Crushtor chats to Brian Lew, co-author of a new book that captures the rivet-headed zeitgeist of the 80s San Francisco Bay Area thrash scene.
The San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal scene of the 80s – the same soil from which Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth grew is imbued with a certain drunken reverence. Hazily remembered details lend themselves to pages upon pages of ghostwritten annals by riff-weathered guitarists and frontmen. What remains are oft exaggerated tales of destitution, rose-tinted and booze drenched memoirs of a heady and volatile time in American heavy metal. One medium once told no lies to the face of rumors and fabrications; the humble photograph.
Interview: Nile - [Insert Totally Overdone Egypto-Matic Pun Here] (Hysteria Magazine)
Hysteria upstart Tom Valcanis was watching that crappy Brendan Fraser movie for some reason when, all of a goddamn sudden, the phone rang. It was NILE'S own riddle of the riffalicious sphinx, Karl Sanders. His last name has ‘sand’ in it, too. We just noticed that, it works really well.
Nile's reverend-blonde front beast throws down a challenge to me as soon as I pick up the phone.“I get fucking fed up with talking about myself,” Karl Sanders says in a lackadaisical Southern Carolinian drawl, his wiry voice betraying nothing of the beast he usually lets fly from his throat. “Wherever you take the conversation is fine by me.”
Challenge accepted.
Read how I rose to the challenge here.
New website!
I grew tired of my old one and upgraded to Squarespace. There's a few burrs left around the edges, so stay patient as my site gets the overhaul it rightly deserved for so long!