Interview with Thrash Magazine

Can you briefly summarize how the band formed and what you do in Sweet Cyanide?

Mike- We have been running around the same local circuit for years, did some regional touring together, and always wanted to work together. I got a call from Sal to come in and help out on some drum tracks and the second I heard “Black & White” I knew something was happening and I needed to be a part of it.

Your lyrics are infused with heavy detail and raw emotion. What is it that normally gives you inspiration when writing lyrics and is there a concept behind the writing of your s/t?

Sal- Lyric writing is a strange thing for me; alot of my song ideas came from watching people around me going through crazy stuff in their lives, So it’s a careful mix of detail and symbolism or vagueness. I don’t want to piss off my friends by singing about their problems and personal business and at the same time, i don’t want to bury the initial ideas and feelings under so much lyrical camouflage that it loses it’s meaning or emotion. The main idea of the record was a loosely connected concept of different lives falling to pieces , etc. like a “people-watchers” delight!!! It’s kinda creepy in a way…

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