Independent
Scene
One Man
Death Metal
Machine!
I had the pleasure of talking to
the Mastermind behind
Fleshtorn, Brannnan Hayes,
recently. Fleshtorn is a one
man Death Metal band out of
North Carolina.
Loudnezz: Thank you for taking the time to this interview.
Can you tell me a little about
your band?
Brannan: Your welcome man!
Well let's see, I'm a one man
death metal band called
FleshTorn, with an old school
death metal sound. I program
the drum tracks, play the guitar
and growl. I'm currently going
in a different direction lyrically
about alien life forms on other
planets and how they maul
each other, and using that to
metaphorically represent
things in everyday human life.
It still has that brutal feel to it,
but in a different way.
L: Sounds like a great direction
to go. It doesn't seem many
people go in that direction. How did you come up with that idea?
B: We'll funny story actually, I was watching TV, and it was about if aliens existed what they would be like, and it
showed them as less intelligent life forms. Sort of like animals we have here on earth. Then the idea just hit me.
And I wanted to be more unique and take my music to a deeper level, I figured this would be a good way to do it.
L: I would assume that alien life would have varying degrees of intelligence and maybe behave differently than us.
It gives a lot to write about. Are you doing a concept album or will each song be about a different race of alien?
B: We'll I'm going to create an EP or album, with the title being the planet, but it's going to be named with numbers
and letters like we name stars and planets now. And each song will be about different scenarios in that planet having to do with two or more creatures. In some circumstances the creature could be a parasite inside the other creatures veins, another could be about an animal devouring its prey. I know a really talented artist. She is really good,
she'll probably do my artwork
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