had flights of fancy about being on TV so….<br /><br />Bill- I don't recall being as keen as Jeff - I'd already made a fool of myself on TV with Napalm. But he twisted my arm without too much trouble. It ended up being a decent laugh. No real complaints there!</span><br /><br />GT: did they tell you specifics in what to do musically or do you guys completely improv that?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - We just improvised - it was done over a few takes - if you listen closely I’m actually playing the riff from “Reek Of Putrefaction” all fucked up!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Carcass at the Skyroom in Buffalo, NY 1990</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">GT: bands have been known to reform (or let's say become active again) and just live off the past, ie. tour but not release any new material. will there be a new carcass album?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I think it WILL happen given time - we’re in no rush. If we wanted to capitalise on our momentum off the back of the “success” of SS & we were “clever” we’d rush it out - but that’s not our style - it WILL come given time.</span><br /><br />GT: with 6 albums of material under your belt does it bother you at all that some of the older fans are vocal about wanting to hear more tracks off of the first 2 albums performed live?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - No, not at all, we DO play songs from those albums, but you know the reality is those albums are not as popular as the later ones so…we have to satisfy as many people as possible in a limited time, and some songs work better live than others so it’s a trade off. That said let’s be honest, there’s bands that basically sound like cover/tribute acts that we influenced that play that style 100% better than we can ha ha!<br /><br />Bill - If those people are vocal, somehow I haven't heard much of it. And in all honesty it's possible you've inadvertently put two separate groups of people together - the few who are genuinely fans of our early work, and those who just want to score a few underground points on social media.</span><br />GT: with each album carcass's sound has changed slightly. should we expect another slight change in sound as carcass continues on?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - i think, and hope so. To me SS is our “thrash” album and having Andy Sneap mix it worked - but I’d like to get a different over all “sound” not he next one…I think our next album will be our “NWOBHM” album ha ha!<br /><br />Bill - Personally I wouldn't want to make any predictions at this stage. But if we were to make another record, it would certainly need to be a little different stylistically. No question about that.</span><br /><br />GT: in 2014 carcass toured the usa as a headliner, but now in 2016 you're coming back as a support act for slayer and testament. did you anything differently to prepare for this tour?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - We haven’t done anything (yet) besides get all the backline arranged…we’ll rehearse for a day in Chicago when we get in the country. We only get to play 30 minutes so….we had a similar time slot when we played Download Festival (Castle Donnington) so we’ll do a set like that - non stop with no gaps for me to talk drunken bullshit- it will be a relief for the audience!</span><br />GT: any plans for after this tour?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - Yeah - we have some euro festivals booked and we are actually come back to the States - we have a festival (yet to be announced) in Chicago & Heavy MTL (Montreal) so we’ll book more dates inbetween those two dates (possibly a festival in Mexico City in the middle). As well as that Bill plays with GENTLEMANS PISTOLS & I’ll possibly have shows with BRUJERIA - that album is meant to finally drop in September on Mexican independence day (if it’s ever mixed!!)<br /><br />Bill - And if we really are going to tackle a new album, we'll need to set aside some time in the rehearsal room. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Greg: Bill, what inspired you to tune down to B? Given the time period that was very unusual, and ultimately ahead of its time.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill- Obviously plenty of people had tuned down over the years, Tony Iommi being perhaps the most obvious example. The B tuning just felt right to us, and at the time it seemed no-one else had gone that low... Although naturally we're open to correction on that one.</span><br /><br />Greg: Jeff, what happened with Columbia Records?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - One word - NIRVANA.</span><br /><br />Greg: Do you think that whole experience led to the initial demise of the group?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - Not really, but where do you go when you get “dropped” by a Major Label? It just seemed like we’d “tried” and that was that.<br /><br />Bill - To me, it felt as if the band had been on its last legs for quite some time. The label issue was just one of several problems we were going through back then. </span><br /><br />Greg: Any perks to the partnership?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - yeah, all the free CDs you could pack into a suitcase! We got a great advance, and even more money when we walked with the tapes of Swanson which we THEN sold to Earache.</span><br /><br />Greg: Bill, given your love of NWOBHM how much fun was your stint in Angel Witch? Did that influence any of your writing on Surgical Steel?<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - It didn't really influence the writing of "Surgical" in any direct way. For a start, a lot of the material I brought to the table had been written prior to joining Angel Witch. But yeah, I felt privileged to play with that band. I'd grown up with the debut album, so it was amazing to stand onstage next to Kevin Heybourne and play that material. </span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Greg: Jeff, memories of the 1990 day of death festival in Buffalo?</span></span><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I recall meeting Scott and Matt (REPULSION) for the first time & finally getting to meet Chris Reifert (we’d been writing to each other). I tell you if that line up was put together today….that would be THE dream line up for Neurotic Deathfest in Holland, and that’s 1500 cap venue over 2 days!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, at what point did you start to feel disconnected from the death metal scene, and ultimately Carcass as well?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - I think we all began to feel a lack of interest in the Death Metal scene quite early on. It wasn't just me - we were all branching out, exploring new music or even just returning to some of the stuff that we liked as kids. We had a lot of respect for the founders of the genre - Death, Repulsion, Master - but it was hard to get enthusiastic about some of the newer acts. I know plenty of people felt (and still do feel) differently, but I'm just being honest with regard to how we were at that time... As far as the second part of the question, in the original phase of the band everything peaked for me around the time of "Heartwork". When we re-grouped to work on what later became known as "Swansong", you could tell that something was wrong. Some of the ideas I was bringing in weren't appropriate for the band, and Ken didn't seem happy playing in the straighter style that was more or less forced on him for that recording. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy some of the tracks on the album, but there was a bad atmosphere in the band for much of that period.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">Greg: Bill, the feeling you got the first time you plugged in, with full distortion on a guitar tuned to B after years of playing bluesy hard rock in Firebird? </span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - It felt very familiar, needless to say... After so many years playing in that style, it wasn't likely to feel entirely alien going back to it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, any plans to resurrect Firebird in the future or is your spare time now being occupied by Gentlemans Pistols?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill- Strangely it seems there's a lot more interest in Firebird now than there was at the time. Sometimes I feel like it'd be nice to do something of that nature again, and I still have plenty of ideas in that vein. So who knows... Currently though I'm quite happy being a member of "just" two groups. Gentlemans Pistols are a great band to be involved in.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, since your return to extreme metal have any newer bands or bands formed since your absence from the scene caught your ear?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - Along the way I have heard and seen bands that made an impression, for one reason or another. But there's nothing contemporary that I'd feel like playing at home. If I wanted to listen to intense Metal, I'd put on some of the earlier extreme stuff, whether it be Venom, Wargasm, Zoetrope...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Jeff, what brought about the Carcass Cuntry album?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - Me on a Gram Parson’s trip! Just a product it’s time - a dumb idea of fusing “doom metal” and “country” that went off on a tangent - was an excuse to indulge myself and have some fun!</span><br /><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Greg: opinions on the Carcass clone bands like The County Medical Examiners?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I think it’s cool and flattering - they serve a purpose - we don’t play in that style anymore so when people “complain” to us we can advise they go listen to bands of that ilk!<br /><br />Bill - Definitely flattering. No two ways about it.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Greg: Did this glut of bands help make you realize how much the band was loved and missed?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - No, not really, immediately after the release of “Reek” there were bands like that, Xysma etc spring to mind</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Greg: bands like Carcass and At The Gates seemingly skyrocketed in popularity while both bands were dormant, was that bittersweet or confusing at all?</span></span><span style="color: red;"><br />Jeff - I think of it as the fact that our demise created a “vacuum” where you had substandard stuff filling the void - not just us and ATG disappearing but also Vincent leaving MORBID ANGEL, Nicke leaving ENTOMBED - something was DEFINITELY “missing” in that period….some dreadful bands got big on German labels off the back of this….maybe it made people appreciate what was missing?<br /><br />Bill - I wasn't aware of this development until Jeff, Michael and a couple of other people alerted me to it. If what you are (and they were) saying is true, that is very interesting. Either we did leave a void in our wake, or the remaining bands just weren't delivering strong enough music. Or both.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, favorite song you wrote in Napalm Death?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - Ha, I must confess that I can scarcely recall which tunes I brought in for that band. It wasn't many, that much I do know.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: 1992-1994 were very important years for the band and it appeared carcass was gaining momentum at a very high rate. Because of this, do you think expectations for "Heartwork" were a little too high or unrealistic for a band that still had screamed vocals and blast beats?