Chronicles Of Chaos (www.chroniclesofchaos.com) has issued an interview with BRUTAL TRUTH bassist Danny Lilker, conducted by Jackie Smit. The following is an excerpt:

Q: Well, there's no other way to start this interview other than to ask what made you and the rest of the guys decide that it was time to resurrect Brutal Truth?

A: "The way it all came about was oddly enough because of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina damaged a lot of property around Louisiana, including a couple of members of EYEHATEGOD who all lost their homes and their stuff got all fucked up. So those guys reached out to the scene, and if there was any way that they could put together a tribute record of bands doing Eyehategod covers, they would basically be able to use the proceeds from that to get back on their feet.

Just for the hell of it, they reached out to see whether there was any way that Brutal Truth would be on it, because having a band like us on who'd been broken up for a couple of years would be quite a strong selling point and help it get a lot of attention. I'd been in touch with Rich pretty much consistently since we'd broken up anyway, but to make a long story short, they managed to track down everybody in the band and we all said 'sure', because we knew someone who had a laptop and some equipment we could use and so we could do it conveniently.

So when we got together to rehearse the song - Eyehategod are a great band, but they never wrote the hardest music to learn. We were in a room with all the original members, and some of us had travelled like three or four different cities to learn the song, so someone said: 'Hey, let's see if we can still do some of the old stuff', and we messed around with some of that and found that we could.

Then one thing just led to another. I should say that when we did our first show in Chicago, Darren (our guitar player) did participate in the Eyehategod recording, but he won't be a part of anything else that we do, because he has a job and a family and it's a little more difficult for him to do this than the rest of us. He still got up there and did his best, but it's too hard for him to rip himself out of his current situation and do a bunch of touring. But as for the tribute - that came out really well, and I'm not sure when it's going to be released, but that will be something to look out for."

Check out Chronicles Of Chaos' complete interview with members of Brutal Truth here and here.

As previously reported, Brutal Truth have scheduled a string of dates in the UK and Japan in addition to their previously confirmed appearance at the Maryland Death Festival, taking place May 26th - 27th at Sonar in Baltimore, Maryland.

Upcoming confirmed Brutal Truth dates, beginning in February, 2007, include:

February

3 - Sheffield, England at The Corporation
4 - Glasgow, Scotland at The Cathouse
5 - Dublin, Ireland at Voodoo
6 - Manchester, England at Music Box
7 - Nottingham, England at Rock City
8 - Birmingham, England at Carling Academy
9 - London, England at Mean Fiddler
10 - Luton, England at Luton University Student Union

March

5 - Osaka, Japan at Club Quattro
6 - Nagoya, Japan at Club Quattro
7 - Tokyo, Japan at Club Quattro
8 - Tokyo, Japan at Unit (solo headlining show)
25 - Los Angeles, CA at Knitting Factory (Los Angeles Murderfest)
26 - 27 - Baltimore, MD at Sonar (Maryland Death Festival)

More dates to be announced.