GRAVE DESECRATOR - Interview 2012

1.       Infernal hails Necrogoat, how It`s going?

Greetings from hellish Brazil, my friend! I´ve just arrived from a very long and exhaustive European tour (Desecrating Europe Tour 2012), and I´m a bit tired yet. But tomorrow I´ll need to return to my shitty job, so..The fucking life goes on..Meanwhile, I´m listening to a lot of stuffs that I got in this tour, cd´s, demos, tapes etc. Metal to be worshipped!!

2.       I know that you are back from a nearly five weekly tour   around Europe, tell me a brief summary of the tour.

Ah man, that was a great experience of life and death! We played 30 gigs in 45 days. The last one in Padova was cancelled by the faggot who organized it, so…We played in a lot of countries like Germany, Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria etc, etc..Some cool bands were introduced to us, as well as we got bad surprises, when we faced some shit bands like opening acts for us. Lots of drinks, marijuana, lust and chaos all around! We´ll return there for a new tour after the release of our 3^rd cd, late this year or early 2013 by Pulverised recs.

3.       I saw that in Norway you guys meet Fenriz?

Oh yeah. As far as I know, he likes our band a lot, and we used to send e-mails each other. He´s cool guy, and I respect him a lot. He was too drunk this night! Oh fuck yeah!

4.       In which country you enjoyed the most and have the best feedback from the audience?

I think in Germany we have a lot of good audience and GD has a lot of friends there too. The band seems to be well known in the underground over there! We shared the stages there with killer bands like Augrimmer, Venenum, Warhammer and others. Also, we liked a lot of gigs in Romania, Norway ( fuck, the venue got really over chaos that night!!), Spain… Slovenia was cool, but we played too late, and I got really drunk, you know, haha…But all countries are welcomed to be touched by our devilish spells of miscreation…

5.       If i figured it out right, this was the tour in support of two releases the first is the full lenght that you released in 2010 via Hellsheadbangers called ˝INSULT˝ and the other release is ˝DEATHSPELLS RISING ˝a compilation of demo material, tell me more about this two releases? 

Well, actually “Insult” is a release from Ketzer rec. (Ger) but licensed in Americas by Hell´s Headbangers. “Deathspells..” was just a release by the Italian label Despise the Sun, which contains some of our old stuffs already rare and never re-released, like our unique demo from 2001, first 7ep, some rehearsals etc..purest shitload I mean, haha. It has a killer cover made by Chris Moyen!!! We went to Europe for the first time in 2010, and “Insult” had been just released. We played at Live Evil fest in Uk that time, by the way. That was a short 10 dates tour.

6.       I saw that you are signed now with Pulverised Records, why you split with Hellsheadbangers?

No, many people thinks that we´re signed to HHR, but actually as I said, we were a band from Ketzer rec. and they only released “Insult” in USA and Americas. And I like very much of the work that HHr made with us. We got signed to Pulverised, but maybe we´ll be released in USA by the same HHR and some other countries by some other different labels as well.

7.       I must say that INSULT sounds like a perfect misture between early Sepultura Slayer and Sarcofago, these bands have influenced you in some way? 

Well, we bring the old essence of some brazilian standards mixed with traditional evilness from old Slayer, Sodom etc. A blend that materialize  the final result of GD. Of course that these bands rules ( at least in the past) and no doubt that they have their shadows over our souls. That´s very important for us to overcome the gay bands in Brazil with our titanic Black/Death mass of destruction and outrage! We warn that the spirit is alive here with us and a bunch of other bands! Angra, new Sepultura, brazilian pacific Thrash garbage and similars, can and must fuck off!

8.       Which are currently your 5 more played albums?

Nowadays?? Fuck, now I´m listening to the stuffs I got in european tour, like Beherit´s Engram (finally I got the original cd), Nifelheim´s first album, Blood Tsunami new cd promo, Turbonegro´s Retox, Warhammer´s No Best So Fierce, Nunslaughter´s Demoslaughter as well as for a cd from a band called Bleeding Fist, do you know them? Hehe..So, these and other stuffs shall be the ones I´ll keep listening to for some days or weeks…

9.       I know that you are a big fan of horror movies,  there is some brazilian movie that you want raccomend ?

Yes, try to the first stuffs of Mr. Coffin Joe. “At Midnight I´ll take Your Soul”! Get it, it´s a classic!!!

10.   Plans for the future?

We have no future! Our plan is to die after fucking more and release some more darkness to this miserable plan! Some split 7ep´s to come out soon (with Augrimmer, Mystifier and Martyrvore), a live album from Romania gig in vinyl and so on! Third full-lengh will start to be worked soon, and Harris Johns will work with us here in Brazil!!

