DIRT FEST 13 INTERVIEWS, PART 1 – BORN OF OSIRIS: “WHO’S GLENN DANZIG?”
Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 1:00pm by Angela Gossowski
Okay. I get it. The boys in Born of Osiris are young. Real young. And judging by the brand-spanking-new tour bus they were ghost riding in, someone has really big plans for their future. And, honestly, so do I. Those kids can play. They can play real well, and I have honestly been a fan of theirs for some time now.
But I’d suggest that someone tutors them a bit about the history of the music they are making. Also about giving good interview: despite there being obvious differences between their Sumerian debut, A New Reign, and their recently released follow-up, A Higher Place, the boys think the biggest difference is that the latter is… longer. Seriously.
I could explain more, but… it’s probably best that you just read the interview. Full transcript after the jump.
Okay, everybody introduce yourselves.
David Darocha: David. I play bass.
Joe Buras: Joe. I play keyboard.
Tosin Abasi: Tosin. I play guitar.
Cameron Losch: I’m Cameron, and I play drums.
Lee McKinney: I’m Lee, and I play guitar.
So this is going to be an interesting question right off the bat: do you guys hold it in, number 2-wise, until you get to a venue? I walked into the bathrooms in here, and it was pretty disgusting. I’m not going to lie.
JB: The bus?
No, the bathrooms here at the venue.
JB: Oh yeah, definitely. Here on the bus you can’t poop, you can only pee. So it’s like you drive all night and the first thing you want to do is just…
And what do you guys eat? Is it usually fast food?
DD: We get groceries usually if we stop at a WalMart and get some cereal. We have our own fridge and cabinets and shit to put stuff in.
JB: In past tours we ate a lot of fast food.
You guys have been on some pretty big tours as far as reputable bands goes. Who gets you these things? How do you guys fall into these positions, being so young and so new?
LM: Our agency.
Your agency? You guys have no hand in it?
LM: Our booking agency. It’s TKO. It’s Amanda Fiore and Ash Avildsen and our manager, Shawn Keith.
Do you guys set any rules for yourself? Any personal or band rules when you are on the road?
DD: Don’t get too fucked up before you play.
Okay. Anything else as far as food or women or partying or whatever goes?
LM: Whatever you want. You know?
What is your writing process like and how much weed does it involve?
[Laughter]
JB: Cameron’s question.
CL: I just smoke weed all day, man, and write songs and record in my basement.
Really? Is that it?
CL: That’s it.
Then you just invite everyone else in later?
CL: Yeah. Sometimes I take mushrooms and write too [laughs].
What’s the difference between A New Reign and A Higher Place?
CL: The length.
LM: Definitely.
But the sound is more melodic. Where’s that coming from?
JB: The New Reign songs are years old. The Higher Place songs are within the last couple of years.
CL: A New Reign was recorded in high school, and A Higher Place was recorded out of high school. You can hear the difference.
That’s ridiculous. What are the positives and negatives about being discovered so young?
JB: I think a big positive is that we never had to do self-booked tours like a lot of bands had to go through that we know. We didn’t have to scrape through and pay for a lot of the things yourself. We were kind of very privileged to get a van and trailer fronted to us, and the album did well so it was all good with that.
LM: Negatives are people think that we’re too young and that we’re just kids so that’s why we might get blamed for a lot of things.
Like?
DD: Like, I don’t know, just on tour that anything that we get in trouble for…
Anything that goes wrong, you’re like the red headed step child.
LM: Yeah, it’s like it’s the little kids.
JB: Even though it seems like we just got started, we have all been in bands. Even our local bands were pretty successful back before this in high school. It’s like we had experience.
Are there any newer bands that are even newer than you that you guys are excited about?
LM: Periphery. They’re not really younger, but they’re up and coming. Tosin’s CD Animals as Leaders, that’s his stuff, that’s unreal.
Is there anything in your iPod that people would be pretty surprised that it’s there? Any kind of generic pop or anything?
DD: Lil’ Kim.
Into hip-hop then, I got you.
Now I thought we’d play a little game, for shits and giggles. I am going to give you a choice between two people or objects, and you have to tell me which one you’d fuck. Got it?
JB: As a band, or individually?
It can be individually or as a band. If you guys want to get together and decide on one or the other, that’s fine.
So: Susan Boyle or a Pizza Hut P’zone?
DD: Who’s Susan Boyle?
You guys don’t know who Susan Boyle is?
JB: Not at all.
DD: Who the fuck is that?
She’s that old, ugly lady that was on America’s Got Talent. Not America’s Got Talent, the one over in Europe.
DD: Is she ugly?
Yeah, she’s like huge and ugly. You guys got to look up a picture of her. You have to see what she looks like otherwise this isn’t going to work.
DD: Well both the options are shitty. That sucks. Is P’zone like boiling hot? Is it fresh out of the oven, hot as hell?
You know what? It’s whatever you prefer, man.
JB: Body temperature?
Could be leftovers right out of the fridge.
CL: Would Susan Boyle be dead or alive?
She’s alive.
LM: Oh, she’s that opera chick.
DD: P’zone.
Is that a consensus?
DD: Yeah, that’s a consensus.
Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno or Gaahl of Gorgoroth?
