MPIRE OF EVIL frontman Tony "Demolition Man" Dolan (ex-VENOM, pictured right) is featured in a new interview with OoMetalCageoO. An excerpt is available below:

Q: What, if any, genre label do you feel best describes Mpire Of Evil and what do you feel about the many genre labels the industry, media and fans put on bands today?

Dolan: "None. We have no label, well except metal. We are metal. There is a thought that metal was dying, weakening; not true. Just as many fans now as there ever was, it is just that there is so many small genres and large genre boxes everyone has been slipped into by media and fans alike that is seems that way, because back in the day we were one and now we are fucking 20 or more classifications. It seems that if you like grindcore these days you shouldn’t like black metal, and if black metal is not goblin metal or Viking metal or fucking Morris dancer metal… I like metal and there are black metal bands I like and black metal bands I don’t, grind bands I dig and grind bands I don’t and so on. Fuck labels; if it’s metal of any kind and I like it, job done. Once we all get back to being one crowd with great and varied bands in front of us, then we will all win and everyone one will see, we are as big a fanbase now as we ever were."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Mpire Of Evil have confirmed two live dates in Italy. They will take place on December 14th and 15th in Torino at the United Club and Milan at the Blue Rose Saloon respectively.