The Band: Armory
Country: Sweden
With their second album this Swedeish act confirm themselves as a
real force in the Speed Metal genre, they grow from their debut album
with more ellaborated songs and if you are a riffs addict here you
have a gold mine to explore and enjoy. Conceptionally The Search
mainly refers to what will happen when humanity more actively starts
searching for other lifeforms and what consequences that will have.
Welcome to the world of ARMORY.
Hello guys and congratulations for your second
release "The Search" due out on July 13th
Thanks, we are really looking forward to unleash this album upon this
world.
Armory is still formed by the same people that created the debut
album “World Peace... Cosmic War”, that helped in the compostion
of this second full-length?
Yes we are all comfortable about the songwriting progress and
everybody knows what kind of sound we are aiming for. But i think
that the fact that we had to previous album to top had a bigger
effect on the compostion. This time we had to put bar higher and
thats was harder to do when we didnt have a debut album out. I also
think it was easier to focus on the song writing this time because we
had a record deal, we didnt have that when we recorded the first
album, now we didnt need to feel worried about all of that stuff.
That’s all good. Another thing that has not changed are the
speed tempos and riffs you deliver throughout the album?
No, that has definitely not changed. It seems very boring thing to do
so we are keeping it fast.
Conceptionally The Search carries on in some way where World Peace
… Cosmic War ended, doesn’t it?
Well the lyrics are deeper on The Search and we have had more time to
speculate about space and the future, so it’s naturally a
continuation of the previous one. But its not all about fiction, now
days with the technology advancement and artificial intelligence
making big progress is a real inspiration and what the world once
thought was sci-fi is now reality. So the alot of the lyrics is
rather futuristic than fiction.
You talk about life in another planets out there, something that
is not proved but well… there is a high probability about it. If
you ever meet some other E.T. beings how you would welcome them?
Not with nuclear bombs at least as the world leaders would...
Suposing there is life in other galaxies, you
would bet Metal also exists out there of that’s just something
exclusive of the human crazy raze?
I think gravitationalwave is the universe parallel to heavy metal,
massive and in the speed of light.
Your sound connects the current speed metal with the old trends
from speed metal bands of the 80s, an underground sound but still
with good technique
We don't think that much about speed metal as in a timeline, good
speed metal is timeless. But I think we are mixing the raw side of
speed metal with the more technical side and that’s what makes our
sound. And that’s because every member of the band has his own kind
of style that we then mix together.
The work on riffs is really overwhelming, great variety and high
quality, what by the way was something you already showed in your
previous work
Thank you very much, the riffs are really important for us and since
4 of 5 members of the band can play guitar there's a big effort
behind the riffs. Personally as a guitarist I love intense riff
that’s still has a weak hint of a dark melody.
I also have to underline the work by P.Andersson, he adapts very well
to the band’s sound, skipping any kind of egocentricity. I think he
did a great progress from the previous album and there's more
variation to his voice on The Search. I also think he lives out the
lyrics more on the new album. And we are all thinking about the bands
best before our own centricity
By the way, the cover artwork reminds me a lot
about the 80s typical thrash metal album, although you are more a
speed metal band
Well conceptually a lot of the classics thrash metal bands also
philosophized about the future and sometimes sci-fi related themes.
But yes we see our self as a speed metal band but that of course
don’t mean we don’t get inspiration from other genres. I think
the cover although really fits the band both musically and lyrically.
Since the release of your first album, do you
find anything different as a band, something you deal with in a
different way?
We gain a lot of experience around how to drive the band forward and
realized that you still need to work really hard even though you have
an album out. I think we are running the whole administration side of
the band much better nowadays.
Sweden is a big cradle for Metal bands, because of the similar
age, I suppose, you are often named beside bands as Ambush, Air Raid,
Lethal Steel, Enforcer, Screamer etc, but I think your sound is quite
more raw than most of them
Those are all great bands but no we don't really see our music in the
same vein. I don’t think there are a lot of bands in Sweden that
play our exactly kind of music, maybe even in the world nowadays. But
we love the kind of music we do and don’t get that affected
musicality about what friends and other bands do.
What’s the reason behind so many Sweden bands growing as
mushrooms in the field? What’s is diffenrent from other countries?
Maybe it's thanks to the swedish "folköl", which is mean
"people beer" and only contains 2,8% or 3,5% alcohol. This
makes you able to drink a lot of beers at rehearsals and in the
studio and still stay focused, in other countries they might drink
stronger beer and get drunk and don’t get anywhere?
Hahaha a curious theory that we’ll have to check out some day.
The underground is the salvation of Metal in the forthcoming years or
that is just a legend?
The underground is alive and well, the hunger for real metal will
always be there and overcome everything.
Any tour dates programmed for 2018?
Not yet but we are working hard on it
Thanks for your time and congratulations for the good album, if
you wish to add something…
Thank you! Keep support speed metal and prepare for what the search
will discover
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