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Venom hath returned with a new album, simply entitled HELL. Here is a new Q&A with drummer Antton. ANTTON: Its nice and simple yeh!
Some people have been saying we can’t think of an original title, like Metal Black being Black Metal swapped round.
There is a whole bunch of tracks on the album and we could have named it after any one of them.
But we think Hell says it all.
2) How would you compare Hell to the past 2 albums in terms of progression & songs? What was the creative mindset? ANTTON: Hell was very similar to Metal
Black in the sense we went into rehearsals and jammed a lot of it out.
Venom has a variety of tracks and always has had. Some fast some slow and always as heavy as fuck.
3) How would you compare the chemistry of playing with Rage, compared to the other guitarists? ANTTON: Rage is a great guy; he is a metal head thru and thru. So getting into rehearsals was great.
It’s very important that the bands chemistry works.
There is nothing worse than being in a band with someone you don’t like or get on with.
4) When writing drum parts, do you listen to the songs & envision what you'd hear first, does Cronos suggest certain beats? How many variations do you usually go through?
ANTTON: I try a few different approaches, I’m pretty much left to come up with what ever I want.
Some tracks will just fall into place straight away and then you can come up with a riff and nothing seems to work and you end up messing around with it for ever and (are)
never happy (with it).
5) How do you feel about the current resurgence of black metal? Do you feel any pressure to live up to being the creators of the genre?
ANTTON: I think it’s, all great. There are some sick musicians out there. I hear some of the stuff the drummers are kicking out and it’s awesome. Venom is Venom and we do what we do.
Music isn’t a competition; if you like what you do I think it comes across in the music and the kids seem to like it.
6) What's your opinion oif the curent state of the music industry? ANTTON: I don’t understand what is going on in the metal world today.
A lot of the bands coming out aren’t metal.
You look at some of the festival line-ups like Download in England, where is the metal?
Even Metallica and Slipknot have gone to Reading this year.
Check out the line up for Hell Fest in France, that’s a metal fest.
7) Has anything been taped for a DVD? ANTTON: Maybe
8) What's the latest on Def-Con-One? Do you feel staying musically active is beneficial for drummers? ANTTON: Def-Con-One have just finished a CD called “Blood Soaks The Floor”
Anyone interested can get a copy from the myspace page.
It’s always great to play different styles, drummers need to keep it up. If you stop rehearsing for whatever reason you kind of fall to bits, or should I say I do.
9) With Metal Black, the band seemed to embrace its past. Do you think being in touch with the past allows a more clear vision for the future? ANTTON: I think it helps; Venom’s first drummer had a certain approach to playing drums that is very different to most drummers.
I hear some bands putting CD’s out and every album is different.
Now there is different because you are progressing (in) your music and there is different because you have jumped on the latest bandwagon.
I think it’s very important to stay consistent.
There are some bands out there that when you buy the latest CD you know what you are gonna get straight away.
If you buy an AC/DC album you are gonna get exactly what it says on the cover.
Take Motorhead, they still sound and look like Motorhead and always will and Motorhead fans love that.
If it’s not broken don’t fix it.
“Venom Is Venom And We Do What We Do”
10) Venom seems in one of its most productive periods in a long time, what would you attribute to the bands current unity & drive? ANTTON: Having musicians that want to be in Venom helps a lot.
The original drummer and guitarist don’t want to do Venom.
So it was a case of finding a guitarist that wanted to be in Venom and is easy to get on with.
Cronos has a passion for Venom and most of the bands ideas were his in the first place.
He came up with the logo and most of the images like the Black Metal head, etc.
11) What's your favorite 80's era KISS album? What's your favourite KISS line-up? If you could cover a KISS song, which would it be?
ANTTON: I love the live albums, especially alive II, but my favourite studio album is probably destroyer.
I prefer Eric Carr as a drummer so I would say Gene, Paul, Ace and Eric.
ANTTON: (cont.) A track I would like to cover? That is a very hard question. It would depend on the band I was playing in I guess.
Maybe God Of Thunder or Creatures Of The Night, sometimes at rehearsals me and Johnny from Def-Con-One will rip through some KISS tracks like Cold Gin or Detroit Rock City.
12) Thanks for your time. Any messages for the readers of Metal Hell? ANTTON: Hell yeah man, Hell is coming. You have been warned.
Regards, Antton |
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