CRUCIFIER interview

An interview with kickass thrash metal band from GREECE,
CRUCIFIER. They are playin' sort of a mix between canadian
and Bay-Area thrash metal schools. Thanatoid (singer)
was very kind and answered all questions in august 2008.
Myspace page is here: www.myspace.com/crucifiergreece

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1. P: Hi, Crucifier! Tell a little bit about yourself, where and when
the band have started?
T: ...Hi mate, there have been some changes in tha band's line up,
since last year, or more likely the end of 2006...we have new
material also,we just finished the recordings of a split 7" with the
classic thrash godz HIRAX (hail Katon) and we've recently signed
with Ibex moon records, a fact for which we 're very proud - and
we hope to see our new album on the shelves sometime in 2009.

2. P: You're from Greece, home for many great metal bands,
there's some black metal and other things.. so what'up with
thrash scene there?..
T: The black metal scene is really thriving - and truly guys like
Rotting christ and Septic Flesh have been very popular, but the
thrash scene is also very "happening" and there are tons of bands
that are really great there too...like benefactor dissease and mortal
thread, infest and braindead but the promotional aspect of most
of the companies involved and the underground status of most of
them doesn't help in spreading their name, outside the tight confines
of Greece.

3. P: Your sound is completely 'bay area thrash', with some influence
of Whiplash and other cult bands of 80s, maybe from german thrash
too in my opinion.. So can you name 3-5 of your main influences?
T: Vio-lence, Razor, Sacrifice, Dark Angel and Sacred Reich. We also
love the German Scene, but we think our sound is largely based in
mixing the elements of B.A and Canadian bands.

4. P: Do you have any contract with a label now? Are your albums
distibuted worldwide?..
T: Recently we signed with Ibex moon, so we 're hoping that the
new album will be availiable worldwide - and should be realtively
easy to obtain. Also "cursed cross" was released on vinyl format
by Anger of Metal (www. angerofmetal. de) so you could get it
from there....

5. P: Many people are against downloading music, but you guys are
sharing your albums yourselfes.. why have you decideto spread
your albums that way?..
T: We want to spread our name, so that's why we allow this.
So this is - a way to promote ourselves - to people that wouldn't get
to know us otherwise. We all grew up buying our records - and CDs
and it's a great compliment when somebody buys your actual
record.... it's such a bond ... so while we don't mind people listening
to our music in whichever possible way and through whatever
means and mediums, we love it when somebody buys the album
and it helps us to continue to grow - and invest the money on making
the next album better sounding etc... so it benefits the fan as well...
in the long term...

6. P: Your songs seems very aggressive. Who writes the lyrics
and what are they about in general?
T: The lyrics are written mainly by me and Nick who writes most
of the music as well, but we're all - like family we help out each
other.... and we work together as a unit...as for the aggression
- theres just too much Bullshit flying around - so it's an endless
source of inspiration - you just tune on the news on the TV
.... and it just comes naturally....

7. P: Have you made any tours lately? How was people's response?
T: We 've been largely doing local gigs - but in September we
intend to tour Holland and Belgium - and we're planning out a
bigger tour soon...

8. P: What bands of nowadays are the most interesting,
in your opinion?
T: Bonded by Blood, Fuelled by Fire, Hatchet, Mercyless Death,
Strikemaster, Violator, Municipal Waste, Legion of the Damned,
FKU, Gammabomb, Evile, Alcholizer, Executioner, Abuser,
Armored Assasin, Vexed, Witchburner and many more.

9. P: What other kinds of musik are also in your playlist,
besides metal?
T: We're addicted to THRASH metal ! Also old school Hardcore
and some nice tunes of electronic music.

10. P: Are you guys travelling a lot? Have you been to Russia?:)
T: Whenever we can ! We haven't been to Russia ! But we'd love
to come and drink all your vodka and thrash till DEATH !

11. P: Do you like to read and, if yes, what kinds of book
do you prefer?..
T: Lovecraft's stuff, SCI FI and fantasy and history books.

