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Interview
by SashaS
6-9-2001
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An unhinged psychodrama
Dry Kill Logic have a strange name, sport open-ended fury and fire riffs to kill
This strangely named band from Upstate New York was formed in 1995 under the moniker of Hinge and indecently released one EP (‘’Cause Mashing Is Good Fun’) and an album (‘Elemental Evil’ , 1998), admitting to be influenced by Pantera, Tool, Sepultura and, in particular, Fear Factory. Still, songs on their ‘The Darker Side Of Nonsense’ album are not cyber-metal but more basic, down-dirty and in your face. The band took a break in 1999, lost a guitarist, found new one, signed to Roadrunner and re-emerged as Dry Kill Logic.
We caught up with the band on their support duty on the Spineshank’s tour and started off by talking about their unusual name that, to be honest, is not the catchiest… until you get used to it, that is. Our conversational partner is vocalist Cliff Rigano who talks fast, at volume and with infectious enthusiasm.
“After signing to Roadrunner,” Rigano recalls, “we did a name search and found out that Hinge was a recording studio in Chicago and they weren’t pleased about sharing name with us. We tried to alter ours to Hinge AD, but again, it didn’t work. We had this expression, dry kill logic, that had been spotted by Phil (Arcuri, drummer) in some tech-manual a while back and he suggested it. We didn’t really like it but had no other ideas and went for it.”
“It actually describes a signal that fails to make its destination, as well as being an effects-rack we were using; if you plugged your guitar in, it had one channel in but it would return two channels: one ‘wet’ signal you could modify while the other, ‘dry’ signal, was the straight-forward one and you could mix the two. The good thing with this sound-processor was that you could turn off the ‘dry’ signal. After all, it’s just a cool name.”
It is good as it also hints at social communications which mostly appear to be wrongly wired to the trivial junky-ism.
Tools of chaos
Despite a couple of independent releases pre-1999 sabbatical, the quartet finds itself at the beginning of a career; is it a new challenge or continuation of the old struggle?
“When we took time off,” Rigano continues at supersonic speed, “it was due to some internal disputes and collective wish to get to feel like real people again. That was the first time ever I went skiing and can tell you I really enjoyed it. We had been around for a while, pushing the flesh and we needed something to take it to the next level. We found Scott (Thompson) who brought us that and we feel really excited about everything.”
Signing to Roadrunner attracted them not only by being the home to Fear Factory but because it is the premier HM label. Although it is also a home to a band that is setting the genre’s standard presently and thus overshadowing everything else – Slipknot.
“Yes, they are the driving force behind Metal,” Rigano readily agrees, “and it is great, I’m a huge fan. Slipknot is an incredible band that has really earned all the success they’ve had.”
Hostile profile
The band hails from Westchester, a part of New York state that is generally known as – middle-class. So, no Eminem brothers here?
“You are right,” Rigano agrees quickly, adding “but we’ve never claimed to come from the gutter. DMX, the rapper, comes from the Westchester ghetto and Dave, Scott and myself resided in that neighbourhood. We are not Eminem but there are parts of our county that are very rich but we don’t come from there. We’ve never ever tried to pretend we are like that, we are about honesty and realness and not pretending anything because you get found out.”
There is depth, anger and attitude-galore in DKL and they are not anti-anything in particular but just mad at everything in general.
“The lyrics I write are not about one particular person, or an event in my life; I write about it in a general way because they are things that piss me off as do everybody else due to life being a constant struggle. So, focus on this record is using that anger, that emotion that leads you to do something wrong and turning it into something positive. I took all the hate and anger to make the most intensely emotional record I could. The driving force behind emotional negativity is turning it into something positive.”
Dry Kill Logic will liberate your senses from the restraints of social psychodrama that, according to Rigano, is happening every-where. (We had no idea how prophetic these words would be within a week!?)
SashaS
6-9-2001
Dry Kill Logic’s ‘The Darker Side Of Nonsense’ is out now on Roadrunner
Wordage: 773; Thu., Sept. 06, 2001; 11:16:13am
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