Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Blitz Union.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
We took the advantage of the extra time and ran our own „Blitz Studio“ where we spend most of our time – focusing on the creation of new music. Also we continuously try to come up with some alternatives on how to entertain our fans, our Union, since there is not much live performing happening right now. So…We are doing very well, but can’t wait to hit the road again!
What can you tell us about the new music music?
We are working on our debut full-length album and doing our best to have it ready for this fall already. You can expect a first “taste/sample” pretty soon! Our Union can’t wait to share some new music with you all.
5 albums that changed your life:
Korn – Korn
Rammstein – Mutter
Ill Nino – Revolution, Revolución
Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy
Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
That would be pretty much the same as in the previous question. (Laughter)
Korn, Stone Sour, Rammstein, Static-x, Mudvayne
Your 5 favorite live albums:
Rammstein – Live aus Berlin
Mudvayne – L(ive) D(osage) 50 – Live in Peoria
In Flames – Used and Abused… In Live We Trust
Alice In Chains – MTV Unplugged
Slipknot – Disasterpieces, Live in London
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
I can remember just one – And I think it was the moment when I saw our guitarist Shodushi jumping into the crowd during our show in Braunschweig, Germany last year. When performing the last notes of our song “Deleted”, he suddenly ran over the whole stage and jumped in full speed into the crowd. But since nobody expected that, he slammed one poor lady with glasses with his full weight. She was shocked, but luckily nothing happened to her. We gave her our apologies and some of our merch for free after the show and it was all OK again (Laughter).
5 favorite movies:
Lost Highway
JOJO Rabbit
Pulp Fiction
La cara Oculta
Pelíšky (That’s a Czech classic)
Best and worst advice you ever heard.
“Let it flow” & “You should calm down immediately.”
Strangest thing you ever autographed
Dude’s buttocks – He kind of insisted on it!
If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
Mr. Brush (Laughter)
