Interview: Joe Horvath- Circle of Dead Children

Happy Monday, guys. Sorry about slacking off again last week, I went to see Dying Fetus over the weekend and the couple days leading up to shows always lend themselves to plenty of excitement and distractions. But luckily there's plenty of stuff to talk about today, including a review for that show later, so get comfy. First up, we finally have another interview, one that I've been very excited about for a while now. Sit back and relax as we have a rather in-depth conversation with none other than Mr. Joe Horvath, vocalist for one of my favorite bands, the Pennsylvania deathgrind heavyweights Circle of Dead Children.


So first and foremost, thanks for taking some time to do this thing, I'm sure the new lineup change and whatnot has kept you guys pretty busy lately. We did an article about that a while ago as you saw, but can you give us any more info? What brought these changes about, was it sudden or did everyone kinda see it coming? And more importantly, how's the new lineup working out for you?

Man, we haven't been busy enough for a few years. Feeling amped and excited and having new things to work at is great for all of us right now. We've always been a band of constant set backs, but over the past several years it's been sort of different. When a key component of the unit is no longer motivated it effects everyone and slows or stalls the ability to move forward in any way. We've increasingly had a difficult time maintaining any sort of healthy band routine. It took a long time to solidify a new drummer (Matt Francis moved from Binghamton, New York to Pittsburgh to join) and even longer to produce fresh new material. The large majority of Psalm of the Grand Destroyer, for instance, had been written around 2005, despite it getting released in 2010. It's been difficult to see something you're a part of, and proud of, being let to slip away, especially given the relative success CODC has had. In the downtime I've watched the scene expand -- tons of new bands, labels, online and print media and so on. You really want to be an active part of that, you know? Frustration and discouragement had taken control of any of us left who still had the ambition to continue. So there was nothing sudden about Jason quitting and it wasn't much of a surprise. I've known and have been playing in bands with Jason since 1995, well before CODC, and my life would be different without having him as a friend and bandmate. I was never going to kick Jason out of the band, no matter what the issue was. My friendship with him and the respect I have for our friendship means more than my band. But stepping out was healthy for him, for the individual members of CODC and for CODC as an entity. Circle of Dead Children would never exist without Jason and his input, but his fire just hasn't been there for awhile. We're not kids anymore -- he's trying to move on with his life in other ways and I'd never slight him for that. We respect him a great deal for making a difficult decision that ultimately best suited everyone involved.

So far the new lineup is incredible. Drew's primary instrument is a guitar, not a bass, so the switch for him was a natural one. He's excited to be a bigger contributor and we're excited to hear his work. Drew was a CODC fan before joining in 2005 - he knows the music and the Circle sound and has worked with Brooks in several other bands over the years. We've all been friends with Brooks for a long time and he's an awesome addition to Circle. Can't ask for somebody easier and nicer to work with and his bass skills are off the hook. Everyone is happy and the nasty music is flowing effortlessly right now.


Where do you guys draw your influence and inspiration from? You guys write some pretty schizophrenic shit (I mean that in the best way possible of course), so how does one go from listening to your average (but still good) D-beat grind bands like Phobia and Nasum and then segue into the sheer insanity of Circle of Dead Children?

Play loud and basically without a set direction. [We] just wanted to play extreme metal and leave the classifications to the listeners. All the past and present members have really wide ranges of music that we enjoy. I don't think our sound is directly attributed to any particular bands or even styles of playing really… it's more of being influenced by the love and desire to make music and do our own thing. I think we've always played from our guts. The inspiration is drawn from watching and hearing bands do whatever the hell they want and being amazing while doing it. When I'm seeing a band playing live and they're making me feel frenzied and wishing I was on stage instead of them, that's inspirational. Reading lyrics in the liner notes of an album and totally feeling the words and imagery is my inspiration. There's been plenty of awesome Pittsburgh bands over the years and watching and listening to them always drove us to play. For me personally, I was moved by hearing early Incantation, Rottrevour, Hideous Mangleus, Fear of God, Morbid Angel, Winter, Napalm Death, Sore Throat and bands from that era. Assuck was a driving force for all of the original lineup at that time. But even then, nobody really wanted to sound like Assuck -- we just wanted to have something of our own that was fast and rocking, just like they had.

