Rockezine.com interview with Fueled By Fire on Aug 23, 2007

with Carlos on Aug 23, 2007


		Please introduce yourself and the band. I’m Carlos the drummer. Further we got Anthoy on bass, Rick on Guitar and Gio also guitar and vocals.
		Can you describe the type of music you guys play? Fucking thrash metal from L.A.. Fast, aggressive and heavy fucking.
		Who influenced you to play thrash? The bands that influenced us to play thrash were Exodus, Testament Megadeth and Slayer.
		How did you hook up with Metalblade? Well, we had just released our self release of “Spread the Fire” and it wasn’t out even a month and Brian Slagel sent us a message himself. He heard us on the internet, saying that he was very interested in us. He said: “it was real and we are interested in singing you guys to Metalblade Records”. He asked if we could send him some of our CD’s and after that we started working out a deal.
		Why did you choose to re-release "Spread The Fire" instead of recording and releasing new songs? Like I said we had just released “Spread The Fire” and it wasn’t our for long before we were contacted by Metalblade. They told us they wanted to re-release it with two bonus tracks. So we put two new songs as bonus tracks and a new cover (layout). At this moment we don’t have so much new songs yet but we’re working on it as we speak.
		Who made the cartoon on the cover? What does it express? The new artwork is about people that talk shit about thrash metal. Those guys are the nu-metal, hardcore posers. On the artwork we have a thrasher beating the shit out of some posers. So we say: “fuck all you nu metal hardcore fagget posers”.
		Is beer your favourite liquor? Yeah, beer is our favourite liquor.
		What’s your personal favourite album? My favourite heavy metal album is Iron Maiden "Killers" and my favourite thrash album is Exodus "Bonded By Blood".
		What can we expect in the coming months? We’re staring to set up a U.S. tour, right now and we’re going to Germany in April of next year to play the Keep It True X metal festival. Probably then have more dates in Europe to play.
		Your last famous words…. Thank you for this interview and thanks to all of our fans around the world. If it wasn`t for you we wouldn`t be here. Be sure to pick up a copu of our re-release. Again thanks and keep thrashing!
(Jeroen Habets)