Arrow Lords Of Metal is reporting that in a new interview with Conexión Rock Radio, Possessed bassist/vocalist Jeff Becerra, who was shot in a robbery in 1989, leaving him partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound, weighed in on the never-ending debate on who can lay claim to being the first “true” death metal band: Death or Possessed.
Becerra said in part: “As you know, Chuck [Schuldiner] was a good friend. And I don’t see death metal as just being one thing or ever being perfected. I see it as a spiritual freedom. It’s not necessarily a combination of certain elements that make a predictable outcome. And Chuck and me were very much similar on our thoughts there.”
“I don’t know if you know this, but Chuck, before [Death’s debut album] Scream Bloody Gore, he moved down (to the San Francisco Bay Area) into the Possessed fan club president’s house to be nearer to us, to be nearer to me,” Jeff explained. “And so I remember when Chuck was showing me the precursors of Scream Bloody Gore, he was very, very into Possessed. He said, ‘Listen, Jeff. I sound just like you.’ And he said, ‘Is that okay?’ And I said, ‘Hell yeah, it’s okay.’ And it was that moment I realized that there would be more than one death metal band because it was really branding.
“We knew that there was thrash metal, we knew Venom was black metal, we knew there was speed metal, and we said, ‘We wanna make…’ Possessed was very unique. At that time we were carte blanche the heaviest band on the planet. And we said, ‘Let’s call ourselves death metal. And that will separate us from the other bands, ’cause people will say, ‘Possessed is that death metal band.’
“So naively, I thought that Possessed would be the only death metal band and would be known as ‘that death metal band’. But then when Chuck came around, just really, really enamoured and coming, wanting to be closer to the scene, I knew it would take off. And so I think that without Chuck, I don’t think it would’ve ever become a ‘genre genre’. I think that was a combination of me and Chuck and what followed after that, that that really made it take off.”
Read more at Arrow Lords Of Metal, and watch the video below:
"Prophets Of Addiction is a modern day Hanoi Rocks meets The 69 Eyes with plenty of Pop hooks and Whisky drenched vocals." - Metal Sludge.
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Becerra said in part: “As you know, Chuck [Schuldiner] was a good friend. And I don’t see death metal as just being one thing or ever being perfected. I see it as a spiritual freedom. It’s not necessarily a combination of certain elements that make a predictable outcome. And Chuck and me were very much similar on our thoughts there.”
“I don’t know if you know this, but Chuck, before [Death’s debut album] Scream Bloody Gore, he moved down (to the San Francisco Bay Area) into the Possessed fan club president’s house to be nearer to us, to be nearer to me,” Jeff explained. “And so I remember when Chuck was showing me the precursors of Scream Bloody Gore, he was very, very into Possessed. He said, ‘Listen, Jeff. I sound just like you.’ And he said, ‘Is that okay?’ And I said, ‘Hell yeah, it’s okay.’ And it was that moment I realized that there would be more than one death metal band because it was really branding.
“We knew that there was thrash metal, we knew Venom was black metal, we knew there was speed metal, and we said, ‘We wanna make…’ Possessed was very unique. At that time we were carte blanche the heaviest band on the planet. And we said, ‘Let’s call ourselves death metal. And that will separate us from the other bands, ’cause people will say, ‘Possessed is that death metal band.’
“So naively, I thought that Possessed would be the only death metal band and would be known as ‘that death metal band’. But then when Chuck came around, just really, really enamoured and coming, wanting to be closer to the scene, I knew it would take off. And so I think that without Chuck, I don’t think it would’ve ever become a ‘genre genre’. I think that was a combination of me and Chuck and what followed after that, that that really made it take off.”
Read more at Arrow Lords Of Metal, and watch the video below:
"Prophets Of Addiction is a modern day Hanoi Rocks meets The 69 Eyes with plenty of Pop hooks and Whisky drenched vocals." - Metal Sludge.
Listen at https://smarturl.it/prophetsofaddiction
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