Chaos, Sweat, and Shredding: Diabolisches Werk Talks Wacken and Death Metal Influences

0:04 Hey, you lunt to cue wow for you you. Because it's the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man W four C Y Radio, and I'm here. With Pistmark from Diebis. See that's why I have band say their band name, because I don't want to butcher it. And I never would have been able to say that. Right, it's easy. It's diabolishes vac there it is. Yeah, I guess for a non German speaker, it's not that easy in a sea.

0:46 Yeah. So it's funny because I dated a German girl from Lingoln. You know Lingoln? I guess it's somewhere in the Sol. I don't know. It's a small town, like two hundred and fifty kilometers from here. Oh yeah, yeah, I heard about it, but it never been there. So so I tried learning German to communicate with her, and she used to laugh at me all the time because I wasn't saying anything right. Yeah, I guess it's not the easiest language. No. And you know what she told me too, is it's like, because your language uses so may idioms that it's not really translatable. So you know what you're saying and we have no clue.

1:29 Yeah, you're right, it's the same with our band name. You know. In the end, it's like like an idiom as well. You know, it's just a bit playing with words and stuff. And but that's pretty easy to make that in German. But you're it's it's not possible to translate it or. Something right, like you can tell me what it really is because it's not translable. And I think people don't realize that that there's some things that between languages you can't translate. That's why when you're trying to say something they laugh at you because it's not meaning what you think it's meaning. Absolutely, So here you are at Vakin.

2:09 Did you expect it to be so fricking hot here? You're German, so it doesn't get this hot here, usually, does it? Yeah? Actually not, you know, I was. I grew up in this area here and actually yeah, it's it's never that that asshole as it's this year. So but I mean it's better than last year. Absolutely. I wanted to say, I absolutely prefer this instead of that a shitty weather less. Oh yeah, I'll take this over that for sure. I live in Florida though, and this is hot to me, and Florida is like what hot The closest you get to living in hell? It's Florida, all right, Yeah, I guess it's like but it's isn't it a similar climate? Are very humid?

2:56 Yeah, let me tell you what low humidity in Florida is ninety five percent. That's low humidity. It's pretty much one hundred percent all the time. Yeah, you know, so between the weather and the people, it is definitely hell. I can't mention it. So have you played Valking before? Oh, it's my other band. I played here before. Okay, another German word for you. Then the other band is called instant It. Okay, I could almost say that, but I have no idea how you. Probably spell it.

3:36 But I do love your band, even if I can't pronounce it. You know your music. You know what it reminds me of. It doesn't even remind me of Death Metal of Today. It reminds me of Possessed. Funny that you say that, because Possessed it's one of the influences I always had when I was writing the songs nice and Yeah. It's like Possessed was a big influence as well as Bence, like Nicrophobic for example. Yeah, and so that's a style of death metal. I really like him. Yeah, So, like I grew up Unpossessed.

4:17 I lived in LA in the eighties and when Possessed first came out, and I remember when Seven Churches came out, I was like, oh my god, and there was nothing like it then, you know, and I kind of find it like weird. That not weird, but a lot of. Death metal bands like they don't consider Possessed death metal now, just like black metal bands don't consider Venom black metal. That one I get because they were black metal way back. And now when I listened to it, I'm like, compared to black metal today, Venom sounds kind of poppy, you know, But then.

4:57 It was like the most brutal heavy thing was. And it's still you know, no just a Venom just releasing you album, yeah a couple of weeks ago, and I think it's really really still still like them a lot, you know, the listeners can can see it, but you know, I have. This, so yeah, I suck. I was at a gig and it got confirmed recently because I did an interview with Venom recently and he confirmed it that Kronos it was Venom Exus and Slayer and Kronos and Tom Mariah got into a fight backstage because Kronos was saying to Tom, like, you're not black metal, we're black metal, and I don't know, Tom said something to him and he punched him out.

5:49 Chronos punched Tom out. Oh yeah, And then you know, sometimes stuff like that, you hear those stories and you think maybe it's lore. You like, I wasn't backstage, I was at show, but I heard about it right after the show, and you just don't know if it's real or not. I got it confirmed. I love when I could do. An interview all these years later and confirm it, you know. But yeah, and then so I was at the. First crossover show ever, the first show that was punk and metal in the same room because metal heads, if you had long hair, you couldn't go to a punk show. Yeah, you got your ass beat and punk same thing. So this was at like this lodge, you know, like just a it wasn't even a venue, okay, and there was no security. The headliner on the metal side was possessed.

6:46 You had Possessed Dark Angel in this band Savage Grace, that was a thrash metal band that isn't it didn't make it like Slayer and Metallica, but they were pretty big there, and man, that was a wild show. And then I used to go see them up in the Bay Area Possessed and that's where it was really crazy. Oh yeah, awesome. Yeah, so yeah, but it is funny that, like how brutal I thought it was then, and then if you talk to death metal bands now, they don't think it's so brutal. Yeah. You know if you said, was that the show you attended with no security and stuff? You know, yeah, this is you know, the shows like twenty years ago was totally different, you know, right, like much more chaos, much much more. Yeah, I don't know, you know, like like it was brutal or something.

7:42 Oh yeah, you could in that show I went to. There. If you didn't want to be in a pit there, you better be outside. There was no safe place to hide. No never ever. I remember when I was like sixteen or seventeen years old, I was a my friends had a Morbid Angel show and nice when we when the show was over, I remember I had only one shoe left. A friend of mine was bleeding from his forehead. The other one guy lost two teeth. Okay, so.

