DEVIL’S ISLAND featuring Angelic Desolation
Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil's Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It's not your average desert island and we'll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.
This week when we arrived at Devil's Island we find Angelic Desolation sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil's Island?
Find out now...
Welcome to The Razors'e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don't worry about it's name I'm sure it's not as bad as that would suggest.
So you're marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn't live without. Which album did you each chose and why?
Jay: Kid Rock's Cowboy because it will get me through this shit.
Chris: I'm gonna go with Scepter of the Ancients because that's one of my favourite of all time and it never gets old
Max: Yeah bro Animals by Pink Floyd
Matt: Decapitated's Nihility. Is there a better death metal album? Maybe. But you're wrong.
Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to stay in, with enough space for you to put up a poster on the wall of one album cover. What album cover do you each chose?
Jay: Fuck....Powerslave. And then underneath it I would hang a poster that says goals.
Chris: Cannibal Corpse, The Wretched Spawn
Max: Metallica The Black Album
Matt: Sepultura, Arise. I'm going to plant mushrooms on this island so this album cover would be my entertainment
There's also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What's your tipple of choice?
Jay: Tequila, it's my superpower.
Chris: I'm on an island so I'll go whiskey sour.
Max: choice Mai Tai
Matt: 151. We're dying here, I'm going out hard
Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?
Jay: My GWAR Mt. Fuji shirt. I've never seen anyone else with that shirt. It's like black and white, it's not even like that impressive of a shirt I just fucking love it cuz I've never seen anybody else ever wear it
Chris: I'll go with my Motley Crue Shout at the Devil shirt as it's one of my first metal shirts and I'd hate to lose it
Max: I would probably go with the Archspire hat you know because it's going to be sunny, no shade is going to be a thing. It's not just hanging from trees you know
Matt: I'm gonna go with hair tie. I don't mind being naked but no hair tie? Fuck that noise.
You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?
Jay: Good question. Box of fleshlights.
Chris: The cast of Seinfeld but they have to stay in character
Max: I think Harry Potter man. Harry Potter cuz he's got the magic man, he was giving me anything I want you know and if you saw that movie where he was stuck on an island with that kid. He literally was the Swiss Army Man. Daniel Radcliffe.
Matt: Jason Mamoa. I would have him take up his Aquaman character and go grab us food.
There's a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?
Jay: To Hell with God tour I went to with Matt where that dude threw a bottle at Glen Benton and he was like come here and like 5 metalheads pulled the dude up to him and Glenn started slapping him and then he kicked him out of the venue.
Chris: I was just kind of thinking the show that Dio, Motorhead, Iron Maiden tour that I saw with Matt when we were 16 or something. Epic tour.
Max: Van Halen, San Diego, September 3rd 1991
Matt: Whatever tour Metallica did that they used for the binge-and-purge box set back in the day. That live set really inspired me to want to play in a band when I was younger so that's what I'm going with.
You're getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?
Jay: Bruce Dickinson. He knows how to fly a plane. "I'm a big time fan please save my band you're the only one that can do it"
Chris: Nobody is suitable to save us, this is dumb, no one
Max: Dethklok. I feel like they have the money to come and get me and they would want to because we're a death metal band.
Matt: I would write to Jimmy Buffett. He seems to know a lot about the island life and when he showed up to rescue us he would probably bring a party. And maybe even cheeseburgers.
You've been stuck here for a while and food supplies are running low. There's only one thing for it... which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?
Jay: Max. He's not going to have a whole lot of meat and we'll be hungry in 2 hours but he'll be the easiest to take down
Chris: I mean Jay because you'd go the furthest the feeding the rest of the band it would ensure the rest of the band survives longer.
Max: Matt because he probably has the cleanest body out of all of us
Matt: I guess I'd say Jay because he would go the furthest. He's going to fight back though so it's really going to be a fight to the death between the two of us. And then Chris and Max benefit because now they get to eat more food.
Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?
Jay: Corpse grinder.
Chris: I mean I'm just going to say Nikki Sixx cuz he was always my bass inspiration
Max: Mike Portnoy for all the reasons above. And if you've seen a picture of him in the 80's his hair is amazing
Matt: I'd save Satriani because If he's the only shredder left that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