Another aspect of the band that I've always been a huge fan of is the very abstract lyrical concepts, things like "We Who Move With the Graven Worms" and "King Cobra vs. Queen Bee"; basically stuff that sounds cool and sounds like it should mean something, but honestly I can't quite figure it out. What goes through your head when you're writing these lyrics? Are you doing just that, using abstract imagery to try to get a message across, or are you just thinking up some trippy shit to fuck with people's heads?

Thanks a lot -- always cool to hear from somebody who pays attention to lyrics. Lyrics have always been important to me, no matter what type of music I'm listening to and I've never seen why that should be any different in this style of music. All of elements are important; the instruments, the vocals, lyrics, artwork, packaging, etc. They may not all be essential from a solely sonic standpoint, but as far as what and who you are as an entity, I think it's all crucial.

Everything certainly has meaning, or at least a value lyrically. I can't say there's total consistency with themes or song titles, but there's something always there nonetheless. I guess there's an element of self-amusement in that I try to mess with a lot of different literary techniques and incorporate imagery, allegories, couplets, homonyms, anapests, blank verses, metonymies and a lot of figurative language and so on. There's definitely not a direct plan of writing confusing lyrics, but there also definitely is a plan to not write straightforward as well.

As most people know you're also a pretty avid conspiracy theorist, as are many grindcore musicians, so how much does that play into your writing process? It's pretty much scientific fact that conspiracies and grind go hand in hand, much like gore and death metal, but CODC isn't your average grind band.


I don't think I'm much of conspiracy theorist, really. Being very analytic, at times to a fault, is part of my nature. Combine that with a pretty insatiable appetite for trying to understand the hows, whats and whys of what I don't understand, and you get what you get with me. I like answers and solutions and I like the journey of trying to find and make sense of them. If I watch any of the mainstream news channels, I feel inundated with popular conspiracy, disinformation, propaganda and outright lies and I'm pretty sure it's not my imagination [it's not, everyone who's anyone knows that the mainstream media is packed to the gills with disinformation and slanting -Ed]. Some people acquiesce to that and accept it, others do not and I suppose I'm one of the former. Seeing smoke and realizing that your house is on fire is nice, but ultimately you're going to want to know where its burning from and why if you have any desires to see it stop from burning completely. I'm a free spirit and I don't enjoy knowing that a parasitic ruling class has set up a scientifically, socially engineered society to live and die in. I think there's more to human life than being a cow or a snake.

That said, I don't think my "conspiratorial" views affect my writing for CODC as much as one might assume. Other avenues exist for me to get that sort of thing out and I use them. I try to keep a certain feeling when writing Circle stuff, but there's no template. I wouldn't even go so far as to say that CODC lyrics even accurately reflect my personal philosophies so much as they're just a dumping dock for that section of my brain.

Alright, getting away from the songwriting topic, if memory serves me right you guys didn't do much touring to support your last album Psalm of the Grand Destroyer, despite the fact that it was and still is so well liked. Since these complications with the lineup were brought to light no one's really going to hold that against you, but now that you've gotten everything worked out do you guys have any plans to get back out on the road anytime soon? I can think of at least one wannabe music journalist who would jump at the chance to see you guys live.

We did none, not even a CD-release show. Definitely disappointing. We love playing shows but have never been able to capitalize on tour offers the way we would have liked to. I've had a professional full-time job since day one and have owned a home since about day two. Those two things alone make getting time off to tour and still pay the bills difficult. Combine that with all the lineup changes, transportation and band financial issues, illnesses, etc. and you have what we've had. These days back issues add to the problem. I think the last show we played I ended up having six or seven back treatments over the course of a month to feel semi-normal again. Matt needs several months of the year to tour with Hank III while he plays drums in Assjack. Our most productive days for shows are now behind us unfortunately. That said, we're still looking to play out and hit up some of the places we've never been able to make it to in the past.

