THE PAST IS ALIVE! New videos and music from MAYHEM, ANGEL WITCH, OBITUARY, SACRED REICH,NOCTURNUS A.D.

MAYHEM shared the brand new track "Worthless Abominations Destroyed" from the upcoming album "Daemon".

The album, to be released on October 25th by Century Media will be available on differrent formats, including LP+CD boxset. 
"Worthless Aboninations Destroyed" sounds majestic, with great gtuitar and drum sounds and the epic and dark voice of Atila. Very promising indeed...

NWOBHM veterans ANGEL WITCH return witn a new album. "Angel Of light" is the title of their 5th full-lenght.

"Don´t Turn Your Back" is the first single premiered a few days ago via Metal Blade, which will release the album next November 1st.
It´s great to hear the good old sound of Classic Heavy Metal!!

Well this is quite a surprise. I didn´t expect this new single from OBITUARY. "A Dying World" is available on Relapse Bandcamp, spotify and other digital plataforms. Good track, but nothing too exciting coming from the floridian death metallers. 

SACRED REICH released new stuff 23 years after their last album. The comeback album "Awakening" Was released last august 23rd throuhg Metal Blade. 

Their latest video clip is for the track "Divide And Conquer", check it out. Old school thrash metal.

This time I saved the best for the last. NOCTURNUS A.D. released this awesome video clip from the song "Apotheosis". An awesome video, for an excellent track, probably from the album of the year. Enjoy and hail NOCTURNUS A.D.

INTERVIEW with FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM

The following interview should have been out a long time ago, but for several reasons, it has not been able to see the light until now. Anyway, it´s always a blasphemous pleasure to talk with Belathauzer ato learn about FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM. Last year they released “Hóstia”, another powerful, raw and dark album on the band's discography. To dig up more details and to know the current news of the band, read on.

How are you Belathauzer?  Did the lovely cold weather come to Portugal already? Hope you are in the mood to answer some questions about the new album.  (Yeah, some time has passed since then... - Chris)

Hello… Yeah, finally some cold has arrived. I hate the summer hot, unless you take some thermic rest in a church, tasting the gourmet taste of unholy flesh. But I’m never in the mood to answer questions, that wouldn’t be trVue, would it be? Let’s goooooo! [Some months later:] So it seems we’re still here.

Personally “Hostia” is what I expected, your recognizable blend of black, heavy old school metal is stronger than ever, in that dirty and blasphemous way. What were your influences during the composition process? (Musical and non-musical influences)   

HOSTIA is what you expected? What a burnout! (yeah, although with some gothic keyboards ala C.O.F. I would have had a good laugh ;) - Chris) Anyway, unfunny reactions like mine apart, thanks for your feedback! Yeah, we’re proud to be dirty and blasphemous! Never take a bath unless you’re raped by a priest, and then the bath should be a BLOOD bath. Our influences were the same as always: Priest, Accept, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Venom, Slayer, Sarcófago, etc. Lots of bloodred wine and beer, tobacco, and specially a pilgrim trip I did into the Lungs of hell…I mean, the Vatican. Problems, lots of problems, this fucking fake slave-life we have to carry out along the days. We hate this society, all societies. So we are always fucked up but trying to party and CREATE art anytime this time-stealing humanity allows us to do.

How long did the process last since you started writing music for this album until the last touches in the studio were finished? How do you usually feel during the whole process, more anxious? More tense? Absolutely fucking normal…?

This album was created throughout years, even decades. It’s always like this… Riffs come along the years and then, in 2 months of years of decades we assemble the stuff and then the matter is created. About the whole process mood… Man, are you really interested on this?? Well, in fact I find the recording process a real creative cauldronwise process, where satanic miracles happen, where we can introduce new melodic and different nuances we tend to overlook in the compositive garage days. Now we’re recording 4 new tracks, one of them is 10 minutes long and we’re experimenting and melting so much diverse instruments, like baroque trumpets or real heavy metal voice, with guests and so on… That this is the supreme moment in our band life.

The album cover is one of the most blasphemous seen in the last times, at least as far I can remember. Who was the idea of that concept? Paolo Girardi certainly did a great job, what was the first thing you thought when you saw it finished for the first time?

