The Hooded Thing – Interview

Below is an email interview with The Hooded Thing. All interviews are published unedited.

  • How would you describe your music?

Tough question. I wish I could turn the tables on you. I love watching people struggle to describe my music. Unlike some electrother artists, I do not reject the use of labels because they are convenient. The problem arises when people give dismissive labels, like crazy, or gothic. Don’t call me industrial!

  • Your tracks sound like they would transfer to a live stage really well, how important is playing live to you?
I take great pride in my production. Any track I release can be turned up to an extreme volume on a balanced stereo without damaging the system. That said, on a p.a. this stuff sounds killer, the louder the better, you know! I do play live shows as Lethality Scale. I have always thought of myself as a recording artist first and a performing artist second.
  • How long have you been making music?
I have had many names and faces over the last century. I have chanted with shogoths for hundreds of years.
  • Which track do you think is your most successful?
Success means a number of things to a number of people. There are a lot of effed up things in this world. There is a continent of plastic floating in the pacific that, as it deteriorates, it creates artificial molecules that mimic the biological molecules involved in biochemical cascades in the (reproductive) endocrine system. These plastic molecules bioaccumulate in fish and end up in our food.

Labs have created recombinant viruses that can wipe out entire agricultural systems (from farmer to turkey to pig) such as the swine flu and then released them on our general public. Antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria have also been released from labs and now they infect and kill delivering mothers in maternal wards.

The agroindustrial corporations are feeding us mono and di glycerides and hydrogenated oils and telling us there is zero grams of trans fats (the chemical structures of these molecules are trans fats (THEY ARE LYING TO YOU)) and these chemicals are in your bread, your peanut butter, in everything you eat (look at the label) and they increase the rate of heart attack 20-40%.

The bald eagle population is crashing, yet it was taken off the endangered species list because the Tongass forest, (the last rain forest in N America) is a nesting sight and two pulp factories have lobbied millions to get tax payer money to literally tear it down and turn it into match sticks. (I emphasize they are getting paid millions in tax payer money to deforest this land and turn it into pulp.) And at the same time, all superfund bioremediation sites have been slashed from the federal budget.

The amount of stringency in testing drinking water has been laxed, this correlates with an inverse relationship in autistic children. More heavy metals are allowed in our drinking water than ever before and 1/100 kids are autistic.

This madness has got to stop. My most successful song is the one that opens a single persons eyes and convinces someone it is time to kill the apathy and do something to make a positive difference.

  • Do you have anything exciting happening in the near future?
Carpe Diem

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'Death by Sushi' Fish can kill me. When I was very small (maybe 3 or 4 years old) my grandfather, who lost the sight of one eye from a bullet fired by a German sniper (fortunately not a very good one) during the Battle of the Somme in World War 1, wiped my face with the corner of his apron, an apron he had used to wipe his filleting knife on. He was a grocery shopkeeper who specialized in wet fish.