Obliterationist Interview

Give a short explanation of the band's origins. (story behind the name, when you got started etc) 

We all got together as a band for the first time in December of 2010. Back then we were rather unserious about our band and we named us "Killing what's Lifeless" - a name only reffering to our first song named "A Soulless Monster".
As we wrote more songs and played local venues we noticed that we recieved more and more positive feedback, we couldn't believe it but people actually thought we were good!
We then decided that we would maintain our band more seriously and recruit a bass player which we had never had before. During this time it was the summer of 2011 and it wasn't until March of 2012 when we found our bass player. Shortly after he had joined we decided that we would pretty much start over from scratch and leave the "Killing what's Lifeless"-era behind us. We then named us "Obliterationist" which basically means "someone who has the plain ideology to destroy or ideas to obliterate, kill". A name we thought, and still do, fitted our songs and their meanings much better than "Killing what's Lifeless".

What are some of the band's influences?

Our bands influences are rather scattered although they are all in the metal section. We play deathcore/extrememetal that is a bit more to the deathmetal than to the hardcore. We are sort of a mix of Whitechapel and Chelsea Grin although people have said that we sound like Job For A Cowboy.

What was your favorite show to play? 

We haven't really played that many shows since we are newly established but our favorite show so far was when we played at a metal festival named "Entering Spring Festivalen" in the middle of April not too long from where we live.
We played together with larger Swedish bands such as Yersinia and Walking With Strangers and the crowd of around 300 people was amazing!

What band(s) do you want to share the stage with in the future? 

We would love to share the stage with any of our greatest inspirations such as Suicide Silence, Whitechapel or Chelsea Grin. You can always hope, haha!

Can you give any details on future release? (EPs, singles, full-lengths - anything you can give)

We just released our first EP and right now we are only promoting it continiously to build up a solid fanbase. We are looking at re-entering the studio by the end of this summer again to record some more. What it is we are not really sure about yet although pre-production songs could be submitted this summer!

Do you plan to tour in the future? If so, where do you want to play most?

We definitely plan to tour in the future. Right now it looks like we will be doing a tour or two this summer here in Sweden. On future tours we hope to be going to places all over Europe and also places such as the US and Australia.

Where do you see yourself in ten years?

We have fortunately no ideas of where we will see ourselves in the future as we are a newly started band. We are only wanting to maintain our band at a steady level, write music and bring it out to a supportive crowd to see wherever it takes us!