It was my idea first, I was those days (june 2017) in São Paulo, trying to survive that apocalyptic city, maybe I’m exaggerating but it’s so overwhelming and massive (I like smaller towns, and specially no so massively populated), and then this idea came out to me, the idea to join all three monotheisms which come from Judaic postmesopotamia and create this kind of three headed Madonna Culona, wich is a kind of a feminist statement anyway, about the sadomasochistic way women are controlled and impaled in these three religions of “Love” and “Mercy”… I don’t know, cerveja Brahma and my nihilistic readings of Jean Paul (Richter) and my works on the Grotesque surely helped.  At first, my drafts were expressionist drawings, extremely rude, thinking on the War and Pain’s cover by Away, or the RRROOOAAARRR LP artwork. But the awesome Girardi came in, thanks to Hervé and Osmose support, and the whole initial idea was pushed quite forward: I sent to the great painter my idea and we spoke about our favourite painters, etc. Then I evolved from the dark and grim tones and raw, basic drawing, into a revivalist perversion of one of the most perverted periods in religious art: XVIII century. Between the baroque and rococo art, and since Girardi studied thoroughly and deeply that period, working as restorer of actual real Italian baroque frescoes… That’s the idea behind the Madonna Culona sodomized by the Supreme Impalement Inquisitor, the High Pig-Cardinal and his pig flying roseflesh virginal cherubs. It’s a grotesque depiction of Catolic imagery but it refers to the 3 global psychopath religious corporations, because any monotheism is in its dogmas far more grotesque than what any blasphemy could ever express. It’s also a homage to the – in fact – great art of those times, because Paolo Girardi paints in the old way: no photoshop or shit like that. You can sense the brush and its traces, in the shadows, the clouds, the skin and the flesh.  So it’a quite ambivalent cover. Not the usual dark and gloomy death or black metal cover. Ah, a curious note: it got a censorship action in Spotify… And Osmose put a hilarious combinations of cucumber and tomatoes to protect the viewer’s innocence of the bloody excrementous impalement of the 3 faces Madonna culona.

Would you name five of your fave album covers? What do you think about Sarcófago´s Rotting? Name the album covers that you would define as classic or iconic.

Five are ONLY five! But… Slayer – Reign in Blood; Celtic Frost - To megatherion; VoiVod: War and Pain; Motorhead: Overkill; Darkthrone: A Blaze in the Northern Sky.

Hell, I’ll add some more covers which do not end to fascinate me, us: Iron Maiden’ Powerslave, Bathory’s Under the sign of the Black Mark, Sodom’s Obsessed by Cruelty, Mercyful Fate’s Don’t break the oath and King Diamond’s Fatal Portrait.

The Rotting cover is quite nice, although technically it fits the title, since it’s a very kitsch and floppy use of spray. But the result is really sick. When I was in Belo Horizonte I got me a shirt in Cogumelo Records store.

Now please tell me about the concept behind the album title, its meaning and the blasphemous words of the album intro, “Prece” (prayer).       

It’s a prayer (Prece) or our own: «Our Lord’s Lady, slaughter of mortals / Curse us, sinfully generated…» Man, we love Catholicism, it’s an awesome source of delight and perversity! Just like the Hóstia concept, the liturgy of eating a bad cookie for the sake of Christ. The kneeling sadomasochist ritual which every Sunday in all catholic temples represents the oral sucking addiction to Christ phallus sintetized into a small and extra-thin (like menstruation tampax) cookie. Every Sunday, kneel (to Christ and in some extention, to Allah or Yaweh), for a major divine collective rape. In order to have faith, either you have to be completely idiot or desperately idiotical. Which comes to be quite alike, anyway.

One of my fave tracks, is “Lactancia Pentecostal”, tell me about this track. Do you have a personal fave on this album?

I love «Autos de Fé», but «Lactância» is certainly one of my favourites, and of course «Pó» and Virtudes da Prostração (Virtues of Kneeling) are fave ones. And SMRT/NADA, a nihilistic poem created in Czech language in homage to Master’s Hammer and Root. Fascinator!
As you did on the previous alum you included one track sung in English, “Raze the dead (of Death)” did the lyrics came spontaneously or did you plan to do it that way.        

When we composed this song, as always happens, music came much before than lyrics. But since voice is an instrument as everyelse, I put during rehearsals some lines in a mix of intuitive words, and the refrain / chorus came to me as something like “Raise the Dead”, with Bathory’s song in the back of my mind. Then, on the recording day I told Helregni: «You should write a lyric to this song», which he did, in English, while waiting in the Bus Stop. And then I told him: «I’m not singing this one. It’s up to you». And he certainly has the necrorocknroll tone this track needs!

