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EMQ’s With Nihilist Death Cult

EMQ’s With Nihilist Death Cult

Hi everyone! Welcome to another EMQs interview, this time with Canadian Blackened Death/ Crust/ Grindcore band, Nihilist Death Cult. Huge thanks to their Bassist/ Vocalist, Nick Sagias, for taking part.

What is your name, what do you play and can you tell us a little bit about the history of the band?

My name is Nick Sagias and I play bass and vocals in Nihilist Death Cult as well as Tribe of Pazuzu. The band was started in 2018 when I sent some songs I had to my brother, which I thought he would like. If he wasn’t interested there was no point in doing it really, ‘cuz I already had Tribe of Pazuzu going. So obviously he loved the songs enough to get back into playing again and at that point, I just wanted to have some fun with a different style and hopefully record a few songs, which turned into a bigger thing as we went along, eventually recording 9 songs with Scott Middleton for a debut album. We also added Rick Kowalski on guitar and it’s already taken everything up a notch. Our most recent show was the best one yet and seems like the word is getting out.

How did you come up with your band name?

I wanted something extreme that fit my vision of what a Punk band should be… also something that fit my views, as well as just giving it everything and having the unapologetic finality of the name for people to deal with. It had to be extreme, and the logo had to look like that because it is all part of it, intertwined… You see that logo, read that name and you know it’s gonna be something heavy.

What Country / Region are you from and what is the Metal / Rock scene like there?

I’m from Canada and I was born and raised in Toronto. The metal scene here is pretty lacking when you compare it to bands coming out of other areas. We should have a ton more quality bands and promoters and venues in a city of this size. The fans are great though.

What is your latest release?

My latest release is Nihilist Death Cult’s “Death To All Tyrants”, a 9-song relentless death ride of pure anger and hate – Hardcore Death Punk in the style of Punk from 82-86, with a touch of Death Metal and blast beats. It’s produced by Scott Middleton, plus a couple guest solos by Randy Harris (Tribe of Pazuzu) and Ian Mumble (Overthrow).

Who have been your greatest influences?

Our greatest influences for what NDC is about will always be early Bad Brains, early Poison Idea, and early DRI… with a touch of Nails and Terrorizer.

What first got you into music?

Probably seeing a Kiss video on TV. I always remember the radio being on from when I was very young. My mom would always have it on the Greek station then I remember hearing AM radio in the car… but I was probably around 8 or 9 years old when my mom bought me a radio / tape recorder and I started taping music off the radio. When Kiss came along they were larger than life on stage, spitting blood and fire – who didn’t want to do that??? Ha ha!

Then it progressed into heavier stuff like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and then into Thrash in the early 80’s, Punk came just a bit after, 84/85…

If you could collaborate with a current band or musician who would it be?

There are a couple people I wanted on the first NDC recording, but it was a bit of an afterthought and wasn’t worked out properly – entirely my fault. Hopefully they can be on the next one. Other than that I got to work with some great old friends on the new Tribe of Pazuzu which I can’t say yet 🙂

If you could play any festival in the world, which would you choose and why?

Wacken always looks like a good time. I was fortunate enough to go to the Dynamo festival back in 91, was a wild time… Obviously, it would be a European festival… pretty much any big European festival would be killer.

What’s the weirdest gift you have ever received from a fan?

A calendar of roadkill… 12 months of different roadkill… it was not appealing in the least!

If you had one message for your fans, what would it be?

If you wanna do something, do it… don’t listen to negative people… and turn off the TV!

If you could bring one rock star back from the dead, who would it be?

Hmmm… I dunno… Would have been cool to see Randy Rhoads make more albums.

What do you enjoy the most about being a musician? And what do you hate?

I love creating music… I love creating art… I love sharing the music I create… It’s always fun but it’s best when I am truly inspired, which I have been able to be more focused and tap into easier these days. I’m not saying it’s easy, I just found how to tap into a creative mode better these days…

What do I hate about it? pretty much everything else. The jealousy, the backstabbing, how hard it is to get people’s attention as a DIY band, no money, spending lots on equipment and upkeep, with strings and maintenance… but it’s a labour of love. You need to go through some of those things to get to where you wanna be.