Last but certainly not least, when you guys announced the lineup changed you also mentioned that you were already working on new material as a followup to Psalm, so I gotta ask: when can we hear some of it??

New material is flowing right now and it's a good feeling. I haven't even begun working vocals into songs yet, so it's going to be a little while before there's something to be heard. No matter what, new music is on the way.


That should just about do it sir, thanks again for talking to us, do you have any other parting words or advice for the readers before you go?

Just to thank you and anyone out there who's supported CODC in any way over the years. Keep screaming. 

-BK

Interview: Waclaw "Vogg" Kieltyka- Decapitated

I know, I know. We only did two things last week, and I'm just now doing the first article of the week at ten-thirty at night. I'm sure you're getting impatient with us by now, so to make up for it, here's one of the interviews I've been dying to get to for a while now, with none other than Vogg, guitarist for Polish death metal heavyweights Decapitated.

Hey man, thanks for taking some time to talk to us, I'm sure you're schedule is pretty hectic right now. For those who don't know, tell us what you guys have been up to lately, any cool tours going on that we should know about? 

Hey man.Right now we are finishing process of writing songs for new album.We have some plans for tours for this year but it needs some time for confirm this.

So what's the story with the new album, you guys are supposed to be going into the studio soon, right? How's the writing going and all that, and when do you think we can expect to hear the new material? I know tons of people (myself included) can't wait to hear what you're going to do next. 

As I said before the album is almost ready and we can't wait to go to studio.We will start at 10 of February in RG STUDIO. First time since 1997 we will work together with Arek "Malta"Malczewski and that's fucking great!! Also we will work with Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah, Strapping Young lad, Dimmu Borgir) who will prepare drum sound and make mix of the new album!!! New songs are different than stuff we've recorded before and I don't want to talk too much about that. Its metal for sure, and it will be fast material. And of course that will be the best album of the year :)


As I said in the last article I did about you guys, Decapitated have always been a very forward-thinking band, and every album has been different from the last. Was this intentional or did it just happen on its own? Do you guys have a specific mindset or process when it comes to songwriting, or do you just do what comes naturally?

It was always a natural process that every album sounds different, I don't know why it is like that, it just happened. For me it's very cool because it seems that fans can always get some kind of surprise and for sure they will never get  bored about the band. New album will be different as well :)

I was lucky enough to see you guys last summer on the Summer Slaughter tour, what did you think of your reception with the new lineup, considering that a lot of your tour mates were bands that are more new-school deathcore (All Shall Perish, Veil of Maya, etc.)? Basically, was there more actual moshing or a bunch of dumb kids in basketball shorts who just wanted to fight the air, because I saw plenty of those douchebags throughout the night. 

This tour was very cool and so successful. For me it's not a problem with who I play with and how they look like. Most of those bands and people were very cool and we had a good time together. As I said the tour was a success and almost every show was sold out. This tour gave us a lot, I mean for the band, because we did 33 shows and that was really good practice with the new lineup.

 Speaking of touring, when do you think we can expect to see Decapitated again in the US?

Probably autumn 2011, that will be after the new album releases so you can expect a new setlist for sure. At this moment we are planning this with our agent in the US. 

What would you say the best tour you've ever done was, whether it was because of the bands you played with or just really strong crowd response?
 
There were a lot of tours, I cant tell which one was "best one". Last year we did a tour with Behemoth and that was awesome!!

Well I think that should just about do it, thanks again for taking the time to chat with us. Anything else you wanna say to the readers before we wrap this up?

Thanks for the interview, thanks for the people who support us in every way!!

 

-Vogg

 

Autumn of this year folks, keep those calendars free. Many thanks to Vogg and everyone else in Decapitated, can't wait to hear the new tunes. Leave your thoughts below, and tune in tomorrow for more goodies.