Tell me about the video clip you did for the track “Po”.

The previous other guitarplayer, Ironfist,created this clip. We wanted to do something in a low-fi tone. I like watching live playing images. But what I really would love is to film an absolutely black clip. I don’t care much about images of bands: music should be and is mainly music. So soon we’ll create another videoclip, with weird stories. So you know our «Guerreiros do Trovão» clip? That’s a meaningful clip. (yeah, really cool, I shared it when I posted our previous interview - Chris)

How were the contacts with Osmose, and how was the possibility of the reissues of Fellatrix and Pornokrates?

Nuno, the guy behind the label CAVERNA ABISMAL and a very fine death metal band, ARCHAIC TOMB, did the job. Do please allow me not explore this subject… About FELLATRIX, IT IS NOT A REISSUE, but a new and different LP based on the music and lyrics which in FDP (2005) came out to be recorded in a way which 1) does not matches  the fiercy intensity that we have achieved when we play the songs nowadays, and 2) the 2005 FDP was cool at the time, but it had the wrong lineup. I mean, the drummer who created all the drumlines was kicked out by a junkie guitarist who only thought on how fine and beautiful and how many chicks he fucked. And the drum… I could tell you some things about that 2005 false drum. But lets go on… So I always wanted to make FELLATRIX real.  And my voice has many flops, there. My voice control is nowadays far more accurate. So when Osmose agreed to publish a new (and more real) FELLATRIX, man, we grabbed the chance and RECORDED the REAL FELLATRIX. IT IS NOT A REISSUE. (Yeah I know, mea culpa, but I fixed it in the next question - Chris)

The Pornokrates is also a grat idea by CAVERNA ABISMAL and we’re glad Osmose was interested. We’re so proud of these records, which hadn’t been as well spread as we would have liked, due to the labels magnitude. We hope that now FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM will conquer the world! The world war III, I mean. Obviously.

Las time I asked you about “Fellatrix Discordia Pantocrator” you told me you were not satisfied with some tracks and with the drums, and the possibility of a re-recording, so you finally did it…  

Yes, as I said in the previous question. Check it on the youtube or, far better, in our bandcamp.

Last year you released “Inmunditia Odii Plena” featuring Bactherion demo and FNI (in)famous “Os metodos do pentagrama” on mighty vinyl, and a special version including cassette, tell us about this cool release.

Down With The Most High and Chaosphere dis the job, long yeartime project. But it certainly was worthy. All the artwork was prepared by Helregni and myself, but specially him. I think that the tape is a real valuable document of early 90’s black metal underground in Portugal, since it contains our 2^nd gig, with the participation of Langsuyar, Nisroch and Isenputh (Moonspell and Decayed members). And the same goes about the full length magazine which was printed and it’s a very, very special part of this release. I must confess that I wasn’t quite fond of that demo, but this magnificent production changed radically my ideas relating that infamous 93 release. It all sound terrible, but that’s how things were in  the underground… Graças a Deus.

You were quite busy on stage last summer, do you have any cool anecdote from the festivals, or perhaps good memories from any show?        

Yes. But I don’t lake too much festivals. I prefer smaller shows, both as audience and as an artist. Well, not an artist…Fuck art.

If you had the opportunity to represent a character in the remake of an old movie (or get into the skin of the original character), which character would you like to play?

I don’t know, really. I never feel really identified with characters in movies. I mean, if I watch Star Wars or Mad Max, it’s fun but I don’t feel any desire to be in there. When I was a teenger, maybe. Not now. My favourite movies come from expressionism and weird stuff like Fellini or David Lynch, or Kubrick, which avoid the identification from the audience with any of the characters. Jesus Hitler, ha! Well, I’d enjoy a lot to be the Hitler burners in Tarantino’s Unglorious Basterds.

Tell us about your next plans, more gigs, working on new songs?

Yeah, new songs, We now have a new guitarist, Cardeal Aborto XIII, and as I said we’re in studio, recording, So hopefully this year we’ll deliver new songs, maybe 4 for an EP or so.

Once again thanks for your time, a pleasure and an honor from my side, last words are yours…

THANK YOU! Keep the tenebrous grim flame burning on and on!

RIPPER "Sensory Stagnation" EP

Yeaaaarrrggh Chilean thrashers RIPPER are back! The band will release a new EP o september 30th entitled "Sensory Stagnation".

