Here's a nice Q&A
with Swedish Grinding Death Metal Desperator.
Just, watch out for them, they're real cool, and
kinda funny.
Fall-July 2001
First, do you think you belong to
a specific scene? Grind or metal... Or maybe you
just play like you feel playing.... Are you
connected to other swedish bands? I thought you
were close (the music and the humorous spirit) to
Birdflesh for example.. Do you know them?
If you put
music, lyrics and production in categories it
would be, filthy, grinding death and Swedish
death metal. Put those scenes together and tons
of humour and irony in it and you got yourself a
Desperator. We do not know Birdflesh.
Can you introduce each and
everyone in the band? Role in the band, hobbies,
musical tastes/influences, fave movies, fave
food, personality traits, distinguishing marks,
drug-addictions, scars, tatoos, whatever you feel
like saying.......
Mikael Strömberg,
guitarist/songwriter/. Erik Grawsiö, drums/vocals/
Stefan (Cke) Mattsson, Bass.We all are working
with ordinary jobs and like spaghetti.
I see the band has gone through
different names such as Strhate Edge, Backseat
Boys(too drunk to drive). But have you guys
played in other different bands before that? and
do you currently have side-bands? Also, is there
a story behind the name Desperator? Did you want
it to mean something particular?
The line-up
has been like this since we started spring 97,
but we've been changing names couple of times
until we took the name Desperator. No deeper
meaning with the name. When you hear it you know
what it means. We all have had a lot of different
bands, for example Micke have had a band called
Freak mode (skapunk), Micke & Cke, Triangular
Bush (filthpunk). Cke, Scab(metal). Erik,
Obscurity(deathmetal). Erik is currently playing
drums and sing in Månegarm (blackmetal).
It's how many demos you've put out
so far? Do you think you will keep it up with
demos or is there something else coming up? Do
you think working on a good number of demos is
important before starting making bigger plans?
We have been
record a lot of shit, very lot. The bigger plans
never been coming to us. Of course we are looking
for a label, been in contact with a few after the
“demenstruation 01” and are keeping the
spirit up.
Why are your demos so short? Want
to keep quality over quantity?
Yep. To put
a lot of time in small amount of music are of
course getting a better product.
Do you compose music together and
do you work alot on your compositions? How much
and where do you rehearse?
Usually
Micke come up with an idea for the song and then
the other guys fill it up. We don`t work a lot of
times on our compositions and we usually make a
song each rehearsal. But if a song are bad, and 9
out of 10 usually is, we throw it in the garbage.
We only save the ones we think are good. We
rehearse once a week if possible in a building
full of rehearsal rooms here in Norrtälje,
Sweden.
You went to the Sunlight Studios
for the "De-menstruation" Demo... Did
you record other demos there? How was it?
Expensive maybe? btw, Is keeping the band up
money-wasting?
Erik and his
other band Månegarm recorded their first album
there so he new Tomas Skogsberg since earlier. We
got a really nice price. It was fun. It`s not
money wasting keeping the band up. The only
expenses is to record demos which hasn`t been to
expensive so far, but it would be nice if a
record label could take care of the costs.
Do you write lyrics? If yes, it's
probably alot of goofy fun judging by the song
titles... I think humor keeps things away from
boredom. In grind, it's either gore or political,
but you don't qualify... Also lyrics aren't
included in the demos. Is it because you didn't
have enough space, or because you in fact don't
really care about 'em?
We think the
lyrics are quite fun and the few people that have
read them think they are really fun, but we don`t
write them down in our demos because we think our
grammar suck. But we do care about them.
How do you feel about live shows?
Did you perform alot already, & do you like
that?
We like live
shows a lot, but we haven`t performed that much.
But when we do we make a great show!
That's about everything I could
put together really... Finish as you want. If
possible, please let people know what Desperator
is up to in a near future...
We don`t
really know what`s going to happen next. We still
waiting for answers from record labels. We will
just have to wait and see. Thank you very much
and keep in touch!
 Desperator
Website
Desperator E-mail
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