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Mind speaking live on TotalRock.com

Well guys, thanks for coming to see us. Tell the viewers who don't know you a bit more about yourself.

Jason: Thanks, man. Well, we're Mind, urrrm... we come from England and.. urrrr... to be honest, we just want to make people listen to our music.
Aaron: Whether you like it or not, Mind will get their dirty hands on you and shake you up like hell...
Jason: Yeah.

Fair enough... So, what about your new album, Free Your Mind? It's been commercially successful, how are you going to live up to it?

Harry: If I may speak?... We make music whenever we feel something coming on, whenever we feel inspiration. We're not one of those pretty, puffy, glammy, sell-out bands who are pressured into writing songs about love and sex for albums that have a due date. Our songs are political, epic and awesome.
Jason: Yeah.
Robert: S'pose, although if any record company needs a new act...
Aaron: You know where to find us.
Jason: Yeah. The thing is we're not in a rush to... urrrm... what's the word?... follow up Free Your Mind yet. It's doing fairly well, and we'll let thatg hang for a bit.

What are your favourite songs on the album?

Robert: Almost Again is a fun song to bash the drums to. But it isn't ours, which sucks.
Jason: Mhm. My personal fave is Moon, nice and easy to do... not wrecking my urrr... vocal chords.
Aaron: Free Your Mind is energetic,, it always is fun to perform and wreck guitars to.
Harry: ... I hate the whole album. It gets to you after performing them continuosly for a while. If I was pushed, I would say Blasphemy! because people enjoy it.
Jason: Misery Guts, cheer up!

Some people have dismissed you as Nu-Metal posers trying to be Hardcore. What do you say to them.

Jason: Fuck you.

... Is that all?

Jason: Yes.

Okay then... next question is, despite becoming a large band rapidly, you insist on using basic recording techniques. Why?

Jason: Danny boy insists so.
Aaron: If you don't know Dan the Evil Clown, he is our producer and mascot.
Harry: Get used to him, he's like a disease...
Jason: Yeah. But I like him. Alright lad, he is.
Robert: ...Impartial to him really. He's alright, of course we have our spats, but he's a nice guy.

What's been the hardest moment so far in being a big band?

Robert: Sounds cliched, but it has to be fulfilling the needs of the fans.
Aaron: To add to that, some tossers are trying to stop our brave quest... OF METAL!
Harry: Dude, I told you not to say that... we're a punk/metal hybrid, not ACTUAL metal. Anyway, adding to what he said, these people insist on making our life hell, whether they've heard us or not. It might be religious dudes or "true" metal fans, it doesn't matter. They just have a thing against us and I don't like it.
Jason: For me, performing Never Say Sorry is painful. I lost my friend and.. well... yeah.

Okay, final question. Will you play Blasphemy! for us?

Jason: Sure dude, that's why we're here in the first place...



Ignore the woman, that's Jasons mum, a huge fan of ours.

Time to go back to muddy, wet ol' England soon for the Crimbo holidays. Twas fun here in Jamaica, but everything must come to an end. We're packed with some songs. Last time we wrote, we mentioned about coming to America to perform. We've decided it shall happen. Not a tour, but a few shows. We need to make our name out here if we're going to get anywhere. We've written a new song we're pretty proud of. It MAY make our next album. Not sure yet. It's called "Soul Shadows" and it's sort of a Power Metal song. Not fully, but sort of. It's a different feel from a lot of our songs and thta's a good thing.

Let's tell you about our trip now

10.00: Plane takes off at Stansted airport. Jason falls asleep, so they narrowly catch it.
23.55: Arrive at Jamaica. Straight to the clubs.

The next day....

5.00: Arrive back at apartment after bender. Sleeps.
10.00: Wake up. Unhappy.
14.00: Looking around the town. All tourists, not one Jamaican in sight.
17.00: Beach. Harry buggers off with some Jamaican girl.
19.00: We go to a resteraunt without Harry. Very nice, good service.
21.00: Jason goes on another bender. Us sensible people go back and get an early night.
23.30: Jason comes back after getting kicked out of a pub.

The next day...

11.00: Wake up. Invigorating songwriting sessions.
15.00: Harry comes back to the apartment looking smug.
15.15: We hit the town again.
21.45: We go to the local bar for a quick drink.

