Interview withHades (Singer of Last One Dying)
The German Metal band LAST ONE DYING just recently completed their tour with a very special guest. Read this interview to learn who that is and to get some details about the first album of the band…
Hades (L.O.D): On a tour, you’re experiencing the most different things; one day you’re playing in a full house, the next day in front of a handful of people. Some days you can sleep in a bed, on other days you rest on the floor. Touring is always exciting and fun, but it’s quite exhausting as well. A simple résumé could hardly cover all the experiences. Nevertheless, I can sum it up with: It was a feast for us!
RoD: You had a special guest and Jeff Dunn (VENOM) isn’t anybody. How did that contact come about?
L.O.D: Jeff or Mantas respectively already has recorded a guest solo for our upcoming album. The invitation for the tour was just a chimera of us, but he instantly accepted.
RoD: How was the reaction of the concert attendees? Did they nearly die in awe?
L.O.D: Many of the kids actually didn’t realize, who was standing there on stage, but the older ones who had come to the concerts partly just freaked out. I remember one evening, when Jeff had to sign countless albums for a VENOM fan from Switzerland. Some were pressings even he didn’t know.
RoD: You surely played some of the new songs on that tour. How was the reception?
L.O.D: Excellent without exception. That was very important for us and so we felt quite reassured. But we never presented the tracks as songs from the upcoming album, instead we just normally integrated them into the set to not give them a special standing.
RoD: The recordings for your debut album are already done. It will be called ‘The Hour of Lead’. What is the deeper sense behind this title?
L.O.D: Ha, finally I get the chance to show off with my cancelled studies in literary criticism. That term was originally used in a poem by Emily Dickinson. Ever since, the literary scholars argue about the meaning of it all. In alchemy for instance, lead was a synonym for death and so there’s still the theory that Dickinson actually referred to the ‘Hour of Death’ with ‘The Hour of Lead’. So the term also found its use on our album.
RoD: How’s it going with your search for a fitting label?
L.O.D: I’m not up-to-date in this matter, but the album is on many desks, already for a while, but we won’t make any announcements until everything’s settled.
RoD: Is it a concept album or is every song telling its own story?
L.O.D: Some of the songs are textually connected to each other, but overall every track has its own story. A pure concept album is somewhat like a dance on a volcano. It can be artistically limiting and appearing as redundant. Doesn’t mean we won’t do one some day.
RoD: When did the first song ideas come up and how long did it take ‘till everything was done?
L.O.D: Almost all songs on the album are completely new and were created during the rehearsal sessions we did between the concerts as well as the last and the recently finished tour, so there’s still something like a golden threat penetrating the album regardless of all the diversity and we’re very proud of that.
RoD: I read there were plans for a horror movie. Did a big director contact you in the meantime to film that epos?
L.O.D: Haha, if anybody’s shooting that film it’s me. But neither will I make some big announcements nor will I raise expectations. Just this much: I’m working in that department anyway and would have half a mind to unleash some splatter sequences on mankind – And LAST ONE DYING would fit in there perfectly; musically as well as conceptual.
RoD: Any famous last words?
L.O.D: Buy L-O-D Shirts, drink beer, grow your hairs and eat meat!
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