www.morrigans-pit.org Hi Mario, Here are the questions for the interview. I know I can find some of the answers on the bio sheet I got with your cd. But the other people don’t so that’s why I’m asking you them. 1. How and when was Balatonizer formed? In 1997,at the beginning we were with two vocals and a drummer.After that in 2001 became a brutal trio composed by Mario(voice growl/scream),Marco(guitar/drum-programmer),Rodan(bass)and our Drum-machine that satisfied our concept of "vulgar-death-grind"style. At the beginning it was an expedient...but,as time was going on,we founded out our own musical dimension with it. We think now it's a sort of Balatonizer's trademark! We are 3 idiots that had find in our brutal band the "vulgar death grind" attitude.Ahahaha 2. The name Balatonizer, very unusual name, what does it mean and where did it come from? "Balatuni" in sicilian dialect mean big stone Balatonizer sound so cool! 3. Which bands have had an influence on Balatonizer? Many bands influenced our trip during our long activity. Founders like Cannibal Corpse,Decide,Suffocation,Death,Brutal Truth, Pestilence,Napalm Death,Mlevolent creation,Vomitory,etc...and more recent like Nile,Mortician,Dying Fetus,Internal Bleeding,Sinister, Agoraphobic Nosebleed,etc...but would be reductive to make a so short list for the fact that there are many other bands that meant a lot for us. We had spent many beautiful years closed in our lair listening to everything existing of Death,Grind,Black,Crust planet. 4. Besides the bands mentioned above, are you influenced by anything else? Yes!From everything that is clumsy! 5. You guys use a drum machine. Have you guys ever had a (human) drummer? Yes at the beginning for some years,but we haven't find a real brutal drummer than we pass to the drum machine.The enormous developing in affordable audio technology of the last years is giving great opportunities to everyone is involved in every music creation process. You can have more control now! We can have a pretty trustworthy vision of the impact we are going to deserve with every Balatonizer track just from the beginning of the composition stage. We are able to immediately change everything...years ago we was able to notice some kind of arrangements defects only after spending a lot of time and money in professional recording studios. Now we utilize computers to try various arrangement solutions on every single riff before to proceed any further. All in all our is a true musical research...but, unlike in experimental music, our research's aim is only and even to pulverize everything! 6. The most famous band that uses a drum machine is Mortician, they also use movie scenes as intros for there songs. I noticed that Balatonizer also uses movie scenes as intros, would you care to comment? Yes but we doesn't use horror movie but mafia and italian commedy from the 1970/80! 7. You guys have released 2 demos and 1 EP. Are there any copies left or are they sold out? We have yet some copies we haven't make more copies from many years about the old work. 8. How was the reaction on the demos and the EP? Cool here in our land Sicily!Our brutal scene,in Italy, is relegated to a sterile underground ambit that give us only some poor possibilities to promove us. There are many other bands of fine workmanship that work hard tring to become popular in nations like Germany,Nord Europe and Est Europe where this kind of music is more appreciate. In Italy it's very difficult to find the right channels to promote ourself.For this reason i admire a lot of all italian brutal bands that still continue to promote their project without surrending.They do it only for a pure passion for the brutal style. Here our scene has retrograde enviroment and then is not possible to substein a more big contest with more possibilities of use. 9. You new cd is entitled “ Occlused in Ottusity”, what’s the difference between this album and your previous works? This is the first full lenght with drum machine.The first and the second demo are with drummer in pure grind style. 10. How have the reactions been so far to “Occlused in Ottusity”? We became to make promotion alone only some month ago....The first reaction was so cool and we appreciate it. 11. Are you planning on going on tour to promote this album? We haven't many possibilities here but we hope that will improve in the future.We are under a little label that hadn't make a big promotion.However we trust the situation will improve! 12. Are there any bands that you’d like to go on tour with? Cannibal corpse, Napalm Death, Clitear, Dying Fetus, Disgorge, Necrorectumonomicon, Deicide, and many others... 13. I was curious about your lyrics, what are they about? How you noticed we haven't texts.The only semblance of message that we wont to transmitt it's totally expressed in the comic artwork, drawned by our guitarist/drum-programming Marco,inside the cd. What we wont to comunicate with our project it's only brutality at the wild state. A Neanthertal languagge addressed to the reducted cerebral cosciencial state of our public that,during the listening of our cd, fall in a cataleptic state and expresses itself using the most primordial itellectual capabilities. It's only in that phase that the most primitive and brutal human expression comes out in it's marvellous spontanety. 14. Inside the booklet of “Occlused in Ottusity” there a comic story featuring you guys. Would you describe the story in your own words? We are walking in a wood and we feel a strong reek.We follow the reek and we enter in a cavern were we find a beast that give us he power to became enormous with many muscles!Than we fly to the marvellous society to make clean! 15. You also made a video clip. Can give me more info on it? (Why that track, where etc.) We had make it alone in our box,"Muscular Prevarication"because is with mid time and fast beats together! 16. Any final words for the fans out there? The best mix for us is brutality and big irony! Stay brutal! Thnx a lot for your time and I wish you and the band a lot of success in the future! By Brian www.morrigans-pit.org «back