-No Mercy: Hi Alex ! How do you
do ……….. are you ready for this interview ?
Alex: Hi No Mercy friends!!
Go ahead.
- No Mercy: Lethal Fire why this
name ……. do an introduction of the band ,……..When and why Lethal Fire was
started ??
Alex: It’s the combination
of two proposals made by other members at the time of the foundation: Lethal
Insane & Fire Souls. So the name stuck Lethal Fire. I do not really
felt happy with that name.I joined the band in January 2004 but they needed a
bass player. We played twice and it began the problems among the founders, they
decided to leave the band and I was left, that way I dusted off my old songs
and not played their songs anymore. Since 2005 I play the guitar.
- No Mercy: Do interviews mean
anything to you? Do you have to have a special state of mind when answering one
?
Alex: Interviews mean a lot
to me. They are the true support for the more unknown bands on the planet. I
always try to answer them in a short time, because in the past I was doing
interviews for my fanzine and some bands were too late to respond, when they
finally reached their responses the printed fanzine was in circulation. I stop
doing what I'm doing to respond.
- No Mercy: How is the Colombian
metal scene nowadays? Any awesome new bands we should watch out for ? I see in
my horizon a great names of Colombian and Latin American thrash metaland death
/thrash names Agressor,Torturer ,Neurosis ,Violator,Cobra………….. I support South
American metal it’s so extremely aggressive ,brutal ,bestial !it so infernal
Alex: In Colombia the scene
is concentrated in the biggest cities (Bogotá, Cali and Medellín). I consider
MASACRE our bestrepresentation, they recently played at 70000 Tons of Metal
Cruise. I’m grateful with people like you who have looked at the bands of my
country, because it is very difficult to grow as a musician in this fucking
country. Other bands I recommend are SAGROS, INFERNAL, WITCHTRAP, REVENGE,
others that are not already settled here are INQUISITION, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS,
GORETRADE, INTERNALSUFFERING. In Colombia there are hundreds of bands of
various subgenres of Metal, some disappear for long periods of time and then
they return.
- No Mercy: How did you get the
inspiration to do music? Any bands or albums that “did it” for you?
Alex: METALLICA’s Kill ’em
All was the first album I heard, which made me love the Thrash Metal. I am
purely empirical, that is why my music is old school. I listen old stuff of
TESTAMENT, SLAYER, EXODUS, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX and DESTRUCTION.
- No Mercy: On metal archives
your statue on hold !!!why this ?Did the band get formed just for fun??
Alex: Oh shit!!! I
continued with LF to make such a professional as possible band. Ibagué is a
very small town that offers very few musicians and those few hate the meaning
of discipline, that's why I was alone in LF, the recordings involving guest
musicians who live outside Ibague, for that reason we have not played live
since 2010
- No Mercy: Let's discuss some
of your songs and about your work I see a good concept ,pretty raw sound great
vocal when I listen Master Of ExterminationArt or War Is My Name the problem
it’s the guitar solo you must perform this one its little wrong and slow have
you already
thought we must to
performing your guitar solo ?
Alex: The first album Rain
Of Fire doesn’t present guitar solos because I didn’t have a lead guitarist.
This second album Master Of Extermination Artpresents Manuel Buenaventura who
recorded five guitar solos, also the vocalist Leo Pinzón contributed a
guitar solo and I did mine at War Is My Name. Not all songs have the space for
solos, but more than half of the songs on the album have guitar solos.
- No Mercy: Your Master Of
ExterminationArt image cove is awesome who made it ?
Alex: The cover was done by
Sergio Gaviria, leader of the Thrash Metal band SAGROS from Cali.
- No Mercy: Which label would
fit your music?
Salute Records from
Sweden released a few copies on CDR, the manager praised my music. My own label
Eternal Night Records released it on professional CD (666 CDs). I don’t know
underground labels which maybe can be interested in bands such LF. I hope any reader
of this interview be excited about LF
- No Mercy: Describe Lethal Fire
gigs
Alex: We have played only 8
times since 2004 until 2010. The biggest audience was about 500 persons. We
played 10 songs average including some cover song of SLAYER or SODOM.
