Update 29-03-2009 Interview By Herry SIC



Tools Of Torture was born in late 2006 as a brutal/death band. The band is formed by Lord Destroyer (also in Bestial Devastation) at guitars, Tamoth (also in Putrid Carnage, Obscura Nox Hibernis) at drums, Impure at bass and Genobile (aka Animal in Bestial Devastation) at vocals. Tools Of Torture recorded a 5 tracks promo cd in spring 2007 at Alien Recording Studio and thank to this promo cd they get a deal with Despise The Sun Records for a debut album. In August 2008 the band recorded, again at Alien Recording Studio, "Faith - Purification - Execution", a 11 tracks' concept album about inquisition's tortures with a cover art by Phlegeton Studio (Avulsed, Katalepsy, Impure, Human Mincer and many more...). On February 2009 the debut album was finally out on Despise The Sun Records and now the band is going to promote it with a massive live activity in Italy and Europe.

Answered By Lord Destroyer - Guitars

Hello! First, so who is currently situated in the TOOLS OF TORTURE ( TOT ) camp?
Hello! Well in ToT camp there are 4 ganja smokers/fernet drinkers that, in their free times, likes to make a bit of noise all together in a brutal/death vein. In particular, ToT is formed by me (Lord Destroyer) at guitars, Tamoth at drums, Genobile at vocals and Impure at bass.

hey, I See Tools Of Torture's logo by Mike Majewski from Devourment, are keep On Death Metal Logo Image ?
Cause I Know some band has lets Try to not use Logo
Uhm.. I think logos won't die, coz is something like a "trademark" for a band. I know that many bands could avoid to use logo as symbolic protest again the music biz and the system in general, but logo is not only something that help the people to recognize your band in order to sell them your stuff it's much more... and so because according to us the logo is much important, we asked Mike Majewski (one of the best in the scene) to make it for us and he did a great work. We love our logo, maybe is the best thing in Tools Of Torture ahahhaha!

First time, congratulation for new Cd has be released for Now, and How have people reacted to " Faith - Purification - Execution ", and what is the band doing now? are you satisfied with Great Job with your label Despise The Sun Records, that label doing some Great Job for TOT ?
Thanks so much bro, we're really happy that, after many delays that postponed its release from the last month of 2008 to February 2009, "Faith - Purification - Execution" is finally out. At the moment we're trying to promote it with small tour in Italy and Europe, according with our studies/job etc. In April we'll be at Moscow Death Fest and this will be a great chance to promote our shit.. About reactions, people liked it a lot and we are, of course, really really happy of this! Almost every day we receive comments/emails of congratulations from sickos of every country and it give us a great injection of trust in ourselves and in our label Despise The Sun Records, coz it means that we worked well in our debut album and also that our label is promoting it really good!

Despise The Sun Records has Familiar with brutal Band Insider, are you Know some Band from indonesia, ASPHYXIATE, has Re-released on This Label Roster ??
Sure that I know Asphyxiate bro and I know also that their new stuff is sick as fuck, really brutal and that it's released by Despise The Sun Recs. I have listened to only few songs but I'll buy their new album asap and listen it carefully coz I think it's truly a good release.

It seems like the debut new CD “ Faith - Purification - Execution ” on 2009 has been received rather well. What was the best review you’ve had and which one was the worst?
Well...about reviews, we're still waiting for many of them. Right now we received only 3 reviews and only one was with a negative rank (40/100), but even if all of them were bad (or, otherwise, all good) we don't care so much about reviews in general... yeah of course it's always a pleasure to read a magazine and find your album reviewed with a good rank, but we don't care at all if press write of us well or not.

