Got-A-Nerve?

05/26/2010 | Our own much loved metalcorers BURY MY SINS, who are certainly not a new name among our readers, were very eager to give the kids some solid new shit and are back with a brand new EP entitled “Rats” (out through Sharkmen and Damage Done records), which follows up to 2007’s “King Of All Fears”. Well, I thought that is the right time to get back with the guys to check out what’s up and know more about this new release, a concealed ghost track (meanwhile I grabbed the name but I wanna leave you guys the guess...) and all things Bury My Sins-ian. Marco Guth (voice) kindly took some time out to answers my questions. Read on…

GAN!: Hey guys what’s up?
hey Marco, how are you? Hope everything’s fine at the Italian GAN-HQ? We are ok, we’re just struggling with the same problems every band has …myspace!!! Haha...

GAN!: Though you guys have been around for some years now I’d start at the beginning for those not in the know.

some years, that is right, how many exactly? 5? 6? Please wait, I need to check wikipedia!!! HaHa… we are around since 2004, put some songs out, had some shows, had some more drinks and much more flat jokes… nothing special I think!!! We are Ben & Harald on the Guitars, Normen on Bass, Christian on drums and I am screaming around as much as I can.

GAN!: Where did the band name come from, and what would you say are your collective influences?

The band name was a result of a casting. No joke! We had a hand full of names, but in the end BURY MY SINS was our winner! …some of the other bandnames became songs later, like GREY BLEEDING HEART. TODAY’S BLACK DEATH, the name of our first record, was also on the list… we recycle everything man!!!

GAN!: You just released a new EP entitled “Rats”. How would you compare the new stuff to your older one?

in the last years we went through many changes, but that was no problem to keep our main line in writing songs, maybe we became a bit more melodic, but on the other side we became a bit more fast and harder. RATS is what we are in 2009/2010, that’s what we felt! You will find us in every song, like on our last records and so we’ll continue

GAN!: What’s your favourite track and which one is the best received when you play the new tunes to the crowd?

we play around 3-4 songs from every record on our shows, at the moment we play “RATS”, “THE KILLER IN ME” & “OBLIVION THE END”. The we have some fast parts to kick ass with RATS, some lines to sing along with THE KILLER…, and some break-down stuff for the death-core kids with OBLIVION THE END ;-) …but they all need some more time to hang around with the DYING ANTS!!! Haha…

GAN!: And what about press reaction? What kind of reviews are you getting for “Rats”?

nearly what we expected from RATS, we don’t serve something really new, and the music-train right now doesn’t look roomy for us. In times of highlighted super-productions we went into the studio and recorded nearly live 7 songs in 3 days, and for honestly doing what we always did we’ve got the feedback we deserve I think.

GAN!: What do you guys think of modern hardcore and more specifically about metalcore (I read many labelling you this way)?

we play metal-core, this is our label, if we like it or not, haha! we can do nothing against it, but why? I personally I never labelled myself as a metal-head (Normen did that, haha…), and we’ll never be accepted as a real metal-band, but why? we came from the punk hardcore scene (but not Normen! ), I still love it, and metal-core is just a name like so many other names we need to get our asses in place… I think we all make better jokes about death-core when the time has come!!!

GAN!: Where do you pull your inspiration for lyrics from - personal experience or elsewhere?

RATS is both, personal and “elsewhere”. DIE AWAY FROM YOU, OBLIVION THE END & THE KILLER… are all about some hard nights I had last year, the all reflect, and maybe some of my friends will see themselves in the songs, I don’t know… the title-song RATS is more like a story about nearly all humans around me, haha… TRAPPED MEANINGLESS goes out to the scene, and NOWY SACZ is the unreal story about a nightmare we had as a band early 2009 in the cold and dark hills of Poland.

GAN!: I read that also this time it took you only three days to record. You guys are very quick when it comes to recording. How do you manage to do this? Wanna reveal the trick?

I don’t know, we meet every two weeks to write some songs, first we drink beer for 30minutes, than we talk shit (+ beer) for more 30minutes, than we play some riffs for an hour, and after all that we all escape, haha!!! Really, I don’t know, we always did it that way, we enter the studio well prepared, and we know what we want, and we have some good guys behind the desk …and we never had money to record for days and weeks!!!

GAN!: Rape of harmonies studios are kind of your home whenever you decide to record new stuff. Do these studios just fit your needs or...are you guys just too lazy to try something new?

HaHa, maybe both, but for us there was no need to change till now, we are happy to see Alex and Engel every two years, we are having a good time there, maybe it depends more on the people than on the studio-name, but as long as the results are blasting us away it’s fine for us.

GAN!: Who took care of artwork and who came up with the subject?

the artwork comes out of the pen from Daniel (aka dude of death), he worked for EVENWORSE, GOLDUST and some more hc-bands, and made some crazy designs for a skateboards company I think. He made a shirt for us before and we all liked his work, so we had the idea for a new shirt, something like a Bad Religion’s Against The Grain rip-off …after I had the idea and lyrics for the song RATS all came together.

GAN!: At the end of EP I hear a ghost track which sounds like a cover. I’m sure I heard the tune but I can grab who the band is…

are you joking? I won’t tell you…

GAN!: How’s your local scene going?

fine, there come a lot of new young kids and bands, they make shows continuously, nice to look at!!! Please check out STAY STRONG, a new hc band from Bad Hersfeld

GAN!: Do you guys have any side project going?

our drummer Christian plays in a punkrock cover band, they only cover top10 hits in their own special way, funny guys!!! I am working on my punk project for nearly 3 years, but till now nothing really happened, we’ll record a demo this summer (I hope so) …we’ll let you know!!!

GAN!: What do you see in the band's future?

hard question!!! I don’t know really, hopefully the same guys around me, good music and good times, nice trips and some cool shows!!! We don’t need more I guess.

GAN!: Well, that’s really about it. Do you wanna add something?

thanks to you and the work you did for us, thanks to the GAN-team, thanks to our friends outthere …we all hope to see some of you outthere …beware of the rats!!!

Check: myspace.com/burymysins

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