DG - Your DS4H cover art has got some real religious imagery going on?

Photo courtesy of Michael Brennan

P - I've always been interested in the whole religion thing. I find it amazing so many people can believe in something that they have never had any physical proof of, but do it because for some reason it makes them feel safe. The "As long as you pray afterwards, its ok" mentality is not for me. Watch Bush next time he's sending troops off to war, he sends his prayers... what a great guy. Really though, I just wanted to have some darkish artwork to go with the overall sound of the album and to fit nicely with the title "Dead Slow For Hell".

DG - Where did the album title come from?

P - The title is just a play on words. Slowing up before ya get to hell. You may as well be dead if you're in a real hell etc. So slow down and enjoy what comes prior to either heaven or hell, if that's your belief.

DG - You've got some giant singable chorus/bridge lines happening throughout the album...

P - I find writing more sort of rock songs comes quite naturally, it's what I've done for ages in other bands. When I wrote the songs on Eliminator it was a whole new ball game, especially with the songs being very acoustic guitar based.

DG - I love how Fools start war turned out. When I first heard it I thought it was 'Full Start War', but the real title is so much more apt given our times...

P - I'm glad you dig it. I've had some great reponse to that song so far which is great. I came up with the riff while taking a break from recording on the forthcoming kidameln album. Right away I had ideas for it lyrically and thought it would be a great end to the album (before Something pretty happened). It's really about how fucked up some people have it in their home countries. People forced to live their whole life everyday, because through no fault of their own they may not get to see tomorrow. It's really a fuck you to Bush, FOX, CNN, religion, terrorism, and everything and everyone that screws with the way people live is basically the message.

Photo courtesy of Michael Brennan

DG - Yeah, watching partisan news-tainment on FOX is pretty spooky. Super manipulative. I guess that's what I liked about that song the most, your calling it at the end. Props to ya.

P - Thanks.

DG - So what's on the horizon?

P - On the horizon is the new kidameln album, which we have been recording between all our personal projects over this year. Really looking forward to getting this album out, and The Stung ep which is waiting to be mastered. Hopefully that wont be too far away either. I just scored myself a 2nd hand gat in Pilsen in Czech Republic, so I'm going to start on a few ideas I've got for Phonoss number 3. I finish my travelling around Europe early Jan then move back to London to get stuck into it all. I will be putting Phonoss together as a live band and plan to start playing as soon as possible to try and get some stuff happening for summer 2006. It's gonna be good.

DG - Thanks for taking five to talk.

P - Thanks to you too, a Big Thanks to Andrew at Powertool Records for getting my music out there.

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