DARKNESS ZINE & SOULBLASTER RADIO 1.- HAILS, MARCO! RECEIVE OUR GREETINGS BY THE PART OF DARKNESS WEBZINE AND ITS READERS. HOW’S EVERYTHING GOING WITH LACERETER ? Hi Jorge! Thank you for interviewing LACERATER and thanx a lot to Darkness Webzine for giving us this opportunity. 2.-LACERATER STARTED BACK IN 2002, WITH THE NAME OF LACERATED BUT WITH A MORE CLASSIC DEATH METAL TENDENCY. WHY THE CHANGE OF THE NAME INTO LACERATER AND THE CHANGE OF STYLE? COULD YOU PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF TYHE BAND? Yeah man, you are right! LACERATER project born in 2002 under Lacerated name. In those days, with a radical different line up, the band used to play a kind of death metal with a lot of obsessive feeling and very slow mid tempos and doom riffs. Now-a-days the original Lacerated line-up exists no more, only me and the bass guitar player stayed. New elements and new influences brought the band to change style and name, which has changed to LACERATER to give an unique and “ not-so-english “ sound to the name of the band. About the new members, Antonio, the new singer, has a wide range of vocal styles, from deep growls, to scream and piggy vocals. Plus he always search for rhytmical and metrical precision for his lyrics, all in italian. Riccardo, the drummer, has already played in Cruel Face of Life, a Metalcore band, so he has both the power of his old style and the speed and technique of the more technical Brutal styles of metal, so he can blast through very fast rhytms and easily go down to mosh or slammin’ crash and smash brutality! Obviously the two of them, togheter with me, the old guitar player Stefano and the bass player Ziro, brought to the band music new sounds and tendencies. And so we changed from classical death metal to something more brutal, fast and groovy. Now we even got Luca, a new guitarist that substituted Stefano. The new guy has influences from all kind of black music, such as blues and rap, which he listened before getting into metal. He also loves brutal-slam and experimental music, so we will have other positive changes in the sound in the future! 3.-LET’S TALK ABOUT “NESSUN URLO NELL’ OMBRA”. THIS 4 TRACKS PRODUCTION, HAS SOMETHING THAT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION SINCE THE VERY FIRST TIME I LISTENED TO IT, AND NOT JUST SINCE THAT, BECAUSE IT WAS JUST NECESSARY TO SEE THE PRESENTATION TO CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, BUT MUSICALLY I FIND A KIND OF OLD SCHOOL DEATH METAL, MIXED WITGH GRIND AND SOME EXTRA COMPONENTS. TELL US, WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF THE COVER AND THE CONCEPT OF TH THIS PRODUCTION ITSELF? HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE YOUR MUSIC? Well, talking about the artwork, let’s say that we tried to shock people with something real. I mean, we could have chosen the usual drawing of a girl cadaver with the vagina completely ripped off and maggots and shit comin’ out of it, but with the help of the professional graphic Luca Antoniazzi [http://www.myspace.com/luca_antoniazzi] and the photographer Alex Mercatali [http://www.myspace.com/roningarou], we managed to get a wonderful picture of this fuckin’ real worms crawlin’ out at ya. They kinda rappresent the fat crawling powerful human being who got rich with the suffering of others since the whole EP lyrics are about some dark facts that occurred in our nation. Regarding the music, we tried to blend our death metal influences of the time like Cannibal Corpse or Deeds of Flesh with something more brutal like Dying Fetus, Skinless or Suffocation. Anyway every track is different from the other, for example O.S.S.A has a speedy overload of blastin’ goin’ to the headbanging chorus and then to a almost-melodic bridge, Nato Morto is a completely mad song with stops and go and a very very Cannibal Corpse feeling, W.H 22 is the most brutal song we wrote for that EP, very very Skinless kinda of sound, groovy yet powerful and grinding. L’ Odore del Sangue is very complex, with lots of rhytm and riff changes, maybe the most technical song we have in NESSUN URLO NELL’ OMBRA. So I can say we really tried to blend into the EP all of our influences to make something unique, without overloading it of technique and difficult things, just brutal, death and hardcore, something that makes your head move or makes you feeling you are in a dark hole with a bunch of cannibals with explosives attached on them! 4.- WHY SINGING IN ITALIAN? We chose italian to avoid all those cliches that people usually use with english. Usually with english people from foreign places have difficulties in expressing what they really want with a correct grammar, not to talk about the spelling. Italian has a wide and rich vocabulary which our singer Antonio knows very well, as I said all of our lyrics talk about some historical facts of Italy, dark and obscure, so I think it was a MUST to choose Italian as a language so we could express those facts better. Plus Italian is very unique for this style and it’s always fascinating to ear lyrics in a language that is not english. 