DEVIL’S ISLAND featuring Xenith
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 Xenith 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.
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?
Billy: Blackwater Park by Opeth. It just got a bit of everything and riffs for absolute days.
Casey: Peace sells…but who’s buying. I would have chosen Rust but Peace is so good because it’s got the clean tones, the dips, the peaks and the valleys and all that.
Jamo: It got to be Stop at nothing by Dying Fetus, it’s just so heavy.
Karim: Seventh son of a seventh son, it’s my favourite album ever and it’s so perfect.
Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to sleep 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 and why?
Billy: Because it’s got such a unique feel and vibe I’d say Witchtanic Hellucinations by Acid Witch.
Jamo: If we’re talking solely for the artwork I’m saying Into the pandemonium by Celtic Frost.
Casey: I’m saying integrity> by JME. Another good one would be mugshot by Pete & Baz.
Karim: Nargaroth Seven Tears Are Flowing to the River single artwork, just cause it’s so black metal.
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?
Billy: Probably vodka lemonade, pretty much the only drink I’ll have.
Jamo: Irn-bru, gotta represent for the homies in Scotland.
Casey: Random drama, it’s a drink at Yes Bar, its so nice. It’s like apple juice and rum it’s so good.
Karim: Water, I go through like 4 litres a day, I’d need water.
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?
Billy: My Warning hoodie. I got it at Damnation last year so it has a lot of sentimentality.
Jamo: My Destruktor shirt.Everything else is superfluous to me.
Casey: Probably my Cavalera long sleeve because I got that when I saw him.
Karim: Opeth Sorceress T-shirt because it’s just such good artwork.
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?
Jamo: Nobody else. There’s no one else I know better.
Casey: I’d probably just choose to be alone if it wasn’t with the band.
Billy: Yeah I can’t really think of anyone else I’d choose.
Karim: Probably like Chuck Shuldnier, I’d invite him to the island.
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?
Casey: Freddie Gibbs at academy 3 in 2019.
Jamo: Carcass, Nails, Exodus, Kreator. Carcass were definitely my favourite of the night though.
Billy: Unto Others at the star and garter in like 2022? Hands down one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
Karim: I’d say Kiss because it was my first concert, but Iron Maiden last year were deffo the best band I’ve seen.
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?
Billy: On the nose answer but Stewart Copeland from The Police, for obvious reasons.
Jamo: I’m gonna say Keanu Reeves because he’s in that band, he’s so chill and he’d help me out. Either him or Paul McCartney because he’s got the yellow submarine, he’d well find it with his yellow submarine.
Casey: Eamon from the chats, cause at least if he can’t save me, he’d bring some beers n that probably.
Karim: Taylor Swift because she’s got like a million jets.
You’ve been stuck here 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?
N/A, we’re fishing.
Karim: I don’t like fish so I’ll survive on coconuts.
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?
Billy: Mikael Åkerfeldt all the way.
Jamo: It’d probably be Justin Chancellor.
Casey: Dave Mustaine.
Karim: Gene Hoglan, he is peak.
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