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Neka ti Geozee uploaduje te 4 kada skine.

mozda jeste a mozda i nije to sto trazis. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4HVZF1NE

The Poison Deluxe Edition http://u-k11uf5xxh.urlcash.net/ http://u-411uf6tsy.urlcash.net/

Scream Aim fire http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/3219588 www.mediaportal.ru

Ne bljuvace vatru.

Anima Noir (2008) www.mediaportal.ru

XV (2008)

Kako god, evo bas sam na pola druge sezone i House sada vise radi, tj. kontakt sa ljudim i par operacijica, super. I provalio sam da je druga sezona vise orijentisana ka seksu nego ka samim bolestima, mogu da zamislim sta ce biti u 3

Verovatno do kraja ove godine.

A dangerous new machine has come to life. Combine one of metal's hungriest young singers, Jon Howard from Threat Signal, with gold-selling Fear Factory architects, guitarist/bassist Christian Olde Wolbers and drummer Raymond Herrera, and you get ARKAEA, a new band that’s volatile, violent and vicious. On cuts like the bludgeoning “My Redemption” and “Awakening,” mechanized thrash riffs and pummeling percussion forge a musical foundation for all-out metallic brutality. Wolbers’ guitars snake through a haze of feedback, while Herrera engages in drum warfare. The grooves hit hard with a piercing precision, and the vocals remain infectious, as each song proves a battle-cry for these musicians. “Gone Too Far” builds with a polyrhythmic, math metal strike, while “Blackened Sky” is a thrashy icepick of a track. Ultimately, this is more than a new machine; it’s a metal revolution. Howard describes ARKAEA’s familiar, yet innovative sound: “Chris and Ray have been writing together for many years, so the music does have a lot of Fear Factory elements. However, we’ve been open to trying different things. It basically fuses what I have been doing vocally in Threat Signal with driving Fear Factory rhythms, along with some of our own experimentation. The idea behind the project is to be heavy, but maintain melody at the same time. We have crazy riffs, but some grooving choruses as well. It’s a great mix.” Tracks like “Break the Silence” will no doubt captivate metal fans everywhere, with hard-hitting guitars and huge arena-ready choruses. The band’s experimentation also proves extremely refreshing. “Gone Tomorrow” is a slow, brooding song that shows ARKAEA’s range and diversity by combining ethereal melodies and hypnotic vocals. Wolbers continues, “These songs were designed like the Fear Factory songs that Raymond and I always wrote. However, we’ve been able to push the boundaries and go out of that context, while remaining heavy.” Howard has been a part of the Fear Factory family ever since Wolbers served as producer for Threat Signal’s debut, Under Reprisal. Given that connection, the chemistry was there the instant the band started jamming. Howard has managed to push himself as a singer with the help of the veteran musicians. “I always try to do new things and experiment with my voice, and this project has been challenging,” says Howard. “It always takes a little time to get comfortable working with new people and a new style of music, but I got over that really fast with Christian and Raymond, and I feel very comfortable where we’re going right now.” That chemistry is instantly undeniable upon first listen, and it is only going to evolve and improve. In the end, what matters for these musicians is creating metal that will last. Wolbers concludes, “You have to write a lot of songs in life to stumble on those couple that are like ‘Walk.’ Every day, music pours out of us, and we aim to capture it.” Howard concurs, “My goal is to create an album I’m completely proud of, that will last for years and years without getting old: something like a Pantera record, or an early Metallica record.” Let ARKAEA’s new machine roll toward the top. http://www.myspace.com/arkaeamusic http://www.arkaea.com/main.html

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Sada samo da se nadje organizator koji je u fazonu da ih tada dovede

Mislim da je izasao novi album Era-e Potrazite na mediaportalu.ru

ASHES dIVIDE - Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright (2008) http://rapidshare.com/files/105015975/ASHES_dIVIDE.rar

Novi album http://rapidshare.com/files/104866373/ts_w...iaportal.ru.rar

Novi Textures album http://rapidshare.com/files/104866373/ts_w...iaportal.ru.rar

Odsvirali samo jednu i po pesmu. Mika upao u samotnu pec i u obdukcionoj sali intro.... Zapoceli su koncert sa bukom, i onda ove dve pesme i to je bilo to, barem su bili maskirani ako nista drugo.

jok, mrzi me, nema toliko bitnih stvari, koliko je intervju zabavan.

