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Imminent Psychosis.
Local metal outfit Imminent Psychosis have recently put out their first, self-titled CD, and will soon be having a launch for it. "Imminent Psychosis started in August 2002," recalls rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist Leo. "Greg [the lead guitarist] and I are brothers - we've been playing guitar for eight years now - and we got Rob as the singer. Our bassist Damo came in about March 2003, and we got our current drummer, Justin, in around the same time. We had our first gig in September 2003, and have been gigging ever since."
Justin says that Damo was the one who introduced him to the band. "Damo works at a place called PM Sound," he says, "and a mate of mine in another band I was playing with used to work there too; that's how I became mates with Damo. I didn't know any of the other members then because they went to Cabra, while I went to some dero school. Damo told me they needed a drummer, asked me in for a jam, and it pretty much went from there. Adelaide's a chain of mates; everyone knows everyone after a while."
The band has done about a dozen shows since their inception, but confesses that their first was nothing memorable ("absolutely shocking" is the exact phrase they use to describe it, in fact). A highlight was playing with Tasmanian death metallers Psycroptic (a group they all admire) at the Southern Apocalypse show earlier on in the year. Essentially, they aspire to providing Adelaide metalheads with an alternative to the hardcore and more extreme groups that tend to dominate the local scene, and make music for those people who like the same bands that they do. The group's debut full-length comprises nine brutal tracks, many having nice, evocative titles such as Bootbash, Rigormortis, and Devour Within. So are there any predominant themes in the song lyrics?
"I'd say they're probably all on the aggressive side," replies Leo. "We just try to be as fast and aggressive as possible; that's basically our songs. They're not really lyrics-based, though; we always start with the music. We don't want to write about a certain theme, and then try to fit the guitars and everything around that."
"The lyrics are all pretty violent," adds Greg.
"It's fun coming up with the names of songs; it's great fun," laughs Justin. "It's sort of a case of 'how crazy can we make this one sound?'"
Vocalist Rob takes care of all the lyric-writing, but isn't inspired by any particular subjects when he pens the words for a song. "I just get myself into the appropriate mood, and write from there really," he explains. "I usually put a CD on; listen to that for ten, fifteen minutes; and go from there; I just write whatever pops into my head at the time. If I'm in a pissed-off mood, it'll be something like Bootbash or Cardinal Sin; the second one was inspired by something on the news about all those priests raping little kids."
"We don't really take the music too seriously," says Leo. "We don't try to portray a message behind it. I'm not really a fan of bands that do that sort of thing."
Adds Rob, "If people in the crowd are having a good time while we're playing, that's when we've done our job. Writing lyrics is harder than most people think. I mean, sometimes I haven't been in the right mood, and I've just thought, 'Fuck it, I'm not gonna do it.' We've got a few songs that I haven't written lyrics for yet."
The CD came together fairly quickly, the group doing most of the work for it themselves. "We did a few demos first," says Leo. "They sounded pretty good, but we wanted to do something a bit more professional, so we scraped a bit of money together, and did three days of recording at House of SAP up at Pooraka. We went through everything really quickly; it was pretty much a case of we went through; nailed it on the first go, almost; and then maybe overdubbed a tiny bit: like a guitar riff that might have been messed up. It sounds like we are live: raw, and just aggressive. That's how we want it to sound; we didn't want it to sound too much like a studio recording."
James Brazel
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Imminent Psychosis launch their self-titled CD at the Crown & Anchor Hotel on Sat 11 Sep, with Meat Wallet and Omnium Gatherum.
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