{"id":1458,"date":"1986-10-01T00:00:37","date_gmt":"1986-10-01T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2012-06-10T00:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T00:59:21","slug":"feature-abattoir-mf20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/feature-abattoir-mf20\/","title":{"rendered":"ABATTOIR – Hack \u2019N\u2019 Slash (MF20, 1986) | Features \/ Interviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABATTOIR – Hack \u2019N\u2019 Slash<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\nDave Reynolds<\/span>
\nMetal Forces, Issue 20 (1986)<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is neat meat mate! Yeah, Los Angelino\u2019s Abattoir are back in the Metal Forces<\/em> spotlight with the release of their second album, Only Safe Place. An Abattoir? C\u2019mon! That\u2019s like saying Shades<\/em> is a jazz \/ funk store!<\/p>\n

Since the release of last year\u2019s Vicious Attack<\/em> album the band have undergone yet another change in lead vocalist. Out goes Steve Gaines and in comes ex-Heretic vocalist Mike Towers (note change of surname). And it was Mike who I spoke to for your edification.<\/p>\n

So, what happened with Steve Gaines then, Mike? \u201cSteve departed during October last year and I joined in November, joining Mel Sanchez (bass), Danny Anaya (drums), Mark Caro (guitar) and Danny Oliverio (guitar). Basically, Steve was no longer into the band, he physically wasn\u2019t into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was pretty funny that he was in a band such as Abattoir singing about death whilst his brother Tim is a member of Stryper! \u201cYeah, that could\u2019ve been a nice gimmick eh?!\u201d<\/p>\n

What were the final sales figures for your Combat \/ Roadrunner released Vicious Attack<\/em> debut? \u201cIt did really good. It was a really strong album, but because the band lacked support it went nowhere. But it did break the band into the metal scene and showed what the band was all about. Of course, this second album is much better. It\u2019s still Abattoir, but the melodies have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah, I\u2019ve noticed that. I\u2019ve also noticed that you thankfully haven\u2019t sold out to total thrash. \u201cYeah, we haven\u2019t. Our songs are fast but we definitely want to make music! You can be real good musically as well as being real good as a metal band, and that is what Abattoir is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the deal you now have in Europe with Noise be far more beneficial to you than the previous liaison with Roadrunner? \u201cYes, definitely. Noise is doing a lot for the band and also because we\u2019ve got a chance to get over to Europe with them. I\u2019m also excited because they\u2019re putting our album out on compact disc in Europe, and CDs are selling like crazy over here and it should do well as an import.\u201d (The Only Safe Place<\/em> LP is, by the way, being released in the US through Combat).<\/p>\n

What do you think of this big, thrash trend that\u2019s blown up? \u201cI like it, I listen to a lot of that stuff. There\u2019s a couple of bands who really go too far with it though. I think it\u2019s happened because it originated from punk and a lot of the kids who\u2019ve got into thrash have always been closet punks but didn\u2019t wanna cut their hair! It\u2019s hard to say how long it\u2019ll last though. Here in LA, glam\u2019s the happening thing and Poison are by far the biggest band, but there\u2019s still a lot of thrash albums being sold. I work in a record store and there\u2019s a lot of kids coming in and buying Slayer<\/a>, Exodus and Sodom. There\u2019s certainly a market for it, but I don\u2019t honestly think it will get major league.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d heard from your drummer, Danny Anaya, that Abattoir was getting pretty major league in Mexico, where you just toured! \u201cOh yeah! Mexico\u2019s great! It\u2019s really weird, we went to a record store in-store first of all and the people were going crazy! We felt really important. The show we played was great! We played to 3,000 people and it was really unbelievable. The roar from the crowd when we came on was intense, they were louder than us! Those people definitely want metal. We\u2019re planning on going down there again soon during a tour of the US with Helstar from Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

What about Europe? \u201cWe wanna play there badly. We\u2019re gonna have to save all our money. With being signed to Noise in Germany we have more of a chance, especially once the album starts selling.\u201d<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll do that, especially in Germany, but what\u2019s your old band, Heretic, up to now? \u201cThey\u2019re doing pretty good, they\u2019re doing an EP for Metal Blade. Brian Korban (guitar) is really the main songwriter and we always had different ideas so we never really saw eye to eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, now that Mike is the frontman with the mighty Abattoir he\u2019s got more of a vehicle to show off his undoubted talents, as one listen to the brilliant Only Safe Place<\/em> album will prove. Let\u2019s hope that Abattoir can build on the success already achieved with the debut album and really start moving earth with this one. If you haven\u2019t heard the Abattoir attack yet, then do so. Now!<\/p>\n

Interview taken from Metal Forces, Issue 20 (1986)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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