DD: Who?
JB: What?
TA: Gaahl of Gorgoroth.
You don’t know who Gorgoroth is? He’s super brutal and he just came out.
DD: Is Sacha Baron Cohen gay?
Do you know Bruno the movie?
DD: Yeah.
He plays a gay German guy.
DD: But is he really gay?
No.
DD: Gorgoroth dude sounds a little too intense.
JB: I couldn’t even find him on Google.
Oh, man.
DD: Is he a musician? What’s he play?
You’re killing me right now. Alright, a little bit easier: Barbara Bush or Barbara Walters?
LM: Barbara Walters.
JB: I’ll say Walters. Actually, Bush is bragging rights.
Yeah, but so is Barbara Walters.
DD: Who cares about Barbara Walters?
What? Dude.
LM: Let’s look at Barbara Bush. There’s Barbara Bush.
JB: Oh, whoa. Never mind.
DD: She’s fucking decaying.
JB: I thought that was the next generation down. I didn’t think it was the grandma.
Yeah, she’s the old one.
DD: Walters’ has a slick pussy. Look at her when she was young.
She was hot. Let’s move on. Close your eyes. Think of the craziest woman that you’ve ever met. Her or Glenn Danzig?
JB: Who’s Glenn Danzig?
What?
DD: Who the fuck is that?
You know what? You’re out. You’re done. You guys really need to school David.
JB: I didn’t know the first name. I just thought he was Danzig.
[Kristen Randall from Winds of Plague walks on the bus]
Kristen Randall: Hi!
Kristen actually knows what’s going on right now. She knows who Glenn Danzig is.
KR: Glenn Danzig. Misfits.
DD: I’ve never heard The Misfits in my life. I don’t give a fuck about those bands.
You never heard The Misfits? This is bad news bears. Are you looking up a picture of Glenn Danzig?
LM: No, I’m trying to get Gorgoroth still.
Okay I got one more for you, and if you don’t know who the fuck this is, then no more Jager for you. Either a sack of potatoes or Dino Cazares?
JB: Mash the potatoes.
DD: Who’s that?
LM: Fear Factory. He’s a giant Mexican.
DD: Am I supposed to know all these bands?
Yes you are.
DD: I don’t care. Does anyone here care about fucking band names?
JB: We officially don’t give a fuck about these people you are naming.
Oh my god, you’re killing me.
LM: Alright, if you took the potatoes and mashed them into something softer, that’s the best option.
DD: I would place my sack on top of it and mash it down.
JB: I found Gorgoroth!
DD: Let me see it.
LM: Right there dude.
Alright, one or two more questions and then you guys can be on your way and do whatever you got to do, probably smoke, I’m going to assume.
DD: Nice.
Which band or person constantly did super crazy shit while you were on tour, and can you think of a specific event?
CL: So on our first tour ever, we got invited to this girl’s mansion.
Where at?
CL: It was her parents’ mansion.
LM: It was in California.
JB: Northern California.
CL: Her parents owned a pet shop, but that’s beside the fact. So we were playing with a bunch of lizards and stuff.
LM: There’s a huge open bar, so we were all getting wasted.
CL: There’s a giant open bar too in this mansion. So we’re letting all the pets loose with snakes crawling everywhere. I ended up naked and passed out, and I wake up drawn on.
DD: She wrote 7-8-6-1 on his dick.
CL: I wake up to “Oh my god you have a small dick.”
JB: Really, he’s like “What the fuck?”
CL: “Why are you even looking at me? Where am I?” So I fucking choked her out.
Wait, she said you had a small dick so you choked her?
DD: He full on grabbed her.
What happened to the lizards?
DD: Who cares?
LM: This was all one night.
JB: He grabbed her by the neck and we thought he was going to slam her down.
LM: Pretty sure she was crying.
CL: Then we got kicked out.
DD: Then her dad walks in the house in the next morning, and we’re like, “We gotta go.”
So you’re basically confessing to a crime?
DD: Yes. You wanted some crazy shit, you got the right band.
I still want to know about the lizards and shit, because that’s the craziest part besides you choking out a chick.
CL: They had these exotic lizards in the garage in these drawers, and so we opened them all up.
Was this after a show or did you guys just…
DD: We met these girls at a show.
CL: We were at this church venue that was fucking lame. We played and they invited us over. That was it.
LM: She was like, “Don’t drink my parents’ Goldschlager.” There were suits of armor around the house.
That’s it? As far as tours go, any of the bands that you’ve been with, does anybody do anything crazy?
CL: There’s crazy shit that happens every day.
LM: It happens every day. It’s just too much to name.
DD: You almost forget about it.
LM: Yeah, you almost forget about all the crazy shit because there’s always something crazier the next day.
Have you guys ever gotten hurt?
LM: Of course. Who hasn’t?
Broken any bones or anything that has prevented you from playing?
DD: You get cuts and bruises and shit, but that’s about it.
How many women do you get… Average. How many women do you sleep with?
LM: Dry bus.
Oh, I do not believe that. The bus might be dry, but where else do you go? Give a guestimate? Per tour, how many women do you get with?
DD: Zero.
You’re smiling.
JB: We try. It just doesn’t happen.