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I don’t think there WERE any expectations? From Colombia you mean? I don’t think they really expected anything from it - it sold 70k in the year they had it which sounds like FANTASTIC sales in todays age…back then bands were selling millions!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Repulsion or Master? Why?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - REPULSION for me. To me it’s “Garage Death Metal” - I mean that as a compliment - when I first heard them it reminded me a bit of good US hardcore as much as “metal” - lots of hooks and even though they were cruising on blast beats it has groove and doesn’t sound like noise.<br /><br />Bill - Both are essential listening for the genre. I wouldn't wish to choose between them as they're such different beasts. What they did have in common was that both were utterly brutal, yet somehow had a kind of groove and flow that hasn't been heard since.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, will you continue performing back up vocals going forward on record or was it just a special return for surgical steel only?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - If we make another record, the chances are I'll do some more backing vocals. Jeff established himself as lead vocalist a long time ago. But on "Surgical" he gave me a hard time about how important it was to have another voice on some of those tracks. He was right.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Jeff, lots of the vocabulary on the first 4 albums is incredibly obscure and impressive, anything push you in that direction or was it just creative instinct?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I was influenced by Ken’s writing - I just ran with it...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, right around the time the band first broke up your name started appearing more in mainstream guitar magazines as a player to keep an eye on. Despite the impending demise of the band, did you enjoy that press or are those kind of accolades unimportant to you?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - Really? I don't remember much of that. Which ones are you thinking of? Playing this style of music, one wouldn't really expect to be taken very seriously by those publications. We certainly weren't back then, and it doesn't seem as if much has changed. It's nice to get recognition now and then, of course. In our case that would tend to come from people we meet at gigs and festivals.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, napalm death, carcass, firebird, Gentlemans pistols. What do these bands each represent to you in your evolution as a musician?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - Napalm was a band I'd been a fan of for a while. When Mick Harris asked me to join, I was delighted. The following two years were fairly insane. We crammed a lot of experiences into that time and I was lucky to be involved. Musically it was just a lot of fun to play to those extremes, and the reactions we got from audiences were...well, hard to describe if I'm honest... Carcass meant (and still does mean) a lot more to me personally, as I started the group with friends on home turf. It also felt as if we had some scope to develop musically. And I guess you could say history has borne that out... Firebird? Tricky to summarise that one. You could say I learned a lot. As a guitarist, it was a deliberate case of back to basics. Plug in and go. Plus the 3-piece vibe is still my favourite in many ways. But it was the wrong band done in the wrong way at the wrong time. I'd wanted to explore that side of my music for ages - and in many senses it was a very liberating thing to do - but ultimately it was like swimming against the tide... Gentlemans Pistols was a band that I'd long been an admirer of. I loved the songs and the people, and that hasn't changed since joining.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Jeff, which one of your post carcass projects did you enjoy the most?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - The “solo” album I guess - was good times just hanging out in Helsinki a lot staying with Miika (That’s Gas from HIM to you).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Jeff, was Blackstar still together when Ken Owen had his health problems?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - I think so…</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Is that what ended the project?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Jeff - No but it was a DAMN good reason. It had ran it’s course anyhow.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: white;">Greg: Bill, was their any particular moment or event that broke down that wall and made you say: "yes, Carcass can live again as a band that makes new music."?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">Bill - That was more of a gradual realisation, rather than a sudden decision. Jeff and Michael had chipped away at me for quite a while, suggesting that the band reform for a few shows. Initially I was sceptical, but before long I started to warm to the idea. Once we were up and running, it felt entirely natural that we should go on to work on new material. Of course, the Arch Enemy guys felt differently, but once that line-up disintegrated Jeff and myself were free to work on a new album. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Crypt is proud to re-issue the first two albums from Arizona's cult Death metal act, NUCLEAR DEATH, Bride of Insect and Carrion for Worm. Both releases will be luxurious double vinyl sets with new liner notes, classic band photos and original artwork. Bride of Insect will feature the "Wake Me When I'm Dead" 1986 demo and "Welcome to the Minds of the Morbid" 1987 demo. Carrion for Worm will feature "A Symphony of Agony" 1987 demo and the "Vultures Feeding" 1988 demo. Forged in 1986 in Phoenix, Arizona, Nuclear Death were one of the few bands in the genre with a female vocalist, Lori Bravo. Their style was compared to the likes Impetigo, Blasphemy, Autopsy, Deceased, and Repulsion. Their first demo, Wake Me When I'm Dead, was released later that same year, receiving positive reviews from American and overseas zines. They were notable as at the time very few thrash metal artists had female singers. In 1991, the band released their more controversial work, entitled Carrion for Worm, which features vocals by Autopsy's Chris Reifert on two songs. This ultimate edition will be strictly limited to a one time only pressing of 666 hand-numbered copies - 222 of which will be classic black vinyl. These killer slabs of wax come housed in 2 separate jackets with UV High Gloss Varnish, featuring the both of the original Wild Rags covers and layouts. Also included will be a 12 page- zine styled booklet with classic flyers, exclusive band photos, classic interviews, new liner notes by Lori Bravo and an introduction by Michele "Mick" Toscan / The Nuclear Abominations rag! Each gatefold will contain a huge poster of each respective original cover artwork. Both gatefolds come housed in an amazing, heavy gauge case wrapped, hand numbered box.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Concert for Jennifer Rinaldo<br />March 22, 2014<br />The Forvm, 4224 Maple Rd, Amherst, NY<br /><br />RESTHAVEN (<i>pre-Malevolent Creation</i>)<br />RELICS<br />JOHNNY REVOLTING<br />ANCIENTS OF EARTH<br />HEROD</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Musically this show is unlike anything Glorious Times has ever been a part of. There's power/thrash, stoner rock, punk rock, a Pink Floyd tribute band and then there's Resthaven. The name may not be familiar to you if you live outside of WNY, but there's metal history there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in the 1985 or so 5 guys from North Tonawanda started up a cover band doing hard rock and early metal songs. The name of the band members should be familiar to you...Bret Hoffman, Phil Fasciana, Jim Nickles, Dennis Kubas and Kevin Peace. Resthaven would go through a number of member changes starting with Jim Nickles leaving to start Leviathan (which also had Chris Barnes of Cannibal Corpse/Six Feet Under fame). In 1987 some former members of Resthaven would get together again to form a new band...Bret Hoffman, Phil Fasciana, Jim Nickles, Dennis Kubas and bassist Jay Blachowicz would be the original Malevolent Creation. In 1988 Malevolent Creation would move to sunny florida, but their roots remained in WNY.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Jennifer Rinaldo was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer around Christmas of 2011. Jen immediately began treatments. The side effects of her treatments and meds were brutally harsh on her but through it all she continued to fight. Even in the darkest of times Jen continued to put others above herself....taking some of the money that was raised at a benefit for her and donating it to a young girl who was also fighting cancer and always making sure her children were taken care of. She battled through gamma knife treatments then chemo and when chemo became too harsh she moved on to a newer treatment at CCS Oncology. On September 14, 2013 Jen's body could take no more and she succumbed to cancer leaving behind 3 children (2 teenagers and a 5 year old). </span></span><br />
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was introduced to the extreme forms of music. At that time Brutal
Death Metal bands like Krisiun, Abhorrence, Rebaelliun, Ophiolatry
were very popular on the Brazilian extreme metal scene. I was very
much into them, together with old Nile, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse and
others. Only after doses and doses of Brutal Death Metal that I
slowly began to discover the gems of Old School Death Metal,
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song ‘Sacrifice’ was born. About one man bands I think that
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moving countries for music since I did it myself in 1990 - you're
from Amazon Brazil, you got to tell us a bit about life there! You
just don't expect extreme music there, how is it that you came to do
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>Daniel</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>You’ll not believe but there in
Amazon Brazil I had a Brutal Death Metal band since I was 14, and we
played tons of gigs, did tours etc. We even played for 2,000 Death
Metalheads at our town some time. Metal is definitely everywhere and
there we had even a scene with other bands. Not that much Death Metal
bands, but a lot of thrash, heavy etc. More than 100 active bands at
least, so every weekend we could have metal sessions, rehearsals,
gigs, and cold beers since in Manaus/Amazon you usually have between
30°C - 45°C the whole year. Manaus is located in Amazon but is a 2
million people highly industrialized city. And there are tons of
maniacs over there and also bands. If you’re curious to check my
brutal death metal band, here we go: <a href="http://www.mortificy.com/">www.mortificy.com</a></i></span>
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life since I’ve learned how to play guitar (at 13). So after I
moved to Germany I felt an immense hole in my life. I was thinking
how awesome would be to find members for Incarceration, than I began
to ask everybody for a bassist and drummer into Old School Death
Metal. After sometime I knew Björn, and later Micha. Björn is a big
fan of Swedish Old School Death Metal, and also of Doom and Funeral
Doom. Micha is more into Black Metal, Stoner/Sludge things but of
course very into Old School Death Metal and also into Hanneman riffs.
