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I'm writing for an online magazine thats fairly big and I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview the bands The Haunted, God Forbid and Mantiis when they tour in November this year. I'm really keen but I've never done anything like this before, I've never even interviewed non-famous people. I was just wondering if anyone could give me some pointers if you've interviewed people (for any purpose) in the past.
Also if you like/know of the bands and you've got some awesome question ideas then feel free to fire them at me.
Thanks in advance.
Also if you like/know of the bands and you've got some awesome question ideas then feel free to fire them at me.
Thanks in advance.
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An awful lot of stuff as long as it isn't dance.
Let me check my winamp and see what the next 10 songs are:
Bill Withers "Lovely Day"
Clutch "La Curendera"
Marvin Gaye "What's Going on?"
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Simple Man"
Zach De La Rocha & DJ Shadow "March of Death"
The Specials "Message to you (Rudy)"
The Who "Happy Jack"
Helmet "Meantime"
Leonard Cohen "Waiting for The Miracle"
Sepultura "Refuse/Resist"
The reason I like to laugh at heavy metal is I used to be that person.
At school & college I had waist-length hair, alchemy jewellery, t-shirts with swearing on and used to think that melody was for gays.
I found a box with my cassettes from college a few months ago and decided to listen to some of them again, with albums by:
Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Pungent Stench, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, Cro-Mags, Suicidal Tendencies, Pro-Pain, Sick of It All, Slayer, Napalm Death, Optimum Wound Profile to name but a few.
And a few of those still stand up today to repeated listens, but an awful lot of what I used to listen to is just senseless aggression that I used to hide behind because I was a quiet person desperately searching for a tribe to belong to.
That's why I laugh at leather jacket wearing metal fans - because I used to be one and I have the benefit of knowing where 98% of you will be in 10yrs from now.
You won't like a majority of the stuff you think is incredible right now.
But hey, you should be secure in your hardcore metal persona.
**edit**
That's made me go check my CDs to see what I've rebought because I still listen to from my angry days, let's see:
Slayer (all their albums till Lombardo left), Pantera, Helmet, Biohazard, Suicidal Tendencies, Ministry, Fudge Tunnel, Nailbomb, Sepultura (till Max left), Soulfly. And some more stuff.
And that's why I still listen to Clutch at 32.
Because I first saw them supporting Biohazard at The Marquee in...'91 or '92 and it was aggressive driving brutal stuff with a shouty redfaced singer. But as they're matured, they've moved away from that style because, as the singer Neil Fallon says in an interview on pro-rock.com "I couldn't still be onstage after 15years shouting about being angry and disaffected when I'm not. Grown men screaming about how miserable life is, that's not where we're at now".
So they've gone from Binge & Purge, with the chorus of "Come on Mother(edit)let's thrown down, just rear your ugly (edit)ing head I'll put it on a platter" shouted at 110decibels to a song about how they don't do that anymore and chuckle at adults in their 30s and 40s that still scream nightly onstage
Careful With That Mic
"So tell me, when you took the Practice Scholastic Aptitude Test, did you know the answers or did you guess?
You rely on gimmicks to amuse your fans and act all urban to jack up your soundscan
What's the matter with you?
How come you rhyme monosylabically?
Is atrophy shrinking your entire vocabulary?
Your style's like garbage cans meant to be taken out on a weekly basis
Ever since your first record you've been in a state of suspended animation
You look like Snuffleuffagus and Astropithecus
Me cray, you abacus
But enough about you, let's talk about me and how single-handedly I redefined the science of radio astronomy
Making Nobel prize winners question their notions of reality
Oh, but I digress
You always win at Sorry
I always win at chess
Go get some percasets
Mmm, this is really good ice cream, do you want some of it?
Oh, my bad, I didn't know you were lactose intolerant
Makes you pass gas, frightens all the girls away
Only friends you keep are those you pay
I'm always on the ready for the wack snack attack
I carry sandwiches around in a straight edge style Jansport back pack
Got the gadget Q gave Bond, controls your mind, makes you jump in a pond
Go quack quack and flap your arms
Leaves you confused but completely unharmed
Both you and I know the past ten years have been rather intense
I'm ashamed to admit I've been fooled by the seductions of violence
People walking around with ugly auras
At times I'm even tempted to seek the advice of Dr. Laura
But I ignore her
And I take a deep breath and count to ten
Ain't gonna let it get under my skin
Take a deep breath and count to ten
Think of all the nice places that I've been
Like back when I was waging peace against the visigoths
I was tutored in the ancient mysteries by a wisened philosoph
Learned the polyrythyms of celestial time
Waiting for the one to come and get it done
And finish the rhyme"
Let me check my winamp and see what the next 10 songs are:
Bill Withers "Lovely Day"
Clutch "La Curendera"
Marvin Gaye "What's Going on?"
Lynyrd Skynyrd "Simple Man"
Zach De La Rocha & DJ Shadow "March of Death"
The Specials "Message to you (Rudy)"
The Who "Happy Jack"
Helmet "Meantime"
Leonard Cohen "Waiting for The Miracle"
Sepultura "Refuse/Resist"
The reason I like to laugh at heavy metal is I used to be that person.
At school & college I had waist-length hair, alchemy jewellery, t-shirts with swearing on and used to think that melody was for gays.
I found a box with my cassettes from college a few months ago and decided to listen to some of them again, with albums by:
Carcass, Bolt Thrower, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Pungent Stench, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, Cro-Mags, Suicidal Tendencies, Pro-Pain, Sick of It All, Slayer, Napalm Death, Optimum Wound Profile to name but a few.