I do not believe you.
LM: Come on tour and fucking believe it. My girlfriend came out yesterday, so other than that, it’s the same girl. Girls on the road, if they’re going to get to know you enough to fuck you in one night, then they probably got to know a lot of other guys and fucked them in one night.
Oh, so you have some sort of moral thing going on then.
JB: We’re young and we don’t want to catch anything, you know?
Most bands are young and just want to fuck anything that moves. You guys are kind of the opposite of that.
JB: Yeah.
DD: We’re kind of just fucked up people who want to find one person.
Wow, that’s really emo.
DD: Yeah.
LM: I’m wearing girl pants if you didn’t notice.
Are they legitimately women’s pants?
LM: Hell no. I’m just kidding you.
They are nut huggers.
LM: I’m a pizza eater. I’m growing outward.
DD: Girls fuck us. We don’t fuck them.
Should I send women to the bus for you guys while I’m out there?
CL: Yeah.
If I send a woman to the bus tonight, a chick, let’s find a girl more your age.
DD: Like three chicks. That are hot.
Would you at least mess around with them?
JB: I don’t know. If they’re down. If you found them.
DD: No, they would mess around with us.
JB: Yeah.
DD: We’d be sitting there, but they’d be messing around
So there’s been no crazy multiple dudes, multiple chicks type thing?
CL: There was this one time that this girl came on the bus, and she got naked and walked to the back lounge and came back up here. No one did anything.
JB: She took her pants and dropped them. There’s just pussy in everyone’s face – hanging lips.
And you did nothing?
JB: No one wanted to fuck her.
DD: Are you kidding? That’s gross, dude. You’re not going to fuck that girl.
LM: You would do the same if a guy did that.
Yeah, but dicks aren’t sexy. Or was she kind of…
JB: She was a little sagging.
DD: These girls were too forward.
LM: Sagging bagging bare…
DD: They were like 30.
They were 30?
DD: They were old women and were just too drunk.
JB: Born of Osiris likes old women. 40 plus cougars.
Now I know what I’m looking for out there.
DD: Send all the old ladies this way! Where the cougars at?
Do you guys have anything that you want to say to everybody at MetalSucks and to all your fans?
JB: Metal does suck.
LM: Metal really sucks.
DD: Metal sucks.
CL: And we’re here to prove that to you.
-AG
HUMANITY WILL SUFFER- BRUTAL DEATH METAL FROM ONTARIO
http://www.myspace.com/humanitywillsuffer
Your band sucks it big time.
Sure kid. Exactly what is the name of your band for comparison?
stop spamming this fuking place up, want people to listen to your record? send axl a fucking email, if its good HE’LL fucking tell everyone about it.
I didn’t pwn you. You pwned yourself by being born! Nice braces. And I see that you are going to school for game design, I bet you will pick up TONS of chicks with that career. Hhahahhaha.
Exactly waht does that have to do with your band sucking. So if we are not in a band that automatically means your band is good. Fukking douche-tard. I listened to your stuff. I gave it a chance. I would rather fuck a cheese grater than listen to it again. Thus- your band sucks. Now go away…
1. Learn how to spell and use proper grammar.
2. I am willing to bet that opeth are in your top 5 bands, which makes your opinion meaningless.
3. The fact that you are not involved in a band doesn’t automatically mean that my band is good, but it does mean that you have no right to judge, because you aren’t in a band yourself. (And I am pretty sure that you don’t have the intellect and dedication to actually play any instrument.)
Hey Brutalizer- people don’t need to play in a band to appreciate other bands.
I’ve been around long enough to know what is good metal and what isn’t. And your band is not good metal.
So take the spamming to Blabbermouth or Lambgoat buddy.
And what is the difference between being a musician and just an average music fan?
You’re a musician, and can’t seem to realize that your band isn’t very good.
TJ. I think that my band good. I enjoy it and have fun with it. There IS a large difference between musicians and normal music fans. Normal music fans are usually just jocks in Pantera shirts and will rock out to any shit breakdown or whatever the fuck is coming out these days. Also, my band was formed in January of this year, so I know we still have a long way to go
1. Thanks for the grammar lesson. I shall type slower so you can get the point.
2. Opeth Blows
3. I have been a guitar player and drummer longer than you have been alive (most likely)
4. Your band still blows
1. It is good you realize opeth blows.
2. I guarantee i could school you on the axe and the kit and would be willing to do so in public if you wish.
3. My band is better than you non-existent band and probably half of the bands you listen to.
Opeth could be the best band in the world, or the worst band in the world. I could play the guitar better than Steve Vai or be the worst in the world. The sun could rise tomorrow, or it could not. Your band on the other hand is just not any good…period. Its not really contingent on anything else.
Your fucking annoying and If I need to listen to canadian death metal I will pull out my Despised Icon CD’s. God your gay
I really like the bree’s in your unoriginal shit songs. Those bree’s really set you apart from whatever the fuck is coming out these days. Shitty Wigger Slam Douchetard.
Enough out of you. Go listen to your despised icon cd’s then you fucking deathcore kiddie. You are clearly an American piece of shit.
@ Adam Bailey. Hahahaha we are not even remotely close to being wiggers. If some of the people I know heard you say that in real life you would be stuck with a hefty dental bill.
