Friday, March 20, 2015

INTERVIEW WITH EISEN and BLOOD




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Greetings
Eisen + Blood

01.  You've been into the underground for a very long time. What motivates you staying involved in it?

EISEN: We have many friends there and we never had the motivation to become a "big" Band. We grew up with the scene and like being part of it.

02.  There have been quite a lot of line-up changes in the band... What is current line-up? Did you stay in contact with old members? What happened to them?

EISEN: I don't think, we had that many line-up changes. OK, our singer changed a few times, but in basic it's Satanic Taki (bass), Ventilator (drums) and me on guitars (Destroyer Eisen). We are very glad to reanimate Martin Witchskinner on vocals, together with Chuck (guitars) we are a 5-piece now.
We have no real contact with the old members. We meet a very few times with Clausi, Hanzi, Bestial Bernd, but others are out of sight for us. Just, also as Alex is in Jail since a while.

03.  Is there still side-projects of Blood members? 

EISEN: Only Chuck is guitar Player in HC Band The Vibromatics, but the others have no side projects. We are lucky to concentrate ourselves onto Blood, so the motivation is not as high to run side projects.

04.  Do you view the music of BLOOD as Death Metal, Grindcore or something else?

EISEN: We name Blood as a Death/Grind Band, but we are most addicted to Death Metal.

05.  You recorded your first demo in 1987. The world has changed a lot since then. Has the BLOOD vision changed?

EISEN: We recorded our first Demo(s) back in 1986 and for sure, a lot changed. The early works were just fun/noise, later raw Grind. Our debut album was the very first time we were in a real studio. The sound was not that good, but rough, underground and unique.
Later we more and more find our personal style and sound. I think, since the 3rd record nothing really changed.

06.  Your music is very consistent, but the ability to make it keeps improving. Do you think bands need to change?

EISEN: Not really. I think it's necessary to have your personal 'trademark'. To reach this, is heavy enough. Then you really need no changes. Maybe, if a band is still experimenting with their style and doesn't know what they really want - then there is room for a change.

07.  BLOOD’s work and image has consistently assaulted Christianity, while most Grindcore bands are political and most Death or Black Metal bands are about gore, or take a “satanic” approach. Why do you take this approach, and what are you hoping to change in the minds of your fans?

EISEN: Blood always dealt with different themes, especially in our early works. Then we focused ourselves onto the crusade against christianity. It's horrible, what happens in the world under the name of a not existing god. That doesn't mean, we have no lyrics about gore and horror - no! We are also a lot into gore movies!

08.  Tell us about your attitude to religion. 'Cause today it brings more evil than good.

Yes for sure. The thing is, that church and god has no room in our life. We are too busy to believe into something that is a total lie to catch money from the good believers and to have reasons to start wars!


09.  Eisen, as an ‘’old school’’ man, tell me what do you think about popularization of internet, digital media? Are you fan of good old vinyl release?

To tell you the truth, I really love to have all music digitally. It's much easier to carry it with me and to listen to it everywhere. Also room for storage is always a problem in our apartment. But that doesn't mean, that I threw away all my old vinyl. We always wanted to release something on vinyl, 'coz it's a sign of underground!

10.  You released a many split albums with different bands like Impetigo (1991), Agathocles (1991), Dead Infection (1994), Inhume (1997), Psycho (1997) etc. Are you still in contact with those bands?

EISEN: Not with all, but with the internet and facebook, I still write with Mark and Stevo of Impetigo and the Inhume guys (we plan a small tour in the Netherlands in early 2016!), follow some of the other bands, like Agathocles, Psycho, Dead Infection...

11.  What's keeping the band alive all these years? What has changed in the band and your views from the beginning 'til nowadays?

EISEN: The major thing is, that we have no pressure from a label or anyone! That means, we mustn't release something new every year; we mustn't rehearse 3 times a week and we are good friends, also beside the band! This never changed and so there is still the lust and the fun in us to continue as long as possible.

      12 What German underground extreme band can you advise?

           EISEN: There are some great bands around, as Profanity, Purgatory, Mucupurulent,    Dead...
         And I love oldschool stuff like early Sodom, Destruction, Outrage, Poison, Assassin...
         I have no good overview over the German scene and especially new bands. There are much           too many outputs every year nowadays.

13. You released few live VHS – ‘’Live Video Holocaust’’ and ‘’The Bloody Year of 1990’’, Evil Sessions’’, ‘’Be Doomed’’, ‘’Delete Lords Prayer’’ and one DVD ‘’Live in Speyer’’. Where your fans worldwide can find this VHS/ DVD releases?

EISEN: No longer! That was in a period, I copied the VHS for the fans, but this is long time ago. From the live DVD we only made a handfull of copies to spread around, but they are also gone since a while.

14.  Tell us something about your everyday life. Job, family, hobbies, etc. It's always interesting to know what do you do besides playing in band...

EISEN: Sure - we all have our daily work: I'm postman, Ventilator has his own small painting company, Taki is at the big chemistry company called BASF and Martin works for disabled people. Chuck is also a cool DJ, I'm totally into board games, cinema and Football, Martin is running Marathon, Taki is visiting many Shows and have 2 small children. So you see: life is not boring for us...

15. If you could go to see some band live (oldschool DM or Grindcore, doesn't matter), what band would it be?

EISEN: Hmm - it's nearly impossible, to name only one. Impetigo would be a dream, just for the reason they doesn't really exist anymore. Also Repulsion, Autopsy or Razor would be killer.

16.  Your last studio album ''Dysangelium'' was released in 2003, and in 2007, ''Impulse to Destroy'' got re-released. What are the plans for next releases? Is there a new full length album planned in a near future?

EISEN: As we have a 'new' line-up since mid 2014 we First work a good and big live set out, because we got tons of offers for shows! Also some re-releases (actual the Blood/Impetigo, last year O Agios Pethane on vinyl and later in 2015 Christbait!). We have no concrete Plans.

Thanx for the interview with OATHZINE... good luck and stay underground!!!






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