Jaya The Cat 16. maja na Akademiji. Poreklom iz Bostona, trenutno smešteni u Amsterdamu, Holandija, Jaya The Cat svira beskompromisnu i originalnu mešavinu reggae-a, punk rock-a i ska muzike. Nastali kroz zajedničku ljubav prema dub-u i punk-u '60ih i '70ih od strane tri prijatelja (Geoff Lagadec - vocals/guitar, Dave Smith - guitar/vocals and Ben Murphy - bass), Jaya The Cat pravi pesme koje idu od booze himni, pesama za đusku do politički angažovanih stvari. Od 2001. i njihovog debi izdanja 'Basement Style' band-u se pridružio bivši Shadows Fall bubnjar David ‘The Germ’ Germain i Jaya The Cat je počeo da svira ugovorene turneje po US i Evropi, po poznatim klubovima i festivalima kao što su Lowlands (Holandija), Pukkelpop (Belgija) i Warped Tour po US. Njihova muzika je takođe predstavljena u raznim skate, surf i snowboard video spotovima. Dakle Real roots promotion vas poziva 16 maja da se nacrtate u Akademiji na ovom sjajnom događaju. Vidimo se tamo. Predgrupa ce biti verovatno Flip Out, a muziku ce pustati Coyotre

Strasno... R.I.P.

