*Galvanizer's dingey, raw sound is something I was immediately attracted to. How did you guys manage to achieve such an authentically OLD sounding mix on both of your releases so far? If I didn't know the band formed recently I'd definitely have assumed I was listening to something from 1990/91.
I think it comes pretty naturally as we play old school death metal and what would old school death metal be without the old school sound? Both of our releases were recorded in rehearsal places (Different ones though). Really many dudes have said that we look and sound like the bands from the early 90's, haha! I don't have a problem with that!! I want to make it in the old way!
*How has the reception to Galvanizer been so far? I have seen quite a bit of praise from grouchy old fuckers on the Internet and I gotta say I agree with them. It's good to hear the grindier side of Finnish death played in 2016 when many go for the slower, dirge-like route (not like I'm bitching about that either).
Reception has been really really good. When we started I didn't believe that we could achieve any kind of popularity and we just wanted to do it for our own fun. But almost immediately after releasing our demo "Ground Above" (2014) we started to get emails from people asking for tapetrading! I was totally amazed about it because I didn't know back then that tapetrading and old school death metal still exists. I was really just influenced by the old bands and didn't know there is a big scene of new (but) old school bands! I like to play the faster/grindier stuff and you can be crazier on the stage than you might be with a doom/death band. I like the slower death too but I always have enjoyed the faster stuff more.
*Being young dudes, how did you discover the particularly dark and filthy yet crusty sound Finnish bands like Xysma, Funebre, Abhorrence etc. developed 25+ years ago?
Well I hate to say this but without Youtube I wouldn't know anything about the finnish death metal. It was something like 2012 and was something like 14 years old when I started to wonder if there's any old finnish death metal bands. As I found Convulse-Incantation of Restoration I got fucking goosebumps! Then it happened! I fell in love with the finnish death metal and it felt like so much different than the USA death metal. Nothing bad to say about the USA scene (I really love it too!) but it is kinda different and somehow the finnish sound of the bands was much more wicked, eerie and uglier and ofcourse I liked it.
*The Galvanizer logo on the Ground Above demo is clearly designed as to pay homage to Lubricant. And the title is almost the same as Anguish's 7", haha! Is this trend going to continue? Who's next?
That's true haha. But I think it has been more like our subconsciousness. But maybe it is a trend to continue, who knows hah?? We have found our way pretty much now. We haven't invented anything new for this type of music but I still believe that we are quite personal and peculiar band.
*Give us a handful of your favourite Finnish death metal demos.
Demos often are the best releases of the bands so i'm happy to give you few of my favorites:
-Abhorrence:
Vulgar Necrolatry
-Necrobiosis: The Pile of Decayed
Entrails
-Xysma: Swarming of the Maggots
-Lubricant: Swallow
the Symmetric Swab
-Necropsy: Indigestion
*What about grind records you dig?
I really enjoy grindcore! Speed and the danger haha! I'm somehow more fan of the grindcore with the gore lyrics, although I love early Napalm Death too! Terrorizer and Repulsion are one of the best. About the grind records I like, there are many of them but let's list here few of them which have maybe the biggest influence on me!
- Carcass
- Reek of Putrefaction & Symphonies of Sickness
- Napalm
Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
- Necrobiosis
/ Intense Agonizing - Split 7"
- Repulsion
- Horrified
*I'd say Galvanizer's main influences lie in bands like Xysma, Necrobiosis, Funebre, Abhorrence and early Carcass. Would you say this is about right? Any others to add?
This is pretty much the correct answer! Ofcourse I could do a list here of a million bands that have been an influence for our music but maybe I don't do that this time. We like to mix up the groovy sections with really fast grinding blast parts and wicked melodies of death metal! That's what Galvanizer is all about.
*What's up next for Galvanizer? Any splits or EPs in the works, maybe a full length?
Actually
we are going to record two songs for a split to be released in the
end of 2016 perhaps. On Facebook page (Link in the end of this
interview) we will soon release more information about the another
part of the split etc. Also we are going to do a
Denmark-minitour
in june of 2016. It's called "Horrid Tales Over Denmark"
and it contains two gigs. One is in Aalborg and one is in Copenhagen.
Deiquisitor, Taphos and Würm's Tongue are supporting those gigs!
Gonna be awesome!
*Final coagulations…
I wanna thank you for making this interview possible! Also I wanna thank you all the readers and our supporters! Galvanizer wouldn't be anything without all the fans!!! Support Death Metal, support underground and support the true spirit of metal! We still have some great merch left! Be quick!
CONTACT: galvanizerband@gmail.com