COLLISION Interview.

1. Hello Tammi. For starters give me a short bio of Collision.
Cheers Pavlos, oke… here we go! Collision has started in winter 2000 with Björn (vocals, ex-Juice Tigers) and I decided to form a new band, because our current bands didn’t got shows or became to an end. I was (and still am) a really big grindcore band back in the days, so we decided to find some more grindcore friends. After a few line up changed we got a nice band together with Luc (guitaargh, The Masters, Pigtail, Juice Tigers), Marcel (bass guitaargh, ex-Sacrement, ex-V-Male), Job (drums, ex-Facegrind) and Björn and me on vocals. We start writing short and thrashy grindcore/metal/hardcore songs. When we got a full set we recorded a demo-cdr and booked some shows. We also played at the famous Obscene Extreme Festival with only a demo , and that show was really awesome. In 2003 we start recordings for our first full length cd on Bizarre Leprous Productions called ‘Romantic Display Of Love’. With that cd in our pocket we did more and more shows (like supporting Gojira in France, a mini tour across Czech Republic). And ofcourse like every band, we start writing new songs. These songs became our second album ‘Roadkiller’ on Bones Brigade Records. In the meanwhile we switched from bassplayer Marcel to Boris Janssen (ex-Mangled). We went to Czech Republic again for the Obscene Extreme Festival, did lots of support acts, did a tour with French grindcore band Sickbag and nice festivals. We also released a split CD with our grindcore buddies in DrDoom.

2. Describe me what your lyrics talk about.
Most of our lyrics deal about thing we are interested in: like horror movies, annoying things and a little politics. Mostly sarcastic haha!

3. The fact that you have supported live big bands like Agathocles, Saxon, Sinister, Inhume to name a few, helps in the way that you act as a band?
Yes I think so, playing on parties and garages is really cool, but to do gigs with some of our favorite bands is also awesome! We did shows with some of my favourite bands like Aborted, Unholy Grave, Gorerotted, Saxon etc.
Actually I even met Biff from Saxon when we played at the same festival as them (Rockweekend). But I think it helps more to do some festivals with other nice extreme bands. So lots of people get a change to check us our when they never heard of us!

4. Things in the scene of Netherlands are much different than any other European country. The bands don’t stick to political stuff. Is your band a pure metal band or do you have a political background?
There are some bands with tons of political stuff, but that doesn’t work for us. We are five individuals with different opinions, so it would be useless to sing about politics for us. We play in Collision to entertain people and ourselves. That is our main goal! But ofcourse we got some serious subjects in our lyrics like neo fascism (New Age Of Stupidity), the humanity vs the world (Vortex Of Disgust and Heading For They End) etc etc.

5. Your label (Bones Brigade Records), has a very good distribution. Are you satisfied with them?
Actually we got releases on more labels… and we are satisfied with every one of them. Bizarre Leprous helped us on our way because they introduced Collision into the grindcore scene, Bones Brigade for they good distribution and ofcourse Everydayhate and Scrotum Jus Records for helping us with the split CD with DrDoom!

6. What do you have to say about those that rip off the bands and make money from the scene?
Like everybody thinks of them, they suck haha. But I think if you wanted to make real money, you don’t have to form a grindcore band!

7. There are many people who would love to see you perform in Greece. How come and you have never been here?
We didn’t know, we really want to do some shows over there! I never visited Greece, so it would be a nice change to check it out. I hope we can do a weekend tour in 2009!

8. Tell me some things about your future plans.
For now we are writing new songs for our upcoming release. We are planning for a split release with Sickbag. You will find more information about this on our website in the future. I must say I’m really excited about our new material! Very aggressive songs haha! We also want to do tons of live shows in the future, so beware!

9. Thanx for your time. Last words belong to you.
Oke Pavlos, thank you for the interview and great support! Check our website www. collisiongrind. nl for more information… and add us on Myspace (www. myspace. com/collisiongrind)! Take care and dress up luke Mötley Crüe!

Alaaf!

(Interview done at 13/10/2008).