| ABANDONED le 31/10/2007 |
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Quand l'Allemagne nous envoie du thrash de son territoire, ce n'est jamais dans la dentelle. Abandoned nous prouve une fois de plus que nos cousins "germains" sont les maîtres d'oeuvre en la matière.
1. Pouvez-vous nous dire d’où vous venez et nous quelques infos supplémentaires concernant Abandoned?
2. De quelle façon composez-vous dans le groupe ?
3. Quels sont les groupes qui vous plaisent ?
4. D’où proviennent vos influences qui vous procurent un tel son ?
5. Parle de ton nouvel album aux autres lecteurs…
6. Pensez-vous faire une tournée suite à la sortie de « Thrash You » ou peut-être une vidéo ?
7. Avez-vous toujours voulu faire parti d’un groupe depuis que vous êtes mômes ? Vos familles et amis vous ont-ils toujours encourager à réaliser vos rêves ou à l’inverse vous ont-ils toujours ôter cela de l’esprit ?
8. Est-ce que chacun d’entre vous a pris des leçons de musique ou vous êtes-vous débrouillés tous seuls ?
9. Vous êtes allemands mais votre style est plus proche des groupes américains…
10. As-tu créé le groupe avec l’idée de jouer ce genre de musique ou est ce que cela s’est imposé à vous naturellement ?
11. Quelle est votre chanson préférée sur votre nouvel album et est-ce que votre titre préféré a été enregistré ?
12. Préfères-tu jouer dans ton pays ou à l’étranger ?
13. Quels sont vos plans pour les prochains mois ?
ENGLISH VERSION
1) Please tell everyone where the band is from and maybe give us a little more info about Abandoned... Hi! I am Holger, I play guitar in Abandoned. We are from Darmstadt/Germany. That is near Frankfurt/Main. The band is active since `99 when Kalli (Guit/Voc) and I startet the Band, just for the sake of jamming around. Short time later we found our drummer (Konrad). Konrad had his own little studio, where we recorded our first Promo-CD-R “Forcefed”(2000). We gave it away for free or just for 1€ in search of a bassplayer and just to say “Here we are!”. In the beginning of 2001 we found Günt our bassplayer, so we startet to play some gigs in our region. In `03 we recorded our first “real” demo CD “Misanthrope”, which gets a lot of very good reviews in Online-, Underground- and also in some big magazines. We were “Demo of the Month” in German ROCK HARD Magazine and got asked to be part of the well known “Metal Crusade” Compilation from German Heavy! Magazine. Based on all these good reviews, we got the chance to play some of the big German Metal-Festivals like Rock Hard, Earthshaker and Wacken Open Air in 2005…and all that without a record deal. Following these Festival-Gigs, we got our first record deal with Dockyard1. We released our Debut CD “Thrash Notes” last Year in 2006 and now it`s time to “Thrash you!” with our new album! 2) How do you compose in the band? Most of the Songs are written at home. Mostly that`s Kalli and my work. We put the Riffs together, sometimes we arrange some melodylines…but the melodies are Kalli`s part. We record the Guitar lines for both guitars and then we send them as MP3 files to the other guys to hear and give some comments. Later during Rehearsal it`s easier to finish the songs when the other guy had heared them a couple of times. The final arrangements we do during the rehearsals. 3) Which bands do like? We all in the band have some favorite Bands like Testament, Arch Enemy or The Haunted. Kalli is very much into Judas Priest, Metallica and Iced Earth. Günt (Bass) likes Anthrax and Vicious Rumors. Konrad is much into Metalcore, but also likes Twisted Sister or Mötley Crüe. I like all the old fashioned Thrash stuff. Beginning with Destruction, Onslaught, old Sadus up to all the Bay Area stuff, especially Forbidden and Dimmu Borgir I like much. It all startet with KISS and also I like all the 80`s Poser stuff, Skid Row, Crüe… 4) Where did you guys draw your influences from back then to fuel such a unique sound? Our influences are definately all those 80s Thrash-bands. I don`t think that it`s so unique, what we do. Maybe it`s different to other new Thrash Bands…but every one has different opinions and listens differently to the music. 5) Speak to the readers about the new album? We`re absolutely happy with our new CD! The sound kills! We`re not so happy with the last production, but now everything is great. The new songs sound a bit more melodic, maybe that is based on the better production. We didn`t have that in mind, while we wrote the songs. It just happened. Now we're looking forward to play some gigs and next year we hope to get again a chance to play some of the big festivals. 