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Drawing The Battle Lines With LACCA From 100 Years War · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  All right, good day. This is Lacko from one hundred years war.
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  I also run Metal in the Mountains in Beachworth, which just happened the other
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  weekend. Great to be here, yead for brother, thanks for join us
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  this evening. Thanks Man Worries so pretty he is dead. Recently played at
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  Metal in the Mountains at beach Worth mate so hours night and I was only
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  the last week hand out a gay Yeah it went really well. Yeah,
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  we had a great crowd, a good turnout, our problems. First time
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  in the open air in the middle of beach Birth right behind the old courthouse
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  where need Kelly was tried. Yeah. Right, so I want to put
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  a bit of a bit of history in nostalgia about the night. Yeah.
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  Man, it's nice historic little area where we've got all these old granite buildings
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  in near the courthouse and some of the other historic buildings Arsenal niche. It's
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  the bend like a cold butt there, not if you're in the pit.
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  I was actually a pretty nice day. We had red, good warm warm
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  weather, sun was out. We're really blessed in that regard. Whether there's
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  always a concern when you're doing an outdoor gig, but yeah, We just
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  got a real good deck of cards this time, so it was good.
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  We tried to go outdoors last year, but it was a wet year so
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  we sort of had to hold off. It was too raining on the on
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  the weekend. We tried to do it last year. So yeah, this
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  year was the first time we managed to go outside and the weather was just
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  really nice to us. Metal gods were shining on your brother, don't side
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  from yourselves. There's also hidden in chan do you need our religious observance and
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  heap some more bands on the lineup, bro, But in any batters on
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  the day, you really stand out and then rest the funk out of you.
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  I mean, they all stood out in their own sort of way.
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  We sort of like do the lineup so that all the bands are radically different
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  from each other, so they all stand out and they get to really show
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  their jobs. We picked all these bands because because we fucking love them and
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  they're all really good bands. Yeah, as far as putting on one of
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  the other the other or whatever, but I mean there's a reason hidden intent
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  was on the top of the bill. Those guys are absolute prayers that they're
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  the international touring level and they put on such a good show. I really
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  enjoyed their set, but not just theirs, all of them. There wasn't
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  There wasn't a week leak in the bunch as far as I can stand least.
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  Anyway. You raise an interesting point, too, bro Like the lineup
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  has got a lot of radically different bands on there, like too many,
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  too many festivals these days, just try and exploit the one, Johnny.
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  You know, it's just like banking baying the same ship at you all the
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  time, but the metal in the Mountains you try and cover a bit of
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  a broader spectrum. Yeah, well, that's it. We don't want to
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  have too many of any one sort of thing. We want to be able
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  to you know, we all we all love heavy music, and we all
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  sort of at least most of us can all appreciate all the bands, and
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  if there is one you don't like, you just sort of wait half an
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  hour and then you pretty much guarantee the like the next one. So it's
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  I think that's good. That's who we all come back together as lovers of
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  heavy music. Yeah. Sure, I also saw that somewhere on the on
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  the day there you had a hot source competition like that sounds pretty dangerous.
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  How that gay? Yeah, not bad. The local the local Animal Alchemy,
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  who makes kim chi and various things like that, did a special source
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  for metal in the Mountains last year as well this year called Mountain of Pain,
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  and the competition was to see who could take it the most, and
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  they find metal has to be pretty into hot sauce, and a lot of
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  them managed to take it. Although I haven't. I didn't actually taste this
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  one yet because with everything happened on the day, I haven't been near a
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  bottle yet, and I sort of want one at least from my little collection.
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  But all accounts, that was pretty high. Yeah, you know,
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  as well as playing his dad mate, like, you've also got something to
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  do with Metal in the Mountains itself. Like what's your role there? Are
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  your organizer? Do you coordinate it? What? What do you do?
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  I'm on the main organizer, the production manager, the stage manager, and
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  it's just me and a few other people who we got together to do this.
