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Hails my metal brother of sickness! Thanx
for doing this interview! Tell me what comes into your mind when I say the
word ? SEX? The same with ? DRINKS? And finally tell me what is your mind
when I say the word ? METAL? How often do you combine all three?! An extreme
example of this would be? Ever beat off or fuck to the rhythm or beats of a
metal band and which ones seem to work best?
Hail Metal Dale Roy, it's nice to do another
interview with you again brother, firstly when I think of Sex, I always
think about really small (petite) women with small,firm breasts, and tiny
hands. I tell you man, it rules getting jerked off by a girl with small
hands because it makes your cock look fucking huge! As for Drinks, I've had
Bourbon whiskey on the brain lately, a lot of Wild Turkey, Jim Beam, and
Jack Daniels... as well as I just sampled some other fine bourbons on my
recent trip to the USA. Now for metal it would be BATHORY and SARCOFAGO
because I put all of my collection in storage a few months ago and the only
cd's I saved to listen to are "The Return", and "INRI" It's been a while
since I combined all three due to the fact I have not had any sex in about
two months. I played with a few tits at an EXHUMED show a few weeks back
while all drunked up but that's all the action this sad boy has seen, it's
harder to pick up sluts in the winter because they all stay home with their
nerdy boyfriends during the colder months. An extreme example would be when
I tounged a girls ass while listening to AUTOPSY "Mental Funeral", and she
sucked her menstrual blood off of my cock. Maybe when I poured beer on a
girls tits while listening to NIFELHEIM... you know the usual standard! I
just picked up a live VULCANO cd on my trip to the USA and that has been
doing a fine job as background noise while I beat off, however it would be
better if a nice 19 year old blond would come sit on my lap!
How did you get in contact with Chris of
Decius Productions and was it him who came up with the idea to put your
great tracks from the split tape (with Unholy Archangel & Kult) out on a
Picture LP? What do you think now that you have a copy in your hands? I can
only imagine the sense of gratification to seeing/hearing your music on this
most hallowed and kult format! Out of the 3 bands on that split tape I
thought it was Lust who put in the most work on their music and obviously my
point is backed up by the fact that the other 2 bands had a considerably
shorter run time? I do not think it got spread widely so I was extremely
glad to hear these tracks were being re-released on vinyl, do you feel the
same way?
Actualy Angelfuck was the one who first
contacted Decius productions looking for label support for our band
OUROBOROS. Of course our selling point was that I played in LUST, and Chris
freaked out because he had a dubbed tape of the 1997 demo. He told Angelfuck
he would release an OUROBOROS Lp, and he had not even heard us yet, but for
the fact that he enjoyed the first LUST demo so much, and we were
establishing a reputation in the underground with some rehearsal tapes we
had released. Since OUROBOROS at the time still had to record new material,
he asked if I would be interested to release the LUST demo on Lp, or limited
picture disc. I wanted to put the third demo which appeared on the three way
split because I was really proud of that recording. I was really fucking
happy when Chris sent me my test pressing copy on white vinyl, I got that
the day I left town to see BLASPHEMY play on the coast. I remember that my
turntable was not working so I used my brothers record player, and the funny
thing was that he did not have any real speakers, his record player was
hooked up to his television set. So the first time listened to my Lp was on
a tv motherfucker! I think the UNHOLY ARCHANGEL material was great on the
split but I was disappointed that it was so short. I had recorded 29 minutes
of music because when the split was first talked about, Mad Max wanted each
band to have 30 minutes of music so it would fill a 90 minute tape. The idea
of a 90 minute demo was fucking great, so I was really disapointed when Mad
Max came to visit me and played the tape for the first time. Everything on
the tape was brutal, all three bands were grim and underground sounding, but
so much empty blank space at the end of the tape... a dirty shame.
You knew very well the now deceased but
infamous Mad Maxxx of Impaler Of Trendies records, Ocean Morphique zine, the
band Worship etc? He came over from France for a visit (at your house) and
he must have really liked it there as he ended up returning later to live in
Canada! Can you tell us a few stories from his visits and what type of
person he was?
