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RAINSPAWN
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Francesco Grieco
January 2006
http://www.rainspawn.com
The Italians of Rainspawn play energetic, raw 80's thrash metal, influenced by Bay Area and German thrash and bands like Megadeth. Since they are still in their 20's I'm curious how come they love the old school thrash so much and since their website isn't very up to date I'm wondering what their current status is and what plans they might have for the future. Bassist Francesco Grieco was so kind to satisfy my curiosity!
Congratulations with "No Escape", you can be proud of that album! How have the reactions been?
Thanks! That album is so important for us, our debut album and for everyone of us the first album published by a real label!!! We had different reactions from the heavy metal world, lots of good reviews and someone not good. Some people said that we didn't invented nothing, and say it as a bad thing. But for us is good!!! We don't want to invent anything, we just wanna play thrash metal as our favourite bands have done in the '80s!
You are all fairly young, in your mid-twenties on average. How come you all love the old school thrash and metal so much?
Really....I don't know!!! Probably for each of us the old thrash metal was the first contact with the metal music, so we love it since the first time! Of course, we don't listen and don't play just thrash metal, some of us have others band were we play other music, but playing thrash metal is so fucking better!!!
What bands you do like from the current metal scene? Any special recommendations from the Italian metal scene?
Personally I like the "new" thrash metal, bands like The Haunted and the new Scandinavian thrash metal. Many others bands from the '80s are still on the road: Testament, Exodus, Death Angel, so we still have the chance to see them in action.
The Italian metal scene doesn't have too much thrash metal bands, but I can recommend Enemynside (www.enemynside.com) a Bay Area/new thrash metal band from Rome. We are under the same label and sometimes we shared the stage with them.
"No Escape" sounds very fresh and spontaneous, how much time did you need to record it? How did the whole recording proces go?
We wrote "No Escape" in a couple of months, but the recording sessions where so slow, we needed one year (from March 2003 to March 2004) to record it. Well.... we weren't in the studios for one year! We had a lot of gigs while we recorded the album, and lots of other promotional things to do, so probably we stayed in the studios for one month.
How did you get in touch with Christian Ice and the Temple Of Noise Studios?
We met Christian when we recorded our first EP "Messenger Of Death", it was the first time for us in a recording studio (we were 17/18 years old!) and since the first moment Christian helped us to find the right way, so we really appreciated the work he does for us, I think he's probably one the best metal producers in Italy.
Why did you re-record "Reign Of Pain" from your EP?
"Messenger Of Death" sounds more powerful than "No Escape", while we wrote "No Escape" we tried to give a different arrangement to ""Reign Of Pain", probably the most "thrash" song of "Messenger...", you can download the EP version from our website, so you can listen the difference between the two version of the same song!
What is your favorite song off the album and why?
Oh...wow...it's an hard question! Is like to ask a father who is his favourite son!!! So, probably my favourite song is "Reign Of Pain", probably because we used that song for our videoclip, and sometimes I go see it...is so funny!!!
What exactly is that hidden track after the last song, and what are you all saying? I only understand that Roberto wants to scream and someone wants him to keep his voice down ;)
Ah! Ah! Ah!.... no..... exactly, Roberto was recording voice on "Don't Brake", and in the first verse when he says "I want to scream" there is another loudly voice who repeats "I want to scream" and while he recorded that loudly voice we recorded that sketch. He is recording and Christian, the sound engineer, said "louder ", and he said again "I want to scream", loudly, and Christian again "louder", he tried it one more time loudly and Christian said "more volume" and Roberto said in a typical Italian way to say fuck off: "ma vaffanculo"!!! It was funny!!!
Hehehe! Now I need to listen to that again ;)
What was the best moment you had as a band?
We played since 1998, this year will be 8 years... so we had a lot of great moments. When you play with your best friends, and when you tour across your country with them, sleep in the van, wash in the gasoline station, and stay with them the most part of your life, you had lots of great moments, but probably our best moment was our last gig. We were at a festival near Lubiana in Slovenia on August 2004. It was our first time in Slovenia, nobody knew us and we were on the stage before Tankard. A fucking storm came by during the show of the band before us and when we came on the stage nobody was in the pit....FUCK!!! So while we set up our instruments, our singer (totaly drunk) started to scream something in the mic, I really didn't understand what he said, but after a few minutes lots of people came on under the stage totally wet, 'cause it was rainy and they were crazy!!! We shot a videoclip of that show, so you can download it from our website (www.rainspawn.com) , it was our last gig and our best gig... I don't know if we'll start again to have concerts together, but if that concert will be our last concert, I'm satisfied 'cause it was absolutely great!
Last concert?! Erm, I was about to ask what your goals with this band are...
For now, we are resolving some trouble, after the show I told you before, in a few months our lives are changed so fast. The great part of the band is now married and some of them have babies, I'm the one who is still single (I'm too young to think about a family!!!) so, with the babies, the house rent to pay, the bills, and not too much money to live, to play in a thrash metal band becomes not your first life goal. So for now we've taken some time for us, for our lives, for resolving the real life troubles: having a good job, paying all the bills and the house rent, and having the money to promise your son a future, so when we can do it we will start to play again, and I think we will become more aggressive!!!
Ah, so no live plans for now, I noticed you didn't have any upcoming gigs listed on your website.
For now we have stopped our live activity, as I told you we are waiting for better times for us. Another reason is the Italian metal scene, now it's very bad, there aren't places to play, there aren't festivals where bands like us can play...is so fucking bad...the Italian scene has changed so fast, when we started to tour across Italy, between 2000 and 2003, it was so different, there were more clubs, more people who came to the underground metal concerts, it was so different.... now, I don't know, everything is changed...
I hope you'll find your way back to the touring again, so I can have a chance to see you live some day! Good luck with the band, is there anything left you want to say to our readers?
I hope too and I want to thank you and your readers to give us the chance to talk about our band. We hope to come back soon and to start to touring across Europe, this is our goal and I hope to reach it soon! Thrash On!!!
submitted by Marlies 03.02.2006
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