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Another ambitious Death Metal band raised from thy ashes, namely DEVASTATION INSIDE. They come from Italy and play crushing Death Metal in the best interpretation of it. If you search for a band which can be able to create outstanding and memorable tunes nowadays and at the same time leaving all the traditional motives of its predecessors in it, go ahead and discover "Simply Nothing", the first demo of this five-piece band, which is definitely worth of your attention. My questions were answered by the guitarist Olivier.
Let's start with some universal questions. How old are you? Are you married? Do you have jobs?
- Our average age is 22 and no one of us is married. Except me (Olivier) that I'm a student in Computer Engineering, all the others have a job.
"Simply Nothing" is your first demo. Moreover the output to be found there is more than perfect. Did you spend a lot of time and money to get such quality sound?
- When we started with the idea to make a demo tape we didn't think that it could be with a sound like that... You are not the first saying that it have a good sound. We spent time in songwriting, but the demo was recorded in two days and we are satisfact for our work, except by the vocals, maybe too much low. Our tape is totally autoproduced, so we spent much money for recording and producing it.
Your lyrics deal with human being and life in general. You based them on your personal experiences or... There is a live song "Why?" on the demo but I hadn't seen your lyrics of it on inlay. Tell me more about this song.
- Our lyrics are written by Emanuel and by me. They are based on our personal experiences and tell about our thoughts and about ourself. In our songs we want to say what we have inside of us. You didn't see the lyrics of "Why?" in the inlay because it's a song older than the others... In that song we talk about war and injustices made against people.
Are you guys looking for a label to sign onto or are you going to stay self-financed for your career? Do you have any offers for a full-length album?
- No, we don't have any offers from some label and I think we go to stay self-financed for a long time... maybe for all our career. In any case we are not looking for a contract to sign.
What can you tell us about DEVASTATION INSIDE's live performances. Do you play live often? What is the reason for you to play? Do you have any bands that you want to play with?
- We often play live, but we have never gone over the limits of our region. We play because we like it, it's a way to relieve our feelings and to make people to know us. However, recently we have not played live so frequently, because we are waiting to have some new material composed.
What kind of music do you listen usually, and which are your greatest fonts of inspiration?
- Generally we would like to be a little original and to make something never heard, but unfortunately we are heavily influenced by the kind of music we listen. And every member of DEVASTATION INSIDE listens to music different from that listened from others. We are not so uniform in that way. We go from Black to Death Metal, from FEAR FACTORY to Bruce Springsteen!!! Personally, in this moment, I'm very influenced by Swedish melodic Death Metal: DARK TRANQUILLITY, AT THE GATES, EDGE OF SANITY... but I also listen to a wide range of musical genres, from commercial things to old METALLICA albums.
Could you analyse us your country's scene? Any bands, labels or 'zines you would like to recommend for us?
- It's a hard question... I'm not so informed about our country's scene... I know that there are a lot of small bands, but only few of them can emerge. Take DEVASTATION INSIDE for example, we are more appreciated in foreign countries than here in Italy. A new italian band that I can suggest is LATHEBRA and for the fanzines MELMOTH 'zine, TETANUS...
Your opinion about: self-destruction, religion, violence, russian vodka, heaven and hell, Middle Ages and Black Metal.
- I tell my personal opinion about these things and it could be different from that of the other members of DEVASTATION INSIDE. I think that self destruction is the greatest way to be totally free, but it's not ever a good thing, we talk about that in two songs of our demo: Last Breath and Simply Nothing. I am not religious and I don't know if there's a God over us, but I'm not even satanic... In any case I'm against religious extremisms. I'm also against all kind of violence! I surely don't know how is the pure russian vodka, but here we like beer! :-). Heaven and hell are things created by humans because they fear what could be after their death. For me, after the death there's nothing. Our life is here and now. About Middle Ages? (no opinion). I like black metal music for its melodic stuffs, but I don't like its singing style. I don't even share the thoughts generally expressed in the black metal lyrics.
What will be your next material and when it will come? Have you any new songs, songnames and in general tell us in what way you composed your songs?
- We are composing new songs in this moment and we hope to put it in a new release (tape or mini-CD) but we don't really know when. The title of an our new song is "Hate/Love". We generally compose our songs writing a lyric before, and then trying to make a musical "skeleton" with guitar riffs and drums. But we are never completely satisfied of our work the first time, so we make changes until we have the final song, that can be completely different from that we started to compose.
Last words from inside...
- It has been hard to answer to all your question in english (this isn't my main language), but me and DEVASTATION INSIDE have been glad to do it. So thank you for your patience and for all. And a special thank goes to all your readers that will be interested about our music and about what we think.
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