Words with Gentry Densley

 

Hi Gentry, why the name Iceburn ?


 

I liked the extremes it represents and the seeming contradiction. It also reflects our environment, being from Utah, a mountainous desert where we get tons of snow in winter and it can get up to sorching hot temps in the summer.

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Have you got a favorite release ?

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Hepheastus - I don't necessarily think its the best recording but it has a whole concept and we put a lot in to it.

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Why did you choose to be on Revelation Records ?

They chose us, just over here you have who knows who and then there's favoritism.

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What are you greatest memories with that band ?

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Rolling the van into a ditch on our way to Florida... the reunion show we did a couple years ago was a great time as well.

Have you ever played in Europe ?

Yeah we (Iceburn) toured Germany England Austria Czech maybe more in 2001 with a German band called Zann. Crazy times, sleeping in the clubs, eating vegan feasts every night.

Have you ever been straight-edge ?

Yeah, but I distanced myself from it before it all went crazy violent around here. It was more about music for me. I'm still vegetarian though.

Can you talk a bit about this release with ZU ?

It was recorded right before we toured Europe. It was going to be a 7" for Southern Lord but it didn't come out for a few reasons, the label stopped doing them because 7"s are expensive to make and so aren't very economically viable. Anyway ZU dudes were friends of the drummer for Iceburn Chad Popple and he gave them a copy. A few years down the line it still hadn't come out so they proposed a split 10".

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What is your current musical project ?

Eagle Twin - a new album will be out this summer (2009) on Southern Lord Records.

Ascend - is another project on the same label with Greg from Sunn 0))) the first record is doing well and we've started a second one.

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What is the meaning of music for you ?

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Music is all meaning, its a deep part of me and is something that is always there in my brain.

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What are your views about the world we live in ?

Its a nice planet, very diverse, very resilient. It will be here long after we kill each other off.

Who are the people or bands that have the biggest impact in your life ?

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These days anything from Wino or Daniel Higgs...

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