Victor Whipstriker interview

Victor Whipstriker interview!!


1. So how would you define your sound some people say it’s Metal Punk other says it’s Heavy Metal or is your style just like what it says on your album Crude Rock N’ Roll?

Victor: I think is better don´t talk about styles. I like many different stuffs, then I try to put all influeces on Whipstriker´sound. I like from 70´S Rock n´Roll to Death Metal, including Punk, Crust, Thrash, NWOBHM etc. The first album is completely Rock n Roll, the demos are crust. The new stuff sounds like Motorhead meets Bathory. Metalpunk is the better word to define this mixing I think. But if you want you can call us Loud guys. That´s all.

2. Does Brazil have a pretty big Metal scene?

Victor: Brazil is a very big country. So we have a lot of good metal scenes here. In the other hand, there are a lot of empty areas too. But yeah, if you have a band you can play many gigs in Brazil, all the states have a good scene. São Paulo, for exemple, is very big state. There are more than 15 cities there where you can play very good gigs. My city Rio de Janeiro has many good shows and bands too. Some ass-holes can say that we don´t have a good scene. But this people do nothing to get better. They stay their homes complaining about the scene. Fuck them, they´re stuppid people.

3. I hear an Venom/Motorhead influence, have those band's influenced you?

Victor: From 70´s Rock n Roll I can say Thin Lizzy, UFO, Captain Beyond, Grand Funk Railroad, Free, Wishbone Ash etc. From Thrash, Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Sacrifice, Slayer, Possessed, Violent Force, Nuclear Assault etc. From Death/Black Metal, Morbid Angel, Autopsy, Death, Mantas, Hellhammer, Benediction, Devastation,Bathory, etc. From NWOBHM, Venom, Motorhead, Warfare, Diamond Head, Iron Maiden, Tygers of Pan Tang, Holocaust, Tank, etc. From Crust/Punk I like Anti-Cimex, Discharge, Crude SS, Black Uniforms, GBH, Varukers,etc. 

4. Are you in other bands or is Whipstriker your only band?

Victor: I play in the other band Called Farscape since 1998. It´s a Thrash Metal band in vein of Kreator. I play in Atomic Roar too, it´s a metalpuk band in vein of Warfare. I played in Diabolic Force, but the band is over now, it´s a oldschool black metal band in vein of Celtc Frost, Hellhammer, Bathory etc.

5. So on the Toxic Holocaust DVD Brazilian Slaughter 2006 your playing bass did you play bass for just that one show or the whole tour? Also how did you meet Joel was he already a fan of Whipstriker and called you up or did you just meet him somewhere and then you played bass for the tour?

Victor: I have contact with Joel since 2001 when he sent me his first demo. He already knew my other band Farscape, so he sent me some stuffs. So when he came to Brazil he invited me to play bass on tour. I played 3 gigs with Toxic Holocaust. Was very good, I had a good experience that time. Very thanx the support bro! Keep on touch. If someone wants to hear the Whipstriker´song, enter in: www.reverbnation.com/whipstriker

Thanks for the interview Keep making awesome metal \m/

 

 

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Megadeth Thirteen

Ok Megadeth Thirteen is a great album!!!! But Endgame is better. When I heard the first track Sudden Deth I was actually disaponted because the single version is heavier and I just like it better. Public Enemy No. 1  to me is one of those catchy metal songs not really thrash metal. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?) seemed more punk influenced and is another standout cut. We the People is another political song, it's a good song but I didn't really stand out to me one the first couple of listens but has grown on me. Guns, Drugs & Money is a song about the Mexican drug cartels and this song musically is actually simple for Megadeth but it is done very good and this is another great song on this album. Never Dead starts off slow but then kicks into a Thrash Metal song which immediately made me headbang. New World order was only a demo and relased as a bonus track on youthanasia this versions is superior to the demo. Fast lane is a medium track that didn't really standout to me the first few listens but it's another good song.  The whole album is very good probably not the Best Megadeth album but I hope they stick to this formula and mix some elements of Endgame or there Early Thrash Metal classics. If you are a Megadeth fan you need to get this album!!!

War Ripper

War Ripper is a side project of the mastermind of Toxic Holocaust Joel Grind. War ripper is a Black/Crust /Thrash band from the U.S. I first heard the song Violent Death and I was blown away it sounded like a mix of Hellhammer and Discharge so this band is almost in a way a tribute to them. The song Bombs dropping to hell is another stand out song it's a real crust punk song very simple riff with guttral vocals. The lyrics are not like Punk which are more in a Pacifist ant-war The lyrics just tell you about how everyone dies. So if you have never heard of this band listen to them now!!!!! The only bad thing is that they haven't made an album and only an ep that was on vinyl the how many that were printer is unknown.

Violent Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBwcVS-bB0I

Bombs dropping to hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLxYHeXDTJM&feature=related

Infernalis interview

Me:So when did you form Infernalis?

Heston: We formed Infernalis in early 2012, although we originally had the idea going in summer of 2011.

Me: What bands influence you the most.

Heston:  Pantera, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer.