We rehearsed together and was incredible, the first rehearsal was
already insane with us 3 playing and banging our heads as hell. </i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="color: red;"><i>On
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insanity doing music together.</i></span> </span></span>
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each other in 2008 on internet, while she was living in Germany and I
was living in Brazil. Our relationship grew fast even being so far
away, and in 2009 she moved to Brazil to live with me. Our first
meeting was at the airport of Manaus (the most surreal day of my
life) and we live together since that day. We lived there in Brazil
for 2 years and a half, than we decided together to move Germany. We
got married last year and now we live together here. Great story uh?</i></span>
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package is really impressive stuff, as is the case, a lot of the more
modern metal styled bands don't impress us that much - but you came
to us out of nowhere with this kick in the teeth. It's almost like
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stamp" on the Incarceration music, again it's not strictly
"retro" like so many other younger acts because there's
still individual personality shining through the savage excellently
executed songs. Are people picking up on this fact, that you're not
just another of the swarm of cookie cutter bands which pretty much
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quite good from far and we are very satisfied and inspired. We were
also invited to play at Party San Open Air 2014 together with bands
like Obituary, God Macabre, Napalm Death etc. So we are putting a lot
of energy to do honest music, but I can say that we are feeling
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Was the first song I’ve wrote to Incarceration, in 2010. you have a
lot of Swedish Death Metal influences such as Nihilist, Kaamos,
Interment, together with some US influences like Malevolent Creation
and Slayer (always). The lyrics is about the allday hell, about the
question “what I’m doing with my life?”, or “am I sure that
I’m spending my life for that?”. We will not live forever, so
it’s important to have clear for what you’re sacrificing your
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<span style="color: red;"><i>Was written this year. It’s a very genuine song in my opinion. Was
written very spontaneously after overdoses of Sadistic Intent and
other Old School DM, Thrash and also Crust bands. The lyrics are sad,
are about an old man which was an asshole his whole life, waiting for
his death alone, in an asylum, after being abandoned by his friends
and family. It’s about guilty, selfishness, and as always about
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Nihilist, and also some crust bands. It’s about the Christian
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time to write our songs because just use something like 5% (or less)
of the riffs I write. </i></span></span><span style="color: red;"><i><span lang="en-GB">So till now we have
like 6 songs finished and a big cemetary of riffs (or purgatory of
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it was fucking tiring but at the same time it was amazing. There’s
nothing to complain. We did a lot of new friends, and was a pleasure
to tour with Escarnium (if you’re into Grave, Immolation and
Vomitory check them out and they will blow your mind). A very special
thing was that for the first time me, Björn and Micha were together
on the road. So it was an amazing experience for us and specially for
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that my Birthday was exactly on the middle of the tour, and
fortunately it was a weekend with a gig in Hamburg (where
Incarceration is based now). So after 2 weeks touring around Europe
was incredible to play to our friends and girls in Hamburg. When I
moved to Germany I don’t thought that this kind of moment would
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where we play and drink every weekend. We played the song around 15
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>Daniel</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>Keep writing songs for the debut album and hopefully record it already on the first semester
next year. We have also some good gigs planned for the upcoming year,
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GLORIOUS TIMEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031382332304506970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748889034262628696.post-14843197592573520882013-09-27T17:28:00.001-07:002013-09-27T17:28:07.240-07:00WE CAN'T HELP IT IF WE'RE FROM TAMPA!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;">Tampa FL is close to the heart of Glorious Times. After all one half of the GT team lived there during the dying off of the hardcore punk scene and during the peak years of the Florida death metal era. Florida had as many top shelf hardcore punk bands as it did metal. We're really proud to bring you a good long chat with Tony Patino who's recently released the DIY documentary about the Tampa hardcore punk scene, entitled "We Can't Help It If We're From Tampa" !!</span><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - Tony, everyone had to start somewhere, care to share what sort of music started you off toward punk/hardcore and what were the initial bands that got you in it for life?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I was always a big fan of music as a kid. I listened to the radio all the time and made cassette tapes and all that good stuff. When I was 11 or 12 my older sister started dating this guy that was a die-hard music nut. While the average person might have had 20 to 30 record albums in their home, this guy had like 800. They were all kept on a gigantic shelf in his bedroom, alphabetized, with plastic slip covers on them. He was like seven years older than me, and he started turning me on to early Bowie, Blondie, Ramones, Motorhead, and Thin Lizzy and stuff like that. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>I remember one year I told him I wanted the newest Ozzy record. I guess that would have been Diary Of A Madman. He said, “Oh, I already have it! I'll tape it for you.” He brought me a cassette tape a few days later that said, OZZY on it, and told me to pop it in and give it a listen. We were sitting there in my bedroom listening to the first song together, and I thought it was absolutely horrible. He was like, “Man that's kick ass, ain't it!” As it turned out, it wasn't Ozzy at all. It was Captain Beefheart's Doc At The Radar Station album. Ozzy was on the other side of the tape. The joke was on me! He eventually married my sister. They immediately bought a small home, and I used to go mow their grass for them. I guess he noticed my growing interest in music, so rather than pay me ten bucks, he would just let me pick an album out of his massive collection. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - What sort of stuff were you up to back then, in your early years into this sort of music?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I grew up in Lutz, Florida, which is basically a community just north of Tampa. Once I got into High School I started picking up on skateboarding, which I began to embrace right away. There were a small group of weirdos that I hung out with and skated with there, and we all traded tapes and turned each other on to really obscure stuff. I already had a decent record collection by then, and I'd been playing guitar in my bedroom and stuff. I didn't know very much about the punk scene in Tampa, but I knew it was there. I first started going to shows in the summer of 1986, and one of the first bands I saw was Tampa's Jehovah's Sicknesses. They kinda' blew me away!</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>My friend John started messing around on guitar a little, and we ended up starting a band with our friends Chris and Dale. That fell apart, then we tried it again not too long after that. Dale ended up not being a part of it at that point for some reason. Somehow, through Jay from Guy Smiley, we got our first gig in late '86 at the now-legendary Pet Cemetery out in Land O'Lakes. Other bands that played that night were Guy Smiley, Core Of Resistance, and Blemish On Society. It was scary and we sucked! We called ourselves Public Enemy for our first few shows, then we changed the name to Offensive Outlook when the rap band Public Enemy started getting well known. We ended up playing a lot of shows, but nothing big. We did the Slamfest at The Eagles Club, we were part of a disastrous night at The Ritz Theater, and we also played Chances, The Generic Club, and several parties. Our last gig was at The Sunset Club over near USF in the summer of '88, opening for Chokehold. That was our last gig, and Awake's first gig if I remember correctly. I was always taking pictures of bands back then, and ended up starting a zine called Music To Live By. I only put out one issue, and it included record reviews, local show reviews, and interviews with BP, GBH, and MIA. I sold copies of it for one dollar at Alternative Records over off of Fowler Avenue.</i></span> <br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - Did you do much traveling during those early years or where you basically camped out in your own local scene so to speak. What were a couple of the most memorable shows you went to back in that time period?