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  And so I run a little production business up here where I do sound
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  and lighting for all sorts of stuff. So said, well, I've got
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  the gear, let's do a thing. And well, it wasn't my idea
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  it was Shorty's idea actually, but that's a long story, and so was
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  it. Was it good enough this year that there's going to be a medal
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  in the mountains twenty twenty four? Undoubtedly? Undoubtedly. No, we're gonna
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  be back. We're going to be outdoors again, same thing, just a
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  little bit bigger, and we're gonna We're going to be working over time to
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  find another lineup that's going to top that one, because I think they were
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  pretty good. Oh yeah, good luck with that brother, work starts now.
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  So as we said before, may like you're also playing is Dead?
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  Tell us more about that band for people who may not know too much about
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  you. Yeah, who one hundred Years War. I think they come together
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  in about twenty nineteen. They immediately went to two overseas. They are really
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  tight outfit, made up of veterans from various different bands across the across the
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  scene. I got head huntred into them in early twenty twenty, I think
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  it was, and then Yeah, we've played a lot of festivals across Australia
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  since. And I was self indulgent enough to slap them on on this one
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  as well, just recently. But our next stop is Japan. So we're
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  going over there playing Tokyo with Punch and Stench and the guys from up up
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  North dark Horse, who were really keen to hanging out with again. So
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  your band was actually made up of five veterans from the Australian music scene.
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  So what bands did they played for previously? I'm going to embarrass myself.
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  I do not remembering all of them, but who runs a band? He
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  was one of the fandom members of Death Trader for example, and then Ash
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  the drummer. He's like sort of one of the other main dudes from the
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  band when I when I joined his Extend Route and a few other bands as
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  well. That escaped me right now, but yeah, really good outfit of
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  guys to perfall in with. And yeah, everywhere we go, we we
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  do everything to the to the absolute extreme, and that's what we do well.
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  When when coming up with the sound for this fan like, did you
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  draw a little bit from the experience of the guys and all the other bands
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  or did you want to come up with something rash and unique. I sort
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  of came in after the album was written, so I sort of just jumped
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  in, jumped in on the back of that so it is. It is
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  drawing from a unique sound because it's that blend of debat and death metal that
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  you don't really encounter a lot. So that's what was interesting to me when
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  when I was asked to join the band. I'm like, oh, this
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  is something that actually cool. It's catchy and it's heavy, it's pretty intense,
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  and yeah, all lyrics are intelligent. Everything was like, there,
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  it's a really good band. And so then yeah, since then, all
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  we've done is like we've played a bunch of live shows and then just sort
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  of behind the scenes, the new stuff's getting written and they're looking to do
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  an album next year and hopefully looking at some more overseas touring as well.
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  Talking about that new mature you're writing, mate, like, what's it sounding
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  like? Is it similar to the stuff on stand Monks a foreign or is
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  it is it a sort of a bit of another step up from there?
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  Again, it's different because you know, there's a couple of different members of
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  the band. I mean, obviously the vocals are going to be me and
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  Fans on guitar doing his thing as well, so sounds sort of evolved.
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  It's it's going down that same path. However, so more of the same,
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  just more extreme. And yeah, we're doing a couple of the songs
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  off that live already and as the rest come together, I think we'll be
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  introducing them to our lives sets. But yeah, there's there's at least three
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  songs there that we do currently on our last set that are some of the
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  new stuff. And there's any many local already Australian shows coming up people can
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  check it out. Well. When we get back from Japan. We're doing
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  the show at ben Go Hotel in Melbourne on the tewod of December. That's
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  going to be the only show we're doing in the country this year, and
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  then we'll see how we go next year. But like I said, we're
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  putting out the album and doing over sea stuff, so we'll see. There
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  might be the odd Australiane shape and part of probably yet. All right,
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  Well, thanks for your time man, for me to pleasure chat with you
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  and finally getting to meet you brother, and look forward to working with your
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  Metal in the Mountains next year and seeing what the band comes up with it.
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  Oh yeah, brother, jeez