CHRONIC TORMENT son una banda sueca de death metal de vieja escuela que estará de gira por España este último fin de semana de agosto. Junto a ellos van los thrashers maños DEMONISHED, y tendremos la suerte de tenerlos en la Ultimatum este viernes 27, junto a MELTDOWN. Aprovechamos la ocasión para ponernos en contacto con ellos y que se conviertan en la primera banda extranjera entrevistada por ARAGON METAL.

Para los que habléis inglés, os dejamos la entrevista original:

Hi guys, How are you doing? I will let you know that i feel very pleased for interviewing the first non-spanish band to be featured on this website (www.aragonmetal.com),  and we hope you will be the first of a long list to come.

Hi most of the time we are great as long as we are not hung over =) We consider it an honor to be the first non spanish band featured here.

First of all, let me make a little introduction. Chronic Torment  is a veteran Death Metal band from Göteborg (Sweden)  with four full length releases: «Doomed» (2006), «Dream of the dead» (2007), «Wind of infections» (2008) and «Demons of chaos» (2009), but  if i am not mistaken the band was first formed in 1991, undergoing  several line-up and name changes. Tell us about the band”s history and your current line-up.

CHRONIC TORMENT was born 1991 from the ashes of "ROTTING FLESH", "H.B.D" and HANGOVER. We changed band name to "SACRETOMIA" and released a demo called "ALTAR OF SIN" in early 1992. In 1995 we split up, the reason was lack of intrest. MIRKO joined "ETERNAL MIND", MIKA "BLIND TUNA/SUBURBIA" TOM,A, "AGGRO" and "MRS CELLO". JOPPE left the music scene. A decade later Tom and Mika started to play/record together. Ideas came up and we decided to record a album (no label). The result was "DOOMED" (2006). MIRKO and JOPPE is more or less involved in "CHRONIC TORMENT". K.AILO plays keyboards and has mixed the "DOOMED" and "DREAM OF THE DEAD" albums. K.AILO also wrote 2 "CT" songs (putrid birth and excrementor). On the "DREAM OF THE DEAD" Album we got som help from D.Vegetation and Pasi Jaskara from "RECLUSION", who later on joined as a full member, so special thanks to these guys. T.Alcohol

TOM ALCOHOL : Drums / Vocals. Born 1974. Former bands: Immortal Terror (1988-1989) (Guitar). Rotting Flesh (1989-1991)(Drums). Chronic torment/sacretomia(1991-....)(Vox-Drums). Aggro (1994)(Drums). Mrs Cello (1994-.,.,.) at the moment (Bass)

Pasi BATONG Jaskara: Guitar. Born in april 1974 in HELLsinki. Former Bands: NFL (drums) plus other shit I can't remember. RECLUSION 2001-2007 (bass). CHRONIC TORMENT 2007-....

MIIKA VON SILL I: Bass. Born 1974. Former bands: Immortal Terror (1988-1989) (Bass). Rotting Flesh (1989-1991)(Bass). Eternal mind (1994-1995)(trums). ChronicTorment 2008-....

JIMI R CORPS :Guitar. Born 1978. Former bands: Rotten Corps, Intestacy, The Shaitan, Saints Dishonored, Aesthetic Hate, Chronic Torment 2008-....

Jeppe Keyboard

I previously defined the band”s style as «death metal», but getting into more detail i would say it”s death metal with a marked «swedish sound», staying away from the well-known «melodeath» and leaning more into old-school, incorporating atmospheric keyboard elements. Define the band”s sound in your own words and talk about your main influences.

Our main influences comes from old school bands and we try too keep true to our sound

We try to follow some simple rules while making our songs, for example while test recording new material we try to listen to it to filter out if it doesent sound dark and evil enough also we try to have a bit of a dirty edge to it, if it sounds like to jolly or to much bon jovi we throw it in the trash and start over.

Did all the melodic death metall «boom» had some impact in the band? Did you notice any newcomers or more peoplo interested?

Sadly no no

Your line-up is not a standard one, beign Tom (Alcohol) the main vocalist while he is blasting his drumkit (and that looks vey exhausting). Did that came out of necessity or did Tom want to take charge of both since the beginning?

When releasing the record Doom Tom didnt expect the band to play live just had the ambition of it being more like a Studio band so then it was easy for him to make the decision to handle the vocals, but some times things doesent go as planned and the band started playing live so Tom had to continue doing the vocals live aswell coz we all think that his vocals is a big part of the CT sound

CT will be touring through Spain on August 26th (Barcelona) , 27th (Zaragoza) and 28th (Madrid) with Demonished, and Meltdown will be joining the last two dates. These three bands will be setting on fire Ultimatum, in Zaragoza, on Friday, August 27th. What are your expectations from this mini tour?

We expect to have a awesome time on the tour in spain with our friends from Demonished and also with Meltdown, We really hope to be able to give the spanish audience a good time

We know CT already toured with Demonished and the germans Common Grave last year and played in Göteborg, Malmö and Copenhague. How did it came out? And how did the bands get in contact for the first time?

From the ground  festival where tommy met jose and paco
The tour was good we think demonished and common grave kicked ass and we hope we did aswell =)

Being Sweden known as one of the birthplaces of European Death Metal, could you describe your local scene? Are there a lot of active bands? Do the «big dogs» show up in events with relative unknown bands? Could you compare your local scene to other countries/cities?

Sweden especially Gothenburg is a very tense Music scene we have alot of bands almost anyone who listens to metal here also plays in a band, so some times gigs her can be a bit boring coz there is so many bands and conserts there always isnt so many peapole that comes to the gigs. Some times u can se some of the big dogs at some shows but not that often.

A tricky question now: How is it that being a swedish band most of your band members are from Finland?

Well Finns are the biggest minorety in sweden and are almost like swedes and most in the band is actually born here in sweden so well its nothing odd about it at all =)

We also know you were talking to Pulverised Records for a possible cotract signing. What was the result? Are you still negotiating?

No we did not get offered a contract by them in the end due to the worlds financial situation they said they couldent sign any bands even though they before had said they wanted to sign us. So we have some other intrested labels, but we are not in a hurry coz we can hold out for a good deal and in the mean time we can continue selfreleasing our stuff.

And now it”s time for some generic/stupid questions. I expect chokingly nasty answers:

What kind of gear do you use live/studio? Any special tunings or tricks? What setup would you use with unlimited money?

We tune in A
and we play on what we got better gear doesent make us better but of course it would be fun to have everything your eye desires

What are your long-term expectations from music?

We play for fun and will se what happens we do our best if it takes us far or not we dont know but atleast we will remember having a awesome alcoholic time during the journey

Favourite alcoholic drink, and beer brand:

if it contains alkohol its our favorite =)

Best bars/venues you have played in:

Germany Hamburg where we played at a small festival

Favourite band/record and song:

xysma, pulse pink floyd hue pink floyd

Most hated band/record/song:
we dont liten to stuff we hate =) so we dont know =)

A band that you like but are ashamed of:
we are never ashamed

Have you got any plans of doing live the intro from «Rectal rage»?
Thats a secret ;)

And finally, just say anything you feel like saying:
Come see Chronic Torment, Demonished and Meltdown metal brothers and sisters of S-Pain and have a awesome time with us Horns up from the north !