1. Welcome Theo, to start i just wanted to congratulate you on convincing me totallt that Greek death metal still has ball. Promo 2008 confirmed this for me and i can honestly say i only have positive things to say.
Hello Chris!!I'd like to thank you for the interview and for your good words too!!Well yeah i agree that Greek death metal has balls, besides this has been proven from some great bands.
2. BIRTH OF DEPRAVITY for me is a band that came from nowhere, that is its a new band which we havent heard any thing prior to this day. Tell us a bit about the band and its roots.
Well actually we're are a band which consists from some simple guys who like to play that kind of music and we have done some little promotion from our myspace page..actually to whom we are known, we owe that to the internet. Our roots are our listenings and all death metal pioneers who left their mark in death metal.
3. Promo 2008 in my opinion and hopefully after others are infected is that the material is full of power, which for such young guys is suprising to hear. Have you fellas worked on this for a long time or does it come naturally?
Power, strength, energy and brutallity are the main elements of Birth of Depravity's music.Besides death metal and brutal death metal is a music which expresses those elements to their highest.The promo tracks are a little bit old actually, new tracks are much more extreme and technical in some kind of way. We worked seriously on the promo tracks for at about 3-4 months i think and going in the studio to play once a week. Unfortunately for several reasons we dont have the time to play for example 3 times a week, which would be the best for us.
4. Promo 2008 isnt the longest of recordings but apart from that everything is first class, cd-r, good sound engineering and a nice c.d cover. Do you think such advanced band promotion will bring the band success?
haha i never saw it that way, the recording took us 8 hours, the cover is just a simple cover in photoshop and the production is how it had to be for a promo for that style of death metal. I think everything is simple in that release and because we feel happy with the whole thing there's no reason for making it better, it's just a promo release.
5. What comes first the music or the lyrics when you guys write a song?
First comes the music and then the lyrics. The title depends on how the feeling of the song is and what we want to talk about, lastly comes the lyrics.
6. You recorded in STUDIO LIVE, how was that experience?
It was a great experience and much important for us, it was the first time where i and Jim went to a studio to record something and we both feel stronger after that. A kind of stressed sense left from us and a sense of fullfilment and joy filled us all. The vocals as you saw in the promo were recorded by Greg at his home, and this is because we live in a different town.
7. After listening to the promo it kind of reminded me of SEVER TORTURE from Holland. IS the band influenced by any specific bands out there?
Of course we are influenced, there are so many great bands in death metal over all these years of it's existence, underground acts or not who have inspired us.Our influenses are not only music, it might be a thought or an image or an influence from a kind of music which has nothing to do with metal. I mean that our purpose is not that we want to play like deicide, origin, deranged, morbid angel or cannibal corpse...besides that those bands have influenced us, we play on how it comes naturally from us.
8. Would you call yourself a aperfectionist? Do you even after the final recordingwish you could go back and change things?
No we dont call our selves perfectionists. We just want to respect that thing which is called death metal and play something which has sense and will make us happy. No we dont want to change something on these recordings, we are satisfied from the whole thing and except that, the promo tracks will be re-recorded when we'll enter the studio for recording our debut cd..so this means that some parts will have some small changes on how we play them.
9. Who created the album cover and what are your thoughts about it?
I created the cd cover, it's our myspace background pic with the logo and i searched over the web to find some skulls and stick them on the cover and done some other changes using photoshop. It's just a simple cover.
10. Any new material on the way?
Yes!!Cant wait for the right time when we enter the studio to record our debut!! Maybe at the end of this year, this might have happen...so let's see....
11. Whats been playing on your stereo recently? Do you only listen to death metal?
In my stereo there were some disavowed stuff, merlin, deicide, atrocious abnormality, blasphemer and some guitar tracks. We dont listen only to death metal, we hear every kind of metal and every thing which sounds good to us, death metal is our biggest love by the way.
12. Any Greek bands out there that that we wouldnt necessaily know about but you think we should look out for?
I think that you should check out extreme violence, comatose, remnants of flesh, vulnus, terrordrome, mass infection and dead congregation.
