{"id":68606,"date":"2017-07-28T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=68606"},"modified":"2017-07-28T07:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:27:42","slug":"friday-guest-list-w-k-t-of-phylactery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/friday-guest-list-w-k-t-of-phylactery\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Neck-Snapping Tracks w\/ K.T. of Phylactery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week on the Friday Guest List K.T. of Canadian thrashers Phylactery<\/strong> comes in to talk about the band’s debut album and his 5 favourite neck-snapping tracks. Perfect piss-up\u00a0playlist material!<\/p>\n

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How’s everything going? Your upcoming debut album Necromancy Enthroned<\/em> is a ripper, how long had you been playing together prior to writing it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glad to hear you think so! We\u2019ve been a project since late 2013, but only in the past couple years have we started to give this project the attention it deserves. Parts of Necromancy Enthroned<\/em> have been kicking around for years and years, but the better part of it, and most of our favorite tracks off of it, were written in the space of about 4 months before recording late last year.<\/p>\n

The demonic hellgoat depicted in the Paolo Girardi penned cover art is killer, how did working with him come about? Did you give him much direction in terms of what you were after design-wise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wish I could have some wild story about crossing paths by chance in Italy but the truth is far more mundane. He was one of our first picks to do album art and he agreed to do it when I contacted him. Total professional though. We gave him quite a bit of direction I would say, and even still he managed to surprise us! The actual piece which makes up the cover art has an entire other half to it which we debated making the cover art instead, but is still included in the lyric book. So if you\u2019re looking for another reason to buy the album, there it is.<\/p>\n

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The Canadian metal scene is a fairly diverse mix of sub-genres, do you guys feel much of a connection to it at all?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It definitely is. I think no band is an island, and we are definitely connected to the Canadian metal scene both in our own right and through the other various projects that all our members are involved in. The flip side of the diversity you mentioned is that it is hard to carve out a specifically Canadian metal identity outside that aforementioned diverse mix, This presents the challenge of forming bonds out of reasons other than genre, but this can also be liberating. We don\u2019t sound like a \u201ctypical Canadian death-thrash\u201d band because there is no such thing, so we can simply be ourselves.<\/p>\n

Would you say you derive more inspiration from older artists than contemporary acts?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I would say that in our influences we skew much much more towards older acts for inspiration. This isn\u2019t because there isn\u2019t good music being made nowadays, in fact there are killer albums dropping every week. It’s more of a function of our mindset and our writing process. We\u2019re more the type of band to throw rough ideas at each other and jam something out and I think that lends itself much more to an old-school-straightforward style of songwriting where it doesn\u2019t come down to anything more complicated than, \u201cis this riff good, does this song work.\u201d When you write in a style that stripped down it makes more sense to look for inspiration to a time like the late 80\u2019s where things in extreme metal maybe weren\u2019t altogether figured out.<\/p>\n

Well it definitely seems to be working! Let’s get to your list for us today, where we asked for your\u00a05 Fave Neck-Snapping Tracks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Terrorizer – “Fear of Napalm” [1989]<\/h2>\n

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Maybe not the fastest track on this list, but every single riff in this song has a focused intensity that is so rare to see in grindcore. I love how there is just that ringing ride cymbal and pure fuzz bassline to start the song, instantly memorable and final riff will burrow into your brain to never leave at the same time as it forces you into the mosh pit. Between this and his work in Morbid Angel,<\/strong> Sandoval was untouchable on drums in the 80’s.<\/p>\n