" Faith - Purification - Execution " is TOT most dramatic and dynamically aggressive Brutal Blaster Death metal release thus far, concentrating heavily on creating memorable hooks within a very song-orientated framework. Can you tell me how you approached the song writing this time around and how this process different from your previous Music concept ?
Sure bro... for this release we would

How Compared " Faith - Purification - Execution " with " Promo Demo, 2007 " ?? are band Re-Recording that material ??
Yes, we re-recorded almost all our "Promo 2007" songs, apart of the cover song "Reduced To Ashes" of Deeds Of Flesh, but with a better sound and production and faster than in "Promo 2007". It gave them a new skin and a new, better, life, even if there were songs already "released" and on spreaded online. About other, brand new, songs, there were written after "Promo 2007" and we tried to put in them more technical elements and faster blastbeat, in order to make the final product heavier but also less "raw".

Good work Drumming with Tamoth for this band, Tamoth keep Total on Music for everyday, everytime ?? Tamoth still playing at band Putrid Carnage, Obscura Nox Hibernis, Valdes, Black Faith, & My Dark Sin ??
Tamoth plays only with us now, all his other projects are split up, so he can dedicate totally to Tools Of Torture. He did a great work on this album, also because we play together only one day at week (and not every week), when he come back from his job, so he play tired and a bit stressed but always do a great work and we're really grateful for his passion and dedication to the band!

Basing the lyrical concept of this album around the perverse yet Violent gore related to the acceptance of Gore saints, symbols and Sarcastic words into the Gore theme is something TOT have explored on and off on the Cover album " Faith - Purification - Execution ". From what angle have you approached this subject on "Faith - Purification - Execution "? are you very satisfy with work art by Phlegeton Studio ??
Yeah we’re really satisfied of the work done by Phlegeton Studio. The cover art show very well the concept under “Faith - Purification - Execution”: a portrait of what were the old tortures at the time of “Saint Inquisition”. We approached this theme with an “objective” view: I mean without expressing any judgement about it but only trying to explain the methods of torture and their effects on the poor victim. Our lyrics in general are empty of any social message, of any suggestion to help the people think about anything and “Faith - Purification - Execution” is also on this mainline. We like to think that everyone has enough brain to see how stupid was (and is still today) to torture and kill someone only because of some superstitious/religious beliefs.

Production-wise "Faith - Purification - Execution " is undoubtedly the most brutal-sounding TOT please to date yet still manages to harness a clarity that enables all the twin leads and intricacies to shine through in all their Raw Intense . What were your initial ideas of how you wanted this album to sound before you went into the studio ?
We wanted it a bit different, mainly on guitars sound… I little more “groovy” and “heavy”, in order to be more powerful in the slam and mid tempos patterns, but during the recordings we changed idea and choose to make the guitars’ sound like you can hear on the album, because it was a good compromise between heaviness and clarity.

Did anything unusual and/or spectacular happen when during Records? You tired yet of the comments about the drums’ and Guitar Duties placement in the final mix? Did you have the final call on the final mix?
Uhm… maybe the most unusual thing was that Tamoth recorded “The Rack” at the first time: It was so good that we hold his first recordings, and it was a bit strange because usually drummers take a lot of time on their recording session ahahahah! About final mix, it was done all with our constant presence in studio, always near the sound engineer to stress him with our requests and questions eheheh.

All this time, you've been touring and sharing the stage with several great bands, too. Which bands did you like best touring with? Which of all your tours is the most unforgettable? Could you share to us some of your best and worst touring experiences?
We’ve not toured so much bro or, at least, not so much I’d like to, but next week we’ll start our first mini tour outside our country, to play at Moscow Death Fest. In this tour we’ll play with Rompeprop, Cerebral Bore, Neuropathia, Katalepsy plus many other good bands and we’re quite excited for that. In the past shows we shared the stage with bands like Putridity, Savage Annihilation, Hobnailed, Horrid, Vulvectomy, Onicectomy, Neuralgorge, CxOxSx and many others but always in Italy and so now we’re really excited to play in Finland and Russia. Of course we won’t stop there, we’ll try to tour also other European countries in future and, why not, if possible also outside Europe. About past tours, me and Genobile had the luck to tour almost all Europe with our past band Bestial Devastation and I think it was the best experience of our lives… absolutely awesome! I don’t know if next tours will have the same “flavour” of the first tour, but without doubts is always a funny, wonderful experience…