@ Adam Bailey. I have looked at your myspace and you just pwned yourself. Her is the link for anybody else who wants to see how weak this guy is :
http://www.myspace.com/mrsaucytrousers
Thank you so much for pwning me so badly by sharing my myspace. You got me fwend.
His band’s name is “I’m a douchelord fuckface who posts his terrible band’s name on random websites’ message boards in order to draw traffic.” It’s a very long name.
Very insightful! Did your mom help you with that?
There is a difference between a musician and just an average music fan.
Almost as long as your dead grandmother’s sagging breasts! Yum!
Screw this lame band and ban this fucking lame troll.
Hhahahahahaahahahahhaahahahahahahaa
very eloquent
I didn’t pwn you. You pwned yourself by being born! Nice braces. And I see that you are going to school for game design, I bet you will pick up TONS of chicks with that career. Hhahahhaha.
I’d lie if I said I didn’t suffer listening to the song I heard, so I’ll give ya props for an accurate name
Thanks for the feedback, mom’s basement living metal troll crew. Move the fuck out and get a life.
You wanted to hear peoples opinions, or you wouldn’t be posting this all over the place. Not our fault if you cnat take the criticism…
1. Thanks for listening.
2. Thanks for your opinion.
3. Learn spelling and grammar, maybe consider going back to school to get your grade 10! Then maybe you wouldn’t be stuck working at a 7-11!
4. Die.
@ Brutalizer
Trust me, nobody on here likes deathcore, so save your breath. And if you’re looking for constructive criticism you’re probably not going to get it…
Thanks. But we are not deathcore. And I am also starting to realize that most people posting on this site are narrow-minded pricks who go out of their way to point out every little discrepancy. Fucking Mongoloids.
GET YOUR SHIT OUT OF HERE BRUTALIZER YOU PUNK FUCK! Your music sucks and your band will get nowhere, youve been doing this spam shit on a lot of these posts, GO TO MYSPACE AND SPAM YOU BITCH! This is a blogging/discussion site, not the place for you to post your garbage dickhead, send Axl your fucking shit CD and let him be the judge if its worthy to be on this site…..bitch
What band are you in? Its real hard to be a tough guy over the internet, LOL.
Dude, I think EVERYONE HERE AGREES…you need to leave this site and quit spamming where we enjoy to converse about things, if you want to jump in and converse with us, GREAT….but quit posting your shit here man…and Im not in a band, as I know very little people that play around here. BUT, I actually play jazz, classical AND metal, in open C and drop C, NORMAL TUNINGS! Where you can actually still move and play things with FORM AND STRUCTURE!, not the fucking chugga chugga I hear from your, “band.” I also play sax and harmonica too, Im a musician… you like making brown noise with lots of distortion to hide your shitty dexterity
Dude, I am not even gonna bother arguing with you anymore. It is obvious that you have no idea or concept of tone. That’s cool that you play various types of music though, I enjoy playing many types of music also. And I have probably been playing music since before you were born.
hahahah, well it sure does show through your unique-stylistic playing sir!! Verryyyyyy original btw, face it…youre public enemy #1 here, and you can argue with us all one by one :) just scroll up, see all the fans youve already made by posting your garbage here?
Thanks. I appreciate your feedback. You are clearly very smart! Thank you!
If your music was good, I’d be more than happy to give it a better chance, but it just sounds generic. That’s my opinion, if it pisses you off, then understand that you WILL get critisized – it’s part of being in a band. If you expect everyone to love your music and no one to rip on it, to quote a REAL band (Judas Priest), you’ve got another thing comin’.
I understand what your trying to say. You don’t seem as stupid as the rest of the people on here. I realize not everybody likes bands. That is one of the reasons I play brutal death metal. “If you music was good…?” Your opinion sounds pretty biased , just because we don’t play prog shit or whatever your into, doesn’t mean that we suck. Thank you for your time.
Damn flame wars are fun to watch.
I don’t have braces as i am 23 yrs old and have never had braces. I have a perfect dental record without so much as a cavity. Im sure you pick up all of the ladies being in a 5th Generation Dying Fetus/Devourement clone. Im sure the career path you have chosen will be far superior to mine because we all know the market needs shitty clones of good bands. Fuck off and right a song about me being better than you. Maybe it won’t suck ass hard as the rest of the shit you put on display to the world.
I will get on ‘righting’ that song as soon as possible! While I am doing that you should probably go review your English.
Thanks dude. Sorry if I was a bit harsh, I just tire of some people on these sites. I understand how much work goes into a video game, as I do music production and have some freinds that are involved with the video game and broadcasting industries. All that rendering and design takes time. Since we are into the same music, we might as well all get along.
Should have named the band Internet Tough Guy.
Good idea. But I’d say ‘Real Life Tough Guy’ would be more fitting.
I’m so pleased that your come back was to make fun of a grammatical error i had made. Looks like i exposed what you really are. A talentless douche lord that has never created a piece of original music and is reduced to a flame war to hopelessly defend your very run of the mill bland band. Good luck scoring with all those chicks and living the good life creating musical masterpieces. I think i will stick to graduating from school, getting a job in an always expanding industry and moving on to bigger and better things while your band still sucks.
