Metal Hails!!
Here is a interview with Brazil's thrashing/heavy metallers "Blackend" who have just released a Mcd "Underground Attack through the Mighty Witches Brew Rec. defintly give this band a listen if you enjoy thrash/heavy metal.
Regards
Patrick
Interview with Blackened done by Patrick
1. Metal Hails when did you all first meet? Was it long before you formed the band “Blackened"? How did you all come up with the name for the band?
Jão (Vocals/Bass) met Marcelo (Drums) by a friend, Jão was looking for someone to join the band, so he started playing with him in the band. Ulisses (Guitars) was playing in another band, Porrada, when he met us, and a few months later, after a lot of arguments and disagreements he left that band, past 2 weeks he joined Blackened, and João (Guitars) played in the place of Ulisses when he left Porrada (the other band) but after a while, he was kicked out of the band, and after Fernando (ex-guitarist) left the band, we called João to join the band.
2. What is the current line-up of Blackened? For the readers who have never heard Blackend's music how would you describe it?
Jão – Vocals/Bass
Marcelo – Drums
Ulisses – Guitars
João – Guitars
We play a thrash that remembers the old school bay area bands, like Exodus, Vio-lence, Metallica and Testament, but we also sound like the new school bands, like Lost Society, Municipal Waste and Violator.
3. Blackened is getting ready to release their new MCD "Underground Attack" through the label Witches Brew. How did you come up with this label?
We sent an e-mail to them, with our release and the EP songs, and they were very interested to release us, they liked very much our thrash, we are so happy with this, and we are very grateful for what they are doing for us!
4. Does the whole band work on the music for the new songs or does one member usually write everything?
The whole band works on the songs, we always make new songs together.
5. Who usually writes the lyrics for the band what are some topics/subjects you all write about?
Jão and Ulisses usually write the lyrics, the topics usually is critics to religion, our government, corruption and greed. Now we are writing about other subjects, like death, pain, struggles, thrashing, life and war.
6. Does Blackened ever play "live" where have been some places you have played? Are their any shows or tours coming up this year for the "Underground Attack" release?
Yeah, we play live since 2012, and we are in tour releasing the EP since last year. We played in Curitiba/PR, São José/SC, Ponta Grossa/PR, Porto Belo/SC, Erechim/RS and São Paulo/SP. We are finishing the tour, and after it, we’ll stop playing live to start the full length recording and start to schedule new dates after releasing the new CD.
7. Who are some bands you have shared the stage with? If you could play a show or tour with any bands{past or present} who are some bands you would like to share the stage with?
We have been playing mainly with the bands of our town, we are very close and we try to do things always together, organizing shows, playing in other town. Well, we are very happy to share stage with these bands, but if we could choose, it would be Violator, Farscape, Torture Squad, bands from Brazil that we respect and like very much.
8. Blackened comes out of the Brazilian Metal scene? Blackened plays a heavy metal style but do you like or listen to death or black metal?
We came from the Brazilian metal scene that is not always recognized, but that is growing a lot in recent years, with bands trying to go to outside of Brazil, just like us. Actually we hear almost everything, almost all kinds of music, from Rap to thrash, death and black metal. We try to take as much as more influence we can from anything we like and try to put it on our songs.
9. Who are your all-time favorite Brazilian metal bands? Are their any new bands you feel the readers should check out soon?
Violator, Farscape, Torture Squad, Sepultura, Whipstriker, Mutilator, Ratos de Porão, and many others. I think you should check out bands that are growing a lot and that are helping us a lot, like Poison Beer, Evil Exorcist, Murdeath, Rot Remains, SOS Chaos, Fatal, Radioactive Murder, Antichrist Hooligans, Skombrus, Satanic Conjuration, really good bands you guys should check out!!
10. In your opinions what is the best and worst thing about the underground scene today? And what does Underground metal mean to you?
Here in Brazil, sometimes, the Underground scene is not that valorized, some people don’t even like kids to play metal and have their own bands playing (we call these kids babybangers hahaha), so it’s very difficult to start playing, but we were lucky, because we came up and a lot of people helped us. And I think that’s what the underground means, despite all the difficulties, there’s union, people helping each other and the Do It Yourself thing.
11. Do any of the members of Blackened currently play in other bands or solo-projects? If yes please tell the readers about them.
Only the drummer, Martelo, that also plays in Murdeath.
12.Thank you for taking the time to fill out this interview do you have any final comments for the readers?
We thank you very much for doing this interview with us. Check out our facebook page (facebook.com/blackenedbrazil) to contact us, or check out Witches Brew’s webshop to get our EP ‘’Underground Attack’’!! Thanks a lot and keep thrashin!!
Answered by Martelo and Jão
Label Contact
http://www.witchesbrewthrashes.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/witchesbrewthrashes?fref=ts
Band Contact
https://www.facebook.com/blackenedbrazil?fref=ts