6) Are you guys planning on touring to support the new album, or possibly a video? Hm…Touring plans are not easy to realize. We all have our jobs, our drummer has a little daughter of 2 years, others have to pay for their house. It`s not easy to get it managed to be on tour for one week. The other problem is. When you will do a support for a bigger band, you have to pay X-thousand €, just to get the support slot. It`s better to play the summer festivals, there you can reach the same or more people as on tour. About the video thing. We just did a video. It`s some Studio scenes during the recordings and other stuff in it. I`s not a Videoclip, but has a really good quality. You can see the video on our MySpace site or download it from our homepage. MySpace or website. 7) When you were growing up did you guys always want to be in a band or I startet making Rock Music when I was 16/17. Before I used to play piano a couple of years. Of course you have a lot of dreams, when you`re a teenager, but that never happened. At the moment all in the band are between 33-36 years old…I think all the dreams are dreamed. We finally got a record deal, what we never expected at this time. We got the chance to play with some of our favorite Bands, we got some Stage and Backstage-Experience at the big Festivals. That`s more the most younger or older Metalheads ever had. We have still fun doing our music and we will do it for another couple of years I think. I got never much support from my family. My mother did never understand that « Heavy Metal »thing. 8) Have any of you had formal music lessons or are you all self taught? Yes, I`ve had some lessons. I told you I played piano, that means there`s a bit left about the notes. Later I got some Guitar-Lessons, but all the Rhythm Guitar stuff is self taught. I`m not sure about Konrad and Kalli, but Günt got some Bass-Lessons from a good friend of him during the last years (Jürgen Steinmetz of Silent Force fame). 9) You 're German but your style is near from American bands... Yes, that`s right. We try to mix that Bay-Area style with some influences from German bands, but I think, most of the riffs sound Bay Area style…I grew up with that stuff…I can`t do it any other way! :-) 10) Did you create the band with the idea to play this kind of music or was it natural when you started working together? That`s what I said in the last question. I always wanted to play that style. That Bay Area style is for me the easiest way to write songs. The riffs just slip out of my hand. When we started the band Thrash Metal was nearly dead. There was just Testament`s “The Gathering” and the first “The Haunted” CD comin` out. The rest was really deep in the underground, it was some kind of luck, that Thrash Metal is coming back to life one or two years later. 11) What's your favourite song on the new album recorded and what was your favourite song recorded? We recorded all songs we wrote after “Thrash Notes”. “Thrash You!” is released just 15 Month after “Thrash Notes”, there`s not much time to write songs. So all songs we had are placed on th new CD. My Favourite Songs are “Sands of Time”, because it has a really great chorus. “Too Blind To See” is our first slower song with a great melody at the chorus and my favourite is maybe “Trapped”! Full speed ahead and not too many breaks! 12) You mean you like most playing at foreign or in your country? Right now we played twice in Denmark, we`ve got some friends there which invited us and we played once in Switzerland. It`s not so easy with other countries. To drive just for one concert to Italy is much too expensive and takes too much time. You need to get managed one or two other gigs on the way. That means a lot work for the organisation and you need to get 4 working guys and their holidays one the same weekend, because you will need one or two days free. To play in the north of France wouldn`t be a big problem, that`s not so far. 13) What are your plans for the newt months? We`re looking forward to play some concerts in late summer/autumn and we will start writing new songs. That`s all what is planned so far… Thanx a lot !
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Interview réalisée par mail avec Holger, le guitariste.
