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Bloodbath
is a project band, a death project can be called with members from Opeth,
Katatonia. Their First album is called "Ressurection Through Carnage" and
can we can say that it's an impressive Simplistic Death Meta with classical
sound from the early 90s.
Anders
is the man who answers our 15 questions and he is all yours.
Hello Guys, my name is Kostas Meidanis
and i am from a Greek Metal Webzine called, Behind The Veil.Firstly i want
to say that i found "Resurrection Through Carnage" very interesting album
with some good moments, the rest I leave it to you.
1.Firstly tell us in a few words
something about the band's History.
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Well, okay back from the very beginning,
back in 1993, it was only me and jonas fooling around with death riffs
while waiting for other members to show up at Katatonia rehearsals, so
a death project was just born out of that. Mind you, back then we'd all
kinds of projects going just for the hell of it and most of them never
got to leave the rehearsal room. Anyways, during some Katatonia recording
session down at Unisound with we told Dan about this brutal shit we'd been
fooling around with and that if we ever came around to record it it was
gonna be called Bloodbath. Now fast forward up to 1998. Dan called us up
and said he'd thrown out his old studio gear for new digital shit and was
just setting it up and asked me, jonas and mike to come down jamming on
this Bloodbath shit and get some real old school vibes going and record
a classic demo and even have it released as one of those underground cassettes
just the way they looked back then. Great, we jammed up riff after riff
and all of a sudden "Breeding Death" and "Omnious Bloodvomit" was nailed.
It was pure magic, we got piss drunk and it was just pure fun. Anyway,
a few weeks later Dan called us up and was really sorry, cuz the whole
recording was nowhere to be retrieved, it had been mysteriously deleted
from the hardrive, so he threw that piece out, got an ADAT and asked us
to come down again. So we actually went down there again to re-record the
whole shit but this time adding another song - "Furnace Funeral". It wasn't
as magic as the first session, but it turned out a lot better and a few
weeks later I listened to the tapes again and got blown by what Bloodbath
had created here, so I decided to shop for a a minicd deal instead of releasing
a demo cassette. Century Media were one of the quickest willing to lay
their claws on it, so we closed a deal.
2. Why have you named the band
Bloodbath? Do you want to express something with that name?
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It's just a perfect name for a death
metal band. There was an historical incident called "The Stockholm Bloodbath"
way back in time where lots of people were killed, we took it from there.
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3.How can you describe your music?
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Simplistic brutal death metal with
the classic sound from 89-92.
4.Which are the band's main
infuences?
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Basically all the old heroes: Entombed,
Dismember, Carnage, Death, Morbid Angel, Cancer, Morgoth, Pestilence and
so on.
5.What are your lyrics stand
about? Who is responsible for them? What inspires you to write them?
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we all shared our facination with the
dead this time and put down some sick shit to our own individual songs.
I mean, it's just good old true death stuff, but Jonas lyrics are actually
top notch, he totally captured the essence of what dark death metal is
about. I mean his lyrics are really fukking good. In class with Chris Reifert.
Poetic gore you could almost say hahaha, so they all landed on the album
published. The lyrics on the minicd were 100% comedy and just written for
entertainment reasons, so we left em out of the booklet. They're pretty
easy to figure out though.
6.If you had the ability to
change something in the world, what would that be?
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I'm not sure I wanna change the world.
I'm not that allmighty. I've enuff struggle changing things with my own
life.
7.What is your bigest goal,
you want to achive with the band?
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I want people to feel a headbanging
bliss. A raw honest feeling of absolute completeness.
8.What would you do if you didn’t
had the talent to compose music?
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Lay cold and alone six feet under.
9.What do you do on your spare
time? Do you have any hobbies?
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When not working with music or struggling
with dilemmas of life, I'm busy getting drunk and playing video games.
10.What’s your opinion about
the metal scene nowadays? Do you think that there is going to be a new
generation of hardcore metal fans, or metal will have appeal on the present
generation.?
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New generatins coming up all the time,
and breaking free. As long as they never neglect or ignore the roots where
it all started i'm fine with it.
11.What's your opinion about
religion?
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We're religious about music. Thats
as far as my beliefs go.
12. If you had an opportunity
to make a movie, what kind of movie would that be, and what music theme
would you choose.
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I'd make a horror movie with a insane
orchestral score.
13. Tell me the top 10 bands
that changed the metal from the 70s up to nowadays.
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Oh boy... I fucking don't know man.
14. Will you go on tout in the
future?
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All I can say is, the desire to play
is there, but its colliding with reality. All of us got such busy schedules
with our main bands. Maybe if we can find some dead moments in between
we could pull of either a real tour or at least some festival. Bloodbath
deserves it, for ourselves and the fans sake. It would be a total glorification
of swedish old school death metal.
15. What is the biggest problem
a newcomer musician/band faces when it comes to the professional music
business ?
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The bizz suffocates your innocent dreams.
16.The last lines are for you,
thank you for your time and take care. Hope to see you in Greece in the
future.