[
WINDS
OF GENOCIDE ]
Das
folgende Interview wurde uns freundlicherweise von Chris/NecroSlaughter-Webzine
(http://necroslaughter.tk, wo natürlich die deutsche Übersetzung
zu finden ist) zur Verfügung gestellt und daher soll Chris auch bzgl.
des Vorwortes zuerst zu Wort kommen: „Crustpunk meets Death Metal.
Wolfbrigade/Wolfpack holen sich Barney Greenway ans Mikrophon. SO (!)
klingt WINDS OF GENOCIDE auf ihrer Debüt-EP
„The Arrival Of Apokalyptic Armageddon“. Und auch, wenn ich
ein fauler Sack bin, der ewig für die paar Fragen gebraucht hat,
hat Kat bereitwillig und schnell alles beantwortet.“ Jo, heißen
Dank an Chris und ergänzend sei hinzugefügt, dass WINDS OF GENOCIDE
mit ihrem räudigem Gebratze im Stile der großen 80er Jahre
UK-Crust/Stenchcore-Explosion, welches auf Scandicrust und verfilzte Death
Metal-Anleihen der alten Schule (die des Öfteren das gar liebliche
Aroma schon längst verendeter Elche versprühen) trifft, so ziemlich
alles einäschern. Los geht‘s! (CFMD)
1.
Hey Kat! Thanks a lot for taking some time to answer my stinky questions.
And sorry again for the big delay. How are you? I hope everything is fine
in the UK? Am I right that you gave a fuck about the royal wedding? Haha!
- Hails Christian, many thanks for your interest and support. I am ok
thanks, currently starting answering this interview at 5am as I can't
sleep so figured I would do something productive! I must admit I didn't
take much notice of that whole royal wedding thing...fuck the royal family!!
2.
WINDS OF GENOCIDE is a quite young band. It was founded 2006 and released
just one demo yet. Okay, this demo was re-released as EP by yourself.
But nevertheless I think there might be some reader who do not know about
you and your band. Please introduce WINDS OF GENOCIDE to my readership
and tell us about the most interesting stations in your history!
- Originally it was just myself and Glynn who were the only members of
the band , back in late 2005/early 2006 we had decided to form a band
of our own and start making music again after both of us had been inactive
for a while and had spent many hours and drinking sessions listening to
music and talking about it although it took a few more years for us to
find other likeminded people to join us and complete the line up. But
we eventually came across our current drummer Linus in late 2008, who
is actually Swedish very randomly, he was walking past my apartment drunk
one night, noticed a Skitsystem sticker on my apartment window (I live
on ground floor) so banged on my window and wanted to talk, so we did,
found out we had the same kind of music tastes, and less than 6 months
later we were rehearsing and writing songs with him on drums in early
2009! We wrote as a 3 piece for a while and played our debut gig as a
3 piece with no bass...thats where Dan our current bassist comes into
the story, he was at that show, liked what he heard obviously saw we needed
a bassist so offered his bass playing skills, a couple months later we
played our first very low key show with him, we struck very lucky with
both guys!!
We continued writing with Dan on bass and finally did our debut studio
recording in summer of 2010, that recording was a long time coming and
it felt so great to finally have that done and under our belts.
3.
As mentioned before, both your demo as well as your ep feature the same
songs. Can you tell me, why I should buy the ep if I already own your
demo? What are the differences? Was the demo released on tape or on lame
cdr?
- The "Apokalyptic Death Crust" live rehearsal demo was never
intended to be released properly but Jerasak at Witchhammer Productions
over in Thailand liked what he heard enough to want to put it out on pro
cassette tape limited to 200 copies, so when he approached us about putting
those songs out we said "yeah ok go for it!!", we thought that
was cool!!. That recording is just a live in the rehearsal room recording,
raw and necro as fuck, and about as polished as a turd!!.
"The Arrival Of Apokalyptic Armageddon" EP is out debut proper
studio recording so you should buy that aswell or instead because the
sound quality is much much better and superior, the live rehearsal demo
has nothing on it, We got a great production on the EP too thanks to BriDoom,
he did a fucking GREAT job with the sound on this recording, couldn't
have asked for a better result really production wise. The overall playing
and sound on the EP is better, stronger and much more powerful than the
live rehearsal demo. The demo sounds so amateur in comparison but I like
the raw vibe of it.
So if people bought the live demo first then they should definetly buy
the EP as it blows it away and the songs really came alive in the studio.
4.
The sound of WINDS OF GENOCIDE does not follow current trends of retro
death metal. You combine both death metal with Scandinavian crustcore.
