What people should listen to while reading this interview? As in most bands, we have some common ground, but still every member listens to quite different stuff. From there on, things just progressed naturally and very slowly to where we are now. After releasing a few splits with Entendeu? Eastwood is a name already taken by an almost unknown actor, are you big fans of western or spaghettis? Actually no, haha. When we met for the first few rehearsals, we barely even took it seriously and just enjoyed making some noise together.
We put very little thought into the name, we just thought of bands like Charles Bronson or Henry Fonda as an inspiration, and Clint Eastwood seemed like a natural completion of this list.
We would never have guessed that the band would still exist ten years later, and if we had, we would probably have chosen a different name. We know the recording of the album was quite torturous, could you summarize this epic story?
Maybe not torturous, but it was definitely quite long and at times a bit tedious. Most of the guitar tracks were finally recorded in the summer of , but then we replaced our drummer and took some time to get restarted. You can imagine how happy we are that the record is finally completed and released. When we went through the collected lyrics and tried to come up with an album title, we quickly realized that the song title Antibiose would be very fitting.
Almost all of our lyrics deal with asymmetric or exploitative relations between people and other people, between people and their environment, between people and their own minds, … , so the concept of antibiosis as the antithesis of symbiosis seemed like a perfect allegory for the themes of the record.
