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MORDRED
Interview by MCM Photo by Bryce Kanights
With their devastating debut album Fool's
Game out on Noise Records and a video
soon to follow, Mordred is ready cast their
brain scorching spell on the metal world.
I went tete a tete with Gannon Hall and Art
Liboon, and here's the good word...
What is Mordred?
(Art) We started in February '86 Our music
had a Sabbath-like medieval heavy metal
sound. Gannon and Danny joined the band
later in the year, and the music changed to
a more percussive, rythmic style. Scott joined
in '87 and Jim is our most recent member
We're all San Francisco natives.
(Gannon) The medieval sound got old quick
We were into it at first because we were a
lot younger. We had a crazy lead singer,
Steve Skates, who dressed up as Mordred
the Sorcerer. He would wear sheep skins.
have a sword and sing to a skull-the whole
trip. But when Danny White and I joined the
band, we began adding new dimensions
The music became more technologically and
musically advanced. Danny went to Musi-
cian's Institute and studied every style, from
country to rock; that really broadened our
horizons. My percussion background wasn't
all heavy metal oriented. I was more into the
Police, Rush or Missing Persons. So we in-
corporated all those influences into the heavy
metal genre for a more Interesting and
Mordred, L to R: Gannon (drums), Scott (vocals), Jim
(guitar), Art (bass) and Denny (guitar).
complex sound. Recently, before recording
the album, we became really interested in
funk music of the seventies. We were listen-
ing to people like Rick James, the Com-
modores, Earth Wind and Fire, Parliament
and liking it a lot. Then, as a joke, we covered
"Super Freak," the old Rick James classic,
and people really dug it. We ended up writing
a song-the song we did the video of-called
"Every Day is a Holiday," which is our own
funk/metal song. This first album has a lot
of really techno metal with funk aspects in it.
Our roots are with Metallica, Exodus-all
the Bay Area metal bands. Mordred was part
of that at one point. We're definitely a metal
band, but we're not limited by that genre or
concerned with doing straight-up anything.
We want to fuse all different aspects of music
into our songs. Right now we're covering Pink
Floyd's "Young Lust."
(Art) Heavy metal is a very strong, straightfor-
ward kind of music that, until we grow out
of it, we'll keep playing.
(Gannon) Yeah. Metal really drives. It pro-
bably has to do with our age. We have a lot
of energy and we like to pound it out.
What are your goals as a band?
(Gannon) We started out as a metal band and
we still are a metal band, but we want to do
something different with the genre. All that's
really been done in the big pop world, as far
as how the girl in Ohio sees metal, is thrash
metal, the Metallica sound. That's great. To
me, Metallica is one of the most important
bands today. That's been done. Who wants
to do something that's already been done?
How do you see the music business in
general?
(Gannon) It's a business. They're business-
men and we're artists. We want to be creative
and do what we want, they want to make
money. I feel that you have to compromise
somewhat to be successful in music. That's
okay because if you make it, then people will
listen to what you have to say. You can pro-
duce your own album with no label, no
manager, print your own record, work really
hard at day jobs and who's going to hear it?
Two thousand people. But if you can really
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get out there so people can see you.
mean, Metallica is a great example. They're
super-successful now, but they're still raw
and honest. I was watching the Grammies
with my dad-he's not at all into Metallica-
and even he said, "They're very convincing."
These are white suburban kids who are
pissed off about a lot of stuff and they're out
there at the Grammies, in front of Michael
Douglas and people like that, really kicking
ass. That's cool.
Censorship is another compromise. We
can't just say "fuck fuck fuck" on our albums
because the PMRC will rip them to shreds.
We also have to have catchy riffs. There has
to be a mechanical structure to each song-a
chorus, a verse, a bridge, Commed on page 104)
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