I call it Wolfbrigade with Barney Greenway on the microphone. That's really
fat stuff! How would you describe your music?
- Hahaha I love that description!!! You are actually not the first person
to compare my vocals to Barney Greenway either, a few people have said
that which I think is cool, hes a good growler and we are both fans /
disciples of the Kam Lee wipeout so I guess that influence shows through
in both our growl styles.
I would describe our music as a raw brutal mix of Scandi Crust-D beat
Punk and old school death metal with some old black/thrash influences.
I came up with the "Apokalyptic Death Crust" tag just to give
our music abit of an identity, I mean the term "apocalyptic crust"
had been used before so I added death into it because of the strong death
metal influence.
5.
Do you think there is a great difference between the pure oldschool death
metal underground and the crust scene? Personally I don't see so much
difference neither within the music nor the optical aspects... Both genres
live from the fucking attitude which seems quite similar.
- I don't think there is a vast difference, Bolt Thrower for example are
a prominent influence in both scenes, and they themselves had a close
connection with the crust/punk scene aswell as the death metal underground
in their earlier years and even to this day look after a lot of the day
to day running of their band and have the old punk ethics and attitude
still. In recent years crust punk and old school death metal has crossed
over like never before, with bands such as ourselves, Acephalix, Sanctum,
Hellshock etc really injecting strong doses of old school death metal
into our sound. Although Wolfpack were doing such a crossover back in
the mid 1990's, their earlier stuff is full on Anti Cimex/Discharge meets
old school melodic Swedeath/early At The Gates which was very unique for
its time. But there is more bands mixing up both styles/genres thesedays
and really blurring the genre boundaries. crust is metal, metal is crust!
I think we are doing something abit different and have abit of a unique
sound within the crust/punk scene.
6.
The look has to be true! Without your vest full of patches you wouldn't
leave your flat, would you? Where are all those cliches, vest, spikes
and so on a real way of living for you? And how much is this style pure
worship to the go'od days?
- I was walking around with a jacket covered in metal patches when I was
13-14 years old and then had a cut off jacket with hand drawn logos on
it so that is not a new thing for me to do and is not really a new thing
or trend in general, I remember walking around in Germany back in the
90s and seeing vests/jackets covered in patches everywhere, but there
again Germany seems to have been stuck in a timewarp when it comes to
metal it seems, a lot pf people who look like they just stepped out of
the 80's!!! It is more popular overall thesedays to have vests-denim jackets
and suchlike covered in patches but I think thats cool, great to see so
many people going for the old school 80s metal image than wearing fucking
Adidas tracksuits or whatever lame shit people started wearing when nu
metal became a trend....glad that whole thing died off, it was a disgrace
to metal.
7.
"The Arrival..." was released by WINDS OF GENOCIDE on its own.
Wasn't there a label interested in publishing your stuff? Or did you want
to chase a label with a professional cd in your backpack? Or was this
just the pure D-I-Y-spirit that drove you to release the ep by yourself?
- We just decided to released it on CD by ourselves as there wasn't any
label offering to do it for us, it would have been much easier to have
a label take care of all the pressing, promo and distribution but since
we didn't have any offers we just decided to do it off our own back, it
is not an easy task to self release and self promote a recording and get
it out there for sale in other countries but recently we have secured
distribution in USA and also Japan for it which is great.
8.
Following WINDS OF GENOCIDE on Facebook, you are always looking for some
shops that distribute your stuff all over the world. The brave new world
helps a lot to get connections and spread the word. But I'm sure, you
know the ancient days where there was no internet... Did the internet
improve situations for a smaller band from the underground? Became thinks
easier? Or is it the internet and the mp3 killing the old-fashioned cd
that makes it more difficult for you to get your ep over the world?
It would be much more easy if you offered "The Arrival..." as
download (either for payment or for free), wouldn't it?
- The internet makes it so much easier for so many shitty bands to flood
the scene with music and annoy people with their music, for every gem
I come across via the internet on facebook or another social networking
site I come across 20 shitty mediocre ones, but I have came across a lot
of great bands via Myspace for example, and a ton of shitty ones too,
seems every band and their dog has a myspace or facebook page thesedays
so its harder to come across the gems due to having to trawl through so
much crap boring cookie cutter music.
Blogspots make it easier for bands to get heard thesedays and I fully
support blogspots putting our EP online as it is a great way to introduce
people to our band and music, I guess having our EP up for a download
could generate extra interest, maybes we will explore that option at some
point? But since plenty of blogspots seem to have it to download then
not much point us doing it.
9.