Fuck this is the first time I have to
actually answer this, I have a pile of unanswered interviews with a similar
question to this, as well as regarding his death, and truthfully I really
dread answering these questions about Max because he was quite a person. He
left an impression on me that I can never forget, and he got close to a lot
of my friends before he passed on. His first visit was for about nine days
at my house, probably the best nine days of my life. He loved the music just
as much as me, and lived it with every fiber in his body. If someone could
be pure, and true regarding our sub-culture, it was Mad Max. Everyday we
would go drinking, and he would meet some of my friends in different places,
we would cut each other with knives and razors, put cigarettes out on each
other. I can't describe the guy, he just had a lot of passion, and
dedication. I remember his passport got trashed one night when we were
walking all
drunked up from the bar, going through the government buildings. Anyways
there was a huge fountain, and swimming pool. I grabbed Max and threw him
into the water. It was so great, both of us fucking drunk in the pool
fighting at about 2:00 am, Max was wearing his jean jacket covered in
homemade patches, and I had on my leather pants and bullet belt. He pulled
out his passport from his jacket after and called me a bastard because it
was completely destroyed. Actually earlier that night he called me a bastard
because I had put out a cigarette on his shitty home made "Sex, Drinks, and
Metal" tattoo on his shoulder. I kept laughing at him, he was so mad he
tried to burn my neck with a cigarette butt! I remember one morning the
police came to my house because the night before during a party, I was
fighting with Wor from AXIS of ADVANCE in my front yard, and Max pulled a
drain pipe off of my neighbors house and started hitting me and Wor with it.
That same night the three of us were all drunk laying on my living room
floor in darkness listening to THERGOTHON, Max and myself covered in blood
pouring beer onto each other. It's hard to forget that guy, I think about
him a lot.
After moving to Canada Mad Max became a bit
strange and cut his hair off and ended up living on the streets for some
months, did you have much contact with him during this time? After this
period Maxxx seemed to get his shit back together, got a job, started doing
his underground activities and everything then he committed suicide - do you
think this was a spur of the moment decision to jump or something he had
planned? Do you know anything about those last few hours of his life? Is it
true you and some others took his whole collection (CDs, tapes, vinyls,
fanzines etc...) and threw them off the same bridge and into the water?
Actually he shaved his head before returning
to Canada, and got a whole bunch of tattoos. It was weird picking him up at
the airport the second time because he looked so different, and his
personality was different too, he was more bitter with life, just angry with
everything, and really fucking depressed. He had so much medication in his
bags, his parents put him in an asylum for a few weeks before he came back
to Canada. His medication would really fuck him up when he would drink, he
would totally become a different person, just really messed up. He would do
stupid things to piss me off, on the first night he was back he started
setting things on fire in my kitchen. I threw so many beer bottles at his
head and I grabbed a chain and chased him out of my house. A few days after
he apologised, and brought over some beer called "Max Ice", he always did
funny shit like that, make you laugh at his silly jokes (I recall phoning
your house and Max got on the phone and had a pic of me and a pic of Cath
from Leather 'N Spikes laughing telling me I was fucking her and rubbing our
pictures together, crazy bastard haha - Dale). Anything that said Max on it
was cool! when I would cook supper for us he would turn the dial on my stove
to Max, and look at me and tell me to cook on Max! I would just laugh all
the time, he was a really funny guy. I remember being really sick and he
would make me soup and tea, then bring me beer that said "Bull Max" on the
label. Everything was Max, fuck! My brother found a porno called Mad Maxine,
of course max loved it because it was called Mad Max! We watched all the Mad
Max movies together. He would always bug me about "Beyond Thunderdome"
because it had Tina Turner in it. He would turn to me and ask "Even the one
with the nigger? But this is shit!" I feel bad now about the time I punched