The Ep will include 5 tracks and will be out via Unspeakable Axe Records on CD, casssete and digital. A vinyl version will come later through Dark Descent Records. 

Here´s the new track "The Unreal"...killer as usual from this band.

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THE PAST IS ALIVE! New Videos and Music from EXHORDER, GRAVEYARD, 1349, DESTRUCTION, PROFANATICA

New Orleans old school-thrash metallers EXHORDER ar back with a new album in over two decades.  "Mourn The Souther Skies" is the title of their thir full-lenght that will be released on Spetember 20th via Nuclear Blast Records.  The band already premiered the music video for the single "My Time". Thouhg I miss "something" from the good old days, still is a good dose of rabid thrash metal. Check it out...

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GRAVEYARD from Spain have been in the sceee long time crushing skulls with ther dark heavy death metal. "Hold Back The Dawn" is their fourth fulll-lenght. The album will be released on September 20th through War-Anthem Records.  The band´s first single "Of Extant Cults And Living Terrors" is like a dark.- giant creature spreading darkness and horror. Great cover artwork by Matt Carr. Hail Graveyard!

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"Enter Cold Void Dreaming" is the new advance track from 1349´s new album "The Infernal Pathway". The Norwegian black metallers already revealed their first sinlge a month ago ("Through Eyes Of Stone").   Both are fast and raw, yet tecnique tracks, showing the cold and aggressive sound and style that 1349 executed  in the past, I mean On the early albums.  Though I´ll wait to listen to the whole album to make an appropiate judgement, I must say that both tracks hooked me mor than their last couple of preious works.  The album will be out on October 18th through Season Of Mist.

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"Born To Persih", the 16th(!!!) album by German thrash gods DESTRUCTION is already out. The band carry on pleasing their vast militia and the lovers of good thrash metal.  No surprises here, (and that´s good) I mean  that the band continues and sometimes seems to dig up  the solid riffs from the past, yet the result sounds renwed, played with energy and precission. Check out the recently streamed music video "Inspired By Death".

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U.S. blasphemous ghouls PROFANATICA are back with a new album, "Rotting Incarnation Of God". The album will be ready to torment the ears of the christians on October 11th via Season Of Mist. Here´s the awesome title track premiered a few days ago. Enjoy! (unless you are...you know...a fucking christian!)

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SORCERY "Death is Near" Official Lyric-Video

It was a week ago when Xtreem Music premiered the lyric video of "Death is Near", the second advance track from SORCERY´s upcoming album "Necessary Excess Of Violence"

It´s a great track full of the classic old shcool swedish death metal vibe, so enjoy the song whether you´ve already heard it or hadn´t done until now...bang your fucking head. 

The 4th album by veteran swedish death metallers will be released on August 20th via Xtreem Music and will be available on LP/CD and digital (pre order available here)

Album Tracklist:

The Stellar Circle
Where We Were Born We Will Demise
The Darkest Part of You
Of Blood and Ash
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Death is Near
Illuminate
King of Nothing
Year of the Plague
Language of the Conqueror

HOLOCAUSTO To release "Diario De Guerra" LP

Survivors of the golden age of the brazilian scene, having released classics like the debut album “Campo de Exterminio”, and the two tracks featured in the classic cult compilation “Warfare Noise I”, HOLOCAUSTO returns with the sixth album, the long awaited "Diario de Guerra".

Last year the band released the “Guerra Total" demo, featuring the same lineup as Campo de Extermínio, displaying the same intensity and rawness as in its first days, persisting as nightmares of war in this new album. Check out the title track and hear for yourself.

"Diario de Guerra" will be released on July 31^st through Nuclear War Now! 

INTERVIEW with USURPER

It's great to have Usurper back. The ancient feeling and the 80s metal spirit that runs through the veins of these old school metallers from Chicago is stronger than ever. Good proof of this is the magnificent "Lords of the Permafrost" LP.  Answers here were given by Dan Tyrantor (vocals) and Rick Scythe (guitars). Read on...Beyond the Walls of Ice.

