Kvltsite.com recently caught up with GOREFEST guitarist Frank Harthoorn to discuss the band's new album, Rise To Ruin. The followimg is a brief excerpt from the interview:

Q: Gorefest came back heavier than before and Rise To Ruin I think is your heaviest yet. How did that come about?

Harthoorn: "It's what we started out with, what actually made us a band. We experimented with our sound quite a bit in the 90s, just because we were interested in that stuff. If you like music as much as we do, and you happen to be in a band with each other, you'll be wanting to try out certain things. I think we got most of the experiments out of our system, but still use a lot of the things we learned from them to kind of flesh out our songs."

Q: Was there a change in your approach to the songwriting for the new album as compared to "La Muerte?"

Harthoorn: "Well, Eddie got a lot more songs in this time. It's the first time I haven't pitched in with some songs, and it's just been Ed and Boudewijn writing music. That gave this album a lot more focus, I think. I guess it's pretty obvious if you listen to both albums back to back. La Muerte was a bit all over the place, Rise To Ruin is more clear cut."

Q: Is Gorefest your full time job? Can you live off the music so to speak?

Harthoorn: "No. We did live off the band for a large part of the nineties, but in the end that was one of the reasons for us breaking up, in a way. It's kind of a paradox. When you start out, one of your main goals will be to be able to live off your music. When you eventually do, you realize you're just stuck in a different kind of job, which was something you wanted to avoid when you started out. Not all bands go through this, of course, there's plenty of examples where bands do live off their music to their full contentment. I think we got a bit jaded, and couldn't really appreciate the situation we were in, because we didn't appreciate each other any more. That has thankfully changed, even though we had to split up for six years first."

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