Recently Radioactive Metal conducted an interview with OBTITUARY‘s drummer Donald Tardy, check it out HERE.
About Roadrunner Donald stated: “Our deal with Roadrunner was embarrassingly bad”
To create a deadly cocktail of any type, you need to mix at least two combustable elements. When word got back to the RAM offices that Relapse Records signed the legendary OBITUARY, the idea of that combination made our collective heads explode. The end result of this mayhemic mixture is the brilliant Inked In Blood album. While on tour as part of theDeath To All celebration, we once again caught up with drummer Donald Tardy. We discussed their new home and record, this whole kickstarter controversy, the Roadrunner days, and memories of the late great Chuck Schuldiner. This episode is also a celebration of Relapse Records, so we serve up a healthy dose of their own brand of Metal sickness. We spread the disease with tunes from the very new to the more classic fare including Obituary, LORD DYING, CRETIN, RINGWORM, THE DRIP, MORTALS, PIG DESTROYER, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, NILE, HOODED MENACE, andGENERAL SURGERY. Horns Up!!
Mike Sloan of Blistering.com recently conducted an interview with drummer Donald Tardy of Florida death metal legends OBITUARY. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
Blistering.com: How dialed in are you to the current Florida metal scene? It’s obviously quite different from the glory days, but is it still a strong scene down in that part of the country?
Tardy: I’m not an expert, that’s for sure, but I do frequent our main metal bar here in Tampa. I don’t go anywhere else but Tampa, which is the Brass Mug. I’m very in tune with the local bands that still go for it here who literally don’t have any albums or don’t have a record label. But they love what they do and they play every weekend and just go for it. It’s totally different than how it was back in the day. That’d be like asking the Bay Area if it’s similar to how it was back when they had EXODUS and METALLICA and SLAYER and then comparing it to today. The legends were already set already a long time ago in Tampa when Mike Browning was still the drummer for MORBID ANGEL. They were playing shows right here in Tampa and so was Chuck Schuldiner from DEATH. We were opening up for those guys. It was like 1986 and it was different times; it was really ground-breaking stuff. Now it’s pretty cool. Not as many people show up to the little dirty bars to see bands but the young bands still always just go for it and play, even though only their friends know what songs they are. It’s cool.
Blistering.com: Considering how many different scenes there have been across the globe over the years, do you feel as though the Florida scene was the greatest of all time?
Tardy: No. The scene, though… I’m embarrassed by Florida sometimes, man. Unless a huge band comes through Tampa or Florida, no one would show up. Like if EXODUS came through Florida, the booking agent wouldn’t even book Tampa. We’d have to go down to Fort Lauderdale or Orlando to see them. In the current Tampa scene, people don’t show up or buy tickets to see real metal. If EXODUS or DEATH ANGEL would come here, they wouldn’t sell, but back in the day they’d easily sell like 900 tickets. It was awesome like if it was with us or NAPALM DEATH or CANNIBAL CORPSE. Now if it’s just you by yourself, it’s not a good sale anymore. It’s not 800 people anymore; it’s like 200, maybe 300 in Tampa now if it’s a true death metal show.
Blistering.com: What about the Florida scene just in terms of legacy and history?
Tardy: Oh, we do have the history. Without sounding cocky, Florida/Tampa is the king of what happened with death metal on the planet. SLAYER showed us all how to do it and that was the West Coast. They still are the greatest band in the world in my opinion. But Tampa? We took charge right away when we all heard VENOM, POSSESSED, CELTIC FROST and SLAYER. Right then we knew it and we were all like, “Okay, we’re going for it!” and somehow us, DEICIDE and MORBID ANGEL, we all just started right here in Tampa. We had Chuck and DEATH that was the main part. DEATH and MASSACRE and we immediately went heavier and sicker than the West Coast. The West Coast had a lot of great metal but it was speed metal. They had TESTAMENT, EXODUS, DEATH ANGEL and then there was ANTHRAX [in New York] and then here comes Tampa with the garbage can swamp water-type music, you know?
Roadrunner Records recently conducted an interview with OBITUARY drummer Donald Tardy about the 15th anniversary of their 1997 album Back From The Dead. An excerpt from the interview is below:
Roadrunner Records: Did you feel like you needed to change your sound at all for Back From The Dead, or was it a continuation of what you’d already been doing?
Donald Tardy: “Obituary has never been a band that tries to focus on what we think fans would want from a new album, nor did we ever try too hard to change things just to change things. Back from the Dead had enough changes in what we did before, because of the approach we took to recording with a different producer in a new studio setting; that alone was the big change we agreed to and focused on. Other than that, we stuck to our game plan when it came to writing songs and recording them – which was, write songs we will be proud of and ones we want to play for ourselves. We always kept the mindset that if we liked them; we believed our fans would like them. We never allowed outside influences to creep into our brains while creating new material. We have always been that way as individuals and as a band in full – Obituary took on a life of its own, and is bigger than any one member. So as soldiers, we go with the flow and write songs we love that truly represent the Obituary style.”
Roadrunner Records: After Back From The Dead, Obituary had a long layoff, and you all pursued different projects. What did you learn during your hiatus? Do you think it made you a better band?
Donald Tardy: “During the hiatus, I spent three years touring the planet, drumming for Andrew W.K., performing to a click track live, so that taught me a lot. Mainly, it taught me to be calm and relaxed no matter how pumped up I was for the magnitude of the show. It was very easy to get overexcited and get ahead of the cowbell when performing on such huge stages, on massive performances like Saturday Night Live, Conan O’Brien, and the big tours we were invited on with AEROSMITH and at Ozzfest. I learned how to be patient and control my nerves as a drummer during those years, and I think that really helps me nowadays with Obituary, both live and in the studio.”
‘Threatening Skies’
‘By the Light’
‘Inverted’
‘Platonic Disease’
‘Download’
‘Rewind’
‘Feed on the Weak’
‘Lockdown’
‘Pressure Point’
‘Back from the Dead’
‘Bullituary’ (Remix)
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