Dick Siebert, The Bassist of The Brazilian Thrashers KORZUS

(Additional questions answered by guitarist Silvio Golfetti)

Interview by Arto Lehtinen

An interview series of The Brazilian metal bands continues again. Korzus being one of the longest running thrash metal bands from Brazil was definitely a logical choice for Metal-Rules.Com. Korzus has struggled year after year by putting out killer releases for example their latest output TIES OF BLOOD was a great slab of brutal and grove influenced thrashing metal. Even though Korzus isn't widely known, the five piece Brazilian metal squad constantly keeps gigging all around Brazil and other South American countries. Therefore it was a great opportunity to interview Korzus’s founding member and bassist Dick Siebert to find out more about this legendary Brazilian thrash metal combo.

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Misery Index & M.A.N
April 1st, 2006
Nosturi Club
Helsinki, Finland

MARC STORACE

Singer Marc Storace was originally born on the Island of Malta in 1951. At the age of 19 he moved to London while he was trying to start his musical career but only one year later, in 1971, he ended up in a Swiss band called TEA. Together they released three studio albums and toured a lot, mostly in Switzerland but also in U.K and other European countries. In 1976, Marc moved back to London and formed another band called Eaze Money but they never make it big time. A few years later in 1979 Marc was invited to join another Swiss band KROKUS and things really started to change. The band sold millions of records during their "heydays" in the early eighties and up to this date they are still the most successfull Swiss band of all time. Albums like HEADHUNTER, ONE VICE AT TIME and HARDWARE are highly praised hard rock classics. Unfortunately things started to go bad at the very end of the eighties and after several line up changes and some less than successfull albums the band broke up in1989. After the breakup in the early nineties, Marc did several projects and albums with such names and artists as China, Glenn Hughes and Amen. Althought the band did a brief reunion and one studio album in 1995 things really started to roll again in 2003 when KROKUS released their highly acclaimed ROCK THE BLOCK album which went directly to number one in Switzerland and did quite well in the rest of the world. Then, after two very succesfull years of touring and the release of another live albun FIRE AND GASOLINE, lead guitarist and only remaining founder member, Fernando von Arb surprisingly decided to leave KROKUS. Against many expectations the band decided to carry on and they hired old friend Mandy Mayer ( ex -ASIA, Katmandu,Gotthard) , who used to play in KROKUS in 1981, to be their new lead guitar player. At the moment, in the sping of 2006, KROKUS are once again in the studio putting the final touches on the upcoming studio album which should be out in the upcoming months. I met Marc in Stockholm last December and here are the results of our long and interesting discussion about the past,present and future of Marc Storace and KROKUS.

INTERVIEW, LIVE AND OFFSTAGE PICTURES BY MARKO SYRJÄLÄ    

  TRANSCRIPITON BY DUKE 

Manning Bar, Sydney University, Australia
29 October 2005

Pics and review by Brat

UNDER RAVEN SKIES was a festival organized by people from Wagga Wagga—half way between Sydney and Melbourne—in the name of the MS Society. What better way to increase the street cred of metal in this hell on Earth than by demonstrating a social conscience.

Interview by Arto Lehtinen

Icarus Witch from Pittsburgh definitely came out of blue with the brilliant debut Ep release ROSES ON WHITE LANCE. The four piece has continued their traditional heavy metal crusade on the first full-length album titled CAPTURE THE MAGIC. Therefore it was about time to get a hold of the founding member and the bassist of Icarus Witch, Jason Myers, to find out more about the band. Icarus Witch definitely stands for the good old traditional heavy metal by swearing into names of several classic metal legends, which can be without any doubts heard in their music. Both of the outputs of Icarus Witch just prove the band’s ability to create memorable songs.