Norway's Metal Express Radio recently spoke with POWERMAN 5000 frontman Spider about the band's 2009 release, Somewhere On The Other Side Of Nowhere. An excerpt is available below:

MER: The recording quality of this album is absolutely superb. There’s incredibly smooth and room-filling bass and every instrument and sound included in each song just seems to pop out as if it’s completely alive. Who produced this album and how was your sound achieved?

Spider: "The amazing thing about this record … and I think of this because we’ve made records for major labels and spent up to $500,000 for each album … this is FIRST record we’ve made that was completely put together by the band ourselves. Our guitar player recorded each part completely in the box of our rehearsal space using $200 microphones and some outdated version of Pro Tools that he downloaded for free somewhere. SOSOTON really is a testament to the choices you make and the make-up of each person in the band. We literally didn’t spend a dime on this record, other than the endless hours and blood, sweat, and tears, of course. I don’t want to make it sound like it was an easy task, because it wasn’t. There were a ton of choices and decisions to be made, and a lot of trial and error behind what sounds mesh well together and get the point across. Metal fans often think of Powerman 5000 as very poppy, which is true to an extent, because we’re not trying to compare or compete to the latest death metal band that’s garnered credibility. We think we do pull ideas, though, from a lot of different genres, some of them metal and some of them from bands that may cause my credibility card to be pulled, but that’s the beauty of producing your own album. You can do whatever it is that you want but you have to be patient and you have to have someone like we do who has a pretty good idea on what to do, and I think we proved that you don’t have to spend a million dollars to produce a top quality sounding album."

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