If you could change one thing about the music industry, what would it be?

I wish artists, the people who created the actual music that labels sell, I wish the artist would get a bigger percentage of royalties. For example, the Spotify CEO is a multi-millionaire from that software, and he’s not alone… band camp has been great for artists, but they still take a 15% cut. It might not seem like much, but multiply that by how many bands sell daily on that site. Millions of dollars again monthly to the guy who created the software or who runs that company. What would they sell if it wasn’t for the artist? And of course, I realize there are a lot of people involved but don’t tell me it’s the same thing.

Name one of your all-time favourite albums?

Bad Brains – “Rock For Light”, Pink Floyd – “Wish You Were Here” / “The Wall”.

What’s best? Vinyl, Cassettes, CD’s or Downloads?

Of all the physical formats I think CD’s were the best quality and there was no degradation every time you played it, like cassettes and vinyl. Don’t get me wrong, I loved vinyl when I had it, but I’m glad CD’s replaced the “skip, crackle, pop” format. Nowadays I don’t even have a CD player so mp3 is what I have on my computer and on my iPod.

What’s the best gig that you have played to date?

Best gig? Wow… been lots of great shows for sure. So I’ll go with the show we played last Saturday (Dec 10^th) at The Hard Luck Bar here in Toronto, with Korrosive and Of Hatred Spawn. The turnout and reception were amazing.

If you weren’t a musician, what else would you be doing?

Hmmm… I would like to work in a studio… does that count as the same thing? I don’t think it is.

Which five people would you invite to a dinner party?

Larry David, Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, George Carlin and Charlie Murphy.

What’s next for the band?

We have a bunch of shows coming up including Detroit with our friends in Centenary. We’re working on new songs… no rush really for new music, as we wanna focus on shows at the moment, but all of us are writing now.

What Social Media / Website links do you use to get your music out to people?

www.nihilistdeathcult.bandcamp.com is the main one where we sell all our march and music.

Facebook.com/NihilistDeathCult
Twitter.com/NIHILDEATHCULT
Instagram.com/nihilistdeathcult
Nihilistdeathcult.bandcamp.com/

Lyric Video – Death To All Tyrants – https://youtu.be/PJR04jl5roI

Music Video – You Get What You Deserve – https://youtu.be/43tPCS0dbP4

Time for a very British question now. As an alternative to the humble sandwich, is the correct name for a round piece of bread common in the UK either a Bap, a Barm (or Barm Cake), a Batch, a Bun a Cob, a Muffin, a Roll or a Tea Cake

Haha, I’ll go with the Barm for some reason, but I honestly have no clue what any of those words mean ha ha… but I do love sandwiches 🙂

Thank you for your time. Is there anything else that you would like to add?

Turn off the TV!

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Interview with Gravehuffer

Interview with Gravehuffer
By Victor Augusto

My lack of creativity in writing introductions is nothing new for all the readers of Ever Metal (by the way I am copying this intro from my review), but today I have to repeat something that I often mention in introductions to my reviews. This is how amazing it is seeing a band’s evolution while I have the pleasure to follow them, releasing their albums, since they have formed. Of course, Gravehuffer (from Joplin, Missouri) are not a young band and they are very experienced musicians, but I am the lucky guy who has reviewed all of their albums since 2017 and I have to say that Gravehuffer is one of the most intriguing and challenging bands that I have reviewed so far.

I had the pleasure to talk with the guitarist Ritchie Randall to dig deeply on how they achieved such an amazing result on their last album “NecroEclosion”.

Victor Augusto: I confess that I tried to find the meaning of album’s title, but I couldn’t understand it. Could you explain the definition of the word NecroEclosion?

Ritchie Randall: It means to emerge from a cocoon of death. We were going through the pandemic, lost our singer and had to cancel a lot of shows at the time. It all went into the sound of the record.

