Fleshcrawl (short bio, discography, highlights, …): Fleshcrawl was founded in spring 1986 by Stefan Hanus and Bastian Herzog. After some bandname issues, the first 7" EP "Lost in a Grave" on Morbid Records was recorded in 1991. In 1993 Fleshcrawl’s second album "Impurity" was produced in Dan Swanö's Unisound Studio. FLESHCRAWL received great reviews from the international press for their brutal and uncompromising Death Metal sound, not to mention their highly powered live shows. They proved their power at the Easter Bash Tour ’95 where they were joined by Deicide, Cathedral and Brutal Truth. In December ’95 FLESHCRAWL recorded their third album "Bloodsoul” being followed by their fourth album "Bloodred Massacre" in 1997 – both recorded at Abyss Studios by Peter Tägtgren.
After the release of "Bloodred Massacre", FLESHCRAWL cut the ties with Black Mark and went on a four week European Tour with Vader and Kataklysm, also participating in festivals with Cannibal Corpse and Dark Funeral. Back from the tour, FLESHCRAWL signed a contract with Metal Blade Records. In January 2000 "As Blood Rains from the Sky - We Walk The Path Of Endless Fire" - produced at Fredman Studios in Gothenburg - was released. In September 2001 the band entered Studio Underground in Västeras, Sweden, to produce album No. 6 - “Soulskinner”. A premiere took place in November 2002: FLESHCRAWL played their first tour of Japan supporting Hypocrisy from Sweden.
In November 2003, FLESHCRAWL again headed up to Studio Underground in Sweden to record album No. 7, entitled “MADE OF FLESH”, which musically kicks off where “Soulskinner” ended.
“Structures Of Death” (writing process, recording process, label, …): The songwriting for Structures of Death began in early 2006. After some private problems during 2006 the songwriting process was hold on ice for a while. After leaving all problems successfully behind, we continued where we stopped. Writing killer riffs vor some ass kicking old school death metal! This time Mike and Olli took over the most part of songwriting due to the leaving of Tobias Schick in 2005.
For the first time in the bands history we didn´t record in Sweden, but in the Studio Toninfusion in our home city Ulm/Germany with Martin Schmitt behind the desk. The clear and heavy rough mixes proved our decision to be right! Pelle Saether at Studio Underground in Västeras, Sweden mixed and mastered the album once again and delivered the perfect job!
Album frontcover / artwork (who, why, meaning, …): The whole artwork and booklet design was done by Uwe Jarling again. He is a real professional in graphics design and drawing. Mike came up with some ideas and shortafter the first drafts of the artwork were done! Again Uwe proved that he is the perfect man for the job and delivered an intense artwork. There is no special meaning behind the artwork, it´s just evil, dark and death metal!
The Four Horsemen “Rockin’ Is My Business”. Why?: Back in 2002 we had a show at the Wacken Open Air and we were placed in the same hotel as a band called “Alabama Thunderpussy”. We had 3 great days of party and drinking together with those guys. Tobias came up with their cd and had the idea to cover the Song “Rockin is ma' business”. We tried it at our rehearsals and created a death-grooving rotn´roll cover of this song. After finishing the records we found out that this song wasn´t originally written by Alabama Thunderpussy. But anyway it´s a cool cover and a tribute to those party days and the guys at Alabama Thunderpussy. You rock!
After the release of "Bloodred Massacre", FLESHCRAWL cut the ties with Black Mark and went on a four week European Tour with Vader and Kataklysm, also participating in festivals with Cannibal Corpse and Dark Funeral. Back from the tour, FLESHCRAWL signed a contract with Metal Blade Records. In January 2000 "As Blood Rains from the Sky - We Walk The Path Of Endless Fire" - produced at Fredman Studios in Gothenburg - was released. In September 2001 the band entered Studio Underground in Västeras, Sweden, to produce album No. 6 - “Soulskinner”. A premiere took place in November 2002: FLESHCRAWL played their first tour of Japan supporting Hypocrisy from Sweden.
In November 2003, FLESHCRAWL again headed up to Studio Underground in Sweden to record album No. 7, entitled “MADE OF FLESH”, which musically kicks off where “Soulskinner” ended.
“Structures Of Death” (writing process, recording process, label, …): The songwriting for Structures of Death began in early 2006. After some private problems during 2006 the songwriting process was hold on ice for a while. After leaving all problems successfully behind, we continued where we stopped. Writing killer riffs vor some ass kicking old school death metal! This time Mike and Olli took over the most part of songwriting due to the leaving of Tobias Schick in 2005.
For the first time in the bands history we didn´t record in Sweden, but in the Studio Toninfusion in our home city Ulm/Germany with Martin Schmitt behind the desk. The clear and heavy rough mixes proved our decision to be right! Pelle Saether at Studio Underground in Västeras, Sweden mixed and mastered the album once again and delivered the perfect job!
Album frontcover / artwork (who, why, meaning, …): The whole artwork and booklet design was done by Uwe Jarling again. He is a real professional in graphics design and drawing. Mike came up with some ideas and shortafter the first drafts of the artwork were done! Again Uwe proved that he is the perfect man for the job and delivered an intense artwork. There is no special meaning behind the artwork, it´s just evil, dark and death metal!The Four Horsemen “Rockin’ Is My Business”. Why?: Back in 2002 we had a show at the Wacken Open Air and we were placed in the same hotel as a band called “Alabama Thunderpussy”. We had 3 great days of party and drinking together with those guys. Tobias came up with their cd and had the idea to cover the Song “Rockin is ma' business”. We tried it at our rehearsals and created a death-grooving rotn´roll cover of this song. After finishing the records we found out that this song wasn´t originally written by Alabama Thunderpussy. But anyway it´s a cool cover and a tribute to those party days and the guys at Alabama Thunderpussy. You rock!
Live tour to promote the new record: Well, nothing is planned yet but chances are good to go on tour maybe in early/mid 2008 to support “Structures of Death”! We hope to see you there!
Musical (and other) influences: Of course a lot of scandinavian/swedish death metal bands like Dismember and Entombed influenced our style from the early days on. During the years we developed our own way of swedish death metal which you can easily hear if you compare the early albums to those of the last years. I for myself am influenced mostly by more melodic stuff like older In Flames or At the Gates. That´s maybe an explanation why Structures of Death includes a little more melodies than the former albums.
Final Message: Thanks a lot for the interview and we hope to see you on tour or a show somewhere to drink some booze and have a great time! Check out Structures of Death and leave a message at our Page at http://www.fleshcrawl.net/!
Entrevistador: RDS
Entrevistado: Oliver Grbavac - Guitars
Entrevistado: Oliver Grbavac - Guitars
Fleshcrawl: http://www.fleshcrawl.net/
Metal Blade: http://www.metalblade.de/
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