Interrogated by Jonny Bakes
I recently had the chance to catch up with Gatto Panceri 666, bass player and founding member of Nanowar of Steel (who have been Über Rock favourites for a good while and are so far the only band to have won our coveted #VideoOfTheWeek award three times) to talk about the new album, ‘Italian Folk Metal’, and ask a few burning questions of my own…
And even though my camera decided to shit the bed part way through the interview, we carried on like true professionals to talk about:
- abandoning their pop music fans and selling out to return to the metal world where the real money is
- Giorgio Mastrota – the Italian hero who collaborated on ‘La Polenta Taragnarok’, and the prized pot lid signed by the man himself
- who would win in a fight between Vegan Velociraptor and Captain Findus? The result may surprise you…
- the eerily coincidental burning of the Cathedral of Notre Dame while filming the video for ‘And Then I Noticed That She Was a Gargoyle’
- Gatto’s previous day-job in astrophysics and the art of hiding puns in simulation titles…
- a hint at some pretty big collaborations in the pipeline too… but not giving too much away at this point!
- ‘Italian Folk Metal’ is out now. You can get your copy HERE.
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