Victor Augusto: NecroEclosion, for me, is a pure American album. Not that the album is just for American listeners, but it is a hard criticism of things from your country. You talk about those who stayed at sea a long time during the colonization, also about the disco music and even the NASA missions off of earth, but it’s always related to the USA. Was your intention to be focused on American history or American culture, or did it just happens naturally?

Ritchie Randall: That’s an interesting observation! I never thought of it that way. It was definitely not our intention, but it could relate to all of the upheaval going on in the United States at the time we wrote the album. So, I guess to answer your question, it happened naturally.

Victor Augusto: There is the typical acid humor that Gravehuffer always uses in the best way, as you hear in ‘Death Before Disco’. It starts with a funny version of ‘You Should Be Dancing’, from the Bee Gees, that shows the wreck that Disco music made of the music industry decades ago. It also criticizes the cocaine and other stuff involved with those who were part of the scene. I think it also shows how we have plenty of excellent and varied material here, and I am not talking about that stuff from Disco clubs, that could make Robocop (with rusty hinges) dance like hell! Could you talk about this sense of humour and about this song?

Ritchie Randall: I think we always have that cheeky sense of humour going on throughout all of our records. How it manifests into a song can vary a lot though. Mike (Jilge), our bassist, has been wanting to do the ‘Death Before Disco’ idea as long as I can remember. We’re talking since the late 90’s! He learned the bass line for the Bee Gees song and so at that point, we had to do it ha ha ha! It was a lot of fun to step out of our comfort zone for a minute there. Travis came up with the idea for the lyrics to be about the disco culture of the 70’s and how it tried to ruin the music scene.

Victor Augusto: You also talks about serious historical subject for example in ‘Ghost Dance’, which is about the mass killing of the Native Americans in the USA. The backing vocals, like the ghost of the indigenous ancestors screaming for help to anyone who could stand and fight. Melodies bring the feeling of a ‘last breath of hope’ amongst all the chaos that sadly didn’t save them from the coward’s killing. Was the band’s intention to bring all these emotions for the song?

Ritchie Randall: Yes, it was. We had the subject matter of the Wounded Knee Massacre already picked for a song, and we wrote the music to specifically fit with what happened. It was very emotional to write. It’s something that means a lot to us, being from the United States. We haven’t always treated people the best ever though we’re a nation of immigrants. Travis (McKenzie – Vocals) once again came up with the lyrics and really did a fantastic job! We let a few of our Native American friends listen to it before it was released, and they really thought we did that part of their history justice.

Victor Augusto: ‘Custom Of The Sea’ also has a serious subject. It is about those who stayed at sea a long time during the colonization. Many people went mad and died. By the way it is a perfect song to understand the bands sonority! Could you explain this track?

Ritchie Randall: Sure, it’s about cannibalism at sea and how it was basically allowed until a trial outlawed it. We just thought it sounded like such an intense thing to go through! I saw an article on the internet about it and wanted the band to write a song that put you in the headspace of the people who were living through it. We had no idea that took place back then. It was actually called the ‘custom of the sea’ and it happened very regularly. If the sailors ran out of rations, they would kill the people who were the sickest and eat them.

Victor Augusto: Musically, you are not restricted to only one genre and you are getting heavier with each album release, even though you keep your main spirit of Crust / Hardcore and Thrash Metal. For example: ‘Quarantine Death Machine’ reminds me of Sepultura when playing Hardcore. ‘Smaller Than Death’ has a Doomy side. ‘Stingray’ is more Punk Rock in style, but it is very heavy as well. Gravehuffer is a band that always wants to surprise their fans. What makes you always want to play whatever you want, no matter the style?

Ritchie Randall: Thanks! We basically write how we are feeling at that particular time and it translates to the sound of the music. Sometimes we are feeling in a good mood, sometimes we are angry, sometimes we are bummed out, it just depends on what is happening in our lives at that time. The only rule in this band is there are no rules!

