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Interview with Living Sacrifice frontman Bruce Fitzhugh

The Infinite Order marks the return of the legendary metal band Living Sacrifice. Vocalist Bruce Fitzhugh chatted with me by phone about the new CD and what we can expect from the band in 2010. Living Sacrifice formed in 1989 and very quickly garnered the attention of metal fans worldwide. Their innovative style and song writing helped to define a relatively new genre of metal. Indeed many contemporary bands site…

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The Infinite Order marks the return of the legendary metal band Living Sacrifice. Frontman Bruce Fitzhugh chatted with me by phone about the new CD and what we can expect from the band in 2010. Living Sacrifice formed in 1989 and very quickly garnered the attention of metal fans worldwide. Their innovative style and song writing helped to define a relatively new genre of metal. Indeed many contemporary bands site Living Sacrifice as a strong influence in their own music. The Infinite Order is a thrashy, heavy, in-your-face disc that fans of good metal will absolutely dig. After an eight-year absence from the music scene, they are rejuvenated and proving that they still can crank out relevant molten metal.

Now that your brand new CD, The Infinite Order is complete how do you feel about it? Are you satisfied with the outcome?
Bruce: Yeah I feel great about it. I really enjoy it. I think it turned out awesome and it came together really really well.

What was the writing process like for this CD? Did you guys all write together? How long did it take?
Bruce: Yeah, we wrote a little bit of it together and a little of it on our own. We probably wrote the most stuff when we got together and worked on it as a whole.

How long did it take to complete?
Bruce: The whole process was about two or three months of writing and another few months of recording but it was not all in one shot.

What can fans expect hen they pick up a copy of The Infinite Order?
Bruce: I think it is a thrashier, faster record for us. It kind of hearkens back to our early days. We have kind of been getting back into the stuff that we grew up on, The Eighties thrash stuff. That is where I feel like a lot of this came from.

Did you ever imagine when you started that you would be releasing albums more than 20 years later?
Bruce: No. Definitely not. It is cool though. We had a pretty good break in between records. It was like an eight-year break.

What did you do for all of that time?
Bruce: I started a business and I moved to Nashville. I mostly did family stuff. Even on a part time basis, a band is sort of all consuming and so it was good to not think about that for a while.

When you compare the early days of the Christian metal to the scene today what do you feel has changed for the better? What do you feel has become worse?
Bruce: I think it has changed for the better. I think the bands are better now and they are definitely more original. A lot of the bands are younger and they are not really my style. I am twenty years older than a lot of these guys and my interests lie more with the old school stuff.

Are there any contemporary bands that you admire?
Bruce: I like the new Lamb Of God record because I think they are creating completely amazing metal. Scar Symmetry is another band that I think is awesome.

How much roadwork do you expect to be doing in 2010?
Bruce: Well we just finished up a tour that we did for about a month with War Of Ages, Shai Halud, Lion Heart and The Great Commission and it turned out great. We had a great time with all of those guys. We played about twenty-four shows in all. We are probably going to hit the festivals this summer and then do some spot dates here and there.

Are the rigors of touring taking more of a toll on you as you get older?
Bruce: Absolutely! On one of the last shows of the tour I blew out my knee. I tore the ACL and had to go to the emergency room. I did it about two weeks ago jumping off of a light box that was on the stage. It was the last song but I was able to finish it by sitting on a stool.

In a hundred years from now what will the music history books say about your band?
Bruce: Probably the same thing they say now, that we were a semi influential Christian metal band. Most people preface us with the fact that we are Christian. They have a hard time removing the Christian aspect of who we are from our music.

Any closing words?
Bruce: Thanks for the interview. I really appreciate it. I hope you check out The Infinite Order, it is pretty heavy. They have been playing it on Liquid Metal and I am pretty stoked hear it played alongside Slayer and Megadeth.  [ END ]

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