Eerie Ln Interview: With Boo Gruesome

What's keeping the band busy lately?

As we speak it's the Halloween season which is always a busy time for us. We played a Halloween gig in San Antonio Saturday October 20th and we headlined a great Halloween show in Lawton Oklahoma Friday October 26th with Wyrmwood, an excellent goth band from San Antonio and Insult to Injury, an intense punk band from Lawton. We are opening for Graves on November 15th in Dallas Texas. If you don't know who they are, It's Michale Graves' and Dr. CHUD's, of Misfits fame new band. That will be very cool and a big break for us in Dallas.

How has horror contributed to the bands creativity?

We are all horror fans. It just comes naturally to add it into our music. It's not really a contrived thing so I don't really know how it contributes to our creativity cause it's always been there.

Being a fan of horror flicks, which one do you think scared the shit out of you?

Nothing lately! Being a true horror fan it's pretty hard to scare me with a movie anymore. But when I was really young the Creature from the Black Lagoon was pretty scary stuff. Seeing how old that movie was the Creature costume was intense for that time period. Very realistic. I love that movie to this day and consider it to be one of the better horror flicks.

How many films do you have in your collection?

Last time I counted me and my woman Scara have close to 500 movies with a little over 300 being horror films.

Do you ever plan of directing your own flick?

I really want to do a horror comic book with our guitarist Von Creepy. Or I would dig getting some horror fiction published but I've never thought about doing a film. Von Creepy has! He has a script written up and everything!

Musically which band influenced EERIE LN.?

A few bands are big influences on us. The Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig of course. White Zombie and Black Sabbath are common favorites amongst us. From the black metal scene, Dimmu Borgir and Old Man's Child.

The World Trade Center attacks to me is real horror. What do you think about this monstrosity?

I think what happened is a tragedy of unimaginable proportions and the effects of it will be felt for a long time to come. My sympathies go out to all the innocent families victimized by this unwarranted act of terrorism.

What makes EERIE LN. different amongst bands of the genre you are in?

Well I honestly don't think we really fit into any one single genre. I think we play metal with a punk agression.Even our image could fall into several different genres seeing how Cradle of Filth isn't doing anything much different visually then the Misfits or Samhain. I mean, because we have so many varied influences, you can hear alot of different sounds in our music. I think we're a hybrid of dark music.

About the bands Fang Club I see you really care about your fans even financing stuff out of your own pockets...What is it with EERIE LN. fans?

They're very dedicated and die hard because they know we care about what we're doing extremely. We're giving them something most bands aren't these days, something real, something to believe in. I truly appreciate our fans. They make this all worthwhile.

Are you working on new stuff right now? Will it follow the traditional EERIE LN. song writing process or will it be a little experimental this time?

We have close to 13 new songs written and we will start to record them in the studio the first week of December. Like always we write what we want to write when we want to write it, so it's another grab bag of different sounds all maintaining our creepy sense of fun and horror.

How is the scene there?

The scene here sucks! There really isn't a scene were we live. We've been concentrating most of our gigs out of town.

Which would you choose being caught jerking off or doing drugs?

Probably jerking off over the mangled corpse of my most recent victim.

Horn's up! (anything you'd like to add...)

Thanks alot for this oppertunity. And thank you to all of our dedicated supporters the world over, from Transylvania to Raccoon City USA! Have a great Halloween! Take scare!