How long have you been making music for?
We’ve started making music with our band in late 1993: We’ve started with jamming some Death metal stuff but we didn’t give us a band name. Later on in mid 1994 we’ve added a second guitarist to our ranks and called ourselves Resurrected.
What is your favorite instrument to play on?
I love my electric guitars. I used to play bass guitar in my second band Grind Inc. either. When it comes to brands I played a Stallings Dragonslayer on stage for more than 20 years but I’ve switched over to Solar X shaped guitars and BC Riches, especially a Steve Smyth Signature.
What acts have you played with before if any?
Well there were a few in that 30 year run. To name the more famous ones there was Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Cryptopsy, Kataklysm, Vader, Immortal, Brutal Truth, Marduk, Suffocation, Behemoth… I do not remember them all haha.
If you had to lay out all the bands in order you played in as a timeline what would they be?
You’ll laugh, it’s not been so many for me:
Resurrected from 1993 till present and Grind Inc. from 2008 to 2013 (we’ve not played any shows with Grind Inc. since then).
Our other band members play in several bands next to ours but I couldn’t tell you their timeline at all. Dennis plays in “Pestlegion” currently and has played with “Prostitute Disfigurement” too. Ben is active with “Battlesword” and “Necrophagia” at the moment. Chris Zeller plays in “Ignition” too, used to play with our vocalist Chris Mieves in “Struck A Nerve” too but this band recently split up. Chris Mieves also sang in Grind Inc. where I played bass guitar and Dennis was there as session drummer either. So it’s like a family, we’ve kinda been together in different bands already before RESURRECTED formed that lineup in 2012.
What is the coolest experience you have had as a musician?
Well, there were so many it’s hard to pick out a single one. Ben and I still remember that show as Inferno Festival in Oslo back in 2008, we never had better band catering or backstage parties. I remember Dan Lilker’s green face; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a person that can turn green like that haha. Milwaukee Metal Fest was a blast too but from different points of view.
What inspires you to keep doing what you do?
It’s the love to Death Metal or the music in general. It’s not just taste in music, it’s a feeling that music and me belong to each other. It’s really hard to describe. And it’s part of my life. I cannot imagine living without that. It’d be living without my dick. Or leg. Or whatever.
If you had to name some influences what would they be?
Influences developed over the years like the scene developed. There’s still one big influence in songwriting for me named Deicide (especially for their triplet usage), Cannibal Corpse or Suffocation. Over the years I developed some Black Metal influences from Marduk for example. But from their faster releases like Panzerdivision or Frontschwein. Immortal did some riffs which should have been written for Death Metal lol. Awesome too, but not everything to my ears.
What is your favorite venue you been to or played in?
Milwaukee City Hall! Definitely. Even if we didn’t play the main stage but it was impressive.
To sum up this interview which website can we find your latest music and any shout outs to anyone for the readers of Asphyxium zine?
Sorry waste your time with our boring shit friends \m/ Hope to meat you live someday! Thanks for reading our stuff anyway and please buy all of our useless crap!!!
We’re available almost everywhere, get our unholy shit from www.resurrected.net or from Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music.
-Daniel Ryan
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