Lividity Interview

1. What’s up you sickos? How’s your day going?

Dave – Our Lividity life is a sweet ride these days!! Plenty of great opportunities to keep us smiling and sweet pussy to make us feel great!! Love it!! Maniacs are really crushing with us these days and since 2006 and the release of “Used, Abused And Left For Dead” shit has taken off real well!!!

2. Lividity has been around for a long time give us a bit of history.

Dave – Started it myself in 1993 with drum machine, all instruments, vocals, 4 track recorder, etc… spewing forth my hatred to get my ideas out to the masses!! Finally landed a full band for stage in 1995!! 1996 started the pro recordings with a 4 song demo “Rejoice In Morbidity” and have been building up stronger each year and each release till now!! 15 years later!! Have played great festivals and weekend warrior shows throughout Central and East USA, toured USA / Canada 2006, have been touring Europe since 1999!! Have had a great underground life with this band!! We are lucky, we have been at the right places at the right time… a ton of bands surround that are great but would kill for some of the situations we have found!! Many line up changes, so we have been inconsistent for a long time till we have the band now with my self on guitar/ backing vocals, Von Young (Deaden) on guitar / vocals, Garrett Scanlan (CorpseVomit, Cum Christ, Evil Incarnate) on drums and Chris Campbell on bass!! We are at our strongest point now!! You can preview the lengthy discography on our myspace page of all the releases and bootlegs!! A great collection!!

3. You guys are headed off to Europe. Who are you going with? Have you been there before? Is there a good reaction for you guys over there?

Dave - Europe has the best die hard metal freaks I have ever seen!! True passion for the music, and they follow it from town to town and even the ladies are wearing the camo pants and hats and wind milling their heads and is a great party!! We have been over there a few times now and this will be our 7th trip since June 1999!! We had just played the Party.San Open Air Festival in Germany this past August 2008!! There were 10,000 metal freaks camped out there for 4 days!!! Was the best experience yet!! I think it really helped set up the promotions for the Europe tour in April 2009!! We will have a 7 band roster on this tour with 2 buses carrying the bands and the help… with us, Requiem (Switzerland) as co-headliners, Nordor (Greece), Warpath (Ireland), Abortification (Finland), Beneath The Flesh (USA), and Coffin Syrup (USA)!! A festival on wheels!! Will be a great party!! We will hit places we have never been like Poland as well as familiar places like Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland, etc.. 17 shows in 17 days!! April 10 – 26, 2009!! Hope everybody cums out to rage with us each night!! I think we are very well respected and supported in the mighty European nation.. it doesn’t get any better than this!!

4. Do you have any Lividity moment from tour that you will always remember? Some sleazy whore or something?

Dave – There are a few moments!!! 1999 – Decin, Czech Republic: We were staying in this small town in between shows and we were the first Americans to visit this restaurant and they had us sign a book they keep in the front of building with rare and / or famous people have signed it… So this day, we are in that book somewhere with drawings, logo and signatures… 1999 – Czech / German border: visiting the home of Hitler’s girlfriend, and we went up in his tower where you can see the country side and where the German “double s” was cut out in the trees for the air troops… 2003 – Europe tour: Everyday was an adventure on the road 4 weeks with Master: One of the most memorable, was when Will (lead singer of Mastic Scum also on the tour) had introduced me to one of his friends at Innsbruck, Austria and the guy let me have a couple hits of some Austrian drug, literally 5 minutes before our set, and it was one of the most demonic, hateful brutal shows of the tour!!! 2004 – Lyss, Switzerland: Doom Productions flew us in for 1 show that weekend May 15!! What a cool ride, Great little village!! 2005 – Germany: We went to play at the Fuck The Commerce Fest in front of close to 4000 people co headlining with Entombed!! Remarkable!!! 2006 – Toronto, Canada: We were on US / Canada tour and we played this club in Toronto on a Wednesday and still had people drive 7 hours 1 way to see the show because it was the only Canada stop!! 2007 – Europe Tour: We went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea while we were in between 2 Italy shows with day off!! Camped out there, partied, swimming.. A fantastic sight!! Also on that tour, we played a festival last day of tour in Geibelstadt, Germany and the crowd rushed on stage and the sound guys flipped off all power and had to get every one off the stage before we could move forward with the show… haha!!! 2008 – Bad Berka, Germany: Party.San Open Air Fest we played for 10,000 metal hungry freaks!! That was the best show ever!!!! That has helped set up our 2009 Europe Tour in April!!!!

