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\n<\/a>From Official Bio:\u00a0 Our Last Enemy are the dark horses of Australia\u2019s heavy music scene \u2013 if you haven\u2019t heard the name yet, remember it \u2013 you\u2019ll be hearing a lot of it very soon. A brutal live reputation for theatrically unpredictable shows has created a strong live following and unparalleled local buzz – Our Last Enemy are known for crazed audience interactions and an intensity that results in band member injuries and crowd frenzies.<\/p>\n

Ultimately it\u2019s the killer tracks, infusing industrial rhythms with lashings of dark metalcore rock and chunky metal riffs, that keeps the punters headbanging and coming back for more. This unique blend of extreme genres resulted in Our Last Enemy\u2019s current EP release, \u2018\u2026Is Death\u2019 selling out two pressings, single \u201810,000 Headless Horses\u2019 being featured in soundtracks and compilations, and remixes becoming dark\/alternative nightclub favourites.<\/p>\n

After a big year in 09 including support slots for STATIC X, DOPE and HANZEL UND GRETYL, and decamping to LA to record the debut album with Christian Olde Wolbers (Fear Factory) 2010\/11 is set to be even bigger with a huge tour planned for mid year. With a new lineup that includes Bizz on guitar from legendary cult Florida industrial metal band Genitortures (Feat. David Vincent of Morbid Angel) and The Undead (ex-Misfits) and Craig on keys and samples the bands profile is raised to a truly international level.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss your chance to experience the chaotic blend of tightly structured mayhem that is Our Last Enemy.<\/p>\n

We chatted to Our Last Enemy’s bass player Matt about the new EP and why they’re one of our Best Things You’ve Never Heard…<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve just released a new EP what was the thinking of doing this rather than just waiting for the second album?<\/strong>
\nWell we wanted to do a couple of things, the next album we wanted to do with as much effort and time as the first album but we wanted to have something come out in the meantime.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also got two new members who we wanted to write with fairly quickly as well, to not have it on a big a scale as the album and to get something out faster we thought, let\u2019s just do an EP.\u00a0 So we got six songs together and released them.<\/p>\n

Song wise on the EP, are these all brand new tracks or ones you\u2019ve had for some time and have now let see the light of day?<\/strong>
\nOh well, basically we\u2019d been doing this from writing to finish, I\u2019d probably say it was a good nine months or so.\u00a0 We did a lot of pre-production, we would demo all of them and then if we thought ok this idea\u2019s working, or we\u2019d change it up or someone would come up with a different idea.\u00a0 They were basically, the ideas are quite old but some of the parts are quite new, even to the point in post-production going Ok I think this sample would work better and we\u2019d all agree on it or disagree on it and so on.\u00a0 So the ideas in general are probably nine to ten months old.<\/p>\n

After releasing the debut album, did you do anything differently in the recording process on the EP?<\/strong>
\nYeah well we did it all pretty much ourselves.\u00a0 Our guitarist Bizz has his own studio so we did a lot of the work there, so that was one thing.\u00a0 We had a lot more control this time around rather than having a big producer and basically not having to answer to anyone and we could do whatever we wanted, so that was the biggest thing.\u00a0 We also got to do it at our own pace, that was the biggest thing, doing most of the work ourselves and the fact that we did a lot more pre-production that was another thing.\u00a0 With the last album it was more jamming and jamming and jamming whereas this time around we were kind of sitting there listening to the songs and figuring them out and talking about the songs, writing everything down and it was a lot more thought out this time around.<\/p>\n

How would you describe the EP to people?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve used this before.\u00a0 In a sentence, it\u2019s as sharp as a razor and as blunt as a brick in the face ha ha. That\u2019s the best way I can explain it, we\u2019ve got an intro track, we\u2019ve got five songs, we\u2019ve got one of the heaviest songs we\u2019ve ever written in the title track called \u2018Wolves of Perigord\u2019 so it\u2019s really fast paced, really high in the BPM and faster than what we usually do.\u00a0 Then we\u2019ve got a song called \u2018Devour The Sun\u2019 which is very industrial, it\u2019s got a lot of sample in it, it\u2019s probably one of my favourites at the moment.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got another one called \u2018Internus Diablos Verni\u2019 which is probably like very main vein, like what we do, very groove orientated, and then we\u2019ve got some orchestral stuff going on as well, so its pretty broad even though it\u2019s only five or six songs.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the meaning behind the title \u2018Wolves of Perigord\u2019?<\/strong>
\nWe got the title, Oli and I usually send animal attack videos to each other on YouTube and stuff, we\u2019d fine like \u2018Bear vs Bear\u2019 or \u2018Bear vs Jaguar\u2019 or something and all the guys would get into it and start sending them.\u00a0 One night we were looking up wolf attacks and came across the story of the Wolves of Perigord, which were a pack of wolves, I think about ten of them if I remember correctly, but they attacked this region in France in the 1800\u2019s or 1700\u2019s and they killed around eighteen people and basically they shook this region to its core.\u00a0 Even Kind Louis put out a reward to have them dead and we just like the idea that these wolves, even though they were just doing what came naturally to them, you kind of chased after and persecuted, and they kept doing it until the last one was dead, so they kept doing it no matter what the consequences were and we kind of saw some similarities between that and a band doing what they want to do to despite what the outcome is going to be.\u00a0 So that\u2019s where it comes from.<\/p>\n