8:22 These are gone from climbing up a Marshall stack and doing a swan dive stage dive. The crowd moved. Oh fuck, and the blood is this is my eighties battle vests. The blood is on here. Oh yeah, possesses at the bottom. I drew everything on here and you can tell it's been through some brutality. It looks like that. That's a venom patch. Oh yeah, what is left off that? Yes, yes, awesome, So it's really a battle whist. One hundred said awesome. So, and listening to your music.

9:06 Like there's something why to clarify to the world like death metal. People that turn into it don't understand it. But when I was listening to your music, oh my god, the musicianship was amazing. Like people think that are not in the metal comedy or death metal. That's just a bunch of screaming. They don't know how to play their instruments. That's the exact opposite. Death metal musicians are probably some of the best musicians there is, and that's why I heard in your music it was like such technical intriquate, you know, like great musicianship. Oh yeah, thinks of it. Yeah, but I agree. You know, it's like like fusemble. I played in the black metal bands as well, you know, and I really love black metal, but that's what you easier to play than this death metal because it's like death metal is more on point more. Yeah, it has different techniques to it that you can play, and so it's more varying, you know, and so it has are there are often parts and uh yeah that there really not that easy to play. You know. Also like man the the as we were talking about Possessed, they are such fucking great musicians. I think the guitar player is also playing in primers.

10:36 Isn't it really I don't know that. Yeah, but you know it's like he's an awesome guitarist, you know. And yeah, so especially in uh all the drummers you know, and then death metal up of course in a I think that in metal in general, the drummers are really mostly like pul killing it, you know. Yeah, so what actually in death metal, you know, because you know, there's so much in death metal, but he really loves is so much double bass and you know, mixed with blast beats and everything. You so you haven't deafinitely you have like everything in it, you know. Yeah, and they used to make fun of back in the day that Possess was just like a copycat of Slayer, and I'm like, what are they talking about.

11:23 Possessed was like Slayer. Ten point zero. It was faster, more brutal, like just I don't even get how they think it's even the same sound. Even the vocals, like his vocals are not anywhere the same of Tom Riah's vocals. Absolutely, I agree. You know, like I remember when I was I think like thirteen years ago, I got my first Slayer CD and what I thought, like, oh man, this is really the evilst music and the fucking world, you know, this is so evil, and then you know, got more into scene and uh uh yeah. For example, when I listened then for took Possessed for the first time, It's like, okay, they are even more evil than Slayer, you.

12:11 Know, right exactly. I still love Slayer, you know, so much, and it's it's still such an you know, Stay has also this the special sound it says, you know, how. They're doing guitars between Jeff and Carrie and. The tunes they're using, you know, and you know, like disarmonics and stuff like that, and it makes it their music so so somes somes so evil, you know. Yeah, but you know possessors still you know that they they even made it a bit. More evil, you know, exactly. And Slayer is my favorite band in the world. I was at their first show ever. Really yeah wow, yeah, yeah. And you know, it's funny that was the beginning of like combining punk and metal because Lombardo was a punk, Hannaman was a punk.

13:00 Yeah, Kerry was a metal head. And Tom didn't even know about metal when he joined Slayer. Can you believe the most one of the most well known brutal sigers in metal wasn't even a metal head. Yeah right, you know. And but because they combine that, that's what created thrash, yeah, you know, because that's what fresh is. And Lombardo was the first one to use double bass. He was insane. He's still insane. He plays in so many different bands and he's like what an insane drummer he is, you know, and he can play everywhere. But I think a lot of newer bands should pay homage to those bands because without them there, there wouldn't be the genre now, you know.

13:49 And you made me laugh when you were talking about the most Evil because that reminds me. So when then when I got the first Venom album, Welcome to Hell. Before that, the most evil stuff was like Number of the Beast, you know. And I remember listening to this album and reading the words and I got scared. I'm like, oh, this is fucking evil. Yeah, I agree. You know, I had the same impression when I listened to that music for you know, for the first time. It was also you know, in my in my child room, you.

14:31 Know, right, woh wow. No, it was like, you know, like meeting Satan in person. Exactly right. Oh man, So tell everybody how they can check out your music, how they can get your merge, how they can check out your tour dates and all that I connect on social stiff. Yeah, you know, we have Instagram and Facebook page. Fue searched it for gaborises you will find us. Also, we're having a band camp page. Okay. Cool. You can buy our shirts, the vinyls, patches and everything.

15:13 So nice. Yeah, So if you want to support us, check out our websites. Cool. And is there anything else you want to tell the listeners that we haven't discussed yet? Sorry? Is there anything else you want to tell the listeners that we haven't talked about yet. Oh yeah, maybe you know. Our our last album Against for God, Yeah, just was released a year ago. We're already working on new material. Hopefully we can. We'll record them soon. So yeah, you can expect a lot from us. Nice and speaking of your last album, okay, Like I grew up at a time where you bought your albums based on how the album cover looks. You can listen on a spot of there was no such thing. You just had to take your chances. Yeah, And I was looking at your album cover and I love the picture on there because you're taking a spiritual thing and turning it evil.

16:16 That's right. And you know my idea was I did that that cover on my own, you know, nice because you know, in times of off artificial intelligence and you know, you can make everything perfect. So I thought like, oh no, I will. I want to go to the in the opposite way, you know, and making it. I'm perfect, you know, I love it. So I drew it and I you know, I glued it and you know, and everything you know, so and I was like, oh there's a mistake, Oh fuck it. Do you know That's how I wanted, you know, with mistakes and every seeing it. That's the way it should be. That's metal.

16:58 That's metal. Yeah. Absolutely, well, I'm glad you're here at vawking and thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Yeah, thanks for having me. It was fun. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipemin on w for CUI Radio.