Victor Augusto: This new album is pretty organic and raw, of course it is amazingly well recorded. It is funny because in an age that most of the bands prefer to do a much-digitalized production, you went against this trend. Is it a pattern for Gravehuffer or do you think that the compositions asked for this raw production?

Ritchie Randall: Thank you once again! It’s a little bit of both actually. We come from the era of bands that had that more raw production. There are times when we will hear a band with polished production and then see them live and they sound nothing like their record. We want our live sound to translate to our albums. We’re a loud, aggressive, and intense band and we want the production to match that.

Victor Augusto: It is funny because I’ve already heard the album, to review, since October or September of 2020. I took a long time to listen to it because I was involved with other things in the end of the last year. But I clearly remember the post of a review that totally showed a person who didn’t understand the band’s idea and talked a lot of crazy things. It pissed me off and made me want to go deeper into this album to write the best review ever that I could, considering my limitations ha ha ha ha! How do you handle with these kinds of things coming from magazines and people connected to journalism?

Ritchie Randall: Your review is fantastic and also we appreciate that you think highly of the album to include on your 2021 albums of the year list! Bad reviews are rare for us thankfully, but when they do happen, they tend to be a little bit short sighted. They don’t really ‘get’ what we are doing it seems. That’s OK really. We understand we’re not for everyone. There was one that we made an example of because they got a little bit personal in the review and that’s not cool. Other than that, we don’t mind. We just appreciate that people are taking the time to listen and write their thoughts about our music!

Victor Augusto: We first meet each other when we were at Sare’s Invasion radio show. By the way Sara was the person who told me about Ever Metal. Since then, I have reviewed all of Gravehuffer’s albums and you don’t leave more than 2 years without a new release. How is the composition process working to have so much good material in a short spaces of time?

Ritchie Randall: Yeah it’s been great being a part of the family at Sare’s Invasion! We are always writing, practically every couple of weeks we’ll have new ideas to present to each other. Our phones and computers have hundreds of riffs, lyrics, melodies, beats, you name it! We have stuff from 7 or 8 years ago still sitting around. We may use it, we may not, but it’s nice to have that wealth of material to have at our disposal.

Victor Augusto: You started touring just in this year, after all issues from COVID during 2020 and 2021. How are the shows so far? Do you have any intention to tour outside of the US, such as a European tour?

Ritchie Randall: The shows have been good. A few great ones too! Attendance is still on the lower side, but I think people are just being cautious and that’s OK. Regardless, we have a blast and love meeting new people and playing our music for them! We do plan to play outside the US, it’s just the cost and timing that we have to figure out, but we are actively pursuing it!

Victor Augusto: Over all these years playing in a band, what was the band’s achievement which made you feel most proud of that’s worth all the hard work so far?

Ritchie Randall: Probably putting out vinyl. That was something I never thought I would do! It’s always been one of the dreams! NecroEclosion in particular. Just wait for our next record. It’s really going to raise the bar! We can’t wait for people to hear it!

Victor Augusto: Thanks for your time. I really hope to see you in concert someday. For sure I will be on the front row and screaming whilst you play, like the stupid crazy fan that I am. Please let your us know your final considerations for your fans and for Ever Metal’s readers, also the plans for the future.

Ritchie Randall: Thank you for the insightful questions! This was a lot of fun! We would LOVE to play Brazil! Wow that would be amazing! As far as the future, we are finishing up this new record that has a 21-minute epic song about Dante’s Divine Comedy, and another side of our crazy antics. Kam Lee from Massacre and James Murphy (Death, Testament, Obituary, Cancer, etc.) is playing lead guitar on the Dante song! Many more shows as well! Cheers!

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Gravehuffer – NecroEclosion

Gravehuffer – NecroEclosion
Black Doomba Records
Release Date: 15/01/2021
Running Time: 46:04
Review by Victor Augusto
9/10

My lack of creativity to write introductions is nothing new for all the readers of Ever Metal, but today I have to repeat something that I often mention in this part of my reviews. How amazing it is seeing a band’s evolution when I have the pleasure to follow them, releasing albums, since they formed. Of course, Gravehuffer, from Joplin, Missouri, are not a young band and they have very experienced musicians, but I am the lucky guy who has reviewed all of their albums since 2017, and I have to say that Gravehuffer is one of the most intriguing and challenging bands that I have reviewed so far. Let me try to explain what I am saying.

