SUICIDECOMMANDO shape and live healthy. I don’t do any work outs, I don’t eat healthy … guess it’s all about the music. It’s the music that keeps me fit & young (at heart). You shared the stage with a lot of bands, a lot of established names in the underground scene. Are there bands/artists you have never shared the stage with but would very much love to do so? Not really, I'm happy I could share stages with most of my heroes and influences, from Klinik to Front 242 to Neon Judgement... so I can die happy! For live performances you get the assistance ofTorben Schmidt on keyboards and Mario Vaerewijck on drums. How did you meet with each other? For that we have to go way way back in time, into a land far far away when dinosaurs were still existing and shitting my lawn … no seriously, I did meet and know Mario already from his days with Insekt back in the nineties. While working with Eric Van Wonterghem for my first album recordings/masterings I also got to meet Mario. How I met Torben I don’t exactly remember, but it must have been at some concert for sure. Picture this Johan; you get the opportunity to do a Suicide Commando show at the heart of Transylvania, in the castle of Dracula. Condition, however, is that you replace your drummer and keyboard player with 2 wellknown Vampires.Which living dead will that be? Choose wisely. Does the Addams Family (Fester & Lurch) count as vampires? No? Your home studio located in Leopoldsburg is where you create/make all your music. Have you ever thought about naming your studio? Or does a name for it already exists? It did already have a few names, but in the last years I tend to call it “the suicide commando Headquarters”. It’s where all the magic happens and turns into pure horror. Speaking of Horor; Somewhere in the course of time… In order to find inspiration for the lyrics of a new album you get a night-time visit from ‘The Demon of a Future Yet To Come’ who presents you with 2 options. One: a visit to Haddonfield, Illinois, Hallowe'en time. Second: to open a mystical puzzle box that summons the Cenobites. What option would you choose? One or two? Oh, that’s a difficult one,guess I’d go for option 1, having some fun time with Michael Myers. With the new year on the doorstep, what may the fans expect for 2025? Any news you like to share? End of 2024 and beginning of 2025 will see the release of my first 3 studio albums on vinyl, also available as a limited boxset called “impressions of death”. I also hope to be releasing some new stuff in 2025, but how and when I don’t know yet. And we’ll be touring a LOT again in 2025, with new shows in the USA, Mexico, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Estonia … and more. Okay Johan, let me end this interview with giving you on behalf of Peek-A-Boo a big big thank you. Here’s to an awesome time at BIMFEST and a great further musical & healthy future! Thank you very much! Always a pleasure.. Hayley CLX www.suicidecommando.be/ Photo © Marquis(pi)X - 22 - Photo © Marquis(pi)X
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