SACRIFICE Singer Reminisces About Early Days - "We Would Never Have Imagined METALLICA And SLAYER Would Be As Big As They Are Now"
November 5, 2009, 15 years ago
SACRIFICE singer-guitarist Rob Urbinati spoke with Darryl Sterdan from Jam! Showbiz recently about a number of topics including their new album, The Ones I Condemn.
"We wanted to revisit the old days of thrash," Urbinati says about the new album. "And we really wanted it to be instantly recognizable as a Sacrifice album. So the songs had to be fast and they had to be heavy. And one thing we were really adamant about was to record it real -- without the new studio trickery like drum triggers and AutoTuned vocals. We wanted to do it all organically. And I feel like this is the best performance I've ever done vocally. We just had the right mindset. We were really focused and had a good direction. A lot of bands from our era have got back together and released an album, and I'll get it as a fan and think, 'This isn't cutting it.' I didn't want that to happen with us."Ironically enough, Sacrifice's high standards are one of the reasons they haven't been heard from in a generation. When they first got together as teens in the mid-'80s, Urbinati says, it was all about the music. "We would never have imagined METALLICA and SLAYER would be as big as they are now. We just did it because we loved it. We weren't thinking about being the next VAN HALEN."
Read the entire interview here.