him in the head and called him a nigger, and kicked him out of my house. We
didn't talk for a few months, there was a lot of tension between us for a
while, but when OUROBOROS played a gig with DISCIPLES of POWER Mad Max
showed up, and came to my house to party. We made up, became friends again,
but didn't really hang out because he was living at Genocide Lord's house
and got a job with my friend making stickers. We went to the bar a few times
just before he died. I don't know how planned his death was, I mean he
always talked about death, and suicide... he was totally depressed. He
wasn't afraid of death though, he was ready for it, and I think that's what
made him so fucking crazy, everything he did was extreme because he knew he
was going to die. His last moments were with my friend Radek, and I feel
really bad for Radek because he tried to stop Max from jumping but Max
punched him in the head and jumped off of the bridge. I remember Genocide
Lord phoning me asking for Max's parents phone number at 3:00 am. I was in
total disbelief, it was such a shock at that moment, I was really drunk when
I answered the phone and at the moment the police and an ambulance was at my
house because I had got into a fight with Angelfuck (bandmate of his other
band at the time Ouroborus) that night, and beat him pretty bad with a
chain. The next morning when I woke up I didn't think what happened the
night before was real until I rode my bike to the bridge that Max jumped off
of and saw a whole bunch of my friends standing at the spot that Max jumped
from and were all staring at the water. It really hit me hard at that moment
because I knew that Max was gone forever. Fuck, it was so hard to look over
the rail into the water... it was a long way down! Max jumped off of the
highest bridge in Edmonton, called the High Level
Bridge into the North Saskatchewan
river. For a few weeks it was really weird anytime I had to cross that
bridge, or go by the river. I fucking hate that river to this day because it
took away a very good friend from me. One week after he died we had our own
private service for him, Radek took us to the spot that Max jumped from and
we all said our goodbyes to him, opened a few beers, took a few drinks and
tossed the beer into the river so our friend could have a drink in the
afterlife. Then we took all of his stuff and threw it over the side of the
bridge, it was weird to see so many metal heads an skin heads throwing
records off of a bridge. It was really sad to see Max's stuff floating in
the river, because we all knew that he would never come back. This was also
the same day they found his body down stream.
Tell us a bit about your other band
Ouroboros. What has this band released and how would you describe it? audio
output? Ouroboros is more of a live band, am I right? What are those shows
like if I was in the audience watching? I’ve always wondered about the name,
Jeffrey said he thought it was the name of a planet in the animated movie ?
“Heavy Metal” is that where it is from?
OUROBOROS formed in February 1998 and so far
have released two rehearsal demos and the third demo "Invoking the Worm", we
don't really promote the rehearsal demos since we never really put a lot of
effort into the recordings, but are still cool to listen to once in a while.
However the "Invoking..." demo is something that we are really proud of, we
recorded in my old studio and it turned out fucking grim. Totally dark and
occult sounding like the old ROTTING CHRIST or EMPEROR demos. We have played
a few shows already, the standard tons of bullet belts, studs, spikes, black
paint around the eyes, chains. A lot of people say that our live image is
like the old bands out of Brazil, which is pretty much were we got a lot of
our ideas from. No special live show with funny props or anything like that,
just a lot of headbanging. Our show in May with DISCIPLES of POWER we had
torches, and baphomet banners on stage to give the same occult atmosphere as
an old Nuremburg rally the Nazi's would have. No, the name has nothing to do
with that gay cartoon movie, it is an occult symbol for eternity.
You’ve done a number of one-off releases
with Lust on various labels around this stinking globe now. Any plans on
looking for a label to provide something more permanent with a full album or
a series of vinyl output? Along this same line of questioning in addition to
the Pic LP on Decius you were scheduled to release a split LP with Ouroboros
& Thornspawn but was cancelled, can you tell me what happened with that?
Also you for sometime have spoken of a 7?EP release on Hellflame from Italy,
is that out yet and if not when?
