1. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: for those not familiar with SATANIC SLAUGHTER introduce the band.. (who does what?, plays what instruments, etc) SATANIC SLAUGHTER: was formed 1985 when I discovered VENOM, BATHORY, KREATOR and DESTRUCION. In Dec ī89 I put the band to rest. In 1994, Necropolis Records approached me and asked me if I would be interested in re-releasing some of the old recordings. However, I felt that these recordings did not sound good enough to release. So in July 1995, I gathered some old and new members of the band and together we entered studio Unisound to record our debut album . Thru the years we have had several line- up changes, to this day there have been 30 different members. In April 1997 the members from the first 2 albums leave the band They are now playing in WITCHERY. They was replaced by a new line up: Andreas Vocals, Dark Guitar, Kecke Guitar, Fille Bas and Robban Drums. In -98 we recorded the 3rd album AFTERLIFE KINGDOM. Later in -98 Kecke and Robban left the band. They was later replaced by : Martin Axe Drums and Stefan Johansson Guitar. Current line-up: Vocals - Andreas Deblén Guitar - Ztephan Dark Guitar - Stefan Johansson Bass - Fille Carlsson Drums - Martin Axenrot 2. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: how long has current line up been together? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: Since late -98 3. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: What kind of response did your debut Cd and "Land of Unholy Souls" Cd received? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: The response wasnīt that good. Necropolis promoted these albums as Pre-Witchery stuff. I donīt like that at all. WITCHERY isnīt my best friends. 4. DARKRECOLLECTIONS:Talk about your new Cd, who put it out, where can one get a copy specially in the U.S.A? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: If you want the new album you must order it from http:// www.dolores.com. BLACK SUN RECORDS has no distribution in North America. CENTURY MEDIA thought the album was to hard. 5. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: you are no longer with NECROPOLIS records, how did that come to happen? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: This is the story. At first time it seems that NECROPOLIS are an honest label but in the end it?s always business and money. Necropolis appears to be true metal fans and they promised a lot of things to the bands. Nothing happened. It was meant that we should record old songs but JENSEN tried to wrote song sounding old because he didn?t like SS old songs. I think that isn?t honest. After a while Jensen took over more and more of the song writing. He create music I didn?t like(WITCHERY). No SATANIC SLAUGHTER feeling. I tried to communicate with them but no response. I decided to leave the band and took the name with me. I actually formed the band away back in 1985. None of the others was really original band members. NECROPOLIS went crazy. Paul Thind told me that he had put a lot of money in SS and I can?t just quit. Then I decided to continue with new members. The big problem started when Necropoils refused to pay the studio for AFTERLIFE KINGDOM. We sign for Loud nīProud Records instead and they payed for the studio and released the album. In 2001 Loud nīProud went bankrupt and in 2002 we sign for BLACK SUN RECORDS After we had left NECROPOLIS a heard some rumours that Satanic Slaughter was JENSENS and Paul Thindīs project. They was only after the cult status and the band name in their greedy lust to earn money. 6. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: what has it been like to be around for so long as a band ,and see all those new bands come, and go ,and SATANIC SLAUGHTER still remains.? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: It can seems to be hard for us to see many bands going from nothing to big acts in short time. We donīt care, we are in it for the music not for the money. The hunger of playing live drives us to continue. We love the music. We have never followed any trends, always played the music we like. I refuse to lick someones ass the take the band futher. We have always done music we belive in and hope others will like it too. Too many people are into the scene today because they want to be fucking rockstars. They have no heart, no soul into the music. We had never got anything served for us. We always working very hard. 7. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: SATANIC SLAUGHTER was dormant for a while, what made you bring back the band again after been gone from the underground scene for such a long time? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: When Jensen(now The Haunted and Witchery) visited Paul Thind of NECROPOLIS in the begining of the 90thies, Paul asked if there was any band from Sweden who could be interesting to offer a deal. Jensen named SATANIC SLAUGHTER. I was playing an a death Metal band at that time called MORGUE and we had no record deal. So when Necropolis Records approached me and asked me if I would be interested in re-releasing some of the old demos, or live recordings I was thrilled. I didnīt worked out the way I wanted so in 98 we left NECROPOLIS records. On the debut album we have a statement from the band. It says, We have managed to play this music for 10 years and we will probably be around for 10 years to come. Soon these years has expired, and I think we will be around for some years to come. This is a lifestyle. You can just quit. Maybe SATANIC SLAUGHTER will quit in the near future but we will always play in newbands. I can see myself playing extreme metal untill I die. 8. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: what's your opinion on the current black metal scene, any bands you like, or recommend checking out? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: The scene is very different now compare to the eighties and nineties but that is inevitable. The scene develop. Many bands have change style, but there will always be new interesting bands in the scene. Itīs harder to get gigs now days. The trends changes all the time. Maybe we only have ourself to blame. Probably you must change to reash the stars and the big money but we refuse. It pisses me off when bands change style because they want more money. A band can develop in a new style , thatīs ok. But only doing it for money, fuck. I got some death treats in 95 from some TRUE BLACK METAL assholes. Where are they now, playing nue-metal crap, only for the money. Fuck them, and all the trendy assholes. DARK FUNERAL, TRIUMPHATOR, MARDUK, IMMORTAL are still great black metal bands, fast and brutal. Our drummer Martin Axe is playing in a new band called N.C.O from Sweden featuring KAMIJO from HYPOCRISY and PAIN. LEGION from Sweden is very great Black metal band aswell. Check them out. VOMITORY and MALEVOLENT CREATION are great death metal bands. And of course DISSECTION. 9. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: have you done any touring as a band, or is SATANIC SLAUGHTER a studio only band? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: We are not a studio band. The reason we still remains are that we love to play live. We have done 4-5 smaller tours in Europé with RAGNAROK, CORPORATION 187 and LORD BELIAL and IMMORTAL,. In April we did 10 gig with LORD BELIAL. We have alo done 5 or 6 festival gigs with bands like HYPOCRISY, IN FLAMES, The Haunted, Incantation, Nifelhiem, Amon Amarth, This summer we will play 3 festivals in Germany and the Czech Republic. 10. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: what merchandise is available from you for SATANIC SLAUGHTER? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: We have t-shirts and long sleeves with the new album cover. The artwork is done by NIKLAS SUNDIN of DARK TRANQUILLITY. You can order it from Razamataz Heavy Metal Online, the address is http:// www.heavymetalonline.co.uk 11. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: name some of your favorite bands of all times. SATANIC SLAUGHTER: KISS, WASP, KREATOR, DISSECTION, and MALEVOLENT CREATION 12. DARKRECOLLECTIONS: if you could pick musicians from your favorite bands to make the perfect line up, who would you pick? SATANIC SLAUGHTER: Axenrot of SATANIC SLAUGHTER on drums( Heīs one of the best drummer I have ever heard), Jon of DISSECTION Guitar, Mille of KREATOR on vocals but he must sing as he did in the eighties, Phil Fasciana of MALEVOLENT CREATION guitar. 13. DARKRECOLLECTIONS:any last words? Visit our website : http://www.hem.passagen.se/ztefdark/ E-mail: ztephdark@hotmail.com thanks for the interview...Thanx to you and for your support, stay brutal. ALASTOR CADAVERIA DESIRE EVOKEN FUNERAL MELEK-THA SATANIC SLAUGHTER SHINING