The next day...

2.00: We get back from pub.
12.00: Wake up. Except for Jason, until Aaron farts on his head and puts it on YouTube.
12.15: For the final time, we go to town. Too early to drink, but we watch some local bands.
22.50: Harry rushes us all back home, saying "We don't want to be late"

The next day...

10.00: Wake up. Here we are talking now.

Buried Alive


Jason: "This was our first proper Mind record. It was when Nu-Metal was just fading out, so probably the wrong time to try and descend into those waters, but we're Mind, so we did anyway. It isn't just Nu-Metal though, it portrays other styles such as melodic death metal, funk rock, hardcore and a hint of indie at points as well. It is my favourite of all our demos we've done. I even like it more than MindBodySoul. Any fan of ours must listen to this first."

1. Buried Alive (In Thoughts of Those Loves Past) (3:42)

This is one of those songs which, although heavy, could have been a big mainstream metal hit. It isn't too deathy like Morbid Angel or Possessed, but it is heavy, oh so heavy. It is also our first song to have the timing and beat remain throughout the song. I even incorparate some cleaan vocals throughout parts. The song is about ex-girlfriends and is actually pretty morbid if you can understand the lyrics. Lyrics come with the CD pack if you buy it. Now.

2. Understood (2:59)

More of a Nu-Metal song than the rest, it has 7-string guitars and a slow paced, chunky riff. It also has stoner bits in it like on the previous demo, but remains quite short and sweet, so the lesser intelligent fan doesn't have to wade throughout the whole bloody thing. A simple song, it doesn't have anything out of the ordinary. That is until the last 30 seconds. A huge chord summons up a ferocious guitar battle between myself and Aaron, which is extremely fast and terrifying. Mostly the latter. It gave me nightmares.

3. Error 404 (4:04)

See what we did there? With the length and... oh forget it. Pushing Industrial to its murky limits, Error 404 is more of what modern Mind fans would think we were like. Imagine if Ministry went and had a lovechild with a Death metal band like Pestilince. Then imagine that lovechild married Rammstein and had twins. One of those twins went and had a good life, whilst the other became this song. To add to that, the solo is pure thrashy goodness, brilliant for moshing the night away to. Sort of.

4. See You When The Penny Drops (6:37)

You know when we said that one of our influences was System of a Down? Well, this song is almost identical to Aerials, except longer, and no violins or Serj Tankians eyebrows. The lyrics follow on from Buried Alive and the riff of Buried Alive is even played in the center of the song, before drifting off into moe progressive realms, such as The Mars Volta or Muse. Then a huge build up in white noise and drums results in an explosive solo playing the song out. B-e-a-utiful

Don't ask us how we did it, but our new single (Amber is the New Red) reached number 50 in the UK charts, despite not being a proper single. This may not seem impressive to you lot, but for us it is immense, especially for an extreme metal act.

We thank all our fans who made this happen and also to the people who run the charts, who we didn't even have to bribe this time.

These are the ones we posted. You can choose which ones suit you :)

Good good :)

Mind are extremely pleased to announce that Liam from The Lost/ The Schadenfreude Ecdysiast will work with us on our next album. This is great news, a PROPER producer doing some producing. :D

The official cover for our limited edition second disc. I thought it was pretty awesome myself. Certainly less lazy than our actual cover anyway.

We're having some more ideas, which is always a good thing. Lets give you a run down of some of the ideas we've had lately, shall we?

One of my personal favourites is The Good Apollyon. It's a sort of murky, doomy, slow chunking riff with a range of vocals spreading across. A harp plays its melancholy sound in the background with gently weeping violins. And that shit.

Another good one we've had is a much more fast paced speed-metal bludgeon called Planting the Seeds of Doubt. Resembles a Slayer/Venom hybrid, except slightly more punkish.

Our latest idea though is my favourite. It's a 3 part suite called Anthema. The 3 parts are all very different, the first part (Platinum Hearse) is a doom/prog number, like The Good Apollyon, but instead uses black metal vocals. The second part (Serenade) is a more metalcore affair, using different types of vocalisation and squeakier, higher-pitched, faster guitar work. The final part (Into Ashes) is a melodic prog-rock ballad song, quite simple really.

I'll update it all soon.