DEVIL'S ISLAND featuring Kaivs
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 Kaivs 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?
Tiziano: Well, considering such a tragic scenario like this and the few time at my disposal, it isn’t an easy choice at all but I think my pick up wouldn’t be on a metal-oriented record, even if one of that kind would be a perfect as encouragement to survive on this place! For those who actually come to my mind, I’ll go quite sure with "At the Drive-In’s Relationship of Command" it’s energic and melodic at the same time and it’s one of the record which it's impossible to get tired of.
Max: First of all remember you all that Kaivs is the main demon at Devil's Island genealogy hahah! Phew! Only one? It's not enough and too less! Oh no, shit, man! Mmh, well I guess it'd be only "Reign In Blood" and nothing else!.
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?
Max: Well, my choice'd be "Divine Intervetion" because oh, it's so iconic! When I look it, there's all that a cover must have! And it's so evil! Or should I retreat to some naked girls? Hahahhah! Hard choice!.
Tiziano: That’s easier than the previous one because one of the cover artwork that ever make me feel astonished in every single look it's the cover of Cathedral "Forest of Equilibrium" and I know it’s sounds kinda hilarious because what does a forest have to do with an island?! Ahah! But those colours man, or to be more specific those shades of purple and those sinuous shapes... They’re great and a real piece of art in its complex.
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?
Max: First of all, what does the menu offer? Coke, beer or Pepsi? This is the question! No menu? Okay! It's Pepsi with a lemon's slice, please.
Tiziano: I’m a simple drinker and that’s why I would ask the barman just a beer, maybe hoping if he has anyone from Belgium like La Chouffe or staff like that.
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?
Max: Slayer! Only fucking Slayer shorts! Am I on an island or not?.
Tiziano: Ok that’s became a real tragedy right now ahah! I like to constantly wear bands' merch, shirts in particular, so that would be a great loss! I think I will prefer keeping both my hands busy holding as merch as possible instead of leaving one of them free to swim ahah. I love all the shirts of my favorite bands so I wouldn’t make any difference about them.
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?
Max: None of 'em! Hahahhah! I'm joking! We've no female in the band? Ouch!
Tiziano: Hard to answer this one! Nobody would like to get stuck on an island with people you care about unless you get the certainty of knowing that this island is a true paradise on earth! I pass the turn!.
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?
Max: It'd be only "Decade Of Aggression" for sure! Or "Bring On The Night" too?.
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?
Max: Tom Araya.
Tiziano: Uhm whoever are about to play a show on the 70,000 Tons Of Metal cruise paying attention to spot someone who’s making smoke signals on nearby islands ahah.
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?
Max: Surely is Jacopo hahahhah!
Tiziano: Here we are... Cannibalism... It would come sooner or later! Honestly we are almost all skinny guys, some more, some less, so each one of us wouldn’t be of too much help offering his flesh, it probably last just for few days.
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?
Tiziano: The first couple of names of those who inspired me the most as musician and of course as guitar players were Billy Corgan and Tony Iommi, each of them in a specific way. If I have to tell you a name about someone outside the guitar context, I would certainly say Lee Dorian and Morrissey, for several reasons. So I’ll reach out to save one of them.
Max: "Jesus saves or not, isn't it?
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