13. Cheers Theo! anything else you'd like add as the last words belong to you.
I'd like to thank you for your good words for Birth of Depravity and your attitude in general, it's an honour for us, fucking respect goes to you Chris!! Keep it death metal!! All the best!! Cheers!!!
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Birth Of Depravity is a Brutal Death Metal band from Greece, formed by Theo in 2005, parallel Liakos (The Almighty Fischermen) joined for vocals. After some general difficulties and line up changes, on November 2007, Jim joined the band on drums....On the end of July 2008 Liakos left the band. On 2-3 August 2008 the band entered the studio and recorded their fisrt 2 songs for releasing them as a promo, vocals recorded one month later by Greg (Comatose) who joined for vocals. Currently the band is working on new tracks for recording their full-length album.
L-R: Theo - Guitars / Greg - Vocals / Jim - Drums / John (ex-member) - Bass
Monday, 8 June 2009
Friday, 6 March 2009
Review "Promo 2008" from Phobia webzine
The first time i heard this record i must admit it brought me a lot of joy. Top shelf brutal death metal is definitely what BIRTH OF DEPRAVITY are and it can be said that they do it perfectly. Everybody who listens to the record is bound to feel a little bit of spontaneous emotion not from the easy melody but from the fact that the band destroy from start to finish. Reminences of SEVERE TORTURE are totally there, the vocals rip and overall the sound is very good for representing themselves in such a short period of time. I know that their are lots of people out there who would argue that there is dozens of bands with the same sound but for me these boys from Greece hit the spot and i cant wait for the next instalment. I urgue everyone out there to have a listen to PROMO 2008 especially if your a fan of uncompromising brutal death.
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Interview with Hell Razor 'zine
1. Hi Theo , thanks again for the promo cdr's . so how's it going with Birth Of Depravity and can you give us a small history how it all started !
Hello Patrick!!Firstly i'd like to thank you for giving us the opportunity of promoting Birth of Depravity with this interview!!It's the first one!
Well, the whole thing started at about 4 years ago, somewhere in summer of 2004, i always wanted to play intense and extreme death metal with passionate riffs and some kind of technicality, this is the style of Death Metal i always loved, so while i was playing with my guitar the first riff of the song "Consumed fucking humanity" came out and i liked that riff and decided to continue it and started composing new tracks and continued practicing at home and after a while i thought the name of the band "Birth of Depravity" which it fits great with how we want to play and how we want the lyrical thing to be. After at about one year later i met Liakos, our ex-vocalist in a club near my home and told him that i wanted to create a band and looking for members, so he told me that he wanted to do vocals in a death metal band and so we dealed...while we were still looking for a drummer, at about summer of 2006 i ask my friend Marios from Extreme Violence if he'd like to play with me, he agreed but there was a big distance problem, so i went to the town where he lived to give a try in the studio and tried to make out the songs that you listened to our promo, the whole problem with the distance could not continue, because it was a matter of time and money, moving from town to town once a week to play for 2 hours was a real problem for me because of money and other responsibilities....so i was still looking for a drummer.One year later, on September of 2007 a friend of mine told me about Jim who wanted to play in a brutal death metal band because of the music that he loved and his obssession on developing much further on drums , so we met, i described to him the whole thing and we went to the studio and the result was that with that guy we have a great chemistry, so we became friends and continued playing and practicing.
The whole problem was to find the right guys to play with and dealing with our interests and as persons, i dont care for having someone in the band just for his amazing skills or just because we listen the same music, i care for playing with my bandmates and being friends and having fun, i see many great bands that split up because of personal problems between the members, so i really dont want that type of problems between us and actually i have better things to do than argueing with my bandmates...i want less problems in everything in my life and everything depends on how we see the world arround us and how we behave...i want Birth Of Depravity to be a band of friends who like to play that type of Death Metal, feeling free to talk and say their opinion and having fun between us. It's all about our personal pleasure and love with music and we want to play something that has some kind of respect for that great thing which is called death metal!
