Mike: Ok, so we all know that you based the name of the band after a character from the movie Snatch, correct?
Daniel: Incorrect
Karl: Correct
Josh: Right
Coby: No, Never heard of him!
Never saw the movie!
Daniel: Definitely, yeah!
Mike: What was it about the movie that made you decide that Boris The Blade was the name for the band?
Josh: Basically, Coby was living at this house and every weekend we would come back and there was one movie in the DVD player. We got to the point where we watched it like 40 times a weekend.(laughs) I know when we first began as a band, everything was a joke. Stupid names would come up from drunken weekends Drunken Tramps and Mystery Lamps, Grand Bags And Nazi Flags.
Daniel: That was all just crap!
Josh: We never took ourselves seriously. Then we came up with a character name reference and we went from there. We lost all the funny names and it was different from the bands in the Death Core scene, everyone had these serious names, so we said fuck it we will keep it.
Mike: So with all the different genres of metal, what aspects of Death Metal appealed to you as a band that made you pursue it?
Daniel: Personally, I like how the crowd gets involved! Everyone just lets boys be boys and everyone just runs amok. A bit of violence is always fun. We don't get hurt when we are on stage so we love it.
Karl: The energy is good, yeah!
Josh: What we do is different too, it's a lot more full on. It's technical, it's challenging and it's fun. It always keeps you on your toes.
Mike: What drives you all lyrically?
Daniel: Josh and I wrote probably half the album each. Obviously, it went through a lot of different concepts. I tend to use a lot of metaphors and try to relate it to a lot of personal stuff without people really knowing that it's personal.
Josh: I use a lot of scenario type things like, a lot of mankind and how its fucking itself over. We have this one fucking earth, and there's pollution, greed and corruption, it's just in a massive fucking downfall. So I write a lot about that. But I also write about scenarios that would not be obvious to a lot of people.
Karl: Like story line stuff, but it can be open to interpretation.
Josh: We thought about the album as well, we were going to make a concept album and you can get a lot more personal if you make each song individual. With a concept you have one direction and one story. With individual songs, you can make each song stand alone. You can have ten different personal songs instead of one concept.
Mike: On you latest video "Desolation" ...
Karl: The new one is about to drop!
Mike: Really? Which song will the video be for?
Josh; It's for the song "The Human Hive", the title track off the album. Its a vocal lyric video. It's a green screen with just lyrics.
Cameron: It has some police brutality in it and rioting, it's pretty cool and we are excited about releasing it.
Daniel: It will probably get banned!
Josh: Well...
Cameron: Desolation got banned in Germany on the first day I believe.
Mike: Whats the biggest difference between an Australian crowd and an American crowd?
Cameron: America kills it!
Daniel: Well, in Australia there is no crowd!
Thanks to their balls-to-wall brand of technical deathcore, Melbourne’s BORIS THE BLADE have earned a reputation amongst fans worldwide for being Australia’s most violently heavy metal act. At Texas Independence fest, we had the honor of sitting down with the band, and discussed the formation for the band and what the future holds in store