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	<< back \| interviews/severe torture Severe Torture 1. Cheers! Welcome to Tempest Music from Romania! How are you lately? Busy promoting the new album? Hello! How are you doing my Romanian friend? We are doing fine. We just played 4 shows with Krisiun and everything went great! We are doing interviews and arranging shows & tours for the rest of the year. 2. How and why did your contract with Karmageddon Media end? Was it the end term of the deal or you just had some quarrels with them? We came to a point were it was best for us to leave Karmageddon Media and look for something more steady. The communication gone badly and we felt like they couldn t push or help us anymore. We hadn t finished the deal yet so after a lot of talking Karmageddon Media would let us go if we released one final live-album through them. Tue Madsen recorded a show of us in Denmark and it was good material to release. We added a Pestilence cover song and our 98 demo and released the thing as Bloodletting . 3. Now you're on Earache. How do you feel being on a leading death metal label at the moment? Are you satisfied of their help until now? Well, it s hard to tell. They released the album and they are doing promotion for it. We only have had a lot of bad luck the last year and-a-half with touring so right now we are negative about everyone I guess, haha! But I think Earache can push us to the next level! They done it with a lot of excellent death metal bands in the past, that s for sure! 4. Until now I've seen people (and press) are either liking a lot your music or hate it. How do you percieve people's reactions? Do you care about others' oppinion on your music? Of course we care about reviews and about what other people think of it and we realize that everything is a matter of taste. When a review kills us with good arguments, that s cool with me, but when I read a reviewer who hasn t listened and just compares us with Cannibal Corpse or Morbid Angel I get pissed! 5. Now let's talk a bit about your latest album. What's your line-up on it? Since when have you begun working on this album's tracks? In 2003 we got ourselves a second guitar player named Marvin. The rest of the line-up is the same as on all our previous albums. We already had the song Decree of Darkness finished and after he learned all our old material we started writing with him in 2004 and we recorded the album in Jan/Feb/March 2005. 6. How was it to record in Excess Studios with Hans Pieters. Can you tell us some things about Hans? Yeah, Hans is a very tall but friendly guy! He has great ears and a good nose for what you mean when you are looking for a sound. Recording there was great, we could work on a nice tempo and we could use the best equipment there is. 7. How would you compare this new album with your previous ones? Any changes in your tranks' structure? We tried to create better songs with a head and a tail instead of 3 or 4 minutes of blasting every song. There are more mid-tempo and slow parts on this album and also vocal wise we tried to be more diverse. Dennis is able of singing in a lot of different ways and this was the first time we experimented with that. This album is also the first Severe Torture album with leads on it! I think that also created a more mature sound for us. 8. The cover artwork is simply magnific. Who did it? It is made by Bjoern Goosses for Killustrations.com. He's from Germany and we knew him for his work for Aborted and Dew-Scented. At first we had a cover made by the same guy as our first 2 albums. It was a very brutal piece with more blood & bodies than you can imagine! But after looking at it for a while we felt lie the artwork wasn t keeping up with our musical approvement. Then we decided we wanted a more classy cover like the one we have now! 9. Do you care more about adding more brutality in your music or adding more melody? I would prefer brutality but in the same time I would like to make our music more catchy and maybe by using more melody. The perfect combination is when the music is melodic but very aggressive! We will see what the new material brings. 10. The new album will be promoted through a great European tour with Krisiun and Hate. How do you feel now, days before the tour? Do you think this tour will push your band in a bigger league of death metal? Well, this tour is cancelled for us unfortunately. We only did the first 4 shows but the rest was to expensive for us. But it would have been a great opportunity to play all over Europe and in countries were we never played before. But to give some good news, today we are confirmed for the European & UK leg of Vader s in Sept/Okt/Nov so that s a pretty good replacement! I don t know if the tour brings us to Romania though .. 11. You're already confirned to play at the Maryland Deathfest. Are you planning to link that with some other shows in the States and so to do a tour inthere too? We will just play Maryland Death fest as a single show. We will return to the US in July for Bloodletting V together with Deeds of Flesh and Vile however. That will be a fucking brutal tour don t you think? This way we can warm up the US crowd a littlein Maryland and then we can give them everything in the summer. 12. What are you expecting from this new album? How are the reactions so far? The reactions this far were more than positive and as it looks right now it finally starts to pay off according to the tours and festivals we will play this year! We are eager to harvest the seeds we planted! 13. Thanks for your answers! Good luck on tour! Thanx and hopefully we get the chance to play Romania in the near future!!!

