Envinya Interview

1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?

Hi, at the moment we have two main things going on. On the one hand we have
to work with our new singer on the old songs and on some new stuff. On the
other hand we plan our live activities and organise the administrative work.
Sounds a little bit boring but have to be done

2. How would you describe the musical sound of the new album?

I would simply describe it as a kind of modern metal. I know that the people
need some comparisons. Maybe Envinyas sound is a rough mixture between older
Metallica, a little bit In Flames and a pinch of early Nightwish.

3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the new release
explores?

In our songs we describe the possible emotional abyss in the mind of the
people for example released by a broken relationship.

4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?

The meaning of Envinya is equivalent to the word "change" or a "fresh
start". At the moment it fits absolutely to our current situation

5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and
how would you describe your stage performance?

We had two shows on festivals in 2011/2012 where we in my opinion did a
great show. The experience shows that Envinya works best on bigger stages
with a good sound. Because of the fact that we are six people in the band
and that we are everything but static on the stage we need some space.
We also like to interact with the audience so that both, the fans and the
band, had a great time together.

6. Do you have any touring plans for the future?

First we will play some single shows in Germany and on some festivals. Maybe
we will have a small tour at the end of 2013 but I think it is more likely
that we will realise our touring plans in 2014. But who knows

7. On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans
of melodic metal?

At the moment I can't answer this question. We get a lot of reviews but I
have no feedback yet how the fans like our music. For me it is very
interesting if there will be a different between the single countries.

8. Are there any other musical projects besides this band or is this a
full time line up?

I have another band called Adult Noise. This is an old school punk/hardcore
band. It sounds a little bit like Dead Kennedy's but it is definitive a side
project just for fun. Envinya simply takes a lot of time and attention.


9. What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?

I think that we will have our focus on more ear catching refrains and
hooklines. But the main direction of Envinya wont change. I personally want
to have faster songs. So let's see. One thing for sure: Envinya will
definitely not become softer.

10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your
music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

My influences come from the early Thrash and Deathmetal era. Slayer's "Show
no Merci" and Death's "Scream Bloody Gore" were some milestones in my
musical history. Today it is not easy for a band to get my attention because
I know so many bands and styles from the past that it is hard for me to find
something new. Luckily there are some bands for example Kalmah and Ex Deo.


11. Outside of music what are some of your interests?

I like to meet my friends have some beers and discuss the political day to
day madness. Deep in my heart I am still the revolutionary hoping that we
can change some bad circumstances.

12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview/

I hope that you find the music that touches your heart.
And extreme important: believe in yourself!

Maybe see you at an upcoming Envinya show

Envinya/Inner Silence/Massacre Records/2013 CD Review

  Envinya  are  a  band  from  Germany  that  plays  a  mixture  of  goth,  doom,  death,  melodic  and  prog  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2013  album  "Inner  Silence"  which  was  released  by  Massacre  Records.

  Drums  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  drumming  with  some  blast  beats  being  utilized  at  times,  while  the  synths  bring  a  very  atmospheric,  progressive  and  gothic  sound  to  the  music,  as  for  the  bass  playing  it  has  a  very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  are  coming  out  of  the  guitars.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  riffs  that  combine  gothic,  doom,  death,  metal  and  progressive  metal  together  to  create  a  sound  of  their  own  as  well  as  a  brief  use  of  clean  playing,  while  the  lead  guitars  are  very  melodic  sounding  heavy  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads.

  Vocals  are  mostly  clean  singing  female  vocals  with  some  deep  death  metal  growls  being  utilized  at times,  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  themes,,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  strong,  powerful,  heavy  and  professional  sound  to  it.

  In  my  opinion  Envinya  are  a  very  great  sounding  hybrid  of  gothic,  doom,  death,  melodic  and  progressive  metal  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Faceless"  "Inner  Silence"  "Satin  Ans  Silk"  and  "Beyond  The  Dark".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

Fake Asian Rolex Interview

1.Can you tell us a little bit about the band for those that have never heard of you before?

