Pain

– You have already been 3 times in Hungary. About 6 years ago as Hypocrisy, then as Pain supporting Tiamat, and last year before Nightwish… Do you remember these gigs? Which one enjoyed the most any why?

– Oh I think the last one was the best.

– Yeah?

– First of all, there were a looot of people… and we just have a great time you know… and a… I mean when the first time we were in Hungary, in ’93 I think…

– Really?

– Yeah, with Cannibal Corpse

– Oups, I didnt even know about this one…

– It was a long-long time ago… and also since drummer is hungarian…

– Yeah, Szoke

– Yes, Larss Szoke… yeah so, I mean it has always been good every time, thats not we are talking about, but last time, everything was running smooth, it was really great.

– On the Tiamat gig you played with 2 hot girls and I couldnt see them on Brutal Assault show last year. What has happened to them?

– Oooo, it just didnt work out, cause they are from Germany, and I am from Sweden, the costs of flying back and forward was too high…

– And now you have new members…

– Yes, there are no more girls in the band…

– Too sad…

– Haha yea…

– They were really hot…

– Yes and also good musicians… now we have a stable lineup for more than a year, you know.

– Have you got any crazy stories about crazy fans?

– There are always crazy things when we are around… haha. Getting a beer up and massive parties you know… but thats nothing new, you know hehe.

– I have one if you are interested in 🙂

– Ah really? Let me know…

– It happened to one of my mates at that gig before Dimmu Borgir, in Hungary… you could play like 40 minutes only and he was upset and blamed Dimmu Borgir… so he bought bottles of coke and tried to threw Shagrath into his head from the 1st line of the audience…

– Uh, really?

– Yea really, he failed of course and was very disappointed 🙂

– Oups.

– And this all was only because you had only 40 minutes to play.

– Aham, we hope we wont skip Hungary with next Hypocrisy tour we gonna do as headliners all over Europe…

– You gonna tour? I havent heard about this.

– Its only a plan for next year sometime…

– As I am not a perfect english, i couldnt fully understand the lyrics, but i got a few parts, I’ve a question about a line: „What doesnt kill you make you stronger, i dont believe in that anymore” – what does this mean?

– Yeah there are people you know, you helping out them, you help them and they stab you in the back. You know, either helping getting out of problems, helping them with money for eg. and they turn around, and fuck you over. Its really about that.

– Are you going to record a musicvideo for any of the new songs?

– Yeah! We gonna do a video for the song Follow me… right now we gonna go to Istambul actually for the video, and then we also gonna go to Moscow, we gonna record the video in different places…

– Some funny stuff would be cool like Shut your mouth… 🙂

– I donno yet! Maybe! Hopefully! You will see what gonna happen.

– Have you got any other active sideproject next to Pain?

– No, its only Hypocrisy, thats the only band we have time for you know…

– Being signed to one of the biggest labels of the world, what do you think about pirate downloads?

– Well, I mean, you know… its sucks…

– Its a hard question, I know…

– Well it sucks you know, you work hard and you dont get paid for it… thats similar if you worked in a factory all day long and you dont get the money cause someone took it, you know… this is a sad thing you know… but its also another door for people to discover your band… so i think its a good and an evil thing. But I definitly think, they should lower the price of CD’s… some people cant afford to buy stuffs they even have to save money to buy only one CD… in the past you were in the store and I want this and that and that you know but now they are too expensive…

– As it is wellknown that you are UFO-believer, have you seen the new X-Files movie? Did you like it?

– No I havent! But I heard some people said it has nothing to do with any except for ressol?!

– And are you going to watch it?

– Watch it? Ouh, yea, for sure.

– For sure?

– Yea I watched all of them, but you know there are sometimes parts of that I dont like, like story about some vampires and such.

– Ok, that was me, have you got a message for our readers?

– Yea I hope we can come back with the new stuff to Hungary, and I hope you will like the new album.