ELEKTRIKILL New Jersey-based electro-industrial project, Elektrikill has been quickly earning a name for themseves with the acclaimed debut album, Monsters. They've already released the follow-up album, Propaganarchy! which continues the band's quick progress. We're happy they've agreed to do this interview for us. Thanks for taking time to do this interview for us. You just released a new album,‘Propaganarchy!”. What can you tell us about this and the meaning behind the title? I wanted to go harder with this album than I did with Monsters. I had been doing film scores for a while and that influence really crept into the music on Monsters. So, this album was a conscious decision to move away from that sound to a more classic industrial sound with a modern update. I really wanted to go much heavier and more experimental. The title was inspired by the cover art. I knew I wanted to do an album cover that was an homage to the early Foetus album covers. The title, which is an amalgam of the words “propaganda” and “anarchy” is a call to fight disinformation. www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 10 - The new album arrives rather quickly after the debut, “Monsters”. What do you think you attribute that to? Monsters took FOREVER to write and record. The main reason for that is more than half of the album were songs from my defunct industrial-metal band. So, I had all these songs I’d written that I was used to hearing with guitar parts that suddenly didn’t have any guitars anymore. It took me a really long time to give them an all-synth vibe that worked. With Propaganarchy!, these were all brand- new songs that could just be what they were going to be from the get-go. Once it was finished, I really just wanted to get it out there. I wasn’t going to wait until April to put it out so a full year had passed between albums. Is the new album based upon a central “story”? Or are the songs smaller stories in and of themselves? The album is more political than the last one but there are really only three songs that have any kind of a political lean to them-"Propaganarchy!","Moral Combat" and "Execration". I don’t really write personal songs so it’s rare that a song is directly about me. I like to write songs that are stories."Wrong Again" is about the victim
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