Mindless Self Indulgence Interview in Support of You’ll Rebel To Anything by Wes Robertson PunkTV.ca: This is my first interview with anyone so… Urine: Alright, poppin’ your cherry! [Laughs] PunkTV.ca: To begin, musically, I have a few questions. Kitty: Uh-oh. We just have to warn you, because this is your first interview, we’ll just go EHN! every time you ask us a question we have heard in the past. PunkTV.ca: Between Frankenstein Girls and You’ll Rebel To Anything, there seems to be a change in the sound style you are going for. Have you guys decided to slightly change the direction MSI is going in on the new albums? U: Yeah, we made the songs slightly longer and we pulled the BPM down just a bit. Not for the people out there, but for the industry people, for the guys on the radio station that were like “this is minute long and it is 250 beats per minute! We can’t play this!” K: We’re dumbing it down. U: We’re dumbing it down for the format. PunkTV.ca: Was there a reason the album was so short in comparison? U: They are actually both similar, there is really not that huge of an amount of difference in the time. PunkTV.ca: But in the number of tracks… U: Number of tracks yeah, because in the first one there was like a fifty second song and a one minute song and then a minute thirty song… what is the longest song on that? PunkTV.ca: Three minutes, with “I Hate Jimmy Page”. U: Yeah, that comes in at just about… K: That’s our epic, our rock opera. U: Our eight minute “Stairway to Heaven”. PunkTV.ca: You are definitely growing in popularity, you have a MySpace with over 100,00 fans, a huge amount compared to four years ago. Do you see this popularity affecting your musical direction at all? U: No. I hope it affects our paychecks. That’s all I care about. PunkTV.ca: Has it been? U: We’ll find out [Laughs]. I have a hovercraft. PunkTV.ca: You’ll Rebel seemed more polished… U: Did it? We worked on that for a while. PunkTV.ca: Really? I’ve read interviews where you said you spent very little time… U: Well, we don’t spend a ton of time, not compared to most people. Lyn-Z: Compared to us… U: Compared to us it was a lot of time. It was a month. That was damn on schedule I have to say, I was proud of that. L: No, we banged that shit out. U: Yeah, Machine was really helpful on that, as far as ching-ching-ching-ching-ching. PunkTV.ca: Do you plan on continuing the…? [Editor’s note: Steve, Righ? enters the room] K: There he is! U: Answer this question! Steve, Righ?: Four times if we’re in the north, seven if we’re in the south. PunkTV.ca: Do you plan on continuing this… U: I cannot predict what is going to come out of my ass! S: I can predict what is coming out of my ass. U: All right! PunkTV.ca: Will it be more polished? U: [Laughs] It all depends. What did you have for breakfast? Are you a twenty-four hour pooper? S: Yeah, just stick it in my ass. What are we doing? U: We are doing an interview. PunkTV.ca: Are there any plans to do anything with Tight? Like a re-issue? U: Maybe, one day. We are going to wait until the eBay selling price is like 600 dollars instead of this lousy 200 dollars. S: Yeah. U: Then we will release it. Ha-ha! Just when it is 600 dollars and outbidding ours that go for 200, we’ll put it out and they will all fall! PunkTV.ca: Just to crush the hopes of the guy selling at 600? S: Crush everything. K: Crush! PunkTV.ca: Is there any plan for a second Left Rights? S: We are working on the Blue Reds right now. [Laughs] U: I’m the Revs! The South will rise again! S: Blue RED. U: Ohh… I wanted to do the Blue Revs. S: You are pedantic. U: Was there ever a plan for the first one? S: No, we didn’t even plan the first one. There is no plan. U: You guys think we plan stuff a lot of the time. “Is there going to be a plan?” “Is the next one going to be polished?” S: Oh, he thought Rebel was polished? PunkTV.ca: Moreso than Frankenstein Girls, yeah. S: Yeah, because the recording levels were up. U: Thanks for coming! S: We are going to polish it so much that it will sound above a dog whistle. U: Only dogs can hear it. Just blowing the fucking dog whistle. S: You blow your bone… U: One hundred and twenty-five dollars. S: Wow, steep. [Laughs] PunkTV.ca: Do you guys ever get bored of us? Touring? U: Interviews? PunkTV.ca: Interviews, the fans, the touring, the general nonsense? Or is it still a lot of fun? U: It’s fun… S: How do you want us to answer that? If we answer it honestly we look like geeks. Yeah, it’s fun. Why wouldn’t it be fun? It is just as fun as it ever was. L: My favorite thing to do, actually, is when the bus pulls up next to the lines and… S: Staring at people. L: Yeah. S: Say things about them. L: Yeah. S: If you think about what we are actually doing… even last night I was signing some stuff and some kid was like, “don’t you get tired of doing this?” and I was like… “would you?” U: Honestly, for me, and I think it may be the same for you, once we are not able to get away with anything more… S: Oh yeah, definitely. U: Then it will be really sucky. But, hopefully, we can kind of take what we have been doing and push it up but, I don’t know. PunkTV.ca: What do you mean “not get away with anything”? U: Like once it gets to the point where… like you have seen a giant band in a huge arena that don’t get to jump down and hang out with fans. They go to the bus, have to be rushed by security, and once it becomes ridiculously over the top and you aren’t allowed to get away with anything, when I can’t run around like an idiot and jump everywhere, then it is going to get more and more… the more confined you are. PunkTV.ca: So… excess popularity would be the downfall of MSI, perhaps? S: No, no, no, no, no. U: No… I don’t know yet. I mean, we’ve gotten this far… S: We thought this would suck. I don’t think we would ever do that, we would always find a way. I think that a lot of those bands want to be rushed away. The just make it this routine where they have the