2. What can you tell us about the band members and instruments ?
I started at 16 playing bass, but not something special and 4 years later i bought my first guitar and started practicing. Jim started playing drums at about 4-5 years ago when he was 14 years old and studing and practicing hard on the drums 'til now. Greg is our friend and vocalist who likes singing brutal and John is our new member on bass and guitarist of his band Remnats of Flesh.
3. Well some of you guys plays in other bands too i see , tell more.
Greg sings with his other band Comatose. Jim also joined Remnants of Flesh on drums and as mentioned above John plays guitar in his band Remnants of Flesh...i dont play in another band because there's not a lot of free time and except that i want to focus on Birth Of Depravity.
4. Your music sounds also very brutal , so tell and by which bands are you mostly influenced .
The promo tracks are actually 3-4 years old, the new tracks are much more extreme and technical and a little different from the tracks in the promo.
We are influenced by our hearings, from old school thrash and old school death metal til technical brutal death metal and some grind core stuff, some names are disavowed, suffocation, cryptopsy, deicide and all the great bands that came out there and left their stigma on the death metal scene....also we are influenced by feelings of wrath, anger and madness, at least this is how i feel when i write some riffs..and another influence is our purpose of how we want to play, extreme and intense death metal.
5. So you recorded a 2 song cdr and spread this around for free ? , how are the reactions so far ( world ).
Well yeah we recorded a 2 track promo in 8 hours, it's the first time that i and Jim entered the studio for recording something and cost to us 150 euro for recording it, so we have no reason of selling this cdr and sell it how much? A cdr costs 0,30 euros, we would be unacceptable selling this 2 or 3 or 5 euros and we have no reason of selling that, the promo is free, that's why is called promo, it's free only for promotional purposes.
The reactions of the world seems to be pretty much possitive, if someone likes what we play then this is the biggest happiness for us!! Actually the only promotion that we have done is through internet and in particular through our myspace page.Besides there were some few and great guys from zines and labels that send us messages and ask for a promo copy.
6. And what about your new tracks ? tell more .... who's response and what are the dealing about , inspirations ?
We have another 3 new tracks, which are with no vocals by the time because i must write the lyrics and then Greg has to stick the vocals on them and do whatever changes are needed on the lyrics to fit on the songs, besides i write a new track and John has some great riffs for another new track which fits on how we want our style to be. Until now i wrote the tracks and the lyrics and we all in the band cooperate with each other in writing new songs...
The lyrics are vary between our life experiences and observation of our selves and the world arround, the decay, greed, human perversion, the faggotness, injustice and disgust that we see in the world, the whole shit system and the psychological elements of a human such as psychosis, paranoia and generally the chains that bind and deceit our controlled minds and dont let them think free.The lyrics are based on our point of view in life.
This is how i wanted the lyrical thing from the beggining to be, as it is for me pretty much interesting and also i'm glad that the other guys dealed with me in everything that has to do with the band, so i'm really happy about that because we have much common things and not only interests but also in mentality and way of thinking.
7. Has the band already any stuff for sale ? and can you also tell us abit about the brutal scene in Greece ( bands , zines , labels ,people ,...... )
No we have not something for sale at this time. The brutal scene in Greece has some great bands like Extreme Violence, Inveracity, Vulnus, Comatose, Remnants of Flesh, Sickening Horror, Mass Infection, Terrordrome and much more.I have no idea about greek labels because i havent been occupied with the whole stuff. As for zines, i know only one e-zine called "Deeper underground" which has been created by our ex-vocalist Liakos.
8. Are there any future plans , like recording a full cd for Birth Of Depravity or maybe a split release ?
We are planning to record our full length at about one year from now, this is the biggest goal for us to achieve. We had some offers from some labels for a split cd, but this is not what we want at this time.
9. How are the contacts with other European country's and what do you think of the sick scene worldwide and give us some of your favorites !
The contacts seem to be really cool for what we accepted actually, we had offers for split cds, there were some guys from zines and labels that asked us to send them a promo..but dont imagine that they are a big number, we are a new band and actually only people from european countrys ask for our promo.
