Metal Bulletin # 11 Lnterviews & Reviews FREE June25,2008 Facebreaker Gruachan
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Metal Bulletin # 11 lnterviews & Reviews FREE June25,2008 Facebreaker Gruachan Grimson Evil Moon Masquerade Siodogg reviews: Astarte,The Batallion, Dark Suns,Dismember, Enemy of theSun, MisterBones, Nifelheim,The Profane, Sculptured, Spheric Universe E,xperience, Virgin Black morereviews and interviews and links to hearthese and other bands: www.mys pace.com/themetal buIleti n metalbands: get in touchfor demo/albumreviews and possible interviews public.We just writelyrics that fits withour music.No political nonsense, just pure death metal. Facebreaker We willall dieand decompose, that's fucking that, no poetryjust slowly rotting away. "Dead,Rotten and Hungry"is the albumby this Swedishseverely gutturalgrowling, raw death; just plain, fugly,fugly death done the Facebreakeris about one thing: deathmetal, the real sick and traditionalrotting way: one songand that'sall you needto know twistedway. What motivated you to forma bandto playthis form what'splaying for thefuneral. Often it's fast and blasting, sometimes of musicin particular?What does death metal have for you that slower,sometimes midpaced. There is virtuallyno melody,so it'sall in is more specialthan, say, black metalor thrash or whatever? thezombiecorpse groove. Songs about zombies and decomposition is We reallylike thrash and black metal as well.But death metal is the what'son the menu.They get by on feel and energy.Nothing mostbrutal music there is andwe allgrew up withthe extreme metal succeedslike vomitzombies on vomitfire.And this bandgets by on scene,and we havebeen involved in bothblack and thrashmetal theirlove of deathmetal and their energy They do a good,solid job bands srnce the early 90s. onthis album. Jonas (bass/backing vocals) responded. You startedin 1999,right? Prettysoon, it will be 10 yearsthat As you know,bands like Deicidehave a reputationfor "cheating" you have been playingdeath metal.Do you imagineyourself on the vocals becausethere are special/computereffects. Are playing in Facebreakerwhen you are 50 or 55 years old? there special effects on the vocals? Yeah. of course.We all lovedeath metal and we willnot change Thereare NO SPECIALEFFECTS whatsoever. Who fuckingdoes justbecause we get old.We willkeep playing our music till the day thatanyway. lf you can'tsing for realthe why bother.How does it comes for us to take the final rest sex feet under. worklive??? We recordon two channelsjust to makesome parts soundmore brutal, but we neveruse special effects. With a singerlike When I listento the album,it's hardfor me to hearthe bass Roberthwho has a pairof lungsthe size of Texas,we don'tneed to guitar.This is usuallythe case in metal.What are the sounds that cheat. the bass guitar is making on the album? lf you can'tfeel it, thenturn up the volumeand listento the songs Whenyou play live,what things do you do to get ready?Does "SoulEater" and "Dead rotten and hungry". The bass plays alone with drinking beer help or not? the drumsfor a whileon bothof the songs.But you CANhear the Wecan drink a beeror twobut we arenever drunk on stage.lt would bassthrough the wholealbum. The soundof the bassis likean be a real fuckingdisappointment for the audienceand really earthquakethat scoresthe higheston the Richterscale. The bass unprofessionalof us. Five drunkenguys on stage and nobody standsfor the brutalityand thickness of the sound,and has a lot of remembersany songs,fuck that.When we play live we give the distortion so it blends with the quitars. audiencewhat they have paid for. A realdose of pulverizingdeath metalstraight in theirface Butafter the gig, the backstage area turns Your song titles are similarto a horror/goremovie. Are your into a beer/whiskey drinking inferno. lyricsinspired by horrormovies? Are they inspired by bandslike Repulsion, Autopsy, the first Death album? By lookingat the songtitles, it seemsthat the decompositionof Yesthere is someinspiration from horror movies. All the bandsyou flesh fascinatesyou: "Slowly Rotting," "Dead, Rotten and mentionare all great bandsand sure we have listenedto them Hungry,""Devoured by Decay,"etc. Would you say that this has growingup so theyhave surely rubbed of somemusical influences on to do with your own thoughts about your own death and us. And they havealso beeninspired by splatterand goreflicks. mortalityand the weaknessof the humanbody or morelike just Extreme MUSIC, extreme lyrics. horror lyrics? Definitelyhorror lyrics. We don'treally have anything to say to the Sometimesin deathmetal,especially in bandsthat havegore lyics,there are lyrics about violence, violence by menagainst women,in particular.Do you havean opinionabout this? Youcan see it asart and some people do really sick shit. But that is NoTwhat Facebreaker