And a few of those still stand up today to repeated listens, but an awful lot of what I used to listen to is just senseless aggression that I used to hide behind because I was a quiet person desperately searching for a tribe to belong to.
That's why I laugh at leather jacket wearing metal fans - because I used to be one and I have the benefit of knowing where 98% of you will be in 10yrs from now.
You won't like a majority of the stuff you think is incredible right now.
But hey, you should be secure in your hardcore metal persona.
**edit**
That's made me go check my CDs to see what I've rebought because I still listen to from my angry days, let's see:
Slayer (all their albums till Lombardo left), Pantera, Helmet, Biohazard, Suicidal Tendencies, Ministry, Fudge Tunnel, Nailbomb, Sepultura (till Max left), Soulfly. And some more stuff.
And that's why I still listen to Clutch at 32.
Because I first saw them supporting Biohazard at The Marquee in...'91 or '92 and it was aggressive driving brutal stuff with a shouty redfaced singer. But as they're matured, they've moved away from that style because, as the singer Neil Fallon says in an interview on pro-rock.com "I couldn't still be onstage after 15years shouting about being angry and disaffected when I'm not. Grown men screaming about how miserable life is, that's not where we're at now".
So they've gone from Binge & Purge, with the chorus of "Come on Mother(edit)let's thrown down, just rear your ugly (edit)ing head I'll put it on a platter" shouted at 110decibels to a song about how they don't do that anymore and chuckle at adults in their 30s and 40s that still scream nightly onstage
Careful With That Mic
"So tell me, when you took the Practice Scholastic Aptitude Test, did you know the answers or did you guess?
You rely on gimmicks to amuse your fans and act all urban to jack up your soundscan
What's the matter with you?
How come you rhyme monosylabically?
Is atrophy shrinking your entire vocabulary?
Your style's like garbage cans meant to be taken out on a weekly basis
Ever since your first record you've been in a state of suspended animation
You look like Snuffleuffagus and Astropithecus
Me cray, you abacus
But enough about you, let's talk about me and how single-handedly I redefined the science of radio astronomy
Making Nobel prize winners question their notions of reality
Oh, but I digress
You always win at Sorry
I always win at chess
Go get some percasets
Mmm, this is really good ice cream, do you want some of it?
Oh, my bad, I didn't know you were lactose intolerant
Makes you pass gas, frightens all the girls away
Only friends you keep are those you pay
I'm always on the ready for the wack snack attack
I carry sandwiches around in a straight edge style Jansport back pack
Got the gadget Q gave Bond, controls your mind, makes you jump in a pond
Go quack quack and flap your arms
Leaves you confused but completely unharmed
Both you and I know the past ten years have been rather intense
I'm ashamed to admit I've been fooled by the seductions of violence
People walking around with ugly auras
At times I'm even tempted to seek the advice of Dr. Laura
But I ignore her
And I take a deep breath and count to ten
Ain't gonna let it get under my skin
Take a deep breath and count to ten
Think of all the nice places that I've been
Like back when I was waging peace against the visigoths
I was tutored in the ancient mysteries by a wisened philosoph
Learned the polyrythyms of celestial time
Waiting for the one to come and get it done
And finish the rhyme"
Goatboy, just out of interest, what kind of music do you like to listen to?
I only ask because you seem hell-bent on trying to make heavy metal and heavy metal fans look stupid. I'd just like to get an idea of some basis here.
I only ask because you seem hell-bent on trying to make heavy metal and heavy metal fans look stupid. I'd just like to get an idea of some basis here.
"Did you all sit in your pajamas discussing band names and throwing some out for not being 'Metal' enough?"
SmashGodBalls is an awesome band-to-be, a 4 piece that will speak directly to surly male youths between the ages of 14-21, who are angry at their parents and school, will never cut their hair and have skullrings and zippo lighters with pentagrams on.
Their debut album "Mongbomb" will be available shortly through Roadrunner, with tracklisting as follows
1 Godballs
2 Sex Knife
3 Angersmash
4 Hateface
5 Grrrrrrr
6 Eyestabber
7 Jesus Kidney
SmashGodBalls is an awesome band-to-be, a 4 piece that will speak directly to surly male youths between the ages of 14-21, who are angry at their parents and school, will never cut their hair and have skullrings and zippo lighters with pentagrams on.
Their debut album "Mongbomb" will be available shortly through Roadrunner, with tracklisting as follows
1 Godballs
2 Sex Knife
3 Angersmash
4 Hateface
5 Grrrrrrr
6 Eyestabber
7 Jesus Kidney
"So Mantiis, why the long nose?"
There's your explosive lead quote, right there.
Ask him if it bothers them that their fans are disaffected gothy teens who'll stop listening to them when they get laid and reach 23
I vaguely remember the singer getting a nosebleed when they were performing. Their guitarist was the one that was actually a part of the show though. There was only one member from each band.
Yeah I thought they were, he's the one with the bleedy nose yeah?
Manntis were one of the runners up on Battle For Ozzfest so that could be a main point of your interview.
I would guess that it depends on the band. Small bands will probably be really enthusiastic whereas larger ones that do strings of interviews may even take the pee out of you/not care.
Even interviewers who've been doing it for years for big publications have bad interviews, there was one recent-ish where the interviewer was met by some big musician (I forget which) who was very guarded and hostile about commenting on anyone elses work and the interview went downhill from there (ie sometimes they might rant at you about the issue that bothers them the most at that particular moment).
Even interviewers who've been doing it for years for big publications have bad interviews, there was one recent-ish where the interviewer was met by some big musician (I forget which) who was very guarded and hostile about commenting on anyone elses work and the interview went downhill from there (ie sometimes they might rant at you about the issue that bothers them the most at that particular moment).
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