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I didn't leave the city much back then. A lot of people I knew at that time were making road trips to go check out shows in places like Gainesville, Melbourne, and Miami. Sometimes even Atlanta. I wasn't fortunate enough to get to go on most of those trips. It's hard to pinpoint which Tampa shows were the most memorable for me, because every one of them was pretty crazy. Even if it was just local bands playing, there was still always an element of violence involved. Sometimes people would come around to check it out, and they would get their ass beat just because nobody knew who they were. Sometimes those people would come back and take their chances, and eventually get welcomed into the mix, but I think most of them just said forget it. It was always huge when the big bands would come through on tour. Those shows always had security, so I guess people felt safer. The big shows would have like 500 people in attendance, but the local shows would only have like 50 or 60 because people were too scared to go.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - So during your exploits you ran a record label as well? You've certainly done a great deal! Can you tell us a bit about the label? <br /><br /><b>Tony</b> -<span style="color: red;"><i> There was a guy named Stepfan Jefferies that had just started a small independent label called Hello Records. It was 1998 if I remember correctly. He had been pointed in my direction by a mutual friend of ours because I knew a lot of bands and musicians, and had been organizing and promoting shows a lot over the past few years. Stepfan had a great business sense, and a passion for underground music, so when he found himself with an opportunity to start his own business he decided to try and do a record label. Neither of us were very familiar with how it all worked, but we started from scratch and learned together. When he came to me he had an alt-country band called Pleasureville, and a seventies-influenced rock band called The .357s. That was the foundation, and we built it from there.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>GT</b> - You mentioned it was up and running for about 5 years - care to elaborate a bit on how you started out, what the label wanted to achieve and so on? <br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I just started reaching out to whatever bands I knew, and I think in the first six months we signed Billyclub, Fang, Dr. Know, Raw Power, Phantom Rockers, and an L.A. band called Tongue. There we other bands too, but those were our heavy hitters. From there we had to figure out how to get distribution, which is the most crucial part of being a record label. We learned everything through trial and error too. The internet was just beginning to blow up at that time, and the big thing was CDNow. That was the original online record store that ultimately killed all the record stores across the country. The major goal, for me at least, was to get our records on there. I still remember the day that we got picked up by them and our records showed up on their site. It was a pretty triumphant feeling to say the least.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>We ended up doing a deal with GBH that ended up in a split CD with Billyclub, and we were talking with Bad Brains manager Noel baker about releasing their next record. They just wanted way too much money. One of our big projects was a tribute record that has still not been released. My buddy Dave Woodard was the singer for Billyclub, and he had heard somewhere that Keith Morris from Circle Jerks was having some serious issues with diabetes, and was having trouble paying his bills. I tracked down Keith and talked to him about it, and got his permission to pursue a Tribute To The Circle Jerks. We were gonna' try and wrangle a bunch of bands into doing Circle Jerks covers, and give Keith the proceeds.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the end I had (and still have) recordings from Nashville Pussy, Fu Manchu, SNFU, DOA, Mudhoney, Electric Frankenstein, Murphy's Law, Fishbone, Superchunk with Jane Wiedlin from The Go Gos on vocals, and just a slew more killer bands. I was even talking with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters about doing tracks. Foo Fighters actually contacted me about it, that's how big of a deal it was becoming. I did an interview with MTV about it and everything! Stepfan and I were hanging out backstage in Cincinnati at a Chili Peppers show, and they told us that Pearl Jam wanted to do a song too. It was interesting, because I found out how much love and respect so many people have for Keith Morris. It also gave me an opportunity to work with him myself on a personal level, and we're still friends and we still talk to this day. Unfortunately the label kinda' fell apart in the middle of that project, and all these years later none of those recordings have been released.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>GT</b> - While doing the label you were also acting as a tour manager? <br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>When things started falling into place with Hello Records, we were putting our bands on the road after their records came out. At that point it was me, Stepfan, Ray Smith, and Keith Anderson. This made it possible for any one of us to take off and do label related stuff whenever we wanted. Since I was the one setting up all the tours, I decided to tag along on some of them as tour manager. It was a way to see the country, hang out with the bands, and meet some of the club owners I'd become acquainted with over the phone for so many years.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="color: red;"><i>The longest tours I did were with Raw Power from Italy, and UK Psychobilly pioneers Phantom Rockers. Those were both really crazy trips for different reasons. Actually I think any tour is gonna' be crazy, no matter who you're with. For me, I was on cloud 9 most of the time, seeing all these amazing cities and clubs and watching my friends play every night. It just never got old. The funny thing about it all too, and any touring band will tell you this, is that you could write a book about all the oddball shit that goes down on smaller independent concert tours. Literally, if you go into detail about each day of the tour, you can write a crazy book. Almost everything that happened for me was really funny in some way. Except maybe when my van blew up in California and we had to leave it there. I wasn't smiling very much that day.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>It was a lot of years before 40 Amp was born, and it's not a full fledged record label. It's more of a way for me to release projects I do as they happen. I don't do things on a large scale. I just make them available to the public. That way if someone goes hunting for it, it's there. I wouldn't trust any of my projects with a record label, book publisher, film producer, or whatever. I'd don't necessarily think that 100 percent of them are crooks, but I do think that about 75 percent of them operate with ulterior motives, and the rest of them are just good people that refuse to admit that their in over their head. I came dangerously close to getting in over my head with 40 Amp, and realized that I needed to pull back and not make promises that I wasn't absolutely convinced that I could keep. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>With my life, things can be fantastic one day, and then the next day the bottom just falls right out. I'd rather not take anybody else on that ride, so I've had to keep things on a low profile.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - You've been involved in the often thankless world of booking and promotion, care to elaborate and tell some stories about that period of your life? <br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>God! I set up some tours for bands, and I ended up getting lots of calls from other bands wanting to employ my services. When Hello first got started that was one of the things we tried to do. We wanted to be a fully functioning service for musicians. We put some ads in magazines promoting the tour booking end of the business, and it took off. I became the primary booking agent for a few independent labels, and also set up several one-off tours for some up and coming bands. It got pretty hectic, and I remember wanting to get the hell out of that business on more than one occasion.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>As far as booking agents went, I was the new guy on the block, and there were a few seasoned old dudes that had been doing it for several years that did NOT like me. I guess they thought I was taking business away from them, which I was to a certain degree, but not on any kind of grand scale. When I think back on all that, there are a few incidents that still haunt me. One would have been when I booked a tour for The Hillside Stranglers from Detroit. Their tour had been over for several weeks, and I hadn't been paid for setting it up, and I hadn't heard from them at all. I went to their website, and saw that one of the band members had died from an overdose toward the end of the tour. That didn't sit very well with me.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>There was another tour I set up for this band from Germany. I'm not gonna' say their name. It was their first trip to the states, and they were pretty much unknown. I told them not to expect a huge response. I told them they'd be lucky to get $100 a night, and to treat it more like a vacation than anything else. They flew over and started the tour, and were doing these little tour reports on their website every day. I went to check it out one day, and it was like three days into the tour. Every day they had something bad to say about me on there. "That fucking Tony Patino lied to us! He said we would get $100 for each band member every night! That bastard!"It went on and on every day until they said the tour was now called the Kill Tony Patino Tour. They were playing in my town the day after they posted that, so everywhere I went that day I was looking at people and wondering if it looked German, and if it was them, and if they were after me. The gig was like a mile from my house, so I just locked the doors and hoped they didn't get my address from some local band. For years after that you could google "kill Tony Patino" and a link to their tour journal would pop up.