-BK

Interview: Don Anderson- Digested Flesh

Hey guys, sorry about not getting anything done the past few days, my computer got about twelve million viruses at once and was KIA for a while. And before anyone makes a porn joke, I'll have you all know it was a bad torrent. But anyway, to make up for it here's my interview with the guitarist of one of New Jersey's sickest slam bands, Digested Flesh. Sorry about the font issues, copy/pasting from Yahoo turned out to be a lot weirder than I thought it would be.

Hey bro, thanks for taking some time to chat with us. Tell us what the band's been up to lately, I haven't heard much from you guys in a while. Any cool tours or new material we should know about?

We actually just went back to Germany in September and played at the NRW Deathfest. Other than that we've been writing our full-length which should be out later this year.

Give us a basic syopsis of how Digested Flesh came to be. As a fellow Jersey metalhead I'm especially interested in how a band as brutal as DF came from a place that I understand to be full of hicks and hardcore kids.

Nick and I have been friends since we were kids. He was an awesome drummer and we were both into heavy music so we decided to put a band together. I met Rob through work. He's the most metal motherfucker you'll ever meet, which was exactly what we were looking for. Derek is an awesome musician so we recruited him on bass after Pete left the band.
 

Your newest EP "Macerate the Soul" seemed to take more of a grindcore approach than your usual slams, or at least that's what I got out of it. Was this intentional, or is did it just kind of happen on its own?

We just got better at writing music. If we played the same 3 power chords over and over and then just played them slower it would sound like The Answer to Infection part 2. I love that album but it's already been done. We're moving forward with our style.

Your music has always had a very raw, organic sound to it, kind of like it was all recorded live. Was this also on purpose, because I've noticed a lot of bands, especially in your genre, tend to go for the very sterile, drum machine-y Pro Tools sound.

That is on purpose. We always ask our engineer to make sure it sounds raw and sloppy. We play tight enough that we don't need it to sound like robots, we just need an awesome sound and minor clean ups and we're ready to press.

Since we're talking about your sound, I have to ask the mandatory question: what bands would you say have influenced Digested Flesh the most?

Devourment and Dying Fetus really influenced the first full-length (obviously). The newer stuff is influenced by all different bands. Deicide, Morbid Angel, Mortal Decay and Gorgasm just to name a few.

I see you guys are set to play a benefit show for Jay Sica, the recently deceased vocalist of Abacinate. His untimely death was a huge shame to say the least, and it's good to see the Jersey metal scene really rallying together. How well did you guys know him, I know Abacinate was/is a pretty big name in that scene.

Our drummer Nick was the closest member of our band to Jay. They were pretty good friends. I hung out with the two of them a few times and Jay was a really nice guy and an awesome singer. I hope we can do some good for his family with the benefit show.

Well that's pretty much it, thanks again. Any last parting words you wanna share with the readers before we call it an interview?

Thanks for the interview and the support!! Add us on facebook.com/digestedfleshofficial

Alright, a new Digested Flesh full length later this year, you heard it here first guys. Thanks again to Don and the rest of the band, leave a comment or two and stay tuned for more.

-The Baby Killer

Interview: Paulo Rossi (Fleshgod Apocalypse)

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't giddy as a schoolgirl when I got the chance to interview our next guest. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you one Paulo Rossi, bassist of Italy's greatest export, Fleshgod fucking Apocalypse!

Hey man what's up, thanks for taking the time to talk to us. You guys just recently got off your first U.S. tour, and with Suffocation no less, how did America treat you? What did you think of the crowd response for Fleshgod, and what was it like to tour with one of the most legendary death metal bands of all time? Can you tell we're jealous?

Hey! Thank you for your interest and support!
Yeah, our first tour in North America has been nuts! Crowds were absolutley amazing, we didn't expect such a great reaction from the fans, and man, Suffo are GREAT, great people, great musicians!  We toured with them in Europe as well and now we're good friends! It's been so good to hit North America for the first time in that package. We had the chance to work with such good bands and people!




Now that you've gotten your name out there, do you guys have any plans to come back to the States anytime soon?

We are about to announce our presence in the Summer Slaughter fest, scheduled for this summer, so definitely yes, we'll come back soon there!