First! “NecroEclosion” is the band’s best album in my opinion! When I discovered Gravehuffer in 2017, with the “Your Fault” album, I thought they were more a Crust/Hardcore band at that time. After seeing some reviews of them, I realized that they played more than just one or two genres. They have a great mix of Extreme metal allied with their roots in Punk/Crust/Hardcore/ or whatever you want to call them. With this album, the band have explored all blends of those genres at their extreme. From Punk Rock to the non-faceless* (I will explain this later) blast beats of good Death Metal. Yes. You will have fun with it at the end of this review!

Second! This is a pure American album in terms of its concept or context. I talk regularly about the pure things of my country, but this time I tried to enter into the head of an American citizen to understand all the lyrics and all of their criticism. Lyrically this is an ocean of interesting themes. The first song ‘Custom Of The Sea’ is enough to understand Gravehuffer’s music. It is about those who stayed at sea a long time during the colonization. Many people went mad and died. Musically, you can hear all the aggressiveness of the band in this song with all the fast broken tempos from good Grindcore that sometimes slows down with a Doom influence. Everything offers an intense and dark atmosphere.

Third! There is the typical acid humor that Gravehuffer always use in the best way, as you hear in ‘Death Before Disco’. It starts with a funny version of ‘You Should Be Dancing’, from the Bee Gees, that shows the wreck that Disco music made of the music industry decades ago. It also criticizes the cocaine stuff involved with those who were part of it. I love the pure Grindcore and heavy killer intro after this creepy, funny parody intro. It could easily put the entire venue down if Gravehuffer plays it live! Still with good humor, the short ‘Stingray’ is more Punk Rock in style, but full of great, small solos. Yes, we have plenty of excellent and different stuff here, and I am not talking about that stuff from Disco clubs, that could make Robocop (with rusty hinges) dance like hell! (That sounds like me when I’m dancing – Rick)

Fourth (if I haven’t lost count). The Doomy side of the band appears in ‘Smaller Than Death’. ‘Ghost Dance’ also keeps the dark feeling, but it has an important message about the mass killing of the Native American Indians in the USA. Despite this song having more of a Thrash Metal sonority, it carries some backing vocals, like the ghost of the Indians ancestors screaming for help to anyone who could stand and fight. Melodies bring the feeling of a ‘last breath of hope’ amongst all the chaos, that sadly didn’t save them from the cowards killing. There are good historical and political facts explored here!

Fifth! After the pure hardcore song ‘Quarantine Death Machine’, that even reminded me of Sepultura in some parts, you get the dramatic song ‘Causes’ that sounds like someone has already given up on his life. We also have ‘Mad Wolf’ that is about a Japanese movie/manga series ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’. And what about Dan ‘Chewy’ Mongrain (Voivod) doing an epic solo on ‘Sight To The Sky’ or the Curran Murphy (Annihilator, Nevermore) ‘Smaller Than Death’ solo? Do you remember when I said about the ocean of different subjects or plenty of styles that the band play?

Last (almost…)! What I love about Gravehuffer is the total open mindedness of them to explore whatever they want. They could easily be called a “Whatever metal / hardcore” band to describe their music. This raw sonority allied with all the insane changes of rhythm and atmosphere they create is the perfect face of Gravehuffer. “NecroEclosion” is the band at their prime with inspiration and composition. They are secure of what they are doing, being audacious and without any fear to try new sonorities and arrangements. It is pure Thrash! It is pure Hardcore! It is pure Grindcore! It is pure Death Metal! It is pure Crust! It is pure whatever you want to call them and it is great!

This review finishes here, but don’t fool yourselves. The non-official truth about this album comes from the next and ‘true’ last paragraph.

