Mortal Infinity: “it is important to have a strong message”

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Since 2009 the Germans at Mortal Infinity have been bringing their vigorous thrash metal to the world. Coming from Bavaria, home to many good metal bands, we are honored interviewing Alex Glaser, who told us a little about the band and what it was like to be able to maintain a stable lineup.

Oh guys, I am very honored for the opportunity to interview you. Starting our conversation, tell us about the band story (eleven years pass fast).

The story of Mortal Infinity is told pretty easily: A couple of guys coming from a very rural area (in which rock/metal music is not very big and the metal community is spread thin) are lucky enough to meet each other and form a thrash band. While constant line-up changes where a constant threat to the existence of the band, Mortal Infinity manages to release an Ep and three albums and play lots of shows all over Europe.

The first thing that catch my attention is the extreme quality of your songs. I put In Cold Blood to play and “wow, it is fucking awesome”. How was the recording process and production?

We organized the recording of “In Cold Blood” to our own convenience. All guitar and bass tracks were self-recorded as DI tracks to programmed drums and later re-amped. Vocals and drums, were recorded in the studio. Lukas Haidinger Haidinger from “Deep Deep Pressure Studios” is responsible for the outstanding production, thank you for that!

I have read that Truman Capote (one of my favorite writers) inspired the title track (and, for sure, it is his first book I read, because my father loves In Cold Blood). How important is literature for you?

It is important from an inspiration point of view. Books like “In Cold Blood” or the stories of for example HG Wells are incredibly captivating for me. When you create music to a book you’ve read, it gives you the possibility to recreate the feelings and atmosphere you experienced and also make it available for others.

Comparing In Cold Blood with Final Death Denied, I can note a huge evolution from music to composition, with less “thrashy” clichés and more personality. How do you see this evolution?

While in FDD we dwelled in long and complex songs, lots of different parts and complicated stuff to play instrumentally, the goal for ICB was different. We wanted every song to be straightforward, with a clear instrumental “theme” and cut away absolutely everything to the point, where only a bare minimum is left. It is still all very thrashy though.

In all this time, the band grew up a lot, in despite of a lot of difficulties to establish a lineup. How difficult is to maintain an independent artist in Europe? Here in Brazil is near to impossible, because our audience prefers label bands or, in many cases, cover bands.

It is also very difficult in Europe. It is easy to record and release your own music, but playing live is very difficult. The music industry has changed, there is very few money to be made when you cant sell CDs. So the strategy of labels and booking agencies is to make money with planning extensive tours and big festivals. And they still have an extensive rooster of well established bands, so they hardly give small/local bands an open slot.

Recently I see many thrash metal bands returning and gaining notoriety, especially in these nebulous times where the world is twisted. How is important for artists to pass a strong message for people?

It is a very good question. I believe it is important to have a strong message. And there can be many different messages: For example, you can sing about social injustice, politics, religion, the environment. I am amazed how really cool bands like Gojira and Cattle Decapitation sing about how we are so blind and fuck up our own planet for no reason.

On the other hand, metal also has the capability of being imaginary, having very fictitious topics, like folk metal, sci-fi, you name it. On a first look that might be a strong message, but to me it is, because it can maybe for one or the other moment let you escape your fucked up day-to-day live and let your mind roam.

How is the Bavarian scene? I like some bands as Alkaloid, Advocatus Diaboli (that probably ended), Kultist, Empyrium, Dawn of Eternity, Der Weg einer Freiheit (today one of my favorite black metal bands)…

The Bavarian scene is doing ok I guess and is not so different from the overall scene in Germany. There is a bunch of talented bands out there that are to be reckoned with.

And about future plans for the band?

We will focus on playing live at the moment. Next year we maybe start working on new material.

What are you listening to? What bands do you recommend?

Ill not name any “big names” as you have picked those records up by yourself for shure already:

High Command – The primoridal void (EP) – Thrash-crossover ala Power Trip, makes every thrasher happy

Mantar – Modern art of setting ablaze – hate infected stoner/death metal from Germany

Tomb Mold (Canada) – Cerulean Salvation (EP) – super oldschool vibes death metal

Mgła – Age of Excuse – the black metal record everybody was waiting for

Bongripper – Terminal – Intense and yet beautiful doom metal experience

Thank you so much for this interview. We are very grateful and it is your space to let a message for our readers. Let’s go!

Thank you very much for having us!

Mortal Infinity: “it is important to have a strong message”

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