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Interview by

Tom Mathers

Rocknation: Hello Scream Maker and welcome to Rocknation. have to live on, we have to learn to live with what we have and
Your band just released a CD called “Livin’ in the Past’’ on Perris do it the best way we can.
Records. Please tell us about what each of your songs is about. “All my life” - To be honest, here lyrics are very simple and not
Scream Maker: Hi! It’s always very hard to speak about your own very philosophical. You find yourself in a toxic relationship and
lyrics but let’s try. at some point you decide to end it. But doing this requires
“In The Nest of Serpents” - It’s easy to say that one should learn announcing it to your partner. The song conveys a message
from one’s mistakes but we all know that we make the same that there are so many great people and opportunities in life
mistakes over and over again. And this song is about those that subduing yourself to someone who is exploiting you
mistakes that could affect our lives in a really ugly way. When emotionally is just pointless.
you build something, you don’t want it to be destroyed by you “Angel” - It’s the only real love song on our album. It’s about
weakness but in reality our “little” vices are able destroy big a situation in which you just can’t imagine the world would
things we built, family, companies, all sorts of relationships. functioning without your loved one. The sun wouldn’t shine,
We all have snakes in our heads telling us to do this or that for No way! It is also not very power metal song, it’s like metallized
the sake of our whim or pleasure or greed. We listen to them and Journey crossed with Whitesnake or Rainbow from their AOR
then. period :) At least, that was our intention.
“Glory for the fools” - The song is about the people who search “Spacestone” - Pure fantasy. If world is going to end tomor-
for easy life, who are willing to give up high ideas or simply row, how important are our present lives, our businesses, our
decency for the temporal advantages and the illusion of the plans? It’s true that they are in that case of no importance. All
comfortable life. They think that, say, consumption of the life is loses value then. But what to do when the end is inevitable?
the only purpose of our existence, they are fooled by vision that “Stand Together” - Human kind had Alexander The Great,
actually we are not morally responsible for anything. In the end, Christopher Columbus, Copernicus, so many more great minds
when they find out that they were wrong, all is lost. and brave people. What do we have now? A societies consist-
“Fever” - It’s a very positive rock’n’roll song. We all should ing of cowards not able to think big, not interested in discover-
realize we have the inner strength to face all sorts of the ing the new, not pursuing for the worthy. The new ideas are now
difficulties that life puts us through. Music is a way to help us almost only of technological nature and have only one purpose:
discover that strength. to make our lives easier, but easier is not better.
“Livin’ in the Past” - This song have two related meanings. The “Confessions” - We always wanted to record a song that could
literal one is a story of a man who lost the love of his life and be placed in the soundtrack to some action movie. This is it.
now tries to pull himself together. It’s not easy. The more time Song starts with a murder of a woman and the lyrics are writ-
passes, the more he tends to idealize the past. The more time ten from the perspective of the heartless and cruel serial killer.
passes, the brighter are colors he sees it in. The second We didn’t want to do the apology of the evil, so – to make sure
meaning is more universal - we can idealize the past, long for the that you all understand – remember, guys: murdering people is
things that ceased to exist and are long gone, it’s natural, but we always a bad idea! (continued on page 3)