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Sitting on a tour bus at four in the afternoon is a noticeably quiet and serene experience... The only noise was the cathartic humming of the generator. Apparently, everyone was still sleeping except for my interviewee, Jaska of Children of Bodom. Despite having been awakened by his tour manager to meet with me, he was bright eyed and friendly, and still in his Batman pajamas.

SDM: Why did you guys decide to compile a cover album? Or was it Spinefarm Records' idea?

Jaska: Well, it was our idea because we had been doing these cover sessions like for whatever tribute albums. The last three or four albums we have made there has always been cover songs, and we just realized that we have so many cover songs, it would be nice to collect them as a whole, like one package.

SDM: What was your favorite cover to play?

Jaska: Well, I really much like the Creedence Clearwater Revival cover. It's hilarious!

SDM: Were all the cover songs easier or harder for you to do as a drummer?

Jaska: Well, there was the Slayer song, that was quite hard to play for me. I think for everybody it wasn't that easy. We did it like the original version is, but then there's a few songs that are not that hard to play, but to put it in CoB style was difficult. But I don't know what was the easiest. Maybe Andrew W.K. was easy to me.

SDM: Any difficulty adapting to other drummers' styles?

Jaska: Well, yeah, like Anthrax was a pain in the ass, and some of the 80's rock songs, because I'm not that style at all. I think that I just played the song like it was supposed to be, but there's no sense of feeling like there is in the original song.

 

 

 

 

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People usually say two things to me about "From Sacrifice to Survival". The first is "why is there singing on a Skinless record?", and the second is "great album, but I can't hear the drums". So, here are 5 "drums only" versions of the Sacrifice songs. One of them is a George Torres era song, so you can hear how things developed from ep to lp.

Enjoy ~ John Longstreth  

Soulfly was scheduled to enter a studio in Los Angeles, California on 11/6/09 to begin recording their new album for an early 2010 release. The group's bassist, Bobby Burns, writes on Soulfly's official forum, "We've been playing together better than ever in recent times and we're all really excited to get to work on the new shit!"

Craig Sternberg had the chance to interview Joe Nunez recently... Enjoy!

SDM: What's the latest with the new Soulfly record?  How far along are you guys?  

Joe: Max has put together the songs and picked out what he wanted to do.  Now we're basically just listening to what ideas he has and we're going to work from there.  We're in the beginning phases of it, although Max is probably in the advanced stages.  We'll put it together real soon.  

SDM: Do you have an idea of when the album will come out?  

Joe: No, I have no idea.  

SDM: Is there any specific goal you have in mind for this record that you are setting out to accomplish?  

Joe: Well, until I hear what he has in mind, I do want to venture out a little bit more.  Not do the same thing we did on Dark Ages and Conquer, they are really heavy metal albums, but for me I like to bust out of the plateaus you get into when you put out a good record.  Like Reign in Blood, they did that record and when they came out with the new record, it's like, are they supposed to repeat and do Reign in Blood part two?  So, same thing with me, in the sense that I want to be able to do something creative and fresh, a new sound for this new record.

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This video of Inferno & Behemoth was going to be run in the September issue of Sick Drummer Magazine, but we decided to save it and rum it at a later date. Here it is... Behemoth in Rochester, NY in August 2009. Enjoy