12. P: Tell me a couple of words about how metalheads are taking
a rest in your country, are there many gigs in your area?..
T: Gigs are many and frequent.... we simply don't rest - we go to
as many as our necks allow before giving up!!! haha

13. P: I cannot not to ask this: is ancient folklore of Greece
important to you in any way?..
T: We respect it - but it's something of the past....but most of the
modern day Greeks are a bit unworthy of it..... civilization is
decaying not only in Greece but globally - so..... it's nice to
reflect on it - and hope that things might actually get better....
although we don't hold our breath ...

14. P: Do you collect records and what do you prefer, vinyl i guess?
What's the most precious record in your collection?..
T: Yeah got a huge vinyl collection - love vinyl - but Cd is also ok.
I really love my Congumelo rarities....maybe ANTHARES and
Sepultura's split with Overdose.... just too many !!!

15. P: Okay feel free to say anything you want to my readers,
and huge thanx for the interview!!
T: WE SPIT ON THOSE WHO CHOSE TO POSE,
WE THRASH WITH ALL THE REST !!!!
Many Greeting to our fans in RUSSIA !!!!

Hlias Thanatoid - Crucifier !

p.s. originally printed in december '2008 on russian.

HELLBÖMBS interview

HELLBÖMBS is mighty grindcore/crustcore band from
Indonesia, an interview with them was taken autumn '2008
Take a look at their page: www.myspace.com/hellbmbs
Herusegn (guitars) answered all questions.

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- P: Hi Hellbömbs! How are you guys?..
-H: Great fine...we're fine thank you

- P: Tell me about the band please: for how long its existed,
how much people are in the band? maybe some story
about the band.
-H: This band's found in 2005, we're members are:
Din on vocal, Herusegn on guitars, Iphe on bass,
Gaban on drums.

- P: Your music is incredible mix of rawpunk, disbeat
and extreme metal. How you just found out that you
want to play such a mix of genres?..
-H: We're influenced by so many bands from Sweden!
Genre of our band is dark d-beat crustgrind.

- P: How much demos do you have up to date?..
-H: We just have 14 songs, and 3 songs in split
with Hellexist From Malaysia which was released
by Broken Noise Records.

- P: Do you like to play alive, do you oftenly do that?..
Do you prefer big festivals or club-shows?..
- H: We prefer with simple stage and D.I.Y gigs/shows
because we're more closer with our friends people like us.

- P: What names from punk world influenced you most?
And, maybe some metal names too?
- H: We're the band influenced by Discharge, Anti-Cimex,
Avskum, etc. And some oldschool Blackmetal like Venom,
Burzum, and some little touch Grindcore like Assuck,
Birdflesh, Cripple Bastard, Nasum, etc.

- P: "When war exist, we're ready to resist" and such words..
what does it mean to you?..
-H: Seems like on our songs "When war exist, we're ready to resist"
it's told that we really hate war... and we're Anti War!

- P: War, hell, pain topics - do you think these topics are alright
(and still actual) with modern punk music?..
- H: we've overflowed our emotions with our music and lyrics
we hope, some people who likes war will be having pain
in their ear ..hahahha...

- P: What other punk/metal examples of nowadays
do you like, some young bands?.. can you count
several cool (in your opinion) bands?
- H: a lot of bands we like, as Martyrdod, Nuclear Death Terror,
Wolfpack, with various sound who influenced our band.

- P: Is a scene in your country big and strong?
Let us know some about it, what Indonesian bands
can you recommend to listen to?..
- H: Community in our country is very strong and in here a lot of
bands play punk hardcore such as Krasskepala, Decay(Bandung),
Proletar(Jakarta), Extreme Decay(Malang), etc.

- P: Seems like asian scene are growing now and gettin
better and better. Can you suppose the reasons of it?
- H: Solidarity and our community are strong! So our community
is kept in until now.

- P: Is it hard to play hardcore/crust music in your country?..
Are all bandmembers having a constant jobs?.. What 'hobbys'
do you guys have?.. what do you like to do in your free time?..
- H: We're in here do some merchandise for the band, like t-shirts,
patches, and some of our friends are working at different places.
Our hobbis are different from each other.. Din (playing game),
Herusegn (design), Gaban and Iphe (stencil-plate/silk screening).

