Fucking hilarious band, called Massacre On Privet Drive, gave me an interview.
These guys should seriously be supported. They have the most original band image/theme i've ever seen.
Joking around with Harry Potter based lyrics, which has tons of stuff to write about, is such a legit way, brought into music industry. These guys are just starting their carrier and there will definitely come a lot more.
So here we go, meet the dudes from Massacre On Privet Drive!
How had and what where the reasons/ideas to start a Harry Potter themed band?
We actually saw a Facebook group, called 'Metal + Dumbledore = Dumblecore?' we laughed and just thought we'd give it a shot, wrote one song and apparently stuck with it haha, took us 3 hours to write/record/release the first Dumblecore song 'the great feast'
Your bands' name was once called "Dumblecore" and you changed it to "Massacre On Privet Drive" now, so what was behind this change?
Our band name is Massacre On Privet Drive, and we started as Dumblecore, after the first EP, we wanted to take a more 'serious' approach, we wrote songs with the intention of them being as bad as possible.
What do you guys sound like? Could you describe your sound a little bit to us?
we sound like another generic Deathcore band, with a twist of lemon & magic. the odd bit of Dubstep, occasional melody, lots of breakdowns
Which bands influenced your sound, and maybe also the idea of a themed band?
Johnny Truant and Deftones are probably our biggest influences as musicians, as irrelevant as they may seem, The band started as a two piece with just myself & Tim, and currently we're getting a full live band together, We butter the bread with butter have a similar setup to us, with their two-man approach to everything, this inspired us to play gigs i guess!
Generally you do kind of a parody of Harry Potter, do you guys liked the movies so much or did you hate them, to do a themed band?
Personally I'm not a massive fan of the stories, read a few books and seen a few films, as far as i know Tims pretty keen, hes got the books and films.
What are your guys personal favorite bands?
Aegaeon, Carnifex, Johnny Truant, Deftones, Machine Head, Aphex twin, far too many more the mention!
Tell us about the lyrics you guys are writing. HP-ish i guess
Well the lyrics are all written about Harry Potter of course, I'd love to tell you all about the new songs we've got written, but our Debut EP under Massacre On Privet Drive is due in just 27 days, expect lots of trolls and brutality though.
What things are coming up from you guys? CD releases, planned concerts or tours?
September 30th this year sees the release of our 8 track EP,'The Hallowed Contagion', In October we're hitting the UK for 2 weeks doing our first ever tour, filming a music video, and then hopefully early next spring Germany/France/Belgium/Holland, with a particular German band.
What was your sickest show, that you've played?
I think it was our 2nd or 3rd gig, when we played 'The Rohypnol Love potion' the whole crowd was completely still for the whole set, and for about 40 seconds or so right at the end there was uproar and complete chaos haha, that was pretty sick, i'm hoping we'll see plenty of people dressing up as wizards on tour, playing Quidditch in the pits and such haha!
How would your tour line up, look like, if you had the chance to take bands.
To take bands on tour with us? i reckon it'd be cool touring with a load of other parody bands, We Butter The Bread With Butter, Anal Cunt, Spermswamp, Alestorm haha, just one fucking ridiculous tour.
Any messages left to friends, family and fans?
Well things have really blown up for us recently, we've had such an awesome reaction from everyone who's come across us, we're really grateful for all the support and cant wait to see all of you this October on tour!
Don't forget you can get "The Hallowed Contagion" on iTunes, spotify, Amazon and more from September 30th!
Don't forget you can get "The Hallowed Contagion" on iTunes, spotify, Amazon and more from September 30th!
As i already said, check out this band seriously!
Brutal band, also for me, who actually is not the one who's into Deathcore, but these guys got me with their originality, which is actually pretty rare in this section of metal.
Thanks a fucking lot to Jack, for taking the time for me, getting this down so fast!
Take a listen to them now:
Massacre Of Privet Drive - Hagrid The Schizophrenic