hotel room, they have these skank hos in there, and that is all they fucking do. Which is fine for them… U: We are never just backstage I mean… look at this! This is just a room. We are out there, and then when the music is done we continue. S: We stay out there. We come back here for five minute, take a water, throw up. U: Make sure our hair looks fantastical! S: And then go back out until everyone is ushered out. U: Sometimes we usher them all the way to their cars. Not you though. PunkTV.ca: This is good enough. So, say MSI became platinum selling… U: I GOT A HOVERCRAFT! PunkTV.ca: Would you guys still think you would be out in the audience? U: I’d try to be. I don’t know where it stops. Something is going to have to go. K: The day I get shanked. U: Yeah, the day I get stabbed is the day that this ends. There are a couple of kids going “ok, I know what to do now” [Laughs] K: I want to throw that gauntlet down. S: I want to put it this way: it is not impossible that we’ll get to that point, but why bother speculating what we will be doing? K: Even if we did, we would work out something. S: Who is to say it is even going to get there? Fuck thinking about that shit. U: We’ve got a show to put on! S: We’ve got a show to put on! We enjoy doing it, people seem to enjoy coming to it, and that is it. If they decide it isn’t fun anymore, we’ll still be doing it. U: Especially if they hate it. PunkTV.ca: When you first started MSI, when you first started recording, what inspired you? Or was it just a let’s just do it for fun thing? U: Let’s just do it. S: Not for fun necessarily. U: For lack of anything else like it. PunkTV.ca: Do you have an influence at all, musically? S: Everything. U: Too much stuff. Too many options. S: Influences both positive and negative, we were more influenced by bands we didn’t like than bands we liked, “artists” that we liked, because we wanted to do something that was completely apart from what we hated at the time. That is what we really wanted to do at the time. We wanted to see this band, but we couldn’t, because they didn’t exist. So let’s do it. And let’s annoy people the most while we are doing it. PunkTV.ca: What band that you hated the most has inspired you the most? U: Oooooh, he flipped that on you nigga’. S: I would just say, as a collective, Jock Rock. That whole testosterone infused shit. PunkTV.ca: What is the worst of the worst? The cream of the crap? U: There are so many, that’s the problem. We can’t lay it on one motherfucking band, there is no motherfucking band that is that bad. Backstreet Boys, Limp Bizkit, no. There is a whole slew of shit. S: And all of those bands have something good about them. Like Wes Borland was cool in Limp Bizkit. U: And I really like the chair thing that they did in the Backstreet Boys. That was dope. S: Well Backstreet’s back! All: Alright! PunkTV.ca: As a genre, you’d say Jock Rock is the worst? S & U: No! U: You aren’t getting the answers but you are asking the questions! PunkTV.ca: We can change this line… S: No, no. We want you to understand it. K: Can I put Stoner Rock in their too? S: Anything that is… L: Jam bands. K: Jam bands are awful. U: It could even be a band that is ok but maybe the lead singer says the stupidest shit live. S: Like us. U: Whatever you find that you can’t stand. Things that people do, and it doesn’t matter what band they are in. They do the same stupid shticks all the time. “Hey, alright, get up you motherfuckers!” It doesn’t matter, you could be in a Jock Rock band, a fucking war band, or 30 Seconds to Mars and the guy is going to be like, “Hey you motherfuckers!” S: How about Gerard, that is the most bizarre one, from My Chemical Romance? U: Oh, I know! I expected him to be… S: “Get your hands in the air! Alright you fuckers!” U: Yeah, what the fuck? It is like they go to the 101 school. Shut the fuck up! You have a good shot, why are you ruining it with crap? S: It doesn’t matter, that’s why. U: That’s right, you can do anything. S: Anybody can do anything, but I guess that is why we are quote unquote “different”. U: Too smart for our own good. It is all about crying about your purple heart. S: I got a purple heart for lettin’ a fart. No, see, people don’t notice if you do the same shit. They don’t care. They will just eat what is force fed to them, but it gives us stuff to stay away from. U: We should do that tonight guys, just go “Alright! Get your hands in the air! You motherfuckers want to rock?” S: Bring out a chair… U: The problem is they aren’t smart enough for that and will go “wow… that’s cool…” S: That is the problem. But for our own amusement, we don’t like doing that shit. PunkTV.ca: As far as the people do the opposite of what you are talking about, who has been the most impressive or fun to see when you were touring with them? What band has been the most engaging with the audience? U: That we’ve toured with? PunkTV.ca: Yeah, that you have toured with. Who did the opposite of what we are talking about? S: Actually, the more you do what we are not liking, the more you engage the audience. U: The bigger the audience, and the lower the common denominator, the easier you are going to get everyone to go “YEAH!” PunkTV.ca: Who impressed you the most though? S: By not doing that shit? PunkTV.ca: Yeah, with onstage persona and what they did with the audience. That you toured with. U: That we’ve toured with? K: What about… U: I have to say, I like a lot of the smaller acts. The smaller acts that are not set up like bands always intrigue me. PunkTV.ca: Not set up like bands? U: Like the opening guy tonight [Editor’s note: The Show is the Rainbow] is just a guy with a projection screen and a microphone. I like that kind of stuff, the opening band that isn’t a band. When it is local support it is like, “hey… we’re Burning Soul” and it’s crap. But, a lot of times, because of the kind of band we are, we end up attracting a lot of geeky weird basement bands. PunkTV.ca: Like the Super 8-Bit Brothers. U: Exactly. That type of a thing. Those kind of bands I enjoy more, because at least I am going to be entertained by “what’s the shtick?” The video game thing is the shtick and they have the sword… what was it… Fun Club… these little bands with a cool shtick that aren’t set up like a regular band I always find entertaining. L: Steven and I got to watch AFI the other day and they did good. They were amusing. U: They actually did stuff? S: Yeah, but we didn’t tour with them. We want to. PunkTV.ca: My friend told me to ask you: what is art? U: Is it a god? S: What kind of person is your friend? U: Does he have a beard? Art is getting paid a dollar to kiss every single person in the front row. S: That is art. U: That is my art. I take home a lot for my art, I get like two hundred bucks a night. PunkTV.ca: You make two hundred bucks a night kissing people? S: At least. U: Watch me tonight. You’ll see it. K: It’s a social commentary. S: That is thing. Really, what is it? It is a way to make two hundred dollars. But it is your art. If he says it is his art, it is his art. PunkTV.ca: Speaking of social commentary… S: Uh-oh. Are we going to have to kick you in the balls? PunkTV.ca: Hold up, hold up. Let me finish before I get kicked in the nuts. If I deserve it, I will take what’s coming. U: Alright! [Laughs] PunkTV.ca: It seems like from Frankenstein Girls to You’ll Rebel the lyrics seem to be less “just for fun” and more to have some “point”, if I can use that word… S: I get what you are driving at. K: That is just what we want you to think. U: It’s probably because you can actually understand the lyrics this time. S: The songs are a bit slower, number one, and number two I think there is a little less jabberwocky going on. I don’t think that is on purpose though. U: No, I just think that is the way it is. K: The anti-message is our message. PunkTV.ca: The anti-message? The anti-message is what? K: Our art. S: Yeah, that’s art. Don’t ask her to explain it! It is her art! PunkTV.ca: Would you say MSI has a single message? U: What do you want us to be? You seem to be… “are you going to me more popular? Are you…” S: It is interesting though. U: I know, I know. K: I’m actually quite serious about that. Our message is the anti-message. U: It is. S: But I don’t think that is necessarily… U: Not anarchy. All: No. S: And not “not having a message”, but I think in doing that we put across a message. U: We do. We collect a bunch of people who believe the same thing. K: The whole thing is that we don’t want to hit people over the head with a message. U: And look at the people we attract… we get a lot of geeky, not nerdy, but you know… not just someone who might read a lot, but someone who knows all the lines to Star Wars, and at the same time people that like fast, crazy music. S: And Star Wars. U: And Star Wars! All sorts… a big, bizarre fucking collection out there. S: But then there are also quote-unquote “normal people” out their too. L: I mean, our audience is awesome. At most shows it is all the same kind of person, but at our shows they are all… S: Different types of people. U: People say they can always tell our fans. You can see them a block away. S: That is true, you can kind of spot them. K: They all have the same odor. U: [Laughs] They do have the same odor. PunkTV.ca: How would you describe MSI fan musk? K: Cold cuts. U: Cold cuts and chicken soup. S: I smelled a girl the other day who smelled like a straight up hamburger with raw onions on it. But, then again, I smell like shit and cat piss most of the time. PunkTV.ca: I didn’t mean to try to put you in a box earlier with questions. S: No, it is engaging questions, and we aren’t used to that. U: Usually it is “so… where are you guys from…?” S: You actually know something about us. It is just like “ugh” because now we have to think. U: Engage us again. What is the next question? PunkTV.ca: I have one more question from my “what is art” friend, which is even dumber, but if you could have a farm, and raise either pegasi or unicorns, which would it be? K: Awesome question. U: Pegasus. S: Yeah. L: Of course! They can fly. K: Unicorns just have a horn. U: Yeah, what does a unicorn do? K: Horses that fly… L: Unicorns have magical powers. U: I don’t like fucking narwhals anyway. PunkTV.ca: Does MSI have a vendetta against narwhals? U: [Laughs] Yeah we do, why do you think there are so few of them left in the world? We have a whole bunch of narwhal horns in our van. K: That is the name of our next album. U: What? Horns in the Back of Our Car? K: No, Narwhal Vendetta. I’m thinking of making a side project. U: No! THE Narwhal Vendetta. K: Lyn-Z and I are The Narwhal Vendetta. Officialy. S: I think that should be the name of your band. K: Lyn-Z and I should wear horns on stage. L: Yes! K: We should! U: She has a fine shackle so she can go into the frozen north and… S: Shut up… PunkTV.ca: Will you be using authentic narwhal horns is the question. U: She’s got to sharpen her fucking harpoons. K: We’ll just make them out of glitter and stuff. U: Most narwhals have glitter on their fucking horns. Swimming through the artic going “oh I’ve got glitter everywhere whooo”. PunkTV.ca: A narwhal horn made from 100% glitter would be an impressive sight. U: Hell yeah, that would be a lot of glitter. Lot of glue. L: It’s magic. S: Do what you can with that. PunkTV.ca: Thank you very much for your time, is there any final thing that MSI… I have no idea how to end an interview so… U: Telling you how other people have done it so you can avoid that, they usually go with your “any final words?” or station ID or some shit. S: What we could do is throw things at you as you run out of the room, would that work? PunkTV.ca: Which object would be the best object for MSI to throw at me as I leave the room? U: I think that burning fucking candle would work well. S: Hot wax, baby! PunkTV.ca: Awesome, thank you very much.

