1. Can you introduce the group and the musicians? Armistice was founded in 1992. We did our first gigs a few months later in 1993, when we released the first demo-tape, too. Two years later in 1995 we recorded and released our "Artful Killing" Maxi CD. After the release of "Artful Killing" the band toured through germany. Well, after many gigs and two years later it was time to release a fulltime record, so we went to the studio again and recorded the "Tied" CD to release it on Boomeräng Music Publishing in Germany . After another year of touring around David Büttner left the band. He had some private problems. We tested a few singer, but at last we decided that it would be better that I would do the vocals. This was the best solution for the band and the change did`nt take long time to get the same or better quality as it was before. In 1999 the time was right to release another CD. At the moment in germany the True Metal hype is on and I think with "Airraid" we showed that there are still german Thrash bands around. The "Airraid" CD brought us a deal with a german record company called Black Arrow Production. On january or february 2000 a new Armistice CD will hit the stores, stay prepared. O.K. now to the band, Armistice is Manfred Hockauf, 28 years old, rhythm and lead guitar, Stefano Casto, 23 years old, bass, Stefan Paster, 23 years old, drums and I: Stefan Fischer, 23 years old, vocals and rhythm guitar. 2. What are your influences and what kind of Metal do you play? Our main influences are Annihilator, Slayer and most of the old Bay Area Thrash bands. We play Thrash Metal somewhere between the bands I named before. 3. Can you talk about your last production? The last production was recorded in Manfred`s own studio, we call it "Rattlesnake-Chickenshake", let me tell you the story to this funny name: Well, our drummer had a few problems with his drumset and the recording equipment, everytime we tried to record "Worse than yesterday.." he broke down in the middle of the song. I thought I must go crazy, cause we tried more than 20 or 30 times to record this fucking song. I was total pissed of and started to giving him bad names and after another broke down of the drums we found a plastic rattle-egg lying on the ground of the studio, showed it our drummer and said to him: "If you don`t make it right soon, we will put this plastic egg right into your fucking ass........hahaha". Well I think he thought about this words, because a short time later the song was recorded well............ We gave the studio the name of the plastic egg: "Rattlesnake-Chickenshake"-Studio. But let us talk about the production, Manfred did all the mixes and he also did all the engeneering. I like the sound of the CD, it is very powerful and our label liked it, too. They sayed it`s o.k. when we record our next release in our own studio, too and not in the labels studio. 4. What do your songs talk about? Our songs most talk about war. We like war lyrics, you can write so much about and it is always very heavy. But we also write about individualism or problems of society. Sometimes we do a funny lyric like "Worse than yesterday". So I think we do lyrics which interest many kind of listeners. 5. Can you speak about the Metal scene in your country? Here in germany we have got many True and Black Metal bands, it is very trendy to play this styles at the moment. We don`t care about that. I have seen many trends come and go for example grunge or hardcore. Every style comes back. So we hope that someday the good old Thrash comes back. In germany it is getting very difficult to find some clubs to play live. Not many club-owners are interested to organize a Metal concert. It`s getting a problem and we are looking forward to play outside of germany. 6. Have you played recently on stage? The last gig was an open air near Munich on summer. The next gigs are in Munich, Berlin, Plauen and Oelsnitz in the east of germany in early december. This year we haven`t played so much on stage like the other years. There was to much trouble with the new songs and recordings. So we had no time to do many gigs. 7. Do you like the french cheese "Camembert"? What a funny question!!! I like many kinds of cheese and of course "camembert" is one of my favourites, too. 8. Your projects? There are no projects. I have got enough to do with Armistice. I spend all my energy, time and money in this band. I think musicians who do much projects, haven`t got time to do one band good and perfect. 9.Some words to the frenchies listeners / readers? We recive the best reactions out of france, what should I say, we are pretty lucky about this and I really hope that someday we can play live in france. We have produced a Thrash Metal CD just for people like you, the songs are like the music we like to hear private. This is no commercial music !!! So it is great that there are people in france who like to hear our music. Here in Germany not many people like to hear our songs. Dear people in France, please don`t forget the name ARMISTICE, we will release a new CD soon and you can be sure that all french radio stations will get it as fast as I can. Thanks a lot for listening to this interview !!! If you wanna know more about Armistice, please visit our website: www.armistice.de and please don`t forget to sign our guestbook..... Greetings from Germany!!!

Hope to see you someday,

Stefan Fischer

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