5. Any plans for a new CD to come out soon? Maybe live CD for the Europe tour?

Dave – We are writing material right now and then we will record after the April Europe Tour!! We plan for it to be out September 2009! It will be released through War Anthem Records (Germany) in cooperation with Epitomite Productions (USA)!!! Title will be “To Desecrate & Defile” Some song titles we have are Sword Of Sodomy, Engorged In Blood (To Fill You With My Semen), Inner Fetal Dismemberment, Mass Genocide, Dismantle The Carcass, Sores Break… and more coming soon!! Going to be sick for sure!! We just released a Live CD, “Live Fornication” that has a mix of 2 shows from Central Illinois Metalfest 2007 (Urbana, IL.) and Europe Tour 2007 (Wermelskirchen, Germany)!! That is out on Epitomite Productions!! http://www.%20myspace.%20com/epitomite

6. What do you do outside of play metal?

Dave – That is all we do is play metal, think metal, eat metal, shit metal, ands fuck metal!! It keeps us inspired at all times!! Orgasmic hymns of cum soaked torture!!!

7. Do you listen to any classic rock? what bands?

Dave – Sure… I think I am the only one in the band that listens to classic stuff!! Everybody else can’t get past the thrash era.. I like obscure and guitar driven bands as Alice Cooper, Motorhead, old Scorpions (with Uli Jon Roth on guitar), Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Traffic, Humble Pie, Elf (with Ronnie James Dio), UFO, Santana, Kiss, Ted Nugent… Good shit, you know?!!

8. How long have you been playing guitar for?

Dave – I have been playing since I was 15 and picked 1 up after I heard Metallica “Ride The Lightening”!! Fight Fire With Fire blew me away!!! I have been interested in guitar since 1981 (I was in 6th grade I believe) and I heard The Blizzard Of Ozz with Randy Rhoads!! So I have been playing since 1984 – 1985!!

9. Whats your favorite album of all time?

Dave – That is a tough question, I will just let you know what influenced me by certain albums like Black Sabbath “Master Of Reality”, Exodus “Bonded By Blood”, Metallica “Ride The Lightening”, Ozzy Osbourne “Blizzard Of Ozz”, Slayer “Hell Awaits”, Megadeth “Killing Is My Business…”, Overkill “Feel The Fire”, SOD “Speak English Or Die”, Anthrax “Spreading The Disease”, Cannibal Corpse “Butchered At Birth”, Suffocation “Effigy Of The Forgotten”, At The Gates “Red In The Sky Is Ours”, Venom “At war With Satan”, Death “Scream Bloody Gore”, Deicide “Legion” and many more!!!


10. Who has been some of your favorite bands that Lividity has shared the stage with?

Dave – We played with Deicide in ’98, Six Feet Under in ’95, Dying Fetus in ’95 (first stage appearance for us), Grave / Insatanity in ’96, all the CorpseVomit, Deaden, Waco Jesus and Fleshgrind shows we have jammed, Some festival appearances with Mortal Decay, Internal Bleeding, Suffocation, Entombed, Impetigo (reunion gig at CIM ’07), Vital Remains, Origin, Jungle Rot, Regurgitation, Necrotic Disgorgement, Lust Of Decay, Hemdale, Vomit Remnants, Desecration (UK), Anata, Behemoth, Obituary, Dismember, Purgatory, Bolt Thrower, Bloodbath, Unanimated, General Surgery, Hail Of Bullets, Avulsed, Vomitory, Fleshless and many more!!!

11. Any plans to come out to the west coast of the U.S. soon? when was the last time you guys came out this way?

Dave – No plans, we have no offers, and we have only been as far west as Missouri… St. Louis to be exact!! 2 hours West is the farthest!!

12. Final words?

Dave – Thanx Dylan for the killer support and interest!! Support the bands that support the scene!! Hope we get the chance to make it out your way real soon after the new album!! Support my other band as well, Embrace Damnation!! Blackened Death Metal in the vein of At The Gates meets Deicide meets Belphegor!!! We will also be releasing our debut album “The Glory Of A New Darkness” Summer 2009!! Check it out!! Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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