an electromagnetic force that threatens to devour everything! It could be really a plot for a sci-fi B-movie from the 50s/60s so here’s the connection with the lyrical themes! The video clip for the song “Constriction Process” was also my idea. It’s based on the 1957’s sci/fi film ‘’The Incredible Shrinking Man’’ so the clip features plans of the film mixed with us performing this song live. The lyrics of the song (that I wrote as well) appears to the screen. The plot is based on a man that after his exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide became to shrink day by day until he became an insignificant form of life… So since he left we behave as a real band and we arranged live dates, made a new video clip, designed a professional T-shirt and sent our promo wherever was possible (DJs, radios and magazines). The results are speaking by themselves and currently our popularity and fame are at the highest level since 2009! For the live shows I’m together with Yiannis so there’s no problem at all. Regarding the future we will participate to numerous compilations and do collaborations/remixes with other bands and then releasing new videos from the last album. There’ll be possibly a new single and after that playing live again and again! We will release new music when we feel the need to do it and not because we should do. A new era is ahead of us and my main goal is ‘to make PreEmptive Strike 0.1 great again’!! An important aspect of the band is the artwork, which often has something pretty sci/fi like. Tell us a bit more about artwork and the link with lyrical themes? Can you also give us more details about the clip “Constriction Process”? JIM: Yes artwork is very important to us since the beginning. I would like to be honest telling you that the artwork of our previous albums didn’t look perfect. Vlad McNeally is doing the artwork since 2017 and I’ve to say his work reflects with perfection what we’ve in mind! The concept behind the artwork of “Progeny Of The Technovore” was my idea and takes place in a steam power factory from the beginning of the 20th Century. There, the workers by accident have created - 5 - I noticed your last EP “Harbinger”, which has been released last year, featured 3 new songs, which aren’t featured on the new album. Tell us a bit more about these ‘exclusive’ songs? Weren’t they good enough to get featured on an album? JIM: These songs are what they actually are: 3 exclusive songs just for the EP “Harbinger”. If you want your releases to be more attractive to the audience you should give them a good reason to buy the product. Why filling an EP with tons of remixes, which in the end doesn’t offer anything special to your release? So it worked and both vinyl edits (the grey- and black one) have been sold-out. It won’t be fair enough for these songs to get featured to the new CD as well. There’s also Degenerated Sequences, which is a side-project from Yiannis Chatzakis. I remember Degenerated Sequences’ self-titled debut album released on Advoxya Records, but how’s the project actually doing and what might we expect on stage? Yiannis: There has been some new Degenerated Sequences stuff since a long time. It’s my personal project and to me it works a different way compared to PreEmptive Strike 0.1 which is a band. Since the self-titled debut album I have never stopped creating music and programming synths. Some of that stuff fits to Degenerated Sequences and thus a new 5-track E.P has been released. I hope that the people will like it and there’ll be more things to come up in the future! preemptivestrike01.bandcamp.com www.preemptivestrike01.com Stef COLDHEART All artwork & photos © PreEmtive Strike 0.1 www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be
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