A few people have supported me, and done
LUST releases on small labels, I am eternally grateful to Mad Max who put
out the split live tape, and the three way split demo, and the first LUST
shirts. He really helped promote the band a lot, and had a lot of faith in
the band since demo #1, everything that I recorded and played to him he
really liked and was always distributing or dubbing my demos for people in
the underground. Decius has really done a great job promoting LUST, and did
a truly magnificent job with the picture disc Lp, however the design for the
t-shirt I was not 100% happy with. Actually we planned to use the picture of
the soldiers with gas masks and gattling gun off of the Lp for the front of
the shirt, and the photo of me from the insert on the back. However the
screen shop had problems with the graphics because their computer kept
crashing from the size of the files, and ended up pressing just the insert
picture of me on the front of the shirt. I think the shirt looks great but I
wont wear it because it has my face on the front, just think how silly I
would look wearing my own face on a shirt! However it does look nice when a
pretty bitch is wearing a LUST shirt and my face is over her tits! I am
still waiting for the split 7"ep to come out on Hellflame, the last I heard
was that the pressing plant fucked up the master for the other band, and
they had to re-record their track. I fucking hate delays, but it is to be
expected when you don't do things yourself. As well there is another split 7
"ep planned to be released by an American label but that has been delayed
for some time as well, I won't bother promoting these releases till I have a
copy in my hands because I have already made the mistake of telling people
already, and I get so much mail asking when they will be out. I will finish
recording the final LUST release pretty soon for my friend Liam from
Mourning Star Productions out of the USA. I think it will be released on Lp,
Cd, and cassette formats, all that is left for me to record is the drum
tracks. The guitar, bass and vocal tracks were all recorded in June 2000, so
this has been in my brain for a while. As for the OUROBOROS/ THORNSPAWN
split we have already negotiated with a few other labels and are looking to
have it pressed on Lp, Cd, and cassette formats, so it is working out better
for us in the long run not to do it on Decius. I do not want to talk about
why it had been cancelled since Chris is promoting my picture disc, however
Angelfuck is very bitter and holds a lot of anymosity towards Chris and all
for good reason.
You have many evil black as night cats in
your lair, what are their names and do they ever bring dead mice or bird
guts into the house? Have you ever made love to a Goat Vulva? Have you
ever vomited on a woman during sex and did she like it? Ever had phone sex
with the mighty Cath of Leather ‘N Spikes zine?
All my cats are staying with General von
Paulus from RITES of Thy DEGRINGOLADE in Vegriville at the moment, yes they
would always catch and kill small animals and bring them in the house all
the time. I used to wake up and my cats would put a dead bird as a gift on
my chest. I couldn't get made, it was always a sign of respect for their
master. As for sex with goats, I can't say that I have, I prefer young
blondes with small tits! I have not vomited on a woman during sex yet,
however I remember when I lost my virginity I was so drunk I had to throw up
while I was licking her pussy. It was really fucking funny, I was just
licking away and all of a sudden the vodka kicked in and I made a mad run
for the bathroom and puked in the toilet, ate some toothpaste, came out of
the bathroom and jumped on top of the bitch and started fucking. No phone
sex with Cath yet, just a lot of really dirty conversations... but yeah of
course I would masturbate after... hehehe
Give us an idea what the most recent Lust
are sounding like? Can you give us a couple titles of new songs and what the
lyrics are about? Do you write the lyrics first and try to make the music
reflect them or is it vice versa? Which bands do you respect most for their
lyrics?
For upcoming releases: Lust "Cult of the
Great Conqubine" split 7"ep songs are "Cult of the Great Conqubine/ Anal
Queen of Darkness part II", and "Weeping Prostitute/ Bitch Mary Magdalene"
Of course in the tradition of the lyrics off of the "Holocaust Whore Hell
Slut" demo 1999 song "Anal Quenn of Darkness"... worship of Babylon the
mother of all prostitutes and perverts of the earth. The LUST "Lightning and
the Sun" split 7"ep songs are "Cascus Luciferi" intro, lyrics taken from the
bible on the fall of Lucifer. "Lightning and the Sun" lyrics are about the
ascension of the Aryan race to Satanic self-godhood. "Dirge for the Fallen
Empire" is an instrumental military funeral march. Unfinished LUST Lp
"Annihilation Ressurection" songs are: "Dreams of Monumental Destruction",
"Atomic Winter", "Retrospect of Defeat", "Pheonix from the Ashes" the lyrics
are a little more personal and would take to long to explain at this moment.
Generally I have the music and lyrics completely written at different times
and I piece together the material that best compliments each other and
builds the proper atmosphere. The best lyrics written would be the old ORDER
from CHAOS albums!
