INTERVIEW DEFECTED DECAY (ENGLISH)

„We did a lot of tapetrading, you sat around the campfire in the evening and people came from Velbert, Living Death for example, and Assassin from Düsseldorf.“

After Daniel, the singer of Defected Decay, contacted me in June last year for a review of the great second album "Troops of Abomination" (review here), we arranged an appointment for an interview on location in beautiful Hattingen. The weather threw a spanner in the works of the originally planned date, but two weeks later, on a weekend at the end of January, the time had come. So I set off by car to the Hattingen, which I can only warmly recommend to anyone who likes cosy half-timbered towns. Even on the way there, the last few kilometres of the journey seemed familiar, and that's right, this is also the way to Witten, or rather to the Muttental, where you can hike and also mountain bike very well on the traces of former mining. Singer Daniel and instrumentalist Dirk turned out to be nice and conversational guys, we talked a lot about Defected Decay, their other musical playgrounds like Suffersystem as well as about the metal history in the Ruhr area. We conducted the interview in Daniel's living room and were very nicely provided with drinks by his wife, thanks again for that!

At Daniel's house, I first examined the CD collection and a few cassettes, which led us to the topic of demotapes.

INTERVIEW DEFECTED DECAY

„Wir betrieben viel Tapetrading, man saß abends am Lagerfeuer und es kamen die Leute aus Velbert, Living Death zum Beispiel, und Assassin aus Düsseldorf.“

Nachdem mich Daniel, der Sänger von Defected Decay, im Juni vergangenen Jahres kontaktiert hatte für ein Review zum tollen zweiten Album "Troops of Abomination" (Review hier), verabredeten wir einen Termin für ein Interview vor Ort im schönen Hattingen. Beim ursprünglich angedachten Termin machte uns das Wetter einen Strich durch die Rechnung, aber zwei Wochen später, an einem Wochenende Ende Januar, war es dann so weit. Ich machte mich also mit dem Auto auf ins beschauliche Hattingen, das ich nur allen, die gemütliche Fachwerkstätte mögen, wärmstens empfehlen kann. Schon auf dem Hinweg kam mir die letzten Kilometer Anfahrt bekannt vor, und richtig, hier geht es auch nach Witten, besser gesagt ins Muttental, wo man auf den Spuren des früheren Bergbaus sehr gut wandern und auch Mountainbiken kann. Sänger Daniel und Instrumentalist Dirk entpuppten sich als nette aufgeräumte Gesprächspartner, die einiges über Defected Decay, ihre anderen musikalischen Spielwiesen wie Suffersystem als auch über die Metal-Historie im Ruhrpott zu berichten wussten. Das Interview führten wir in Daniels Wohnzimmer und wurden sehr nett von seiner Frau mit Getränken versorgt, vielen Dank nochmals dafür!

Bei Daniel zu Hause begutachte ich erst einmal die CD-Sammlung als auch einige wenige Kassetten, was zum Einstiegsthema Demotapes führt. 

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INTERVIEW DISINTER

„The first real heavy metal song I heard in my teens was "Fast as a shark" by Accept, their drummer pushed me to play the drums. It was a big shock for me to hear their double bass drum, so I have a special respect for that band and their way on that record to play.“

Ultimately, I became aware of Disinter from Peru mainly by the fact that I was looking online for the band of the same name from the United States. However, the South Americans could inspire me right away by their great, powerful death metal, which rather refers to the American style. A good reason to talk to founder and drummer Roberto Leonardi, who has been doing his mischief in the scene with Disinter since the distant year 1993.

REVIEW INVOKER "TOWARDS THE PANTHEON OF THE NAMELESS"

I would like to point out here once again a great, unfortunately probably too little noticed album, namely the third Invoker album called "Towards the pantheon of the nameless" released in 2020 by Einheit Produktionen. The band from Saxony-Anhalt presents on this release an absolutely outstanding mixture of death and black metal in the perfect tension between roughness and harshness

INTERVIEW HYPNOS

"I never was a real musician. I was a fan of music, who wanted to join a metal band to be close to it, even I didn't play an instrument. I was and still am crazy about music in general, not just metal."

Recently I saw that the Czechs of Hypnos will release a new EP "Deathbirth" towards the end of April. Frontman Bruno, also with Krabathor, can now look back on more than 30 years as an active death metal musician and has experienced quite a bit, which he has also written down in a book. So this was a good moment to talk about the new release as well as to look back on Hypnos and Krabathor in particular and death metal in the Czech Republic in general. And don't miss to see the band at the Munich Dark Easter Metal Meeting on April 08!

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