Anavar - Interview

In this new occasion we have the great opportunity to interview the Deathcore band Anavar from Australia, here we will let you their FACEBOOK PAGE to give them a like and follow them. All the questions have been answered by Andrew their bass player. We have nothing more to say, so enjoy this interview!

1. Where did you get the idea for the band name, you planned it or came out just like that?  

Initially, the band was meant to be a parody band about lifting weights and being a gym rat, in the style of Austrian Death Machine, so we were thinking of something stupid like a pun on existing band names like “Flexgod Apocalifts’. Anavar come up when we were talking about steroids, and we used it as a placeholder name. As Phil starting penning out riffs they weren’t actually that terrible so we decided to take things seriously. Anavar just stuck you know? Plus, being the kind of guys we are, having a dead serious name wouldn’t feel right.

2.Why did you want to play this genre?    

We don’t really try too hard to play a certain genre; we just play whatever sounds good to us. We self-identify with the “Deathcore” label as we fit the “requirements” but it doesn’t matter to us either way. Albums like “The Cleansing”, “Doom”, “The Price of Existence”, “This Is Exile” all became favourites of ours, and they were the sounds of our high school days. Naturally that stays with you. “Core” is a great genre as it’s a flexible type of metal/punk, so that appeals to us.

3. Did you know each other before the band was formed?  

Mitch and Phil are high school friends and Phil and I are brothers, so it’s hard not to know him. Our other guitarist Kai is a work friend of mine and his joining of the band went a little like this; “Kai, you’re in our band, tell your friends, see you Monday at work”. Our drummer Matt is was a mutual friend of ours who happened to join after our session drummer parted ways with us. In our experience, friends make the best band mates. It’s easier to get better at your craft together, rather than have a bunch of pro’s that are total divas and try get them to get along.

4. Each band member favourite band?  

Mine is Mudvayne. I’ll stop now before I write an article so big about how much I love them that it would put the whole of Wikipedia to shame. Matt is a big “Between the Buried and Me” fan. Phil’s would be “Hatebreed” and “Whitechapel”. Kai’s would be “As I Lay Dying”. Mitch’s would be “The Black Dahlia Murder” but he also listens to weird shit like Opera, Gregorian chants and foreign folk music.

5. Who or what inspires you to write songs?    

We write the music mostly together, sometimes one of us has more ideas at any given time, but we work on them together. We normally take influence from the bands we are feeling at the time, and just jam out the ideas until they sound like “us”. The lyrics are a little more situational driven. I personally wrote the lion’s share of the lyrics for “Cataclysm” just musing over dark apocalyptic themes, and Mitch always rounds out the ideas with fine tweaking. We don’t have an overall message or agenda.

6. Where was your last gig?    

Our Hometown Perth at Amplifier bar with Feed Her To The Sharks. I was lucky enough too able to tour with the FHTTS guys while filling in as bassist for Earth Rot during the “Australia takeover tour” along with Thy Art is Murder and Aversions Crown. Sick dudes, great music, and killer live act. It was good to see them again.

7. Where would you like to act?    

In a Porno with Michelle Obama, SAY WHAT!!! Can you imagine fucking the president’s wife? Don’t you judge me!

8. Whom would you like to feature with?    

All Shall Perish. Glad to hear that they have reformed. Shame about Mike Turner though, poor best/worst dude.

9. Whom not?    

All Shall Perish, because they took too long to re-form.

10. Any of you has ever suffered from stage fright? Any tip for beginners on how to beat that?    

At first you will always be nervous, but that does away with time. My tip is Get some of your best friends to come to your first few shows. Seeing familiar faces in the crowd eases the nerves. Nothing beat good company. If you do make a mistake, don’t look around as to find out who did it that makes it obvious. Roll with it, chances are no one noticed.

11. What bands have inspired you the most?    

Me personally would be Dying Fetus. So fucking heavy, technical and groovy all at once, it’s perfect. It’s probably different for the other guys, but fuck those dudes.

12. What's the weirdest thing a fan has ever asked you for?    

About half an hour after we released Cataclysm we had an email from a young guy asking for them, found our original tabs complete with jokes and commentary of us teasing each other in it, sent it to him unedited.

13. What do you think of your fans?  

They’re great, while a small bunch they’re super supportive, sharing content around, showing up to local gigs, going crazy in the crowd and then smoke outside together. Rad times.

14. What do you think of our site?    

It’s great, easily to use, no Russian wife adverts. I appreciate the “love music, hate racism” foundation you have going on. Racism is bullshit and only fuckheads hate each other over skin colour.

15. Something to add?

Nah, we g. Stick tight.