BFM:Ciao! How about the touring after released the Debut last year?
Vender: Hi everybody, here’s Game Over! Touring goes very well and we are very happy because the album received a lot of great reviews all around the world hitting the “Top 10 Albums of the year” in many magazines and webzines and, sincerely, we did not expected it!!! We played in a lot of shows here in Italy with great names of the Italian and international Heavy Metal scene as for example Vicious Rumors, Warbringer, Raw Power, Master, Death Mechanism, etc. We also played around Europe in a tour with our friends Asgard. This summer we will play at the Headbangers Open Air in Germany and more shows are going to be confirmed also outside Italy for this year, so… stay tuned!
BFM:Can you tell me about the band's releases that came out before this Debut?
Ziro: We recorded a zero-budget-3-tracks demo at the beginning of 2009 in fact we’ve been “guinea pigs” for a friend who bought a recording set and he wanted to test it on us!!! Then, few months later, we recorded other songs that have been part of our EP called “Heavy Damage” that, fortunately, received good reviews all around the world! In 2011 someone believed that we released two Split-Albums with two Italian bands but this is not the truth. Or better, we should have release these two splits but they never came out because we entered the studio to record “For Humanity” that was, clearly, our priority.
BFM:How about the Experience in working "For Humanity" did it have any seriousness on recording session?
Game Over: For sure. During the recording sessions everyone tried to do them best. Fortunately Simone Mularoni, the guy who recorded, mixed and mastered our debut, is very expert and professional in this sector, he catched what sound we were looking for and he extrapolated the best from everyone of ourselves. Clearly, there have been also funny moments during the recording session days. For example, we were in a house rented in San Marino near where we recorded the album. During the evening the owner entered the house and he saw a real terrible scene… Sanso was combing Ziro’s hair!!! Then Ziro urged the poor owner to open the door of the bathroom… a voice that was coming out from the bathroom was saying “come in, come in!” … he did it… he opened the door… yeah, the situation was very frightening… then, when the door was opened, he saw Reno completely naked under the shower making love with the near sink!!! Ahahahahah! It was a comic situation! We laughed until we cried!! But not the poor owner…
BFM:Which brand of Instruments that Each members are used and endorsed?
Game Over: Reno uses an Ltd and Rickenbaker 4003 bass, a Peavey amplifier and his fingers;
Ziro uses an american Jackson RR5 and an Ibanez RG series guitar with a Peavey 5150 guitar head, Wah-Wah “Cry Baby” guitar effect;
Sanso uses a LTD and a Washburn guitar;
Vender uses Tama Rockstar drums and Paiste Cymbals. But anybody has an endorsement contract with a Brand.
BFM:Did the band members have another Band or Project up to GAME OVER?
Ziro: Yeah, Reno plays also in a great Heavy/Speed Metal band called Asgard, they are the pride of New Italian Heavy Metal! Vender played in many other bands of his region as for example Violence Spread (Thrash Metal). Sanso played in another Italian thrash band for few months (Sacrificator) and Ziro in some local bands. Actually Ziro and Sanso plays in an Hardcore Punk project for fun.
BFM:Who did the artwork on this Material? ,I think was raw ,straight-forward for Thrash!
Ziro: I drawed the artwork after we had the idea. Then we gave the proof to a friend who re-drawed it and coloured it because I suck! We take the chance to thank this friend!
BFM:What's the main lyric theme of this album?
Ziro: have two main lyrical themes: stupid and serious. For example, in Another Dose Of Thrash or Tupa Tupa Or Die we speak about what’s being metalheads, to make party and other bullshits like these. Evil Clutch is about the best-worst Italian Horror film of the whole cinema history and then there’s the serious current. In Bleeding Green we tell on the environmental devastation and exploitation, War Of Nations tells about the control of the masses by the media and Abyss of a Needle is the story of a drug addicted.
BFM:What is the reason that you've Named the band "GAME OVER"? have you got this name from VDO Games or something else?
Ziro: Strike, man! Ahahahah! Yeah, our name reflects our passion for vintage videogames, but it reflects also our devotion for the first album of one of the greatest Thrash bands of the world, a masterpiece!
BFM:Who did the solo in this Album? ,I heard many solos in "Mountains Of Madness"
Ziro: Solos are played by both guitarists but in mountains of Madness there is a guest. The third solo is played by Simone Mularoni.
BFM:In your childhood ,who is your Idols that made you come to listen and play metal?
Game Over:
Ziro: A lot of bands! Thanks to my father's rock albums I discovered many Hard Rock, Heavy Metal and Punk bands. So my first idols were Led zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Stranglers, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Dire Straits, Jimi Hendrix, Luciano Ligabue (an Italian songwriter). Then I discovered by myself many other bands -Heavy Metal and not- who became my idols… but EDDIE VAN HALEN is the best guitarist of all time in my opinion!