WINDS OF GENOCIDE is not our only playground. As far as I know you are
also drumming for UNCOFFINED, right? Tell me about this project. When
can we expect the first blood from this band? Are people loving WINDS
OF GENOCIDE going to like this stuff as well?
- Yeah I drum and growl in Uncoffined, a horror doom-death hybrid that
myself and Glynn are involved with, some people who like W.o.g are also
enjoying what we are doing with this project, its A LOT slower overall,
a lot doomier. We have a couple songs written and will be jamming on more
over the coming months and see where that takes us...its nothing too serious,
just for our own pleasure and enjoyment really.
10.
Today (30th May 2011) the beautiful Facebook-Page “Extreme Band Of
The Day” (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Extreme-Band-of-the-Day/161309060583761)
featured WINDS OF GENOCIDE. Did you see it? What do you think about it,
being featured between Livstid, Krypts, Stench Of Decay or mighty Ulcerate?
- I didn't see it until I read this question then checked it out, thats
cool, every little plug helps! cool to be featured alongside such good
bands! The guy obviously has good taste in music!
11.
Beside your both bands you write a weekly column for the Terrorizer-Blog:
"Kat's Band Of The Week"! How did you get to this "job"?
And maybe it is more interesting: How do you find new bands for your articles?
Some featured names are already known in the underground. But there are
still some unknown faces among your writings. Maybe it is because of your
diverse taste of music based in death metal, crust, doom and hardrock?
- Louise the editor of Terrorizer Magazine asked me last year if I would
be into writing blogs about bands I like, I always had wanted to do a
fanzine and even started a couple but was always too lazy to finish them
so I thought it could be a cool thing to write about bands I really like
who I feel deserve more or extra promotion and exposure. I am having a
lot of fun doing these blogs and in recent months started to add interviews
with bands to the blogs to make them abit more interesting to read instead
of just having a whole blog in my own words.
I come across bands to write about via a few different ways, I either
get given stuff, come across stuff online, buy stuff, get stuff in trade
etc that I listen to and think "wow, this is awesome I must write
about this!!! and there is some other bands who I have loved for years
for I feel have never gotten the exposure they deserve so I try to put
that right a little bit by giving them some promo via the Terrorizer website.
It's really cool I have been given that platform and opportunity to do
such a thing and I hope it help some bands out who really deserve it in
my opinion.
12.
Kat, the interview is near its end. "The Arrival..." was just
some tea made of the old leaves of your demo. When can we expect new material?
Will there be an ep? A split? A full-length?
- We have new material written and will enter the studio in just over
2 weeks at the time of doing this interview, we will record 6 songs altogether,
at least 4 of which will end up on a split cd with Japanese blackthrash
cult Abigail which is going to be released by Witchhammer later in the
year. A couple other songs from this session will end up on another as
yet to be confirmed release, possibly a split 7" but nothing is definete.
Our new material is more varied and stronger overall, theres everything
from raging uptempo crust punk parts via slow doomed out Autopy style
parts to punked up Swedeath style parts. Some new songtitles are "Plague
Of Devouring Pestilence", "Into The Darkness Of Eternal Nuclear
Winter", "Procession Of Spectres", "Reaping The Blood
Harvest", "Murderous Bloodthirst" and "Wardogs Of
The Wastelands".
No plans for a full length yet...hopefully at some point in next year
or so. I definetly personally wanna take a step up to doing full lengths
eventually.
13.
Thank you a lot for your time and answers, Kat! I enjoyed featuring your
band WINDS OF GENOCIDE in my stinky webzine. Keep thinks coming - from
all of your bands! I'm looking forward to hear new music from your bands
and reading the latest issues of "Kat's Band Of The Week". Please
think of me when your patches are available and take an reservation for
a shirt in size L, thanks (;
The last words are for you! Take the space and tell me and my reades whatever
you want!
- Thanks for the interview and support Christian, I enjoyed answering
this and now I feel quite tired so I can sleep a little now! Buy our CD/EP,
a pro cassette tape version will be coming out via Witchhammer in the
near future limited to 250 copies, watch out for split with Abigail which
will be titled "Satanik Apokalyptic Kamikaze Kommandos". Our
EP is available for £4.50(UK)/£5.00(EUROPE)/£5.50(REST
OF WORLD) including P+P, 6 tracks of Death Metal Punk Aural Armageddon!!!
Danke!!
www.reverbnation.com/windsofgenocide
www.reverbnation.com/uncoffined
Interview: 01.06.2011
Fragen: Chris (NecroSlaughter, http://necroslaughter.de/)
Antworten: Kat (Vokills @ Winds Of Genocide, www.myspace.com/windsofgenocide)