A while ago you had to move out of the house
you were renting and due to much difficulty in finding a proper new
residence which was big enough and affordable enough, you had to start
living in the paint shed at work. Is this still the case or have you found a
new house? Was/is the main obstacle down to not having enough room in the
new place to again have a rehearsal room and space for your recording
equipment & mixing board?
I needed a large house for many reasons,
first of all is privacy! Second I needed a place for all of my cats, thirdly
was space enough for rehearsals and recording. The neigbourhoods that I want
to live in have an almost non-existent vacancy rate, so it has become quite
competitive to find suitable housing. Budget is something that is rather
negotiable since I make a decent wage as a welder, and if need be I could
ask my band members to contribute financially for rehearsal space and time,
or even move in. There are too many regions in my city I do not want to move
to because I do not own a vehicle, or possess a drivers licence, and
mobility is essential since I cannot stand public transportation. As well as
I prefer to stay in the neighbourhoods that are dominantly caucasian and
middle working class. With all of these obstacles I have compromised lodging
in a large house and put most of my belongings in storage, and given all of
my cats to a good friend to care for and taken up residence in a small
building owned by the company I work for. Yes, industrial oilfield equipment
is painted inside of the same building, but in a different area of course.
The small building that I reside in is next to the large building that I am
employed at to work as a welder. It is quite convenient commuting to work,
and after normal working hours I have abundant privacy due to the fact that
I am located in the industrial sector, and normal residential housing is
quite a ways away! I cannot complain to much because I have found a place
for my band OUROBOROS to temporarily rehearse as well as I only have a
twenty minute walk to visit my good friend James read from REVENGE. As well
many of the pubs and bars we frequent are all located between our homes...
how deviously convenient!
As mentioned you record on your own at home.
Can you tell us what kind of recording equipment and set up you have? I know
you had your sites set on getting another 8 track analog recorder, did that
happen yet? Do you think with each session you are getting better at
recording & mixing? Have you recorded any other bands with your home studio
besides Lust/Ouroboros or any plans to do so in the future? What do you
think of bands that use stuff like loops, triggers, click tracks etc? Do you
see this as positive or as too robotic and a form of musical cheating?
Well for the moment Death Cult Studio is
temporarily on hiatus. Firstly I have correct you, I use adat digital
recoders, it's my mixing board that is analog! At the moment I have a Hill
16 channel analog mixing board, an Alesis ADAT 8 track digital recorder, 2
Roland 31 band equalizers, an Alesis Nanoverb reverb processor, an old
Digitech GSP 21 effects processor that is pretty much ready to be dispossed
of, a vast array of microphones from AKG, Audix, and Apex, as well as my old
Fostecs 4 track recorder, and some shitty Fostecs studio monitors. I would
like to upgrade to a 16 track studio, so another Alesis ADAT and another 16
channel board would be nice. The reason for the second mixing board is that
you use one 16 channel board to record the 16 track coming in and the second
16 channel board to mix the 16 tracks going out to a 2 track DAT recorder.
So a 2 track DAT to mix onto is something I need to invest in since I have
to borrow Troy's DAT machine for all my mix downs, as well as some nice
studio monitors so I can actually listen to what I'm mixing. I have recorded
the WITCHBLADE demo at Death Cult studio, and the production was a lot
different than the LUST/ OUROBOROS stuff that I record. I will say that I am
pleased with the production on that effort, and I find it really fits the
music. Dylan Darkcrown from WITCHBLADE has changed his projects name to
PNECOTIC, and I am not sure of his plans for future recordings. As well as
recording WITCHBLADE I had worked with my friend Tom and did the OBEDIENCE
PARADIGM demo at Death Cult studio. I recorded and produced this demo as
well as did session drums. I was really happy with the heavy, crushing
guitar sound on this demo. I have mixed feelings on recording tricks since I
am both a musician and an engineer. From a musicians point of view I do see
a lot of these recording tricks as cheating, you can have an awesome drum
track done with four good microphones that are well placed, and if the drums
are tunned really well, and the drummer hits evenly without to much volume
dynamics, and do the whole thing in one take. On the other hand it takes a
decent engineer to give a shitty drummer with a poor drum kit that is badly
tunned an awesome drum sound albeit with a lot of studio trickery.
