Werewolves interview with Sam, as expected always brutal and funny as fuck. What legends!!.

 

Werewolves interview with Sam, as expected always brutal and funny as fuck. What legends!!.

Killer band, top blokes. Keep the hype train running because these are the best death metal rock pigs in the nation!

The grandiose 2024 Werewolves interview:

Greetings, it seems like you have been around forever, but it’s only been five years with one EP and five albums-minus cheap beer and probable use of AI, how the fuck do you keep dropping such crushing and filthy releases?

SAM: We bash other bands and steal their riffs.

OK, I wish we did that, it’d probably be easier. Matt simply picks a week, caffeinates until his eyeballs vibrate, writes an album, gives them to Dave who has an insatiable hunger to record blasts for every band on the planet, then the filtered drip-fed death metal makes its way to me. And I just try and keep up with them. Simple as that.

Live you are as abrasive as you could expect given the long line of bands you guys have been in, what’s the highlight gig wise so far?

Any plans for overseas tours etc?

SAM: I’m gonna do everyone a favour and keep the scope of this to Werewolves, there’s like a “Graham’s Number” amount of stories between us when it comes to all our bands. The Archspire/Ingested national tour in 2023 was great fun, those bands are just so cool to hang with. The bit of me which is traumatized from years of world-touring with Berzerker still can’t quite believe that it’s possible to tour and have fun without disasters and shouting and bullshit and tour managers trying to rob you…it comes down to the awesomeness of Dave and Soundworks, really. The last night of that tour, Matt and I got on the piss a bit with the Ingested boys and Spencer from Archspire and swapped some epic eyebrow-raising stories. We really liked the Mayhem/Ulcerate tour earlier in the year, and those kiwis are cool, but Mayhem kind of kept to themselves.

Personally, I reckon the standouts have been the two Adelaide end-of-tour shows I’ve done. There’s a fantastic eye-of-the-storm feeling by then whenever we play, we’re proper broken in. Pure violence. God help everyone if we ever play more than five shows in a row.

There’s no current plans for overseas tours. It’s definitely something I want to do, and everyone keeps letting us know it’s what they want. Matt and Dave’s bands keep being stunningly successful though and they tour those instead. I’m hoping we get overseas before I need a walking frame to get out on stage.

Like you have obviously ripped off all your sound from Classic Death Metal bands, I did the same by copying this generic question about your band name, 1981 happens to be the best year in the history of werewolf cinema, thanks to three films: An American Werewolf in London, The Howling and Wolfen-did you draw inspiration from these films seeing you are all old bastards? How did the name come about and what drives your fantastic verbal assault with the harsh lyrics on every album?

SAM: Hmmm, the connoisseur in me thinks that question might be ChatGPT3, not even the new edition. Cheap. Anyway, I loved AAWIL and The Howling, never saw Wolfen. I actually threw a full tantrum when my parents wouldn’t let me go see AAWIL in the cinemas which was kind of fair enough, I was only like eight years old. Really liked “The Company of Wolves” as well, the advertising art for that went super-fucken hard. Obviously, that’s where we got that song title for this latest album, and it drives me berserk whenever media fucks it up and calls it “The Company Wolves”.

Matt chose the band name. He had a dream he was pursuing. I was against it at first, I found a bunch of other bands with the same name online, but eventually, I just went “fuck it, call it what you want, I just want to play in a band with you guys”. It became apparent within a month or two that we’d outwork and overshadow anyone else who had the name.

I reckon most extreme metal bands barely think about their lyrics and vocals, there are so few of them that seem to really make an effort. We were lucky to find our style or ‘voice’ pretty early so we’ve gone ahead and ploughed that for all it’s worth…equal parts totally mental aggression, real-world issues loathing, and the darkest possible humour. I’m old enough to remember death metal bands with cool vocals, not this bathtub-emptying-gurgling bullshit all the infants are jizzing their nappies about these days. So I basically do what was awesome and cool when I was growing up and everyone thinks I’m fresh and innovative. Idiots.

Your fifth album Die for Us is a fast-paced, demented slab of Death metal mixed with other rancid flavours of extreme metal-it’s probably your best album so far,  how do you maintain your hatred for all mankind over each album?( and it was incredible  finally to see an album as powerful and as unhinged as Damaged’s Do not spit)

SAM: Do Not Spit? That’s some high praise. I’m pretty sure I headbanged at least 40 IQ points out of my skull to that back in the day.

The hatred for mankind is in our hearts, our minds, our souls. It’ll take more than our lives going wonderfully to get rid of that. We’re only going to get worse. Much, much worse.

I feel that the new album is a major league step-up in terms of songwriting and performance. Would you agree with this sentiment?

SAM: Nah, it’s total shit.

Look, we do what we do, it turns out how it turns out, and people surprise us with their reactions every time. We didn’t think our debut album “The Dead Are Screaming” would get the reaction it did. If there was something different about making “Die For Us”, it’s that we all hated making it. Normally Werewolves albums are an easy simple joy to squeeze out, lots of laughs, but this one was hard. It seemed to take a LOT more work than the others. Dave especially was in pain. We’re glad it’s out, now we can move onto something that maybe hurts less to make.

What’s coming up next for you madmen? And how many albums are we destined to get out of you?

SAM: Dude! We’re doing ten albums in ten years, I thought everyone knew that. They’re all gonna be full death metal warfare bangers as well. So it goes without saying that work has started on album 6, that’s past the halfway point. It’s all downhill from here! We’re a bit slack this time, normally we have the next album done when the current is released. Shows are coming as well, we’ve got the Colossus support in September followed by Hell on the Bay Saturday 14^th September…we’ve kind of taken almost a year off, so I suspect the announcements are going to ramp back up again.

Why is most music that isn’t from the extreme genre so piss-weak and why should everyone buy your albums?

SAM: Me and Matt listen to Rick James and NWA when we hang out. We don’t give a fuck. I never listen to metal. Everyone should buy our shit because it crushes and we’re getting old, we need more multiple income streams to buy slums.

Thanks for your time and brilliant albums!!!

SAM: Word up G 666!!!