Type O Negative Interview with Johnny Kelly in Support of Dead Again by Dixon Christie PunkTV.ca: We are just about to talk to Johnny from Type O Negative. Hey Johnny, it is Dixon Christie here. Hey, how is it going man? PunkTV.ca: It is super, how are you doing today? I’m doing ok, enjoying the nice weather. PunkTV.ca: You guys are taking a break in Brooklyn, New York right now? Yeah, I am in Stanton Island. We have been on a break since November. PunkTV.ca: And getting ready for a big spring coming up with Hatebreed and Three Inches of Blood. Yeah, that is a lot of metal. PunkTV.ca: I was going to say now have you succumb to the glory and honor that is Three Inches of Blood? I checked out their MySpace page when I was told that they were up for the tour, and I thought they were pretty good and I recommended them. I suggested them out of what the choices were. PunkTV.ca: I don’t think that many people have that 80s metal influenced thrash point of reference, so a lot of this is really new to them. Even Type O Negative, if you are putting out an album every five years, you constantly have to reintroduce yourself to a market that gets younger and younger. I am just appreciative that I still get the opportunity to introduce us to people. Technically, Type O Negative is a 80’s band. The band didn’t really reach any commercial notoriety until the 90’s, but the band has been around since ’89. PunkTV.ca: You can certainly hear a lot of thrash influences on modern rock bands of today. Yeah, I am still waiting for someone to top Metallica’s Master of Puppets. PunkTV.ca: Did you check out Trivium at all? One of the first tours that Trivium did was opening up for Danzig. PunkTV.ca: Right, and you were playing for Danzig at the time. Yeah, so I saw them every night. As far as the new bands and stuff I think that they are doing something that is pretty cool. PunkTV.ca: The comparison between Trivium and Metallica it is profoundly similar right? I definitely disagree with that. I mean, they did a nice cover of Master of Puppets, but really when you think about it, at the time, Metallica pretty much re-invented the wheel. I haven’t seen a band that ground breaking as far as metal goes. A lot of the other bands over the last few years have been patterning themselves after a few of those bands, and it is not like being innovative, it is more plagiarizing to me. PunkTV.ca: Well, what about what Type O Negative has done in as far as creating a genre to yourself that people still don’t really know how to define? We got classified as Goth. I guess we come from a lot of different things. PunkTV.ca: Like the Cult and Sisters of Mercy. Yeah, and Pink Floyd, and The Beatles, and Duran Duran. We didn’t just grab from one thing. Between the four of us, we are into so many different things and we bring a lot of that stuff to the table when we get together to work on something. So, it isn’t like, “Hey, let’s just draw from Sisters of Mercy and we will put distortion on it and tune it to B ,and we’ll have something different”. I think it is a little bit more depth to it than that. PunkTV.ca: It is what it is. There is no agenda to create. With Type O, I really think that the one thing that we accomplished, and one of the most important things for a band, is that we have our own sound and identity. Whether it is a popular thing or not, that is definitely subject to debate, but it’s like once you hear a song come on your radio or put a CD in you can tell right away it is Type O Negative. PunkTV.ca: So before we talk about the album I want to talk about the energy that you guys are sharing in the studio. Everyone knows that you left a long time relationship with Roadrunner, and it had been good and bad. Good in the sense that you had all the creative control, but bad in the sense that, obviously, the deal that you are going to negotiate when you are twenty compared to later down the road is going to be quite different. Tell us about the decision to not renew with Roadrunner and go with SPV? Basically when we delivered Life Is Killing Me, that had fulfilled the contractual obligation to Roadrunner. We weren’t completely opposed with re-signing to them. We had fielded some offers from a few labels, and Roadrunner put in another offer, and they wanted us to resign with them and stuff. For a while we were considering it, figuring that if we have been with them for so long we know what we are getting into and it’s familiar territory for us. SPV came in and they counter offered what Roadrunner was offering, and it was so much better in our favor that it was crazy to not take it. PunkTV.ca: Is SPV the perfect label for you guys? I guess with any record company-band relationship there is always going to be problems. We are not businessmen; we are a band. We want what is best for our band and a record company is a business. They want to make money and that is their goal. It is not a charity, so knowing that they have certain responsibilities that they have to answer for... that to them is to put out numbers and make a profit, and ours is to try to make the best record that we possibly can. With knowing how all that stuff works, yeah, there is definitely things that would have been nice to seen done differently, but at the same time when the record was finished, when they were promoting it and stuff, I saw print ads everywhere; they were really aggressive with radio play and stuff. Just some of the stuff it had taken to get there left little to be desired, that’s all. PunkTV.ca: Dead Again debuted #27 on the Billboard charts, which would have been the highest place that you guys have ever debuted, and the highest position you have ever been on the charts. Obviously, the system that they deployed seemed to be working for you. They were very happy with that. It was SPV’s highest chart positioning for any band that they ever had in the States. When the record came out it looked like everything was going to pan out really well. Everybody is excited when you have a good first week. PunkTV.ca: So why take the time off then? Do you lose the momentum waiting for the big packages like the Jagermeister package and stuff like that? Is there a momentum lost during that period? My instinct is to agree