I play Slammy death because I like Slammy death. Your penis has never been dampened in a vagina and I doubt it ever will. I am a college graduate. I work in law. You want to make video games. Grow up and get a real career.
Btw, I don’t give a shit if anybody likes my band. I play music to have fun. It is not my career. It is something I do out of pure love for brutal death metal. The pictures on your myspace sicken me. I know exactly what type of person you are. You are one of those people that claim to know every little detail about every single metal release in existence, but in actuality you google the information and pretend that you know everything. Sorry I should be bowing to you all knowing metal master.
That is cool that you work in law, i have a friend that is going into law school. Game design is a real career being that it was a 21.33 billion dollar industry last year a 19% increase from 2007. You obviously have no idea what goes into making a game and quickly assumed that it is just for kids and has no impact on society. I also don’t claim to know every detail about every release. I do learn about music via the internet as it has amassed a large amount of data on the subject. I don’t pretend to know a band just because they exist. If you would like to recommend some music for me perhaps it will be new to me and i can look their stuff up and learn about it.
LOL@the 20+ comments that have nothing to do with the article.
I checked out your band… and im sorry i agree you suck, you say you dont but i play guitar and your shit is simple as fuck. To my standards i wouldnt even call you guys musicians. If anyone in your band realy is good they dont do a good job of showing it.
Sorry you didn’t like it. I keep the riffs simple in this particular project because that if the style of shit we are going for. I also write tech riffs, acoustic songs, and lots of other stuff. I am just not a fan of progressive shit or songs that you cant listen to.
In a completely neutral and non-hostile way, I don’t like your band. That’s it. I’m sure some other people do, but a lot of the members of this website don’t. You don’t need to get so incredibly defensive about it.
Ummmm. You DO care what people think of your shitty band otherwise you wouldn’t be flipping out on everyone that doesn’t like it. Bottom line fuck tard, don’t post your shitty bands link on METALSUCKS if you don’t want a bunch of people telling you how much it SUCKS. Ugh.
Axl’s right im finding it really hard to defend these guys. their practically retarded, which i find odd cuz there great musicians
Pretty much what I came here to say. So much talent, but they’re fucking stupid.
They’re “practically retarded” but yet you mis-used the term there, they’re, and their.
THERE
Just proves you don’t have to be very bright to make music, I guess. Compared to the intellectual ability of some of the European death/black metal guys….wheeee.
I would accuse you of making all that up, but nobody could possibly make all that up. Holy shit.
That’s what I was thinking! I think it’s too detailed to be fake, though.
Fuck this band.
I saw this band open for All That Remains in Syracuse a while back. Not knowing any of their music they sounded fucking great. I am now a huge huge fan. “A higher place” is really good. So fuck you Tommy. Seriously though check them out
ripoffcore
These guys sound like a bunch of spoiled douches.
And a band who doesn’t go through the rough book-your-own-tour and eat garbage experience is worse for it.
Completely agreed.
It sucks that this interview makes them seem so stupid. Both their cds are awesome.
BTW… ban this spammer douche
Ban this idiot.
Ban this idiot.
Come to Michigan mother fucker, ill run my truck into your piece of shit band and make better noise than you guys proclaim youre creating…
Of course you will.
eres the cross dressing black guy?
i noticed he didnt say anything during the entire interview except that he wanted to fuck gaahl. im serious, check it out!
Holy shit… Is this for real? This is fucking embarrassing. This is easily on par with the Attack Attack interview, just with less “likes” and “umms”.
Like what do you mean?
Good tunes, dumb fuckin kids.
I’m their age, and I’m embarassed.
Once again, agreed. I’m fucking YOUNGER than these guys, and I already know more than them about the music. That’s just sad.
danzig and gorgoroth fucking suck, I wish I didn’t know who they were
Keith,,,,you already know more about the music? Who cares? Want to have a competition? Seeing as you nor I are in a signed band who is touring the country playing some pretty bad ass tunes, knowing who these people are doesn’t really seem to matter.
I happen to know who Gorgoroth and Danzig are, dont really think I am better off for it though
never heard of these guys
Complete B.S. When I was coming up I learned about all which came before my generation of bands. This is really important – ESPECIALLY if you are a musician.
Absolutely. You aren’t going to win any points when you state that you don’t know who bands or individuals are, especially within your own scene. The fact that they didn’t know who Dino Cazeras, Gorgoroth, or Danzig is may be acceptable (even though its ridiculous), but the way they dismissed them was not. Ever heard of some fucking humility? If I was a booker or someone with some kind of power in the music scene, I’d go out of my way to make sure these clowns didn’t get shows.
I guess this makes Demi Lovato more metal, since she can at least namedrop a few bands. Then again, her Disney-pop is better than any of BoO’s music.
What a bunch of retards.
I now hate this band.
I tried to like these guys, now I can’t. They are so fucking retarded. Who’s Glenn Danzig? Gorgoroth? I have no respect at all for these dumbass little kids.
This may be the biggest self-embarrassment I’ve ever seen by a band in an interview.
you should watch the attack attack interview
It’s hard to believe that a band that makes pretty technical, complex music could be so unintelligent.
