
1.
Tell us about your evolution as a
“musician” and getting involved in the
scene. What is your opinion on the
underground nowadays than it was before?
Hmm
I was born in 1985, till 2000 our country
had many (civil)wars, bombings and problems
with terrorists. Since 1990 we had constant
sanctions and shit happening to us, and in
1999 we were bombed by 17 countres inNATO
pact. When you know these facts its easy to
imagine mine(and our) growing up, before
wars scene here was pretty great! and in war
times, there wasn´t any big metal band who
wanted to play here (Accept Napalm Death, Pro
Pain etc).
As
my Musical interest evolution.. hmm I had
luck to be child of parents who were in rock
and roll music since 60` and their music taste
evolved parallel with evolition of rock.
Since I was a kid I listened music that my
parents used to listen, bands like Scott
Walker, Rolling stones, Led zeppelin, Deep
purple, Kings, Byrds, etc
In
my elementery school I met some friend in my
hood who was in rock and hard rock/metal, he
had a lot of CDs, LPs and casettes of his
own. I didnt had money for mine own so I
borowed a lot stuff from him
but same bands I already listened.
Later I descovered Exploited, Motorhead,
Sex Pistols, Slayer, HammerFall, Cannibal Corpse,
Death, White Skull, Anal Cunt etc
As
my "musical carrier", I was in
bands since 2002 when I was a drummer in
thrash/speed band WITCHUNT, we sucked but I
still wouldn´t like to admit that(especialy
because I was worse musician there hehe). In
2004 I started to sing in Grind core band
NECRORECTUMONOMICON, that was.. interesting
experience hehe. At the end of 2004 I
started singing in Brutal death metal band
DAGGERSPAWN and I was in that band till end
of 2009. With that band I signed my first
contracts, released first album in USA, dvd,
split cds etc, and had a lot gigs(we also
supported Vital remains, Obscura etc). in
2008 I started to sing in NADIMAC since I
was GREAT friend with whole Nadimac crew now
ex singer of Nadimac(Dule) recomended me to
be new singer, and others accepted . With
Nadimac I acomplished I think, some great
things too, Album, Live album, Ep, DVD, a
lot of split cds, a lot of gigs, concerts
and festivals. A lot new citys,and this year
its ganna be even more intense.
2.
You have recently released your debut full
lenght, however you have a large list of EP´s
and splits with other bands, what´s the
reason for that, it was intentional or it´s
because a lack of oportunity from any major
label?
Hehehe
we are very, VERY satisfied with our label.
Wang(owner of AREA DEATH PRODUCTIONS) is one
of best dudes in metal. We dont need new
bigger label. BUT I like to do split CDs because
its great way of supporting underground
spirit, other talented bands mostly from Asia,
South America, and some parts of Europe, and
this way I dont have to burn our cds and
send it to metalheads all over the world.
We
like to support
Thrash/speed/hc/d-beat/crust(not
anarcho)/punk etc bands and one day I would
like to release split cd with bands of all
these genres.
3.
Talking about your "DRZAVNI NEPRIJATELJ
BROJ KEC" CD, one remarkable point is
the illustrations on the frontcover and
layout, can you tell us about the drawings
and the entire concept on this scenary and
personages??
Well,
I did cover art, and all booklet
drawings(every song - new mini cover). Clown
on cover is bands mascot and he represents
each one of us. Also whole album is
dedicated to making fun of society, and our
shitty luck in life hehe pretty
sarcastic/dark humor and politicaly incorrect
lyrics in combination with ultra fast music.
I think that anyone that bought(or steal or
something..) our album CD liked it. Anyway
we are bands who supports DIY ideology so we
do almost everything about our releases and
stuff by ourself.
4.
It seems that exists a current old school
fashioned wave of bands trying to reviving
the 80´s thrash style (MUNICIPAL
WASTE..etc), what is your status on this
complex amount of newcomers and what is your
opinion about these glorious days leadred by
bands such ASSASSIN, DEATH ANGEL, S.O.D.,
EXODUS, NUCLEAR ASSAULT..etc?
Well
..I love one thing.. in NEW WAVE of thrash
metal, a lot of bands are refered as
"crossover" or "crossover
thrash" bands. To me origin of thrash
is in PUNK and oldschool HARD CORE and
combination these two with heavy metal. So I
am really glad to see bands not trying to
play METALLICA or SLAYER thrash, but
NEW - Oldschool(metal/punk/hc)
influenced thrash. I pretty much hmm.. not
hate, but dislike, new thrash metal bands
wich in 2010 try to be slayer or megadeath
or slayer from 80`.... its
like bad cover band
Weplayed with Municipal waste and it
was pretty great to see that they are
fanatics for Oldschol metal AND oldschool
minor threat. Anyone who listens to
Oldschool metal or hc and take a listen to
Municipal Waste will recognize influences,
and he will know that their music is not NEW
but combination is great and a real
refreshind on todays scene. With us is the
same, we dont want to be Municipal Waste
clon in our region, but i think that our
next album will be evenmore faster and
proudly influenced with metal/grind core/hc
punk/and punk and still be fucking THRASH
metal and not just crossover. My opinion
about 80` scene, well I never saw it, I had
5 year old when 80`s ended, but from what I
heard and seen ... I love a lot of bands
from that period, many many punk, grind core
and metal bands. And every day I discover
some new underground release from that
period.
