Unpublished Interviews (part 1)

So yeah, when I was planning to do my zine two years ago I interviewed a couple bands via e-mail, one of them being Satanic Death. It's sort of embarrassing to re-read this interview now, due to the fact I never really got my zine off the ground* and realizing how my views on metal/music have changed. I don't know what happened to the band, I think they're still active and there was talk of a 12-inch awhile back, hopefully they'll release something new 'cause the 2nd demo is really good.

1. Hails Black Winged, how is life in Argentina?

Hail! pretty fucking boring, its raining the sky is black and im hungover...at least beherit sounds through my speakers

2. How did SATANIC DEATH form? What were your reasons for starting the band? Influences?

well...at the time i was playing in another band and iwas so bored with it and the whole scenes and atittudes towards metal and all, so i thought fuck it im doing it my own way and whoever doesnt like it can blow me...so i hooked up with those guys wrote some songs rehearsed and we recorded a rehearsal and cutted it as first demo,the demo was raw as hell and we were really shitty players too,but it had conviction and was agressive i still like it alot,some people noticed that and word got spread

3. What responses have you gotten for the demo so far? How has the local scene reacted to your formation?

Black Mass demo got a great response or so ive heard ,its all over europe, the local scene???well Satanic Death is the band everyone heard of but never actually heard

4. Satanic Propaganda seems to be a fairly new label, how did you get in touch with him?

saw the advice of a new label that was looking for bands,so i got in touch with him,showed him the first demo and we worked something out

5. South America had one of the most dedicated and extreme metal scenes of the late eighties (acts like HOLOCAUSTO, MUTILATOR, SARCOFAGO) how is the scene today? Also why is it that South American bands always seem much more exrtreem and over the top musically and in their presentation (old SARCOFAGO photos come to mind)?

it's true southamerica used to have kickass bands and scene,now i dont know that much,i know for instance that in brazil and chile you have amazing huge scenes ,argentina is a piece of shit when it comes to extreme metal...only power metal scene and they suck about the extremecy of the bands... dunno it has a lot to do with culture of violence,but musically is because bands dont limit themselves

6. I know you played live recently, how was it? Do you have any more shows planned for the future (possibly in the US)? Ever since the '90s the Black Metal scene has carried with it an ideology that is against playing live, what is your opinion of this attitude?

i hate that anti live shit its an excuse for pathetic idiots that cant play well or fear crowds,although there is some music that is not for live performance our gig went quite good,yes we are planning more gigs and touring,,about playing in the US we would for sure do it if someone has the balls to fly us over there and put a few gigs together

7. Recently there has been a movement of Black Metallers reclaiming the metalness of the genres. I mention this in reference to the demo because you play in a style that is neither "suicidal" or "avante-garde," and is decidely influenced by thrash metal. Do you consider your choice of sound a statement against non-metal black metal? Do you feel that black metal's rejection of death metal's stupidity puts it in danger of being overrun by goths and psuedo-intellectuals?

our music is a statement against that wimpy cry baby "black metal",and yes there is definitely a thrashy edge to our music its a sad thing that people have forgot about the word METAL in black metal ,people need to wake the fuck up and pull their heads out of their arses and start headbanging again to the devils music


8. There seems to be a lot of dead weight in the nowadays black metal scene. Please list your top ten most overrated bands/ records? top ten???

i dont know but all that mutiilation, deathspell omega, katharsis stuff is totally overrated..im not saying its bad music,but stupid fucks that pay 500 euro for a mutiilation lp should be shot

9. On a related note, what have you been listening too lately?

death,destruction,the first 4 megadeth records,order from chaos

10. While the style of SATANIC DEATH is reminiscent of early BEHERIT, I wouldn't classify it as war metal or a BLASPHEMY clone. Do you feel most people today only pay lip service to great records like The Oath of Black Blood? Is the term BEHERIT-esque used far too loosely as a companion piece to the term "BLASPHEMY clone?"

people classify everything as a beherit/blasphemy band,there is no more originality anymore
although i dont find that much beherit on our music ...i think we are coming
up with something quite unique ,but its true that at the time of the first demo the only thing that i was listening to was beherit...

11. I notice you don't include lyrics on your demo, how come? Are the song
titles fairly self-explanatory?

we never really thought about it ,we were more focussed on the demo being released because it took some time for the label to put it out...
some may be self explanatory some not,anyone that wishes to get the lyrics
just write to me

12. With the increasing popularity of black metal among trendies (see ruthlessreviews.com), do you think black metal has a future, or will it stagnate like death metal? What do you think black metal will look like in the coming decades?

i think that the trendy idiots will move to the next trend and leave black metalbe pure again ...years of glory await

13. How has DISCHARGE influenced your sound?

HA! a litle bit more raw maybe,although gg allin,rattus,misfits and sex
pistols are the best punk. we had real good times getting drunk and listening to rattus and tervet kadeet in the old drummers house

14. Thanks for the interview, any closing
comments? How should interested parties contact the band? May poseurs be
crushed under your heel.

thanks a lot for the interview we are negotiating for new releases so labels interested in real offers ( not that shit 200 copys in cdr and 12 for the band,we dont need that
shit) write to us , and meurtre noir records (usa)is doing some t shirts of
the black mass demo so you might want to check that out
hail and kill we might try to play up there

Additional notes
-Isn't it funny how the dudes in Satanic Death look like generic members of a norse-core band, when Satanic Death is anything but


*The crux of it rested on a large article on French black metal I was going to write but never finished.