- P: That's all for now, thanx for answering the questions...
You can say whatever you want to my readers. Thanx!
- H: ok..thank you for the interview, ...still crust!! Thanks!

cheers *Herusegn

-- D-BEAT DARK ATTACK!!!

p.s. please mention that almost 7 months passed since
this interview was taken. Originally printed in december
2008, on russian language.

STATE OF DECAY interview

This is an interview with Harold, bass player for great
punk-metal band from Singapore: STATE OF DECAY.
They play sort of a metalized punk, Black Uniforms style
or mix of heavy/speed metal and hardcore punk.
Thanx Harold for the interview and also for sending some
recordings for the review.
Band's myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/stateofdecaysg

TAKEN: august 2008

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Hi, Harold and State of Decay!Thank you for acceptin
the offering to answer some questions.. well, let's start!

1. P: Tell a little bit about the histrory of a band - who and
when formed it?
H: We were formed sometime around early 2005, actually
Ariff, Irwan and Kody already had somewhat of a band
and I was looking for a band too so I kinda joined them..
haha its all good though, cause all of us were more or less
already close friends at that point in time and at least we
found it easy to work with each other.. or something
like that, haha!

2. P: Does any members of the bands have other projects?
H: ah yes, Kody plays in a shitload of other bands, mostly
as a drummer (Minus, Blinded Humanity) but also the
bassist for Slutet.. my other bands are all inactive, same
goes for Ariff, and there weren’t any recordings so it isn’t
worth it to mention them haha.

3. P: Are you independent band, or you're searchin for
some kind of label to release you stuff?
H: Hmm I guess we could be considered independent,
but Hasib from Azadghei Records has offered to help
press a pro CD for us so we took it up.. we’re good
friends as well, so I don’t know if that would be
considered a label? We don’t mind if people consider
us under Azadghei Records anyway because it doesn’t
really make much of a difference.. what matters if
whether they like the stuff we play or not, haha.

4. P: How much releases have you made on that moment
and, do you guys have a worldwide distribution?
H: Actually we only have 1 CD-r that only had like 25 pieces..
even the band members sadly do not own a copy.
There were supposed to have been more but it just didn’t
happen.. we just finished recording a few months back
and are gonna press it onto cd tho, all our recorded
tracks + the demo so its about 19tracks on 1 cd, hopefully
it’ll be done soon!and we’re definitely planning to record
and release more, hopefully even on vinyl but as all
the members of the band are more or less busy
(2 of us are doing national service so that cuts down
most of our spare time) it might take a while…

5. P: How's scene in Singapore, wht's popular there etc...
What's your opinion on modern bands playin 'metalcore'
and emo-core stuff?
H: ...sadly the scene here is very inactive as of late,
and I don’t really enjoy myself at the gigs here now…
Used to be a lot more fun, I really have no idea what
happened.. I have nothing against these bands that play
those styles, regardless of genre here and there there
are still a few good songs (but nothing comes to mind
now haha). If they enjoy what they play then more
power to them, that’s all.. haha.

6. P: Have you made any tours/gigs outside your country?
If yes, how was the response?
H: ..Sadly, no, mainly cause
of me cause I didn’t know where my passport was
at one point.. only got it done early this year, so hopefully
it wont be a problem anymore when it comes to this.

7. P: I've heard some songs on your myspace and some
of it is on English, some on your native language.
What are lyrics about and who is writing it in your band?..
H: Ahh actually most of the band members speak English,
my native language is Chinese but I’m horrible as hell at it,
and the other 3 members native language is in malay.
The malay song on the myspace is actually a cover from
an old malay rock band here, we don’t write lyrics in malay..
too hard for me! Lyrics are written by me and ariff, actually
we write whatever comes to mind and try to make some
sense out of it.. we aren’t really geniuses or anything so
you wont find Aus-Rotten like lyrics here
(wish we could though).

8. P: Also, i've found your stuff very melodic but with big
influence of oldschool hardcore/discore, like Black Uniforms
and even heavy metal/speed metal.. So how would you
describe your style, more newschool or completely 80s-way?..
What's your biggest influences in both metal & punk?
H: ..actually, I don’t even know how to describe ourselves..
we usually just say we play metallic punk or a metal punk
kind of way.. I’m quite sure Iron Maiden is a very obvious
influence in our sound, but other bands that have really
influenced us are Anti Cimex, Black Uniforms, Wolfpack,
Discharge, Motorhead and Black Sabbath?
Probably a few more as well..

