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 Sacrificial Slabs.
1. How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time?
First and foremost we hope everyone is safe and well. Well considering how badly the live event/music world has been hit since this crisis, we have managed to rehearse during the lockdown, as well as keep writing ideas flowing between us. We’d like to thank Rooz studios for putting up with us during this ordeal. Also we’d like to add that we are still booked to play Rock in Iasi in August so we are very much looking forward to that.
Simon: things have been difficult, not playing music for 10 weeks is a pain in the arse. But it was the right decision for everyone’s health and safety. But it’s good to be playing again. And we can’t wait for you guys to hear our new songs.
2. Have you been working on new music?
We have indeed been writing new material, 5 songs in fact, some of which we are hoping to put on our upcoming ep recording.
3. 5 albums that changed your life
Metallica – Master of puppets, Forgotten Tomb – Under Saturn Retrograde, Darkest Hour- Undoing Ruin, Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the yard, Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory
Simon: There are so many albums tho, this list could be fucking massive 🙂
4. 5 artists that influenced you as a musician
Danny Carey, Marilyn Manson, Dani Filth, Peter Steele, Henry Rollins
5. Your 5 favorite live albums
Metallica at Milton Keynes bowl, Rammstein at Volkerball, Tool at Wembley arena, Diren Grey at Osaka, Converge (thousands of miles between us)
6. Life on the road; 5 of the craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
Our dear vocalist Yozii decided to jump out of a moving train headed back to London from Ipswich and ended up in Norwich for reasons I cannot fathom. A show in Mexico culminated in Simon and Sarunus spending the night in a sex motel, in the same bed for lack of better options.
One night Simon chased down Sarunus half naked carrying a 3-litre bottle of beer.
Our bassist decided to wander off by himself to get drunk in Banbury, leaving behind his phone which would have granted him access to our hotel for the night.
7. 5 favorite movies
The Shining, Ace Ventura, Dead Man’s Shoes, Taxi Driver, Saving Private Ryan
And of course the first 3 Star Wars movies and the lord of the ring movies.
8. Best and worst advice you ever heard.
Ed: best advice I heard was “women don’t want to hear about your struggles, they show up at the finish line and pick the winners”
Simon: worst advice was by a mate about being in a band “oh why’d you pick metal” as though we were headed down a path to nowhere. I thought fuck you, this is a passion and not a switch you can just turn on and off
9. Strangest thing you ever autographed
Well, as well as autographing a woman’s breast, Sarunus had the unfortunate ordeal of having a photograph taken with a mother who asked that he hold her infant daughter. The usual stuff like we said breasts, as well as faces, nothing to strange yet, it’s more the photo’s and selfies we’re asked to do.
10. If music was over today and you had to go into professional wrestling, what would your wrestling name be?
The Dominator
Stink-Fist
Fledgling Red
Warminister
Belial
Funeral director
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