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REVELATIONS - INTERVIEW

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 REVELATIONS
 
GUITAR
Anders Stafrén
VOCALS
Lasse Gudmundsson  
BASS
Daniel Ramirez
     DRUMS      
Janne Backlund
                                     
 
If you dive into your collection of old vinyl records and cranks up some 40 years old albums.
Black Sabbath, Whitesnake, Deep Purple or early Iron Maiden then you have Revelations.
 
It is full speed on both album and live.
The music's simplicity makes it absolutely wonderful to perform live.
Songs, riffs, loops, bridges and captivating comp may speak instead of completely unnecessary modernity.
 
 Quite simply - Really fucking good
 The band is not so old?
Autumn 2012 we can say that we started and Lasse came in a year later.
 
I have greetings from Morgan in Sideburn!
Morgan's damn good.
Nice and easy to deal with.
We have plans to run gigs with Sideburn, we have been doing that before.
 
How is it when you write your songs, Is a few composing or contributes the whole band?
Most often, Anders or Daniel having a riff and then we build the song from there.
When the song begins to take shape Daniel writes the lyrics.
Lasse usually come in at the end of the process, because he has some other projects (Lizard Eye), then we make the definitive song.
 
Do you have any new album in the pipeline?
The fact is that we have a whole album finished besides vocals on the last song.
If everything goes as it should, it's out there no later than this autumn.
 
You define the band as Heavy Metal 70's Rock.
But there are more in your repertoire. Sometimes it Stoner Metal.
Sure it is. It is difficult to define itself when picking inspiration from different sources.
We are a bit different in the band as well, we have with us various influences.
So in the end it becomes a little Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Groove,Stoner and Doom.
More or less in different songs but with a clear attraction to 70s.
We do not like to be placed in context.
We want to be free in the way we express ourselves in the music.
 
Besides yourselves, which is Sweden's most underrated band?
Oh now you probably get four different answers ;)
Janne - I say, probably Reptile Smile
Lasse - Heavy Load, I say
 
What are your goals with the band?
Headliner at Wacken, ha ha ha
Nah, we are quite humble.
Earlier we wanted the breakthrough but has probably understood that the music we play is too narrow and not mainstream.
We are rather narrow and keeps the heart at what we do. You'll play what you love.
It would have been nice to be able to live on music. Be the main act at smaller venues.
 
Finally you place the band on the Swedish Metal Militia music map!
 
/ Bob
Swedish Metal Militia