Interview With Dead Southern Bishop

Dead Southern Bishop are a Sludge Metal band from Georgia,they have a killer 6 track CD out that needs to be heard if you like Sludge Metal played dirty,gritty and loud.I highly recommend you check them out on CD and live if you get the chance.

1.So how have things been lately with you guys,are you busy with shows ? Not as busy as we would like to be, but we have been using the time to work on new material. 2.Why don't tell the readers a bit about how the band started and previous bands you might have been in ? Ben and Billy started jamming in late 2007. Around the first of the year they recorded a track and put it up on MySpace. Blake happened to find it and came in on vocals. After a couple of months Chris who had played with Blake in a previous project came in to play bass and we started playing shows right after that. Then in May of this year we added Brian as a second guitar player. Billy and Brian had known each other for years and when he came in he fit just like a glove. Actually, this is pretty much everyone’s first “working band”. 3.The album has killer artwork,who did the work on that ? Artillery Creative Design out of Macon, Georgia. 4.How did it take to write the songs for the album ? Over the course of about 8 months. 5.What is the current set list for your shows ? Is there many other songs not on the album that you play ? Right now we still playing every song on the album along with a few more. The names of the songs not on the album are Bloodshed & Blasphemy, In The Presence Of My Malice, and Aranea which are all new. There is also Lord Lucifer Rise which is one of our oldest songs, we just didn’t record it last time. 6.The bands sound can be best describe as Southern Sludge Stoner Metal or that's what i think of when i listen to the album.Was that what the band set out to achieve when you started ? Yea pretty much, we definitely want people to know that we have all of those elements in our music. We just call it “Southern Sludge Groove”. 7.Can you ever imagine yourselves playing any other type of music ? Actually we all dabble… Billy & Brian are both serious shredders and like to get all technical. Ben, Blake and Chris dabble in some backwoods Classic & Outlaw Country. 8.What is the main message behind some of the songs and are lyrics that important to the band ? The songs range from the end of the world to ice smoking whores and it is almost all dipped in religious metaphors. Hell yea the lyrics are important. With us there are always the final staple. 9.What has the band got planned for future recordings ? We are planning to have either another EP or hopefully a full length around the end of the year or early next year. And there is talk of doing a 7 inch split with some friends of ours. 10. I see you have guitar and drum brand logo's up on your page,do you all have sponsorship deals ? No, But we wish. That would be really awesome. 11.How has the live shows been for the band,is there a decent scene where you live ? Not really, we live in a very rural area, right in the middle of a bunch of small towns. We have to travel over an hour to play anywhere but in a way that just makes it more worthwhile. Now there is a new venue that just opened up like last week. It’s in the next town over about 10 minutes from us, so hopefully they will get a little scene going. The last show we played was our first hometown show. We played in the parking lot of the local cd store, with some friends of ours. (They are about the only other local metal band to speak of.) The show started around 2pm, it was about a 100 degrease under the South Georgia sun and we still had about 50 people show up and it was a fucking blast. 12.What is your opinion on the whole Sludge/Stoner/Doom scene in the US at the moment ? Well there are a lot of good bands out there some of our favorite bands comes out of NOLA, Wilmington NC, Virginia and Maryland. As far as our opinion, there is not enough, but in a way that’s what makes it so special. 13.What is the plans for the rest of the year for the band ? Any tours ? Right now the plans are to keep writing, playing and trying to get our name out to as many people as possible. 14.The band also has some killer merchandise,do you want to give a heads up to the readers of how to get hold of that stuff ? On our MySpace page, there’s a blog on merch and it will tell you what we have and how place an order. 15.Any final words or thoughts ? Check us out our music, take a look at our merch and keep it heavy as walrus balls. http://www.myspace.com/225452141