I know you traveled all the fucking way to
Texas for the first Sacrifice The Nazerene Child annual festival (put on by
Blackthorn of the mighty Thornspawn!), describe for me in some kind of
detail your bus trip, where you stayed, what you thought of the fest itself,
who you partied with & finally how you lost your bus ticket on the way
home?
Actually I have to correct you again, my
fist trip to San Antonio was to the 2nd annual (mental error
sorry brother – Dale) Sacrifice of the Nazarene Child fest. I had the
misfortunate unpleasantry of sitting on a bus for three days to go see this
fest in 1999. At that time I had temporarily quite my well paying job so I
could focus on playin guitar and drums, as well as record the "Apocalyptic
Torment" demo for LUST, the first OUROBOROS demo, as well as the WITCHBLADE
demo, and recording the pre-production material for RITES of Thy
DEGRINGOLADE album "The Caryatid" Actually I really liked that material
Paulus recorded at my studio, but there were a few musical mistakes that he
felt were non-negotiable. Anyways I was receiving un-employment benefits
from the Canadian Government at that time, and my brother had moved in with
me to help out with the bills so I had enough funds for a bus ticket, a
plane ticket was completely out of the question since my budget was
extremely limited. As well as the fact that I was unemployed meant that I
had sufficient time to embark on an epic trip. Upon arriving in San Antonio
I had brought no money of any kind whatsoever, and planned to trade LUST
demos for meals and alcohol, I had no arrangements for lodgings made either.
I had originally planned to sleep in a cemetary, just as I had done on my
first trip to Milwaukee to see the metal fest in 1998. I met up with Lord
Blackthorn and went to his house to drink whiskey with him and his wife,
this was quite the task since I had not eaten any food during my three day
bus trip! His Mother came outside with a huge meal for me and set up a
military cot in the kitchen for my to spend the night. For this I am
eternally grateful to Mr. Blackthorn and his family, his mother was not keen
on me sleeping in the cemetary because that is where the local hispanic
gangs did most of their heavy duty narcotics business. The next day I had
met up with Lord Necron (THORNSPAWN) and Lord Imperial (KRIEG) and was
fortunate enough that there was room to stay with Lord Imperial (KRIEG) and
Akhenaten (JUDAS ISCARIOT) at their hotel. I got to party at Bjorn's house
who had played in the legendary NECROVORE as well as THORNSPAWN. Bjorn and
his beautiful wife (trust me, she is gorgeous!) had cooked a huge feast for
all the bands partying at their house, was great to eat like barbarians and
drink beer with all of my brothers in BLOODSTORM, TORNSPAWN, KHIANTH, KRIEG,
JUDAS ISCARIOT, etc. The show of course was brutal, the usual technical
difficulties but evil prevailed. The trip back home was a nightmare because
I had lost my bus tickets when I transferred busses in Denver Colorado. I
had to phone some family to wire me funds to purchase a return ticket home.
Actually on another note I had done session bass for KRIEG for the third
annual fest in 2000, and my band OUROBOROS played the fourth annual fest in
2001.
Also you recently had the privilege of
seeing a couple Blasphemy shows! Also you were supposed to interview them
for Slayer - correct? Tell us about these shows and do you know if Blasphemy
are going to put out a new record anytime soon and have they signed to any
label yet?
