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CARNAL
FORGE - Sweet Suffering
By Adrian ‘The Energizer’ Bromley
With album titles like Please...Die! (2001) and their current The
More You Suffer, Sweden’s Carnal Forge are no doubt setting
their thrash intensity on high and doing some serious damage to
certain individuals who have done them wrong.
So who are the lucky ones?
"Many people out there," laughs guitarist Jari Kuusisto.
"The album basically stems from the idea that no matter how
much we suffer and go through in this band, the more we gain. Over
the years we have been through a lot of shit where people have said
stuff about the band. We have been through all this stuff and label’s
ripping us off, et cetera, and it only makes us stronger. Basically,
if you fuck us, we fuck you."
And you don’t care who it is. The culprits are gonna know who
they are, right?
"For sure. A good example of this is WAR Music. It is no secret
that I am not a fan of the label, which has since changed its name
to New Haven Music. They totally ripped off Carnal Forge [the band
is rounded out by singer Jonas Kjellgren, bassist Lars Linden, guitarist
Petri Kuusisto and drummer Stefan Westerberg] and really fucked
things up for us. We were almost on the verge of splitting up when
we were going through this mess with them. We just turned things
around on them and just used all this negative stuff going on and
put it back out within our music. As well, during interviews I have
been telling people how corrupt that label is and so hopefully from
that, no one will want to work with them. They’re the ones
suffering now."
He adds, "We were very angry but we knew we felt very strong
about Carnal Forge. All of the anger we had within us went into
the recording of a new album and trying to find a new label for
us. We couldn’t care less about what they did to us; it was
not a priority anymore, and finding a label was."
And through all of this struggling the band has released one of
the strongest thrash records of 2003. On par with latest releases
from thrash monsters The Haunted (2003’s One Kill Wonder) and
Corporation 187 (2003’s Perfection In Pain), Carnal delivers
a blistering, grab-you-by-the-throat thrash metal record that spews
evil, anger and hatred with calculated intensity. About the new
album and the thrash metal it serves up, the guitarist says, "I
think we made a great album. I think Carnal Forge is one of the
better bands doing this type of music right now. Of course, I listen
to other bands of this genre and think they are much better than
we are. But at the same time, I think we are offering a real high
quality product and are easily one of the better bands out there
right now. We have definitely increased our aggression with the
new album, and I think everyone who is a fan of the band can feel
it too."
Things seem to be going well for the band right now and Century
Media seems to be doing a good job promoting the band and the new
release. Are you guys happy being with Century Media?
"I feel that they have done a great job with us. They are willing
to put us out on tour, they have shown a lot of interest with what
we want to do, and they listen to the questions we have about the
band and label.
"There are some things we want to do more, but we can’t
always get what we want and we are very pleased with how we have
been treated."
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