5.
You have previously made vocals on Death
Metal Band DAGGERSPAWN, how was the reason
to leave these band and how so was the
change to sing on a crossover band now, how
this affected your vocal aspect (to call it
some way)?
Well
when I started singing in Nadimac I still
could go to rehersals with two bands, Fisicaly,
it was fucking hard because I´m using 4 technics
of death/grind growls/screams, and in
nadimac I combine punkish shouting with
screams. And I´m not person who comes and
sits and sing, I stand up and shout as loud
as I would on concert, sometimes I jump in
studio and shit. Reason for my departure
from Daggerspawn was, well I guess moment in
time when I and rest of Daggerspawn thought
that it is time to change something, we
didnt argue or something like that. We
stayed friends. Im pretty big fanatic for
band I sing in so I tried to give all my
strenght to bouth bands, but in long term,
its always best to focus energy on one
thing.
6.
I look at your concept, lyrics and the
cover, I think that you maybe got lots of
humor and sarcastic inspiration. Not the
shitty political/anarchist way. Can you tell
us more deeeply about this matter and what´s
the reason to sing on your native tongue
(what I think it´s great and good sounding)
instead English?
Hmm
well we are not politicaly active band, we
all have same ideology behind us (I´m not gonna
tell what ideology it is) and we lead pretty
same kinda of lives. I personally hate
anarcho themes in lyrics wich are pretty
same for all bands from Dead Kennedys
influence to Aus Rotten stuff.. We have our
way of looking on politics, society,
religion.. etc., but its not expresed in
SAME dull way of writing lyrics as it is in
95% cases with other bands.
We
like to spread our vision of things in our
politicaly incorrect way.
As
for Nadimac singing on Serbian,, well, that
makes us pretty unique, I think ? In Serbia
its not so usual to see some new young, (or
old) rock/alt/metal/bla bla band that sings
in Serbian, I guess that they think that
they will be better accepted by audience in
foreign scenes if they sing in English.
And
so far I think that we got much better
promotion and response even if we sing in
Serbian. If poeple from all over the world
like to ask us about our message they - send
us email or messagge on myspace and ask.. I
appreciate that. For instance this night we
received 7 mesagges from Perú, Mexico, Usa,
Poland etc and I can´t believe that people
care for detailed info about abour band. We
have music, art, aggression/energy, and style
that spreads messagge, we dont need English
lyrics to be accepted.
7.
About song writing, how long will it take to
complete a song (your song). Is it possible
to complete it all in an hour, or in day, or
it might even took long periods of refining
the lines, etc. How do you know or when can
you say that the song is finished?
If
you mean lyrics, I have now here about 30
songs lyrics completed, but its same thing
as it is with bands music for songs. Its not
up to one person to make whole song. We ALL
make song, I bring lyrics and describe what
rythm I think I could use for some kind of
singing , and they experiment and make something
like that. And its great because I can suggest
to drummer or guitarists to change
something, and if idea is good they do and
we all make great ego free process of making
songs. Sometimes we need 2 months to complete
song (Metal je rat for instance) and
sometimes one or two rehersals (Headshoot u
glavu) and later we do details on song.
8.
I am curious about the way you made the
recordings for the latest album, can you
tell us some general details about? Does
your music evolve while you're in the
studio, or is everything 100% done by the
time you go and record?
As
I said before, we are mostly DIY band, we
are part of the scene as band and as
individuals. We recorded our album for price
that is 5 times cheaper that recording of
one song in any studio. because we were
recorded by our friend Igor(Kramp, Folower,
Awaiting fear). We first do all about songs
in studio on rehersals before recording and
some in studio and record 2 days and.. that
is it. After recordings, comes production ,
when we sit and bore Igor. And also insert
some details in our songs recordings etc.
9.
Are you getting a good distribution for your
album now? How many copies did you sell of
the album?
Did it live up to your expectations?
Well
it has DEFINITELY LIVED to our expectations!
In serbia and countries around us, we
sold(and some copys gave away for
promotional purpuses) All Album Cds, all
Split cds, t-shirts, die hard packs
(t-shirt, cd, patch., etc), all patches
etc.. In begining we had about hmmm 300+
cds, but now we have about 14 copys. We
ofcourse didnt made any money because we
spent all on buying bands flag, and shit
like that. But mostly we spent money because
we understand that people that organizes
gigs sometimes dont have enough money for instruments
, that people cant afford our cd, or dont
have money for our t-shirt that they ordered
so we gave it away. If we were more "proffesional"
we would get some pretty good profit from it
all. But... Fuck it !