 Actually
I had only seen BLASPHEMY play once with BLACK WITCHERY as well as Sven
Inferno's (old LUST drummer from the 1997 demo) new band INVICTUS in
Vancouver in August 2001, but I had a chance to go out to the island with
the BLACK WITCHERY guys and check out the legendary Ross Bay cemetary in
Victoria, and see BLACK WITCHERY play live again. The interview I was
supposed to do with BLASPHEMY for Slayer 'zine never happened because I was
supposed to go out to the coast to see the re-union show in July 2000 but
during the car ride leaving my city our car got stopped and my friends
Genocide Lord (old LUST bass player) and Angelfuck Witchhammer were arrested
by the police. If Metallion is reading this he should drop me a line since I
haven't written that speed demon metal head in a while. It was cool to meet
Nocturnal Grave Desecrator and Black Winds for the first time, he surprised
me when he told me he liked LUST, then he pulled out a photo of NIFELHEIM
playing the Waken fest from his vest pocket and started telling me about his
trip to Germany. The cool thing about Black Winds is that he is so humble,
and a dedicated metal fan who does not realise just how legendary he is. It
was funny when Impurath from BLACK WITCHERY got Black Winds to put a
cigarette out on my arm... total desecration. I got to also drink with an
old friend Ryan Forster, and meet J. from GODLESS NORTH, definitely a good
time. I do not know what exactly is happening with BLASPHEMY, except that
they have two new songs written.
Can you tell us about 2 Lust shows in
particular, those being the one with Angelcorpse & the other with Infernal
Majesty? Any Lust shows or a tour in the cards right now or on the horizon?
The show with ANGELCORPSE was awesome,
great stage, great sound, good engineer, big crowd (around 500 people) As
well as the fact that both LUST and ANGELCORPSE had played really good sets.
Killer party at the Death Cult compound after the show with tons of sluts,
razors, beer, fire, etc. The INFERNAL MAJESTY show was a nightmare: small
stage, shitty sound, no sound tech, no crowd, no promotion... basicaly it
was LUST and INFERNAL MAJESTY jamming on bad equipment in a dark and dirty
bar! LUST will not play any shows due to the fact that there is no line up
except myself, as well as I'm tired of being a studio band so I will focus
more of my energies towards OUROBOROS.
What fanzines have you been interviewed in
through the years? Is it true the one in Canadian Assault # 2 was the first
Lust interview ever?! Which were the best interviews you have done? Which do
you prefer most snail mail, Email or phone interviews? In your years within
the scene surely you have read many a fanzine, which ones stand out in your
mind as best in the past and in the present? Which is your preferred format
with fanzines - Pro-printed (Slayer, Tales Of The Macabre, Hellflame)? OR
Xeroxed (Hellish Massacre, Tornado, Northern Heritage)? Now the same
question in regards to - Computer layout (Don? Burn The Witch, Painkiller,
Ancient Ceremonies)? OR Cut ‘n paste (Leather ‘N Spikes, Skiteater, Eternal
Darkness)? Do you think it is gay for a zine to have more ads then text?!
I had done an interview for Mad Max for his
'zine Crown of Death, it got published but all one thousand copies were
confiscated by the french police for being anti-humanitarian, and hate
literature. Some other interviews I had done were for Leather 'n' Spikes #3,
#6, Canadian Assult #2, Eternal Darkness #13, Slayer#14, Hellflame #6, 666
#2 and a whole pile of others I cant really think of. Yeah the Canadian
Assault was the first interview I did, and it was the only one I had done
over the telephone. I would say the best are the ones I have already
mentioned because I can remember putting the most effort into those ones
over the standard photocopy questions asked by more inexperienced 'zines.
I'll do more phone interviews for sure because it's way easier to drink beer
and talk than sit behind a gay computer for hours and hours. I hope you know
I have already spent two days on this interview alone and there is still 5
questions left! The 'zines I have mentioned are excellent as well as old
Hammer of Damnation from Finland, Tales of the Macabre (Ger), Horrible Eyes
(Ger), Dead Head (Malaysia), old Sonic Fallout (Canada), and a whole pile of
others, I can't even really recall because my entire collection of 'zines
are packed up in boxes in storage. The format doesn't matter to much, but
Cath from Leather 'n Spikes does a great layout with cut and paste... this
girl is every underground maniacs wet dream! Tales of the Macabre and Slayer
always look fucking excellent, I think it's more about content. I've seen 'zines
with nice layouts, and 50 killer bands but with boring questions and very
few photos. Interesting questions with good bands is a must, I must complain
about a lot of bands out there that give five word answers to some really
good questions, if the question had thought put into it, then put some
thought into your answers! Photos, photos, photos, lots of pics and logos
are always a selling point to me! Ads can go down the toilet, I don't care
about labels trying to turn bands into whores, the review section is where I
always look. It's easy to figure out the editors opinion on bands, you just
look to see what he says about your favorite albums and demos, then that
gives you an idea what he is talking about when reviewing a new band. If I
see a 'zine that hates the re-issue of the SLAUGHTER LORD demos, or gives
the new NIFELHEIM a bad review then I wont cry when he says that LUST is
talentless crap!