areabout. we haveno opinions about what otherbands do or write. They do what they do, and we do what we do. Yourguitar sound is a classicdeath metal guitar tone. Can you tellus whatyou tune your guitars to? Why do youchoose that tuning? How do you achieve that buzzsaw sound? We tuneour guitars and bass in H. lt soundsmore brutal when everythingisdown tuned, even Black sabbath did it inthe zOs. lf you wantto havea reallygood sound then simply turn up everything to maximumon the amplifier. That will NOT work on the bass amprifier by the way.The buzzaw sound is createdby the geniusJonas Grimson Moon Kjellgren. ScorpiosAndroctonus from atmospheric,often blastingblack metallersCrimson Moon explains the basicsabout the band, You recordedat BlackLounge Studios, right? ls this album their releases,touring, musical perspective, history of the band, produced by the band or by Jonas Kjellgren? as well as their focus for black metal. Yes we did go backto The BlackLounge studios to record "Deadrotten and hungry" with Jonas Kjellgren. He is a verygood Your release"Xepera Xeper Xeperu" is a double-disc:an EP friendof ours and it felt natural to record with him again. we recorded "SerpentBeneath the Skin" and the album "To Embracethe "BloodredHell" there and we really liked beino there. VampyricBlood". The EP is from 2007and the albumis from 1996,right? Was it your ideaor the recordlabel's to makethis a Oneof yoursongs is called"Unlock the Horror." Do you think packagerelease? Was difficultto re-releaseit becauseof legal thatwith your songs you areunlocking the doorto yourown rights?Did you havepeople asking you to makethe 96 album personal nightmares? available again and was totally out of print? Hehehehehopefully, so thatwe canwrite even more sickening lyrics The mainfocus was to havethe new materialfrom "The Seroent on the nextalbum. The conceptof "unlockthe horrof'is just that Beneaththe Skin"E.P. recorded and releasedin timefor the 2002 unlockingthe doors to yourinner most horrifying thoughts and urges. U S. tour We hadundergone a fairlysubstantial restructuring in our Taking the sickness to another level. line-upa couplemonths before the material was written which always tendsto causedoubts to peopleyet to hearhow such changes affect Whatwere the first metalalbums you got into when you were themusick. So the E.P. was recorded in a rushin attemptsto proveto young? How did you get into metal,through a friend or a ourolder listeners that this is the same Crimson Moon as it hasbeen brother? How did you get into death metal in particular? sincethe beginning in 1994.we literallyhad the recording finished for KISS- Creaturesof thenight lt wassome scary shit back then. I got the plannedrelease date in the knickof time,though I believewe it for Christmasback in -82 alongwith a walkmanand some havefound things that could have been done better if we had had recordabletapes. Not the kindof musicI listento today.I got into moretime, I stillfeel this releaseis easilydeemed as our most blackand death metal through a dearfriend back in Bg-90and I have effectiveeffort in soundquality and musicianship. been playing Black/death metal since -93. Afterlooking into the options our label was willing to provide, wesaw it as an appropriatetime to includethe debut "To Embrace the Any last comments? VampyricBlood" CD. TETVB had been out of printfor quite some time Support Death where ever you are. andthere were many inquiries for the album. I alsoobserved copies of And rememberthat FACEBREAKERW|LL NOT DtSAppOtNT yOU. the originalpressing being sold on ebayfor muchmore than the We are all about "ln your face old schooldeath metal". 'normal' priceof a CD. Visit our homepage WWW.FACEBREAKER.COM Therewas no difficultydue to legalrights. The original Cheersbeers / Jonas THEEND pressingof TETVBwas releasedby AbyssRecords and this was doneby a verbalagreement, so I havekept the rights since day one. Weof coursedid contact Abyss Rec. before planning the re-release to lethim know of our plans and to besure he had no objections, which as onlineclasses, video tutorials and working with others who have did not. theexperience I can learn from. I supposethe largestchange in perspectiveto how we By the w?Y, recordnow as opposedto the earlieryears has a lot to do withthe how did yourtour go? Withwhom did you tour?How many line-upchange. There has been much more of a collectiveeffort on showsdid you do and what places did you play? things and of course,as I slowlybut continuouslygain more Wetoured with Demoncy, Tenebrous and Legions of Astaroth. I think equipmentfor recordingit continues to cancelout limitation that could it wasaround 13 shows, soread out throuqh the US and one show in barring. Mexico. I thinkthe tour dates/locations areon thewebsite still as Songslike "The Stormbringer" or "senderof NocturnalVisions" well.- Thankfullythe