1. How did the band get started? How did you meet
and how long have you been together?
Johan Sånesson:
Well, the band started with me, Johan (guitars), and Jon(drums),
and a guy named Anders. We played together a while, but then me and
Jon felt that we needed to move on. Also Anders quit because of musical
differences. Jon knew this mean guitar player (Mattias) from school
and asked if he wanted to play. That's how Mattias joined. Later,
on of our friends Stefan, who we all knew from before joined. In the
beginning we had a guy named Kalle Wallin on vocals, but that was
just temporary. A short time before we weregoing to record "The Praetorian
Face Damnation" Mattias told us about this guy he knew (Martin), who
could growl. So we gave it a shot and here we are.
2.
How would you describe your music?
Johan Sånesson:
It's a mix between the brutal metal from Southern USA, and the
melodic part of Swedish metal. All with a little touch of our sick
minds.
3. What are your biggest influences?
Johan Sånesson: The band as a whole doesn't have any
real influences. We try to make our own type of music. But individually,
on the other hand, we listen to everything from, jazz, blues
and folk music to melodic and fast brutal metal.
4. What
made you want to be in the band? And if you weren’t in the band
what would you be doing now?
Johan Sånesson:
The fact that I have liked music since I was just a kid. I felt
it would be cool to play an instrument, so I bugged my dad until he
got me a guitar, and when I played it i just felt like: Man, I need
to play in a band. It must be great. If I hadn't been in a band, I
would probably have done better in school. So I guess i would
have been studying in the university or I would have had a job.
5. Are any band members in side projects? If so what are they,
and explain a little about them.
Johan Sånesson:
I'm in two side projects. One is a brutal punk band (Solfågel
or in english, Sunbird), where Jon also participates, and the other
is a melodic death metal band (Pandemonium) with a lot of influences
from the eighties. Mattias has alot of side projects, that I don't
know the names of, and Stefan has a power metal band named Thannatos.
Jon is also playing in Thannatos.
6. How would you feel
if a band took their sound from yours and became very well known?
Johan Sånesson: I don't know. I think I probably
would have become a bit irritated. I would have been angrier if someone
had stolen our songs.
7. What current bands do you like
or respect?
Johan Sånesson: Right now I
listen alot to bands like Hypocrisy, Death and In Flames. I respect
almost every band who is true to the music. I don't care much for
bands who just wants to make money.
8. How many demos/albums
do you have? Tell me about them!!
Johan Sånesson:
We currently have one demo/mini CD. It was recorded in just two
days. It's a great compilation of songs. Both brutal yet soft. Anybody
can listen to it.
9. What is the meaning behind the songs?
Johan Sånesson: I don't really think that there's
a meaning. In every riff that we write there is a part of what we
felt like at that exact moment. Be it tired, angry or just plain sad,
the riffs express our emotions at the time we wrote them. At least,
that's what I think.
10. What are the bands favorite songs?
Johan Sånesson: I think that the bands favorite
is Praetorian Shadows.
11. What does the future hold for
the band?
Johan Sånesson: We plan to record
another CD with better songs and production, as soon as we get the
money, and hopefully we'll get a couple of gigs as well.
12. If you could play with any band who would it be and why?
Johan Sånesson: If you could play with any band
who would it be and why? I'd play with Pantera, since they are my
favorite band of all time. They have an extreme energy when on stage
and they don't have one really bad song.
13. Who writes
the majority of the music?
Johan Sånesson:
All music this far is written by me and Mattias.
14.
Who has been the favorite band you’ve played with and why?
Johan Sånesson: It's Monolith and Pandemonium. Monolith,
because I like the action that goes on in the crowd when we play live,
and Pandemonium because I like that type of music better.
15. Where did you get the band name from?
Johan
Sånesson: We were going to play our first gig ever, and
we needed a name, so Jon came up with it. I think it's from a Cannibal
Corpse song title, but I'm not sure.
16. Describe what
the band is like live?
Johan Sånesson: We're
loads of fun. We have little chats with the audience and we've even
had a sing-a-long. There's also alot of headbanging going on. We try
to put alot of energy into the gigs as well.
17. If you
are gonna do any kind of video what would be in it?
Johan
Sånesson: We are making a video right now. I'm not sure
about everything that's going to be in it, but we are playing in it,
as in a show. There's also a girl in a forest involved. I can't really
tell you anymore.
18. Are there any touring plans made;
if so tell me about them?
Johan Sånesson: No
touring plans yet.
19. Where do you think the band will
be 20 years from now?
Johan Sånesson: Hopefully
at Wembley stadium, playing in front of tens of thousands of metal
heads....No, seriously, I have no idea. We'll just have to see what
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