KATAKLYSM Turns 15

KATAKLYSM news update from frontman Maurizio Iacono:

Hello boys & girls, I'm very proud to say that this month KATAKLYSM turns 15 years old, we don't feel old, the energy is still in full effect, some more grey hairs coming…but hey that's life. It hasn't been easy for us along the way but I'm glad to say that this band never quit unlike other bands. We never stopped because the “scene” wasn't happening, because people weren't buying death metal records anymore and then when it got healthy again returned when its “cool” again and charge triple the money to play live, we never got any hand outs, never got any “big” favors…we just had a label who believed in us and we did the rest through blood and sweat, everything we have we earned it with the help of our dedicated fans support, which I wanna take this moment to thank sincerely…

With this said i wanna also answer some emails and myspace messages that we've been receiving lately about why we took the rest of the year off and not touring..

Well there's two reasons the first one is really because we dropped all our plans and started writing new material, Myself and guitarist j-f have been brainstorming ideas and the riffs and songs that we are pending with Max and Steph are really monstrous at the moment…so when the inspiration is there, its time to drop everything and write, that's the rule! So let me tell you that the next release will really show this bands determination, we have no pressure at all even the enormous success of our last album ITAOD …BUT you'll have to wait till 2008 for the next one! We still have work to do supporting, In The Arms of Devastation.

We will start touring again next year starting with Europe and hopefully hit the states right after besides this fall is clusterfuck with some many tours happening, it wont make sense for us to squeeze ourselves in, I being a fan first don't even know what show to go too…there's like three or four shows a week passing through here…so in the meanwhile we have a few shows to keep us warmed up…

Check out our site for dates that are confirmed at:
www.kataklysm.net

Also, we are working very hard on our first CD/DVD release titled “Live In Deutschland (The Devastation Begins..)” we want our fans to get the most material for there money and we are adding some killer stuff on this, some more details will be released soon on it.

All the best,

Maurizio