As
for distribution, well we did distro to
people that asked, but I saw that our cd is
awiable from
USa-Brasil-japan-Korea-(ofcourse)China-Croatia
etc .
10.
And how are you guys getting alone in
private life? Do you hang out as a band or
also as friends? Do you think its important
to always be friends first and then a band
mates? Talking about the band members. Do
you have any side projects or is this the
only band you all play in?
NadimaC
is band created by friends from Elementery
school(drummer, bassplayed and ex vocal),
and friend from high school(first guitarist
i think). I met Nadimac crew in some mosh on
some metal night when we were moshing drunk
on Tankards song-empty tankard. And immediately
started to hand out drink etc, I was already
in DS so we were coming on each other rehearsals,
had gigs together etc. I used to go with Nadimac
to other towns they played as support, so we
drinked later they go on stage and I mosh
and slam drung in audience haha
And yeah we hang out prety much every
day.. wich sometimes can be .. existing because
its one thing when you drink or play basquettball,
and other when you have to go to studio for
4 hours or all night and make noise hahah.
Also we hang out with ex members of Nadimac
wich are still friends of ours and of band.
No one of us in band has any side projects..
basicaly there is no time for any more bands
or rehersals.
11.
You've been playing a number of shows
recently and you have a reputation for your
performances; are live shows a central
aspect of NADIMAC? What have been the best
and worst live experiences you've had?
Hmm
every gig we play musicaly good and still
jump on stage and in mosh is.. succes. We
practise a lot, but our crowd jumps on
stage, sings and mosh so its not same for as
it is for some rock or something band that
stands and.. plays heheh One of my favorite
gigs was first gig in BanjaLuka(Republika
Srpska, Bosnia), Exit festival 09` gig with
Municipal waste, and night when we recorded
our live DVD.
Worst..
well we had some gigs before when some of us
were drunk as retarded rabbit, so we fucked
up something heheh but that is all in the
past. Its
always great when crowd make concert its own
and not just stand and watch
"musicians" on stage.
12.
Will NADIMAC ever produce a film clip /
video? I'm very sure you could pull this off
extremely well.. has any thought ever gone
into an idea like this?
Well
NadimaC has video for song from song from
its first demo 2005 for song VUKODLAK, im
even in that video as second guitarist-and i
wasnt in band (or playing guitar-ever!)
hahha its pretty low cost(0 $) video but..
pretty rustic and primitive and... efective.
After we recorded METAL JE RAT EP in 2008/09
we recorded video for song HRANI BABU DA TE
UJEDE, quality is a litle better that first
video. There is FANS video for nadimac`s
song TRECE OKO on you tube, and its pretty
cool. In future we will record
profesional(But stil DIY) video for song
from next album.
13.
What do you think about the present
Serbian scene? What are the new or actual
bands you would advise our reader to keep an
eye on?? Do you always try to support your
local Scene or prefer to focus on
international media?
Always
support domestic, I´m part of Serbian much
more than international scene! I love Serbian bands such as : Acroholia(my favorite Serbian
band), Saramental blood. Azazel, Kramp, Awaiting
Fear, Scaffold, The Stone, Infest, Toxic
trace, Pollution, Deadly Mosh. Rafal,
Bombarder, Med Goja, Never lost, Hitman,
Miki pirs, Birtija hehe etc
14.
NADIMAC is an relatively unknown band, and I
think you deserve so much more attention and promotion. So what kinds of future
plans do you
have in mind in order to promote your
new stuff, some tours?
hmm
this year no, but we WILL play in citys in
our area we already didnt, and I think that
we will
play in Bosnia, Macedonia and
Slovenia but we will see. I dont think that
tour is good step, we will do tours in a couple
of years when we become better known through
underground. I dont want to do tours now and
as meny band play in front of .. 20-40
people. We have proposition
from one Polish Menager for tour in
Europe, but we willl wait with that until
next year.
We
will continue promoting bands, throught
split cds, new albums, recenty we released
DVD (DIY) and put it for free download so it
is also kind of promotion I think.
15.
No more questions my friend. Just thanks for
your time and good luck for your future
plans. Closing is yours…
Well
I´m glad that by every day we had more and
more friends(not fans) from all over the
world. For our metal dudes that were reading
this interview... its 5:53 in the morning in
Belgrade(Serbia) now, I spent all night
answering on this interview
and it was fun. I guess there are many
technical and gramatical mistakes, hehehe.!!
I can´t see anymore from looking at monitor
tonight hahaah.
Stay
metal punk etc and be yoursel first, fuck
anybody else! METAL IS WAR! Thrash on!
NadimaC
www.myspace.com/nadimacbend