ZWAREMACHINE hard since then on new songs and recordings. Even though Zwaremachine was sometimes referred to as your personal project, you worked with different people on an international level. What did you gain by involving other people in your project? I have always enjoyed collaborations but also the freedom to solely dictate the sound design and direction of the band. I started playing in punk and alternative bands that were much more of a voting democracy when writing and recording. When I started Zwaremachine as a solo project, and later adding additional members, I still wanted to produce the music myself and create the sonic vibe to fit my tastes for live performance. Along the way I have also brought in some outside producers.And bassist Dbot has contributed many songs as he is a talented musician and songwriter. Having the other contributors has given me more ideas to pull from and a stronger sound palette to work from. Zwaremachine is your main project, but you have your own solo project under your name Mach FoX. Why was it important to make a distinction between the two? I had been performing as Mach FoX since 2005 and the earliest albums were electro-rock style with a lineup that included two members that would later perform in Zwaremachine. Bassist Dbot joined Zwaremachine in late 2019 and Adam01 performed with Zwaremachine in 2018 during the release of the ‘Be A Light’ album. Once Zwaremachine became my main focus for live performance I still continued to write and release music as Mach FoX. I use that name to release music that does not quite fit the Zwaremachine sound. I am able to keep Mach FoX releases a bit more open in regards to genre. A new release by your solo project, Mach FoX, will be released, including segments played by both Bas Merxc/Dein Offizier and bass player Dbot. If I understand this well, these recordings were meant to be part of a future Zwaremachine release. Why do you release them solo? The original demo versions were intended for Zwaremachine but later evolved quite a bit and became so different that I did not feel they would fit in our live set. One intention when writing for Zwaremachine is that the songs should be more industrial/EBM style. After Bas passed away there were long periods of time when I just could not bring myself to work on those songs since it was too heavy to hear his drum on those tracks. www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 20 - When Paul K joined the band on guitar and I got motivated to finish those songs and I decided to delete many of the original synth parts and record my guitar so the songs could become a bit more industrial rock. I just let my ideas flow into the recordings with no intentions of genre... figuring it was the Zwaremachine lineup of myself, Dbot and Dein Offizier on the recordings. It would then be our third album. But as the final mixes were coming together it was obvious the songs just were not going to fit in our live set, so it would be better to release them as Mach FoX, since I still liked the songs. I then could start fresh for the Zwaremachine album and get both Paul K and Marshal B on the new songs. The latest release by Zwaremachine was the EP‘Waking The Night’, which contains several singles and remixes. What was the idea behind this EP? Do you consider making new releases – and especially the third Zwaremachine full disc – soon? We did release a few singles intended for the third Zwaremachine album but I think we will start over for what will become that release. ‘Waking The Night’ became a bit of closure for our period with Bas/Dein Offizier since he also plays on that song. As a final tribute, we put his image on the artwork. After these Fall 2025 tour dates I will return to the US and prepare my studio for writing and recording sessions for the new Zwaremachine songs that will become our third album. You come from Minneapolis in Minnesota, the United States. The latest news from this region is about a shooting in a catholic school where two children died and seventeen got wounded. In the past, the goth community – I am thinking about the Columbine shooting in 1999 –was also associated with this kind of shootings. I would like to know your thoughts on these shootings. Any shootings like this should not be tolerated.The idea of killing innocent people is not something I can comprehend. I feel like things will get much worse before they get better. Xavier KRUTH zwaremachine.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/zwaremachineBeautiful Freakin'
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