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S.D.I. - INTERVIEW
16.05.2017
WELCOME TO SATANS DEFLORATION
OEF: Why did you decided to come back with SDI?
Reinhard: I’ve been seriously ill in 2013. And I realised ,
that it doesn’t make sense to wait for the right moment, if you really want to
to do something. So I do it now. At the same time, about summer 2014 Ralf
Maunert sent me a Video of him, playing a SDI_Song in a rehearsal-room I’ve
never seen before. So it was clear that we had the same Idea and we tried to
find Rage to complete the original line-up. It was not that easy, because
nobody knew where he was living at that time. I used to meet his former wife at
an festival in my home town, Osnabrück and I remembered that she had told me
their son, Leon, was working at a music store. I met him there he made the
contact. Rage agreed and we were back.
OEF: How is the new album going? What we can expect of your
new material?
Reinhard: We are working and recording constantly until we
think we’ve got a number of songs, worth to be shown. Our goal is to finish
that work by the end of the year, maybe in early 2018. There will be different
songs on that album. It sure will be fast and heavy, that’s all I can say at
this time.
OEF: You traveled to Japan for the first time. How was that
Japan tour?
Reinhard: It was an honor and it was a big pleasure to be
there. We did two shows in Osaka and the people went totally crazy. The country
and the people are marvelous. I really enjoyed that trip.
Panic in Wehrmacht
OEF: You lived in a great time for Metal. What do you think
was the best of the 80s and the what was the worst?
Reinhard: The best war that there were a lot of metalheads
in those days and Metal was a kind of movement, because we were many. You can
get an idea of that when you go to an AC/DC-, an Iron Maiden or a Metallica
show now. When you look at the crowd, you will find out, that a lot of the
listeners are in my age, about 50 years old. The adults were totally against
that loud and hard music and it was also a kind of protest to wear leather
clothes and stuff. That puts us together, just like in that Saxon song.
Of course, there were a lot of things, that weren’t good.
For instance the existence of the iron curtain, especially in Germany. We had
the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl (1986). I remember the constant fear because
of a possible nuclear war. Many of the SDI-Songs reflect o these topics (Kiss
Ass, Comin’ again, etc.).
Ironically the iron curtain felt down in 1989 and made war
in Europe possible again, like we saw in in Yugoslavia and nowadays in the
Ukraine.
OEF: Do you like
death metal or grindcore? What are your thoughts on sharing the stage with that
kind of bands?
Reinhard: We’ve met some great guys und really good
musicians on tour. We’ve had a lot of fun with them and I appreciate these
meetings very much, because you get a different view on the music, the changes
in the metal-scene and the possibilities in the future.
The music itself is another thing. I believe in songs. I
like structure and rules in music, because I understand it is as an invitation
to the audience, to my mind. It’s an invitation to the listeners to share what
you do, think, like and want. This can only work, if everybody has (nearly) got
similar expectations, to understand what’s going on. Not every metal-fan is a
guitar player. If you break too many musical rules (though you have to break
them to be an artist), it gets more and more difficult for others to understand
(and share) what you do. The danger is, that you leave these expectations too
far and in the end there are only very few people left to follow you. That’s is
not only a problem for metal-musicians. It’s the same in Jazz, in classic music
like 12-Tone-music and a lot of world and exotic folk-music.
The other thing is, I want to know, what (the hell) the
lyrics are about. To be true, I don’t like that it takes 3 or for songs, in
some cases, to even realize in what language the guy with the microphone yells
at me. But maybe it’s just, that I’m just to old ;-)
OEF: This is your space to write what you want to the fans.
Reinhard: I like to say ‚thank you‘ for your faith, love and
continuing support. We all appreciate this very much, because we did not take
it for granted, that anybody would listen to us after such a long break. We’ll
have a great time at the extreme obscene fest and I like to wish the best to
you all. Stay tuned and watch out for the new SDI-Album in 2018
Festival from A to Z
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Charity
IN NOVEMBER WE WENT TO THE OFFICE OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS TO GIVE THEM A BEAUTIFUL 193.891 KČ (approx. 8 079 euro) FROM A JOINT CHARITY EVENT WITH CARCASS!!!
Date: 31.12.2023
This year, we reached out to CARCASS themselves, who didn't hesitate for a second and went along with us.
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