How does it feel to live and die
for heavy metal? Are there still people so passioned for this music? WIZARD
are here to answer sincerely to these questions...
1.GIVE A SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND THE CURRENT
LINE UP OF THE BAND.
1991 we met and decided to make a band.
3Years later we released our first demo-tape but just for the local area.
1995 our first album "Son of darkness", 1997 "battle of metal",1999 "Bound
by metal"and 2001 "Head of the deceiver". The current line up is the same
line up as it was in the beginning.
2.HOW DID YOU CHOOSE THE NAME WIZARD
TO REPRESENT YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY WITH THIS BAND NAME? DO
YOU KNOW THAT TEHRE ARE ALSO SOME OTHER BANDS WITH THIS NAME AS WELL?
The only reason that our name is Wizard
,is that we searched a name that is really simple ,so that the people can
remember it. And of course we know that their are other bands with the
same name.But we don`t care. The Wzzard-boss from Finnland we know him
very well and we drink together till now some beer. It is okay. I think
the people know wich Wizard they are listen to when they hear the music.
3.TELL US A FEW WORDS REGARDING YOUR
NEW ALBUM. ARE YOU STILL SATISFIED WITH IT? IS THERE ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE
TO CHANGE OR UNDO? HOW WAS YOUR COLLABORATION WITH UWE LULIS AS THE
PRODUCER?
Yes of course.We are satisfied with
all our albums.They are all our children. And their is nothing we would
change or undo.We compose like we feel at this moment.And all these songs
come from our hearts. Working together with Uwe was very great. He is very
profesional and give us good help with the choirs. And he is a fucking
true Metalhead. And that was a very important thing for us.
4.AS I CAN SEE FROM THE LYRICS YOUR
NEW ALBUM IS ALSO A CONCEPT AND YOU STILL WRITE LYRICS PRAISING HEAVY METAL.
DON'T YOU THINK THAT THIS MIGHT TIRE THE LISTENERS? WOULD YOU LIKE
TO TALK ABOUT OTHER THINGS BESIDES THAT IN YOUR NEW ALBUM?
Hey brother.We are a Heavy -Metal band
.Of couse we write lyrics about that thing that rules our live.And of course
we write lyrics about the saga of the thunder warriors..One thing is sure
we will never write lyrics about bad things that happen on earth.We are
not a band who wants to say the people what is wrong and what is good in
this world.But the next album will be a concept album about the Ragnarök
.The last day in the sight of the old german religion.I think a lot of
people will like it.In the next following month we will conquer one more
time the studio of Uwe Lulis and I hope we can release the new album at
the end of the summer 2002.
5.YOU HAVE ONLY ONE GUITARIST. HOW
IS YOUR SOUND DURING THE LIVE SHOWS? IS IT GOOD AND HEAVY OR DO YOU TAKE
A SESSION GUITARIST AS WELL?
What do you think we are sounding live?
Like the Backstreet bööörks or what.With my very distorted
bass I am the rhythm-guitar and the bass-guitar in one person.Perhaps you
can come to one of our concerts and you will hear that our sound is fat
and heavy. By the way.No man and no women will ever play in our group as
long as we are together.
6.MANY SAY THAT YOU REMIND THEM OF
MANOWAR. DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT OR WOULD YOU LIKE THE FANS TO REMEMBER
YOU AS A BAND WHO LEFT ITS PERSONAL
MARK?
I think it is one of the greatest honours
if people say that we are a little bit like the best Metalband on earth.But
I think the Metalheads all over the world see the different between us
and Manowar.And of course we remind a little bit to Manowar.We play the
same music.True fucking Heavy Metal.
7.I READ IN YOUR BOOKLET THAT IN YOUR
LIVE SHOWS YOU'LL HAVE FIREWORKS AND MANY OTHER AMAZING THINGS. WHAT SHOULD
A FAN EXPECT TO SEE IN A WIZARD LIVE?
Our opinion is.When you go to a concert
you don`t just want to hear the music you want to see a show. And that
is what we give the audience.Entertainment.Acting and banging musicians.Fire
,blood, weapons,leather and spikes.That is Metal that is what we love and
that is what a lot of people wants to see live. And we will give it to
them.`cause the audiance is for us the boss at the live concert.
8.LETS SAY THAT I WANT TO ORGANIZE
A METAL FESTIVAL AND I COME TO YOU AND ASK YOU WHICH FIVE BANDS
YOU'D LIKE TO TAKE PART. WHICH WOULD YOU SUGGEST?
That is really simple.Manowar, Virgin
steele, Sacred steel, Paragon and of course WIZARD hahaha!
9.WHICH IS THE BEST REVIEW YOU RECEIVED
AND WHICH IS THE WORST? HOW DO YOU REACT?
We don`t play Metal and we don`t
release albums to have good reviews.We don`t care about good or bad reviews
.We play metal for all metalheads and not for rotten poser rats. Read the
lyric of True-metal then you know what we think about that. Of course is
it good for a band to have alot of good reviews. So more people will listen
to it in the CD-store, But this is the only reason we like good reviews.So
it is.
10.I HAVE A RADIO SHOW. WHICH SONG
OF YOURS WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY IN ORDER TO REPRESENT YOU BETTER?
I think that "defenders of metal" and"revenge"
represent our style the best.A slow pounding one and a fast brutal one.
11.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T
ABLE TO PLAY AND COMPOSE MUSIC?
I would hang me up to the next tree.Finish.
12.IF YOU HAD THE ABILITY TO MAKE ONE
WISH, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?
An practice -hour with Joey de Maio
where he must drink and practice with me till Ican play "The sting of bumblebee"HAHAHAHA!
13.IF I TOLD YOU TO CLOSE YOUR EYES
AND LISTEN TO YOUR ALBUMS, WHAT WOULD YOU IMAGINE? WHAT COMES TO
YOUR MIND?
Four sweating men who sit in the studio
and record.Hahaha! No I see the story of the thunder warriors.Battles and
wars.Babarian demons and so on.Fantasy stories where honour lives.And I
see alot of fun we have during the time we record.
14.IN WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD
YOU LIKE TO LIVE? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'D BE?
100-200A.D.in an little village in
Germany as a hedman of a tribe.That would be great.
15.WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT WARS,
BOMBS AND TERRORISM? IS THERE A WINNER?
You are talking about the 11.September.
I think the war against terrorism is a "good" war.But the people who lived
in Afghanistan and now died by hunger and coldness .My heart is bleeding
when I see the little children dying. I have a little son too and I can
understand the pain the parents now feel.But I am frightened that the terrorism
can kill my son my family whith ABC wepons and so on.So I think this war
must be fight till the end.Terrorism must be stoped. And I hope that the
"civilized"world will win.
16.THESE LAST LINES BELONG TO YOU...
THANK YOU FOR THE INTERVIEW!I WISH YOU THE BEST
Don`t let anyone oppres you.Show all
this bastards what it means to live and to die for Heavy Metal. I hope
that we will come in 2002 to see you in concert.