 Me: Has there ever been an album that blew you away when you first heard it.

 Heston: Oh yeah, it was Power Metal by Pantera. That album was killer, and it's a shame it didnt get the spotlight due to private distribution and what not. That album is easily up there with everything else thrash during the '88 time period.

Me:So lyrically what does your band focus on?

 Heston:  Well, with our new single being set to be released late this spring called "One World Government", It hints it all. Im writing alot of lyrics about society and the government as it is today. Stuff that actually means something.

Me: How would you define your musicall style and do you ever think you will be able to tour?

 Heston: As far as style, if it means genre, were probably Heavy/Thrash mix. But we're aiming for the late 80's early 90's sound. Were not some posers like you see on shirts in Hot Topic or anything like that. We're straight, to the core traditional Heavy Metal that everyone has learned to love. As far as touring goes, thats a little further on in the future to say anything for sure. But anything is possible. It all depends on the success on our single and upcoming EP and things like that. We've gotta build a fanbase at least locally before we can do anything big.

Heston is the guitarist and singer of the band



Same questions another band member zeeshan

1. Late 2011 to Early 2012
2. For the band it would be artists like the big four, Overkill, Pantera. For me it would be bands like Elvenking, Dragonforce, Iron Maiden, Alestorm, Helloween, Marilyn Manson, Dio, Avantasia, Edguy, Freedom Call, Journey, Ozzy
3.No. I have had songs though, Through the Fire and the Flames, which introduced me to a entirely new genre of metal
4. So far it has been on society, government, and politics,
5.Thrash/Heavy Metal. Most likely i will tour in the future with the band, but would most like spend my time in a power metal band someday


Ethan
1. November 2011
2. Van Halen, Rhapsody of Fire, Pantera
3. Van Halen- Best of both worlds
4. Effect
5.  I would define it as......something different than what you're used to hearing from the radio. And if we get big enough, sure we'll go on tour

Slaughter Command interview

This is a Thrash band from Germany they have just released there new album Ride the Tornado.
Here's my interview with a member from this band.

.Me:  Your album Ride the Tornado of what I heard is really good have you guys been recieving good responses about this album?

Slaughter Command: Till now we got only a few but great responses about our shite: We were invited to play at a festival with DEATH STRIKE, DESASTER, PROTECTOR, etc. and will release a split-ep with the german Black Metal Tyrants UNGOD.

 Me: What do you think about the Thrash Metal resurgence that has happened these past couple of years?

Slaughter Command: There are always some Pros and Cons about it. It's great, that this kind of music gets more attention than before as we do this music because we live for that special feeling of extreme Metal.
Collecting Shirts, CDs, Vinyls, going to festivals/concerts, partying hard etc. etc.
All in all it's a pleasure to listen to the great bands (Nekromantheon, Antichirst, Entrench, etc.) coming up. On the other hand there is a shitload of bands who aren't even worth listening once.

 Me: .What bands influenced you to pick up your instrument and start a band?

Slaughter Command: Very different from early Metallica, Megadeth over Slayer to Sodom, Sarcofago, Mutilator, Mayhem and so on.

 Me:  If you could do an international tour with any band what band would it be?

Slaughter Command: Puh... Bestial Mockery, Deathwitch, Abominator, Kill & Darkthrone (hehe)

 Me: Ok here's a random one ,if you can take 5 cd's or lp's to an island that somehow had electricty what albums would you take?

Slaughter Command: 5 CD´s or Lps aren´t that much, but here you get an impression of what SLAUGHTER COMMAND would take:

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Possessed - Seven Churches
Desaster - Tyrants of the Netherworld
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Motörhead - Another perfect day
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Darkthrone - A blaze in the Northern Sky
Merciful Fate - Melissa
Onslaught - Power from Hell
Autopsy - Severed Survival
At War - Ordered to Kill
too many to mention...

Me:
Thank you the interview. Thrash till death.

Carnage Dark Recollections

THIS IS A DEATH METAL BEAST OF AN ALBUM!!!!!!

Awesome album blew me away this is pure old school death metal there isn't any Melodic tendencies anywhere in the album. So it start's out with the song Dark recollections which tears you ears open. Then you brutally attacked with the song Torn Apart that is my favorite song on the album the bass sounds so cool the guitars are really brutal sounding also. Blasphemies of the flesh is another good song. Infestion of evil has a really cool riff that starts of the song. Gentle Exhuming  reminds me of early Carcass maybe because of the blast beats but it's another standout cut. The rest of the album is awesome it's very much in the spirit of Early Entombed and Dismember. If you are a Death Metal fan this is a must have. the reissued edition has their demos as bonus tracks.

1.	Dark Recollections	03:45
2.	Torn Apart	04:40
3.	Blasphemies of the Flesh	03:46
4.	Infestation of Evil	04:57
5.	Gentle Exhuming	02:55
6.	Deranged from Blood	05:07
7.	Malignant Epitaph	03:18
8.	Self-Dissection	03:30
9.	Death Evocation	04:35
10.	Outro	01:40