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> -When did you start getting the idea to write books, and can you offer a bit of information about each?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I always wrote little journals and stuff as a teenager. I had a typewriter when I was 17, and wrote a pretty lengthy one all about what was going on in my life. My father discovered it at one point, and immediately confiscated it and put me in a maximum security drug rehab. He finally gave it back to me after I got married. Another time, I wrote a lengthy account of my early childhood years and gave it to my mother as a gift for Mother's Day or something. The real writing didn't happen for me until more recently.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2009 I took my kids to the local library, and I came across a book by a stand-up comic named Mark Schiff. He interviewed nearly every comedian you ever heard of and had them tell him all these crazy stories about life on the road. The way it's put together, is basically like a book of short stories from each comic, and it's hilarious. I read it all in one day, and it's not a small book either. I'd never seen a book quite like that before, and it gave me the idea to try and pursue a similar project with musicians rather than stand-up comics. </span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At that point in my life I'd done a lot of different things involving music, and had become acquainted with several well known players in the punk rock genre. So with a few heavy hitters on my side to get the ball rolling, I started contacting all these people. Mostly people I admired and who's music I appreciated. I did recorded telephone interviews with all of them, then transcribed them and took selected stories they told me and made them readable. In the end I came up with 258 pages of stories, told by over 80 underground musicians, most of which are considered pioneers or icons in the punk/alternative community. That book is called The Road, and it was officially released in 2010.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>I was learning a lot about writing techniques during the final stage of putting together The Road, and ended up pulling out that old journal that my father had found when I was 17. There was a lot of funny stories in that journal. Some of them I didn't even remember taking place, but there they were in black & white. I decided to use that as a starting point, and turn it into a fictional novel. Basically, I laid out the entire course of my life, beginning from the early years, and ending around 1991, which is when I left the state of Florida. Once I laid out the initial blue print, that left me with the task of filling in the gaps. So in the beginning, it was just a bunch of crazy stories that had to be pieced together into something with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. I did reference a lot of true events, some that I was involved in, and some that might have happened to people I knew, or might have been dismissed as simple rumors back in the day. Take that, and add to it a purely fictional storyline and ending to draw readers in, and you have a pretty good read. Especially for people that grew up in those surroundings at that particular time. I decided to call it Life and Times, and it became available in early 2012.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - How long did it take for the books to be completed, from inception time to being made available?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>The Road was a pretty long process. I had to schedule all of these interviews with people all over the US and as far away as Australia, then I went ahead and transcribed the entire contents of the recordings into word documents. After that I picked out the parts of the conversations I wanted to use, then molded them into short stories. Some of the artists involved wanted to submit their own writings, so that saved me a little time, but it still took about a year and a half to get that one done. I started working on Life and Times when I was about ¾ of the way through that. It was a way of getting a much needed break from one project and focusing on another. I think the ideas for that book had been bouncing around in my head for decades though, so it practically wrote itself.</i></span><br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - How have the books sold, were they distributed and if so, how? <br /><b><br />Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>The Road was picked up and released by a publishing company out of Boston, and I told them to fuck off almost immediately after it was released. The contract stated that a professional proof reader and editor would review the book for any errors or typos, and it never was. I was in the process of checking and editing it myself, and then all of the sudden they started calling me and pressuring me to get it done so they could feature it in some big Black Friday bullshit they were doing on the day after Thanksgiving. I was up for like two days straight trying to get it done, and eventually told them I couldn't do it, and to leave me out of their stupid sale. The owner called me and said he would assign someone to get it done, and to just send him what I had. I did, and they released it, typos and all, exactly as I'd sent it to them. There weren't even any page numbers in the table of contents yet, and they published it that way. He and I got into it big-time, and I never saw a single royalty check or statement whatsoever. When I finally demanded that he send me a sales statement, it stated that they had sold exactly one (1) copy. That's really funny too, seeing as how friends and family members had purchased copies. Not only that, but I did some book signings to promote it before the falling out, and people were showing up left and right with books in their hands. They had to have gotten them somewhere, right?</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I probably shouldn't say this, but I ended up fixing all the errors and releasing it myself on my independent label 40 Amp Media. So now if you go to Amazon or places like that there are two editions. The one with the typos has the subtitle A Book By Traveling Musicians. The one I released on my own has the subtitle Tales From Touring Musicians. I guess that publisher could sue me but I don't care. Another interesting part of all that is how the publisher charged me over nine dollars to purchase copies of my own book. My cut of the sales was about one dollar per book. But, I wanted a publishing deal and I got one, right?</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="color: red;"><i>Book publishers are just as bad (if not worse) than record labels! Needless to say, Life and Times was released independently by me thru 40 Amp Media. It sells pretty well too, considering there hasn't ever been a single bit of promotion for it. I've found out the hard way that I'm able to do everything these self-proclaimed publishers can do all on my own. That includes the interior layout, the cover art, the manufacturing and even getting it into distribution and available to the public.</i></span> <br /><br /><b>GT</b> - So over all then, what was the experience like for you, having done the books and looking back on that whole time period?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>The Road was a joy to make, because I got to have these long, candid, phone conversations with people I idolized all my life. I started working on Volume 2 right away, and wanted to go bigger. That project was never finished, but I have all these recorded conversations with people from different genres of music. I talked with original members from Thin Lizzy, Scorpions, Hawkwind, Iron Butterfly, and even Sha-Na-Na. One cool interview I did was with Steve Boone from The Lovin' Spoonful. He told me all about what it was like to tour back in the sixties and how different it was. He said they would play these big auditoriums using nothing but practice amps, and the crowd couldn't even hear the music, but would be down there going nuts the whole time anyway. Life and Times has been an interesting trip because so many people that grew up in the Tampa area during that time period have been able to relate to it so well. There's been more than a few people that have sent me emails telling me how that book is like a mirror image of their younger years.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - Yeah, we can definitely relate to that with the book we did on our own, we share very similar ground certainly. What's your opinion about the other books out there, do you pay attention to that sort of stuff?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>As far as books I've read, I don't really enjoy books about the history of punk music because they always seem to be so selective about what cities they discuss. Just like I keep hearing people complain about that film American Hardcore. I'm constantly hearing people bitch about that film because it didn't include the city they grew up in. I think it's a great film, but it would have been impossible for them to have covered the entire US. I prefer autobiographical books over history books, and I mean that about any subject, not just music.