with that. I thought that we should have continued to work right after we finished that last tour… that is when we should have been working. I think that from the time the record was out… I think we should have been finishing up about now, which is what we used to do on the first two records. On Bloody Kisses we toured for eighteen months on it, then we were home for six months and we wrote and recorded and released October Rust within that time, and we were back on the road for another fourteen months. I think that for a band like us, that is the important thing to do. We are not going to get a lot of airplay; we are not going to get a lot of MTV support and stuff like that. You get it in drips and drags, but that’s it. Really, the way for the band to be successful, I think, is to tour. Now it seems like after October Rust the touring cycles on the records got shorter and shorter, and anytime I ask for an explanation I don’t get one. There are a couple of things where I guess it does make sense, but at the same time it is still disappointing in its own way. With Life Is Killing Me, it was the last record for Roadrunner, and they knew at that point while we were supporting it that we weren’t going to re-sign, so they weren’t as aggressive in promoting the record. So that record wasn’t getting the support that it needed, and so then it was like what we should be doing now is we should be working on a new record to have for our new record company as fast as possible, which ended up taking a few years anyways. PunkTV.ca: You would go out and tour for three years. I mean you would be out almost ever single night, three hundred nights a year. I don’t know about that. Even for my standards that is a lot. But I think you do a few weeks of a run and you go home for a week or two weeks or something, but I don’t think that you should sit home for six months and then we are out again. To me that doesn’t make sense. PunkTV.ca: I would think that SPV would be really good at getting you festival dates in Europe and working out big shows. A lot of that stuff I think is a misconception about what a record company actually does. A record company doesn’t get a tour for a band, your booking agent does that. What it is is – a record company and a band and booking agents and promoters – you all try to work together to try and get the most exposure. So a record company will put your record out and they will expect you to tour so they can promote the album and the record that you are out supporting. SPV is not in the business of booking tours and festivals and stuff. Like with Jager, they basically called us and said, “This is what we are doing and we want to put you with these guys, are you into doing it?” The whole thing happened really fast. PunkTV.ca: Are you friends with Jamie? I met Jamie a couple of times and we have a couple mutual friends. When he was much younger he used to work for Type O’s management. So that was kind of weird and, yeah, I met him doing Headbangers Ball a couple of times and I have seen them play a couple of times, but as far as hanging out we have never really hung out. PunkTV.ca: Considering the show he hosts, he is kind of like rock and roll royalty a little bit. Yeah, I would imagine that he knows everyone. PunkTV.ca: I also know a couple of your videos have been doing ok on Headbangers Ball. We don’t get it up here in Canada but I was happy to hear that they recently added “September Sun”. I don’t know if it really fits on Headbangers Ball but that is ok. PunkTV.ca: The word “headbanger” has grown to mean so many things. It isn’t the same thing as when I was younger. PunkTV.ca: Let’s talk about drum production. I loved the production on October Rust, it was monstrous, but I read that the label tried to pigeon hole October Rust into being something a little too big and too polished? I wouldn’t blame it entirely on them. They had very high expectations for it because of the success we were coming off of with Bloody Kisses. I think a little bit of that pressure was put on Peter too. I think that is where he really needed to deliver something that would be over the top from the previous effort. I think it is a great record and there is definitely stuff on it that I would have liked to have seen done a little differently, but now in retrospect I think it definitely has its place in our catalogue and it is like a photograph of a point in time where you are mentally and physically. I like the aspect of it being over the top in terms of the production and all the layers and all the instrumentation. Everything was over the top and there were just so many tracks on that record. PunkTV.ca: I know you guys did another cover in Dead Again; you did a cover of “Bad Moon Rising” that didn’t quite make it to the album. Yeah we did the basic tracks for it and we like walked away from it for a day or so and listening back to it just didn’t feel right, so we scrapped it. We already had like over eighty minutes of music recorded between the other songs going so long and all this other stuff, so we had to trim something anyways. The way that came out we were just like it was an easy decision for that to be the first thing to go so we save another three minutes. PunkTV.ca: I know that you guys have got two versions of the CD and also I just learned today that there is a three album vinyl set with t-shirt. Oh, yeah, I am not considering that to be a third release. I am considering that to be a part of the second release with the new artwork and stuff, but they did a vinyl version on that which I thought was pretty cool. PunkTV.ca: Do you have it? They actually sent me one… we were supposed to do a record release party in Brooklyn so they sent some stuff to my house for give-aways and stuff like that and things for the band to autograph, and I opened up the box and I saw a vinyl package in there and I sent them an email and I said, “You are going to have to send another vinyl package because I am keeping this one”. PunkTV.ca: I need to talk to somebody about getting myself a copy because hearing you guys on vinyl would be very nice and warm sounding considering the detail that goes into the production. The thing about that though I learned later on was back then, with