“Lords Of The Permafrost” was released on March 22nd through Soullseller Records. When the title track was premiered I thought it was awesome, I was hooked after the first 5 seconds of the dark heavy opening riff, classic and crushing Usurper style. Tell us about the creation of this new LP. 14 years have passed since his previous album, so I would like to know details of the songwriting process. How long did it take to complete the whole album? Did anything change in your method of composing and arranging the new songs?
Dan Tyrantor: Rick Scythe reactivated Usurper to commemorate the 20^th anniversary of the Diabolosis album for a show in Chicago. The response was amazing. We then began writing what would ultimately become Lords Of The Permafrost. As for the songwriting, it was the same. Rick will outline the song with some sinister riffs, Joe Warlord adds the thunder, Scott does something with the bass, and then either Rick or myself will write lyrics, and occasionally collaborate.

The new tracks sounds brutal, and as I said before it has the classical Usurper trademark, powerful riffs, brutality, old school vibe and musicianship. Does the rest of the songs follow the same direction? Is there any difference between this new album and its predecessors? Tell us your own vision of the new material.

DT:  It feels, to me, like a cross between Cryptobeast, and Skeletal Season. What it is for sure, is an Usurper album from start to finish. 

Please, explain us the lyrical concept behind “Lords Of The Permafrost”. The press release said that the lyrics explore topics such as monster folklore, the paranormal and other obscure tales. Something outstanding and characteristic in your lyrics, like the two historical stories, the tracks “Shadowfiend” and “Wolflord”' from Skeletal Season, also “Dismal Wings Of Terror”, which deals with the "Mothman", so I'm very curious to know what each song on the album is about…

DT: The title of the album, and the song deals with the Native American legend of the wendigo. "Cemetary Wolf" evokes the tale of the seventh son and lycanthropy. "Mutants of the Iron Age" was inspired by an acheological discovery of animals sewn together, some with extra limbs or heads in an apparent attempt to create mutated creatures. "Skull Splitter" is about the barbarian invasion of Rome in the early 5^th century, "Gargoyle" is a song about all of us Metalheads out there like gargoyles. Hard as Hell, and frightening to “normal” people. "Warlock Moon" is about ascending to the astral plane and exploring dark magic.

Lycanthropy is a very present theme in your lyrics, apart from Wolflord and Shadowfiend, there are also the songs Lycanthropic, in Twilight dominion, Return of the werewolf by Cryptobeast, and in this new album is the song Cemetery Wolf, What do you find most appealing about lycanthropy? Where does the interest and inspiration come from this topic? Name your fave film and book about lycanthropy?

DT: I’m fascinated with werewolf tales in any style, to be honest. From old ancient texts and passed down folklore to the shittiest VHS werewolf movies ever made. My favorite movie is still An American Werewolf In London. The transformation scenes were the most convincing at the time. Both the book and the movie Wolfen are pretty great too.

Another great thing is the visual aspect, the album covers are very cool. How is the process usually when choosing the art for the album? Tell me about his new winged, skeletal beast and also about your favorite Usurper album cover.

Rick Scythe: Thanks. I always draw a lot an contribute artwork and ideas. Lately I have been painting quite a bit too. I used one of my paintings for the inside booklet and clear disc tray for the CD / Label of side B for the LP.

As for the Lords of the Permafrost cover concept. It is a hybrid creature to represent many different song concepts on the album. Sort of like the Wendigo, or a creature from Mutants of the Iron Age. Also has some similarities to a Gargoyle. It is sort of a marker warning people not to go Beyond the Walls of Ice. It sits under the Warlock Moon.

As for my favorite Usurper artwork. It depends, I like all the covers after Threshold of the Usurper. Skeletal Season might still be my favorite, but I like them all. The same artist, Juha Vuorma who did Skeletal Season also did Lords of the Permafrost painting.
Do you have plans to make a promotional video clip? (Return Of The Werewolf was cool!) How should it be the perfect video for a Usurper song?

RS: So far we only have a basic lyric video for the song, “Lords of the Permafrost”. I want to do a promo video for, “Beyond the Walls of Ice” but we have to wait until it snows again.

Let´s talk about your early days, what are your memories of the band´s formation and the recording of the “Visions from the gods” demo. Also, what are your memories from the scene back then?

RS: It was weird, but fun. In the USA everyone was claiming “metal is dead”. Even the Big 4: Metallica cut their hair and dressed all fancy. Anthrax sort of copied Metallica into alternative music. Megadeth put out some non-metal sounding stuff. Even Slayer did like a modern Korn version of Slayer. Even in the underground, classic first wave thrash/black metal bands were breaking up or changing their style. We just wanted to be extremely metal in a time when people said metal was dead. We loved metal and hated alternative, industrial or emo music. We wanted to do the opposite of that style. We were one of the only bands, if not the only band in the USA doing this style.