Vender: Obviously we are inspired by all the main metal bands in the world. Metallica, Megadeth and so on are masters for everybody. Personally Dave Lombardo, Charlie Benante and Mike Portnoy taught me how to play drums but I think that everybody takes something from every good musician.
BFM:Did your Parent have any opinion about playing Thrash Music and touring?
Game Over:
Vender: Personally my parents don’t like Metal and they don’t like that I’m a drummer of a thrash metal band. So last year, when I joined to Game Over, I killed them after I turned in a werewolf. Now they can’t tell me nothing!
Ziro: At the beginning of this “adventure” my parents were a bit “studded” because in my family no one ever played in a band, especially in an Heavy Metal band that plays the blasphemic and satanic music of hell! … Ahahaha! Said that, they understood that playing in Game Over is one of the coolest things in the world and it’s an opportunity to visit places of the world playing our music… but it's also a chance to impregnate as many girls as I can and spread my breed. That's the real reason I play in Game Over and it's the same for the other guys
BFM:Where is your most favorite show that you have played on GAME OVER
Vender: I think that a good show depends by the city where we play. We love to play and we played in many cities in the North of Italy. But probably our favourite event was the European tour with our friends Asgard!
BFM:Can you Introduction me the great Italian metal bands that you met on the tour? (not just Thrash bands)
Vender: Italy has a lot of great bands. This last years some italian metal bands began to play around theEurope and this is great because there are a lot of killer bands here. I can name Asgard, Final Fright, Ruler, Walpurgis Night, National Suicide, Sign of the Jackal, Endovein, and a lot of bands of the “My Graveyard Productions” family.
BFM:Before the show. Do you have any exercise and warm-up your body?
Vender: Yeah, of course. We usually unite our naked bodies and sing together “Macho Man” of Village people. I know that Ziro does footing all around the Live Club, than he eats 6 eggs and finally he makes stretching exercises. Than we are ready to play! No serious we can’t tell you what we do before the show or I have to kill you!
BFM:How about the Metal Scene on Italty since 2000 'til now?
Ziro: we were born in 2008, so about the italian thrash metal scene of the early years of 21st century we can’t tell you too much. But we can say that around 2005 the scene took life with bands such as National Suicide, Warmonger, Insane, and many others. Now the scene is still alive with and I think it could rival with the other European scenes, but the Italian one needs more aggregation. In fact here in Italy there’s a scene in Turin, there is a scene inMilan, there is a scene in Genoa, in Padua, in Venice and in other Italian regions and cities with a lot of heavy metal fans. But there isn’t a “National Scene”. So our scene isn’t compact. Yeah, sometimes someone of the Milan’s scene goes to a concert in Venice, but these are rare cases. But don’t misunderstand me, we play in Italy since 4 years and this scene is our family… but it’s getting tight and we feel the needing to play outside our nation
BFM:Your 5 Best fucking Metal albums of all time
Ziro: These are mine: Rust In Peace, 1984, Ride the Lightning, Heaven and Hell, Operation Mindcrime and Empire (they are both awesome, I cannot choose!)… and, obviously, Game Over!!!
BFM:As we are Beer Friendly Music Group So I have to ask this question ,What's the best delicious Beer in Italy?
Vender: Brirra Moretti is the best Italian beer, there’s no doubts. But there’s a lot of other beers as Nastro Azzurro, Forst, Kiefer, Peroni and many more underground beers! So you can choose what you prefer!
BFM:Almost done ,and this is from my own mind ,What is the nice places for visiting in Italy?
Game Over: Oh our drummer works in an hotel in Alba di Canazei near Trento so if you like the mountains (of madness) you can go there. Special price for every reader of Beer Friendly Music! There aren’t better places to visit inItaly so come on people the phone is already hot! But also the most famous Italian city Rome is beautiful, and our homecity Ferrara, a 1300-years old beautiful medieval city!
BFM:Now This is the last question, give some shouts,introduce some touring info ,promote your Album.
Vender: So, we are preparing the shows for this year. As I told before this summer we will play at the Headbangers Open Air in Germany. We will play also at Sun Valley Metal fest in june and more shows will be announced soon. We are also finishing to write the songs for the new album and we think that we will enter in studio this summer. It will be killer!! Anyway just take a look to our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/#!/GameOverThrashMetal) for more details and infos about our shows and everything else. Thank you very much to everybody and we hope to see you on the road, upon the stage headbanging with us!!!
Stay tuned guys, and keep on thrashin’!!!
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