- No Mercy: Any fav bands to get
on stage with ?
Alex: MEGADETH, EXODUS or IRON MAIDEN, etc
- No Mercy: Do the members of
the band play in other projects?
Alex: Yes, and that’s
another fucking problem for the time to rehearse and to play.
- No Mercy:What are your
thoughts on the kids metalcore bands,generally the U.S metalcore who invaded
the thrash metal ,extreme metal what is your opinion about this ?
Alex: I really don’t listen
that bands.
- No Mercy: What are you doing
in daily life? How do you earn your money?
Alex: I imprint customized
t-shirts for children and adults with transfer.
- No Mercy: Any projects bands
that you guys are involved in?
Mauro Castro is
IMPROMTUS AD MORTEM drummer and Leo Pinzón is TWILIGHT GLIMMER vocalist, they
were guest on the album. About the musicians for gigs: Andres Suares is bass
player on a THERION TRIBUTE.
- No Mercy: What is your
greatest wish for Lethal Fire?
Alex: To find a label which
can release my music world wide, and to play in several countries. It would be
the maximum for me.
- No Mercy: What is your daily
consumption amount of alcohol,cigarettes...... ?
Alex: On weekends I take
some beers and smoke Marlboro. My favorite drink is whiskey, but it’s in
special moments.
- No Mercy: What kind of music
do you play in your car? What car do you own?
Alex: I have no car,
before, when I was one, I listened to bands of 80's Hard Rock, Heavy Metal and
of course Thrash: KISS, JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, DORO PESCH, LITA FORD, DIO,
DEF LEPPARD, BON JOVI, MALICE, HELSTAR, AC/DC, MOTLEY CRUE, HELLOWEEN, ANGELES
DEL INFIERNO, W.A.S.P, KRAKEN, etc, etc, etc.
- No Mercy: What is your
occupations outside Lethal Fire?
Alex: I imprint t-shirts,
I’m at home with mytwo children and wife. Some free times we walk and walk as
exercise, but at least we eat hamburgers with coke.
- No Mercy: What are some of
your non-musical influences?
I read Stephen King
books. I check films of Silvester Stallone, Jason Statham, ArnoldScharzenegger.
I see our soccer team when they play international matches.
- No Mercy: How would you
define Lethal Fire in one word?
(Difficult) Lifestyle
- No Mercy: How would you define
Lethal Fire music in one word ?
Alex: Talent
- No Mercy: What is your guitar
arsenal (axe/strings, amps, effects) ?
Alex: AXL Fire guitar;
Laney HC50 amplifier; Zoom 606 effects.
- No Mercy: Just for fun: do you
like glam?Do you think a kind of music entitled "Glamcore" or
"Glam thrash emocore" could be conceived? What is your opinion when
you see some of this fucking funny mixage(Well, we aren't so far from that with
the homoposeur trend of emocorejajaja) and and what do you thought about son of
bitch gay traitor As ghaal Who Wanted to fire Infernusthe founder of
Gorgoroth
Alex: Hahahaha… I didn’t
escape of the old glam (DEF LEPPARD, BON JOVI, SKID ROW, GUNS AND ROSES) in the
past I heard those bands. By the way I can’t imagine that strange mixtures. And
about Ghaal and King ov Hell, motherfuckers. I lived some similar shit: in 2010
and 2011 I had a work in a far town outside Ibagué, and the vocalist of that
time Jose Forero wanted go on with LF without me, that man is completely
pathetic.
- No Mercy: Thanks a lot
forshring your time and answering my questions. any particular
messages or any closing notes , last words are yours ?
Alex: Thanks to you for the
interview. Support me. here are my links:
Eternal Hails horns up
Sataroth Blasphemer
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