Interview with Fear Shall Torture
Have any of you played in other bands?
Yes of course.
Steffen: In Fury together with Mike
Alex: Point Of No Return
Pelle: Old Septic
Mike: Order To Ruin
How is it that you started playing music? We started playing music at all because we saw a inspiring musician which made us to pick up an instrument or because we were interested to make music together with other people.
What are your names? / Who plays what? / How old are you?
Steffen is lead guitar player and 20 years old.
Alex is drummer and 28 years old.
Pelle is rhythm guitar player, vocalist and is 28 years old.
Mike is bass player, vocalist and 20 years old.
Have you had other previous members? No.
Did you make music even when you were young? Yes we all started with the age of 14 or 15 years.
Where are you from? Nienburg/Germany.
In which year was the band founded? Alex and Pelle founded the band at the 23.01.2013
What's your style of genre? Groove Death Metal
What inspires you? The most imporant theme what inspires us is the fear itself.
How often and where do you rehearse? We rehearse once a week at a old millitary station.
How have you developed since you started with the music? Yeah we developed very fast at all because when Steffen and Mike joined the band 5 songs were already written and we started to write another 6 songs together. After that we started immediately with the recording because these recordings are always eating a lot of time. That all happened in a term of one year.
Do you have other interests of work outside the band? Pelle is also doing some artworks only for Black and Death Metal Bands and Mike is a sound engeneer for mixing and recording in every genre.
Are you looking for a booking agency, and what are your thoughts around that? Yes of course it would be nice to have an booking agency which supports you. When you are a small band you need every kind of support you can get.
Are you looking for a label, and what are your thoughts around that? Yes of course. We already send our demo to labels like Nuclear Blast, Napalm Records, Metal Blade records etc. But we always got refused.
What made you decide to make this music? We all like different kinds of genres and this is the music we all like to do.
What are your songs about?
Steffen: F
Alex: A
Pelle: E
Mike: R
Who does the composing and writes the lyrics? We all do everything.
Do you start with the music or the lyrics? We always started with composing the music and then we write the lyrics.
Do you compose in a certain inviroment? Yes we compose everything in our rehearsal room.
Have you done any covers live? No but we plan to do it for the future.
What language do you sing in? We sing in english.
Have you had to cancel a gig? No never.
Where do you plan to gig this year? We will play at the Knacken im Nacken in Oldenburg.
When did you start to sell merchandise, and what do you have for sale? We started to sell merchandise after publishing our demo at the beginning of this year. We sell only logo shirts and our demo record at the moment.
Where can people buy your merchandise? You can get a shirt with contacting us personal or via our facebook page.
What do you think about people downloading music instead of buying records nowadays?
Pelle: FUCK OF YOU ARE READY TO DIE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!
Steffen: Thats not cool.
Alex: * Shows up his midlefinger *
Mike: Its shit of course because it kill the whole magic about the music.
How do you think the music industry have changed because of this?
Pelle: There is a bad moon rising!
What do you think of my work? We thank you very much for giving underground band the oportunity to make an interview! Thumbs up for the good words!
How do you think and know that this interview will help you in the music business? We think it will not help us in the music buisness at all.
Do you have any idols?
Steffen: Dan Swanö
Alex: Vinnie Paul of Abbott of Pantera and Chris Adler of Lamb Of God
Pelle: Euronymous, Jan Axel Bloomberg (Hellhammer) von Mayham
Mike: Marco Hietala of Nightwish and Rex Brown of Pantera.
Is it easier to find inspiration from older bands, or bands that are more active today?
Pelle: From older bands.
Alex: I would say a combination of old and new is good.
Steffen: From older bands too.
Mike: I also think that a combination of old and new is important.
What advice would you give other bands or artists? Alex: Play with us!
Do you have any new material? Yes of course we are writing new material and 4 new songs are already finished.
What are your web sites?
https://www.facebook.com/FearShallTorture?fref=ts
https://fearshalltorture.bandcamp.com/album/fearmatic-demo
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjGUidpeGG67b3_a208aHdg
https://soundcloud.com/fear-shall-torture
How can people reach you? [email protected]
What are your plans for the future? A lot of live gigs, new albums and fun!
Do you have something to add? Yes we would like to know how do you got to us and if you already bought our demo record? Write us a message via facebook or e-mail.