Jeff Lohrber (Enabler)
1. What are your top five albums that were released in 2013? (In order 1-5)
- Carcass – Surgical Steel
- Gorguts – Colored Sands
- Pissed Jeans – Honeys
- Misery Signals – Absent Light
- Northless – World Keeps Sinking
There really are so many to pick from this year, great records from Watain, Inquisition, Satyricon, Darkthrone, Portal, Ulcerate, Nails, Hail of Bullets, Agrimonia, etc. And fuck it, I listened to the shit out of the new Black Sabbath and Fall Out Boy records as well.
2. What band did you discover in 2013 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? What made them significant?
I discovered the self-titled Metal Church record. I’d never heard it before, and holy shit, it’s gotta be one of the most metal records I’ve ever heard.
3. How will you remember 2013? (In terms of music)
Insanity. We’ve released two EPs this year, toured in Europe and Australia, in addition to US and Canadian touring this year. We’ve had 3 drummers, I feel like we took a major blow when our second guitarist left earlier this year and we’ve totally overcome that at this point and the band is sounding tighter than ever. So many highs, so many lows, but I’ve done things I’ve never thought I would do in my life this year so it’s been amazing. And the year isn’t even finished, Enabler will be recording our new record, and I rejoined a band that I used to be in and we are recording a new full length as well, which will both be finished by the end of the year!
4. What can we look forward to from you in 2014?
New LP and as many shows as we can humanly handle.
5. What records are you looking forward to most in 2014?
The Entombed record that got pushed back!
6. There is a lot of debate over streaming sites and royalties, namely with Spotify. What is your stance on the economic policies behind the current streaming services? Do you have a preferred one?
Not really. I just want people to be able to listen to and explore new music. If there happens to be money involved, awesome. So if you’ve never heard Enabler, go download the record for free, I don’t care. If you dig it, order a record online, come to a show and see us play, whatever… I think that it’s ok to take advantage of free music in whatever form as long as you give back when you’re able to. Before people were streaming music, or downloading shit, I was borrowing my friends tape collections and dubbing myself copies of everything good that I could get my hands on.
