Necro
Necro is a pioneering band
that tries to mix or actually I'd better say bring closer metal music with
hiphop. I know this might sound a bit strange to some, but I also know
that there are many people out there open to experimentations. I think
you should start your musical journey by first reading this very interesting
and highly informative interview and then check Necro's music out...
1. I READ ON YOUR SITE THAT YOU HAVE RELEASED
THE ALBUM "THE PRE-FIX FOR DEATH". SO TELL US FEW THINGS ABOUT IT. HOW
LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO COMPLETE IT? IS IT 100% A HIP HOP ALBUM OR HAVE
YOU ADDED METAL ELEMENTS AS WELL?
I wokred on it for 2 months lyrically I'd
say and I made the beats, a lot of them like a year before, I had most
of the beats made a year before there is a lot of hiphop on it and some
metal hiphop tracks, I worked with a lot of metal legends like Obituary,
Voivod, Nuclear Assault, Slipknot, Hatebreed, so it's got its metal element
in it but it also has straight hiphop all through it.
2. YOU STARTED AS A HIP HOP MUSICIAN. WHEN DID
YOU DISCOVER YOUR "LOVE" FOR HEAVY METAL MUSIC?
I started doing metal first actually at like
10, I was a young prodigy on guitar, I was opening for Sepultura, Napalm
Death, a lot of bands that came through Brooklyn at lamours. My band would
open and I was like 11 at the time.
3. MANY PEOPLE THINK THAT HIP HOP AND METAL MUSIC
HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON. YOU, THOUGH, ARE ACTIVE IN BOTH KINDS OF MUSIC.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY? IS THERE SOMETHING COMMON IN THESE 2 GENRES?
There is a lot that is common, the struggle,
the anger, the passion, the rebellion, the underground, they are more alike
than not, it's just a lot of people from both genres are closeminded. I
guess I am more openminded than most. I just love both, it's like loving
pizza and hamburgers, both are good, but some people will only like one.
4. HERE IN GREECE AND IN EUROPE IN GENERAL WE
HAVE THE IMAGE THAT HIP HOP/RAP IS BLACK PEOPLE'S MUSIC AND THAT WHITE
PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCEPTED. DID YOU EVER HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM?
Yeah hiphop is very racist toward me. It's
sad that in Greece people think this, very sad...
5. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOUR MUSIC CAN FUNCTION
AS A BRIDGE AND BRING METAL AND HIP HOP FANS IN TOUCH?
I hope so, in the end I make music for me,
I make shit I like and I always experiment. If people don't wanna like
it fuck them, I am only concerned about people that like my music the fans
and they love my music.
6. YOU HAVE COOPERATED WITH MANY WELL KNOWN NAMES
OF THE METAL SCENE. WHO CAME CLOSER TO YOU AND WAS MORE COOPERATIVE?
Everyone was cool, each person has their own
personality, all cool.
7. LET'S TALK A BIT ABOUT YOUR EX- DEATH METAL
BAND INJUSTICE. WHEN HAVE YOU CREATED THE BAND? AND WHAT YOU ACHIEVED WITH
THE BAND?
It was created in '86 I think, just us kids
playing shit garage style, small time and we kept getting better and then
got into magazines and made demos and shirts and it had me on stage at
11 years old playing with heavy weights so it was an experience. That's
for sure!
8. GREAT NEWS FOR THE SEPULTURA FANS IS THAT YOU
COOPERATE WITH IGOR CAVALERA IN A NEW THRASH METAL BAND. WHEN SHOULD WE
WAIT FOR YOUR RELEASE? WILL THE BAND SOUND CLOSE TO SEPULTURA OR WILL IT
BE DIFFERENT?
I don't think this band will happen now as
Igor is very busy with being a DJ, he does hiphop techno electronic shit
and seems to be really focused on it, and I am very concerned about my
Necro 2007 record, so it's all good. Maybe in the future, maybe not...
9. SINCE YOU COOPERATE WITH IGOR, DO YOU KNOW
WHICH THE REAL REASONS THAT MADE IGOR LEAVE SEPULTURA (THE BAND HE CREATED)
WERE?
He told me he was bored, tired of not selling
units and doing the same shit over and over, he wants new things and he
loves hiphop so he has the hiphop bug like I had it when I was 14.
10. THERE IS A RUMOR IN THE METAL COMMUNITY THAT
BOTH MAX AND IGOR WILL RETURN TO SEPULTURA. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
IT?
Yeah I heard about it, good luck to them,
if they do it, they should make beneath the remains part 2!!!!!
11. I HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE TO YOU THE FACT THAT
YOU ARE A VERY BUSY MAN! YOU ALSO RUN A LABEL. HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO DO
ALL THESE THINGS? DO YOU EVER HAVE SOME FREE TIME TO RELAX?
I am committed to my shit so I do everything
needed to get me to where I need to be, but I got a lot of people working
for me.
12. WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU RELEASE THROUGH
YOUR LABEL? WHICH ARE THE BIGGEST OBSTACLES THAT AN UNDERGROUND RECORD
LABEL HAS TO SURPASS IN ORDER TO SURVIVE?
I release hardcore hiphop, death rap, porn
rap and metal hiphop, you have to go through hell, hardwork, years of paying
dues.
13. ON PREFIX YOU HAVE COOPERATED FOR THE COVER
WITH THE WELL KNOWN ED REPKA. HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THAT? DID HE LISTEN
TO YOUR MUSIC IN ORDER TO CREATE THE COVER?
He didn't hear the music but he knew the concept,
and I did send him previous CDs. He was cool, I located him because I am
like a private investigator. I find lost corpses.
14. IMAGINE THAT YOUR MUSIC IS A PAINTING, WHAT
WOULD IT SHOW? AND IF IT WAS EMOTIONS WHAT KIND OF EMOTIONS WOULD IT BE?
If my music was a painting it would be painted
in human blood and it would be an Edward J Repka painting, it would show
pain, anger, love and death all in one.
15. DO YOU REMEMBER THE WEIRDEST OR THE FUNNIEST
QUESTION THAT THEY HAVE EVER ASKED YOU? CAN YOU SHARE IT WITH US?
It's all funny, life is funny, the music business
is funny.
16. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME! GOOD LUCK WITH ALL OF
YOUR PROJECTS. THE LAST LINES BELONG TO YOU AND LEAVE A MESSAGE TO THE
READERS OF BEHIND THE VEIL WEBZINE…
Nick "William_Kidd"
Parastatidis
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