Interview:The RAz of Graveyard talks The 6th Extinction album, interviewing Chuck Schuldiner + more!

Interview with The Raz of Graveyard
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00:00 - Start
00:48 - The 6th Extinction album concept
06:09 - Political Death Noise
07:25 - The formation of Graveyard
08:55 - 1992 Slabfest demo
10:33 - Guitar & Vocal influences
12:05 - 1993 Vacation Dinner at the Morgue demo
14:56 - 1998 Philosophies of Reality and Displaced Souls demo
17:20 - Born in the USA
18:45 - Opus V album
21:15 - Opus V + The 6th Extinction comparison
23:05 - Slaughtered by Chemicals
25:16 - The 6th Extinction movie
27:16 - Living in Romania
31:52 - Black Church band + jamming with Roxanne Constantine of Quo Vadis/Negativa
33:42 - Being a metalhead in Turkey
36:47 - Powersurge FM
43:07 - Inteviewing Chuck Schuldiner of Death (1987)
47:17 - Lords of Chaos movie
49:08 - Interviewing bands for Powersurge FM
51:10 - 80s shows in New York
52:20 - New York scene
55:10 - Genre antagonisms between metal and punk
56:13 - Last words

“The 6th Extinction was released on 13th of March 2020. The idea came actually after we mixed the last album, Opus V and our guitarist Custodian Killer had said: I wanna talk about Extinction. And if you listen to Opus V, we have a song called Ecological Collapse. When we started the beginning of what this idea of The 6th Extinction...and basically what we are talking is the end of the anthropocentric age on this planet due to the result of human intervention of nature, pollution. So we decided to just write an album which would show the progression from where we are right now up till the very end where there’s no life on the planet.” The story of the album is explained in stages: “We started the album strangely...Custodian Killer he plays with harmonic piano kind of guitar mix and we start about the Earth being what it is, the place of subsistence and life and mankind goes on this earth and starts to mutilate itself. And we talk about the insanity of it all as the man starts to become more and more powerful on the Earth, using materials to his own gains to consume and ravage the earth, which we see as being obscene, basically. Not giving back to nature but taking from nature. Not giving back at all. So we have this song called It is all Obscene. We talk about money then, and Money is a Virus, and how the fallacy of neoliberal economics and the system….And then we talk about USA is Dead which is funny ‘cause I have cut the video from the whole movie we made. And a lot of people came back to me and said: USA was dead about 10 years ago. (laughs) And after that we have a song called Denial which again we have a video cut out from the movie and that’s basically all the people on the top of this whole system running the world, are basically just saying: look, we are making money out of this whole situation so if we say yes, there’s a problem, about how we are living, and how the things are going on the earth, then they gonna lose the money so they deny that situation so they said, this whole thing about global warming that you told me about it’s a lie, it’s not real. It’s not happening. It’s just natural happening. And then of course when you deny, deny, deny, then the reality happens. And we have a song called Panic and Terror. And you can see with this whole virus happening now…and this is nothing. I mean if you figure out what’s gonna happen when food stops and shortages happen. And after that there’s a song called Martial Law is Nationwide which means they put the martial law to affect and keep everything under control. It’s fun ‘cause what we like about the album is that we went from standard tuning and now we moved up to lower, tuned down guitars to C. And we got to this song 6th Extinction which opens up the second half of the release. And it talks about systems collapsing and climate changing. So after that, the song Climate Shift, which is about the change in climate and which makes life unbearable on earth. Followed up by the song Mole People which is like the last survivors on earth. These are the people like, who are really the ultra rich, that could afford bunkers. Their life of course is nothing because there is nothing left of earth to live on. So it’s pretty miserable existence. Followed up by Hellstorms which means the atmosphere is gone and the planet is rained on by meteors. There’s no atmosphere to burn everything up. And then of course, Irreversible Annihilation…

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