Now worldwidly i think that there's a great scene in death metal, we love bands like disavowed, suffocation, deeds of flesh, hate eternal, necrotic disgorgement...but i think that something missess from the whole brutal scene mostly in underground acts of death metal, the feeling, everybody tries to be brutal and extremely technical and the feeling is getting lost. At least this is my point of view.
10. so what are you guys doing besides playing brutal music , and by the way this is the end , any last words to our readers !
Besides i work for the living, Jim studies graphic design, Greg studies sound engineering and John also studies sound engineering and works in a studio.
I 'd like to wish the best of luck to you Patrick and Hell Razor zine and thank all those guys that supported us in any way and asked us to send them a promo.
Be strong, have faith in yourself and keep it death fucking metal!!!Hails to all!!!!
Contact Hell Razor 'zine :
domspatrick@hotmail.com
HELL RAZOR ZINE
DOMS PATRICK
L'CARRESTRAAT 22 F
2220 HALLAAR
PROV. ANTWERPEN
BELGIUM
Hello Patrick!!Firstly i'd like to thank you for giving us the opportunity of promoting Birth of Depravity with this interview!!It's the first one!
Well, the whole thing started at about 4 years ago, somewhere in summer of 2004, i always wanted to play intense and extreme death metal with passionate riffs and some kind of technicality, this is the style of Death Metal i always loved, so while i was playing with my guitar the first riff of the song "Consumed fucking humanity" came out and i liked that riff and decided to continue it and started composing new tracks and continued practicing at home and after a while i thought the name of the band "Birth of Depravity" which it fits great with how we want to play and how we want the lyrical thing to be. After at about one year later i met Liakos, our ex-vocalist in a club near my home and told him that i wanted to create a band and looking for members, so he told me that he wanted to do vocals in a death metal band and so we dealed...while we were still looking for a drummer, at about summer of 2006 i ask my friend Marios from Extreme Violence if he'd like to play with me, he agreed but there was a big distance problem, so i went to the town where he lived to give a try in the studio and tried to make out the songs that you listened to our promo, the whole problem with the distance could not continue, because it was a matter of time and money, moving from town to town once a week to play for 2 hours was a real problem for me because of money and other responsibilities....so i was still looking for a drummer.One year later, on September of 2007 a friend of mine told me about Jim who wanted to play in a brutal death metal band because of the music that he loved and his obssession on developing much further on drums , so we met, i described to him the whole thing and we went to the studio and the result was that with that guy we have a great chemistry, so we became friends and continued playing and practicing.
The whole problem was to find the right guys to play with and dealing with our interests and as persons, i dont care for having someone in the band just for his amazing skills or just because we listen the same music, i care for playing with my bandmates and being friends and having fun, i see many great bands that split up because of personal problems between the members, so i really dont want that type of problems between us and actually i have better things to do than argueing with my bandmates...i want less problems in everything in my life and everything depends on how we see the world arround us and how we behave...i want Birth Of Depravity to be a band of friends who like to play that type of Death Metal, feeling free to talk and say their opinion and having fun between us. It's all about our personal pleasure and love with music and we want to play something that has some kind of respect for that great thing which is called death metal!
2. What can you tell us about the band members and instruments ?
I started at 16 playing bass, but not something special and 4 years later i bought my first guitar and started practicing. Jim started playing drums at about 4-5 years ago when he was 14 years old and studing and practicing hard on the drums 'til now. Greg is our friend and vocalist who likes singing brutal and John is our new member on bass and guitarist of his band Remnats of Flesh.
3. Well some of you guys plays in other bands too i see , tell more.
Greg sings with his other band Comatose. Jim also joined Remnants of Flesh on drums and as mentioned above John plays guitar in his band Remnants of Flesh...i dont play in another band because there's not a lot of free time and except that i want to focus on Birth Of Depravity.
4. Your music sounds also very brutal , so tell and by which bands are you mostly influenced .
The promo tracks are actually 3-4 years old, the new tracks are much more extreme and technical and a little different from the tracks in the promo.
We are influenced by our hearings, from old school thrash and old school death metal til technical brutal death metal and some grind core stuff, some names are disavowed, suffocation, cryptopsy, deicide and all the great bands that came out there and left their stigma on the death metal scene....also we are influenced by feelings of wrath, anger and madness, at least this is how i feel when i write some riffs..and another influence is our purpose of how we want to play, extreme and intense death metal.
