The speed attack geezers from Uppsala are back with their second 7" record, this time released on Highroller Records. We took the opportunity to grab em for a few questions.
Rowdy: You've been around for some years now, is there anything in particular that has changed over the years that you can point out? First of all with Undergång, but also in the scene in general?
Undergång: Trends come and go, we've been more or less in to the same things since we started playing, unfortunately it took people around 5-6 years to get with the program.
People can only relate to stuff with a hype going on, and because of that we often get compared to bands who have co-existed with us since the beginning or even bands who have been around for a shorter period of time than us, even though we don't sound anything like them.
One positive thing that has changed over the years is that the quality of bands are increasing.
More and more bands are doing what they want to do instead of doing what's "cool" in the scene for the moment.
There's no real band wagon to jump on nowdays.
In terms of undergång we haven't changed much over the years exept becoming better at what we do.
R: The band has changed members several times through the years, except for the singers, how has this affected the music and have your enthusiasm and attitude ever changed?
UG: As you were saying the only thing that's been constant since the start are the singers. Changing members more often than changing underwear was a nessessary thing to do because we didn't feel we sounded or came out the way we wanted to.
It took a while to find stable members that knew and understood the whole concept behind the band. Also finding people that was capable of playing really extreme songs wasn't the most easy thing to do.
The lineup we have today is by far the strongest, tightest and best we've ever had. If you ask us it's the only lineup worth being mentioned.
R: When you write your music and play shows, where do you find your inspiration and driving force? What makes you put thoughts into words and chords and then grab the microphone and yell it out to the faces of fifty excited kids?
UG: We don't use terms like driving force or inspiration, stuff don't have to be so fucking pretentious all the time.
It's a quite simple formula. We hate just about everything and therefore we write songs that sounds like pure hate with lyrics about people and stuff we hate.
Screaming stuff in 50 excited kids faces? More like creaming in the faces of 50 tired has-beens who claim that "they were around back in the days".
R: After a long fucking wait with album cover and split bands, the album is finally here. How does it feel to move from recording CD-R's at Ungdomens Hus to have a release on HR-Records?
UG: We haven't released a CD-R since 2003 but it doesn't feel any different at all. The only thing that has changed is that we have better looking records and the fact that we are sellouts.
We're excited about having the shit out there though and highroller is a great and fast record label.
People seem excited about it since it only took about a week to get rid of all the preorder records we got from the record label.
R: Is there anyone you would like to thank?
UG: We would like to thank the people who has been there from the start supporting us.
We also would like to thank Steffen from high roller records for putting out the record, Daniel Selim for mixing assistance and Dan Randall for the great mastering of the record.
R: And finally we just want to wish you good luck on the release gig and we'll see you there!
UG: Yes. Someone's gonna die.
Hard words from the fuckers from Sweden. Undergång is on with their release fest this saturday, for more info (in swedish) check out this link. We can promise you a full scale assault with great bands and rather expensive beer. Get Rowdy is going to be there.
If you are too cheap to buy it, HR have a few songs on their site, if you are too lazy to google it, click here (right click, "save target as" to download).