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Severe Torture

1. Cheers! Welcome to Tempest Music from Romania! How are you lately? Busy promoting the new album?
Hello! How are you doing my Romanian friend? We are doing fine. We just played 4 shows with Krisiun and everything went great! We are doing interviews and arranging shows & tours for the rest of the year.

2. How and why did your contract with Karmageddon Media end? Was it the end term of the deal or you just had some quarrels with them?
We came to a point were it was best for us to leave Karmageddon Media and look for something more steady. The communication gone badly and we felt like they couldn t push or help us anymore. We hadn t finished the deal yet so after a lot of talking Karmageddon Media would let us go if we released one final live-album through them. Tue Madsen recorded a show of us in Denmark and it was good material to release. We added a Pestilence cover song and our 98 demo and released the thing as Bloodletting .

3. Now you're on Earache. How do you feel being on a leading death metal label at the moment? Are you satisfied of their help until now?
Well, it s hard to tell. They released the album and they are doing promotion for it. We only have had a lot of bad luck the last year and-a-half with touring so right now we are negative about everyone I guess, haha! But I think Earache can push us to the next level! They done it with a lot of excellent death metal bands in the past, that s for sure!

4. Until now I've seen people (and press) are either liking a lot your music or hate it. How do you percieve people's reactions? Do you care about others' oppinion on your music?
Of course we care about reviews and about what other people think of it and we realize that everything is a matter of taste. When a review kills us with good arguments, that s cool with me, but when I read a reviewer who hasn t listened and just compares us with Cannibal Corpse or Morbid Angel I get pissed!

5. Now let's talk a bit about your latest album. What's your line-up on it? Since when have you begun working on this album's tracks?
In 2003 we got ourselves a second guitar player named Marvin. The rest of the line-up is the same as on all our previous albums. We already had the song Decree of Darkness finished and after he learned all our old material we started writing with him in 2004 and we recorded the album in Jan/Feb/March 2005.

6. How was it to record in Excess Studios with Hans Pieters. Can you tell us some things about Hans?
Yeah, Hans is a very tall but friendly guy! He has great ears and a good nose for what you mean when you are looking for a sound. Recording there was great, we could work on a nice tempo and we could use the best equipment there is.

7. How would you compare this new album with your previous ones? Any changes in your tranks' structure?
We tried to create better songs with a head and a tail instead of 3 or 4 minutes of blasting every song. There are more mid-tempo and slow parts on this album and also vocal wise we tried to be more diverse. Dennis is able of singing in a lot of different ways and this was the first time we experimented with that. This album is also the first Severe Torture album with leads on it! I think that also created a more mature sound for us.

8. The cover artwork is simply magnific. Who did it?
It is made by Bjoern Goosses for Killustrations.com. He's from Germany and we knew him for his work for Aborted and Dew-Scented. At first we had a cover made by the same guy as our first 2 albums. It was a very brutal piece with more blood & bodies than you can imagine! But after looking at it for a while we felt lie the artwork wasn t keeping up with our musical approvement. Then we decided we wanted a more classy cover like the one we have now!

9. Do you care more about adding more brutality in your music or adding more melody?
I would prefer brutality but in the same time I would like to make our music more catchy and maybe by using more melody. The perfect combination is when the music is melodic but very aggressive! We will see what the new material brings.

10. The new album will be promoted through a great European tour with Krisiun and Hate. How do you feel now, days before the tour? Do you think this tour will push your band in a bigger league of death metal?
Well, this tour is cancelled for us unfortunately. We only did the first 4 shows but the rest was to expensive for us. But it would have been a great opportunity to play all over Europe and in countries were we never played before. But to give some good news, today we are confirmed for the European & UK leg of Vader s in Sept/Okt/Nov so that s a pretty good replacement! I don t know if the tour brings us to Romania though ..

11. You're already confirned to play at the Maryland Deathfest. Are you planning to link that with some other shows in the States and so to do a tour inthere too?
We will just play Maryland Death fest as a single show. We will return to the US in July for Bloodletting V together with Deeds of Flesh and Vile however. That will be a fucking brutal tour don t you think? This way we can warm up the US crowd a littlein Maryland and then we can give them everything in the summer.

12. What are you expecting from this new album? How are the reactions so far?
The reactions this far were more than positive and as it looks right now it finally starts to pay off according to the tours and festivals we will play this year! We are eager to harvest the seeds we planted!

13. Thanks for your answers! Good luck on tour!
Thanx and hopefully we get the chance to play Romania in the near future!!!