MONDAY Q&A 5/4/20

Q: I am a big HATE DEPT. fan and I was wondering how you know Seibold and how you got him involved? Love ‘Almost Pure’ by the way!

A: First, thank you! I really love the song too. Way back in the mid-’90s I stumbled on HATE DEPT from a review in Alternative Press. The description sounded intriguing. I bought '“Omnipresent’ and immediately loved what Steven was doing. His wit and angst was a great combo … and I loved the mix of synth and guitars. I was one of the first artists I brought on at Schecter. We stayed friends thought the years and followed what each other was doing. When I started putting together the ‘line-up’ for this record, I reached out to him about Curse Mackey … as he had mastered Curse’s album We started going on about records we liked and when he mentioned “Disintegration”was one of his all-time favs…. i immediately said‘have i got a song for you’! He said he would love to be involved with BIC, and we sent him the music track and it came back as ‘Almost Pure’ ! I really could not have been happier with what he did … words and melody. He even doubled one of our synth lines with his old Hate Dept. era Emu Emulator sampler!

Seibold photo by Michelle Walters Seibold / MC photo by Anabel DFlux / collage by Ryan Martin-Jammerzine