As you may or may not know, the main purpose of this site is to weed out hardcore dancers and all their bullshit, and since that tour also included Through the Eyes of the Dead I'm sure you guys saw your fair share of them, what's your take on them? Did their presence affect your crowd response at all, or would you say they were smart enough to stay away for your set? In fact, what's your opinion on hardcore dancing period, if you have one?

I think TTEOTD are a good band. They are very good guys, nice and helpful people!
I think that the Decibel Defiance tour was not properly their kind of audience, but they managed things so good that I'm sure they made some new fans! The metalcore scene is much more melded with death metal in the U.S. so the crowd was not disappointed about seeing a metalcore band, they just didn't follow the live set of the band if they preferred that!



You guys are often lumped in with other Italian metal bands like Hour of Penance, is there a sort of tight-knit metal scene over in Italy, which is why a lot of the bands from that area tend to sound very similar to each other?

I think every band has its personal way to conceive stuff. In these last years many bands coming out from Italy play death, or brutal death metal, but every one has its mood. For sure the more you go on with that, the more you'll hear different bands coming from our country.


On the other hand, your focus on classical music definitely gives Fleshgod Apocalypse an edge over other bands, what inspired you guys to start putting classical elements into brutal death metal?

That was the basic idea when we started the band, we wanted to have some elements that could be associated immediately with us, so the idea of melding classical with death metal was the first, since everyone in the band loves the classical approach!




Since you guys use so many classical elements, it's pretty obvious that you guys listen to more than just metal, what would you say some of your biggest musical influences are, metal or otherwise?

Surely we have many metal influences as well as classical, rock and even pop music ones! I think a good musician has to know every aspect of music if he wants to be really focused on what he does. Our influences are really various, and on the classical side we're pretty much inspired by Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, Listz, Verdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner and so on! But in general we're greatly inspired from all the bands or composers which have given an idea to their music, or you could say, which have given a music to their idea.


The new Mafia EP, in many people's opinion, was a huge success; there's a reason why it was in one of our "Best of 2010" lists. Are you guys planning on using any of that material for the next full-length? And while we're on the subject, when do you think we can expect to hear a new album? Any plans to go into the studio anytime soon, or are you just going to ride on the EP for a while?

No, the EP is a closed chapter. We did it as a proper "small album", so it's impossible to take songs from it and using for another one, since every album we make lives for its own. We hope to have new stuff out before the end of this year. That's all I can say about it!


Now that you've done a full U.S. tour, what would you say the biggest difference is between the European and American metal scenes? It seems like metal has a much stronger following over there, whereas it's very difficult for a band that doesn't play a breakdown every ten seconds to make any money in America.

Euro and U.S. scenes are different, and that's a point, in Europe we are more focused on music, but maybe we are too cold when we see a band perform its set, things are the opposite in the U.S. as I experienced, but I think if you're a good band and you manage to give great shows to the people, everyone can pass over the trends or fashion and recognize if the project has a long lasting value or not, that's it!


Well that should just about do it, thanks again for talking to us, guys. Anything else you wanna say to the readers before we call it a day?

Thank you and keep on supporting Fleshgod Apocalypse!
We'll see you all on tour soon!


Paolo, FA

Grazie \m/

You heard it here first folks, Fleshgod Apocalypse are set to perform on this year's Summer Slaughter. Sold! Thanks again to Paulo and everyone in FA for chatting with us, and thank you to all the readers who keep this bad boy going, keep it coming guys. There's plenty more really exciting stuff in the works for Mosh Rebellion, so as always stay tuned.

-The Baby Killer

Our First Interview Ever: Dr. Satan (Dead Walk the Earth, ex-Kyndread), MTV Superstar

That's right folks, I wasn't lying last week. I am very pleased to present Mosh Rebellion's first official interview (conducted via Facebook, 'cause that's how ghetto we are), with none other than the star of a recent episode of MTV's True Life,. Someone kinda famous is willing to talk to us, who'd have thunk it? Let's do this thing.

So first of all I think I speak for everyone at Mosh Rebellion when I say thank you very much for giving us our first interview ever, tell the readers a little about yourself. 

