Talk with Tobias for Torture Division

Torture Division.. This is a 3 piece premium death metal band from Sweden . They are members from some killer death metal and extreme bands 
Lord K. Philipson :- 
Guitars
Created his legacy and legendary status with bands such as The Project Hate MCMXCIX, God Among Insects, Leukemia, House Of Usher and a few others.

Tobben Gustafsson:
Drums.
Created his legacy and legendary status with Vomitory, God Among Insects and a few others.

Jörgen Sandström:
Bass and vocals.
Created his legacy and legendary status with bands such as Grave, Entombed, Vicious Art, Krux and a few others

Before you go through this interview we request you all to go through Vomitorys interview , so as it becomes easy for you guys to understand this talk clearly;

http://snrmbnepal.blogspot.com/2013/11/interview-with-vomitorys-man-on-skins.html

So Tobias it’s good talking back again with you. How are thing going back there in Sweden?

Hi! It's all good here. A lot of positive things are in the air right now, so I'm pretty content right now.

So before we come to TORTURE DIVISION we will like to talk a bit about VOMITORY, how was the Japan tour and the last gig in 29th Dec 2013. Seriously that day is now considered as the dark day in the global death metal history.

The Japan tour was awesome but tough. It was great to finally see one of the countries that I have dream't of visiting, and even more great to meet our Japanese fans! They are incredible! The tough part was the travel schedule. It was not very good planned, but we knew it was going to be tough so whining about it while we were there wouldn't have made it better either. So we enjoyed it the best we could instead. We're very happy we did it, and I would love to go back to Japan one day - both as a tourist and play with a band. The other bands on the tour were great too, only nice people! The farewell show with Vomitory was nothing but a big success. I am so happy and proud of how it all turned out! The atmosphere was fucking magical, the crowd was amazing and we did a hell of a show! It wasn't as emotional as I feared it would be. I felt only pride and a sense of victory! It was the best possible way to end Vomitory! The supporting bands God Macabre (in which I also play drums) and General Surgery were fucking killer too and added to the old-school vibe of this special evening.

I had gone through the videos in YouTube that you and Ronnie passed me while we had a talk after the band got dismantled. It sure was memorizing seeing almost every x members and fellow bands members playing together and even Johan Hegg from Amon Amorth gave vocals in one song. Seriously man at one point i felt could have witnessed you guys on your last gig..

It sure was. Thomas Bergqvist (bass 1992-1996) joined us on stage to play "Perdition", Ronnie Olson (vocals 1989-1996) joined us on "Raped In Their Own Blood", Johan Hegg of Amon Amarth joined us on "Serpents", LG Petrov of Entombed joined us on "Retaliation" and Tomas Lindberg joined us on "Revelation Nausea". So it was quite a nice bunch of guests we had with us on that show all of them who has been involved with or inspired the band through the years. Those performances are pure pieces of gold that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.

For sure the name of VOMITORY will always be mentioned in golden letters in the Death metal history. Now leaving aside Vomitory and coming to Torture Division, the world finest death metal.. Can you tell us something about the band?

Torture Division was started in 2007 by me and K Philipson. We recruited Jörgen Sandström over the phone. Jörgen and K go way back so it didn't take too much work to get him on board. We made the decision in the beginning to release demos first, before we made an album, and make it available for free download from our website. We were actually offered a record deal before we even had one single note recorded. But we wanted to do it like in the old days; release demos first and slowly build the band. But soon we decided to continue releasing demo trilogies and not releasing albums. All three of us are pretty fed up with working with record labels in the traditional way so we decided to go our own way. And apparently it works just fine. Every single song we have recorded is available for free from our website. Still, so far three demo trilogies have been released as CD's too. All demos, except the first one, are mixed and mastered by no less than Dan Swanö of Unisound, which grants a top notch production.

Recently tortured division played a gig can you tell us how was it?

It was nice indeed! We played at Metal Clüb in Karlstad which is the place where all metal events in my area are. Our brothers F.K.Ü. also played that night. Good crowd and a great party! What more can one asks for?!

Exactly. As we all know that Death Metals history is now above 60 years and while I was going through your bands disco got these "With over 60 years (and counting) of combined death metal experience you understand that we know what we do, we love what we do and that we will keep on doing it until the end of days. Or at least for as many years as we find the inspiration for it. Which quite possibly might be when the end of days arrive. So, in short… Torture Division is the world’s best death metal". Can you explain us about it..

By now we have 75 years of combined death metal experience in the band haha. And I guess one can hear it too. We know what we do and we know how we want it. The "the world's best death metal" should of course be taken with a grain of salt, even though we think that what we do is great. It's fun to see how some people take that quote so dead serious and starts to argue about it haha. People in general need a lot more self-distance!

Tobias "I wanna beat somebody, Flesh before my eyes, Satan, Sprit och Våld " are some of my favorite . Satan, Sprit och Våld didnt get what it meant but it my personal favorite. Can you say us what does it mean?

Satan, Booze and Violence.

Ah Satan, Booze and Violence. So any new updates from torture division?

Yes, J just finished the bass tracks for the third demo of the last trilogy, and very soon he will record the vocals for it too. Then it's off to Dan Swanö and his magic fingers. Part from that, we are looking for shows to fill 2014 with.

So Tobias coming beyond Torture division tell us what are you listening nowadays?

I listen too much of the same I've always listened to, the classics you know. Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Saxon, Deep Purple, Slayer, Black Sabbath... I also listen a lot to more progressive stuff lately, like Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Spocks Beard for example. I also just recently discovered the Norwegian band Sahg, which I fuckin love!

Cool.

Since we have talked about almost everything in the previous interview of yours (with Vomitory) we would like to know which bands influence torture division 's music?

As already mentioned, we have 75 years of combined death metal experience so there are a few influences that we have picked up along the way haha. Jörgen even defined Swedish death metal as we know it today with Grave back in the day. The early Swedish death metal scene, old Slayer, Napalm Death, Vader, Terrorizer are some of the many influences.

So lastly a space for you to ask us SNRMB crew that we didn’t mentioned?

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