IMMOLATION INTERVIEW
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Yet another intie that spent too long in the dark abyss of my hard drive. It’s hard to write an
introduction to a conversation with two of the nicest people I have met in my involvement in the
scene and both Rob Vigna and Ross Dolan are definitely worthy of this title. The interview was
conducted at Brutal Assault Festival in 2012 and was done before the Immolation’s latest opus
“Kingdom of Conspiracy” was out, so it may seem a bit dusty, still I like to think that I have
pulled a bit more stuff out of this little chat we had. So, all yours, the gods of Death Metal,
IMMOLATION!
Hell-o! Thank you for the awesome show! How did you like the gig today, the festival and the
Czech Republic?
Ross Dolan: Great! We love the Czech Republic, it’s a great country, especially Prague. We’ve
spent a lot of time in Prague. The festival’s organizer, Tomas is a really close friend of ours and
an awesome good guy, so yeah, it’s a pleasure for us to be here. The fans were just amazing.
The intensity level and the passion… Fucking great. We rarely play for the crowd that dedicated
and that die-hard, so it was an amazing experience, even though we knew what to expect
because we played here a couple of years ago already. So we know it would be just
ridiculous…
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Oh yeah, I remember that…
RD: (laughs) yeah, you told me…
Since your last album, “Majesty and Decay” already two years passed and yet today you
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mentioned that there is a brand new one ready to be released. Can you tell me a bit more on
this?
Rob Vigna: Well… We finished it on Sunday after two weeks in the studio. All is recorded, all
the tracks are there, now we’re going to send it again to Zack Ohren to mix it, so we did it with
Paul Orofino and Zack Owen is going to mix and master it. It brings 10 new songs, a concept
album, probably one of our darkest to date. Very dark, very heavy, more extreme… Steve really
upped the ante on the drums. A lot of really fast stuff and also lot of dark and heavy stuff. Lot of
dissonance… It is going to be one of our best, I think. It is going to be like the “Providence” EP x
10 (laughs)
RD: Very dark, heavy and extreme. One of the most intense stuff we’ve ever done. But this is
100% total Immolation. Once you hear it it’s going to be “yeah! That’s Immolation”.
The last thing you released so far is the “Providence” EP. This was however not released by
Nuclear Blast, but by Scion Imprint. What kind of label is this? Does that mean end of your
cooperation with Nuclear Blast?
RD: Scion AV is Toyota. The car company. Scion is the division of Toyota, they sell cars. But
Scion also deal with arts. They work with different artists from every branch of music, not
particularly Metal. They also do a big, free, open-air festival in the US for 3,4,5000 people. And
they give away free stuff there. EPs, singles etc. and they actually promote the bands. They
actually liked us and some of the people there are big Metal fans and they wanted to work with
us, so they gave us money to shoot “The Glorious Epoch” video, they gave us money to do the
“Illumination” video, they gave us money to do the EP, the only condition was that it was for free
for the fans, so it was perfect and we agreed. It is just something they do to get the tax write-off
from them. They put their logo on a CD package and they promote us like a label does. This
was just for the EP and Nuclear Blast was totally supportive with it. The actually helped us get
the deal. But the new record will be out on the Nuclear Blast. It doesn’t affect our contract.
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issues.
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scenes
and
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big
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while
we
stuck
on
the
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Andthe
you,
Ross?
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you
played
anywhere
before
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way,
what’s
up
with
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He
left
in
2001…
RV:
answer
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touch
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years
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managed
to
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core
of
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band
more
or
less
stable…
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RV all
&
RD
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there!
Interview:
Tymoteusz
Jędrzejczyk
foto:
Leszek
Wojnicz-Sianożęcki
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