*This last paragraph is a joke about bloody reviewers that are so lazy, they fail to understand some band’s sonority and write stupid things without doing any research. The quoted parts are from a review that should have stayed buried!

The band’s music is not even close to being “terrible”. Maybe the “not so hot production” is because the band intended the album to be dark and cold. Do you want hot things? (I will not suggest what you should try in respect of our readers)! Try not to be a faceless reviewer. First, we have a lot of context here, and you haven’t woken your ass up from your sofa to do any research about it. The blast beats are not a “total joke” they are pure and natural, with a huge amount of power…you don’t have the brain to understand what a triggered drum is or isn’t. “No catchy riffs”? No, no, no! Probably, no catchy ears on your head!… “band brought an empty meal to the table on Thanksgiving”! Do you want a full meal for your Thanksgiving (If your diet is not so restrictive, of course)? Try to learn how to understand a band first, otherwise, you can work on another job or hobby. Our Thanksgiving will be better without lazy “reviewers”! Writing reviews just to publish something, without any research to understand is wrong…I guess any person with an “F” grade on a school graduation/exam can do a better job than you! Have a good 2021!

TRACKLISTING:
01. Custom Of The Sea
02. Hellhound
03. Sights To The Sky
04. Death Before Disco
05. Stingray
06. Smaller Than Death
07. Ghost Dance
08. Quarantine Death Machine
09. Causes
10. Backpack
11. Mad Wolf

LINE-UP:
Travis McKenzie – Vocals
Ritchie Randall – Guitar/Vocals
Mike Jilge – Bass
Jay Willis – Drums/Vocals

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EMQ’s with GRAVEHUFFER

EMQ’s with GRAVEHUFFER

Hi everyone! Welcome to our new EMQ’s interview with Joplin, Missouri, US based Metal/Crust band, Gravehuffer. Huge thanks to guitarist Ritchie Randall for taking part!

What is your name, what do you play, and can you tell us a little bit about the history of the band?

My name is Ritchie Randall and I play guitar and yell in the background for Gravehuffer. We’ve been doing this band since 2008, under the name KROM. We changed it to Gravehuffer in 2012, due to getting confused with other KROM’s out there. We have two full-length albums (“Blasphemusic”, & “Your Fault”) a vinyl EP (“Demon Face/Stalingrad’s Cross”) and are getting ready to release our third full length “NecroEclosion” on January 15^th, 2021.

How did you come up with your band name?

Our friend Dozer came up with it for a band he was going to start but it never got off the ground. We always thought it sounded cool so we asked him if we could use it haha! He said we could on one condition: to give him free Gravehuffer merch occasionally.

What Country/Region are you from and what is the Metal/Rock scene like there?

We’re from the United States, in the city of Joplin, state of Missouri. It’s in the middle of the country, often what is considered the Ozarks. The scene here is pretty cool, especially since we’re not too far from even bigger scenes such as Oklahoma City/Tulsa Oklahoma, Northwest Arkansas, Little Rock, Kansas City, Lawrence/Topeka, Springfield, and Saint Louis. Lots of bands hit these cities up when they tour. There are lots of bands in all of these areas and the scenes are all pretty solid and work well together.

What is your latest release? (Album, EP, Single, Video)

It is a vinyl EP via NoSlip Records called “Demon Face/Stalingrad’s Cross”. It was released September of 2019 on four different vinyl colours (white, smoky marbling, white w/ black splatter, and black w/ white splatter).

‘Demon Face’

Who have been your greatest influences?

Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Ramones, Venom, Suicidal Tendencies, Iron Maiden, Nausea, Napalm Death, Brutal Truth, Motörhead, Morbid Angel, Metallica, Darkthrone, Voivod, the list goes on…

What first got you into music?

Definitely Deep Purple and Judas Priest. My parents were really into them and even named me after Ritchie Blackmore. I saw the cover of “Unleashed In The East” and that’s when I knew I wanted to play music.

If you could collaborate with a current band or musician who would it be?

