Mike Muir affirme qu'un nouvel album de Suicidal Tendencies va sortir en 2010, ainsi que des ré-enregistrements de No Mercy, son groupe avec Mike Clark avant Suicidal.
Gian Erguiza of FrantikMag.com recently conducted an interview with frontman Mike Muir of the long-running Venice Beach, California thrash/punk band SUICIDAL TENDENCIES. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.
FrantikMag.com: I was wondering if you guys were working on a new SUICIDAL CD for 2010 by any chance.
Muir: Yeah, we've got two CDs coming out this year. One is a re-make of NO MERCY songs, band where Mike Clark and I were in before Clark joined SUICIDAL. Clark joined after "Join The Army", so there's also old songs from "Join the Army". In the fall, we have the actual SUICIDAL record coming out.
FrantikMag.com: What can your fans expect from this new CD? Are you guys going back to your earlier, thrash roots or more rock?
Muir: You know, every record we do people always ask us what it's going to be and I think that the important thing is that it's different stuff. Years later when you play a live show, it all fits in. When we did our first record we had big problems. When we did our second record, we had big problems. And then we did our third and that's life. Some people are just used to everybody regurgitating the same thing, doing what's popular at the time. I think that's something that's definitely not needed. There's a lot of people doing the exact same thing. I think that whatever we do, we put the SUICIDAL signature on it. For us, the parameter of what a great record is not how it fits in at the time to what music's around at the time, it's how many people are still listening 20 years later and how it fits into music then.
FrantikMag.com: How did you pick which songs were going to end up on [the recently released "Live At The Olympic Auditorium"] DVD and how come "You Can't Bring Me Down" or nothing from "Art Of Rebellion" made it onto the DVD?
Muir: Basically, the Olympic Auditorium, if you go back to the history of that place, it was where all the big punk shows were in the early '80s. It was the only place where they had big punk shows. We played there in '84 and '85, and basically, we got a call from someone that wanted to promote the show whom said, "Hey, the place is closing down, and it's being bought by a Korean church." As like the Forum and a lot of places, like an Arena in Houston, they were being bought by churches. It would basically be the last time we could do a show there. I had back surgery and we hadn't been playing but we got a chance to headline a show in Colombia in front of 95,000 people and the Olympic show was right after it so we did that. The thing with the Olympic Auditorium is kind of like a legacy, a history of where we came from so all the songs that we played are from stuff that we had done when the first record was out. We opened for ANTHRAX at the Olympic Auditorium back in '85 and we did "War Inside My Head" together and I think in Johnny D's book, he writes about how it was the most scared in his life he was when he came on the stage with the crowd. We played "Waking The Dead", a NO MERCY song and "Possessed To Skate", obviously. Then we did a couple of the newer songs that we felt were reflective of that time and period so it kind of fit in. "You Can't Bring Me Down" that was much later and that wasn't really what was going on at that time. For us, it was much more than a SUICIDAL show, it was a moment, kind of like a one-off show.
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
Bon ben pas avant 2012 finalement, d'après cette interview de Muir :
KillYourStereo.com: Is there anything you can tell us about the new album?
Muir: One of the things we've realized is when you're young and put out your first record and start playing it to people, you are never thinking about thirty years down the track. I mean that's twice as old as you are at the time. What we've learned is that when we do a new record, we know what we're doing, we know it will be a great record and we're not going to worry about what people are listening to at any given time. We just have to make sure we like it and we're not trying to be some kind of a tribute to something else. An album has to be a statement of what we believe in. Consequently, I think our music has obviously held up against the test of time. The new record will be the same; we're not going to try and fit in with what other people are doing. It's something that we are going to think very strongly of and that 10, 20 years later it will still sound good to someone who is hearing it for the first time. I think that's the most important thing.
KillYourStereo.com: How long have you been writing new material for?
Muir: Well, we have our own studio back home in the States and being our own label and with the way music is now, we don't have to worry about putting something out by a certain time. Right now we have so much music, and we'll play stuff and people will be like, "Fuck, what's that?" and one of us will be like, "I don't know, man, just some stuff I've been working on" and then (they would ask) "When's it coming out?" and we'd be like, "I don't know, man. I don't even know if it will!" We're not really worried about "the game" as much as we are about the music. I think that will probably come across when the next record comes out. Probably early next year, I would imagine. I think in October I'll be doing a CYCO MIKO record which will have a taste of new SUICIDAL, old unreleased SUICIDAL, new INFECTIOUS GROOVES, old INFECTIOUS GROOVES and a bunch of other stuff as well. I think that will give people a taste of what's to come and also surprise a few people with some of the stuff that we never put out.
KillYourStereo.com: Have you got anything planned for the band's 30th anniversary?
Muir: Nah not at all, I can't see us doing anything like that. I'm not a ribbons-and-balloons kind of guy, I think my last birthday party I was 8 years old! I don't really get into that kind of thing. I'm not a sentimental sort of person.
KillYourStereo.com: Do you think since [former SUICIDAL TENDENCIES bassist] Robert Trujillo joined METALLICA, many new kids discovering METALLICA and doing the bookwork have latched on to your band that way?
Muir: Not really, man. It's hard to say, really. We've done shows and met the younger people who have been like, "Oh, dude, I brought my little cousin to come check you guys out and now he loves you guys." I've never heard someone say, "Dude, METALLICA's my favorite band so I'm coming to see you guys." [laughs]
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade
