SACRED OATH - "When You’re 18 Years Old It’s A Lot Easier To Say 'Fuck This, I Don’t Want To Put Up With This Crap'"
April 13, 2009, 15 years ago
Charlie Steffens at KNAC.com recently caught up with SACRED OATH frontman Rob Thorne to discuss the band's comeback. An excerpt is available below.
KNAC.com: You have a big following in Europe, right? Even while your band went dark, so to speak, the loyalty stayed there and it seemed to grow.
Thorne: "Yeah, isn’t that freaky? We were disbanded for years until we got approached by Sentinel Steel, and they were like 'Would you guys consider getting in the same room with each other? Because there’s this whole following for you in Europe,' and we were like 'Hey, it’s not like we don’t like each other. We broke up because of all the bad shit that was going down with the label and we were so young.'
Charlie, when you’re 18 years old it’s a lot easier to say 'Fuck this. I don’t want to do this and put up with this crap.' And when they told us what we had going on, we’re like 'Sure.' So we got back together, we had a little reunion jam there, which was recorded and ended up being released as Crystal Revision. But the timing still wasn’t right. We were all busy in other bands. I was playing full-time in SOUNDSCAPE, so it was like 'Hey, that was fun. It was great to see you guys. Who knows what’ll happen?' In 2005 I got a little free time, Sounscape was sort of on the outs at that point, so I said 'Let’s do Darkness Visible,' which were all the songs that were lined up to record for our follow up album back in ‘88, and we did that and Bam! It just took off. So here we are."
Go to this location for the complete interview. BraveWords.com has a major Sacred Oath feature available here.
