interview from eye. 1993 - bad ocr and pieces
missing...
You thought you were safe, didn't you? Thought you'd lived through enough
splatter flicks to know the rules Don't Go Out alone, Don't look in The
Basement and you followed them like the shortcut around the chamber of horrors.
Yes, you thought you were safe you forgot thc most important rule: The Bogeyman
Always Comes Back. . . You thought you'd seen the last Die Screaming. Sought
that after two of the core members-s demoted or is that defecated- d.l) to
Dogpile you were finally freed tom their 10-year reign of terror.
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Their industrial
death-rattlings on murder, mutilation; and general;ll sick-fuckery. Nigh on two
years now and no twitch- ings from the corpse and you thought it as all over
for them, that they'd hung p their meat hooks for the last time. ' 1st like
Jason, Michael and Freddie. '1 thought it was a case of. 'OK, I'm maturing now,
time to do something different so I tried something conventional .'' This is
head screamer David Tait speaking, in the talon. even tones used by many
psychopathic mass-murderers to simulate rationality. At first, Half hour into
the interview, the Vincent price mannerisms start bleeding through and he's
leeringly, lovingly describing shall we talk about then? Going to the store and
picking up a jug of milk'?' I just thought, forget it. Why bother'?" Then
Dave went to Europe. checked out the music scene, had a revelation: Die
Screaming the Resurrection! He fired the drummer, bought a drum machine,
re-announced himself with sick movies and sick hooks. He nabbed guitarist Steve
Vardy from Head Trauma . Slats started writing again, sharpening and reworking
the old machine into a leaner engine of tenor. "It's not gonna be so much
of a circus this time. It's gonna be more of a death chamber, more of a deep
nightmare; w more h@-your-t~in your face with-a-bunch-of: ~ nails and
definitely harsher: blood, videotapes of car accidents. onstage destruction ...
um, who else ... mutilation having people come tip, (do things. No dances no
1;1di-la-di-da stuff: we're gonna grab the audience and twist their heads. And
we'll come lunging at some of the oldies from a better angle. 'Girl in the l
ridge has been around for 10 years and I' m still not totally happy with it: it
could possibly be more of a dance version. I'd love to hear that in a club,
watch people dancing to those words.'' Don't. You really don't want to know .
"Oh, it's quite funny, actually," I)Dave dismisses. "It's just
at story about a girl and a boy and his grandmother.other, and they're re going
out. I suppose. doings a bit of hunting and making, ah . . .
Formed in 1986, disbanded in ?, released 2 tapes
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