Man Must Die - Entrevista

- Man Must Die (meaning of the name, short bio, discography, highlights, …):

Man Must Die – are from Glasgow – Scotland and formed in 2002. We released our debut Album on Retribute Records called ...Start Killing in 2004 and have just released our second CD The Human Condition which is our Relapse Debut. The name Man Must Die came from a news reel i was watching years ago , when some womans son had just been murdered and she was screaming “that Man Must Die” about the murderer it was really hard hitting so it was perfect for the name of the band, so we rolled with it.

- “The Human Condition” (rehearsing / writing process, recording process, label, …):
We had a great feeling from the start of writing the songs for the human condition, everything seemed to take on a different feel and had the aggression that we really wanted to capture in the music, when you are rehearsing your tunes with your teeth gritted you know you are onto something haha, once the songs were written we headed over to Canada – Montreal and recording the CD with Jean Francois Dagenais (Kataklysm) we had a great time there and the recording went really well, was cool to sample recording life in a different country, really added to the feel.

- Lyrics (influences, subjects, ideas, messages, …):
The Lyrics on The Human Condition are very important to the Album, they encapsulate the anger to its maximum, the meaning of the songs on the CD have hit notes with people from all over, so many people have met with the lyrics on a personal level which is unusual for an extreme metal band, we write about the experiences in life, all the dark ones, the ones that really fuck us off at times, the lyrics on the cd are just as important as the music and should be checked out.

- Album frontcover / artwork (who, why, meaning, …):
The artwork on The Human condition was done by an Iranian artist called Omid Nemalhabib, his artwork had caught our eye online and we got him to do the artwork on the CD which turned out nice and dark the way we wanted it, it all fits in with the overall feeling of the album too, which is cool.

- Live tour to promote the new record:
We are looking to tour as much as we can over the coming months, we start off with a small UK tour with Kataklysm and Aborted in October which will be a riot, and we are really looking forward to getting out to as many countries as we can, we are trying our hardest to make this happen, we feel its very important to promote your CD via touring so rest assured we will be out there as much as we can. Be great to meet some of the cool people who like what we do, buy our CDs and shirts etc, thatd be cool.

- Musical (and other) influences:
When it comes to musical influences with all four of us, we all love the extreme but the other influences are quite bizarre, dany our bassist is a massive folk/bluegrass lover and is an awesome acoustic guitarist, john (drummer) is a massive death metal fan, if theres a death metal band on the planet johns heard of them and has their CD, Joe our vocalist is a massive slayer fan, and also loves queen and iron maiden, and i love heavy metal/power metal and really extreme metal, but all in all the nucleus of MMD is pure steel haha, we all love the anger and rage that MMD produces and thats not gonna stop, if anything it`ll intensify.

- Final Message:

Just want to say a huge thanks for taking the time out to read this and hopefullu check us out, we love to hear what people think so get in touch, hope to meet you all at a show sometime soon, stay cool.

Entrevistador: RDS

Entrevistado: Alan McFarland

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Relapse Records: www.relapse.com

Man Must Die: www.manmustdie.net