vinyl and stuff, they were mixing it to be played on vinyl so now with stuff like this a new release you are mixing it initially to sound good on CD so it may sound completely different and not necessarily in a positive way. PunkTV.ca: I was talking to Dead Kennedys’ Easy Bay Ray about how he does a lot of production, and when they first started doing all their albums from the 80’s they sounded like shit because they had been mixed for vinyl and not for CD, and how he kind of had to re-teach himself how to master for CD. Especially now with Pro Tools and all the plug-ins that you have for mastering and things like that it is instant. You are working on a good rig and it is going to sound pretty much exactly the way that you are mixing it. You are not trying to compensate for something, say like vinyl. PunkTV.ca: It would be a completely different process like mixing for mp3. Most kids don’t realize that when they are listening to an mp3 they are listening to the most compressed version of the song. I really don’t have a problem with mp3s. In the context of what I am usually listening to it on, which is an iPod, it is not the greatest invention in terms of sound quality to begin with. With that stuff you get the general idea which, I guess, is like the proper use for an mp3. PunkTV.ca: Well let me ask you this: after basing away on drums for the better part of twenty five years are you going to be able to hear the difference? You know, probably not [Laughs]. PunkTV.ca: I spend most of my life in the pit in between monstrous speakers and the audience doing photos and stuff and I am sure I can’t hear the difference myself. Also, as you get older, there are certain frequencies that you don’t hear as well just from age, let alone pummeling your ear drums for a couple of decades. I remember when I hurt my ears standing in front of the PA going to see Zodiac Mind Warp. I hate to say it but I think White Zombie defiantly took a lot from this band. PunkTV.ca: So I got a couple questions we ask everybody and the first is what would surprise kids most to learn about you? They might not know that you played in Danzig of course, but you also play in a band called Seventh Void and a Led Zeppelin tribute band. Am I missing anything that would surprise kids? No, as of right now that is pretty much it. PunkTV.ca: Ok we got one question that we ask everybody and that is which of the following experiences have you had: have you seen the face of God, have you had an alien encounter, or have you seen a ghost? You know I haven’t seen any of that stuff. PunkTV.ca: I am searching for signs of faith, Mr. Johnny Kelly. Then look within yourself. PunkTV.ca: I got one special question just for you: is John Bonham the greatest drummer that ever lived or if not is it Bill Ward from Black Sabbath? Aw… dude… I would say that ever lived on Earth I would have to go with Bonham, but both of them are my biggest influences. PunkTV.ca: Any drum fan would know why you play in a Led Zeppelin cover band for fun. Yeah, that is the one I work at the hardest out of all of them. PunkTV.ca: Do you guys play “Poor Tom”? No, but I was playing it at rehearsal the other night. That is a tricky one. PunkTV.ca: Are there any particular Led Zeppelin songs that you will jam out just to warm yourself up? I guess my biggest challenge is to conquer “Achilles Last Stand”. PunkTV.ca: That should be a battle that you can take to your grave I suspect? Yeah, there are a couple of solos in there, and I have managed to land a few of them, but some of them are so out of control. PunkTV.ca: Isn’t that amazing that you could play professionally your whole life with some of the best touring bands in modern rock and still be battling to master what everybody else would consider to be some sloppy fills? As a drummer you know how difficult it must be to play those. One of the things that I learned is it is not always what you are playing, it is what you are not playing. It is really about working on a song. If I want to do a drum solo, I will just do a drum solo and work on that, but to work on a song I think it is the higher priority and that has always been more important to me. It is not just about nailing great drum tracks, because some of the greatest Sabbath and Zeppelin songs have mistakes all over them, but they are still great songs. PunkTV.ca: But now with Pro Tools there are no more mistakes. Not necessarily, sometimes you leave things there anyways because it has character, and to go in there and try to clean it up and make it perfect it winds up losing something along the way. PunkTV.ca: I meant to ask you: triggers or no triggers? Depends on the band. I don’t use any triggers with Type O. The only time I use triggers is if I trigger the kick drum when I play with Danzig. PunkTV.ca: Just so you can get the same sounding kick that you want all the time. Actually, it is what he wants. He likes to hear to kick drum in the monitors a certain way. We use a Marshal D3 electronic module, then you plug the triggers into that. I use a couple of like rolling pads for certain effects like the tympanis and stuff like that. PunkTV.ca: Do you do that of course because you can’t bring tympani drums on the road with you? Well, they are kind of hard to fit in the trailer. I wouldn’t mind having the tympanis to go with the whole Bonham thing and stuff but I would hate to lug those things around. PunkTV.ca: Are you lugging your own gear? When I play with the Led Zeppelin cover band you bet your ass I am. I put it in my truck, I drive it there, then I break it down myself at the end of the night. When I am on the road with the other bands I have a drum tech and stuff. It is just like another thing that could possibly break. It is just something else to just get in the way of everything. With the triggers and stuff it is just for a couple of things, so I don’t sweat it at all and it makes everything simple. PunkTV.ca: Alright well I am Dixon Christie here with PunkTV.ca and of course I have been on the line with Johnny Kelly of Type O Negative and Danzig. You have been very generous in your responses and your time, thank you so very much. Thank you man, I appreciate it.

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