Tyrants Blood has been destroying stages and speakers around the world since 2005, luckily for a lot of us they sometimes play in their hometown of Vancouver. With all the history in this band and it's members I had a lot of questions. I recently got a hold of guitarist Marco to get a few answers.
AU: You guys are really good at the business side of the band. Is that mostly a matter of past experience or is there some schooling there?
MB: We've been at this a long time, everybody has well over 15,20,30 years in the business,so we know where we need to be and what has to be done.
We have a massive black book of contacts,management, friends throughout the world, so that makes things run a lot smoother.
AU: You all have former bands. Did any of those bands ever influence Tyrant's Blood or was there an effort to make sure this was it's own project?
MB: Everything we've done influences us in some way, no doubt about that. Your always thinking "Have I done this before? Or "This seems to much like"....so you try to change it up. Got to keep on trying no things, and we've done a decent job up to this point of challenging ourselves and trying new things.
AU: From what I can tell the bands has made a few trips to Brazil. Is there a first thing you did when you got there? Is there something you made sure you did while you were there?
MB: We have a great family within Brazil that goes back to the late 1980's. You see Brazil's extreme metal scene influenced us so much back when Sarcofago,'I.N.R.I,or Sepulturas early demos hit us, so we were well versed in their style. When I performed with Blasphemy, our demo , "Blood upon the Altar" and then the album "Fallen Angel of Doom" had a massive impact on them in return, so groups like Mystifier and Blasphemy became great friends ,and since those early days, we have always kept in correspondence.
When we get there it is very comfortable and the people of Brazil are the best, you feel very welcomed by old friends and even the new always make you feel at home, truly you never want to leave.
AU: Did any of the other members feel intimidated by Brian or Marco and all their past experience and reputation?
MB: Reputation? Hmm, not sure what that means.
Brian performed with Infernal Majesty and we , meaning myself, Vinnie, Matt and Tom ,asked him to join ,and when he had some time, he did.
He didn't have a reputation as anything that we'd heard that would be negative,only that he is a good musician, easy to work with and a good friend to the people he knows.
I think maybe their may have been a little bit of trepidation at some of the rumours of my early days and all that violence and chaos, but really, those days are so far in the past, and the guys have seen it all, so Id have to say that we have never really talked about anything heavy when we started in 05, its always been cool with us all, we're old friends you know, even before the band started.
So definitely no.
AU: Is there a big name band you wouldn't play with no matter the situation?
MB: I don't think so. I suppose it would be odd to perform along side a massive major pop act or whatever, but within the metal style? No we're pretty open if its a good show thats for sure.
AU: And the other side of the question, is there a band you would do anyyhing to play with?
MB: Nope, we're not desperate at all.
AU: What are your feelings on new thrash and black metal bands that have bad recording/production on purpose/
MB: I haven't kept up with them really. Everything I hear is either good , and I get it,or, its just some retro, unoriginal boring try hard crap, SO, with that being written, it stems from listening to thousands and thousands and thousands of bands over the decades, the originals can't be topped, but good luck trying.
AU: If you could be the same band in the same city but in the 1980's, would you do it? why/why not?
MB: Of course, we would be the fastest band in the world if it was the 1980's. Bands weren't performing this style at this speed back then. Sarcofago, Sepultura, Samael,Napalm Death were all in the early blast beat style of metal, so for us to have come out say in 85, doing what we do now? Man, that would be insane,imagine where we'd be now, if this had already been around then.
AU: Yeah, you guys would be huge. Thank you all for your time
MB: Thanks for the questions and work.
Michael F. Carnage
http://www.myspace.com/tyrantsblood
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