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Interviews
Hellride Music: Please tell us the history of each member. How did they get into Doom Metal? Who were their largest influences? What bands were each previously in? Are releases by those bands available? David: We formed Rising Dust one year after Dark White broke up. Steff was bass player back then, I was guitar. We met Malek who was a drummer and Rising Dust was born.... In 1992, I started my first doom band, Dark White with Pierre on vocals, we released a first demo called ,"Soft and Relentless" in 1993. At the time we were playing old school doom, but much darker than now. This mainly influenced by Saint Vitus and Pentagram of course. Steff joined the band in 1996 and we recorded a MCD entitled "Enter the Funeral Kingdom". The three of us have a wide range of musical tastes, but what really gather us is our common passion and love for doom metal influenced by Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Trouble, The Obsessed, Witchfinder General, Black Sabbath, etc..., but also by the 70's scene: Atomic Rooster, MayBlitz, Yellow, Black Widow and of course Blue Cheer! As for the Dark White demo and MCD, they're both sold out, but we hope to repress 'em sometime soon...
Hellride Music: How did Rising Dust become a band? David:
Rising Dust was born from the alchemy between Steff on bass, Malek on
drums, and myself on vocals and guitar. Our main idea was to form an efficient
and powerful trio, with a real band spirit. (Which tend to
Hellride Music: Have you been able to play live much? If so how would you describe a Rising Dust show? David: Our line-up is pretty recent and and we haven't done many shows yet, but you can resume one of our shows as ,100% real fuckin powerful doom!!. We soon expect to play more and more.
Hellride Music: Your first two song demo is one of the best examples of old school doom I've heard lately. Tell us about that demo : the songwriting, the recording, the response so far? David: We recorded the first demo 1 years ago and we're very happy concerning the result considering the means we had. This style is evolving in an old school doom style and embodies well the mood we wanted to show. We liked to play with a heavy feeling, but we don't forget the wildness side of the early seventies, the birth of this kind of music. We play with our own feeling, our principal motivation is purely musical and not other bullshits reasons, we believe in this scene since a long time and we are indeed in it, all this aspects are a good image of our music, and we hope that the audience enjoyed our music as much as we liked to play it... Hellride Music: How is the Doom scene in France? Fans? Local Bands? Labels and Zines? response to touring bands? David: The French doom-Scene is unfortunately very poor, almost nonexistent.We're in touch with Northwinds (who are playin' at the Doom Shall Rise II this year), as for the others recent bands, they're more into a gothic doom style, which really doesn't interest me. With the rise of Stoner-Rock, we begin to see some bands coming. The early 90's were more creative with doom metal bands such as Garden of Silence, Astral Rising, Northwinds, Dark White. Now we all just wait and see.
Hellride Music: I understand that you have a second demo ready to come out. Please tell us about that. Can we expect awesome old school doom as on the first one? What differences are there between the two demos? David: We're now recording the 2nd demo. It'll be the following of the 1st one, real old school demo with a powerful doom heavy feeling and sound. It'll feature 4 tracks, including one Pentagram cover (Forever my Queen), the other tunes will be ,"Dark side of the 70's", "Doom Revelation" ,"Hunter of Sin" It should be out soon. And be sure that will be doom!!! Hellride Music: What are your hopes for the future for Rising Dust? David:
The 1st demo had been very welcomed by people and also by some labels,
we hope the same for the 2nd. Our goal is to interest a label, to sign
and to be distributed in a more important way, which will give us the Hellride Music: Is there anything you'd like to add? David: Doom has been underground for years, and it unfortunately has many problems to rise. I'd like to thank all the bands which struggled for this music for years, well known as well as lesser-known bands, that don't get the support. They deserve the labels and the zines. Keep the
faith, hail to the Doom!
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Out
of the smoking ruins of French cult metal band Dark White, emerges a behemoth
of old school dark doom sensibility.... Rising Dust mix in crushing power
with loose, uptempo jams reminiscent of the early pioneers of Doom - Pentagram,
Sabbath, Witchfinder General - but rest assured, Rising Dust's music is
truly their own. Hellride's Michael Ballue finds out more... 
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