11.   Ok Blasphemic brother  your last words ?

Thank you Hellscream and keep spreading darkness all around!!! We meet you all again soon in Slovenia!

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EVOCATION: 'Evoked From Demonic Depths - The Early Years' Demo Collection

Century Media Records will release the complete demo recordings of Swedish death metallers EVOCATION. Entitled "Evoked From Demonic Depths - The Early Years", it will feature the following tracks:

01. A Wind Has Risen
02. Through The Darkened Peril
03. The Ancient Gate
04. Desolated Spirits
05. On A Journey To Heaven
06. Where The Headstones Shine
07. Veils Were Blown
08. Spiritual Affinity
09. Outro
10. On A Journey To Heaven (rehearsal)
11. Where The Headstones Shine (rehearsal)
12. Spiritual Affinity (rehearsal)
13. Veils Were Blown (rehearsal)
14. Genesis

Video enhancements

15. The Ancient Gate (live at Gamlestaden, Gothenburg 1992)
16. Genesis (live at Gamlestaden, Gothenburg 1992)
17. Where The Headstones Shine (live at Gamlestaden, Gothenburg 1992)

Tracks 1 to 4 are taken from the "The Ancient Gate" demo, tracks 5 to 9 from the "Promo 1992" demo. Tracks 10 to 13 are previously unreleased rehearsal tracks and as a very special the band has recorded the unreleased track "Genesis", which has been written in 1992, but so far has never ever been available before (track 14). "Genesis" was recorded at IF Studios (IN FLAMES, THE HAUNTED) by producer Robert Laghi. All tracks have been mastered at Fascination Street Studio (OPETH, PARADISE LOST, ENSLAVED, GRAND MAGUS and many more). The remastering of the demo tracks was done using the original master tapes. The CD version also includes three live bootleg video enhancements as a bonus.

Besides the historical musical content, the release is packed with in-depth information on the history of EVOCATION. A foreword has been written by Anzo Sadoni (Metal Hammer), Björn-Thorsten Jaschinski (Rock Hard, Legacy) and Frank Schenk (Chaos magazine) took a deep dive into EVOCATION's history from their start in 1991 until the reunion in 2005 and on until the release of the band's highly praised third studio album "Apocalyptic". Guitarist Marko Palmén comments on every song and gives not just a glimpse but a detailed view into the writing process of the demos. All this information gets underlined by an elaborate usage of band photos, concert flyers and other visual content from the years 1991 to 1993 and the noble and balanced layout by Xaay (NILE, BEHEMOTH).

"Evoked From Demonic Depths - The Early Years" will be released as CD with 32-page booklet and an O-card as well as on deluxe 2LP (180g vinyls, gatefold sleeve, printed inner sleeves) and as digital download.

The album will be released on the following dates:

* Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway: Friday, June 22
* Spain, Italy: Tuesday, June 26
* Sweden, Finland, Hungary: Wednesday, June 27
* Rest Of Europe: Monday, June 25
* Australia, New Zealand: Friday, June 29

EVOCATION recently entered IF Studios, the IN FLAMES-owned facility in Gothenburg, Sweden, with producer Roberto Laghi (IN FLAMES, SONIC SYNDICATE, HARDCORE SUPERSTAR) to begin recording its fourth album for a late 2012 release via the band's new label home, Century Media Records.

SHINING To Release Covers EP

SHINING will release an EP of cover songs with a choice of material that will come as a surprise to many of the band's fans. The four-track EP, titled "Lots of Girls Gonna Get Hurt", includes tracks from KATATONIA, KENT, IMPERIET and POETS OF THE FALL, and is due for release on Spinefarm Records on May 16.

Cover art is by Pauline Greefhorst.

Commenting on the decision to release an EP of covers, as well as on the choice of material, SHINING's frontman and founder Niklas Kvarforth had this to say: "In no way should this EP be seen as a new direction for SHINING, and it is absolutely no indication of what you can expect from our upcoming eighth album. Like most musicians neither myself, nor the rest of the band, restrict ourselves to listening to only one genre of music. We all have eclectic tastes, and finding ourselves with some spare time in the studio, we recorded a total of six covers, and decided to release four of them. This EP simply represents some of the artists and music that we like. We know that those fans of SHINING who limit themselves to a narrow musical spectrum will hate the album, but that really is of no concern to us."

SHINING's as-yet-untitled eighth full-length album will be released in the fall.