Some bands should really NOT do interviews. Don’t they have a PR guy or a mother or SOMEONE to make sure they don’t have interviews like that? I mean, bragging about “choking out” a girl? Not too swift.
I like what I have heard of Born of Osiris’ music, I just wish I had never read that interview. Then I could have kept assuming that they were normal, intelligent, nice guys.
Damn straight. What a bunch of dumbasses. For the record, I hated BoO’s music before I read the interview. I’m not sure what’s worse, choking the girl, or not having heard of Danzig.
The worst part is being pwnd by the eye candy of Winds of Plague (of all the shitty deathcore bands, this is one of the worst). I XD’d big time at that.
As someone who hates BoO with a passion, I found this interview to be quite funny. They’re just as retarded as their music sounds.
Completely. I hadn’t heard them before Summer Slaughter. They bored the piss out of me. And this interview was really retarded, although one thing redeemed it:
Dino Cazares?
CL: Who’s that?
LM: He’s a giant Mexican.
Props for that.
Sweet Zombie Jesus. I’d just about let the Gaahl thing go as, well, I’m fairly sure a lot of metal kids don’t know about Gorgoroth, but Glenn Danzig? GLENN FUCKING DANZIG. Unbelievable.
Only falses don’t know about Gorgoroth.
Holy Shit! I agree with Ziltoid for once. These BoO fucktards are bringing the metal community together.
Holy shit. This is worse than Bring Me the Horizon’s “Napalm Death aren’t really grind.”
HAHA, you have a link to this?
It was in issue #160 of Terrorizer, one of the commentators on BlabberMouth typed it up: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BLABBERMOUTH.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=96974
Quoting user “TxKx”:
“Well… In issue #160 of Terrorizer magazine, Bring Me The Horizon was being interviewed, and were played the title track of Napalm Death’s “Scum” during the Hard Of Hearing segment (where the band guesses the performers of the songs played for them by the interviewers). To quote what they said:
BMTH: “This isn’t very good.”
BMTH: “Is this Napalm Death? I don’t really listen to this sort of thing.”
Interviewer: “Are you a Grindcore fan?”
BMTH: “This isn’t really Grindcore. Grindcore’s changed a lot.”"
FAIL!
These people really need to be hanged and then shot. I’m honestly hope I didn’t act like that big of a douche when I was their age.
It pains me to say this about an up and coming and apparently talented group of musicians, but talented or not, these guys are closed minded idiots, either that or just plain ignorant. Kids or not, they know fuck all about the type of music that they apparently love enough to base a band around.
Also, being handed everything on plate by third parties isn’t necessarily a good thing. Without haivng to struggle they may not build up the resilience that other bands have developed through things screwing up. Look at death metal: the scene was built on basement gigs and tape trading and eventually became established; most of those pioneering bands are still going now or at least have the respect from the metal community. I’m wondering how long it will take for this band to disappear into obscurity, or for the label to pull funding because they’re not popular enough.
If this band epitomized the future of metal, then it may as well have been dead, but we can be grateful that not every new metal band has members as moronic as this.
Bands like BoO are just trends, they will die out eventually because their fans are all children with short attention spans.
In my opinion, this band is just boring and generic. Then again most of these new crossover bands do absolutely nothing for me, their popularity is fueled by ignorance.
Yeah, you’re right, it’s just annoying that so many people are fooled into thinking that this sort of shit is the ‘future’, blending music genres and styles is a good way of avoiding treading water but when it’s done simply because it’s ‘cool to do that sort of thing’ or ‘this will make us money’ it does more damage than good.
That said, it also makes the music that is actually good stand out more prominently!
who the fuck is your favorite band? I am very curious to find out. Let me guess. You love Mastodon and anything proggy right? your a fucking moron. I am sure every single person who listens to this band is ignorant.
I didn’t suggest that at all, and no Mastodon is not my favourite band. I love the fact that you assumed that, without a reply. Who’s the moron again? Then again, don’t respond because I know your type and you’re obviously right about everything. You amuse me.
” Without haivng to struggle they may not build up the resilience that other bands have developed through things screwing up”
Thats probably a good thing for the rest of us. As soon as they hit a little bump in the road, they will call it quits, much like their parents obviously did years ago.
Ah, like the musical equivalent of natural selection; I never looked at it like that!
Oh yeah and choking a girl is not something to be proud of in the slightest. Only a complete and utter cunt would admit to something as horrific as that (let alone practically brag about it)!
Choking girls is metal.
BLASPHEMY!!!
y dont the fuck kristen randall?
a durrrr
Because ’she’ looks like a dude.
I saw these idiots in early 2008, and the only thing which I remember from the show was that they had a keyboardist. Other than that….nothing memorable at all. This kinda justifies my suspicions.
I wonder if they even know the bands they are indirectly influenced by (Meshuggah, Cynic, Gorguts, etc…)? There might not be their style of music without some of what Fear Factory did and they didnt even know who that was. Dumb kids only know of the bands in their scene it seems. We will see how lang they last, i give them a year tops.
BoO were nothing more to me than a download and delete.
after reading this i will officially never listen to this band
Holy shit, I’ve never heard these guys, only the name. I was considering checking them out but now I don’t even want to.