When can we expect the second album?\u00a0 Are you working on it?<\/strong>
\nYeah, it\u2019s just very, very early, we\u2019ve just got a few riffs, a few samples, Oli\u2019s talking about another type of concept, so it\u2019s very, very young at the moment and we\u2019re concentrating on the EP at the moment, but yeah we\u2019ve started jamming on some new stuff.\u00a0 In terms of when it would come out I\u2019d say, you\u2019ll probably start hearing about it at the end of this year and it\u2019ll be next year before anything comes out.<\/p>\n

Have you written any material for the next album?<\/strong>
\nwe basically put everything into this EP and anything that couldn\u2019t fit we put aside for\u00a0 maybe it\u2019ll work for the next album, so we\u2019ve got a whole bunch of those.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also got a few other riffs which we\u2019ve just been coming up with at rehearsal, it\u2019s nothing solid, but there\u2019s some ideas coming about but it\u2019s really early days for what it\u2019ll sound like.<\/p>\n

In conjunction with the EP you\u2019re playing a string of shows across the East Coast.\u00a0 For those that have never seen you play before, can you give us an insight into what one of your live shows entails?<\/strong>
\nWell we usually hurt ourselves a lot, everybody gets into it, we play the songs as best as we can and we put on a show at the same time, so we\u2019re not one of those bands that just stands around and plays this brutal music.\u00a0 So we jump around and throw things at each other and try and push each other off stage so there\u2019s a good chance one of us will fall off the stage so that\u2019s a good thing to see.\u00a0 At the end of the day we walk off the stage and say \u2018what happened to you?\u2019 and Jeff goes, \u2018Oh I just broke my finger\u2019 and we played with Fozzy here Sydney and I sliced my head open on the bass, that was pretty brutal.\u00a0 I had a guy carry me off stage and they were all worried about me, so something like that is bound to happen, but we just like to put on a good show and as they say Rock out!<\/p>\n

Touring wise, obviously you\u2019re playing here, but have you looked at going overseas at all?<\/strong>
\nYeah well we went to New Zealand last tour and we were going to go to Japan just before the Tsunami and the Nuclear Zone disaster, so we canned that as we were going to go pretty much around that time, so we canned that and decided to record the EP.\u00a0 So we\u2019ll hopefully go back to New Zealand this tour, we haven\u2019t got dates yet but hopefully we\u2019ll be back this year.\u00a0 Then we\u2019re talking about going back to The States again, or Europe.\u00a0 Half of us want to go to The States and half want to go to Europe so it\u2019s about what\u2019s going to be the best for us at the moment, so we\u2019re kind of talking about that with our booking agent and what contacts they\u2019ve got overseas so that\u2019s kind of getting worked out for whether we go to The States or Europe, but definitely within the next nine months we\u2019ll definitely do New Zealand and either Europe or The States again.<\/p>\n

With some line-up changes over the last couple of years, has that brought a different dynamic to the band?<\/strong>
\nYeah definitely, I mean Bizz, he was in Genitortures which is a big Florida industrial band and he brought a lot more and a different way of approaching things, I mean the biggest thing he brought to the band was more emphasis on pre-production, which is something we\u2019d never thought about, well obviously we\u2019d thought about it but not put much emphasis on.\u00a0 We were usually more about jamming it out, but this time around we were more about talking about it, organising it, trying different ideas before we\u2019d rehearse in the studio and things like that.\u00a0 Craig is a different type of keyboardist than we\u2019d had, he\u2019s very sample orientated and he loves to come up with different samples and throwing them in different areas.\u00a0 He can sit there for hours just listening to sounds and he\u2019ll go \u2018Hey guys what about this?\u2019 and we\u2019ll throw that on.\u00a0 So definitely a lot more thought out is the answer, rather than a freestyle jam.<\/p>\n

What does the rest of 2012 have in store for Our Last Enemy?<\/strong>
\nWell we\u2019re going to do this first tour, then we\u2019re going to do a couple of what we call \u2018Stab Shows\u2019 we\u2019ll keep going back to Melbourne and Gold Coast and Brisbane, we\u2019ll go to New Zealand again.\u00a0 We\u2019re hoping to do two videos for the EP, I don\u2019t know which songs we\u2019re going to do yet, that\u2019s still something we\u2019re all talking about but we hope to do two videos for this one.\u00a0 Then we\u2019ll start our plans for going overseas in going overseas and then we\u2019ll start our plans for the second album, so this year is going to be all about the shows really.<\/p>\n

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Essential Information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Sydney, Australia<\/p>\n

Sounds like:<\/strong> Metal<\/p>\n

Band members:<\/strong> Oliver – Vox, Matt – Bass, Craig – Keys, Bizz – Guitar, Jeff – Drums<\/p>\n

Latest Release:<\/strong> Wolves of Perigord EP (Riot! Entertainment)<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.ourlastenemy.com<\/a><\/p>\n

TOUR DATES \u2013 March \u2013 May<\/strong>
\nThu 29 March: Beer Garden Gold Coast
\nFri 30 March: The Hi Fi Bar Brisbane
\nThu 26 April: The Loft Warnambool A\/A
\nFri 27 April: Community Hall Shepparton A\/A
\nSat 28 April: Revolver Upstairs Melbourne
\nSat 5 May: TBA Wollongong
\nFri 11 May: The Wall Sydney
\nSat 12 May: TBA Newcastle
\nSat 19 May: Cavern Club Adelaide
\nSat 26 May: The Basement Canberra<\/p>\n

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