Hey guys, thanks for having me. I'm Andrew, aka "Dr. Satan". I'm the former vocalist for Kyndread, and I recently starred in the "I Have a Fetish" episode of MTV True Life.


What bands/songs/albums have you been listening to lately?
 
I've been listening to a lot of different stuff lately. Molesting the Decapitated by Devourment, Polarity by Decrepit Birth, Bleeding Through's new self-titled CD, and Beyond Cops Beyond God by Waking the Cadaver is fucking ridiculously brutal (to each his own, I suppose -Ed.). There's also the new Deftones album Diamond Eyes, God Save Us by Remembering Never and You Come Before You by Poison the Well. My homie also just recently got me into Premonitions of War's Left In Kowloon. Shame they broke up because this band is fucking sick.

How in the hell did you get the gig on True Life, was it your idea or did someone approach you about it? Tell us what the process was like, and what your take on the whole experience was.
 
Haha, it's actually a funny story, because I wasn't even going to do the whole thing. What happened was I was living with my roommate Steph at the time, and one of her friends had seen the True Life website and the audition page for all of the specific topics that are soon to come, and "fetish" happened to be one of the topics on the list. Knowing how much of a foot-obsessed freak I am, she freaks out and tells Steph about it, and that afternoon Steph comes to me and is all like "OMG ANDREW YOU HAVE TO DO THIS, THEY WOULD SOOOO PICK YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT FOR THIS" etc. I'm thinking there's no way they're gonna pick me out of all the people in the world with foot fetishes, but I told her I would do it if she looked up what I had to do for it. Turns out I just had to email them a story about my fetish and send them a pic of me with it, so I did it and what do ya know, two weeks later I got a call from MTV.

The show was a very long and slow process, but for me it felt like it went fast, maybe because I had a lot going on at the time and there was never a dull moment, I don't know. All in all I think it took about eleven months to finish the whole thing. The experience was great; it takes a lot to let someone into your life and have them follow you around with a monster camera invading your  personal space. But at the same time, I was really excited to show the world that there's more to Dr. Satan than just a foot-lovin' metalhead. 

Since you made your TV debut, has life changed for you at all, be it for the better or for the worse, or do you just have a ton of new friends now?

Since the show things have changed a bit. I mean, the show was a fucking HIT!. The second airing date's ratings doubled the premiere's, and that never happens! I'm also on the Howard Stern website and the E! Entertainment Soup Blog. That's all cool, not to mention I have like 1,399,399,393,299,000 Facebook friends and tons of girls hitting me up now. There was even one girl who posted a status on the True Life website saying, and I quote, "I would like to find Andrew from the True Life: I Have a Fetish. He is the foot fetish guy and I think I'm in love with him". But I also have plenty of creepers, stalkers and haters, which I guess is normal for being on TV. To all my haters out there: eat a fucking dick! I loved that girl from Mississippi from the outside in. I paid attention to every part of that girl's body, mind and soul, not just her feet, but I guess you douchebags didn't read the title of the show, and you didn't remember that they make everything more dramatic on television. Stop being jealous of my life and get your own. I'm looking to go further with this and do big things now that I've put my feet on the map. The possibilities are endless so wish me luck.

Those who know you personally most likely remember you from your days with Kyndread, so since the band broke up what have you been doing with yourself? Got any new badass projects going on that we (I) should know about?
 
Since the death of Kyndread I've actually managed to jump into two amazing local bands, both with unique styles and sounds. The first is Conqbine (from Newark, DE), with Nick from Kyndread. After Kyndread split Nick wanted to do something of his own with a different sound but still came from the music that heavily influenced him. I can honestly say that I'm honored to play in bands with Nick, he's one of the most talented guitarists I've ever met. The band wasn't supposed to be serious, we just started playing out and people loved it, so we went with it. I would say we're more along the lines of experimental hardcore, but still pretty grindy and dirty. The sound speaks for itself, check it out and you'll see. I really love this band, because this sort of music hasn't really been done around here, so it's pretty unique and different in its own way. Some of the influences include Deftones, Poison the Well, Converge, Gaza and Burnt By the Sun.


