.::SCRATCHtheSurface Webzine::.: Nervecell

I’ve been listening to “Psychogenocide” for a month now, and the first thing I thought when I heard it was how confident and mature the band sounds like on this new record. How would you say you’ve progressed as a band during these last two years?

Barney: I think we’ve progressed quite a lot actually, both musically and as the people who we are. We did tour around the world quite a lot for “Preaching Venom” and it gave us a lot of experience as a band. Rami and I knew what we wanted to achieve with this new record and we saw to it that we get what we wanted. There is a mood on “Psychogenocide” that is consistent and it flows through the entire album, we wanted to write a more darker album and experiment freely by using other typical Middle Eastern instruments on the record such as the Oud and Arabic percussion but still not loose the overall vibe of the band. If you read the lyrics on “Psychogenocide” too its very easy to notice the serious content that we are talking about in this record. I feel we have maintained a sound of our own, we’ve achieved to have a blend of extreme metal which is still melodic yet still has hints of Middle Eastern passages in between the riffs and music we compose. What’s most important to us is that its natural and we want to keep it that way.