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 Destruction have announced that they will be touring the UK in December following their recent performance at the Bloodstock Open Air Festival.
The band have scheduled four dates kicking off at Rio's in Leeds on December 12th, before continuing with dates in Dublin, Dudley and concluding with a performance at the Underworld in London on December 16th.
They are set to be joined by fellow AFM rostermates Debauchery, who are set to re-release their 'Torture Pit' and 'Rage Of The Bloodbeast' albums as part of the continuing AFM Remaster Series.
Full dates for the tour are:
12th December 2008 Rio’s Leeds
13th December 2008 Dublin The Village
14th December 2008 – Dudley, JB’s
16th December 2008 London Underworld
Komodo Rock's Dawn Irwin spoke with guitarist Mike Sifringer at the Bloodstock Open Air Festival.
Several excerpts from the interview are included below.
Congratulations on Destruction's
10th studio album. What can we
expect with this one compared to previous albums?
Well, there is a little bit more variety, maybe. This time we tried to do some different things
and bring in a bit more melodic stuff, but I think it's still aggressive enough
for the old fans, so I hope everyone will like it.
What are you
personally most proud of with this release?
Well, there are some songs that I like better than others,
of course, but all the songs must be together to get the whole view of our
music, so I like the whole thing, even the fucking cover!
What have been the
early reactions to this album?
Pretty good, because people are seeing that we're getting
older and we've done so many fast songs in the past that we don't have
to prove
that we can play fast. That's why we
turned the speed down a little and we tried different harmonies. We
don't want to get bored ourselves, that's why
we tried to change things around a little bit and not just play the
same riffs
that we have been doing for twenty years.
We don't want to sound like we did back then because we are so much
better now. But still, a lot of people
ask us why we don't make an album like we did back then. Too many
people live in the past (laughs). Actually, I do too, but I go further
back. I like the seventies and sixties
stuff.
Well, since you've brought
up that particular era, can you tell us what or who was it that got you into
music in the first place?
When I was a little boy there was a TV show in Germany
that played mostly pop shit, but once in a while there were some good heavy
bands. The first metal song I ever heard
was a Slade song - I can't even remember when it was, maybe 1972 or something,
but I was too small to buy it for myself and my father didn't want to get it
for me because he hated that stuff. It
just developed from there. For a while I
was into Elvis Presley, but he was a good musician, so I don't have to be
ashamed of that. I liked the old stuff
by Status Quo a lot ... ‘Live at the Apollo' is great. Then I got into Rainbow, Deep Purple, UFO and
all those great bands, and Thin Lizzy is one of my favourite bands. Scott Gorham is a fantastic player.
Read the full interview here.
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