Probably Trey Azagthoth from Morbid Angel.

If you could play any festival in the world, which would you choose and why?

Wacken. It just seems to resonate the most with our style of music, and we all want to go to Germany!

What’s the weirdest gift you have ever received from a fan?

We got paid in marijuana instead of money for playing a show once hahaha.

If you had one message for your fans, what would it be?

Thanks for supporting us all these years and have patience, the live gigs will be back before you know it.

If you could bring one rock star back from the dead, who would it be?

That’s a tough one. Probably Randy Rhoads.

What do you enjoy the most about being a musician? And what do you hate?

Playing shows is my favourite part of it for sure. Traveling can get tedious so that’s probably my least enjoyable aspect of it. Even still, the travel can be cool depending on where you’re going.

If you could change one thing about the music industry, what would it be?

The way ticket sales are handled is not the best. Scalpers are still running the enjoyment too. Streaming sites should pay the artists a lot better. It really seems like greed and profit get in the way, but what else is new, right?! Hahaha!

Name one of your all-time favourite albums?

Judas Priest – “Sad Wings Of Destiny”. It’s pretty much where ‘heavy metal’ as we know it was born.

What’s best? Vinyl, Cassettes, CD’s or Downloads?

Vinyl. It has that physical aspect you don’t get anywhere else. There’s the artwork that you can get lost in, the vinyl itself can also be a piece of art, and it’s all about the ‘experience’ of the music that is represented the way the artist intended it to be.

What’s the best gig that you have played to date?

Either the time we opened for D.R.I. or the time when there was sword fighting instead of moshing in the pit while we were playing. That was insane! People brought foam clubs, swords, shields, and other ‘weapons’ and just went at it medieval style the whole show! The D.R.I. show was just a blast and quite the large and fun crowd so we were just on stage inspired by all of that the whole time.

If you weren’t a musician, what else would you be doing?

I’ve always loved being in nature so probably something to do with conservation. The planet gives so much and we really need to treat it better than we do now.

Which five people would you invite to a dinner party?

Rob Halford, Lemmy, Tony Iommi, Devin Townsend, and YOU.

What’s next for the band?

We’re ramping up promotion for the “NecroEclosion” album so that’s taking up all of our time for the next few months. We have three videos in the works, a live stream event, some live play throughs of the new singles, interviews, and booking shows for next year. We have a handful booked already, with one even taking us out of the country.

What Social Media/Website links do you use to get your music out to people?

www.facebook.com/gravehuffer
www.gravehuffer.bandcamp.com
www.reverbnation.com/gravehuffer
www.soundcloud.com/gravehuffer
www.youtube.com/krommetal
www.twitter.com/gravehuffer
www.instagram.com/gravehuffer

Jaffa Cakes? Are they a cake or a biscuit?

A biscuit, and they are delicious!

Thank you for your time. Is there anything else that you would like to add?

Thanks again for having me and look forward to hearing what you think of “NecroEclosion”!

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EMQ’s with TERROR REVOLUCIONÁRIO

EMQ’s with TERROR REVOLUCIONÁRIO

Hi everyone! Welcome to our new EMQ’s interview with Brasília, Brazil based Hardcore/Punk/Crust band, Terror Revolucionário. Huge thanks to guitarist Thiago Cardoso for taking part!

What is your name, what do you play, and can you tell us a little bit about the history of the band?

My name is Thiago Cardoso “Barbosa”, I play guitar. Terror Revolucionário began in late February 1999 in the city of Taguatinga/DF with the proposal of playing hardcore and actively continues until today, with 3 original members (Fellipe CDC, Jeferson and Thiago) along with bassist Adriana, who joined the band in October 2004.

How did you come up with your band name?

Fellipe CDC (vocalist), suggested the name at the end of the first rehearsal of the band, influenced by a marginal printing from the time of the French Revolution.

What Country/Region are you from and what is the Metal/Rock scene like there?

We are from Brasília/DF, capital of Brazil, located in the central west region of the country. The underground rock scene is large and has many bands of different styles. Perhaps today there are more bands than public, since most of the audience has a band and a few of these band members really support other bands, being part of the audience.