Fake Asian Rolex are five dudes that met at a Maine Coon cat breeders. After chatting for a while we decided to form a band. 

2.How would you describe your musical sound?

A cats meow, a dolphins ultra sound and the savagery of grind.

3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music?

On this CD there's a song that lightly talks about the potential that one day dolphins that we have enslaved in the goal to make them do tricks so that our obese children may have a laugh in aquatic parks, that they may have their day of reckoning. And that by some weird way they are able to inseminate our women and thus create a hybrid race that will be hellbent on conquering the world and demand reparation for the century of humiliation, half of you will only see this as that uhmteenth delirium by some lead singer in some band having some creative drought problems and taking the easy way out. And that he's talking about useless subjects to escape reality, whereas a secong group will understand it for being the subtil metaphor of an inevitable revenge of nature for being soiled by the mass industrialisation by modern society blinded by it's own narcissism. Both ideas are valid.

4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?

Fake Asian Rolex means that it's like something awesome but it isn't we you take a closer look.

We're kinda like Metallica but we aren't aware of our talent.

5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?

Uh... When we opened for Slayer on the "Reign In Pain Tour" back in 86, promoting their epic Reign in Blood.

It was cool, even though celibrity had gone straight to their head I still felt I should give Dave Lombardo a few pointers. 

6. Do you have any touring plans for the future?

Every summer Converge ask us to open for them but our drummer is off at the Maire camping site in Serignan (Herault, France). 

7. Currently you are unsigned, are you looking for a label and if so what kind of label do you feel that would be a perfect fit for your music?

We're in talks with Roadrunner Records but it's a secret. 

8. On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of underground music?

A lot of people were questioning our artwork for "74K34514NR013X Ep" with the cat on it, and they thought they were dealing with a bunch of jokers but most of them have been quite happily surprised.

So far nothing bad has come out, no bad reviews or even criticism.

But my god how we tried to be hated > questionable taste, home recording, distorion ON EVERYTHING, feedback, dirty ass drums, sick looking photos on facebook, we insult people for liking us, we hoped the worst for them in 2013... BUT NOTHING FUCKING WORKS, EVERYONE LOVES FAKE ASIAN ROLEX.... It's hopeless....

9. Are there any other musical projects besides this band or is this a full time line up?

NOPE 

10. What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?

We don't have any real objectives, if a riff is grind and sounds awesome, hell yeah we'll keep it, if it's punk same shit, chaotic riff hellz yeah stick that piece a shit it my song!

We don't care, there are no restrictions to FAR!

But be sure that it'll only get better. 

11. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

Converge, Daughters, Jean Michel Jarre, Retox, Slayer, patricia kaas

 

12. Outside of music what are some of your interests?

Collecting maine coon cats, old medical supplies, taxidermy, tooth pastes, sexual tourism and medieval torture methods. 

13. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?

Meow, piano, AIDS, Seahorse, Speculum, Eiffel Tower, Tracheotomy, dick... is that enough?? 

Burnt Books Interview

1. Can you tell us a little bit about the band for those that have never heard of you before?

A girl with 4 dicks.

2. How would you describe your musical sound?

Loud, Melodic, Heavy, Eclectic, Diverse, Hardcore, Avantgardecore

3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music?

Personal experiences...mostly dealing with relationships

4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?

It's a reference to the control and manipulation of history and information by powerful forces a la 1984 or Farenheit 911. It is more of a reference and less of a single political perspective.

5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?

Our best shows are with like minded bands. We dont base how well the shows are on crowd reaction. It is more about if we are having fun.

6. Do you have any touring plans for the future?

Yes, our record comes out January 29th and we plan to play as much as we possibly can.


7. On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of crust and experimental music?

We are still a new band. Unfortunately, we haven't recieved many reviews yet. The very few we've recieved have been positive though.

8. Are there any other musical projects besides this band or is this a full time line up?

Chuck (guitarist)plays bass in another band called Fishing Journal. Other than that, it is the other members only band.

9. What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?

Trying to work on having more dynamics. We want to really experiment with volume and rhythms.

10. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

Musically we are each influenced by lots of different music. We have common ground in heavier aspects but I think we really try to include our other outside influences both melodicly and rhythmically.

11. Outside of music what are some of your interests?

Pup dogs & Kittie Cats

12. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?

Thanks! This is our first interview as a band. Our record comes out January 29th. Hope you pick it up.

Hautet Court Interview

1. Can you tell us a little bit about the band for those that have never heard of you before?

We're three guys from eastern france who wanted to play together, create together and travel together. 

We all are listening to a wide range of musical genre, that's why we wanted to do something a bit different.

The band started in june 2012, we recorded an EP 6 month later and we are now seeking for shows everywhere to spread it.

2. How would you describe your musical sound?

H&C is aiming for sonic chaos, we wanted the energy/rage of the crust, the madness of the mathcore and a bit of heaviness found in postcore.

3. What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music?

It is mostly about values that we despite or defend, but globally, the major idea is that we have everything in our hands to create something good, to evolve, and yet, we fucked it. 

4. What is the meaning and inspiration behind the bands name?

Haut&Court is the french equivalent to "hang them high", we want to hang what we despite. 

5. What are some of the best shows that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?

As we are relatively new, we didn't played a lot, so, the best is coming. We really want to impersonate the chaos from our music, therefore, we're doing our best to get in trance, 

get the more energy as possible, like the Dillinger Escape plan for example, but with some more rest on the massive/heavy parts.

6. Do you have any touring plans for the future?

We are booking our weekends as much as possible, hopefully we will really tour this summer across France and Swiss, but we are really aiming to go as far as possible,

we'll see us live Inch'Allah! 

7. Currently you are unsigned are you looking for a label and if so what kind of label do you feel that would be a perfect fit for the music?

We are more focusing on touring for the moment, we have a few proposition and we will be happy to use them for our full length that we are still composing. 

There's a lot of great label in the Chaotic hardcore scene, check Lost Pilgrim Records, Basement Apes or Swarm of Nails for example.

8. Are there any other musical projects besides this band or is this a full time line up?

We can't stay in only one genre, we all have several projects besides, even if H&C is our priority! 

9. On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your ep by fans of underground music?

Really awesome! We have feedbacks from all over the world and that is truly overwhelming. We've been aired on quite every continents now and that make us really proud of our music as it has been recognized beyond the borders! We will always stay underground, but it's nice to see that we can touch so many different persons!

10. What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?

We would definitely keep it more chaotic as ever, we need some audio miasma and madness on stage as well!

11. What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

They are so many, Gaza, Converge, Trap Them...

12. Outside of music what are some of your interests?

Every form of culture is in our interest, that's why we are always looking for great artwork and nice collaborations. We also like to travel, we will do our best to tour as much countries as possible! 

13. Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview/

Thank you for taking the time to support us, the underground scene is always in movement and we're glad to be a part of it! 

As said before, we will do our best to tour as much as possible, so… see you soon live! 

Hautet Court/La Vie/2012 EP Review

  Hautet  Court  are  a  band  from  France  that  plays  a  mixture  of  crust,  grind  and  mathcore  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2012  ep  "La  Vie".

  Drums  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  drumming  with  a  great  amount  of  brutal  sounding  blast  beats  being t hrown  into t he  music  at  times,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a v ery  dark  tone  witrh  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  are  coming  out  of  the  guitars.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  riffs  that  combine  crust,  grind  and  mathcore  together  to  create  a  sound  of  their  own  and  there  are  no  guitar  solos  or  leads  present  on  this  recording.

  Vocals  are  all  deep  death/grind/crust  growls,  while  the  lyrics  cover  everyday  themes,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  strong,  powerful  and  heavy  sound  for  being  a  self  released  recording  with  the  songs  being  short  in  length.

  in  my  opinion  Hautet  Court  are  a  very  great  sounding  hybrid  of  grind,  crust,  and  mathcore  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  style,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Let  It  Burst"  and  "Wasted  Time  For  Wasted  Minds".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.