BEHEMOTH Founder Nergal Talks About Canadian Immigration And Border Problems
July 20, 2009, 15 years ago
BEHEMOTH founder Nergal took some time out during their current Mayhem Festival touring schedule to chat with ABORT Magazine's Alxs Ness regarding the tour, their upcoming release Evangelion and Canadian immigration laws. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:
Alxs Ness: You guys were slated to play three dates on the Summer Slaughter tour, with one in Edmonton and one in Calgary…
Nergal: "Yeah, we had to cancel that because we had problems at the border. Actually one of our passports was missing this chip, we didn’t even know about it. We didn’t realize it actually because a few days earlier we were allowed to enter the country. I mean by mistake they probably just didn’t even notice this because they let us into the country to do these two shows and next time we wanted to enter they told us we were missing the chip and we just can’t do this. Yeah, shit happens, you know. I guess we’re gonna try to make it up to these people, do this full tour that we’re scheduling right now with Septic Flesh."
ABORT: Have you ever had any other issues crossing the border in the past?
Nergal: "To be honest, from all the crazy stories about Canadian borders, nothing really bad had ever happened to us and it’s always been pretty smooth and no problems whatsoever. So this is like the first time where we’ve been rejected to enter the country, which we were all bummed out about it. We really wanted to do these two shows. But well, what can I do. Sometimes there are things that are bigger than you."
Read the entire interview here.