What a waste of time that must have been.
Check this news! Awesome deathcore band!
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=124297
“Awesome” and “deathcore” shouldn’t be used in the same sentence.
“Deathcore is the opposite of awesome.”
I win =]
Hilariously awesome interview! I’ll have to check them out now.
Wow, these guys are fucking retarded douchebags. I heard they were actually talented musicians, but fuck, I’m 18 and fucking listen to The Misfits/Danzig. Fuck, they don’t even know Gorgoroth? God damn. Learn your fucking roots. Is it a requirement to become famous with a band, you have to be a fucking retard? In all the interviews I see with famous metal musicians, they all seem so stupid.
is it a requirement that when you become famous, you have to have studied metal for 20 years?
Yes.
You’d think they would be a little more intelligent..
as lame as they sound, who cares if they don’t know these guys. it’s not like you have to take a history exam to buy a guitar. i’m sure if they haven’t heard of these people, some of their influences are influenced by the named bands. thus, it’s like an indirect influence. make sense? haha
Danzig = 0
Northside Kings = 1
NORTHSIDE KINGS ARE UNDEFEATED!!!!!
and unknown…
Lies.
keep this is mind, everyone.
anyone can learn to play awesome music. not everyone needs to like The Misfits, or give a flying fuck about them.
just because you play music well, doesn’t mean you need to know legendary music. why do you think their stuff doesn’t sound like every other Misfits or Metallica carbon-copy band?
i agree with dlux.
Ahhhhh! Someone who isn’t a complete idiot!! I am impressed! Thanks for posting something with some intellectual integrity, we all know this site needs it!
Oh ya, because your constant spamming about your crappy band has been bringing a lot to this site over the past few days buddy…
hmm. as much as i don’t agree with you putting shit up about your band… you’re just trying to market your band any way you can! i understand. i’m glad that you’re open minded, too.
Thanks! Yeah I just posted a few to see what the feedback would be like. I realize that it isn’t what the site is meant for, but no one else seemed to be saying anything else very productive at the time. Yes I think of myself as quite the open-minded music fan, which is why it is very difficult to argue with the huge number of closed-minded people on the internet. Dam metal was good before the internet.
Yes, I have been warned already. They made it quite clear that spamming is frowned upon lol.
Everyone is open minded, they all just hate your shitty band, and you. Metal was good before it sounded like your awful music.
I checked out your band. I enjoyed it. Good luck with it.
Thanks dude. The full length will be crushing and probably released early next year.
Ah! More highly needed intellectual commentary! Thanks for you much needed opinion!
sorry dudes. i replied outside of the box. oops.
Yeah, they dont sound like the Misfits or Metallica. They sound like EVERY OTHER DEATHCORE-SCENESTER-DOUCHEBAG BAND IN THE SCENE that only listen to each other and try to one up each other with how technical they are and only last for 2-3 years until they are lost in obscurity.
haha. it’s true. and you’re right… you putting up stuff about your band hasn’t been as bad as some of the idiots responding to you, but i wouldn’t spam any more… you don’t want the fine gentlemen that run this site to be upset with you.
This was pathetic. And hilarious. And horribly, horribly depressing. I can understand not knowing who Gaahl is (I guess) but not knowing the Misfits? For fuck’s sake.
They may be young, but that’s no excuse – like plenty of other metal fans, I was losing my shit over Carcass, Exhumed, and Tsjuder when I was much younger than they are now.
This band is an embarrassment to their already shitty genre, and their stunning lack of knowledge is all too common in the modern “metal” scene. Deplorable.
Man, I saw there were like 150 comments on here and I thought there was going to be some great debate over BOO’s legitimacy as a metal band, but instead I see a bunch of assholes yelling at an asshole spammer. What a waste of everyone’s time.
This band sucks. stupid deathcore.
yo yo yo, “FUCKIN BOW DOWN” is sum great lyrical genius. Actually, a new band I’ve posted here a few times, \\\Maytag (a Sunn O))) parody band) have for some reason mocked Born of Osiris as well in their song “Chow Down” (making fun of Bow Down):
http://www.last.fm/music/%5C%5C%5CMaytag/The+Saga+of+the+Frostbitten+Lands+of+Frigidaire/Chow+Down
I noticed the reference and emailed the guy on who runs their website and asked about it, and he said that the band just fucking hates BoO and their shitty deathcore (they have good taste IMO), so they felt like making fun of them. Regardless, the \\\Maytag song is infinitely better than BoO will ever be. Still, I don’t get how BoO fits into a Sunn O))) parody, but I find it funny enough anyway. Between this and the Sunn O))) interview on here, I’m liking \\\Maytag more as of late. I like this band, so I’ll post their website here–download all their stuff from their website:
http://maytag235.wordpress.com/
I agree with those who contend that this band could only benefit from getting educated about what’s considered source material for their genre. It’s not necessary to love it all, but The Misfits (while not metal, still important to the progression of what modern metal has become), Danzig (metal as fuck), and Gorgoroth (love them or leave them, metal-er as fuck) are all seminal acts. While not being familiar with these acts does not call BoO’s chops into question, it certainly DOES call their pedigree into question.