It was the early 90s, when a lot of bands started playing black metal, were you interested in the black metal scene? Are there bands from that old god days that you respect and like?

RS: I thought some bands were cool, as long as it sounded like 80’s black metal. We often got lumped in with black metal in the mid 90’s because of our image and certain elements, but we never considered Usurper to be black metal.

What, in your eyes, differs the US scene from the European Scene? Do you miss anything from the old scene?

RS: European scene was always more passionate then the USA when we fisrt toured Europe in 1998. Now, I’m not sure. Europe has more festivals, but USA more kids are into this style than were back in the early/mid 90’s.

Do you remember how were the conversations with head Not Found, and the deal for the release of “Diabolosis…”?

RS: Metalian, “I like Usurper a lot. I would be interested in putting out your album.” Usurper, “Cool, let’s do it.”  Then in 1995 it came out.
I have Diabolosis (R.I.P Records) and Skeletal Season (Merciless Records) LPs, both vinyl are awesome releases, I bought them when they came out and I liked the whole design, it was clear that you put emphasis in the details. What is the most prevalent in your collection? Are there any or some that you consider special?

RS: Thanks. I love those 2 versions as well. I love gatefold LP’s. Both RIP and Merciless did great jobs. Skeletal Season LP is my favorite though. Lords of the Permafrost Blue LP is the best now.

Why did you use different designs for the CD and LP versions? In my opinion the LP looks much better. Do you remember why you chose it?

RS: I agree. The LP is much better. That was what we wanted, but we didn’t have access to that cover in time for the CD release so we just ripped off something close from an art book. I dislike the CD cover and if I have my way, if it is released again on CD, I want to use the LP cover art.

Why “Deep in the forest” wasn´t included in the LP version? It's one of my favorite tracks, it was included later in the “Visions from the gods” compilation (I still have to get that vinyl, though is quite difficult nowadays, aaarrrgh). A special edition on 7" with that killer track would not have been bad (you're still on time, just an idea ha ha)

RS: Deep in the Forest kicks ass, but we didn’t want to have every song from the demo. We wanted to keep the demo special.

King Diamond and Proscriptor McGovern did guest vocals on Necronemesis, who did come up with the idea of this guest appearances? What was it like working with them? If you had to choose only one album of King Diamond / Mercyful Fate and one of Absu, what would you choose?

RS: We liked both Absu’s and King Diamond’s latest albums when we were about to record our next album. Necropolis Records asked where we wanted to record. We looked on back of both albums and both were recorded at Nomad Studios with producer, Kol Marshall. So we told Necropolis that is where we wanted to record, and we wanted Kol to produce out album.

Proscriptor agreed to do backing vocals from the start. King Diamond was a bit different. The owner of the studio called before we left for Texas and said, “Rick, we got a problem. King Diamond is finishing his album House of God and needs a couple extra days to finish mixing. He said if we can bump your days, King will sing on your album.” I was like, “Fuck yeah! No problem”. Still a highlight to this day.

I would like to know your opinion of the current music industry, or if you prefer, you can tell me about the positive aspects of the current scene and the new bands that have caught your attention.

RS: I haven’t bought an album since 2003.

DT: I honestly don’t listen to much newer music, or go to many shows.

What are the tour plans to promote Lords Of The Permafrost?

DT: Right now we are going to be headlining Spring Bash in Milwaukee, playing a one-off headline show at St. Vitus bar in NYC, and the 2020 Turkulu Sataanalle Fest in Finland. As of this interview, we are in the process of finalizing some other shows.

Among so many concerts in your career maybe you have some good anecdote that you want to share.

DT: Somebody once smashed a glass ashtray in their hotel room bathroom, and then shit all over it. I’m not saying who, but it was Joe.

What´s the strangest place and the most shocking place you have been? 

DT: For me, the strangest place was playing in the basement of a bagel shop. Shocking was the outdoor sculpture park in Oslo. There was supposed to be a gigantic statue of an angry baby that towered over the whole city, but in actuality, it was only 3 feet tall. I’m still very upset about it.

What will be the next steps for the band, do you plan to work soon on new compositions? (at least I hope it does not take another 14 years until the next album)

DT: We are trying to play in as many places as we can right now. Haha, I don’t think it will take that long again.

Thanks you for your time, last words are yours...

DT: Thanks for the interview!

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