ELECTRICJEZUS are a two man band from Dmitrov, Russia. They play the dirtiest kind of metal combining influences from all kinds of music into one fine piece of old school noise. Oleg (drums) and Ruslan (guitar\bass\vocals) answered some questions to me for this blog. Thanks a lot!
Hey guys! First of all congrats on your debut "Грязь поколений". It reminded me of the good old metal days when metal was still raw and hard instead of over produced digital copy and paste music some newer bands are playing these days!
Hi Chris, and thanks for inspiring words!
Please, tell us something about your musical influences and how you combined them to what we're hearing on "Грязь поколений".
Yes, our album was pretty diverse and nonuniform, everything from what
we listen to various music and you will agree that it is not very
interesting to do a whole album such as the title track. In doing so, we
are inspired by the examples of Melvins, which during its existence,
played in all territories. In the album we tried to combine all that we
love: Grindcore, Thrash, '80s, Doom riffs, and even mocking Pop motifs and
put all under the roof of fuzz sludge and of course blackened vocals,
the songs do not sing in another.
You recorded the album with all kinds of analog equipment to create that special sound.
Yes, we tried to make
an analog recording, we were so interested to use the analog equipment
and when turned up such an opportunity, we did not refuse. Of course we
were not Abby Road and we had to use modern technology, but this
percentage was negligible. We recorded album fully live, and other
embodiments could not have be, because such music should be closer to
the live sound - aggressive emotional and maximum vividness as if we are
playing in your home.
Since I unfortunately don't speak any Russian, can you please give us a hint what your lyrics are about?
Texts were quite thoughtful and even selfish. They have
their place in the world, no populist slogans that we need to all get
together and all change here to see prices rather the thoughts that come
to people before going to bed (good or bad).
By the way we also have a humorous song. Lyrics for it completely
taken from a Russian television series about police from the 90's.
Dmitrov isn't too far away from Moscow (about 70 km according to Google). Do you have a big metal scene where you come from?
Yes, Google is not lying.
Since
we are fairly new and the strange group the big scene do not take us
seriously and we are far from her. Basically we play concerts for a
small circle of lovers, who just formed and friends.
For us as a new group organizing concerts difficult exercise, yet
so many connections inside underground. We have a lot of plans, we will
try to do something like the tour and play as many gigs but
unfortunately not everything depends on us.
What are your plans for the near or far future?
We have a lot of plans. Unfortunately we
could not make edition on vinyl albums, none of the publishers were
interested in our idea, and attempts to solve this problem by ourselves
are not successful.
By the way, we have 4 songs for the next release. Not so long ago, we visited again in the studio and did a rough recording instruments. We
do not know in what format it will be poured (EP or LP) but we can say
that the overall theme of records will be the atmosphere of the book
Andrei Platonov's "The Foundation Pit" (among themselves we call her
Russian death). Well, and accordingly, all the songs will be about death
and of course want to go on a tour in different cities and countries, but so far we do not know how to manage it. We hope the project will live for a long time, we have enough enthusiasm.
Yeah, I hope that, too. It's the kind of enthusiasm that is so important for our scene! Thank you so much so answering my questions.
You can download Грязь поколений for free on
Bandcamp.
Check out this cool Electricjezus live video:
Electricjezus - live in Little Rock, Moscow (2013.04.29)
And if you happen to be interested in the Russian Metal underground here are some recommendations by Ruslan and Oleg ("Our favorite bands of the grim scene of Russia!")