You play all 3 instruments (guitar, bass &
drums) plus do vocals for Lust. Which do you feel you command & excel at the
most? Which instrument is the most enjoyable for you to just fucking jam and
have fun on? Are you self taught? Do you use any special technique(s) to
keep your skills in shape or do you just rehearse Lust songs or do cover
songs to achieve this?
I think that I have gotten pretty good at
all of them, especially judging from a listen to the picture disc. With
OUROBOROS I have been playing drums mostly as of the last while, it would be
nice to do a band again that I play lead guitar and vocals. For practicing
guitar I just play old LUST songs since there are over 20 to practice, it
takes me about 2-1/2 hours to play them all. I don't know any cover songs at
all on guitar, just a few DARKTHRONE, MAYHEM, BEHERIT riffs that I might
fuck with if someone is plying drums. I made up a few exercise drills on
guitar to practice, same with my drums, I have a few beats and fills that I
use as a regiment when not rehearsing with Angelfuck.
What do you think of the internet? Do you
think Email is killing paper flyer spreading and do you prefer snail mail
over Email? Is the internet a help for promotion and communication with your
band(s) & contacts? Can the readers find any Lust or Ouroboros MP3? on the
net?
The internet is filled with nerds on their
parents computers complaining about how gay everyone is. I like e-mail
because it's fast and I save a lot of money on postage. I don't even own a
computer, I just go to different friends houses to use theirs! Negotiating
with labels has become easier now that you don't have wait for weeks for a
letter or spend a fortune on long distance phone bills. There are some mp3's
on the LUST page, but not full songs because I don't want nerds downloading
my stuff effortlessly for free onto mommy and daddy's computer.
How have the various Lust releases been
selling? Are any of them limited or already out of print? Did/do you find
distributing your materials easier or harder than you imagined? Does anyone
sell Lust stuff that surprised you? Do you prefer to sell stuff or to trade?
Which format do you prefer - CD, Tape or Vinyl?
The first demo is sold out as of a few years
ago, and was limited to only 300 copies. I think
back now and think it might have been silly to be that limited, but at the
time we recorded the demo we felt that there was no real underground left,
and the demo was a fuck off to the assholes that killed the black metal
scene and made it a trendy joke. It's funny because nobody was supposed to
like the LUST demo, because there was no true people left, now everybody
wants it! The second demo is limited to 500 copies and is close to being
sold out, only a few copies left. Every format has its advantages, but of
course I love tapes, and vinyls will always rule What are your opinions on
National Socialism and Communism as both seem to be gaining support amongst
some underground metallers? Just off the cuff, what do you think of a leader
like say Fidel Castro in Cuba (I guess he will die soon)?
I get asked this way too much (Well I
haven’t seen you answer it so that is why I asked but thanx for trying
anyway. On the Castro thing you phoned me up weeks before this interview and
talked about a long while about Castro looking like he was going to die soon
and what that meant etc... – Dale), it's starting to get tedious to explain
my beliefs, lets just say that Hitler is a great guy! Who cares about shitty
Cuba, I'll smoke their cigares that sub-human non-white children make on the
dirty streets of Cuba.
Thanx for doing this interview my metal
brother!! Give some hails to your contacts and give a few special words to
the Agonia War zine & especially Polish readers?!
YOUR PAIN WILL ALWAYS BE MY ETERNAL FUCKING
LUST! In nomine D D Crazy!
LUST Email = goatvulva@angelfire.com
Snail Mail = The Abyssic Plunges, near the
paint shed and the huge empty alcohol bottle mountain in western CANADA
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