Montreal brass metallers Fallstaf have posted their latest music video "Pull The Knife", in support of their debut album "Bastard Sons of A Pure Breed" that was self-released on October 25, 2011. The video was produced by 1oeilouvert and the live footage was taken from Fallstaf's concert w/ Slaves On Dope and Buffalo Theory in Beauharnois, QC last December.
"This is our second music video for "Bastard Sons of A Pure Breed". The fans asked for more, so we're giving them more! More BRASS METAL! Great work by 1oeilouvert's Rémi Joannette. Just like David Méliès, who did the first video "The Cost", he's part of what we call THE SOUTH WEST CREW. This is "Pull The Knife" and we are Montreal's own and unique BRASS METAL band!!" commented Fallstaf bassist Ben Forte.
Fallstaf is a unique set of gents that have created an ability with the use of not your average instrument the trombone and with that they have built a genre that takes heavy metal and infuses it with hardcore metal in turn sounding like "brass metal". With this they have gone on to release an EP and even a full-length titled "Bastard Sons Of A Pure Breed". All of this in the long run is a unique style of creativity that has been built behind the minds of metal drunkenness. Bassist Ben Forte talks about his band's latest LP and where all of this drunken matters comes to be.
1. First thing that is quite noticeable about your band is your use of the trombone, how did you manage to pull this off and why this instrument? What sets this minor object a part from all the other acts out there?
Ben: Iann, The Hitman and I have been playing together since ’94 so it’s a natural thing for us. The Hitman plays also trumpet in our other band (North East bistro). We always had a brass section in all our past projects so it’s not like we said “let’s put a trombone in it’s going to be so cool and so different!”
2. Your debut full-length album "Bastard Sons of A Pure Breed" is the follow-up to your 2009 EP "The Hitman Plays Trombone" how do the two differ?
Ben: The first one was a demo, and it sounded weak. With “bastard”, it’s loud and powerful!!
3. How does it feel to have your first ever full-length? What's running through your mind as we speak?
Ben: It feels great! Now I’m thinking of the next one! We’re already working on some new songs.
4. Why did you want to go with naming your band Fallstaf? What does that even mean anyway?
Ben: The name Fallstaf comes from Falstaff who is a character referred to by Shakespeare in his play Henry V. He was a drunk, just like us lol!
5. Who decided which songs would go onto the record?
Ben: The five of us, all together.
6. When did you begin writing for this new album?
Ben: Three years ago. We were missing the METAL aspect in our music and we needed to get back at it. So Matt, Mike (co-lyricist) and I started writing METAL again.
7. Which of the songs would you say are your favorite?
Ben: Speaking for myself (Ben), I would say “Pull The Knife”, “Violent As Violence Can Be” and “My Demons”.
8. Tell me about the music video you have for the song "The Cost" it's shot in the middle of nowhere in front of an old abandon house by the looks of it.
Ben: Our dear friend David Méliès helped us out on that one. He did a great job producing it, he’s a very talented artist. The video was recorded near Simm’s house, in Beauharnois. It’s not that in the middle of nowhere, it just look like it!
9. What bands do you admire?
Ben: So many! Let’s just say we like the older stuff and the new too.
10. Do you plan on hitting the road at all this year to promote this album or do you plan to sit back and save up all your energy for the New Year?
Ben: Got one more show in Beauharnois, QC with Slaves On Dope, Buffalo Theory and Kintra and after that we shall see you next year! Then we’ll work on 2012.
11. Speaking of the New Year, what are your New Year's resolutions?
Ben: Going to sleep after the shows! Cheering with fans is so good, we have to stay up!
12. Do you plan on celebrating the other upcoming holidays?
Ben: Yes, with friends and families, taking some time off away from the stage but not for too long!
13. Do you have anything to say to the fans of Fallstaf?
Ben: You guys are great, Happy Holidays to you and you families and long live BRASS METAL!!! Find us on Facebook and you can check out our music video “The Cost” HERE and if you like what you hear please support us on iTunes or LoudTrax.
Montreal, QC metallers Fallstaf have developed a genre they like to call “Brass Metal” with this development they have gone on to release an EP entitled “The Hitman Plays Trombone” in 2009 now two years later they have decided to take their chances at releasing a full-length LP titled “Bastard Sons Of A Pure Breed”.
This LP expands their brand of using an aggressive oversight of heavy metal with influences of thrash and hardcore to ignite a stylish sound unlike any other. As such songs like “The Cost”, “Pull The Knife”, “My Demons” and “Violent As Violence Can Be”, resemble similar styling’s to that of Slipknot meets Hatebreed. You hear this similarity in “The Cost” having the vocals be quite alike to that of Corey Taylor whilst the heaviness of the instrumentals are that of Hatebreed’s structure.
Furthermore Fallstaf use the trombone which is a very unique and creative feature that no other band in the metal genre has attempted to try and since these guys have given it a shot it has fallen easily within their grasp. Fallstaf is unlike any other band around today they have engulfed their own reality and intake as to what they have built and give them enough time they will expand it even further than before.