I also just recently joined the New Jersey death metal band Dead Walk the Earth, which is another interesting story. So, I'd never heard of this band, and they happen to be playing a show with Vital Remains at Mojo 13 one Saturday (what the FUCK, how did I miss this?!?!??! -Ed.). My ass is sitting at home, I don't even think I knew about the show, but then Chuck from Bulldog Promotions hits me up on my cell and is like "Hey man, there's this death metal band here, Dead Walk the Earth, and their singer couldn't make it, do you wanna come up and do some freestyle gurgle gurgle bree brees?" I figured sure what the hell, so I drove up there, met the guys (all real cool dudes), listen to their demo twice in the car, and then I jumped on stage and improvised the whole set. As soon as I got off the stage everyone's face was priceless! The guys came up to me immediately after the set and said that their singer was probably gonna leave the band soon, and they asked me if I was interested in being their new frontman, so here I am! Some of our influences would be Suffocation, Brain Drill, Despised Icon, Dying Fetus and Decapitated (now THAT'S what I'm talking about).

I'm happy and in love with both of these bands, check them out guys!


It's a well-known fact that Kyndread shows often got pretty intense, tell us the coolest and/or craziest thing that happened at a show you guys played. I seem to recall there being some suspension going on at one point.

Ahhh the good ol' Kyndread days hahaha. Something crazy happened at every Kyndread show, the hard part is figuring out which was the craziest out of all the fights, strippers, cake fight mosh pit, almost burning a house down, spraining my ankle, busting my head open, biker gang fights, Dr. Satan kissing booth, and oh yes, the suspension show. I think that was probably the craziest show. There was a professional suspension crew there called Disgraceland, and dudes and chicks were hanging from hooks in the ceiling by their skin. They even played tug of war with each other during our set! There was also a fucked up, crazy angry midget with a big mallet hammer smashing beer bottles and chairs, which eventually moved up to computers and TV screens and VCR's, then he started stapling money to his body and face. Yeah, that show was probably the craziest we've ever had.

Well I do believe that's all for now, thanks again for taking the time to talk to us, any shout-outs or last words you wanna give before we call it a night?

No problem guys any time, thanks again for having me. I think it's badass what you guys do for the local scene and metal community. Us metalheads gotta stick together and never let this shit die! Only thing I can say is if you truly want something in life then you can have it all, it just depends on how much you want it. I never thought karaoke would one day turn into a sick death metal band and then MTV, but I worked my ass off and look where it's gotten me. Never give up on your fucking dreams!

I wanna give shout-outs to my family, my crew and all my friends who believed in me and supported me from Day One. Also, Buz Hassan, The Tink, Daisy, Josh from MTV, Bulldog Promotions, Pure Death Productions, The Gypsy Queens, Patriarch Promotions, Mojo 13, Mojo Main, Drunk Monkey, Roller Derby Girls, Abby Normal and The Beachcomber.

Band shout-outs: Conqbine, Dead Walk the Earth, End-Light, If It Bleeds, The Barn, Mortal Decay, Blackheart Ace, Internal Fear, Von Kull, World Lost, Offset, Daimonic Gray, Altar of Dagon, Sapremia, Sever the Stem, Pale Existence, Nightfire, Cadaveric Spasm, The Grieving Process, Loner Eroded, Awaken the Seven Sleepers, Last Nail Driven, Her Virgin Womb, A View From a Hearse, Livid, Backside Jones, Hallowed Cain, Beezlefuzz, Morbid Terror, Acts of Violence, Insidious, Hell and High Tide, Quartered, Short Bus Pile Up, Anasazi, Your Mother's Roast Beef Curtains.


And that's that folks, thanks a million to Dr. Satan for taking the time to talk to us, and be sure to check out Dead Walk the Earth and Conqbine to keep up on his musical endeavors (although I don't think the vocals on DWTE's profile are his). Leave Dr. Satan some much-deserved love in the comments, and stay brutastic.

-The Baby Killer