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With that in mind, there aren't very many autobiographical books out there by punk musicians. Jack Grisham from TSOL wrote a good one. He seemed to be on the same level we were down in Florida as far as the chaos he likes to create. Joey from DOA's book is really good. Bob Mould from Husker Du did one, but I've read some mixed reviews so I haven't picked it up yet. I think some good ones will be coming out soon though, but some of these people are so busy that it's taking them a really long time to get them done. I know Keith Morris from Circle Jerks is working on one right now, and so is John Stabb from Government Issue. Those should both be pretty interesting.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - You sound like us! We're of the basic same nature concerning history vs autobiographical accounts . When did you start thinking about making a documentary about the Tampa punk scene? What was the impetus that started the ball rolling? Obviously many of the locals embraced the idea, was it well received in general or did you have a hard time getting material?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I've always been into video. For a while there, if I went to a show I would have my camcorder by my side and would always be filming. I eventually started trading with other people around the country and amassed this huge collection of bootleg live performances. There was never much video documentation of things that happened in Tampa in the eighties, just a few things. I think the most well known thing out there is a film loosely called The Scene. It's a mini-documentary that was put together in 1987 by a guy named Steve Burcham. That thing is all over youtube, and get's lots of praises by the people that have viewed it. He shot some interviews and live footage over the course of two or three shows, and it's a really good film.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To me though, I didn't want that to be the final statement on the Tampa scene in the eighties. Toward the end of writing Life and Times, I started toying with the idea of making something a little more in depth. Thanks to things like myspace and facebook, lots of photos and music that probably never would have been seen or heard otherwise were beginning to see the light of day. I started gathering all these things, just see to if there was enough content out there to even consider the idea of making a film. Before long, it seemed like there was. There wasn't much live video footage though, so I tracked down Steve Burcham to see it he had any unused footage that he might want to contribute. He and I talked on the phone for a really long time, and he told me that there was quite a bit of unused footage at one point in time, but he had taped over it. Ha!</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><i>I forged on anyway, asking people to pull out their old videos, and accumulated pretty much everything that was filmed back then. After that, I needed interviews. I was doing a book signing in Tampa and took my camcorder, hoping to round up some of the old scenesters, but didn't get much done on that trip. It took me making one more trip down, along with the enlistment of my friend Eric Grant, and we were able to get interviews here and there with the people you see in the film now. Zak Kirlis from BP did the interviews with Tony and Dave from No Clubs Productions, and Richie Lawler did one with Tanya McKee, who was one of the most outspoken girls from the eighties scene, and ended up being the only female in the film.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - It's only recently that a hard copy dvd of the documentary has become available, how'd that feel to see all that hard work finally come together in that format?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>It definitely feels great to finally see it available now. It does have it's flaws, but I'm pretty proud of it, seeing that it's my very first attempt at making a documentary film.</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b>GT</b> - What were some of the highlights (or low lights) about making the film?<br /><br /> <b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>One thing people don't realize is that my camera heads were going bad during the second trip I made for interviews. I had no idea that was happening at the time, and when I got home and started reviewing the footage I realized that a lot of it was unusable. It took 100s of hours in different video production labs to salvage some of those interviews, and even then, I wasn't able to save them all in there entirety. The interview footage you see of Dorsey Martin, Mike Mchugh, Jay and Dano from Guy Smiley, Chris Barrows, and our old pal Edgar, all had to be spliced together in a very primitive way. It took literally one hour of work to get five seconds of usable footage. I refused to redo the interviews though, because I didn't want to lose that original spontaneity, and I refused to make the film without those people in it. That's why those particular people aren't seen more in the film. Each of them had a lot more input I would have liked to have used, it just wasn't salvageable.</i></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm truly happy that I was able to get Edgar in there, because as a lot of people already know, he is no longer with us. That interview almost didn't happen too. He called me and told me we would have to reschedule because he was in the ER. I was only gonna' be in town for two days, so I told him I'd call him back because I thought it might be cool to do his interview at the ER. I got caught up doing something else and ended up meeting up with him the next day. When I asked him how it went at the ER, he said, “I don't know. I left!” When I asked him why he left he said, “To hang out with you and get interviewed for the film.” So Edgar was so supportive of that project that he ditched the ER hoping to meet me at his house that night. It was confusing to me, and I wish he would have called me before he decided to leave the hospital. He died shortly after the film screening, and that kinda' haunts me a little.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I originally started scouting out places in Tampa to screen it before it was even finished. We had one place that looked like it would work, but then Zak got Tony and Dave from No Clubs productions to do interviews and that changed everything. From that moment on, Dave Hundley was interested in making it a No Clubs/State Media event. That was what I'd wanted all along so I couldn't have been more happy about it. Dave wanted to do it at the Orpheum in Ybor CIty, but they'd never done anything like that there before, so certain factors came into play. I think he had a projector, but he wasn't sure what to project the film onto. When I showed up there, they had a gigantic white sheet hanging from the ceiling, and were trying to do a few test runs. At first the lap top they had to send the video to the projector wouldn't play the disc. We were beginning to scramble, but luckily they found one that would work. There'd been quite a bit of press to promote the screening, including interviews I did with the locals papers and stuff, and the turnout was pretty positive. I think we had over 200 paying patrons, and who knows how many people on the guest list. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After the film, which was a rough version lasting about two hours in length, we had some live music. Slap Of Reality, Guy Smiley, and Pagan Faith, all basically reunited to play, then we had Dan Destructo, who had flown in from California to do a No Fraud set with some original members. The headliner was Fang from California. I've been friends with Fang's vocalist Sammytown for a number of years, and I thought they would be perfect. He was into the idea, so he flew the band in and we set up a week long string of shows for them to play all over Florida. Pagan Faith and No Fraud took turns opening up for them in different cities, leading up to the film screening. Big thumbs up to Brian from Pagan Faith! He helped out in a major way that night by supplying all the gear for the bands, among other things. It was also great to work with Dave Hundley. That guy know what he's doing for sure!</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - Many of the folks that took part in the documentary come to the screening? How did you feel seeing your work like that, being screened in public?<br /><br /><b>Tony</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>The guys in Rat Cafeteria had a prior engagement, and that kinda' bummed me out, because I really wanted them to play, but otherwise I think everyone else was there. It was kind of crazy seeing it on a huge screen like that. Of course it was a sheet, but I'm sure anyone that went will tell you that we all felt like we were sitting in movie theater. The whole experience also gave me some insight into a final edit to make it more proper for a DVD release. I ended up cutting some things out, including some of the later, more metal bands like Assuck and Paineater. I hated to cut those guys out, but the film was way too long at two hours, and they were more a part of that grind-core scene that came about as the eighties punk scene wound down to a close. I'll be making the original, uncut, long version available on DVD as soon as I change the cover art. I actually sold some DVDs of that version at the screening but they had "FIRST 100" printed across the cover.