How does it feel being regarded as one of the best active death metal demo bands in the underground?
Though formed in 2001, your band has released only demos so far, four of them if I’m not mistaken. Why the release of so many demos before Mandatory could record a proper album? Would you advise a new band to record a few demos first? M: We actually recorded a first album in 2003 but due to problems with the mixing studio we got problems with the files and finally lost interest in the album after a few months. Basically it was nothing else but the first MCD “Divine Destruction plus 3 more songs we recorded some weeks after releasing the MCD. On our new compilation “Exiled In Pain you get all of these previously unreleased songs. So, you can say you get our never released first album with a lot of bonus tracks in that package. As for your second question: Hell yes! You should do at least one or two demos to get more skilled at songwriting and especially arranging songs. All of the great bands did some demos before their first album. And when you listen to these demos today you know it w