What is your latest release? (Album, EP, Single, Video)

It was the “Campo da Esperança” album, released in April 2019. Unreleased songs + music extracted from, already sold out, past releases and some rare and unpublished sounds. A total of 61 songs.

Who have been your greatest influences?

Punk/Metal/Hardcore bands in general. From the classics, and several bands of the national and international underground scene.

What first got you into music?

I set up my first band with childhood friends when I was 14. Always making my own music. The band had a short existence but made some songs and a single performance for a group of 4 friends inside an empty apartment. Oxiurus was the name of this band, which existed between 1995 and 1996.

If you could collaborate with a current band or musician who would it be?

Although I rarely do shows with another band as a guest, I did some shows with Galinha Preta in 2011 and 2012, and 3 shows with the band Vingança, from Fortaleza / CE, also a mini tour through the Cerrado* in the year 2008. I never wanted to join a band that I had not been part of since its formation.

* Cerrado is the name given to Brazilian savannas that are mostly present on the central area of the country, where the band’s city is located.

If you could play any festival in the world, which would you choose and why?

I would play again at the Obscene Extreme Festival in Czech Republic, where we played on our European tour in 2017. Considering the kind of music from this festival, this is the best and most perfect place. The mecca of world noise.

What’s the weirdest gift you have ever received from a fan?

A t-shirt that a guy was dressed in and he wanted to present to me for the symbolic value it has. I’ve been saving it, and I use it a lot. I won from a guy in Mexico, where we played in Vale de Chalco, one of the craziest shows we’ve ever played.

If you had one message for your fans, what would it be?

Continue to support the bands that care and value you as a person and a human being!

If you could bring one rock star back from the dead, who would it be?

Not really a rock star, but he was one of the most important guys that the national scene has ever lost: Redson from the band Cólera.

What do you enjoy the most about being a musician? And what do you hate?

I like to play shows. I don’t like being in environments where I don’t feel comfortable to stay.

If you could change one thing about the music industry, what would it be?

I would make it more accessible and at a low cost any media that is. For example: today the price to make vinyl is very expensive and the sale value is absurd as well.

Name one of your all-time favourite albums?

Discharge – “Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing” from 1982.

What’s best? Vinyl, Cassettes, CD’s or Downloads?

My personal taste in this order: Vinyl, CD’s, Cassettes. I don’t like downloads. I’ve never been much of a fan of it. I even listen to streaming, especially YouTube. Other platforms like Spotify and Deezer I have already used, but I prefer the facility and easiness of YouTube.

What’s the best gig that you have played to date?

There were many that I liked a lot and were important. I can’t point to just one.

If you weren’t a musician, what else would you be doing?

In the world of music, I would continue to go to concerts, listening to a lot of music and looking for information about the world of music such as specialized programs/websites and even magazines and fanzines, as was done in the old days. Just like I always have.

Which five people would you invite to a dinner party?

If it is in personal life: my family (wife, my two children, my mother and my niece).

If it is in my musical world (which I am thinking of almost all the time) I would invite friends that I am always in contact with. I am happy to talk and exchange endless ideas about the world of rock with Fellipe CDC, Icarus, Veto, Márcio Picka and Jorge Fúnebre (the last one would have to come from Asunción in Paraguay).

What’s next for the band?

Make and record many new songs, for several planned releases. As soon as we can when we survive the pandemic safely.

What Social Media/Website links do you use to get your music out to people?

Facebook page and Bandcamp. I don’t use Instagram. Jeferson, drummer of the band, uses it.
www.facebook.com/terrorrevolucionario/
www.instagram.com/terrorrevolucionarioband/
www.terror-revolucionario.bandcamp.com/

Jaffa Cakes? Are they a cake or a biscuit?

I don’t know what Jaffa Cakes are.

Thank you for your time. Is there anything else that you would like to add?

Thanks for the space! Strength and luck to stay in the fight!!!