You use the word Necro a lot, are you just big Darkthrone fans or something?
Well, we used to use the word necro, we don’t so much nowadays. It was to show that we had links to BM without actually trying to embody it. Once we’d recorded our first demo we stopped caring about styles and influences and just did what we wanted to do. We recently played in Europe with Extreme Noise Terror, which was brilliant. What do you think of the current popularity of US BM? Well Xasthur strikes me as a pale imitation of Burzum with too much reverb and Deathspell Omega bored me. That’s not an attempt to be controversial or upset anyone, it’s just being honest. I’ll take Under A Funeral Moon and Filosofem over Attera Totus Sanctus any day, even though there’s some good new releases still coming out. You guys said you’d never play live, but now you are. What happened? I really don’t like seeing bands play with drum machines. It just doesn’t work for this sort of music. For us live it has to be maximum force, which is far better suited to a fully human band. It originally came ab