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These kids (late teens to mid twenties) are often homeless travelers who hop the trains from city to city with little to no money and when they arrive in Buffalo they know they can have a brief escape at a Funeral Home show. Other regulars at Funeral Home shows are the punks, hardcore kids, fans of extreme metal...the loners, the people society looks down upon but here at these shows at this place these people had a home where they could be among like-minded people and be a part of a group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Initially the Funeral Home was almost exclusively a punk venue doing a maximun of 1 to 2 shows per month. They knew they had something good that was less than legit so they wanted it kept low key. As more people and bands were exposed to the Funeral Home more promoters wanted to do more shows and more diverse shows there. It now became a place for the barely existing metal scene to have a rebirth. At a time when legitimate clubs were not options for death and black metal bands the Funeral Home was the perfect option for bands like Nunslaughter, Acheron, Cardiac Arrest, Mutilation Rites and many others. These shows brought new life to the scene in the form of new audience members and new bands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While mainstream venues rarely make improvements to their establishments the Funeral Home became the exception to that rule. Under the direction of Clint Carr the residents (renters) of the Funeral Home began fixing up the place. Walls and ceilings were repaired, long vacant rooms were cleaned up and made useful again and safety hazards were removed. When tragedy struck regulars such as Mike Bird and Tony Lorenzo it was the Funeral Home that was among the first to step up to collect donations to help them out. To outsiders it appeared as just an illegitimate venue, but to those in the know it was much more than that. It was a home and everyone who went there was part of a big family no matter what scene they were a part of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, sadly, the Funeral Home is in jeopardy. Currently it is in a state of limbo thanks to a city-wide crack down on illegal parties. The Funeral Home residents were given tickets for violation of the cities noise ordinance (even though the volume outside the club was barely noticeable) and another fine for holding live music performances without a permit and told if they held further shows there they would be arrested. In the spirit of the old school the metal and punk scenes are working together with the residents of the Funeral Home to bring it back. Yard sales, benefits and such are being done in order to raise the funds necessary to bring the building up to code so that they can then apply for the proper permits to make the Funeral Home a legitimate venue and community center. The underground needs places like the Funeral Home and you can only wish your city had such a place so please help us save ours...<a href="http://funeralhomebuffalo.blogspot.com/">http://funeralhomebuffalo.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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like 25 riffs that never repeated, kinda funny cause now we play
grind and have like 6 or 7 riffs a song...haha! Some of the old
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>I moved to Fort Myers with my family in August 88. It was a bit of
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drive 2 hours to go see a show or to find a good record store. In
1994 I moved to Denver for about a year, I wrote most of the songs
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>I hear from Billy every now and then. He lives in Ft Lauderdale
now. I plan on releasing a Death/Doom demo we recorded together in
1995 (Antarctica) when I lived in Denver for a while. Lenzig from
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song structure even though it's grind (minimalist perhaps) whereas so
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>Exactly !!!....New school grind bands seemed to have lost touch
with the roots of grindcore. The same thing happened in the hardcore
scene a few years ago. Most of these new- schooler's have never even
heard of S.O.B., Heresy, Gism, Undinism, Vomit Spawn, Mob 47, and
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- What do you think about the state of affairs of this style, since
bands like AGx have been so prolific and consistent yet the scene is
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>Grindcore seems to be on the upswing the last couple of years which
I see as a good thing. To play grindcore it takes a true love for the
game and resistance to all trends. To me personally, Grindcore is the
most raw and pure music there is. As for these "cash in"
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>Ulcer were from Ft. Myers and Mitch was a really good friend. He
played second guitar in my old hardcore band Clubber Lang and he also
played a few shows for Swamp Gas on bass. To this day we are still
very good friends, and still play shows together. Both the Gas and
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>I think they are good for metal as a whole. They bring a bunch of
good bands spanning many genres of metal for a common cause. I have
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- It's good to see people pulling back to the founding attitude when
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>Like it or not you can not stop evolution. Nothing stays the same,
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>I have never stopped listening to those old records, and I never
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>Well this is a VERY difficult question to ask, but I will do my
best. For the 80's I would say Motorhead "No Remorse" just
for the fact that it was a greatest hits and had all the good shit on
it. Or I could say "Orgasmatron" because it was a great
comeback album. Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" simply for the
reason that it defined a new genre of metal. Another favorite was
Agnostic Front's "Liberty And Justice For.." That album
showed that hardcore bands could play fast and sound tight as hell. I
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release. The speed and production blew me away. Cryptic Slaughter's
"Money Talks" was fucking amazing. That was the album that
made me seek out faster bands and brought me to grindcore. Bathory
"Under The Sign Of The Black Mark" was just so fucking raw
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got stale but I am really into 324, Noisear, Maruta, Ulcer (Tampa),
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- Some of these bands are not releasing what we'd call empowering
material in their latter years (or with random new releases by
original GT era acts many years after debut records for
example)....as a musician do you think it's even honorable to slap a
logo on a release that bares little resemblance to the old
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- <span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">M</span>y old friend, are we talking about the 2012 Terrorizer
album?...I could have written a better Terrorizer album in one
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>I have many of those moments...but one of the best was seeing
Napalm Death, Atheist and Nocturnus at Club Detroit when ND was in
Tampa recording "Harmony Corruption". Years later Mitch
Harris told me that was his FIRST show with ND....Atheist had Roger
Patterson on bass and Nocturnus was still good at that time. A
fucking classic GT moment...Oh and you were there too !!!</i></span></span></span><br />
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- Has Swamp Gas played outside Florida?</span></span></div>
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>We have played the Milwaukee Metal Fest twice and a show in
Chicago, everything else has been in Florida. Mitch from Ulcer played
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- Can you tell us about the Swamp Gas discography?</span></span></div>
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- <span style="color: red;"><i>Our first release was a rehearsal demo we did on a 4 track recorder
in our warehouse back in 1994. It came out really good and it made
the rounds on the tape trading scene for a while.</i></span></span></span></div>
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was "Marsh Tango" recorded at Digital Sanctuary sometime in
the summer of 96. We recorded all the music live with a drum machine
so it went really fast. We spent $330...Recorded and mixed in 11
hours and it sounded great. We probably gave away or sold like 2000
copies of that EP. "Marsh Tango" was supposed to be
released by United Guttural Records (a label based in Atlanta GA). It
was going to be a split cd with Denver's Mentally Murdered. United
Guttural never released it.</span></span></span></i></div>
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around 1999-200 we recorded the "Divine Economics" demo for
Earache Records. Recorded and mixed at Crystal Sounds in Naples FL, in
one night, for $90. It came out great but we never released it. By the
time the Earache thing blew over we had a real drummer, Rich Perkins.</span></span></i></span><br />
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For The Unexplainable" and was recorded at Digital Sanctuary. We
recorded 15 songs and we were ready for final mixing. The studio was
shut down very quickly because of a divorce and the owner's wife sold
everything: even all the bands master tapes (hard drives) that were
stored there. We tried like hell to get our masters but could not
track them down. The only thing we had was a rough vocal mix of the
entire album and a rough final mix of 4 songs that became the
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my home studio. This release took a long time to finish because I was
now working in a digital audio workstation (DAW). It was a whole new
universe for me and it took a while, but I was happy with the result.
