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How
would you classify your music. ?
With regards to Ebony Tears and Dog Faced Gods. ?
Dog Faced Gods
is more aggressive than Ebony Tears...
Far
more complicated than Ebony Tears...
Ebony
Tears is more like a blend between Swedish death-metal, German heavy-metal,
folkmusic and speedmetal.
Dog
Faced Gods is more technical, more like Meshuggah and Strapping Young
Lad.
Dog Faced Gods doesnīt use violins and female vocals like Ebony Tears...
So the music styles are very different from each other...
Do you all have day jobs and
if so what do you do. ?
I work as a
webdesigner at a webberau in Kista, Sweden. Johnny works as a truckdriver.
Conny does nothing but sitting around playing the guitar. I donīt
really know what Rickard works with...
Why did you start playing your
instruments. ?
This Question
I can only answer for myself...
I started playing the guitar when I was 9 years old...
I started playing because my parents thought that I should learn how
to play an instrument, since I didnīt do so well at soccer that they
had tried to get me into before...
I
just stood there looking for stones in the court, so I guess that
wasnīt my thing Well, I continued to play the guitar, and when I was
about 14 years old I started playing the bass in the schoolband at
my school.
After
that I started playing the bass in a band with some friends.
When I was 16 I started at a music school in
Stockholm, Sweden that is called RYTMUS (SMK). And after that I started
playing with D.F.G and E.T...
Being
a rockstar has always been my biggest dream, so now when Iīm quite
on the way up there I see a big meaning in my life...
When did you start playing with
Ebony Tears and why have you formed Dog Faced Gods with vitually the
same members. ?
I started playing
with E.T in September 1997. I had just quit playing with my old band
called "Bulldozer", and me and the drummer of "Bulldozer" put up an
ad in the local musicstores in Stockholm looking for a new band to
play with.
About
a week later Johnny called me and said that he was really interested
in me playing the bass, but that they didnīt have a need for a drummer,
so I said yes, and here I am today...
At the beginning we werenīt thinking about forming
another band. We were going to use the material for the next E.T CD,
but as we started playing the songs we came to the conclusion that
the music was not at all the same and that we should probably form
another band...
Thatīs
why D.F.G has almost the same lineup as E.T, because it was at the
beginning supposed to be E.T music.
In October we formed D.F.G and in January we
signed a contract with Black Sun Records.
How did the band get together.
?
Well, as I said
before, I put up an ad in musicstores and got caught in both E.T and
D.F.G...
And D.F.G was formed out of E.T....
What do you like to do in your
spare time. ?
I like to go
to parties, see my friends and my girlfriend, Linn, make homepages,
chat on the internet, talking on the phone and practicing playing
the bass and the guitar...
What kind of music do you like
to listen to when your not playing. ?
Hmmmmm....
Well
you see, Iīve got a pretty mixed musictaste...
My favourite bands are Meshuggah, 3rd Eye Blind, Toad The Wet Sprocket,
Live and Weezer...
I
listen to basically all the music there is, but I hate techno, hip-hop
and shit like that...
I
think that stuff SUX big time! Itīs so annoying how you can make music
just by sitting at a computer putting like 4 chords together to make
a song and then record some female vocals and some malevocals on top
to make people dance...
Who thought of the name Ebony
Tears and how did you choose it. ?
Hmmmmm...
I
think Conny was the one who came up with the name Ebony Tears. I think
he got it from an old Cathedral record or something...
Who thought of the name Dog
Faced Gods and how did you choose it. ?
Conny came up
with the name. He got it from Testamentīs record "Low", where one
of the songs is called "Dog Faced Gods"...
Who writes most of the songs.
?
Conny writes
all the music and all the lyrics first, and then we play it together
and change some things along the way if weīre not satisfied with the
results...
Do you think the band ebony
tears will be phased out or will you continue to run both bands at
the same time. ?
Well I think
that E.T will be phased out sooner or later, but E.T will record at
least one more album before that happens.
Our
main concern right now is D.F.G and we put 100% effort into that...
So weīll see what happens.
How different is the music of
Ebony Tears to Dog Faced Gods. ?
Ebony Tears
is more death-metal and folk music inspired, and D.F.G is more aggressive
and technical.
Which is your personal favourite
song and why. ?
My favourite
E.T song is "Skunk Hour". I like it the most because itīs the most
aggressive song on "Tortura Insomniae" and itīs more experimental
than the other songs on the album.
My
favourite D.F.G song is probably "God Over All". I really donīt know
why I like it the best...
Maybe itīs because itīs so technical, since I really like technical
music...
Do you play many gigs and if
so where. ?
Well, we havenīt
played a single gig yet, but I think weīre going on tour sometime
next year with D.F.G...
Iīve
also heard that E.T will go to Japan for a little tour this October,
but I donīt think that is fully booked...
What is your view of the music
scene in Sweden. ?
I think that
the Swedish music scene is very good nowadays. With bands like Meshuggah
and Entombed that I really like...
I
just think itīs a pity that we export so many techno and dancebands...
I heard that
most Swedes are listening to Hard Rock, So why are there still quite
a few metal bands coming from Sweden. ?
Swedes listening to Hard Rock!?!
Where
did you get that from?
Most swedes listen to that danceshit...
Not
much Hard Rock here, but Metal is pretty big here so I guess thatīs
why we export quite a few metalbands...
When you were younger, what
did you want to be. ?
Iīve always
wanted to be a rockstar... Itīs always been my biggest dream... well,
correction, when I was really young like 2-6 years old, I wanted to
be a backhoeoperator (Bulldozer driver), but that changed when I started
listening to bands like DIO and Kiss...
What bands would you say have
had most influence on you. ?
Probably DIO,
Kiss, Meshuggah, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Primus, Stone Temple Pilots
and Machine Head...
What is the band doing at the
moment. ?
At the moment
we are having some technical difficulties, since Connyīs amplifier
broke down...
But apart from that weīre practicing for the upcoming D.F.G album
that weīre going to record in May 1998 in Studio Underground in Västerås,
Sweden.
What are your plans for the
future. ?
To record the
D.F.G album, release it and go on tour...
I
donīt know about E.T, since we have put that on the shelf for a while...
Any last words or remarks ?
Yup! Check
out the upcoming D.F.G album!
Itīs going
to be a killer!
A punch right in the face from the beginning to the end!
Also check out our official websites at :
Ebony Tears : http://hem2.passagen.se/tears/
Dog Faced Gods : http://hem2.passagen.se/dogz/
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