Again, the key phrase is SOURCE MATERIAL. Get schooled, kids.
I would pass on trying to educate them and go straight to eradicating them.
They fact that BoO and countless other scene-kid clones still exist is one of the main reasons that I don’t believe in natural selection. Surely if it were true, theses wastes of air would be gone by now.
Also, Brutalizer, please don’t spam here anymore. I’m asking you nicely. I can respect you trying to get the word out about your band, but F.Y.I. spamming my favorite site solicits only my enmity, not my interest. Good luck, otherwise.
Thank you for your time. It sucks that metalsucks is your favorite site though, jeesh.
*pained smile* Given your treatment on this thread, I can understand why you would feel that way. I saw some of the posts you left on other threads and hope you’ve not been discouraged from participating further here. Keep it metal, bro.
Thanks boss.
wow so i just skipped to the end about 1/2 way through and that dude seems like the biggest tool. i normally dont get into myspace-esque scene drama but damn…dude honestly if your gonna post your band quit bitching when you get dissed on a fucking metal site. im guessing that you are going to go and find everyone on here who ever talked shit about you on myspace and post it on here so here you go http://www.myspace.com/loganian_holl
talk as much shit as you want about me or any of my shitty bands to your self just please shut the fuck up
Jeez bro don’t take this stuff so seriously.
I love this band but… seriously? They don’t know who The Misfits are? Damn.
i think i got brain damage reading this shit!
New album is not that good. Only several memorable songs.
Plus, the intie brought me nothing but a bad impression.
HOLY CRAP!! when did the blabberblog make the jump to this site!?! Fucking kids man.
Anyway, that was probably the best interview you guys have ever done, fucking hilarious. Kids need to be taught the up n up both in the up n coming bands and in the comments section. Didn’t ever think I’d be the old bitchy guy complaining about all these damn kids runnin amok with their scene hair and girly pants n their blabbermouth attitude!
But here i am.
I guess I better give up listening to metal….I can’t name a single Misfits song and I don’t know (or care) who the fuck Gorgoroth is.
Some of you have your heads so far up your own asses it’s ridiculous. The band does make themselves look pretty bad in this interview though. The new album is also not very good.
So, I go to the Born Of Osiris MySpace page. First thing I see at the top is, “Get Yours First At HOT TOPIC!” Speaks for itself, don’t you think? Another think that speaks for itself, the band name’s initials are BOO!
Attitude, they’ve got some fucking attitude…
a bad attitude. Next!
Couldn’t make it though with out raging and closing out. They act like The Misfits and Fear Factory are some crazy underground band. Morons. Fucking morons. And Periphery is the most underground band they could think of? God damn it. God fucking damn it.
I dont know if it is nessesarily a reflection of the band itself. Theres usually a reason why most bands only have one or two of their guys do interviews, and i think this is kinda why.
I don’t even know what to say…I mean…I smoke A LOT of weed. And I’ve smoked with these guys. At the time I thought they were just arrogant pricks because they really didn’t say much. I’m talking the whole band. They had this air of “I’m in a touring band so I’m better than you” about them but…now I just think they are fucking retards! No…I shouldn’t insult retards like that.
I thought bruno was a guy from the netherlands?
He’s a character. Sacha Baron Cohen also played Ali G and Borat.
Wow. That’s pretty much all I can say about this interview.
Haha, Tosin never said anything. He’s the smart one. And I love how the majority of the comments are not about the interview.
LOL @ Born of Osiris being so fucking stupid. I guarentee you, these fucking assholes don’t know who Death was either. Or Pestilence either.
Obviously these guys don’t listen to anything remotely metal, if they did, they would produce such horrible music.
Wouldn’t*
Wow. Don’t know or care about the Misfits and are proud to relate a story about choking some random chick. Classy guys. Fuuuuck this band.
What the fuck is this? I was under the impression this was a Metal review site, yet all I’ve seen thus far is scene kid garbage.
I think at least David was prolly drunk during the interview considering the references and the way he was talking, and they knew who Danzig was so back off he just didnt know his first name. These guys are much cooler than they come off in this interview, alot of this surprised me. Cameron makes this band, he writes the music and puts some of the most creative drums to it i’ve ever heard, very enjoyable drumming and original guitar style makes this band stand out.
i cant believe all of you think they were actually serious during this interview haha, most of you, probably none of you know them on a personal level so you actually dont know how intelligent they are. you cannot base someones intelligence off of an interview. and for those of you who think they are not talented, i would love for you to write better music, and play drums better than cameron, or guitar better than lee and tosin. so dont come on this website and talk crap about bands that you dont like, youre just wasting your and everyone elses time.
Nobody should bash Opeth. They are metal gods and your shitty bands don’t compare to them, BOO, or even Gorgoroth. Those guys kick serious ass!
i’ve smoked fat blunts and many many many bowls with born of osiris at emerald city death fest seattle washington 2008 before and after the show… i know i’m amazing, and while smoking with them i gotta listen to the entire new cd a higher place 7 months before it was released… i think that was a pretty epic concert i must say
Who the fuck cares about what the guys say or do?? It’s all about the output, man. The output. I couldn’t care less if the music’s made by Einstein or monkeys. As long as it slays.