The album was released by Brute Productions in Asia (a label based
out of Bangkok, Thailand). Soon we will record the next full length
"Miss Chernobyl" it is already written and ready to record.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Formed in Portland in 1985 Wehrmacht quickly gained a large </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">underground following and were soon signed to New Renaissance </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Records. Their debut "Shark Attack" is widely considered a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">years later. They shared the stage on the west coast with other </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Renaissance, but still they played only on the west coast despite a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sold-out tour in Europe in 2010. The band returned home from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">frequency. Late 2012 saw them share the stage with Napalm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Death. This performance would have Mitch and Barney from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pain". As 2012 grew to an end the band made plans for their first </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(Cryptic Slaughter) joined the band on stage for a rendition of the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Back in Portland after a successful tour the band had the itch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">August 22 - Cleveland, OH (Now That's Class)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">August 23 - Pittsburgh, PA (Belvedere's), part of Skullfest</span></div>
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<br />GLORIOUS TIMEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031382332304506970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748889034262628696.post-79470159467544179362013-03-19T22:35:00.001-07:002013-04-05T01:03:51.810-07:00GLORIOUS TIMES PRESENTS: HELLWITCH & GUESTS, APRIL 28 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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GLORIOUS TIMES BRINGS YOU ONCE MORE - FLORIDA UNDERGROUND METAL LEGENDS HELLWITCH, WITH GUESTS VILE VINDICTION / IMMINENT COLLAPSE & WEAPONEX!</div>
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SEE YOU AT THE FORUM ON SUNDAY APRIL 28<br />
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FORGED IN GORE HAVE STEPPED UP TO FILL IN THE SLOT, SEE FLYER BELOW:<br />
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GLORIOUS TIMEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031382332304506970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748889034262628696.post-41782689330116326942013-01-26T03:19:00.000-08:002013-01-26T03:19:11.650-08:00GLORIOUS TIMES PRESENTS: EMBALMER & GUESTS MARCH 8 2013 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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GLORIOUS TIMEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031382332304506970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748889034262628696.post-85458799219064380172013-01-11T00:45:00.001-08:002013-01-11T00:45:51.220-08:00GLORIOUS TIMES PRESENTS: SEPLOPHILE DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE GIG FEB 9 2013<div style="text-align: center;">
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TIMES, in conjunction with both Butchered and Sevared Records, brings
you a celebration to commemorate the release of SEPLOPHILE 'Mesonoxian'
debut album. Guest will be GAS CHAMBER and WEAPONEX.<br /><br />SEE YOU AT THE FUN HOME!</b></span></div>
GLORIOUS TIMEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031382332304506970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748889034262628696.post-46288967864883777272013-01-03T21:04:00.001-08:002013-01-03T21:05:56.793-08:00GLORIOUS TIMES PRESENTS: TERMINAL GRACE & GUESTS, JAN 12 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spike<span style="font-size: x-small;"> at </span>Broadway Joe's in Buffalo NY<span style="font-size: x-small;">, May 9 </span>2012<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(</span></span>photo<span style="font-size: x-small;"> - </span>Brian Pattison)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>crazy when I think about it. It all went by so fast, it doesn't seem that long.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>When we first started, we were all into hardcore punk. We listened to<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Bl</span></span>ack <span style="font-size: small;">Fl</span>ag, <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>ircle <span style="font-size: small;">J</span>erks, <span style="font-size: small;">M</span>inor <span style="font-size: small;">T</span>hreat, <span style="font-size: small;">D</span>ead Kennedy's. Stuff like that. That was what we liked and<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>made them our own.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>GT</b>: 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?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>It's really amazing. Especially with the lack of production we had on the first records.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>The recordings just sound so bad compared to production values that are out there today. I<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>laugh and cringe and get embarrassed when someone plays our first records. The sound<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>remember writing those songs and thinking they sounded like nursery rhymes.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>Yes. But we didn't really dwell on it. We were doing what we liked, just like we did </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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. <span style="font-size: small;">Ou</span>r fans called it crossover. </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">before and it was at least 5 more years before anyone else got to the country in a remotely fast style<span style="font-size: small;"> (ie: Morbid Angel).</span> The gig I (Alan) went to was your last date which was in Melbourne Australia<span style="font-size: small;"> (it took a long train ride over night to get into the next state)</span> and was the most well attended of any show I had ever seen in the country until leavi<span style="font-size: small;">ng it in 1<span style="font-size: small;">990</span></span> - 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? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Spike during DRI's final Australian date in 1987, Melbourne, Victoria - (photo - Stuart Maitland, BUTTFACE 'zine co-editor) </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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 <span style="font-size: small;">a</span> 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 hi<span style="font-size: small;">m </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">earlier.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The rest of the crowd joined in and pounced on the skins in the pit. They were beaten, dragged out the front<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>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 ban<span style="font-size: small;">d</span>ing 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. </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>Well we are the main songwriters; we are the sound, the style and the driving force </i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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. </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>GT</b>: 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?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i> 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.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>are bringing them to our shows. And telling them the stories they have from the shows. It's become a<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>hand me down tradition to thrash at a DRI show!</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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. <span style="font-size: small;">W</span>hat'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.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>GT</b>: 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?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>Of course. :)</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">checkups or did you have some ailment that made you go in for a special test?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>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 </i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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. </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>It was very aggressive. I had a year of chemo and 9 months of radiation. I went for </i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">treatments a few times a week. The chemo mad me very sick at first till they switched me to </span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i>the chemo pill. It ended my time in DRI / touring and just about any social life I had.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>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></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>motel ASAP after the show. </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>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 <span style="font-size: small;">s</span>ays anything to my face. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i>The truth is I never expected to ask for donations. I expected for it to take years to pay off the med bills. You<span style="font-size: small;">'</span>re right, we do not make a lot of money. We basically have teacher or police man<span style="font-size: small;">'</span>s salaries. And the med bills in 2012 equaled about half my salary.</i></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Spike</b>: <span style="color: red;"><i>I would like to thank all the DRI fans out there that have supported us over the last<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">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.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Donations to Spike to help with his cancer related bills can be made via <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>ay<span style="font-size: small;">P</span>al to sccrf@yahoo.com</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Spike-Cassidy-Cancer-Relief-Fund/171166553001705">VISIT THE S.C.C.R.F. FACEBOOK PAGE AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT</a></span></span></div>
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<br />GLORIOUS TIMEShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00031382332304506970noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3748889034262628696.post-79398702225069093452012-12-04T00:05:00.000-08:002013-01-13T21:37:00.953-08:00GLORIOUS TIMES PRESENTS: ANOTHER GATHERING OF THE TRIBES - A NIGHT OF METAL AND HARDCORE<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>JUST LIKE WE USED TO DO IN THE GT ERA - HARDCORE PUNK AND METAL - TOGETHER - A FACT NOT A FACTION!<br /><br />SEE YOU THERE!</b><br />
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<i><b>* APOLOGIES FOR THE SHORT NOTICE - MANY OF YOU MAY KNOW CATTLE DECAPITATION DROPPED OFF THE PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED TOUR WITH SIX FEET UNDER, OF WHICH THE GLORIOUS TIMES/CLUB INFINITY GIG WAS CANCELED.</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>GT</b> - 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
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Junior (original Bode Preto drummer) 2010 (photo - Bianca Lessa)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - How did you and Adelson end up hooking up to constitute the new Bode Preto? You guys live something like 3000km apart?</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <i><span style="color: red;">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!</span> </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - That's definitely dedicated to the extreme, how the hell do you manage to get everything accomplished with that sort of distance?</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">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.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">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.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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?</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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? </span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>GT</b> - 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.</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I was a full time member.</i></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson </b>- <span style="color: red;"><i>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!!!!!!</i></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - Will you be on the forthcoming Grave Desecrator releases Adelson, or is your collaboration with them over?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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....</i></span></span></span>
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Desecrator? We can't really imagine anyone would survive that if it
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people can die of drinking too much alcohol hahahahaha</i></span></span></span></div>
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think is that both bands will do their best so they come up on stage...</i></span></span></span><br />
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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. </i></span></span></span><br />
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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. </span></span></i></span>
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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.</span></span></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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?</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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...</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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!</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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?</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>That compilation has a magical aura, If
you feel the same with BODE PRETO for me is an honor.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT </b>- By the way, what was each of yours favourite part of that comp?</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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?</span></span>
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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.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I can not say for other bands but the impression is that we are well received.</i></span></span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>I am 41 years old and I've played since 1987. My first real band was The Endoparasites in final from '89.</i></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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?</span></span>
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<b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>GT</b> - 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!</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Josh S</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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. </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">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.</span></span></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Adelson</b> - <span style="color: red;"><i>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!!!</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/6bode6preto6">BODE PRETO - OFFICIAL FACEBOOK</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bodepreto.com/">BODE PRETO - OFFICIAL BANDCAMP</a> </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for older 'Dark Night' ep era at Myspace:</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/soturnusskullcrusher">http://www.myspace.com/soturnusskullcrusher</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.laja.com.br/">LÄJÄ RECORDS - BRAZIL</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.ketzer-records.de/">KETZER RECORDS - GERMANY</a> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.goatprayerrecords.com/">GOATPRAYER RECORDS - ENGLAND</a> </b></span></span>
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