Localized: SLUG Mag's monthly local music festival

Localized is SLUG’s monthly local band showcase happening on the second Friday of each month. February’s series features The Obliterate Plague, Rico Black and openers, Cave of Roses giving out a dose of rocking tunes for your ear bleeding enjoyment Feb. 8 at the Urban Lounge (a private club for members). Tickets are five dollars at the door. Prepare yourself with some neck loosening exercises to let loose and headbang.

Alex Berzerker – Vox, Guitar

Clif – Drums

T-Hate-Fucker – Guitar

Necrogutsfuck - Bass

Toss out whatever clichs you might have about extreme metal; in our own hometown we have The Obliterate Plague brutalizing the scene now for roughly seven years. Sitting down with Alex and Clif, talking about the local metal scene, metal stereotypes, religion etc. Alex told me stories of how he got into metal running around with a Les Paul guitar as a kid mimicking AC/DC videos. The group will gladly tell you that they aren’t your run-of-the mill brutal metal band. All it takes to find out is just to experience the band pummeling the crowd during their live shows.

"It gets pretty rowdy; we’ve had a few crazy pits. It makes you want to thrash pretty hard. We play a lot of bars and get drunk,. There’s the legendary Burt’s Tiki Lounge show, with us and Ibex Throne and Beyond This Flesh that turned into a bar brawl in 2004. By the end of the night the bar was in ruins, there was glass, blood and cops everywhere," Cliff and Alex reminisce.

Alex is quick to offer up explanations of their performances and some intriguing stories of past craziness. He describes their music, "Generally, our music is dark metal. It is brutal, in-your-face technical stuff that is all over the place on the guitar,. Alex continues to put the feeling of his music into words, "It’s really fast, the tempo changes to fast and thrashy, or something really hyper speed, war-metal kind of shit, then it can go into some weird, doomy-type atmosphere. It’s really unexpected."

Alex has much to say about the local extreme metal scene in Utah, but ultimately, he winds up talking about the nature of his own band.

"There is a lot of people that don’t like to put up with the religious bullshit of this town... We’re not afraid to be freethinkers and live how we want. That’s a fucking sin and that’s extreme. Having views about Quantum physics or metaphysics, which is a big pain in the ass of mainstream science and is considered extreme."

Striving on the point to be original Alex sums up the methods and goals of the band without hesitation.

"My main passion has been trying to do something from the beginning to be as original as possible."

Going on to say, "I have such a varied musical taste. I know what to look for and I know what I want to do. There is a lot of that Satan, Satan, Satan stuff out there and it’s really boring and unoriginal. We’re into more occult kind of methods., which requires a lot of thought. You can approach it and it makes you think that we are tapping things that are hidden beneath the veil., Alex tells in describing his intentions with The Obliterate Plague.

Summing up the end result, Alex states, "I think our minds are capable of just about anything, without boundaries. I think that makes our band unique."

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