You’ve just released your 4th album in 4 years ‘My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me’. But more importantly we would like to know why you haven’t released your 5th album yet?
SAM: Because get fucked, that’s why. What are we, your dancing monkeys? We’re starting to get old. Are you trying to kill us? Next thing we know you’re gonna be asking us why, if we’re such a technical death metal band, where the solos and clean vocals are.
If you’re such a technical death metal band, where are the solos and clean vocals?
SAM: I’m gonna hoof you in the balls so hard during the Archspire tour.
‘My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me’ is your longest playing album to date, clocking in at 36:41 minutes and a whopping 50 seconds more than ‘What A Time To Be Alive’. Were you determined to release a more epic album this time?
SAM: Yeah, this is our prog epic concept album full of whimsical ideas conceived on boozy nights full of psychedelics. We’ll get back to the short sharp beatings on the next album.
You have another slow song in Destroyer Of Worlds. Why are you doing that, it’s not very kvlt?
SAM: Just for that comment, we’re going to do a double-album in the style of Sunn 0))). OK, if we’re being serious for a moment, even we need to break up the 36 minutes plus with something other than blasting. Blasphemy, I know. But if you don’t stick that pause in the whole thing becomes a blur. I love Origin and what they play is beyond impressive, but a few tracks in I’m like “this is too monochrome”. You’ve gotta offer some nooks and crannies for the aspiring listener to clamber up instead of a sheer chrome wall of 16ths.
The new album title plus 5 out of the 9 songs have a reference to I, me or my. Is this album all about you?
SAM: There’s something out there that isn’t? I bet it isn’t very interesting. Ask me more questions about me.
Any plans on future albums to do more than 9 songs? Or can’t you count that far?
SAM: We can’t count past zero. You can’t use your fingers to count when you’re constantly making fists hey. There has been talk about doing a double album at some point. Neither us, the label, nor the fans probably have an appetite for that though, so who knows? We are loose cannons who do not play by the rules so we’ll probably opt for a triple album instead.
If you can’t count that far, describe the album in no more or no less than 9 words. Hope that makes sense?
SAM: Dribbling lunacy
Where does all the hate come from? Is it because you live in Adelaide?
SAM: No, the only emotion Adelaide lends me is arrogance. Have your $1million properties that fucking yo-yo up and down every time China hiccups on their ore payments. Have your utterly shit traffic. I wrote the lyrics to ‘We Are Better Than You’ after driving into the CBD and parking right outside the restaurant I had booked dinner at. We have successfully convinced everyone that Adelaide sucks because we’ve seen how all you show-ponies out East and West have turned out, and we’re like “fuck that”. The State motto on our licence plates should be “Keep Everyone Away”.
Why do you wear sunglasses in all your promo photos?
SAM: Because we’re cool as fuck. Because we’re cross-eyed from a lifetime of headbanging. Because our pupils are fucking tiny from smoking crack. Choose one.
I heard you like reading books, which surprises me you can read TBH. What are you reading now?
SAM: Mr.Men “I Am Angry”. I’m also reading a Crichton novel about The Great Train Robbery, so I can dream about a distant age where we didn’t have to pay $7.50 for a pack of fucking chips. Wait, where did you hear this slander from? I bet it was Matt. He had a laugh at me spending the Mayhem tour reading Jeffrey Steingarten’s “The Man Who Ate Everything”. Kind of ironic, reading that while on tour with a band who ate their deceased singer’s brains
When are you going to drag your knuckles & hairy backs over here to Perth?
SAM: Wait a minute here, haven’t you been at like three shows we’ve played and managed to miss our set every single time?! So we’re going to jump on a 5 hour plane to Perth so you can miss that one too? We’ll think about it. Bet you $50 you join the October tour in Adelaide and spend our set backstage drinking with Jason North.
And lastly….
Most overrated metal band ever is? Werewolves
Most underrated metal band ever is? Werewolves
Thankyou! Anything else you want to add?
WEREWOLVES