9. P: Can you recommend some other great bands from
your country?
H: ..sure thing.. my personal favourites are Distrust
(great d-beat/discore) and Bloodstone(Thrash Metal)..
and I’m sure everyone knows Impiety too. Minus are
also a favourite, but I prefer their older stuff..
I really like Sedilix as well but sadly they’re no longer active..

10. P: Two(?) of you guys are the members of M.P.D.S.
This community is the only example of punk-metal
'movement' nowadays, but people in it are so FAR
from each other) Do you know some other guys from
M.P.D.S. personally?
H: ..haha other then the Singapore “members”
(about 6 people here?), I don’t know the others personally..
would definitely like to meet them all though one day..

11. P: We here know nothing about Singapore)
Can you tell, in a couple of words, how do you guys
spending your time and taking a rest in your free time?..
H: ok Singapore is actually a really boring country.. haha.
I guess it’s the same as elsewhere in the world, we just
hang out, drink and all that kind of stuff, if there are gigs
we’d go there, otherwise its more or less just hanging out..
but I really enjoy sleeping now because I’m always
so deprived of it in the army.

12. P: Do you care about politics of your country or you are
totally apolitical?
H: ...well more or less we do care about what
goes on and stuff, but become apolitical because not much
can be done, nothing changes.. sadly this is Singapore,
not a country where we are free to practice all that other
stuff that goes on without much worries. You can call us
hypocrites, posers or whatever but one must live here to
understand how stuff works.. (completely understandable
for any russian i think - ed.)

13. P: What do you think about straightedge and veganism,
are there many people in Singapore into that movement?..
H: ahh there are quite a few, some of our friends are also
into that as well.. I guess its good for them, if they’re happy
with it why not eh? Just means more stuff for the rest of
us haha! Its just not a lifestyle that I choose to take up.

15. P: If some of you like to read a lot, can you name some
great authors/books you like to read?
H: Ariff reads a lot, will have to get back to you on this!
I try my best to read more as well, but I don’t always
know what to read.. I read lots of random stuff,
so I cant really think of books that come to mind..
just finished reading a few Chuck Klosterman books
about 2 months back tho, thought they were pretty good.

16. P: Also it would be cool to know your tastes in movies.)
H: I like nearly everything.. war films, gangster films,
comedies, action, blah blah blah.. some personal favourites
are Scarface (both original and the Al Pacino one),
Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Young and Dangerous,
Kung Pow, Tenacious D The Pick Of Destiny, The Departed,
Mad Max 1 and 3 (never got to watch 2 sadly),
Saving Private Ryan, Harold and Kumar
and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back.. and these are just a few!

18. P: Personal question for Harold: i know you're
serving in army now.. army service really sucks in Russia,
cause of bad conditions and stupid people there, hehe.
How would you describe army of your country?.
Are every man in Singapore must serve?
..Is it really a militaristic country?
H: ...more or less every able bodied man must serve
2 years of national service here in Singapore..
the only exceptions are those either too physically
or mentally unfit. I wouldn’t really consider Singapore
a militaristic country, this army is mainly for “defence”
because Singapore is so small and barely anyone wants
to be a soldier here so they really need all this manpower..
hahaha but its unfair for those who couldn’t care less!

19. P: Last question: do you know any bands from Russia,
and do you want to come here someday for a travel?...
H: Sadly no Russian bands come to mind at all..
I probably listen to a few but I don’t know that
they’re from Russia.. I definitely would want to go
and travel there though, after my army service
i’m planning on traveling to lots of places.. .
and if State of Decay are all free hopefully we could even tour,
would be a dream come true.

-cheers bro!

p.s. Please notice that this interview was taken
almost 8 months ago on that moment.
Originally printed in december '08 on russian.

The First Note

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russian fanzine called GRIND THE WORLD. The 'zine is

on russian and first issue appeared in december '2008.

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