5. So you recorded a 2 song cdr and spread this around for free ? , how are the reactions so far ( world ).
Well yeah we recorded a 2 track promo in 8 hours, it's the first time that i and Jim entered the studio for recording something and cost to us 150 euro for recording it, so we have no reason of selling this cdr and sell it how much? A cdr costs 0,30 euros, we would be unacceptable selling this 2 or 3 or 5 euros and we have no reason of selling that, the promo is free, that's why is called promo, it's free only for promotional purposes.
The reactions of the world seems to be pretty much possitive, if someone likes what we play then this is the biggest happiness for us!! Actually the only promotion that we have done is through internet and in particular through our myspace page.Besides there were some few and great guys from zines and labels that send us messages and ask for a promo copy.
6. And what about your new tracks ? tell more .... who's response and what are the dealing about , inspirations ?
We have another 3 new tracks, which are with no vocals by the time because i must write the lyrics and then Greg has to stick the vocals on them and do whatever changes are needed on the lyrics to fit on the songs, besides i write a new track and John has some great riffs for another new track which fits on how we want our style to be. Until now i wrote the tracks and the lyrics and we all in the band cooperate with each other in writing new songs...
The lyrics are vary between our life experiences and observation of our selves and the world arround, the decay, greed, human perversion, the faggotness, injustice and disgust that we see in the world, the whole shit system and the psychological elements of a human such as psychosis, paranoia and generally the chains that bind and deceit our controlled minds and dont let them think free.The lyrics are based on our point of view in life.
This is how i wanted the lyrical thing from the beggining to be, as it is for me pretty much interesting and also i'm glad that the other guys dealed with me in everything that has to do with the band, so i'm really happy about that because we have much common things and not only interests but also in mentality and way of thinking.
7. Has the band already any stuff for sale ? and can you also tell us abit about the brutal scene in Greece ( bands , zines , labels ,people ,...... )
No we have not something for sale at this time. The brutal scene in Greece has some great bands like Extreme Violence, Inveracity, Vulnus, Comatose, Remnants of Flesh, Sickening Horror, Mass Infection, Terrordrome and much more.I have no idea about greek labels because i havent been occupied with the whole stuff. As for zines, i know only one e-zine called "Deeper underground" which has been created by our ex-vocalist Liakos.
8. Are there any future plans , like recording a full cd for Birth Of Depravity or maybe a split release ?
We are planning to record our full length at about one year from now, this is the biggest goal for us to achieve. We had some offers from some labels for a split cd, but this is not what we want at this time.
9. How are the contacts with other European country's and what do you think of the sick scene worldwide and give us some of your favorites !
The contacts seem to be really cool for what we accepted actually, we had offers for split cds, there were some guys from zines and labels that asked us to send them a promo..but dont imagine that they are a big number, we are a new band and actually only people from european countrys ask for our promo.
Now worldwidly i think that there's a great scene in death metal, we love bands like disavowed, suffocation, deeds of flesh, hate eternal, necrotic disgorgement...but i think that something missess from the whole brutal scene mostly in underground acts of death metal, the feeling, everybody tries to be brutal and extremely technical and the feeling is getting lost. At least this is my point of view.
10. so what are you guys doing besides playing brutal music , and by the way this is the end , any last words to our readers !
Besides i work for the living, Jim studies graphic design, Greg studies sound engineering and John also studies sound engineering and works in a studio.
I 'd like to wish the best of luck to you Patrick and Hell Razor zine and thank all those guys that supported us in any way and asked us to send them a promo.
Be strong, have faith in yourself and keep it death fucking metal!!!Hails to all!!!!
Contact Hell Razor 'zine :
domspatrick@hotmail.com
HELL RAZOR ZINE
DOMS PATRICK
L'CARRESTRAAT 22 F
2220 HALLAAR
PROV. ANTWERPEN
BELGIUM
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Download promo 2008 free
Download it free in high quality here :
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