IRON JUSTICE

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THIS INTERVIEW WAS MADE IN 2000 FOR THE 4TH ISSUE

Iron Justice is a very promising project from Sweden. I thought it was interesting to get more informations from them. Check the reviews of their releases in this issue.

When did you start I.J.? Why did you choose this name? Are you pro-self justice?
We formed IRON JUSTICE in early 1998, along with an ambient/industrial project. The band consists of the same, original members today. There isn’t really a short and simple answer to this question. Firstly, because we didn’t have very big intentions with the name, as its function is just to label us two members and to represent our sound. Secondly because the name can have, and has had, several meanings during the development of the band, which makes it difficult to remember what intentions we even had back then. In brief, to us "IRON JUSTICE" stands for "the hegemony", no matter if its a military regime or the top-down oppression in the post-modern capitalist/consumption society.

What have you released so far and what are you planning to release?
Our discography this far consists of three releases: THE EXIT (WMJ/C-45/98), TELL ME (CMI/7"/99) and MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT (CMI/LP/00). During the summer/fall 2001 the American LSDO-label will release a 2x7" box, with tracks produced in 00/01. This material is different from the releases on Cold Meat Industry, and most of all more rhythm and more structure. We are also producing new tracks, hopefully to be release on CD some time. So far we have no label-deal. It is not decided if the new material will be released as IRON JUSTICE or as a new project.

What are you influences and how do you usually compose?
We have always used PC-editing for our releases. The sound-sources have changed over the time. There’s rather obvious that we have used more analogues, more junk/metal and more organic sounds on the early releases than on the new material. Today, we mostly use digital equipment for a clinical and sharp sound. Our musical influences are not to be recognised in our music, at least not anymore. We listen to a lot of different music, mostly "actual music" which has very little to do with power-electronics and industrial. That helps us to create something, which hasn’t already been done by everyone operating in this genre. Lyrically we get influenced by literature and different cultural expressions and by commonly and constantly beholding people and their behaviour.
IRON JUSTICE

Rickard Freden, Bergslagsresan 75, 757 55 Uppsala, SWEDEN

rickard.freden@delta.telenordia.se


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