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This interview was committed in Szeged (Hungary) on the 15th of October, 2004. I've asked Dennis Röndum (drummer) about the actual news, their debut album "Cabinet" and last but not least about their killer tour with Deathmachine called CANNIBAL CORPSE. Enjoy this demonic conversation and stay as brutal as possible!!!
Recently out your debut album "Cabinet" on Unique Leader Records. Are you satisfied with the overall production? - I think we are quite satisfied. We wanted kind of a clean sound, because the guitars do so much, much guitar work, you know. So we thought that we got to put a clean sound before a very brutal sound. But I think it came out very clean and brutal also.
I see you're pretty into the US kind of Death Metal. Though most of the Swedish Death Metal bands prefer to play melodic stuff. Why did you choose Brutal Death Metal instead?
- I don't know. Long ago before SPAWN OF POSSESSION we played the Swedish kind of Death Metal. But we got bored. It's boring. Because for us it was just too simple. We wanted to be more brutal, more extreme, faster.
What kind of contract do you have with Unique Leader Records?
- One CD!
Do you plan to work with them furthermore?
- Yes, I think so! I think we gonna stay with them. We got some other offers, but right now I think we gonna stay with Unique Leader!
In what kind of direction you'll go on your next album?
- More technical, more brutal! More variation from slow to very fast, more faster than "Cabinet", you know. So there's gonna be more variations and better songwriting.
Who did your cover illustration? It's became simply excellent!
- It was a guy from Greece. Its name is George Prasinis. He only did very little work and I found him through a friend on internet from Greece. And we told him what we were about, what we did and what we wanted to do and he said yeah, he liked all stuff and all lyrics. He said: "Fuck yeah!" and so he did it.
Whose idea was such a cover?
- It was me and the guitar player Bryssling. We've talked about what we want and we said like a long, endless hall that is infinite, very dark and have all these souls trapped. We wanted something eternal, you know.
Tell us about your lyrics in general. What kind of topics do you prefer?
- Demonic possession. All the songs have demonic possession, everything that is demonic. About haunted houses, demons, dirty priests and possession.
"Cabinet" was recorded in four piece and besides drums you've recorded the vocals too. But on the stage you played in five with a new vocalist. Please introduce him.
- Jonas Renvaktar. He is from a Swedish band, from DISRUPTION. A thrash kind of thing, Thrash Metal band. We've known him since we did our first demo. He comes from another city. And when we started to do shows we didn't have a singer and we just know he was a cool guy and friend so.
He's a temporary (session) or a full member now?
- We'll have to see. I think he will be full member. I think we haven't really talked so much about it. We will see what happens for the next CD. But he will probably sing on it. I think he will.
Where did you record the "Cabinet" album?
- In Sweden, in Pama Studios. We recorded demos there and the producer wanted us to come back and record the whole album. So we said: "Oh yeah, we do it". He's very good, he's very professional. We had a very good time there. We worked very much, you know. And he is very much into getting everything perfect.
What's your opinion about this tour with CANNIBAL CORPSE?
- It's been probably the best tour. These guys are fucking killer to hang out. We drink beer every night and listen to Metal. And, you know, where CANNIBAL goes a lot of people comes. So we've been playing for a lot of people between maybe 500 and 2000 sometimes. So all the shows have been very very good. It's been really cool. The bus is killer with only 2 bands, you know. There supposed to be AMON AMARTH, but they couldn't do it. So it's only us and CANNIBAL. A killer tour!
Earlier you had a tour with Unique Leader bands, like DISAVOWED, VILE, etc. Where do you played then and how was it?
- With DISAVOWED, VILE, MANGLED and INHUME we toured like south in Europe, like Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland. It was like 10 countries. That was a killer tour. Every band had a van. So it was slow, tougher, you know, because we had to drive. That tour was like a very very good experience. You know, all those bands are our firends and fucking cool like DISAVOWED, we are like brothers, very cool guys. So that tour was very cool!
Some words regarding the Belarus incident.
- It's too bad. All I can say, I really truly hoped that the fans knew it was not our fault. We did everything we could. Our tour manager did everything he could to make us do the shows. But it was the Belarus border and government that fucked us. That is the truth.
Any future plans?
- Go home, write a new album!
What are your wishes for the Ukrainian SPAWN OF POSSESSION fans?
- I am sorry that we couldn't play on this tour in Ukraine. I really hope that we could come back and it will happen. Because we really wanna play there. And stay brutal! That's all I can say. Fuck yeah!
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