Tjena Moss

5 snabba frågor till engelsmannen Olly Pearson, sångare i albumaktuella snigelorkestern Moss. ”Tombs of the blind drugged” är ute nu på Rise Above. Min recension.

1. Do you ever feel trapped by the genre that you have chosen for yourself? Are you never frustrated that Moss is defined and judged by it’s ability to play extremely slow? Don’t you ever get an irresistible urge to just thrash out some blasting Discharge styled hardcore?
Hah! We do that in rehearsals… then we just end up slowing them down, then we have a Moss song! So cheers to Discharge. Never really felt trapped, there’s a few of speeds we can play with... slow, and not so slow… and sometimes, standing still…

2. I recently saw Cathedral play at the Roadburn Festival. During the set, they screened ”Tombs of the blind dead” as the backdrop. Now you guys release ”Tombs of the blind drugged”, citing Amando De Ossorio as an influence for the title track. And on Cathedral’s front man Lee’s label, none the less! Who’s stealing from who?
Welll, looking at the 80’s, doom is all about taking someone elses ideas then running with it... Personally I can’t wait to see the next spate of drug-centric Cthulhu influenced doom with Masonic imagery.

3 If I say the word ”winter”, what’s your first three gut reactions? Please associate freely.
Turkey dinner.
The band.
knitwear.

4. How much narcotics, and of which kind, do you think it would take to make you go blind? And would it be worth it to achieve a higher lever of occult horror and secret teachings through esoteric drug rites and the use of unspoken sciences?
As of late I’m on a personal quest to discover how much drugs it would take to make you go blind. Over the last week I smoked over £200 worth of weed, had 10 hits of dmt, and a few bags of ketamine but I’ve still got perfect 20/20 vision. So much so, that I could see through the wall into the next apartment. Knowledge is the ultimate, it’s what I fucking strive for, so I’m all up for losing my eyes in exchange for total enlightenment.

5. Please conclude this sentence:
”This fucking system is like a…”. Like a what?
Cunt… you get fucked and raped on a daily basis and all you can do is piss back.



Soundtrack: N.O.T.A. "S/t" lp.