What would be the ultimate Brutal death metal package be for you to either be part of or to attend? The billing can have up to 10 bands :-)
Nice question bro… uhm… let me think… there are many good bands but maybe the best one, according to me, is : Disgorge (US) - Brodequin - Guttural Secrete - Gutrot - Stabwound - Degrade - Jasad - Devourment - Abominable Putridity - Stench Of Dismemberment, ... I don’t put Tools Of Torture coz we’re not worthy to be in it bro.

How are Death metal Movement on Chieti/Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy scene ?? keepin killer with have more horrify band there ?? How are you with Bestial Devastation, The Drop of Water That Can Wear Through a Stone, Putrid Carnage, Obscura Nox Hibernis, Valdes, Black Faith, My Dark Sin, and More ?? are they keep staying exist now ?? How about High recommend for new comer band from Chieti/Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy scene ??
The Death Metal Movement here in our hometowns is really a shit, but lucky in Italy is better. The death metal movement is growing up very good and I’m sure that many Italian bands will have great feedback from worldwide extreme metal sickos. Our band list is really long: Corpsefucking Art, Hour Of Penance, Septycal Gorge, Vomit The Soul, Egemony, Vulvectomy, Stench Of Dismemberment, Putridity, Exhumer, Imposer, Nefas, Smashhead, Onicectomy, Coprophiliac, Deadly Strain and many many other good bands… Unfortunatly the Italian audience is not as good as the Italian bands: extreme metal here is not so followed but metalkids and when look to other countries (Czech Rep, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, US etc) we realize that, musically, we live in a country of shit, but we must be trustful and hopeful that things in future will go better. About our past bands (Bestial Devastation, Putrid Carnage, Valdes, Obscura Nox Hibernis) are all R.I.P.! At the moment me and Genobile, with the ex drummer of BD, are again together in a new grind band called Rabid Dogs and now we’re working on our first album. Apart of us and Tools Of Torture, in our homeland Abruzzo there are only other few bands that plays extreme music: Spermbloodshit, Bloodraised, Disforia, Mestruophagia and Cryptic Theory. The other bands plays mostly black metal and other, trendy, music…

simple Question with your Opinion :
- How fuckin Kickin Riffing : Diego Sanchez of Disgorge or Jeremy Of Origin sound or Jesse Pindato ( RIP ) of Terrorizer / Napalm Death / lock Up ?
Diego Sanchez of Disgorge
- How fuckin Intense drumming Skill and powerfully : Ricky Myers of Disgorge or John Longstreth ORIGIN ??
Again Disgorge, so... Ricky Myers eheheh!
- How fuckin Great Growling Vokill : Matti ways of Ex. Disgorge or Levi of Disgorge or Ruben of Devourment ??
again Disg... ahaha no this time i think the best is Ruben Rosas of Devourment!

Any Future next Plan soon TOT ??
Uhm... when we'll come back from our minitour in Finland and Russia, we'll start to work on new songs, but without forgetting to book gigs for all 2009. We would also tour Europe as soon as possible, but it's all to organize yet and we'll work on it only by May, so it could be done not before September/October 2009.

Well, this Fuckin interviews can be very nice too and on that note I’ll conclude this one. Thanks for doing this little digital tea chat Mail and let’s hope our webzine will still be around for whatever next band release you’ll be on haha. keep existing for extreme metal flames forever !!
Thank you so much bro for this interview! I enjoyed it a lot and I'll be happy to talk again with you in future!! I'm sure your webzine will have a long life man so... talk to you next time ;)! I would also salute all the Indonesian brutal/death sickos and bands, coz your country is one of the best for extreme bands and scene... keep on keepin' on guys!!! Stay brutal and check out our myspace when you have time:

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