5.-WHAT ARE YOUR INFLUENCES SO MUSICALLY AND LIRYCALLY? Well they are various… And all different. Personally I am into trance, techno, trip hop or dance music, I love Cock and Ball Torture, Waco Jesus and groovy sounds. Ziro loves classical heavy metal, black metal, death metal as well as Funk and Rock music. Riccardo ranges his listening from Spawn of Possession to Power Violence to Metalcore to Folk and Trollish music from Finland. Antonio loves old school hardcore and Italian Progressive bands of the seventies like Area, he loves Glen Benton as a singer and of course is also into Slam Brutal like Devourment or Digested Flesh. Luca is obsessed with Blues and Voivod experimental stuff, he loves Cryptopsy, Gorguts and Suffocation too. The lyrics as I said before, were influenced by some of the darkest facts of our country, and trust me, there are lots! You know Mafia and their horrible doings to our nation. O.S.S.A clearly talks about some of those facts, every line describes a terrible event. Talkin’ about Italian shit W.H 22 for example is about a serial killer called The Florence Monster, which actually was a whole group of powerful people goin’ around slaying young couples in the night and doing horrible things with their bodies, like rituals or things like that. The real truth never came up, so it’s kinda dark shit. Nato Morto is about a man who never really lived, and he realizes it in his dying bed trying to tell is son not to live like him, who was Born Dead cause he didn’t achieve nothing in life. L’ Odore del Sangue talks about other Mafia happenings, curruption and killing of innocent people. We are not trying to be political or things like that, we just wanted to show that Italy is not so sunny and smiling as pictured in the depliants of tour agencies. 6.-SINCE YOUR BEGINNING LACERTATER HAVE BEEN PERFORMING FREQUENTLY. CAN YOU TELL US HOW IS A GIG OF LACERATER? Well, I think we try to do our best in every situation, on stage every of us as a different approach to live music, I usually headbang until my head rips off my body, Ziro moves around the stage stomping everything he finds, Riccardo is very precise and devoted to the instrument, Antonio moves like he is having an epilectic attack, while he is not lashing out growls at the public and Luca dances or strikes different guitar poses. In all this, we try to be precise and get all the rhytm changes without messing everything up! Off stage we support the other bands and have fun, cause a good part of this music, apart from the brutal violence of it, is friendship, happiness, mosh, headbanging togheter and a good beer! 7.-WHAT WOULD BE THE PERFECT SHOW FOR YOU? WHAT BANDS WITH AND WHERE? I think that every good band of good open minded guys and a warm and friendly place would be perfect for us. 8.-HOW ARE THE PERSONALITIES OF THE MEMBERS OF LACERATER? Totally different! Let’s just say that we are a good combo of people, with different backrounds, culture and ideas. Apart from that, we really get along togheter, we joke and smile a lot, of course there are the hard times, but we are all open minded enough to understand our points of view and to break through difficulties and have a good positive attitude about the future! 9.-IF YOU HAD THE GIFT OF BECOMING 5 WISHES TRUE... WHAT WOULD THEY BE? Talking about the band? One nasty big boobs granny woman lap dancing during our shows. A lot of money for all LACERATER poor freaks. A penis enlargment machine that really works. And, seriously, it would be very nice find a good contract with a good label and a live event with Madonna. 10.-DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE SOUTHAMERICAN, PERUVIAN OVERALL, SCENE? WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT? I think you guys got lots of numbers!!! I mean we really like the violence that the bands from South America can express, it’s grinding brutality! No compromise!!! I think that there are really lots of young guys that play this kind of music, wich in Italy its only coming out in this period. 11.-WHAT PLANS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE FUTURE AS BAND, CLOSE AND IN A LONGER FUTRE? First of all, we would like to tour outside our country to get a good name across Europe. In future we will probably plan to tour to South America and U.S.A or Japan. Then we would like a label and to compose songs, new songs, with new influences, and in the future adding something very special to them, maybe including strange instruments. Cause I think that a band must always look for an unique sound, that people listen to it and say “ Oh! It’s them!!! They did that song, it’s incredible! “, you know, as long as you don’t stop impressing people with sounds, new things and unexplored stuff, then you can call yourself a good musician, when you start doing the same thing all over again, then you are just an instrument player, nothing more. 12.-THANKS FOR YOUR TIME, MARCO.... SOMETHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD? Thank you too Jorge for your time and patience! Stay Brutal!!!